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THE NEBRASKA
SCENE
by James R. Lowell
The political corral bars went up
Thursday with the usual eleventh
hour entry of old war horses, wean
ing colts, broncos, piebalds and
wild jack-asses. Nebraska voters
from now until next November are
up against the delicate problem of
picking the winners and placing
their bets in the great political
rodeo of 1936.
Conspicious by his absence in all
this melee of hoofs and horns and
heads that “wars and wrangels
and scatters and spreads” is Chas.
W. Bryan, who for the first time in
20 years will not be a figure in the
Nebraska primaries. As mayor of
the capitol city, he decided to con
centrate his benevolence on the
people of Lincoln.
Among that motley drove of late
entries is Robert G. Simmons of
Lincoln standing with all four feet
firmly planted in the constitutional
grass roots of the republican sena
torial enclosure. In fact, his ad
herence to terra firma two years
ago lost him the senatorial race to
Ed Burke of Omaha who adopted
a more aerial method of locomo
tion. It appears, however, that
Simmons’ ability as a “mudder"
may be of more advantage this
election as a slower track is in
prospect.
Opponents of Simmons m tne
preliminary heat will include
Harry O. Palmer, Omaha attorney,
who ran unsuccessfully for govern
or in 1932 and for chief justice of
the supreme court in 1934; U. S.
Renne, Fort Calhoun farmer, who
opposed Simmons in the primary
two years ago; and 34-year-old
Lloyd C. Constable, Wymore drug
gist, a newcomer in politics who is
friendly to both the constitution
and Dr. Townsend.
A recent comer to the starting
line in the democratic primary is
Emil Placek, Wahoo banker, who
in contrast to Simmons and his ter
restrial habits will skip lightly
along as a strong advocate of the
Roosevelt administration. Placek
was a staunch supporter of Burke
in the last election but has since
become the senator's most caustic
critic in view of the latter’s alleged
opposition to the president’s
policies.
While the contest for senator is
expected to provide an interesting
spectacle for onlookers, the wise
acres are placing their pennies on
Senator Norris’ somewhat acquil
ine nose to stay in the feedbag.
Strangely enough, the most pro
nounced contest over the new deal
promises to be in the democratic
party. The field will be the usually
quiet race for democratic national
committeeman. Senator Burke
will run for the office as the result
of Keith Neville’s announcement
that he would not seek re-election.
Burke is categoried in the contest
as the anti-new-dealer.
Upholding Rooseveltian policies
will be Terry Carpenter, also a
democratic candidate for senator;
and Phil Tomek, prominent David
City attorney, who styles himself
a “compromise” candidate. Dan i
V. Stephens of Fremont, former
congressman and veteran demo
cratic leader; and James E. Law
rence, Lincoln editor, will lend
their efforts to Burke’s defeat
while Arthur Mullen, former nat
ional committeeman, will uphold
him. Chairman Quigley of the
state committee will lay low.
(Editor’s note: A complete li*t
and thumbnail sketch of candidates
for major state and national politi
cal offices will appear in this paper
next week.)
The aftermath of the record
breaking cold wave and snows
finds floods, insect pests and wild<
life conservation occupying a prom
inent place in public interest.
Communities adjacent to the
larger rivers and streams of the
state are remembering floods of
bygone years, and the dynamiting
of ice in river and creek channels
is going on apace. Three major
factors contribute to the flood scare:
Unusually heavy snow fall, ab
normally thick ice on the rivers,
and ground frozen so deep that the
water from the melting snow can
not penetrate the ground.
Dynamite has been stored at
several points along the Missouri
river for use in breaking ice-jams
and the army has promised to
send bombers to the rescue if the
emergency becomes acute. Nor
folk merchants, remembering a
raging flood that swept the lower
parts of the city in March, 1U1T,
have moved stocks of merchandise
from basements to higher floors in
many instances as a measure of
precaution. Similar situations pre
vail in many communities, with the
chief fear being that heavy rains
might augment the melting snow
waters.
Whereas many farmers and city
gardners were finding some solace
in the cold weather in the thot that
the bugs were getting it in the
neck, the University of Nebraska
department of entomology has
blighted that hope.
The severe cold wiped out a lot
of the birds that would have helped
keep the insect pests down, the
authorities say, while the baby
bugs snoozed safely under the pro
tecting blanket of the snow. Grass
hopper eggs must be subjected to
temperatures of about 22 degrees
below zero for about 16 hours to
kill them all. It will be ‘‘bug busi
ness as usual" unless the weather
man contrives to bring on a period
of moist weather with alternate
hard freezes and thaws.
No definite check on the extent
of bird fatalities has been made as
yet, but observers agree the loss
was terrific. The state game com
mission may be confronted with an
unexpected problem this spring—
to provide pheasants for 1936 hunt
ing. —
"The new federal farm programs
represent a shift from the emer
gency AAA to a long time program
of agricultural planning. The sud
den change to a new type of na
tional land conservation may be
difficult for a while but it will be a
step forward,” W. H. Brokaw, di
rector of the AAA in Nebraska.
“If we really want to do some
thing for agriculture, let’s increase
production, not reduce it, and allow
individual initiative and effort full
and fair play,” James Tod of
Maple Hill, Kans., speaking in
Omaha.
“Landon has demonstrated his
capacity for government. He is a
man with common business sense,
and yet he can be classed as a lib
eral. He has made a success in his
political, business and private li/e
and is qualified to lead this country
out of the chaotic wilderness of the
Roosevelt experiments,” George S.
Sibley of New York, leader in the
National Young Republican federa
tion, speaking in Lincoln.
New passenger car registrations
in Nebraska during January reach
ed 3,742 as compared with 1,986
for the same month in 1935, thus
answering in part at least the ques
tion of how the adverse decision by
the supreme court on the AAA
would effect retail business in Ne
braska. However, some economists
say that the fact must be taken
into consideration that it was un
derstood existing AAA contracts
would be paid out by the govern
ment, and that new farm legisla
tion would be rushed thru.
An interesting sidelight on new
car registrations in the state was
the jump of Chevrolet over Ford
to first place. Chevrolet accounted
for 1,383 of the new cars as against
409 in January a year ago, while
Ford sold 899 and 664 the cor
responding month in 193.5. Ply
mouth held third place with 554.
Commercial car registrations for
the month increased to 586 com
pared with 385 in January, 1935.
Chevrolet took first place away
from Ford in this field, too, while
International was third.
Altho sheltcrbelt officials in Lin
coln profess optimism as to the
ultimate outcome of the tree plant
ing project which was one of the
mostcontroversial issues of the im
mediate post-drouth period in Ne
braska, some of the insiders say
the tree planting will be called off
this year, and maybepermantently.
A grant of $1,000,000 initiated
the project a year and a half ago,
while FERA later gave $1,998,000
or enough to keep things moving
after a fashion until July 1st this
year.
The belt was to have been 1,000
miles long and 100 miles wide, with
Nebraska one of the six states in
which plantings were to be made.
The Lincoln shelterbelt crew is of
the opinion the project will be kept
alive on a restricted basis.
As a result of the court decision
in Wayne county transferring the
liquidation of the failed Hoskins
State bank from E. H. Luikart to
his successor as head of the state
banking department, Ben H. Saun
ders, the case will be carried to the
supreme court. Luikart refused to
step out as liquidater of more than
200 judicial receiverships when he
left office, and suit was filed
against him at Governor Cochran’s
instigation.
Failure of the legislature to
make an appropriation while en
acting a law last year making the
Ltate bear the cost of extraditing
prisoners from other states to Ne
braska, has thrown a scare into the
state sheriff’s camp. These costs
will have to be taken out of $50,000
appropriated to the sheriff for ex
panding his force. The sheriff has
another $50,00 for law enforcement
however.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Sunday School 10:00—Mr. C. E.
Yantzi, superintendent.
Morning Worship 11:00—“Bread
Alone.”
Evening Service 7:30—Character
Sketch.
The choirs will lead the singing.
The influence of the church will
reach as far as individuals will ac
cept it. All are invited to our ser
vices. H. D. Johnson, Pastor.
Tests Will Be Made For
Seeding Native Crass
Establishment of native grass
operative enterprise much the
same as has been carried on for
years with small grain and corn
varieties will be undertaken this
spring by the University of Ne
braska college of agriculture and
cooperating agencies.
Setting up of grass tests on
farms outstate as well as at the
Nebraska experiment station marks
the first time in history that 4 uni
fied effort to study grasses and
their habitats has been attempted
in Nebraska. Cooperating in the
project will be the Soil Conserva
tion Nursery of the United States
Department of Agriculture, the Ne
braska college of agriculture and
the extension service, the soil con
servation service, individual farm
ers and county agricultural agents.
A total of 500,000 pounds of na
tive grass seed was collected in
Nebraska and surrounding states
last year, some of which will be
used in the cooperative tests. A
mechanical stripper was used in
gathering the grass in large quan
tities. Representative samples of
the seed havebeen tested for purity
and germination and laboratory
tests have proven that the seed will
grow.
Native grass species to be dis
tributed include Big Blue Stem,
Little Blue Stem, Switch Grass,
Indian Grass, BlueGrama, Western
Wheatgrass, Sand Raid, Alkali
Drop Seed, Mountain Rice and
Needle Grass. Individual farmer
cooperators are being selected on
the basis of the type of land which
they have, their location in the
state and as to the particular prob
lems they have on their farms. All
tests will be planted in small plats,
probably one-twentieth of an acre
in size.
The grass program fits in well
with the soil conservation act in
that it will determine what native
grasses can be successfully re
seeded in Nebraska. Planting of
more grass will mean more emphar
sis on species and the correct
grasses for various sections.
Hospital Notes
Miss Luella Hansen went home
Saturday evening.
Mrs. Alice Storjohn left the hos
pital Friday to spend a few days
in town before going, to her home.
Max Wanser, of Page, left the
hospital Tuesday afternoon and
will spend a few days at the Jordan
home convalescing.
Mrs. Prill was operated on Thurs
day the 27th, and is improving
rapidly.
Zeb Warner came in Saturday
evening suffering a severe heart
attack and is still in a serious con
dition.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. b loyd And
erson, of Chambers, a five pound
daughter, March 4. All doing fine.
Marriage Licenses
Robert Phelps,Redbird, and Miss
Marie Volquarden, of Venus.
Arthur Grass and Miss Clarice
Thompson, both of Page.
NOT THE SPENDING
BUT THE WASTE
It is not the spending of the
money to which our people object.
It is the waste of it that has arous
ed the country. When a stagger
ing debt is saddled on the coming
generations, the chief reason for
which has been the effort to build
up a political machine, it is no
wonder that an awakened people
should be incensed.
President Roosevelt may have
meant well in the beginning, but
he made the mistake of letting his
first thought run to party building
and re-election to a second term.
He surrounded himself with a
group of men inexperienced in
statesmanship and public service,
with a few politicians who were
designated to manipulate the prac
tical end of building a political
machine. The result is there is a
political machine structure such as
has never before been known, but
it is becoming skeletonized a.; the
former adherents of it have been
dropping away when they came to
realize that all that was being ac
complished was the building of a
partisan political machine out of
the wealth of the nation.
If this money Kad been used to
restore the business of the country,
regardless of any partisan political
consideration, if partisanship had
been completely eliminated, Presi
dent Roosevelt Would today have
achieved success instead of being
obliged to admit failure. He
would today be looking upon an
almost unanimous re-election in
stead of what is growing more and
more apparent as a decisive de
feat.—Pottsville, Pa., Republican.
FOXY SOUTH CAROLINA.
South Carolina obtained 98.01 of
its “relief” from the federal gov
ernment, putting- up the smallest
proportion of any of the states
from its funds, for the simple
reason that the taxpayers of South
Carolina would not have “stood
for’” appropriations for relief by
the general assembly and the mem
bers of that body well knew it.
These South Carolinans are aware
that a great part (not all) of the
“relief money” is wasted, was
wasted, that the spending of som$
of it was not necessary, and as
their federal, state, county and
town taxes are already a heavy
burden, they said, “Let Roosevelt
and congress do it.” In this they
showed good sense.
The congressmen were insistent
that South Carolina should have a
share, and they got it, so they did.
Had none of the relief funds
been wasted, the Administrators
thereof would have been eager to
publish the amounts of their sal
aries and their na'Aies.—Charleston
(S. C.) News and Courier.
A MILLSTONE ROUND HIS
NECK
Were Mr. Roosevelt to remove
Mr. Farley it would be like cutting
off his own right arm. But the
work of Mr. Farley—which has be
come synonymous with the spread
of the spoils systepi—has certain
ly earned many enemies for Mr.
Roosevelt. Mr. Farley may be
long among Mr. Roosevelt's polit*
ical assets. But he is a popular
liability. In many parts , of the
country he has successfully alien
ated whole sections of former
Roosevelt adherents. It is only
necessary to mention Wisconsin
and New Mexico to verify this.—
New York Herald Tribune.
PURCHASING POWER
Whenever President Roosevelt
makes a speech he asserts that the
purchasing power of the farmer
has been improved under his ad
ministration. But he fails to take
into consideration the correspond
ing increase in price the farmer
must pay for what he has to buy,
which has been all out of propor
tion to his increased income. Con
ditions in this county are a fair
sample. Can you recollect condi
tions in November and December,
1932? Cotton and corn were cheap,
chickens were cheap, yes, dread
fully cheap. Labor was cheap.
Sure! Lard was cheap, so was
flour, meal, sugar, potatoes. Where
was the relief roll? You couldn’t
go to a share-cropper’s shack where
they didn’t have their winter’s
“grub” and plenty of it. Every la
borer and renting farmer had his
meat and plenty of it. Prices of
his products were cheap, and that
hurt his feelings, but he did have
“purchasing power,” and he used!, it
to provide his winter’s supplies
and clothing. He may have higher
prices now for what he should have
to sell, but he hasn’t got anything
to sell in the first place, and for
those who may have a little surplus
they cannot buy much with what
price they do get.—Lilbourn, Mo.,
Banner.
NEW DEAL SPENDING.
By Congressman Bertrand H. Snell,
of New, York, house minority
leader.
If you want to get an idea of the
'vast sum involved in the orgy of
New Deal spending, just consider
that from President Washington
to President Taft the total of gov
ernment expenditures was only 24
and one-half billion dollars. This
took in our entire peace time and
war time expenditures of 124 years,
including the building of the Pana
ma Canal.
Well, in less than three years of
the New Deal, President Roosevelt
has had appropriated for his use
the vast sum of 25 billion 665 mil
lion dollars, or a billion dollars
more than we spent in 124 years.
Is it any wonder that the public
debt has now reached an all time
high of 30 billion 504 million dol
lars, and that Secretary Morgen
thau says it will reach 3G and one
half billions in 1937.
Despite increased revenues, the
daily treasury statement shows
why our public debt continues to
grow at such an appalling rate.
Relief expenditures have decreased,
but general expenditures increased
384 million dollars during the first
seven months of the fiscal year,
making the* deficit for this period
2 billion 108 millions.
There have been 252 thousand
persons added to the New Deal’s
payroll. This huge political army
alone is costing nearly 500 million
dollars a year, in spite of the elect
ion pledges of economies of 25 per
cent.
There are 10 million still unem
ployed, 20 million on relief, as a
result of wild boon-doggling, and
crack-pot schemes to get rid of two
dollars for every dollar of govern
ment money taken in.
Crushing taxes are sure to fol
low, taxes which everybody must !
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pay, to make up for the New Deal's
w‘aste of borrowed money. If this
New- Deal spending is continued,
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the entire nation when it got to the
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this continued and reckless spend
ing will mean to their children and
their children’s children.
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