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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 16, 1936)
CONGRESS I J AS SEEN BY A NEBRASKAN By Karl Stefan Chicago, 111., Jan. 2. Happy New Year. We got here aB right. On onr way to Washington. We drove our car as far as Chicago and found fairly heavy snows all the way thru Iowa. Heavier in the eastern part. The reads were fair ly good and snow plows kept the mow cleared off the highways bat in the towns and cities the streets were sbppery and dangerous. A Chicago merchant tells os that Chicago's big question is wbat is to be done about thirty thousand peo ple who are facing eviction from their homes. He tells us that fore closures have taken place on 80,000 homes and now the evictions are starting. Asked if Chicago can pay their school teachers again he states that it is doing it by borrow ing the money from the govern ment and giving mortgage on valu able Chicago real estate. He says the government will never fore close on that real estate because the government can’t use the real estate, anyway. Washington. D. C., Jan. 3. We arrive in the nation’s capitol half an hour before the last session of the seventy-fourth congress is called to order by Speaker Byrnes. Everybody in the lobby is shaking hands and wishing each other a happy New Year and asking every body else what they did during the recess. Members rush into their offices to face huge piles of mail. Others hunt around for a place to sleep. They find Washington just as busy as before and they find Car of Apples Since opening onr market in O’Neill we have enjoyed a splendid business and we want to assure you that we appreciate it and will try to be of more service to you in the future. JUST RECEIVED from one of the Finest Orchards in Missouri, car of Basket Apples of the following varieties: GOLDEN DELICIOUS, RED DELIC IOUS, JONATHAN, KING DAVIDS and GRIMES GOLDEN, that we are offering at very attractive prices. Owing to the freezing of the apple crop on the west ern slope, the apple market is high, and apples from that territory are of very poor quality due to this freeze. YOU CAN’T BEAT SOUTHERN FRUIT FOR FLAVOR! We also have just received a truck load of Fresh Frozen FISH from northern Minnesota—Herring, Pike, Bull Heads and Pickerel. These fish are fresh caught and sure are Fine! Get our Prices on these! You will be surprised! POTATOES DRY LAND RED TRIUMPHS fPer Peck, 15-Lbs., 25c—100-Lb. Bag IDAHO RUSSETTS Per Peck, 15-Lbs., 30c—100-Lb. Bag We Also Carry A Full Line of All Kinds of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables BARNHART MARKET y O’NEILL and ATKINSON We Deliver Twice Daily O’Neill Phone 144-W HEW SPECIAL RATES on LONG DISTANCE CALLS Effective January 15 —— ALL DAY\ \ SUNDAY / STARTING JANUARY 15, the special rates which have been in effect on station-to-station calls after 7 o’clock each night will now extend to all day Sunday. Special night and Sunday rates apply on any station-to-station call for which the day rate is 40 cents or more. AND STARTING JANUARY 15, there will also be special rates on person-to-person calls every night after 7 o’clock and all day Sunday. These special night and Sunday rates apply in general on person-to-person calls for which the day rate is 55 cents or more. TYPICAL THREE-MINUTE RATES * Station-lo Station Rates Person-to-Person Rates Week Night and Week Night and Airline Mllet Day Sunday Day Sunday 100 $ .60 $ .35 $ .90 $ .65 200 1.05 .60 1.40 95 _300_1.40 .80 1.80 1.20 _400 1.75 1.00 2.20 1.45 * 500 2.05 1.15 2.55 1.65 NORTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY I botel and apartment managers have hiked the prices of rent and food and there is a “take it or leave it” attitude every place you go to ask for a room or an apartment. Taxicab drivers are arrogant and have introduced a new “tip” racket. The town is in bigger money than ever before and the natives here know they have the stranger hog tied. - The night special session and the president's appearance was a mag nificient one in the House. A crowd of people unable to get into the capital building crowded outside to get a glimpse of the president as he arrived and departed. The tun nels under the buildings and the streets thru which members of both houses reach their offices were heavily guarded by police. The entire capitol grounds were well guarded. The president looked in excellent health as he came up the specially built runway to the speak er’s table on the arm of his son, John - Washington, D. C., Jan. 6. In the midst of the session today members of the house learned of the decision of the Supreme court indicating that the Trible A was unconstitutional. Members rushed around endeavoring to get copies of the supreme court decision and many gathered in groupB wonder ing what was going to happen. Many of them seem to believe that Congress would be asked for some kind of an appropriation to pay farmers the moral obligations of the government for crop restriction already performed by fanners. Most of the members, however, were waiting to hear from home to see how the court decision would react on their constituents. That some kind of farm relief legisla tion must be continued seemed to be a unanimous consensus of opin ion. — A meeting was held today by a half dozen congressmen from farm districts for the purpose of discuss ing a bill which would protect farm ers who milk cows, against the in roads being made by oleomargarine. Representatives of several farm or ganizations, ineluding the farm bureaus and the grange were pre sent. Another meeting was to be held within a few days. The idea is to try to get the co-operation of all American fat producers, pork fat, beef fat, butterfat, etc., to wage a fight against an attempt which is being made to flood Amer ica with cocoanut oil. About 44 million farmers of the U. S. milk cows. It is stated that the produc tion of oleomargerine was probably the greatest in the history of our country last year. 42% of oleo is cocoanut oil. Last year Congress passed a law putting a 3% excise tax on cocoanut oil. The cocoanut oil lobby wants to eliminate that tax. Farm congressmen think the tax should be increased. The co coannt oil lobby iB rich and power ful. Every congressman is flooded with propoganda to help eliminate the cocoanut oil excise tax.' Washington, D. C., Jan. 7. Wm. Lemke of North Dakota, the author of the Frazier-Lemke Re finance Bill, came into the 3rd Dis trict office today to wish us a happy New Year. Mr. Lemke and his associates feel that now more than ever it is necessary to have a bill passed which would give mortgage burdened farmers a lower rate of interest. Immediately Mr. Lemke’s workers started out to get more signatures on petition No. 7. This petition is for the purpose of bring ing the Frazier Lemke bill up for consideration on its merits. This morning there were 207 signatures, and a few hours later two addition al signatures were obtained. The 209th signature was Congressman Maine, of Michigan, (Rep.) recent ly elected to fill a vacancy at the death of Congressman Kimball. This means that only nine more signatures are needed to get this bill on the floor of the House for consideration by the people’s rep resentatives. Many members today are begin ning to get word from home about the AAA decision. Many letters ask this question: “Does this mean that I will not get my corn-hog check? While many members are asking themselves the same question a general feeling exists among members on both sides of the house that the government made an iron-clad contract with the farmers to pay them for carry ing out a certain contract. These members feel that the government is obligated to carry out its con tract and that these farmers must be paid somehow. It all remains now to enact some kind of a law whereby these farmers can be paid. THE NEBRASKA SCENE (Continued from page 2.) sure them parity as between agri cultural and non-agriculttural oom modifies. The farmer should be reimbursed by the government on a percentage of his sales for do mestic purposes. I believe this plan would automatically control production.” Dwight Griswold, republican can didate for governor: “The duty of our farm and political leaders, both republicans and democrats, is to work out a farm program, under our constitution, which will give this western country a fair deal . .. Prom the mistakes and faults of the AAA, we can learn much, and based upon oar constitution, a great deal can be done . . . The emergency is over, the crisis is past, and evon without any help whatever from congress, the farm er will go on as he always has, de veloping the beet type of civiliza tion and the best kind of commun ities to be found in the entire Un ited States.” Griswold has sup ported the AAA in the past. Fred Wallace of Gibbon, chair man of the state corn-hog board of review: “Fellow producers in Buffalo county were most disap pointed at the supreme court’s de cision . . . The peculiar thing wbr that those fellows who were only luke-warm toward the program before are now active backers of a new agricultural program. That goes for business men too. . Agri culture should be protected on an equal basis with industry.” Nebraskans generally are expres sing the hope that some better plan will be evolved as the result of AA’s death. The plans considered most likely to succeed include ex cise taxes on food products pos sibly corresponding to the invalid ated processing tax which might be enacted to finance payments to farmers; and expansion of the pre sent soil conservation program to take submarginal and barren lands out of cultivation of cash crops, as a means of achieving whatever production control that might be necessary. Economists say that we should not be greatly disturbed over the long-term effect of the adverse AAA decision on business. That it may cause a temporary check to retail trade, which has expanded, in greatest proportion in the agri cultural sections of the country, seems probable, they say. The Townsend pension-plan tick et is starting to draw customers among the candidates for public office in Nebraska, but, strangely, the men putting the Townsend flag on their platforms are for the most part “long shots’* and “outs” who apparently are taking a gamble. George Stroble, Nebraska City grocer, is hitching his wagon to the Townsend star as a democratic candidate for governor. Cecil Mat thews, former state labor and com pensation commissioner and Town send plan promoter, says he will run for the democratic nomination for state treasurer on a “support the Townsend plan” platform. State Auditor Fred C. Ayres (D) has filed for his first elective term in the office he now holds by ap pointment . . . State Treasurer George E. Hall (D) is running for the U. S. senate on a “support the president” platform . , . L. A. Lar son, McCook, is another democrat DANCE AT K. C. Hall, O’Neill SATURDAY EVENING I January 18 at 9:00 p. m. GOOD MUSIC seeking the aenatorship now held by Norris . . . G. I. Good, Bridge port, is in the democratic primary race as a candidate for state rail way commissioner. F. A. Good, Lincoln democrat, intends to get in the same race after being barely beaten out by Will Maupin two years ago . . . M. J. Murray (D), Franklin, deputy state treasurer, I has filed in the race for the state treasurership .. . The filing of Wil liam S. Madgett, of Hastings, for governor in the republican primary makes four men seeking the re publican nomination. An O'Neill man means to hear Hoover’s Lincoln speech if he has to walk. Wonder how he made it? INCOME alone makes no man rich. Outgo alone makes many men poor. (©Tlfcill national Hank Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits, $125,000.00 This bank carries no indebted ness of officers or stockholders. I |DDS a»d ENDS SALE at give away prices! We have scouted thru our stock and find we have enough broken sizes, etc., to make a Real Money Saving event for you! You will have to Hurry! The items we are listing won't last long at these prices! Men’s Boots 16-in. Top . . . composition sole. A boot that will give you service! Sizes: 1-4, 1-7, 1-7M>, 3-8s, l-9y2, 3-10s, 1-11... find your size! 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