The Frontier D. H. Cronin, Editor and Proprietor Entered at the Postoffiee at O’Neill, Nebraska, as Second Class Matter. One Year, in Nebraska_$2.00 One Year, outside Nebraska— 2.25 Every subscription is regarded as an open account. The names of aubscribers will be instantly re moved from our mailing list at ex piration of time paid for, if pub lisher shall be notified; otherwise the subscription remains in force at the designated subscription price. Every subscriber must understand that these conditions are made a part of the contract between pub lisher and subscriber. Display advertising is charged for on a basis of 25c an inch (one eolumn wide) per week. Want ads 10c per line, first insertion, sub sequent insertions, 5c per line. “Well, we got here all right.” The Third Congressional office in Washington has been open since December 28th. There has been no interruption in the service and as most offices, the Third District Ne braska force is now clearing the desks for action. Many confer ences have been held with the Prairie States Committee members who are anxious to co-operate on good farm legislation. Many bills are being made ready to drop in the hopper as soon as Congress convenes which will in some way give the public a trend as to how far members are anxious to go toward changing present farm legislation. Eggs cost a minimum of 60 cents a dozen in Washington. Pork chops at bargain prices are around 40 cents a pound. Loud speakers are getting an other try in the House chamber. The present House chamber has been in use since 1867. Since that time there has been no architect ural change in the big room. There has been some change in the seat ing arrangement by replacing the old desks with the present seats. Many members feel they ought to get up to date and have the advan tage of modern science, especially loud speakers, so those who want to be heard will get that oppor tunity. Some of the members who have unusually loud voices don’t like the idea. Each member’s ofljce is filled with bushels upon bushels of propa ganda literature. This must have cost many millions of dollars. This propaganda comes from all over the world, but more especially from within the borders of the U. S. A. It is literature which argues for or against any subject or legis lation thnt may or may not come up. Much of it goes into huge wastebaskets. Some it it “takes hold’’ and will emerge on the House or Senate floor. There was no fight by the ma jority against William Bankhead to succeed himself as Speaker. There was an under-cover fight however, among the Republicans, but Joe Martin of Massachusetts had the necessary votes for minority floor leader before the republicans held their caucus Monday night. Jim Wadsworth of New York who was pretty well known as an old guard republican, didn’t have much show against the more liberal republi cans who feel that Martin is a lib eral. This indicates that a major ity of the republicns now in the House are liberals and some are very progressive. One old member who has been here twenty years declares that there are but twelve of the old guard republicans left in the House. The Nebraska delegation which is now comprised of two democrats and three republicans got together early. The entire delegation from Nebraska is pretty unanimous on working co-operatively on any leg islation that will benefit Nebraska. All of the Nebraska members are being solicited to join the Prairie States Committee which is a group of members from both parties which meets frequently to discuss and lay plans for beneficial farm legislation. The 76th Congress opened with the usual confusion. The usual crowds fought for tickets to the galleries for the opening session and the session at which the Presi dent addressed the House and Sen ate jointly. A lot of former con gressmen were in town and utilized their privilege of the floor to see the show. With the increased republican membership in the House, the min ority party got several additional places on the major committees. The Third District office is running a campaign to get a berth on eithei Agriculture or Appropriations. Th< latter committee is known as th< “father” of all committees anc nearly every member is trying foi the place. Members pretty well know what the legislative program ie going to be. Some amendments tc the farm bill; national defense; and relief, loom large on the program. Munition kings are on the job fiigthing for most anything that will mean the building of more battleships or selling more powder an bullets. Members, however, are going to be pretty particular about appropriations and will want to know definitely what is and what is not for the national defense. There is a general sentiment that Uncle Sam must keep his powder dry and his guns ready, but must do nothing which will force this coun try into any kind of war. Everything in the new congress is in the formative stage. There is all kinds of sparring for positions and it will be a month before real legislation can be expected. Farm legislation, national defense, army and navy appropriations, relief and other major legislation are in the mixing pot. A supplemental appropriation bill to carry on relief for a few more months is in the making. Then, will come the regular relief appropriation with the demand for amendments and some new plans for its distribution. There is a general sentiment that more responsibility for administering re lief should go to the states and communities. Nebraska, because of the drouth, needs additional re lief funds. Many persons needing jobs have been released but about 170 have been put back to work. Some have been put back in the Third District and meritorious cases are being investigated by the State Director. The Wshington office informs the Third District of fice that the lay-offs are temporary and were made as an emergency measure only. The Nebraska WPA officials at the present writing have a pretty blue picture to face in view of the fact that they have nearly 10,000 in the state eligible for employment whom they are unable to assist in any way. These relief matters and the plight of farmers who are being forced to leave their farms are being brought to the attention of the powers that be in this nation’s capitol. THE NEBRASKA SCENE By the Lowell Service Lincoln, Nebraska—Aided by what friends of Senator Edwin Schultz declared to be an eleventh hour drive from the governor’s office, Senator W. H. Diers, of Gresham was elected speaker of the unicameral. Omahans made no secret of the fact that they aid ed in bringing ubout the result, and, with the assistance of Gover nor Cochran, nosed Diers ahead of Schultz 23-20 on the second ballot. Executive influence is credited with pulling four votes away from Schultz on the first ballot when Diers got 17, Schultz IB and Dr. A. L. Miller, 11 votes. Diers is a democrat; Schultz is a republican. The GOP strength is 24 votes; 19 senators are democrats. Hugo Srb was reelected chief clerk. George L. Santo, of Lincoln was made sergeant-at-arms. Tracy Frost, of St. Paul, defeated by John Doyle for re-election, was made assistant. All are democrats. Senator L. B. Murphy, Scottsbluff, republican, was selected chairman of the committee on committees. Dan Garber led off on the second day of the session with a resolution to stop enforcement of the testing of motor vehicles. No voice for continuation of automobile testing was raised. Swan Carlson intro duced a bill to cut down driver’s license fees and also joined with Jay Hastings in a bill to repeal the truck regulatory act. Sam Klaver, of Omaha frankly admitted that he was preparing a bill to provide $30 a month old age pension to every person 65 years of age or over. Income, according to his plan, is to be deducted. The provision applies, however, to wives 65 years of age or over, without income or earnings from their separate estate. Children are not required to contribute to the sup port of parents. Sales and income tax measures are in preparation. A determined effort will be made to redistribute the gasoline tax, while persistent attacks will be made on the state patrol by attempts to reduce the amounts charged for drivers’ li censes. Leo Swanson, who has been hold ing office of land commisioner under court decree, refused to yield on i January 5 and announced he in i tended to hold the office until a successor is elected and qualified. The 1935 legislature submitted a constitutional amendment to abolish the office, but neglected to repeal the statute. This was at tended to by the 1937 legislature, and Swanson’s retiring date was set for January 5, 1939. Swanson has served as secretary of the board of educational lands and funds under a statute passed by the last legislature. Two democrats, Secretary of State Swanson and Governor Cochran, serve on the board with two republicans, Au ditor Johnson and Attorney Gen eral Johnson. At the last meeting of the old board, composed of four democrats, Leo Swanson was dis placed as secretary, and Secretary of State Harry Swanson was elected. In this way, Cochran and Harry Swanson could prevent Leo Swanson from clinging to the office during a deadlock. The outgoing attorney general pronounced Leo Swanson’s claim to “life tenure” in an office abolishel by the people “mere piffle.” In an unanimous dicision, judges of the Supreme Court affirmed the sentence of two to five years im posed on Former Lieutenant Gov ernor Walt Jurgensen on an em bezzlement charge. Chief Justice Simmons took no part in the delib erations of the court, as the case was argued before he took his place on the bench. Jurgensen was given fifteen days to file a motion for rehearing and forty days to pre pare briefs. In a lengthy opinion, the court reviewed the many as signments of error. Justice Rose wrote the opinion. Several members of the legisla ture seemed inclined to take seri ously a report that Barlow Nye expected $50 a day for his services in prosecuting a state case, trial of which was set for January 3. Attorney General Johnson took charge of the office January 5. Ac cording to the reports received by the legislator, Nye resigned as as sistant attorney general on the night of Dec. 31. He announced a partnership with Williams & Bey non, of Lincoln. In the meantime, Attorney General Hunter engaged Nye for the special work before Hunter left office. Late in Decem ber, Nye canvassed the legislators, seeking to be appointed legal ad viser to the legislature. From Washin^vm comes the re port that Administrator Dwight Felton of the WI\A has been com mended by the Nebraska delegation for his sympathy and untiring ef forts in behalf of the needy. Legis lators bring in similar reports from county commissioners. They feel that Felton has cooperated in every way with the county officials. The University of Nebraska now ranks seventeenth in the nation in size. An all-time high point in en rollment of 6,810 has been reached. This is an increase of 3.4 per cent over the enrollment of last year, according to university officials. Briefs were filed in the Nebraska Supreme court last week by at torneys for the stockholders of the Indianola State bank, a failed bank, supporting the decision of District Judge C. E. Eldred of Red Willow county denying the right of the state banking department to en force the double liability statute against stockholders. The briefs declare the 1933 legislative act which sought to dispense with the judicial appointment of a receiver for failed banks unconstitutional and void, and they claim that when the banking department and not the court is made the judge of the insolvency of failed banks, the law mistakenly places judicial power upon an executive officer. Wall Paper Paints We have moved to the Yantzi store on Fourth street, just north of Big lin’s. Call and see us in our new location. McDonough’s WALL PAPER & PAINT STORE » Neil C. Vandemoer, state assist ance director, has announced that the merit system inaugurated last summer for state and county as sistance workers is now ready for ' operation. Only 465 persons are listed in the approved registers from which assistance workers are to be chosen, although 1,814 made application to take the merit ex aminations last summer. From the list of successful candidates, fifteen appointments have been made since Sept. 1, although none of these have been in Douglas or Lancaster county. Frank Sorrell, of Syracuse is the author of the first bill introduced in the 1939 unicameral legislature. It is a bill to have all gasoline sold in Nebraska after 1940 to contain a blend of not less than ten per cent of alcohol manufactured from agricultural products. Sorrell ex plained that an inducement to capital would be given by such a law, since processing plants would be needed; also that the agricul-j tural market lost when the switch ti mechanized farming was made would be replaced. Fred Klietseh, maintenance en gineer in the state highway de partment has been appointed by Governor Cochran as capitol cus todian to succeed Leo Swanson, whose office as state land commis sioner became non-existent on Jan. 5. The appointment is, for the pre-: sent, temporary, but the governor said that it might seem best to make it permanent later. On the first day that the unem ployment conpensation act went into effect, Jan. 3, 2,860 claims I were filed, according to Henry' Bane, director of the state unem- j ployment service. Of these, 986 came from Omaha, and 238 from Lincoln. Almost all of those filing claims had previously registered for work by the state employment service. United States Marshall George E. Proudfit was sworn in Jan. 3 at Lincoln by Deputy United States Court Clerk J. B. Nickerson. He spent much of Wednesday after noon in his Omaha office meeting other federal officials and plann ing business matters with members of his staff. Fred Carstsen, of Avoca has been chosen as chairman of the legisla tive administration committee of the unicameral. This committee has the job of selecting legislative employees. The other members of this committee are Sam Klaver, of Omaha, Carl Peterson, of Norfolk, and Hugh Ashmore and George Gross, of Valentine. Denial of the demand of the Ne braska Commercial Trucker’s as sociation for reconsideration of a | recent order cutting intrastate i railroad rates 20 per cent was made Wednesday by the state railway i commission. The cut was allowed in order to enable the railroads to meet truck competition. The com mission announced that it would proceed on its own motion to in vestigate railroad rates at a hear ing on January 27. Following the taking of the oath of office and installation of the re cently elected new state officers T h ur s d a y afternoon Governor Cochran, before a crowded house, delivered his message to the legis lature, urging earnestly the neces sity for reducting the cost of gov ernmental services. The elimina tion and curtailment of boards and bureaus wherever it is possible was recommended. “Let u s refrain from adopting any new agencies," insisted the governor, “and let us abolish any now in existence if they are not absolutely necessary." In regard to state assistance, the governor asked that revenue be appropriated to maintain at least the present level of assistance, but he urged that the determination of assistance be based on need, and that the law as to family responsi bility be made more effective. At tention was called to the error made by the 1937 legislature which made it impossible to use one-tenth of each cent of the gasoline tax. This money has been accumulating, and the governor asked that an emergency appropriation be made at the earliest possible moment to correct this error, the money being needed to make relief payments on Jan. 15. Raising the rate of the inheri tance tax was recommended; also the placing of personal property on the tax records on the same basis as real property. For the Univer sity of Nebraska and the four state normal schools, the governor con siders one board of education suf ficient, and points out that consid erable saving could be made by having but one board. Rigid super vision over all insurance companies operating in Nebraska wras urged. In regard to highways, the gov ernor called attention to the 8,733 miles of road building that had been accomplished, and said that while he did not urge an increase in the building program, he felt that the public would not be satisfied if the rate of progress in the future did not equal that of the past. He urged that counties match federal feeder road funds. METHODIST CHURCH NOTES V. C. Wright, Pastor Sunday school 10:00 a. m. H. B. Burch, supt. Morning worship 11:00 a. m. 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