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Notes From The County
Superintendent’s Office
State Teachers’ examinations
Saturday, April 16.
Seventh and Eighth grade exam
inations April 18 and 19, and May
9. The Seventh grade pupils may
take the following named subjects.
General Geography, Physiology,
English Composition and Book
keeping.
In regard to the New Certifica
tion law I should like to again call
the attention of Holt county teach
ers to the fact that they should be
sure to have valid certificates,
dated before Sept. 1, 1938, to take
advantage of any considerations
under the old law.
The Third Grade Elementary
Certificate under the new law has
exactly the same requirements as
under the old law, namely: Plan I,
17 teachers examinations plus 12
semester hours of college credit
including 6 hours of Education, and
Plan II, 17 teachers’ examinations
plus high school normal training.
There will be no Second Grade
elementary certificates issued un
der the new law. The nearest cer
tificate corresponding to the Sec
ond Grade elementary under the
new law will be the General Ele
mentary, of which there will be
three types: Initial, Provisional
and Professional. The Initiial will
require a one year college course,
the Provisional 39 semester hours
and the Professional 48 semester
hours of preparation. These are
all to be certificate requirements
for Article III or rural schools.
However, the new law is not retro
active and the state department of
certification holds the opinion that
whatever the teacher is qualified
for under the old law will continue
under the new. That is why teach
ers already under the old law
should consider their position early
and take advantage of any oppor
tunity afforded them at this time for
it will be too late to do so on Sept.
1, 1938. I shall be glad to advise
you at the office or by letter but
if you have questions it usually is
better to talk about them rather
than to write about them.
Another warning, I should like
to put before the school public
early, is that of making Application
for Free High School Tuition. It
is the pupil’s responsibility—or
that of his parents—to make appli
cation before the levy is made for
that purpose. Of course, there is
usually a little surplus but it has
its limits and if too many people
forget to apply in lime, there can
not be enough surplus. Please be
i very careful and apply this yeai
! on time.
'Ve will try to get the Eight!
- grade grades out as quickly ant
’ accurately as possible. Teachers
’ | pupils and conductors all cooper
1 i ated so splendidly in January thal
’ I feel sure the heavy load in April
( will also move rapidly. Feel fret
. to discuss any question or irregu
larity that might arise. We’ll dt
our best “to do what seems best.’
The April grades will be sent to
teachers, the May grade to indi
vidual student unless requested
otherwise.
Where Is the Benefit?
Confusion of understanding over
the farm relief bill is heightened
by Louis H. Bean, economist for
the department of agriculture.
He declares that this measure
“will not raise farm prices materi
ally within the next few years.”
He adds: “It would appear the
purchasing power of farm prices
is likely to be lower over the next
few years.”
Coming from such a source this
prediction is astounding. For if
this is the convinced opinion of an
informed friend of the measure,
high in official position, what really
is its purpose?
Surely there should be some re
compense to the farmers for hav
ing to turn over to the secretary
of agriculture such control and
authority over their lives and ac
tivities as has never before been
experienced by any body or group
of Americans except in time of war.
And if that recompense docs not
come in the way of better prices
what form can it take?
At the meeting of Douglas county
farmers last Friday one speaker
declared not one farmer in BO un
derstands what is in the bill. That
figure is very conservative. After
the conference committee report an
earnest member of congress an
nounced that he had given 00 hours
to its study and still was befogged.
The house itself was allowed but
four hours to analyze and discuss
its 121 pages. It was a case of
“sight-unseen” legislation, enacted
without understanding and on faith
in the committee that patched it
together.
We venture to say that no farm
er, no layman, studying this bill’s
provisions as carefully as he is
able, can say in entire good faith
that he understands it.
What seems most clearly to
stand out is that it gives to Secre
tary Wallace authority over farm
ing, over the individual farmers,
over groups and sections, so ex
tensive, and to be so freely exer
cised in his own judgment and dis
cretion, as to leave farming no
longer a free way of life.
What appears to follow is that
were the same authoritarian ruler
ship proposed for farming to be
exercised over all other American
industry and business, ours would
no longer be a free economy, a
free society, but one directed by an
overshadowing and practically all
powerful federal government.
And the question naturally
arises: If it be good for farming,
why not for all other forms of
activity ?
And if it be good for all, as
soviets and facists and nazis insist,
what becomes of our American
theories of government and so
ciety? |
And if, out of its application
IT IS HUMILIATING FOR A
MAN TO CONFESS THAT IN ALL
THE YEARS HE HAS EARNED
MONEY, HE HAS ACCUMU
LATED NOTHING IN BANK
WORTH WHILE.
The
O’NEILL NATIONAL
BANK
Capital. Surplus and This Sank Carries No
Undivided Profits, Indebtedness of Officers
$140,000.00 or Stockholders.
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Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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■ first to agriculture, this brings to
the farmer no economic gain, as
Economist Bean of the department
of agriculture predicts, what ad
vantage results from trading a
priceless birthright for a non- ex
istent mess of pottage?
* * «
This newspaper shares most
earnestly in the desire for a re
habilitation of agriculture, and for
a restoration of farming to a par
ity with other industry. Its every
interest, as that of every Nebras
kan, is tied up in that. No Ne
braskan can accept, except with
the deepest regret, the verdict of
Representative Coffee, that the pre
sent measure intended for this
purpose is “ill-advised, unsound
and impractical.” None, though he
accepts the judgment of the Na
tional Grange, can fail to be sad
dened by it.
“It would be playing the shab
biest kind of a trick on the farm
er if congress, under the guise of
attempting to do something to
help in the solution of his pro
blems, should bind him hand and
foot and deprive him of his
fundamental and constitutional
rights.”
Yet the hard fact remains. What
comes is a farm relief measure as
to the effects of which even its
authors and friends disagree, that
no one, including its framers, really
understands, that appears to be
heavy with menace, and that is en
acted with hardly any time allowed
for its consideration by the law
makers itself.'
This is not the method of sound
and helpful lawmaking. It is not
a way designed to win either the
confidence or the cheers of those,
in deep distress of long standing,
it is presumed to benefit.—Omaha
World-Herald.
THE NEBRASKA
SCENE
By the Lowell Service ,
Assisted by the stragetic block
ing of National Committeeman
Hugh Butler, Speaker Charles J.
Warner of Waverly is making sub
stantial progress in his race for
the republican gubernatorial nom
ination. For almost a year Mr.
Butler has been urging harmony in
the GOP ranks.
Mr. Warner admits that he has
heard from Dwight Griswold of
Gordon, three times the republican
standard bearer. The Gordon edi
tor will not seek the nomination
this year. Mr. Butler has also
disclaimed his intention of filing,
according to Warner. ‘Indirect
word of the same purport has come
from Hugh Brown of Kearney,
Senator Robert Armstrong of Au
burn, Kenneth Wherry of Pawnee
City and Sam Reynolds of Omaha,
according to the Warner boosters.
There has been talk of the candi
dacy of Frank Anderson of Hold
rege, but the latter may seek a
position on the supreme bench for
which Judge Chappell of Lincoln
and Judge Yeager of Omaha will
campaign.
The constitutional bar is the
most formidable threat that con
fronts Mr. Warner, so far as the
nomination is concerned. The
Lancaster district court jury that
pronounced Lieutenant Governor
Jurgenson guilty of embezzlement
supplied the enigma that will vex
the constitutional lawyers and per
plex the Warner followers.
Former Governor McKelvie test
ed the question of the legality of
a constitutional officer’s seeking
any other state office. The su
preme court refused to permit him
to run for governor during the
term for which he was elected lieu
tenant governor. Succession to
the governorship, should the ex
ecutive become disqualified, is
automatic some attorneys assert.
As a matter of fact, Speaker War
ner has served almost two days
as governor, when both Cochran
and Jurgensen were out of the
state. The constitution provides
that the president pro tern of the
senate and the speaker of the house
are the successors of the lieuten
ant governor in the order named.
As the two offices are combined
by the unicameral, Warner is the
logical successor, some attorneys
contend. These lawyers insist
that Warner becomes lieutenant
governor in fact as soon as a
new trial has been denied Jurgen
j son and sentence passed.
There is another group of legal
1 authorities who claim that there
I are no inhibitions against Warner
| and that he does not become in
| volved in the matter until the eon
[jvietion has been sustained by the
I supreme court. Others asserL
| that there is no succession until the
| office of governor is vacant.
The diversity of legal opinion
* proves that there is almost as much
| latitude in drawing Conclusions on
| constitutional law as there is in
| the domain of philosophy.
| There is a democratic contender
for the governorship. Samuel
Freeman, son of the first home
steader in the nation, has filed
Mr. Freeman lives near Ellis in
Jefferson county.
The filing of Governor Cochran
for a third term is expected at
any time. During the last two
weeks there has been pulling and
hauling in every direction in order
to prevent a tug of war between
Cochran and Bryan. It now
seems certain that the candidacy
of Bryan as an independent cannot
be prevented. Efforts were made
to induce both Cochran and Bryan
to seek congressional honors in the
first district where Congressman
Luckey has filed for reelection but
is declared in jeopardy because of
the fracas in the Lincoln post
office. Activities around the
Bryan headquarters indicate Vhat
a complete slate, congressional and
legislative ticket will be placed
in the field.
Congressman Luckey returned
to Nebraska to dedicate the Tecum
seh postoffice building Saturday.
His return was not as casual as it
might seem. Pressure has been
applied to Senator Charles A.
Dafoe to force him into the congres
sional race against Luckey. Young
democrats are behind this move
ment. Dr. A. P. Fitzsimmons has
also been discussed as a candidate.
In the First district, the republi
cans are taking interest in the
First district congressional fight.
In Lincoln, Allen Field, Loren
Laughlin, Fred Wagner, Robert
Nelson and John Comstock are
aeing discussed. Paul Weaver of
Falls City, Ed Ferneau of Auburn,
George Heinke of Nebraska City
ind Kenneth Wherry of Pawnee
3ity are among the possibilities.
On February 14, the Nebraska
trucking industry adopts the air
ine schedules of the new motor
rarrier act. The truckers have
held a state convention with 1,200
present, and at a banquet of 350
truckers, Railway Commissioner
Bollen declared that substantial
progress had been made in stabil
ing the trucking rates and con
ditions of service.
Charles Smrha, state insurance
1 director, says that he will soon set
a date for hearing the complaint
of Gilmore Wiseman of Grand
Island, who claims that the Royal
Highlanders Insurance Company of
Lincoln is mismanaged.
After a conference with Judge
Munger, Deputy United States Dis
trict Attorney F. G. Hawxby an
nounced last week that a federal
grand jury will meet in Lincoln
March 17, and that at least thirteen
criminal cases will come up.
llfTlBELIEVE IN EARLV^
/ WORM CONTROL TOR 4
1 CROWING CHICKS/*
| I FIND THERE ISB
1 NOTHING BETTER*
I THAN AVI-TONE
| . ..THE IDEAL FLOCM
l WORMER AND TONIC/J
O’NEILL
HATCHERY
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M. E. CHURCH NOTES
A. .T. May, Pastor
Sunday school for all 10 a. m.
Morning worship at 11 a. m.—
Special music, anthem by the choir.
Vocal solo, Clarence Selah, “Open
by the pastor, Christian Liberties.
the Gates of the Temple.” Sermon
Epworth League, 6:30—Clarence
Selah, leader.
Union evening service at the
Presbyterian church.
Washington’s Birthday Masonic
service. Everybody welcome.
160 Acre Well Improved Holt County Farm
SELLS AT
PUBLIC AUCTION
Thursday, Feb. 24, 1938
EWING, NEBRASKA
ON THE PREMISES AT 2 P. M.
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LOCATION: This farm is located 3 miles south and 4 miles 11
west of Ewing, Nebr., a good little business town in the eastern II
part of Holt county which is Nebraska’s greatest native hay II
county, and situated on the Chicago and North Western R. R. II
main line from Omaha to Casper, Wyoming. II
LEGAL DESCRIPTION: This farm is legally known as the ||
south half of the southwest quarter of section 26, and the north II
half of the northwest quarter of section 35, Township 26 Range II
10, Holt county, Nebraska. II
IMPROVEMENTS: The improvements on this farm were built II
in 1932, and consist of a four room house, with a large attic and all
fine porch. There is a small barn, and a large shed, chicken 11
house, hog house, garage, cave, good fences—some hog tight, II
good well and wind-mill, with abundance of water. II
It is 2 Yz miles to Good Rural School, and A Good Road To Farm. I j
THE LAND: This farm lies mostly level, is a good sandy loam. II
There are 11 acres in alfalfa, 45 acres in cultivation, now in rye, II
balance is in native hay and pasture. |j
The owner of the farm is a non-resident. Therefore we invite II
you to make your inspections before the day of the sale, and |§
come prepared to buy, as the FARM WILL POSITIVELY BE ||
SOLD TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER. The farm sells subject to IK
the 1938 lease. The present tenant is Mr. Thos. Tomjack and IK
the lease calls for $50 cash Aug. 1, 1938 for pasture and alfalfa, II
and 1-3 of all the rye raised. 11
TERMS: Terms of the sale are 15 per cent cash on day of sale. II
Balance on or before March 15, 1938. There is a $900 Fed. Land II
bank loan on the farm which may be assumed by the purchaser. II
Mrs. W. J. Burgess, Owner II
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION WRITE TO II
FORKE BROS., The Auctioneers **
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