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The Frontier D. H. Cronin, Editor and Proprietor Entered at the Postoffice at O’Neill, Nebraska, as Second Class Matter. One Year, in Nebraska ... $2.00 One Year, outside Nebraska 2.25 Every subscription is regarded as an open account. The names of subscribers will be instantly re moved from our mailing list at ex piration of time paid for, if pub lisher shall be notified; otherwise the subscription remains in force at the designated subscription price. Every subscriber must understand that these conditions are made a part of the contract between pub lisher and subscriber. ADVERTISING RATES Display advertising is charged, for on a basis of 25c an inch (one column wide) per week. Want ads 10c per line, first insertion, sub sequent insertions, 5c per line. Economic Highlights "Lost foreign trade of the United States would have paid the Federal relief bill,” says a headline in the United States News, * That’s a startling statement—but figures prove it. In 1934, value of exports of the United States products to foreign •countries was more than $3,300, 000,000 under the record 1929 level —and the Federal government spent over $2,300,000,000 on relief. In 1935, the relief bill was $3,188, 000,000—and the loss in foreign trade from the 1929 figure was $3, 262,000,000. Estimates hold that this year our foreign trade loss as compared, with the greatest of the boom years will be about $3,000, 000.000—almost precisely what the U, S. Treasury is going to pay out in relief. Thus, for the three-year period, our lost foreign trade totals ap proximately $10,000,000,000—and relief coBt the taxpayers of the country around $8,500,000,000 in the same period. Had we been able to keep foreign trade on the 1929 level during depression, we could have paid the entire cost of Federal relief out of receipts, and had the neat sum of a billion-and-a-half left over for other purposes. Of course, nothing could have enabled us to maintain our trade at that level—the world-wide de pression, coupled with general un eertainity in Europe, currency wars and fluctuations and other mone tary disturbances, tariffs and em bargoes, were resportfdble for most of the loss. The domestic AAA program is believed by many to have been a factor in reducing ag ricultural exports, though friends of the AAA say that we couldn't have found markets for our sur plus even if crop reductions had never been put into effect. Irres pective of that, the cold statistics show conclusively that the welfare of a number of big industries, and a vast amount of employment, hinges on foreign trade. In the latest years for which complete figures are available, De partment of Commerce tabulations show that this country has sent abroad half of the cotton crop, two-thirds of all refined copper, one-third of farm machinery 6nd lubricating oils, 40 put cent of air craft, and a little less than 20 per cent of radios. These items are simply samples. If, tomorrow, ail our existing foreign markets were suddenly closed to us, industry and agricul ture would be plunged into havoc. Assistant Secretary of State Sayre has published a booklet on just what foreign trade means to the farmer and worker—and the con clusions drawn are thought-pro voking in the extreme. According to this authority, loss of our for eign markets would mean that we would have to retire almost 9,000, 000 acres of wheat land, 23,000,000 acres of cotton land, 655,000 acres of tobacco land, more plan 9,000, 000 acres of corn land used for raising hogs, and 7,000,000 acres of land used for grazing horses which work the other land. The total comes to over 40,000,000 acres which today support 3,200, 000 people. An even higher problem, Secre tary Sayre points out, exists in the industrial field. Conservative es timates place the industrial popu lation directly dependent upon ex ports at 7,500,000. Add this to the farm population also dependent on foreign buying, and yop have close to 11,000,000 people whose econ omic security hinges on foreign trade. Anyone with a workable answer to the question of how foreign trade may be increased, would cer tainly be a national benefactor— unfortunately, no one has the answer, and experts differ greatly in their theories. Certain things are obvious, however—such as the problem of tariffs, and the eternal question of how American workers are to be protected from cheap labor foreign competition. The State Department, under Secretary Hull, has sought to Increase for I PARENTS-WAKE UP! At-'RlD Pp\"*SPlNTO eign business through reciprocal trade agreements with a number of powers, of which Canada is the most important, and some progress has been made. But it’s still a tough situation. The United States News points out something that is not generally realized—that imports as well as exports create jobs in this country. Many imported materials must be processed or serviced. All of them must be transported and distribut ed. This requires labor, and lots of it. Foreign trade affects the econ omic destinies of us all. And some of the best heads in the country, in government and industry arid agriculture, are growing gray try ing to figure out the answer to the many-faced problem foreign trade presents today. Business Week says that “busi ness continues to display surpris ing vitality over a wide front de spite the political uncertainties a broad that are assuming increas ing importance in any long range appraisal of business fortunes.’’ Heavy industry, which took it on the chin hardest during the depres sion, is still improving. An that grade-A general barometer, elec tric power output, recently regis tered contraseasonal improvement. Nothing seems able to stop the march of recovery. PATRIOTISM ABOVE PARTISANSHIP By Representative Charles A. llal. leok of Indiana. Today the eyes of the world are on republicanism, which now has become synomymous with Ameri canism. For the republican party has a solemn and patriotic duty to per form. We must rescue constitu tional government from the hands of the New Deal spoilers and wast ers. We must seek to rally under the banner of militant Americanism all those citizens, without regard to their former political affiliations, who are determined to drive out the ailen collectivist philosophers which have dominated our Federal government since 1933. * In our approach to this campaign we must recognize that the New Deal is not democratic—it certain ly is not republican—and clearly, by its own deeds and words, it is not American. The party of Jefferson and Jack, son has been stolen from the real democrats. President Roosevelt has abandoned or repudiated every pivotal plank in the democratic platform of 1932. In so doing he delivered a body blow' to the Amer ican system of constitutional gov ernment, and thereby forfeited for all time the support and alleigance of every true patriot. We will welcome all true demo crats as oar allies in the coming struggle, and offer them the vehicle of the republican party as the only available means by which loyal Americans may battle once more for a re-birth of American freedom, under law! This is not a fight against the democratic party as of old. It is a fight against New Dealism—a fight for true Americanism. Thinking people have known from the start that New Dealism is fake medicine. Today, the whole nation is alive to the fact that for more than three years the Roosevelt administration has squandered |2 of the people’s mon ey for every $1 of revenue received by the Federal Treasury. In a word, common sense and sanity are being restored, bootstrap recovery stands repudiated by every honest and industrious citi zen, and the great body of our voters are in revolt against the shameful record of Roosevelt broken promises. Herein lies the death of New Dealism in November—at the hands of an aroused America.! Farmers Fear Taxation After Federal Spending Chicago, 111.—Fears of thousands of farmers that excessive spending of the Roosevelt administration will tax them out of private ownership of property were described in a statement of Dr. E. V. Wilcox of Washington, secretary of the Farm er’s Independent Council. The state ment was issued from Council liead quurters here. "We are assured that the rich will pay for this spending jam boree,” the statement read. “Yet official statistics show that the total income of those whose Incomes are over $5,000 would keep the wheels of government going about 50 days at the present breakneck speed. So we, the less prosperous rank and file, must serve as the beasts of burden for the other 315 days of the year. "Whether the administration In Its present frame of mind Intends to tax all farm property out of pri vate ownership and make farmers mere wards of the government, as in Russia, can only be surmised. But this terrifying thought Is caus ing genuine concern through the farm belts.” Taxpayer's Cash Goes to Dogs in Memphis Washington.—"Homeless Hector" has found a home—thanks to the New Deal, whose PW’A built It with $25,000 of the taxpayers’ money in Memphis, Tenn. The dog shelter, object of nation-wide cen sure as the all-time high in Roose velt’s boondoggling, occupies a con spicuous place in "The Roosevelt Record,” tabloid publication of the Democratic national committee. The pound, with Its Impressive entrance and columned portico, and looking not unlike the press wing of the White House, is a haven of food and indolent luxury for the Memphis mongrels. Its construc tion Is defended by "The Roosevelt Record” on the grounds that the dogs of the southern city are po%r dogs, not like "the dogs of the rich —thoroughbreds, well-petted, well fed, clean, gentle, playful, affection ate, housebroken.” The flea-bitten, lop-eared mutt* It is said, heartily approve this new redistribution of dogdom wealth. THE CRACKER BARREL It took Zionchcck to bring the last letter of the alphabet into the circus ring of political clowning. Of Roosevelt it may truly be aaid that, alt In the name of recovery, he gave this nation "the bird” and now Is giving it "the works.” A Washington newspaper tells of a woman who was out of a job with a family to support who won a nice sum of money on an Irish sweepstakes ticket, which may lead somebody to wonder why, if she was out of a job, * she could afford to buy a sweepstake ticket. Was she on relief? The democratic chairman, James A. Farley, has warned workers in his party about sending fractional delegates to the rational conven tion at Philadelphia. But the fel lows who cause the trouble are the factional delegates. Of course the modem automobile goes faster than the old gray mare did in father’s day. But when you fed the old gal a bucketful of oats there was not a five-cents-a-gallon tax on it. A court in New York holds that contract bridge is not a game of chance. But a man is taking a long chance if he trumps his wife’s ace, or does something equally an noying. The 17-year locust has made its appearance again. This ought to furnish something else for the boondoggles to do. There will be a lot of them to count. THE NEBRASKA SCENE (Continued from page 1.) source of revenue for general gov ernment needs, however urgent. The distance a citizen travels bjr auto is an absurd measure of the amount of taxes he pays for any purpose other than construction and maintenance of highways, the non-diversionists point out. When ever diversion is practiced, taxes by the mill become a sales tax on a special class, constituting dis crimination. Diversion now amounts to 20 per cent of special user taxes. It en courages higher motor taxes. It leads to neglect and deferred high way maintenance, it is claimed, which adds to highway hazards. Finally, amendment backers sug gest a general property tax of 1 mill, or a series of luxury taxes, including 5 cents per gallon on beer, 75 cents per gallon on liquor and 2 cents per pack on cigarettes, either of which would produce about the same revenue as the pre sent extra one-etrt gasoline tax. Meanwhile, Nebraska voters should be doing' a lot of heavy thinking in preparation for ballot ing on the proposed constitutional amendment next November, both sides agree. Present indications are that at least two petition candidates’ names will appear on the general election ballot in connection with major offices. Petitions already are being cir culated in behalf of Senator Norris’ re-election, while a club is being formed to promote the petition for > VACATION DAYS Gay and gallent col ors in goucho shirts, shorts and slacks. . . . They can weather the sun and challenge the washtub without fad ing, shrinking or sag ging. BORDSON STYLE SHOP $100 CASH PRIZE!!! Coupon with every KODAK FILM Developed and 8 DeLoie Prints and _ _ Erofesaional enlargement oil painted 7 Sf y artists all for only.wawrv Mail to JANESVILLE FILM SERVICE Janesville, Wisconsin Mail this ad with roll (or individual attention VQ7 Here's the way to get rid ol that “run down” half-sick feel ing, so often due to LACK OF IRON IN THE BLOOD \ Pursang helps build healthy red blood corpuscles, stimu ' iates appetite and aids diges | tion. Start your Pursang treat | ment today. BECKMAN’S DRUG O’NEILL, NEBRASKA candidacy of Edward A Dosek, an assistant in the state treasurer’s office for nearly four years, for state treasurer. Altho the Norris petitions have been talked of for some time and he probably will accept, Dosek’s friends are not so sure he will get in the race for treasurer. Consid erable pressure is being brought to bear, however, and petitions will be circulated soon. Nebraska has passed one more step in her emergence from a crude frontier state to a commonwealth with cultural background, as a re sult of action by congress assuring this state of a national arboretum and forestry experiment station near Nebraska City. The bill was introduced by Con gressman Luckey of the First dis trict, but the idea was sponsored by the Nebraska department. Vet erans of Foreign Wars. H. B. Porterfield, formerly secretary to Governor Bryan, was one of the chief backers. More than 1,000 acres will be purchased, probably in the Nebras ka City vicinity where a fine state park already has been established at Arbor Lodge, to establish the arboretum. Experiments in for estry, shrubbery and fruit growing will be conducted. The arboretum will take its place with the Freeman Homestead na tional park and the national monu ment near Scottsbluff as recent federal contributions to Nebraska’s cultural development. The state highway department will try to get bids June 25 on the last of $7,300,000 worth of high way projects allotted the state under the last federal emergency relief appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30. Bids also were opened last week on $300,000 worth of highway work and ma terals. Safety measures at grade cross ings will make up a large share of the June highway program, with automatic signal light to be in stalled at Fremont, Stella, Dunbar, O’Neill and Bridgeport as a result of last week’s letting, and more than $1,000,000 worth of grade separation work to be included in the letting June 25. R. B. 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