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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (May 20, 1937)
! Fire Department Creates Manhattan Geysers Geyser-like streams of water spouted by 19 new fire department pumpers gave New York's skyline the picturesque scene reflected in the above photograph. This picture was made from the upper bay, looking toward the Manhattan skyline. _ Rookie Outfielder Making Good With Brooklyn Dodgers Gibby Brack, "freshman” out fielder of the Brooklyn Dodgers, whose play during the early part of the National league season has earned him a regular job with the team. Brack has been effective with the bat and his defensive play has helped strengthen the Dodgers’ out field. Golden Gate Fair Extends Welcome Standing before a giant facsimile of the great seal of the state of California at Sacramento, Zoe Dell Lantis, pretty 1939 Golden Gate In ternational exposition “pirate girl,” extends an all-embracing gesture of welcome to California visitors and an invitation to walk the gang plank leading to “Treasure Island,” site of the exposition in San Fran cisco bay two years hence. Giant Baby Panda Right at Home f Su-Lin, the giant baby panda Mrs. William Harkness captured in southwestern China last November and brought to this country, comes through the hollow log especially constructed at the Chicago Zoological park at Brookfield, 111., to resemble his natural habitat and stares wide eyed at the camera. He is now nine months old and weighs 35 pounds. STRAIGHT SHOOTER Not only is pretty Miss Clara Jerstad, deputy United States mar shal of Seattle, Wash., shown above, one of the few women in the United States empowered to arrest persons on federal charges, but she is re garded as one of the best shots among federal peace officers. “Vest Pocket” Boulder Dam Took Year to Build Built accurately to scale and embodying faithfully every detail of its gigantic prototype, this model of Builder dam is one of the exhibits at the State Exposition building in Los Angeles. Made of plaster, the model is 27 feet deep and 15 feet wide. It took one year to construct with the aid of government engineering charts. Miss Mary Cordfter is admiring it here. ) Scenes and Persons in the Current News 1—W. B. Cullen, left, and Charles Lessing, officials of the Federated Motion Picture Crafts, and leaders in the recent strike against the movie industry in Hollywood. 2—Premier Mussolini of Italy and Chancellor Kurt Schussnigg of Austria shown during the latter's recent visit with II Duce in Venice. 3—Justice Owen D. Roberts, youngest member of the United States Supreme court, who celebrated his sixty-second birthday. Davis of Kansas City Heads U. S. Chamber George H. Davis of Kansas City, who was elected president of the Chamber of Commerce of the Unit ed States at its recent annual meet ing in Washington, D. C. He suc ceeds Harper Sibley. Mr. Davis is a banker, a farmer and a merchant. At its convention the Chamber op posed President Roosevelt’s propos al to revamp the Supreme court and called for amendments to the Wagner labor act, defining '‘unlaw ful” labor practices. Museum Gets “Cy” Young Trophies Denton Tecumseh (“Cy") Young, who in 22 years of big league base ball campaigning won 511 of the 873 games he pitched, shown at his home at Peoli, Ohio, with trophies and loving cups which he will donate to baseball’s hall of fame at Cooperstown, N. Y. It’s Hoops My Dear for Seniors at Wellesley a Seniors at Wellesley are lined up for the start of the recent hoop rolling race. According to tradition, the winner becomes the first bride of the graduating class. Doe’s Tonsils Out While You Wait o If your dog will not eat as heartily as usually, perhaps he has ton silitis. The above picture shows Dr. Clifford Wagner, left, and Dr. Harry D. Roberts, Cleveland veterinarians, as they removed the tonsils of Fritz, a Great Dane. The doctors assert that tonsilitis in dogs is a common ailment in some parts of the country. “Most Efficient Girl” Is Selected by Cost Accountants Miss Ilda Lee, twenty-one-year-old secretary, who was selected as the most efficient and most personable girls among 120 competitors at a re cent convention of the National As sociation of Cost Accountants in St. Louis. Curing Stuttering. C^HIN LEE, ARIZ.-Away > up here in the Indian country comes a newspaper, saying some expert at cor recting human utterance has turned up with a cure for stuttering. But why? By his own admission, nearly all stutterers can sing and most of them can swear fluently, thus providing superior emotional outlets in two directions. One of the smartest criminal lawyers I know deliberately cultivated a natural Impediment in his speech. In court room debates it gave him more time to think up either the right questions Irvin S. Cobb or to figure out the right answers. And one of the most charming voices I ever heard belonged to a Louisiana girl whose soft southern accents were fascinatingly inter rupted at intervals by a sudden stammer—like unexpected ripples in a gently flowing brook. • • • How to Relax. BEFORE I started out here, feel ing somewhat jumpy after wrestling a radio program for six months, Jimmy Swinnerton, the art ist, who's one of the most devoted friends these high mesas ever had, advised me to try stretching out on the desert sands as a measure for health and complete relaxation and a general toning up. “Just lie down perfectly flat,” he said. Then he took another look at my figure. “Anyway, lie down,” he said. So today I tried it. Another friend, John Kirk, the famous Indian trad er, helped me pick out a suitable spot on the Navajo reservation that was forty miles from the nearest habitation. But the site I chose was already pre-empted by a scorpion with a fretful stinger and an Irritable dis position that seemed to resent be ing crowded. So I got right up again. In fact, I got up so swiftly that Kirk said it was impossible to follow the movement with the hu man eye. It was like magic, he said. Speed Crazed Drivers. HY the hurry, Sonny Boy? I see you almost daily. You’re roaring through populous streets or skidding on hairpin turns or whirl ing at sixty perilous miles an hour around the kinked and snaky twists of mountain roads like some de moniac bug racing along the spine of a coiled rattler. If I am one to say, you probably have primed yourself for this sense less speeding on that most danger ous of all mixed tipples—the fear some combination of alcohol and gasoline. Or perhaps, like the blind mule of the folklore tale, you just naturally don’t care a dern. One thing is plain: Despite the high per centage of mortality your breed is on the increase. So, again, echoing the question which the coroner must frequently ask at the inquest, why the hurry, Sonny Boy? It can’t be that anybody wants you back at the place where you’ve been or that anybody else will be glad to see you at the place where you’re going. Really now, Sonny Boy, what is all the hurry about? • • • Civilization’s Predicament. I FEEL it my duty to call atten tion to the following warning, re cently published: “The earth is degenerating in these latter days. . . bribery and corruption abound. . . the children no longer obey their parents. . . it is evident that the end of the world is approaching!” However, it should be added that this prediction is not, as might be assumed from its familiar ring, the utterance of some inspired ob server of the present moment. It is a translation from an Assyrian tablet, dated 2800 B. C. So, if the fulfillment of the doleful prophecy has been delayed for 4, 737 years it seems reasonable to assume that it may be some months yet before civilization flies all to pieces. Waning States’ Rights. AS I watch commonwealth after commonwealth below the Ma son and Dixon line tumbling over one another to embrace centralized authority in exchange for federal funds for local projects, I’m re minded of a trip which a friend of mine out here just made. He’s a descendant of the Lees and he decided to pay a pious pilgrim age to the last remaining strong hold of the late Southern Confed eracy. So he went to the only two states that voted last fall for states’ rights, making his headquarters in the ghost city of Passamaquoddy He reports .that, in both Maine and Vermont, the secession senti ment is getting stronger all the time and that there’s a growing tendency to name boys for Jeff Davis rather than Ethan Allen or Neal B. Dow. IRVIN S. COBB. <2—WNU Service
