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The Frontier D. H. Cronir. Edit >r and 1 Entered at the Postoffice at O'Neill Nebraska, as Second Class "tatter One Year, in Nebraska-$2.0( One Year, outside Nebraska 2.21 Every subscription is regarded, a an open account. The names o subscribers will be instantly re moved from our mailing list at ex fiiration of time paid for, if pub isher shall be notified; otherwise the subscription remains in fore* at the designated subscription price Every subscriber must understam that these conditions are made i part of the contract between pub Usher and subscriber. ADVERTISING RATES Display advertising is charge* for on a basis of 26c an inch (on* column wide) per week. Want ads 10c per line, first insertion, sub sequent insertions, 6c per line. THE NEBRASKA SCENE by James R. Lowell Politics will be the chief busi ness of the political-minded folks of Nebraska from now until after the general election, with the re publican nominee for president, Governor Landon of Kansas, offi cially opening the republican cam paign in a speech at Grand Island this Thursday. The present status of politics in the state ir. mid-August may best be summed up in a number of quotations from the political great and near neai-great: Governor Landon, starting his first eastward campaign swing from Denver across the state of Nebraska: "There can be no real recovery as long as men and women must lean on relief." Senator Edward K. Burke, Ne braska democratic national com mitteeman, speaking at a demo cratic rally in Omaha: “The ad ministration has in large measure acted along the line of its clear duty. Measures for relief must be carried out as long as the need remains, altho uirwisse adminis trative methods need to be ironed out. However, there can be no permanent recovery in this country until the federal government shows a sincere willingness to co-operate with private industry and enable it to absorb the millions of unem ployed.” Burke, speaking from Omaha in reference to the democratic sug gestion that he resign as national committeeman: “I think that a national committeeman probably should go down the line for the entire party ticket and frankly I do not w'ant to take one iota of responsibility for the election of Carpenter (democratic nominee for U. S. senator). Perhaps I should resign from the national committee position.” Frank McGrath, clerk of the dis trict court at Omaha and campaign manager for Carpenter: “A nation al committeeman is like a press agent for a circus, and what would happen to a press agent who went around the country telling people the circus is a great show except for the main act.” Dan V. Stephens, of Fremont, former democratic congressman and present Norris supporter: “Burke is of more value to Lan don's campaign thun any campaign advocate Landon his in Nebraska, with due apologies to Sam McKel vie and Bob Simmons. It is un fortunate that a man in Burke’s position should inflict repudiation upon the man he was chosen to support with nothing more tangi ble than hot air. Burke should resign as national committeeman.” Terry Carpenter, anent the same subject: “Ed Burke ought to re sign as democratic national com mitteeman and come out for Bob Simmons and make a real issue out of it. I think I ought to be nation al committeeman for Nebraska.” Former Governor S. R. McKelvie, speaking at a republican rally in | Butler county: “What America needs today is not administration policies of a guinea farm combined, with personal aggrandizement but a return to the age old customs that always have brought us out of our periods of depression.” Miss Harriett Elliott, prominent educator in South Carolina and democratic national committee speaker, addressing a democratic rally at Lincoln: “The last four years of government have placed human factors before profit for the first time. The adminsitration is going before the country to stand on its record of achievement. We need not be alarmed because we have made use of national credit to fight depressions, to feed and clothe the needy, to aid the farmer and laborer.” Robert G. Simmons, republican candidate for U. S. senator, ad dressing the Tekamah Fall Festi val: “I would support a tariff on farm products j:o protect domestic markets, and in case such a tariff should not be fully effective, I would favor achieving parity by Promise EXTRAVAGANCE “We advocate an immediate and ' drastic reduction of governmental expenditures by abolisning useless commissions and offices, consolidat ing departments and bureaus, and eliminating extravagenee, to ac complish a saving of not less than 25r/e in the cost of federal govern ment."—Democratic platform 1932. “For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that govern ment . . . costs too much. I shall not stop the preaching . Franklin D. Roosevelt, Acceptance Speech, July 2, 1932. “ThatJ (the Hoover spending), my friends, is the most reckless and extravagent pace I have been able to discover in the statistical jecord of any peace-time government anywhere, anytime.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pittsburg, October 19, 1932. “You nre having the most econ omical federal administration you have had for years.”—Postmaster General Farley, Salt Lake City, August 1, 1934. Performance. EXTRAVAGANCE In the last full fiscal year (1932) of President Hoover’s administra tion the Federal government spent $5,153,644,895. The New Deal in creased this rate of spending as fol lows: In the year ending June 30, 1934, by 38%. In the year ending June 30, 1935, by 43%. In the year ending June 30, 1930, by 72%. The cost of running the United States government in recent years: 1927 . $3,372,713,000 1831 . 4,091,597,000 5.153.645.000 1988 5,142,954,000 1934 .. - . 7,105,050,000 7.375.825.000 8.879.798.000 (House hearings on Revenue Act of 1936, except the 1936 figure which is from Daily Treasury Statement—unrevised—of June 30, 1936.) Government expenditures in 1936 would have been $3,805,233,671 if there had been a reduction of 25% in the cost of Federal government from the 1932 level. benefit payments. These payments, however, to be rrfade without bur-, eaucratic administration, without political influence and patronage.” H. R. Tolly, national AAA ad ministrator, speaking at Kearney: “This drouth and that of 1934 have made farmers think and plan more for the future than they have ever done before. They are now plan ning as the administration is plan ning, for the agricultural conser vation program of 1937. Crop in surance would provide social secur ity for farmers.” Engineers not embroiled in fac tional disputes agree that irrigation in the Tri-county area would be beneficial to the state as a whole, but litigation as instituted prom ises to be endless. Diversion of one water shed to another was apparently decided by the supreme court but various irrigation districts in the Platte Valley now are raising another question in which they claim that irrigation of Tri-county areas, even tho they be in the Platte watershed, will curtail their irrigation activ ities. There is a probability that this will have to be settled, altho scientific measurments show that the Platte loses enough water dur ing highwater periods to irrigate a territory larger than that being promoted by Tri-county. Impound ing the water is the chief difficulty. While legal battles of Tri-county Hire \gtill smouldering, engineer.1! have gone ahead with phuses of the project not hampered by court | decisions. The huge Keystone dam I is the salient feature of this devel opment. Because a failure of the dam, which will impound 2,000,000 acre feet of North Platte river near the town of Keystone, would imperil the lives of thousands of persons, Tri-county officials are making sta bility the first consideration in its construction. The dam will be two miles long and 162 feet high at the highest point. There will be a 24-foot roadway along the top. The reser voir when filled will cover 25,000 ncres. Function of the dam will be to catch flood waters of the North Platte river that rush down from the Colorado mountains during the spring. Tri-county will not be al lowed to store water in the reser voir duing the irrigation season, when all direct flow rights are ap propriated. The legal situation in connection with the Tri-county is complicated by the claims of the Platte valley backers who say that the Keystone and Plum Creek reservoirs will make the Plr.tte a dry stream from North Platte to Kearney, and lower the water table. Tri-county answers that it already is a dry stream with lowered water tables, and that the reservoirs will recre ate the river into a constantly flow ing : tream and in time th water tables will fill up again. The Platte valleyists reply that seepage and evaporation will make this impossible. The courts must decide eventually which is right. Straight-run politics during the past week has as its leading news the fact that Dwight Griswold, re publican candidate for governor, i= opening up his campaign in earnest. Headquarters are being opened at Lincoln. Harry Scott, former sec retary of the state central com mittee, will be in charge of Gris wold’s headquarters. Mr. Gris wold is one of the best bets of the republican organization where speeches are concerned, and.'he will moke an intensive campaign speak ing tour during the campaign. Incidently, Mr. Griswold has se cured a reputation as one of the state’s finest citizens. He has everything that it takes tobeagov ernor, except the reckoning of the political prognosticators who list the propspects as follows: (As for Nebraska): Landon, first (no use of mentioning second man); Cochran for governor; Jur gensen for Lt. Governor; Simmons for U. S. Senator (Carpenter sec ond and Norris Third); Dick John son for attorney general; Bass for state treasurer; and the rest wide .open. | The National Union for Social Justice will call a state convention soon and attempt to get 750 per sons to sign petitions to have Win. Lemke’s name printed on the pres idential ballot in Nebraska. Balked by an opinion of the at torney general that presidential electors cannot be nominated by petition, the socialist party will attempt to hold another state con venion in an effort to get on the Nebraska ballot in November. Assistant Attorney General Vail, in a formal opinion said Nebraska laws do not provide for placing names of presidential electors on the ballot by petition nomination. Party leaders at the instigation of national, socialistic officials, undertook the petition plan after a convention held here last month failed to produce the necessary 750 signers. State Capitol News in Review: Farm fires took a loss of 55 per cent of the value of the property \ involved against a loss of only 3.4 per cent in urban fires during the first half of 1936. However, town fires accounted for a much larger share of the state loss than was discernable in the total figures. County numbers on NebrrfsWa motor vehicles would be altered in all except four of the first twenty counties if the dssignations were to be made on the basis of regis trations found in the 1936 assess ment returns, a tabulation of valu ations reveals. Present county numbers were set up in 1923 by a ruling of the motor vehicle division of the state highway department, based on the j registrations in the various count I ies at that time. Several attempts have been made to change numbers to conform to later registrations, but the departments have avoided such alterations. Here is the way the counties would rank now1, in accordance with population: No. 1, Douglas; No. 2, Lancaster; No. 3, Gage; No. | 4, ScottsblufT (instead of Custer); j No. 5. Hall (instead of Dodge); No. 16, Dodge (instead of Saunders); No. 7, Buffalo (instead of Madi son); No. 8, Madison (instead of Hall); No. 9, Adams (instead of Buffalo); No. 10, Custer (instead of Platte); No. 11, Saunders (instead Otoe); No. 12. Otoe (instead of Knox); No. 13, Richardson (instead of Cedar); No. 14, Saline( instead of Adams); No. 15, Platte( instead of Lincoln); No. 16, I.irrcoln( in stead of York); No. 17, Seward; No. 18, York (instead of Dawson); No. 19, Dawson (instead of Rich ardson). Newcomers in the first twenty are Scottsbluff (now 21 in rank), and Saline (now 22). Knox and Cedar, 12 and 13 under the pres ent system, would drop to 23 and 25 respectively. STATE TAXES Governor Cochran received a great deal of favorable publicity last week, due to the fact that the State Board of Equalization fixed the new levy for state taxation at 1.76 mills, a considerable reduction below last year’s level. The Gover nor then proceeded to take credit for this reduction, by talking of re duced expenses and appropriations, and the fact that it will be the lowest levy in 15 years, made it very nice publicity for him. The facts are that the expenses and appropriations of the state of Nebraska are this year the highest in the history of the state, but the money is simply not being raised by a property tax. It all comes from the taxpeyer, but by far the largest part of it is in the form of these “painless” taxes, so that the taxpayer pays the bill without knowing anything about it. The only reason that the state property tax is lower is because the state is now raising about a hTillion and a half dollars per year from liquor taxes, and that consequently re duces the taxes against property. But the major portion of the in creased tax burden is being car ried by the people who drive auto mobiles, through the additional one cent per gallon tax which Governor Cochran levied against gasoline. It is not that there is any issue between Governor Cochran and my self over the form of taxation. We agreed two years ago and we agree today that the state of Nebraska should not have a state income tax, a sales tax, or any new form of taxation. The record of Ne braska, under both republican and democratic governors, has been good in this regard, and while the expenses and appropriations of the state have increased tremendously, yet the fact thut we have not taken on any of the new-fangled systems of taxation, has caused us to make a very fine record when compared to other states. So really there is no major taxation issue between us—I approve of the levying of the liquor taxes and I am glad that the collection of them made it pos sible to reduce the property tax levy. I only desire they be re duced still further. tfut what about the local tax problem? That is where the real tax burden is. What has the Gov ernor done to remedy that situ ago and again this year, calls for action in this regard. And what about the conduct of the State Insurance department? Have the buyers of insurance, pay ing about fifty million dollars per year in Nebraska, been receiving the protection they are entitled to? What about the squelching of the investigation of the state bank re reiverships? What about the Gov ernor’s refusal to extend an official welcome to Governor Talmadge and former President Hoover? Is that the kind of partisanship that the people of Nebraska desire? And then, what about his state ment over the radio last week that “there is no hope for the tax payer in the election of Governor Landon to the Presidency”? These and other matters may become issues in the campaign, but surely it is unfair for the Gov ernor and his newspaper support ers to take credit for reduced ex penditues by the state because of a reduction in the property tax levy, in the face of a statement by the State Auditor not more than two weeks ago, that the ex penses of Nebraska last year were about $2,300,000 larger than ever before. And they will be just as large this year. The money is being milked from the tax-payer but not through the property tax. I can only ask, in the interest of fairness that this type of political ‘hooey” be stopped this early in the campaign. Let the 1936 cam paign be fought honestly and clean ly and on the real issues. The form of taxation in Nebraska is not one of those issues. DWIGHT GRISWOLD. HORSE SHOW A FAIR FEATURE The horse show has steadily been gaining in popularity as a feature of the Nebraska State Fair and this year promoters of the event are enthusiastic over the increased number of entries from over the state. The horse show is a three night offering and will be held in the coliseum Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights. BOB SIMMONS SEZ: “The drouth is making the Ne braska farmer a double loser. He has little to sell, so can gain noth ing from the increased prices of farm products. More than that he has become a consumer—he has to buy much of his food, and pay the high prices for it. “It all brings to the front the question of the relationship of the prices received by the farmer and those which he pays for the things he buys—the need of parity. The problem is to keep farm prices and prices of manufactured goods at relatively the same level, so that when the farmer has to pay high prices for things he btfys, he is re ceiving high prices for things he sells. “When the depression hit, farm prices were as always, the first to drop, and they dropped lowest. So the farmer has suffered doubly all through the depression by receiving low prices and having to pay rela tively much higher ones. Unquest ionably this double bad break for the farmer made the depression more severe and prolonged. _ Since prices were too high for the farmer to buy, factories could not manu facture so much, employees were thrown out of work. When these people were out of work, they could, not buy farm products. Loss of buying power for his products kept the farmer’s prices down. There again is the vicious circle: less buying power by farmers, less work for labor; less work for labor, less market for farm products; less markets for farm products, contin ued low farm prices, and so on, and on and on. “To solve this question of bring ing parity to agriculture I suggest first the need for a protective tariff for agriculture, to protect the American market from the pro ducts of foreign farms and foreign labor. Then the need to recapture foreign markets for farm products; coopeative effort, soil and water conservation, better methods of distribution, lower interest rates; the commercial use of farm pro ducts. Bifjt whatever plans are adopted, they must not result in -—— U & I STORE Ph5r 3 Free Deliveries daily. 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