Wow is the time to buy • • Imperial Terms Any Westinghouse Refrigerator, Electric Range, Electric Water Heater, terms as low as $5 down and the balance over a period of four years if desired. A low Water Heater rate which will supply 24-hour Hot Water service at surprisingly low cost. Ask Any Employee. INTERSTATE POWER COMPANY THE NEBRASKA SCENE Whither is Nebraska drifting? Amidst political claims and counter claims; pamphlets issued by state i boards and bureaus and by chamb ers of commerce, extolling the ad vantages and superior qualities of the Cornhusker state, the fact re mains that Nebraska as a whole has been slipping since 1920. True, modern conveniences have increased manifold and our larger communities have been beautified and recreational advantages in creased, but the records show that for the past 15 years the state’s lands (Nebraska’s greatest asset) has been diminishing. The total assessment of real estate, personal property, railroads and intangible property in 1920 reached an all-time high of $3,811, 424,545. Since that time the total valuation has been downward gen erally until 1935 when it was ap proximately 2,030,000,000. A gain of $20,000,000 is shown for 1936 but the drouth will pull the total down again in 1937. The tremenduous recovery of farm prices over last year is re flected in the inceased valuations placed on Nebraska’s livestock in I 1936. Total number of cattle is placed at 2,547,928 as against 2,488,476 last year. Valuation is $67,326,678 or $8,000,000 over last year. The average value per h^pd increased $3 to the 1936 figure of $26.42. The number of hogs jumped from 883,009 to 978,491, and the total valuation increased from $7,553, 969 to $10,932,050. One of the large contributing factors in the increased valuation this year was the increase in numb er of automobiles registered. They jumped from 329,577 to 381,623, and valuations skyrocketed from $27,324,829 to $41,509,357. The new law relative to taxing of motor vehicles deserves much credit for the gain. On top of lowering valuations since 1920, the population of the state has also declined. The big gain for the state came from 1860 when there were 28,841 inhabit ants to 1890 when it reached 1, 058,910. Since 1890 the population gained slowly and not keeping pace with Nebraska’s birth birthrate until 1, 377,963 was reached in 1930 A census taken in 1935 shows that we have lost 100,000 inhabitants in the five years’ period, and are now back to approximately our 1920 figure. The losses have come in such counties as Arthur, Banner, Boyd, Brown, Cass, Cherry, Clay, Fill more, Franklin, Garfield, Gosper, Hamilton, Harlan, Holt, Loup, Nuckolls and Thoma4i- Most of the other counties have just about held their own or increased some since 1920. Biggest gains have been in counties where the larger cities are situated. From 1876 to 1936 the average annual rainfall has been 23 inches. The bad years were 1890, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1899, 1910, 1916, 1931 [and 1934. The year 1894 was the lecord breaker with only 13.30 FIRST GRADE QUALITY —The new Firestone Standard Tire is built of first grade materials by skilled workmen, in the world’s most efficient factories. GUM-DIPPED CORD BODY — Every cotton fibre in every cord in every ply is soaked in liquid rubber, preventing internal friction and heat, which provides greater strength and blowout protection. fjOjr mgW . 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Chevrolet Co. «. .. * ' ‘ •» ' C. E. LUNDGREN, Mgr. K Phone 100 O'Neill, Nebr. We are open evenings and Sundays. firestone SENTINEL An outstanding value in it* price class—backed by the Firestone name and guarantee. _SJZE PRICE 4.SO-21. (6 0S 4.7S-19. *4. *14 *• 30iS H. D... IB M 3Zi6H. P... SI-7* OthM Sim Piopoitjoiwttly too firestone COURIER A good tire for owner* of small car* giving new tire safety at low cost. SIZE PRICE | 4-SO-21. M M fl 4.7S-19. IM |j J0*3HCL... 4.M I inches falling for the entire year. The farm experts who shy clear of political entanglements say the reason that valuations have been on the down grade in Nebraska is because the soil is losing its fer tility with use, while drainage and the wornout condition of much of the land makes for elss retention of moisture. During the extreme drouth year of 1894 the state produced 46,410, 000 bushels of corn, whereas in 1934 the crop made only 6,145,770 bushels. What we need, accord ing to the experts, is a sensible plan of conservation, and. both the republican and democratic plat forms in the present campaign call for such a system, altho the Roose velt administration is credited with taking the lead in such action. The first barrage from the heavy artillery in state politics broke out this month, following the an nouncement that the 1936 state tax levy would be drastically re duced. Many republican newspapers and leaders, chief among them Dwight Griswold, republican gubernatorial nominee, made haste to point out thut the reduced levy means very little. Mr. Griswold states that “the ex penses and appropriations of the state of Nebraska are this year the highest in the history of the state.” He says that, “the money simply is not being raised by a property tax.” Figures uphold Mr. Griswold, but the democrats explain it nicely. The bureaus that were created by the last legislature are for the main self-supporting, they say. For ex ample, the real estate and. aviation bureaus are supported by real es tate men and aviators. The liquor commission which makes a sizeable dent in the government pocketbook gets its money from liquor taxes. The latter have gone a long way towards financing the social pro gram, which accounts for the larg est increase in government spend ing.. The political prognosticators finally have decided that the vari ous third parties that have attempt ed to organize in Nebraska will cut very little ice in the coming elect ion. Both the socialists and the Nebraska Farmer Labor parties have tried unsuccessfully to get on the ticket by the convention system and this failure has discouraged several other groups. A large percentage, of the persons backing the farm-labor group here are individuals Avho have been as sociated Avith various radical move ments in the state in the past, the political observes point out, and some have run afoul of the law in attempts to halt farm mortgage foreclosure sales. The socialist party of Nebraska evidently has the same opinion of the farm-labor group, as the farm er's executive committee declined the offer of the latter party to co oprate in the coming election. The socialists say the farm labor group is not a movement of bona fide labor and farm organizations, but “primarily one of individuals avith out farmers or laborers." The mediocre showing of Town send-plan candidates in the recent Kansas primary election also is convincing Nebraska politicians that the old-age pension plan is not going to be as potent a force in the general elction as some of them believed previously. It has been rather definitely de cided that Senator Vandenburg, of Michigan, Avho announced some time ago that he would speak in Nebraska in support of the Landon Knox ticket, and Robert G. Sim mons, republican candidate for U. S. senator, will appear at Scotts bluff and. Omaha. The democratic state organiza tion has decided to establish state headquarters at two sites—Oma ha and Lincoln. The State House Week in Brief: Gasoline tax receipts received dur ing July hit a new high all-time record of $1,176,985 . . Liquor rev enue for July slumped $53,033 be Ioav the same month a year ago last month’s total being $1.35,878. The inference is that fewer Ne braskans are trying to mix gaso line Avith liquor. The state treasury balance has take i another jump, topping the $7,874,925 cash balance of June 30 by nearly $400,000. The cash bal ance July 31 avbs $8,247,508. The state treasury now shows an over all balance of $21,891,543, includ ing $13,044,037 of permanent school fund investments. Measles are clown but scarlet fever is up in Nebraska, state healtjr department figures show For the first seven months of this year, 1,127 Nebraskans contracted measles compared with 8,420 foi the same period in 1935. Scarlel fever cases, however, numberec 3,751 this year ar.d 1,243 last year Other diseases showed little vari ation. The resettlement administration which has regained some of its fading glory since the drouth hit the country, spent slightly more than $4,500,000 in Nebraska in its first year of operation. Standard loans account for $4,096,914 of this amount, and emergency seed loans $58,820. Only $3,417 had been ex pended in drouth grants up to August 1. Nebraska’s state employment service, authorized by the 1935 leg islature in co-operation with the federal government, started oper ations this week with Rudolf F. Vogeler in charge. District offices are being opened in Lincoln, Oma ha and Norfolk, with branch offices at Beatrice and Fremont. The service is free both to employe and employer. “Keep your eyes on the woman driver,” is the advice of Nebraska’s “safest driver,” Lynn Douglas Mil ler, 40, Cedar Bluffs. Miller was singled out for this honor and covering the state 20 years as a traveling salesman. He will rep resent the state at a “safety motorcade” in New York City on August 3. He has driven 342,000 miles without even a minor acci dent, and his greatest problem has been in avoiding other drivers. His highway speed is 50 ni. p. h. THIRTY YEARS Successful prac tice is your guarantee that Per rigo Optical Company will make your glasses right. See their representative at O’Neill, Friday August 21, 1930 HERE AT LAST— Terms you have never seen before. SI.00 down, $1.00 per week buys a CORON ADO Electric Ironer. Many women pay more than this to have their ironing done. Sale price on Electric Refriger ators. 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