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I Over the County
SOUTHWEST BREEZES
By Romaine Saunders
Excessively pleasant gentlemen
are apt to be snap dragons in their
homes.
The proposed building of dams
i :o “hold water” might be supple
mented with tubs of water in the
back yard of each householder.
A fair at Chambers, picnic at
Amelia, Free Days at O’Neill and
Atkinson and Stuart and Oak View
having bronc riders Holt county
stays playful if not prosperous.
Jack Widman was over from
Amelia last week one day, accom
panied by a gentleman from Lin
coln who was doing some mission
ary work through here in behalf of
Texas real estate.
Miss Maria Saunders departed
Monday for her field of labor at
Washington, D. C. Miss Mildred
accompanied her to Lincoln where
she will stay for a time before
going to Hastings.
A dollar and eleven-cent corn
sounds great to the New Dealer
who clatters about “increased farm
income.” If farmers have any of
it they’ll have to buy it on markets
supplied from importations.
Should the time ever come in
America when the cottage on the
farm is no longer the home of a
family but a unit in a state man
aged society, the southwest will
be among the last to lay down her
individual rights.
Up at Stuart a blonde was select
ed to go to the state fair as Miss
Stuart” and a like selection was
made for the tri-county represent
ative. Blonds have their place in
beauty shows, but for general
utility many prefer the darker
shades.
i A. S. Miserez winged his way to
this community from West Point
Sunday and landed his plane at the
Riley place where he was a guest
for a time. Mr. Miserez has live
stock interests in southern Holt
and was up here looking after the
same.
Catholic people of the Amelia
parish are planning a picnic and
i great get-together meeting for
' Amelia next Sunday, September
13, when it is expected a general
gathering will come in from points
throughout this portion of the
county.
From the Vatican City comes
the word that the Pope desires
Christendom to turn to prayers to
the God of Heaven for mercies up
on a troubled world. Maybe that
is the thing to do now in place of
dancing and the gayeties of the
season. “Man that is born of
woman is of few days and full of
trouble,” but he seems to prefer to
spend those days gayly and not
pray fully.
In the full experience of a close
up view, the president pays this
tribute to a hardy breed: “I
would not have you think for a
single minute that there is perman
ent disaster in these drouth reg
ions, or that the picture I saw
meant depopulating these areas.
No cracked earth, no blistering
sun, no burning wind, no grass
hoppers are a permanent match for
the indomitable American farmers
and stockmen and their wives and
children who have carried on thro
desperate days, and inspire us with
their self-reliance, their tenacity
and their courage. It was their
fathers’ task to make homes; it is
there task to keep those homes; it is
our task to help them with their
fight.”
Because of a plot to turn West
Point over to the British, history
has written traitor after the name
of one of the ablest generals of
the colonial army. Smarting under
a reprimand the traitorous plot
had been hatched. At that period
there were those who regarded
Benedict Arnold as a great guy, an
independent, wouldn’t be dictated
to by the bosses and a mighty
factor that stood between the
people and some sinister and de
signing commercial interests.
Congress down there in Philadel
phia was assuming too much any
way, and who was that upstart
of a Washington to administer
reprimands to great patriots. Po
litical history must write something
similar, after the name of a Ne
braska senator who repeatedly
went before a party primary ask
ing and receiving a nomination
and just about as often betrayed
the party. And as in the case of
Arnold a lot of ’em think the sena
tor a great fellow who will not sub
mit to ^ne “bosses” and has £
blood-shot eye aslant the “power
trust” at all times. The one be
came a national fugitive, the other
is still a United States senator.
What the difference might be in
principles involved is too deep for
me.
.——__
MEEK AND VICINITY
The Sam Robertson family were
guests at L. Borg’s on Sunday.
Laverne and Helen Borg called
on Mrs. Griffith Thursday after
noon.
The Dan Hansen family were
guests at the Ed Henifin home on
Sunday.
Grace Lansworth spent several
days with her sister, Mrs. Aaron
Boshart, last week.
Preston Jones, Gus Karel and
Roy Spindler made a business trip
to Atkinson Tuesday evening.
Mrs. George Weldon and son,
Junior, and Neva June Schelkpof,
motored from Alliance on Sunday.
Mrs. R. D. Spindler spent Mon
day with Mrs. F. H. Griffith while
Roy helped cut corn to fill the silo.
Albert Kaczor left on Thursday
for a visit with his daughter, Mrs.
Ben Freeburg and family at Mead.
The Ladies Aid met with Mrs.
Ray Wilson near Redbird Thurs
day afternoon. Quite a large
crowd attended.
Dinner guests .at the Howard
Rouse home on Sunday were the
Morris Graham family and the F.
G. Griffith family.
Elverton Hayden, who has been
helping A. L. Borg for the past two
months, left for his home at Val
entine last week.
A good many of f,he schools
opened on Monday. Leonie school
with Miss Edith Miller as teacher;
District 27, Mrs. Woodworth, of
Madison teacher.
Mr. and Mrs. George Hansen and
son, Gerald, left Tuesday for a
month’s visit in Washington. Mr.
and Mrs. William Hubby are stay
ing at |the Hansen home while
they are away.
The 15-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ed Hood died at a hospital in
Omaha on Friday of spinal menin
gitis. He was only ill a few days.
Outdoor services were held at
Pleasant Valley Monday afternoon.
Andrew and Charles Larson, for
merly of this locality, but now of
Mead, were calling on old friends
the first of the week. They say
crops are no better around Mead
than here, if as good- They had
very little rain in the spring there,
or the summer either.
Sunday, September 6, was the
81st birthday of Mrs. Ella Hull.
Mrs. Hull and son, Billy, live on the
old home place. All of the child
ren were here for the occasion ex
cept Alice and Edwin. The child
ren present were: Elmer, Clyde,
Sarah,(Mrs. Frank Nelson , Esther,
iMrs. Cecil Haynes), Edna, (Mrs.
Leon Mellor), Althea, (Mrs. Pres
ton Jones), Levi and William, most
of the in-1 ws and a good many of
the grandchildren. Mrs. Hull en
joys good health for a lady of her
age and through the columns of
The Frontider we wish to congrat
ulate her on the occasion.
EMMET ITEMS
J. B. Ryan, of O’Neill, was a
business caller in Emmet Friday.
Jesse Wills is building a new
coal shed in his pasture back of his
home.
Pat McGinnis returned home
Thursday evening from a business
trip to Omaha.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Banks and
children visited at the home of his
father, John Banks, at Stuart last
Sunday.
Clairs Oxley, who had been work
ing around Emmet for the past two
months, returned to his home at
Belden, Monday.
Mrs. Cal Tenborg went to Omaha
Saturday to make an extended vis
it with her daughter and saon,
Eileerf and John Tenborg.
Mrs. Frank Sesler and Mrs.
Jessie Higgins made a business
trip to Cody Monday and returned
to Emmet Tuesday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fox, of
O’Neill, visited at the home of her
sister, Mrs. John Bonenberger, in
Emmet Thursday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. John Dailey, of
O’Neill, visited in Emmet at the
home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. P. Dailey, Sunday afternoon.
Grandma Mullen, who had been
visiting her daughter, Mrs. Charles
Baker, in O’Neill for the past week,
returned to her home in Emmet
Saturday.
The Ladies Foreign Missionary
Society held their last meeting of
the year Thursday at the home of
Mrs. Doc Keppenborg. Quite a
few members attended. A delic
ious luncheon was served in the
afternoon by the hostess.
Margaret Cuddy spent Sunday
at her home in O’Neill.
Many Emmet people attended the
Free Day in O’Neill Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sesler
moved to O'Neill Thursday. Their
children will attend school there
this year
Guy Cole and Harry Werner re
turned from their fishing trip to
Minnesota Friday evening with
many fish stories.
Mrs. John Conards and, Mis
Helen Anspach visited in Inman
Sunday at the home of their par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. John Anspach.
Larry Tenborg made a business
trip to Omaha Wednesday and re
turned Friday evening. He was
accompanied by Joe Winkler and
Dick O’Connell.
Mr. and Mrs. John Gilster, of
Rose, Nebr., spent the week-end
in Emmet at the home of their
daughter, Mrs. Howard McConnell.
They returned to their home Sun
day evening.
PLEASANT DALE
School opened Monday morning
in District 192, with Miss Helen
McConnell as teacher.
The Robert Strong family were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Cole
Sunday afternoon.
Daniel Page left Saturday morn
ing for Mitchell, S. D., where he is
to attend school this winter.
Floyd Bellar returned Friday
from the CCC camp near Ains
worth to be in O’Neill over Free
Day.
Rolla Hatch, who had the mis
fortune to have his collar bone
broken a week ago is recover’ng
nicely.
Elsa Lou Ohmart and Alice Page
spent the week-end. with friends at
Paddock and Dorsey, returning
Monday afternoon.
The Union church had a new
Cradle Roll member added Sun
day, the baby daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Ernst—little Mildred
Marie.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rosencrans
have charge of Pentescostal As
sembly at Halsey, Nebr., and have
taken up their residence at that
place.
Mr. and Mrs. Fisher, from Colo
rado, were in this vicinity a few
days recently calling upon rela
tives. Mrs. Fisher is a niece of
Mrs. J. K. Ernst.
Clayton, Evelyn, Ruth and Doris
Bellar returned Saturday evening
from their trip to Lincoln. They
report a two inch rain down that
way and muddy roads.
Mr. and, Mrs. Fred Lorenz and
family went to Sioux City Friday
to visit at the home of Mrs. Lor
enz’s sister, Mrs. James Robert
son. They returned Sunday even
ing.
INMAN NEWS
—
A large crowd from Inman were
in O’Neill Tuesday enjoying free
day. —
Sam Kelley was up from Fair
bury Sunday visiting his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Kelley.
Mrs. Walt Jacox and Miss Helen
Hopkins were in Atkinson Thurs
day attending the county conven
tion of the W. C. T. U.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kelley and
children, of St. Paul, Minn., came
Friday for a visit with his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Kelley.
Mrs. Mary Hancock and Miss
Gladys Hancock were Sunday din
ner guests at the home of Judge
and Mrs. C. J. Malone, at O’Ntill.
Sunflowers are rapidly blossom
ing on the lapels of coats and wind
shields, etc., in Inman. May the
harvest indeed be plentious this
fall.
George Bittner drove to Grand
Island Sunday to meet his wife
and children who have been visit
ing her parents at Oshkosh, Nebr.,
for two weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Beryl Conger and
Dean were down from the ranch
near Atkinson Tuesday looking
after business and visiting rela-,
tives.
Rev. and Mrs. Otto Fink, who
have been serving the Methodist
church here the past tjiree months,
returned to their home at Neligh
Sunday night. They have made
many friends during their sojourn
here.
Mrs. Cleve Roe and daughter,
Hazel, who have been visiting their
daughter and sister, Mrs. George
Peterson and family at Casper,
Wyoming for the past several
weeks, returned home Saturday
morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Mossman and
sons, Bob and Max, and daughter,
Marjorie, drove to Creighton Sun
day where they visited his brother,
Seth Mossman. From there they
went to Niobrara where they vis
ited Mr. and Mrs. Phil Mossman.
School opened here Monday with
a large enrollment. The faculty
is as follows: Superintendent,
George Cornish; Principal, Warren
J. McClurg, both of Inman; High
trhrol teacher, Miss Phyllis Kiltz,
Chambers. Grade teachers are:
Dorlin Lockman, Marie Ledger and
Doris Madison.
About forty-five ladies from the
M. E. Ladies Aid and Presbyterian
Guild, of O’Neill, were guests of
the M. E. Ladies Aid at Inman
Thursday. After an hour of vis
iting and getting acquainted a pro
gram was presented after which
lunch was served. The Inman
M. E. Aid are always “at Home"
to the O’Neill ladies.
Cockeyed Tax Law
“This (The Surplus Tax law)
is the most cockeyed piece of tax
legislation ever imposed in a
modern country and if I am
elected I shall recommend the
immediate repeal of this vicious
method of taxation . . . Actually
it has no relation to ‘soaking the
rich’. What it does is to protect
the big fellow who still has a re
serve, and tie a millstone around
the neck of the little fellow.”—
Alf M. Landon at Buffalo, N. Y.
Cattle Imports
Peril UA Herds
Foreign Beef Is Feared as
Disease Carrier to
U. S. Livestock.
By FRANK RIDGEWAY
Farmers in the United States are
jealous of the disease-free condi
tion of their herds and flocks and
insist that stringent measures be
maintained to prevent the reintro
duction of foot-and-mouth disease
and other human and animal
plagues through increasing impor
tations of foreign animals and
meats.
Livestock producers have become
alarmed over persistent efforts be
ing made in Washington to lower
embargo bars that aid in keeping
out highly contagious foreign dis
eases. Through their organizations
farmers and ranchmen oppose the
proposal of high ranking New
Dealers to change restrictions now
imposed on Argentine imports.
Present regulation* forbid the im
portation of meat products from
countries where rinderpest or foot
and-mouth disease exist. Federal
officials propose changes that would
permit the re-zoning of the Argen
tine and admission of meats from
zones declared free of these two
maladies.
Farmers’ representatives say
that “the efforts to break down the
present embargo are wholly based
on economic grounds, and are pur
sued with a careless disregard of
possible grave consequences.”
Lives of human beings, as well as
cattle, hogs and sheep, are in
volved. Foreign meat is not need
ed; farmers in this country even
now find it difficult to sell, at a
satisfactory profit, the meat ani
mals they produce.
Officials of the American National
Live Stock Association believe ‘‘no
one can fairly claim that imports of
meat products from any zone of
Argentina under present conditions
would not constitute a dangerous
threat to our herds and flocks.”
They point out that the disease
free condition of live stock in this
country has been attained at great
expense. ‘‘That condition,” says the
association, ‘‘should be maintained
in the future at all costs. No diplo
matic coup, no international in
trigue, no pressure from foreign
trade enthusiasts or well-meaning
but misdirected free-trade advo
cates should be allowed to under
mine it.”
Farmers wonder why this nation
should spend millions to clean up
diseases and then have foreign
trade policies that threaten to undo
all the good work. The United
States is the only nation that has
ever successfully stamped out foot
and-mouth disease.
Western cattlemen cannot forget
the big foot-and-mouth disease out
break in California in 1924 when
nearly 100,000 of their cattle,
sheep, hogs and goats were de
stroyed to stop it.
Simple Economics
‘‘The fundamental principles of
government finance are exactly the
same common-sense principles that
we follow in the handling of our own
family finances. So long as our
government follows these principles
our people will prosper. But if our
government disregards these prin
ciples, it squanders our resources
and destroys the public credit.”—
Alf M. Landon.
New Deal Borrowings
In June, 1932, the tota outstand
ing loans of the banks of the nation
was $28,090,000,000, of which $6,450,
000,000 was government obligation.
In June, 1935, under the New Deal,
the outstanding loans of the banks
was $20,419,000,000, of which $14,
284,000,000 was government obliga
tions. J
Castle Slaughter
Angers Farmers
Protest New Deal Cure
All ; Seek to Save Rem
nants of Herds.
By FRANK RIDGWAY
More than 800,(XX) cattle have
been killed and added to the
New Dealers’ animal "death
list,” along with little pigs and
expectant mother-sows slaugh
tered near the beginning of the
Roosevelt administration’s
"three long years.” These cattle
killing activities have been car
ried on in connection with the
administration’s Bang’s disease
campaign conducted in 48 states
during the last two years.
Meat and milk production has
been reduced and more and more
imports of cattle, beef, and dairy
products are coming in from for
eign countries as a result. In the
meantime Bang’s disease runs ram
pant in the farmers’ dairy and beef
herds.
Disgruntled farmers favor call
ing a halt on the test. They have
become dissatisfied with the pro
gram. But their cattle still are be
ing “mowed down” as fast as fed
eral government men can make
their tests to sort out .he diseased
cattle and send them to slaughter.
Bothered by Dreams.
Apparently men who are trying
to run the farms of America by
jerking puppet strings radiating out
from Washington, still are working
on the idea that there are too many
cattle in the United States.
Farmers and ranchmen are anx
ious to get rid of cattle infected
with Bang’s disease, which causes
the loss of calves in both dairy and
beef herds and undulant fever in
human beings. But after having
10,000,000 tests made on their ani
mals, they have become skeptical.
They doubt the accuracy and value
of the test.
Farmers and New Deal planners
alike apparently thought the pro
gram had merit when it was start
ed. The idea of government aid in
getting rid of infected animals
seemed sound. Experience soon
proved that the planners had en
tirely overlooked the fact that the
test for Bang’s disease had not
been standardized and perfected to
the point where it could be depend
ed upon to give satisfactory results
when applied under various condi
tions on a national scale.
Some farmers had taken both the
test and the sound judgment of the
Washington officials pretty much
for granted. They have now found
to their sorrow that neither of their
assumptions were justified.
Farmers Now Dissatisfied.
For many months dissatisfaction
has spread among farmers through
out the country. Through their
breeders’ organizations dairy and
beef cattle owners decided to make
an investigation and go to the bot
tom of the Bang’s campaign fos
tered by politicians at Washington.
About 200 of the cattlemen's repre
sentatives recently met in Spring
field, Illinois, where they aired the
whole cattle killing program.
They found out that from the be
ginning the New Dealers apparent
ly had used the Bang’s disease test
as an excuse to slaughter more of
their cattle. Farmers now realize
that they have been paying a high
price to aid political theoiQsts in
planning their revolutionary agri
cultural reduction scheme.
Nearly 700,000 herds of beef and
dairy a»imals have been submitted
for test since July 1, 1934. Some
of the farmers have lost many of
their most valuable animals. In
one southern Wisconsin dairy herd
of 859 cattle all of them were found
to be diseased excepting 130.
New Deal Pacts Nullify
Dairy Sanitation Code
Chicago.—The “mad internation
alists’’ of the New Deal party, in
flooding the country with foreign
dairy products, are throwing Ameri
ca’s program of sanitation to the
winds, according to Congressman
F. D. Culkin of Oswego, New York,
assistant director of the farm divi
sion of the Republican National
committee.
“In the past 20 years, the govern
ment and the farmers of America
have spent more than 500,000,000 to
protect the public health and obtain
dairy products free from dirt and
disease,” said Congressman Culkin.
“Under the present reciprocal'
trade agreements made by Sec
retary Hull and President Roose
velt, all this disbursement is thrown
to the winds because the Hull trea
ties make no provisions as to quar
antine and sanitary regulations and
the protection of milk products at
their source, in foreign countries.
E’urthermore, the present treaties
bind the United States not to make
any further changes in the quar
antine provisions of our own country
during the life of the treaties.’’
62,894 Out or Jobs.
Chicago.—Economists here esti*
nated that 62,894 rural persons
were denied the opportunity for self
support by imports of cattle, beef
and veal under the New Deal dur
ing 1935.
PROMISES and,*
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Promise.
POLITICAL ACTIVITIES
“We condemn the improper and
excessive use of money in political
activities.”—Democratic Platform
1932.
“We do want you to be absolute
ly hard boiled, if you find any local!
person within your own state who
is trying to get political advantage
out of the relief of human needs,
and you will have the backing of
this Administration 100Cy>, even if
you hit the biggest political boss
on the head in carrying out this
general program.”—Franklin D.
Roosevelt, remarks to State Direct
ors of the National Emergency
Council February 2, 1934.
Performance
POLITICAL ACTIVITIES
“I hand you herewith a list of
doctors in Ohio county. Kindly
separate the democrats and
republicans and list them in order
of priority so we may notify our
safety foremen and compensation
men as to who is eligible to par
ticipate in case of injury.”—Letter
written by State Relief Adminsis
trator of West Virginia to a
County Relief Supervisor.
“Dear Committeeman: Contact
all houses in your division and get
the names of all men on relief, also
of those holding WPA jobs. Urge
them to register democratic on
March 26 or else lose their jobs.”
—Charles McDonald, democratic
leader, 14th Ward, Philadelphia,
March 14, 1936.
“WELL, THEY LOOK BETTER
THAN YOUR SACKCLOTH!”
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