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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1936)
Shrine Holds Annual Convention in Seattle Thousands of members of the Shrine from every state in the Union gathered in Seattle for the order’s recent convention. Photo shows Medina patrol of Chicago in a street parade. Before the close of the con vention the delegates voted to continue the charitable work of the Shrine in maintaining hospitals in various cities for the care and treatment of crippled children. Splash Stars Represent Uncle Sam in Olympics Athletes of World Gather in Berlin For Historic Games Four of the mermen who repre sent Uncle Sam in the diving events at the Olympic games in Berlin. They are, left to right, Dick Degener and Elbert Root of Detroit, Marshall Wayne of Miami, Fla., and A1 Green of Chicago. Leading athletes in many sports from the United States and other countries have gathered in the German capital for the contests. ■ ->—4 RAILROAD QUEEN Honors as “Railroad Queen” went to Miss Marybeth McGurk, eighteen, of Chicago, during the re cent celebration of railroad week. Three Sets of Twins in Succession Three sets of twins in succession have been welcomed to the family of the Andrew Jackson Robertsons of Walla Walla, Wash. Born in 1933, 1934, and 1936, only the youngest pair were of the same sex. Government’s Slice From Loaf of Bread Members of the Conference of National Bakery Executives meet ing in Chicago were shown by W. E. Long how big a portion of a 15 cent loaf the federal tax collector gets. Taxes take that part which Mr. Long holds in his right hand. Members of the conference agreed to place on bread wrappers the jxact amount of tax levied against each loaf, to acquaint the American public with the tax problem. | ROCKEFELLER IS 97 Declaring that he would live to be one hundred, John D. Rocke feller celebrated his ninety-seventh birthday recently at his estate at Lakewood, N. J. The aged philan thropist observed the day in his usual quiet manner. $64,000,000 Triborough Bridge Is Completed The massive Triborough bridge linking Manhattan, the Queens and the Bronx, which was recently dedi cated by President Roosevelt. It was built at a cost of $G4,000,000 by the PWA. Photo shows one of the main •pans in this great chainwork which ii second in size to the Golden Gate bridge in San I rancisco. Scenes and Persons in the Current News 1—John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America who has refused to appear for trial before the American Federation of Labor. 2—German troops boarding a train to cross the Polish corridor, now regarded as one of Europe's danger spots. 3—Scene at convention of Townsendites held recently at Cleveland. Dr. Townsend, founder of the old-age pension movement, is seen in the middle. Water Now Rushes Through Sluiceways of Norris Dam Water is seen being let through the sluiceways of Norris dam, Ten nessee, for the first ime since the dam gates were closed to Great Norris lake, immediately after the dam was completed. The gates were opened to raise the Tennessee river to its normal level, thus pro viding transportation and increas ing power production at Wilson dam. Muscle Shoals. Norris dam cost about $33,000,000 to build. Six Alarms Sounded for Baltimore Factory Fire Most of Baltimore’s fire fighting apparatus was called to battle a conflagration in a factory which fol lowed a terrific explosion. “Boy Orator** Seeks U. S. Senate Seat Defeated Gore in Primary in Oklahoma Rep. Josh Lee, the “boy orator” who defeated blind Senator Thomas E. Gore in the senatorial primary in Oklahoma. He took issue wih the anti-New Deal views of the vet eran who had represented Okla homa from statehood in 1907 until 1920 when he was beaten. Senator Gore was called out of retirement six years ago by a heavy vote. Birds Eat Roast Bugs Yosemite National Park.—Park rangers say birds no longer seek worms. They wait till motorists arrive, then sweep down and pluck the hot roasted bugs from radiators. YOUNG EDUCATOR The Rev. Francis Kelley, 34, new ly appointed president of Seton Hall college, South Orange, N. J., Is the youngest college head in the United States. He was formerly head of the college’s philosophy department. Refugees From the “Dust Bowl” Seek New Homes c? mmmz~ , .< " ■&»*. v, 'r r;imm '~r ^ -rw^ sa Penniless, without shelter and looking for work these refugees from the drouth-ridden “Dust Bowl” have become squatters along the highway near Bakersfield, Calif. There are 22 in the family which came from Oklahoma. BRISBANE THIS WEEK Childhood Tugwell's Lillie Girl Holland Buys Planes Rev. Webber Knows Childhood lasts longer in France than in America and it is real child Arthur llrlnhnne hood. Boys in their teens, writ ing letters, call their fathers Cher petit pap pa, “Dear little papa" — imag ine that from an American “prep" school. Little French girls play inno cently with Toto, their little dog. hardly knowing that such things as francs exist, when much old er than Assistant Secretary Jug well's intelligent young daughter, Marcia, aged twelve, who, in part nership with her friends, Mary Frances Cot|rell and Joyce Hel mick, organized “a laundry for washing dogs.” They advertised: "Small dogs, 30 cents; middle-sized dogs, 35 cents; groomed and washed. Dogs not good-natured must be sent with muzzles, and we cannot wash large dogs.” Too bad that parental severity broke up the dog laundry. It had announced working hours “10 a. m. to 5 p. m. on Saturdays,” the stu dious little girls’ only holiday, "all hours ufter school on other week days.” What a good example for govern ment enterprises: the little girls really meant to work to "groom and wash” the dogs, not merely stand around and collect the 30 cents. Plucky little Holland and her wise queen seem to have decided that the 1914 "war to end all wars” did not finish its lob. Holland went through the big war safely, selling butter, cheese, eggs, not disturbed, not making any bad $10,000,000,000 loans. Now Holland is buying 13 heavy bombing planes in Baltimore, spending $1,500,000 for the 13, and spending many other millions for other killing machinery. That means work and wages in Baltimore; it may mean poison gas and death for some of Holland's neighbors. Foreign countries read every thing said about them in America; not that foreign countries care what Americans think, or attach importance to American opinion, as such; but America has money, raw products, and governments that are sometimes whimsical, changeable and boyish. Europe, Asia and Africa watch with equal interest statements of Americans that count and more numerous Americans that float like feathers in the air. One simple - minded Russian pointed with pride to the statement of a clergyman in our Union The ological seminary. That gentleman. Rev. Charles C. Webber, has a plan for a better government, not based on the text about rendering unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s. The big idea is to take away what is Caesar’s. Eight hundred young people were told by Reverend Webber: “God, who is not content with things as they are, is a revolution ary Being, constantly seeking to make all things new.” Rev. Webber, “recognizing this,” about God being a revolutionist, has a plan to help God in his ef forts; a plan as simple as A, B, C, Capitalism, he says, must be abol ished. Rev. Webber wants a planned and planning social econ omy in the United States. Under the Charles C. Webber plan, peo ple would own and manage such things as industry and property; no money would be spent for war, and youth would rule. Those brought up with the old fashioned idea of God might ask Rev. Webber, respectfully: “If God really is a revolutionary ‘constant ly seeking to make all things new,’ why does He not carry out His will and ‘make all things new’ every few minutes? Can it be that He needs the help of Rev. Webber? Lenin and Stalin got along without that .help.” Also arises this question: With capitalism abolished, who would build the churches, the Union The ological seminaries, and pay sal aries to Rev. Webbers for reading the mind of the Divinity? Dean Swift should have known Rev. Webber when he -vrote his tale of a tub. France calls Paris the “aerial port of Europe,” proudly. In Amer ica the still prouder title “Chief Air Traffic Port of the Whole World” is claimed by Miami, Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago, Cleveland, and with a great deal of reason by San Francisco and Oakland, thanks to the magnificent bay, and to the fact that the greatest air line, running from America to Asia, starts from that neighborhood. © King Featuros Syndicate, Inc. WNU Service.