Economic Highlights
Ask the president of your local
cement or lumber company how
business is—and the chances are
he will say it is bad. Ask the
owner of a retail 3tore the same
question—and, unless your com
munity is well below the average
of business conditions, he will
doubtless say that trade is g»od,
and is constantly getting better.
As Paul Mallon, the well known
Washington correspondent, recently
put it, “industry is doing nothing
worth talking about, but business
generally is better than you think."
In August, the durable goods-in
dustries were operating at about 67
per cent of normal.(Normal means
the average of the years 192U-25.)
Nondurable goods producers touch
ed 90 per cent, and the trend was
upward. In other words, concern!*
making cement, steal,
lumber and other products
don’t wear out rapidly are still at
the bottom, while the makers of
of food, clothes, tobacco and all the
things which have a short life are
experiencing relative prosperity.
Department stores sales are well
above what seasonal experience
would lead us to expect —these
stores, of course, deal primarly in
nondurable goods.
It isn’t hard to trace the reason
back of this. It can be expressed
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in two words: Government spend
ing. .Government is dealing out
billions for relief through its var
ious agencies, and the bulk of this
money goes at once into such neces
saries as food, clothing, fuel. Al
most none of it is used for purposes
which would stimulate the product
ion of heavy industries. People
who, after long unemployment, get
three or four dollars a day, buy
food and clothing—but they don’t
buy new homes, automobiles or
motor boats.
The problem the government
faces now is to bring the heavy in
dustries up to the level reached by
nondurable goods industries. It is
starting to attack that problem—
and as its first step is giving indus
try itself more control over its
own affairs than it has enjoyed for
almost two years. The NR A re
organization indicates the trend.
The period of its dictatorship is ap
parently over. Its new board in
cludes actual industrialists who will
be sympathetic to the wishes and
prdblems of other industrialists.
As a matter of fact, all late Roose
velt appointments have been com
paratively conservative—the exper
imentalists have been given little
or nothing.
The best guessers are now say
ing that the NRA will gradually re
trench, and will voluntarily relin
quish most of its power. It will
have less and less to say about
how business should be run, will be
more of an umpire than an admin
istrator. It seems that the only
thing it will certainly retain is its
power over wages, hours and work
ing conditions.
During the past few weeks, three
major events have seriously affect
ed the jittery European and Asi
atic situations. Two of the events
definitely aid the maintenance of
world peace—one definitely points
toward war.
The last came from Italy, when
II Duce announced that every Ital
ian citizen will be given army
training—from the ages of 8 to 31.
Children of 8 will be enlisted in
juvenile battalions, will be subject
to the influence of martial spirit.
As they grow older, they will be
given intensive training in the arts
of war. That announcement caused
many European headaches—Musso
lini, for all his speeches concerning
peace, is dangerous. Italy is now
overpopulated, cannot produce
enough to adequately support her
people. Yet Mussolini offers prizes
for large families, heavily taxes
bachelors, is a rentless enemy of
birth control. He wants more
Italians when their country can’t
take care of them. The answer
can only be conquest.
Happier events are found in the
solution of the Chinese Eastern
railway problem, and the admit
tance of Russia into the League of
Nations. The Chinese railroad,
owned jointly by Japan and
Russia, has been a constant source
of trouble. Japan threatened to
•seize the line—and Russia concen
trated army divisions, tanks, ar
tillery and planes at Vladivostok,
intimated that if Nippon tried to
carry out her threat she would have
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a war on her hands. Today, when
the bear snarls, it means something
—Russia has one of the largest and
best equipped of all armies.
A fortnight ago, Japan and Rus
sia, after long discussions, came
close to an agreement whereby
Japan will buy the line. A com
paratively small amount of money
separated the bargainers, and it
looks as if the “most dangerous
railroad in the world” will shortly
become only a harmless branch of
the world’s transport system.
As for the admission of Russia
to the League, it will immensely
increase that body’s power in pre
venting and settling international
arguments and in enforcing peace.
Whfciht-i you like communism or
not, Russia is the largest of all
major powers, in both area and
population. She really wants
peace—not for humanitarian reas
ons, but because her gigantic in
ternal development program re
quires the concentration of all her
resources at home—she can’t af
ford to fight.
WINTER NEEDS!
Big Fall Sale of Winter needs at
Gambles, Oct. 13th to 27th. 6-in.
Stove Pipe, 16c—W’indow Glass,
12x24, 19c—Felt Auto Mats, 29c—
Hot Water Heaters, $5.79—Canvas
Gloves, 3 pr. 36c—314-lb. Axes, 98c
—Methanol Anti-Freeze, 39c gal.—
Rubber Shoe Soles, 7c.
BRIEFLY STATED
F. J. Dishner made a business
trip to Omaha last Sunday, return
ing home Monday night.
The Presbyterian Ladies Guild
will meet with Mrs. R. H. Parker
Thursday, October 18, with Mrs.
Julia Parker and Mrs. Vincent as
assisting hostesses.
The members of the Young
Ladies Sodality of St. Patrick’s
church are giving a card party and
dance at the K. C. hall on Friday
evening, October 19, for the bene
fit of the Sisters of St. Mary’s
Academy. Admission will be 25
cents. You are cordially invited,
to attend.
EDUCATIONAL NOTES
The Annual Holt County Teach
ars’ Institute was held in O’Neill
on Monday and Tuesday of last
week. Nearly every teacher in the
county was present for all sessions
and some very interesting and
worth-while lectures were given.
The law requires that all schools
be closed and all teachers attend
the Institute. All teachers are to
be paid their full salary for these
two days work unless the Director
should be notified to the contrary.
We have received word that
winter Study Centers will be organ
ized again in various towns if
enough students wish to take this
work. A minimum of five students
wouud be necessary to have a
Study Center at all, and ten stu
dents would be necessary to have a
Director appointed to be paid by
the federal government. These
Study Centers will run for 12
weeks and a maximum of nine col
lege hours mt*y be earned by the
students. Any unemployed person
interested in the Study Center
work should report to the City
superintendent of his school. These
Study Centers will be organized
through the schools.
The first meeting of the Teach
ers’ Study Center Institute group
will be held in the court room at
O’Neill on next Saturday morning
at. 10 o’clock, October 13. This
refers to the Study Center Insti
tute as explained by Mr. Morse at
| our Institute last week. Any
l teacher who is interested in joining
this group and earning a few col
lege hours of credit during the
winter is invited to attend this
meeting. We wish to get this
work under-way as soon as possible.
Provisions have been made where
by each teacher may take three col
lege hours of work.
The new Holt county school ex
hibit hall at O’Neill was dedicated
two weeks ago with flitting
ceremony. A large crowd was
in attendance. The program was
opened by the school children of
the county singing in unison the
songs, “Ameica” and ’’America, the
Beautiful,” led by Wilma Dell
Smith of the O’Neill high school,
and accompanied by the Ewing
School band. A short history of
the building was given by Luella
A. Parker, County Superintendent.
Charles W. Taylor, state superin
tendent, was next introduced. He
brought greetings from the state
department of education at Lincoln,
and gave a very interesting ad
dress. He commended the people
of the county for their deep inter
est in their children’s welfare as
evidenced by the erection of this
fine building. The dedication ser
vice was then read by Mrs. Parker.
At the close of the dedication ex
ercises the audience was invited to
inspect the building, and view the
fine display of school exhibits from
over the county on display inside.
The school exhibits made an un
usually fine showing. The booths
gave ample space for display so
that each school’s work might be
easily found and examined closely.
The hall was a center attraction
throughout the11 entire afternoon.
Hundreds of people visited the
building. A continuous movie, de
picting the “Progress of Education”
from earliest pioneer days to the
present time, was an entertaining,
feature in the hall during the after
noon. This movie was conducted
by Frank Griffey through the
courtesy of the State University.
We are indebted to the genorosity
of L. L. Pike 'bf the Nebraska
State University for this feature.
We are grateful to Mr. Griffey and
the State University.
This exhibit hall is to serve a
double purpose to the people of
Holt county. For many years the
exhibit of work done by school
children over the county had been
exhibited in the agricultural hall
on the county fair grounds. This
building was inadequate for such
a display from so large a county.
The exhibits had to be placed very
unfavorably for lack of space, on
the walls back of the agricultural
and other exhibits, and on rafters
too high to be seen satisfactorily.
Three years ago a plan was for
mulated to build a hall on the fair
grounds in O’Neill and one on the
fair grounds at Chambers for the
purpose of exhibiting our school
work and for other children’s ac
tivities for both localities; these
buildings to be financed by funds
raised by a small contribution
from each district; from $3.00 to
$12 00 for rural districts and from
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Health Home of Grand Island, Nebraska
THURSDAY - FRIDAY - SATURDAY
October 18 -19 - 20
I have secured the services of Dr. Johnston and his staff to
bring to the people of this community and the surrounding ter
ritory the benefit of FREE HEALTH EXAMINATIONS.
These Free Examinations entitle one member of each family
to a thoro analysis of their entire system, without charge or ob
ligation. By our methods of examining it is unnecessary to ask
any questions regarding, your physical condition or having to
remove any clothing.
If you are suffering from any of the various ailments, you
should not fail to take advantage of this exceptional opportun
ity to find out the exact cause of your trouble.
Ladies must be accompanied by their husbands so that both
will have a thoro understanding o! the examination at the same
time.
CLINIC HOURS 9:00 to 5:00
Dr. C. H. Lubker
Clinic Will Be Held At Golden Hotel
O’NEILL, NEBRASKA
$6.00 to $25.00 for town and city
school districts, according to the
valuation of the district. The
funds vwere to be given for each
building according to the desires
of the district contributing.
Nearly $400.00 was contributed
almost immediately for the O’Neill
building and $175.00 for the Cham
bers building. Circumstances
arose in the county fair organiza
tion which made it unwise to push
this project at this time.
The people of Chambers wished
to have their new building by fair
time that fall. This was made pos
sible by the business people of the
town contributing $50.00 toward
their fund and the people of
Chambers and the Chambers Fair
Board volunteered their services
for all hauling of material and
labor on the building. The building
a hexagon structure 30 feet across
ready for the Fair in the fall of
1932 and has been very much ap
preciated by the Chambers people
as a place for school exhibit and
4-H Club work.
Since a large building was need
ed for the territory of O’Neill, the
matter was laid aside for the time
being. It was again taken up last
February at the Annual Rural
School Board Meeting, and a com
mittee consisting of James D. Beck,
District 11; Frank Nelson, District
170; John Tipton, District 36; A. E.
Riggs, District 2, and Joseph Schol
Imeyer, District 38, was appointed
to help perfect the plans of the
structure.
Since it was uncertain whether
the County Fair would be contin
ued, it was voted to ask the County
Board for the privilege of erecting
the building on the court house
yard, and to make provisions for
a circulating library to which all
the schools of the county may have
access if they wish to enter the
organization. This was a splendid
idea and met with very favorable
response. A second plea was made
' to school districts that had not yet
contributed and enough money was
received to make the building pos
sible.
Early last spring Mr.McReynolds
of the Federal Relief Office offered
to have the building erected with
CWA labor. We took advantage
of this and started the building on
March 1. Unfortunately the CWA
program was closed on March 15
by the Federal Government with
only our foundation in and a part
of the frame up. We waited for
some time but no further federal
aid was available. We then hired
carpenters to complete the struc
ture. The painting of the outside
is being done by the FERA. A
very neat cement floor and approach
from the main sidewalk was next
put in, after which the interior of
the building was completed. The
booth frames are fitted to the walls
with hinges so they may be folded
back when not in use. This makes
the greatest possible display space.
Two mouse-proof rooms in the
front, one 12x12 on the east and
one 10x12 on the west, both com
pletely shelved will serve as cir
culating library rooms for schools.
The Nebraska School laws now
require that each district shall buy
$5.00 worth of library books per
teacher each year. Under our cir
culating library plan each district
will put its $5.00 into this circulat
ng library to which all schools will
have access. Thus each district
with the $5,00 per year is providing
for its children access to an unlim
ited supply of new reading material
of the highest type instead of such
a meager supply as the same $5.00
would buy under the present plan.
We feel that this library alone
will be many times more valuable
to our schools and rural commun
Travel Over
the World..
While Sitting in Your Easy Chair
^TIot all oi us can go, as we
would like to, and see for our
selves the strange peoples
who live in foreign lands and
the wonders of nature that
lie beyond the horizon.
It is lor such stay-at-homes
as us that the writers and
travelers of the National Geo
graphic Society are scouring
the world for interesting
accounts of the far places
which we would like to see,
and their descriptions of what
they have seen and what they
would have us see are appearing
regularly in thia newspaper.
Look for the travel articUs
in this paper. Then tell your
friends about it lor they
will be as Interested in this
feature as you are.
ities within the next few years,
j than the cost of the entire building.
With the exception of labor for
the foundation and the erection of
part of the frame, and $150.00 for
materials very kindly donated by
the CWA thru the efforts of Mr.
McReynolds, the entire building has
been financed by the schools of the
county. A few districts have not
yet responded but have expressed
their intention of doing so since
they are sure the program will
really be carried out. A number
of districts have expressed their
willingness to give a second con
tribution if necessary. A small
debt still remains upon the build
ing, but it will be cared ifor this
fall. There will be no assessment
to the tax-payers of the county,
whatever. All money contributed
by districts for the building will be
returned to them in the form of
premiums on school exhibit work,
if the schools make a display each
year as required by law. A num
ber of schools are receiving this
year alone, more than the amount
contributed to the building. The
school children of Holt county are
proud of their building.
Names of districts contributing
to the building fund wll be pub
lished next week.
School district 127 has made the
first contribution of $5.00 to the
Library organization; District 170,
the second. This fund will grow
rapidly and the library increased
as fast as the funds come in. Dis
trict 127 also donated seven vol
umes to the library.
A contribution of good used books
by anyone who wishes to give
them will be gratefully received.
We hope to make this a very ad
equate library.
WORLD’S SLAUGHTER RECORD
The slaughter of cattle and
calves during August 1934 under
federal inspection in the United
States, was the largest in the his
tory of the livestock industry; in
fact, it was a world’s slaugher
record. During the month the kill
totaled 1,576,204 head of cattle and
970,211 head of calves. The killing
of Government purchased “drouth
relief” stock in both classes ac
counted for nearly 50 per cent of
the total. The above figures do not
include any cattle or calves not
killed under federal inspection.
A study of government slaught
er statistics made by the Farmers
Union Live Stock Commission
house of the Sioux City market re
veals some unusual facts, which
will have a marked influence on
the future of the cattle industry in
this country.
The eight months’ period ending
August 31, 1934, in the case of cat
tle showed an increase in the num
ber of head killed of nearly 40 per
cent over the same period for 1933.
Beginning with June 1934, when
the Government began its pur
chases and slaughter of “drouth re
lief” stock, the per cent increase
each month over the corresponding
month in 1933 was as follows:
June more than 43 per cent, July
nearly 58% per cent, and August
over 87% per cent. This was for
cattle only.
Much the same condition was
true as regards calves. The Au
gust 1934 calf kill was 133 per cent
greater than during August 1933.
The fact remains, that, this large
beef surplus, is offset to a small
degree by the fact; that the August
1934 hog slaughter was about 24
per cent under that of August 1933,
when the Government slaughter of
pigs and piggy sows was at its
height. Sheep slaughter for Au
gust this year was less than 1 per
cent under that of August last year.
HOW ABOUT THE PLATFORM?
Kansas City Star: The solemn
pledge of the 1932 democratic
platform and candidate to reduce
federal government costs by at
least 25 per cent is recalled by
Bainbridge Colby, democratic sec
retary of state under President
Wilson, who holds that the prom
ise “has been ‘fulfiilled’ by so vast
an enlargement of government
spending that the bankruptcy of
the federal government -is just
around the corner.”
Now why should Mr. Colby per
sist in bringing the platform up
again?
Pointed Paragraphs
Strange there was so little cheer
ing from the New Dealers when
that stalwart warhorse of the dfemo
ocratic party, James A. Reed of
Missouri, made his speech on con
stitution day.
Morganthau, Tugwell, Ezekial
and Richberg claim that it is a
democratic administration but we
wonder if they will be able to con
vince Carter Glass, At Smith and
John W. Davis, among others.
Another ten million dollars is
ubout to be contributed to the dem
| ocrntic campaign fund. The de
partment of agriculture is soon to
pay this amount as a bounty to
sugar beet growers, and of course
the sugar checks will reach the
farmer just in advance of election.
The softest job in the country this
fall is that of the treasurer of the
democratic national committee.
Uncle Sam is doing the job for
him.
Key West, Florida, asked for
bread and they gave it a stone.
With its leading industries of old
times all but extinguished; with
half its citizens receivng relief Key
West appealed to Washington for
aid in warding off complete exterm
ination. Cash was forthcoming, but
similtaneously the Cuban recipro
cal trade treaty was made operative
and its 50 per cent reduction in the
tariff on pineapples struck a body
blow at the Key West canneries,
the largest of its surviving indus
tries.
(First publication September 20)
LEGAL NOTICE.
Thomas Watt, Henry Hastings,
Alexandre Watt, Michael Cavan
augh; The heirs, devisees, legatees,
personal representatives and all
other persons interested in the es
tate of Thomas Watt, ’deceased,
real names unknown; The heirs,
devisees, legatees, personal repre
sentatives and all other persons in
terested ih the estate of Alexandre
Watt, deceased, real names uh
known; The heirs, devisees, lega
tees, personal representatives and
all other persons interested in the
estate of Michael Cavanaugh, de
ceased, real names unknown, and
all persons having or claiming any
interest in a tract of land bounded
as follows: Commencing at a point
693 feet north of southwest corner
of Northwest Quarter of Section 29
Township 29 North, Range 11 West
6th Principal Meridian in Holt
county, Nebraska, running thence
east 2640 feet; thence north 1947
feet; thence west 2247 feet; thence
south 740.8 feet; thence east 14
feet; thence south 746.2 feet;thence
west 407 feet; thence south 460
feet to place of beginning, real
names unknown, defendants, are
notified that on September 15, 1934,
Mary A. Kelly as plaintiff filed a
petition and commenced an action
in the District Court of Holt county,
Nebraska, against you, the object
of which is to have the plaintiff
decreed to be the owner of the
real estate above described, to have
the title to said premises quieted
in plaintiff; to have you decreed to
have no title to, or interest in, said
premises and to remove the clouds
cast on plaintiff’s title by reason of
your claims.
You are required to answer said
petition on or before October 29,
1934.
Wr. J. HAMMOND,
18-4 Attorney for Plaintiff.
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