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Milk Monopolies
Congress is going to investigate
the milk business in town. An al
legation is made that a trust has a
monopoly on the milk business. It
was in 1923 that Wall Street oper
ators and promoters, including a
number of investment bankers, dis
covered the plan making many mil
lions through monopolizing the
milk business. It was the first raid
of the stock market bulls upon the
barn yards of the country, but it
has been one of the most successful.
Great corporations floated stocks
and bonds and bought up the dairy
plants and pasteurizing stations
in the larger cities, one after an
other. City health authorities pro
vided “health regulations” which
have furthered the control. Some
corporations increased their capi
tal twenty fold in a decade in addi
lion 10 maKinK uivhwnub oi uuu per
cent upon their original capital in
the same period. In some cities a
single monopoly controls 73% of
the milk supply. In Chicago 92
firms and individuals are under in
dictment for ruthless monopolistic
methods in violation of the anti
trust laws. The situation in Chi
cago is not different from that of
other cities. The investigation by
the House committee may disclose
that Washington, the national capi
tal, is one of those other cities. This
investigation, however, may prove
to be only the starter. Congress
is awakening to the situation, and
possibly what happened to the Chi
cago monopolists may happen here
and elsewhere.
To I’lant Tree in Honor of
Morton
The Nebraska American Legion
and the Nebraska delegation in
congress will celebrate Arbor Day
and J. Sterlin Morton's birthday
on April 22nd by planting an elm
tree in front of the Agriculture
building. Arno Camerer, the Dir
ector of the national parks, has
given his O.K. that the Elm tree
be shipped from the Nebraska City
Arboretum to Washington for that
occasion. The ceremonies will be
part of Nebraska’s tree planting
celebration this year, Some years
ago the Morton tree which was in
front of the agriculture building
was cut down. Secretary Wallace
told Nebraskans that he was agree
able to its being replaced. The new
tree will be placed in front of the
east wing of the agriculture build
ing. Morton was Secretary of
Agriculture in the cabinet of Grover
Cleveland.
Wrestle With Relief Bill
The supplemental emergency re
lief bill passed the House and while
the Senate is wrestling with it the
House is awaiting the regular re
lief bill for the next fiscal year
which will probably carry in the
neighborhood of two billion dollars.
At the same time congress will in
vestigate relief administration and
try in some way to eliminate rack
ets and politics.
Relief I’ntil 1950 or Longer
Burdette Lewis, who has just
finished investigating relief in the
District of Columbia, predicts the
relief problem is to stay with us
until 1950 or longer. Lewis, a grad
uate of the University of Nebraska
found lots of rackets in the relief
set-up in Washington. He is do
ing some research work for the
Nebraska Planning board.
There are 3500 people drawing
old age pensions in Washington.
The average monthly pension check
here is about $25.00.
Today’s grocery bill shows we
are paying 39c a dozen for eggs;
39c a pound for butter and two
pounds of beef cost 8Cc.
Death by Chemicals
A letter has come to a West Vir
ginia congressman from a manu
facturer of chlorine gas. He tells
the congressman that a representa
tive of an Oriental nation has given
him a tremendous order for chlor
ine. He turned the order down
because he was afraid that the
chlorine would go into poison gas
to kill human beings. He is afraid
now that he has turned the order
down, the foreigner will give it to
some other American competitor.
He wants to know if his congress
man can tell congress to pass some
kind of law which would prohibit
the sale of this death-dealing chem
ical to nations which are carrying
on wars today. The West Virginia
plant is one of the chemical plants
which Uncle Sam abandoned after
the world war. What we manu
factured there during the war is
partly a secret. Yet it is known that
it had something to do with chemi
cals. If and when the next big war
comes, chemicals will play a big
part in offensive warfare. Thous
ands of our world war veterans in
hospitals today will never recover
because of certain chemicals used
in the last war. Members who at
tend the meetings where great
chemists lecture, shudder at what
is said about how rapid progress
has been made in learning new
things about chemistry and espec
ially how many human beings could
be killed without bullets or metal
bombs.
Cherry Blossoms Draw Crowds
The cherry blossom festival is
over in the nation’s capital. The
queen has been crowned and the
big fireworks display is over. Now
the Commercial Club committees
are ready for the hundreds of thou
sands of people who are arriving
from about every state to look at
the cherry blossoms and to shop
in the Washingtn stores. Although
they cut down a lot of these trees
to make room for the Thomas Jef
ferson memorial the advertising has
been so widespread that the crowds
keep coming. Washington busi
nessmen would rather do without
a memorial to any man than lose
the drawing power of the cherry
trees.
THE NEBRASKA
SCENE
By the Lowell Service
Lincoln — The Tri-Johnsons —
Lieutenant Governor Walter E.
Johnson, Auditor Ray Johnson, and
Attorney General Walter R. John
son — have precipitated a contro
versy which has caused constitu
tional lawyers to scratch their
heads and meditate.
Lieutenant Governor Johnson
presented a claim for $352.30 for
services as governor dating the
absence of Governor Cochran from
the state Attorney General Johnson
supported payment with an opinion
and Auditor Johnson appiovcd it.
Deputy Secretary of State Dp/i
ald Devries promptly rejected the
claim and refused to sign the
vouchers. Devries insisted that
there was no precedent for the pay
ment of extra salary to the lieuten
ant governor for “occasional” ser
vice wher\ the governor was out of
the city. Also there was no ap
propriation from which to pay the
claims. Devries also maintained
that as a result of the salary hike
when the uni funeral was estab
lished. the salary of the lieutenant
governor had been hiked from $1,
000 to $3,488 a biennium.
Devries said “Inasmuch as the
lieutenant governor actually serves
the state about four months of each
biennium, presiding over the legis
Iature, his present salary of about
$3,488 for this work (per biennium)
makes him the highest paid official
in the state governme nt.”
Attorney General Johnson said
that he based his opinion on Art.
IV, Section 16, wherein the lieuten
ant governor is directed to fill the
office in the event of the governor’s
“death, impeachment a n d notice
thereof to the accused, failure to
qualify, resignation, absence from
the state, or other disability of the
Governor, the powers, duties and
emoluments for the residue of the
term, or until the disability be re
moved, shall devolve upon the lieu
tenant governor.”
The attorney general said that
he had not hiked up the suit of
Former Lieutenant Governor Pel
ham A. Barrows for abou $1,800
for services during the absences of
Samuel H. McKelvie from the state
during the period from 1919 to
1922. It was held that a state of
ficial could not draw two salaries,
and that the governor was entitled
to full salary for the term for which
he was elected until there was per
manent disability or disqualifica
tion. Eight representatives, friends
of Mr. Barrows, introduced H. R,
349 into the 1923 session of the
legislature. This measure pro
vided $1,801.69 “for the relief” of
Mr. Barrows. It passed the legis
lature, but Charley Bryan, serving
his first term as governor, speared
it.
Pioneer unicameral advocates
maintain that the salary of the lieu
tenant governor was not increased
by the amendment creating the one
house legislature Increasing the
stipend of the lieutenant governor
is mentioned neither in the title nor
in the body of the act. They claim
the play of the lieutenant governor
was “hiked by remote control.”
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Advocates of the insurance re
form have become critical of the
work of Chairman A. L. Miller and
his committee selected to probe the
insurance department. Critics, at
the time the committee was selected
charged that the members were
“friendly with the state administra
tion”. Now they insist that no
recommendations have been made
capable of curing fundamental ills.
“In addition,” declared an in
surance expert, "L.B. 78 has been
passed. This bill is ostensibly to
enable an Omaha company to do
business in Massachusetts. In
reality it permits mutual companies
to change into stock companies and
back again at will. It is believed
that this bill will exert influence in
situations where members of fra
ternal benefit societies are suing
for the distribution of surplus.”
Dr. A. E. Sheldon, director of the
Nebraska State Historical society,
has accepted the offer of a portrait
of the late Ashton C. Schalen
berger, painted by Henry L. Wolff,
a New York artist. The artist
desired to sell the portrait to the
society but Dr. Sheldon replied
that there was no money for the
purchase of pictures. Mr. Wolff
then suggested that he would send
the portrait to Lincoln for display.
Dr. Sheldon accepted the offer, and
the painting will be hung in the mu
seum at the capitol.
So far, bills to increase mem
bership of the unicameral and elect
its members on a partisan ballot
have encountered hard sledding.
Many friends of the unicameral
claim that the system has not had
a fair trial. They assert that the
long sessions, the legisltive council,
and other features are trappings of
bicameralism. It was originally
planned to hold several sessions
during the biennium, instead of one
long, protracted bout with legisla
tion.
Protests arrive daily from sup
porters of the present primary law,
objecting to the pre-primary and
post-primary convention sugges
tions contained in the pending bill.
R. J. Nibbe and E. J. Lamb, former
members of the legislature living
in Teeumseh, addressed an open
letter to the legislature, declaring
that the bill “would bring back the
corrupt, discredited, and outlawed
old convention system.”
The legislature has killed the
bill, introduced by Senator Diers,
for a $2 head tax on persons up to
65 years of age. This leaves the
head tax applying to those between
the ages of 21 and 50.
The unicameral last week passed
the emergency assistance finance
measure to reallocate $319,000 for
use in the general assistance pro
gram. This sum was earmarked
for counties on a population basis.
The bill appropriating $63,000
from gas funds to purchase the
Louisville bridge, received approv
al last week.
BRIEFLY STATED
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Oberle re
turned Sunday night from Verdi
gris, where they had been called by
the serious illness of Mr. Oberle’s
brother, Nick, who suffered a
stroke last Wednesday.
Miss Jane Mains, who spent the
Easter holidays here with her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Mains,
left Tuesday for Lincoln to resume
her studies at the University of
Nebraska.
Jack Arbuthnot drove to Sioux
City on Saturday where he met
Miss Marion Arbuthnot, Harriett
Hammond, Ruth Ann and Rose
Mary Biglin, who are all attending
school at the University of Iowa at
Ames, and brought them home to
spend Easter with their parents.
Mrs. Terrance Morrison? daugh
ter, Nancy, and Miss Dorothy Mor
rison, who are attending school at
St. Teresea’s College at Winona,
Minn., arrived Tuesday evening and
will visit at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. R. R. Morrison.
Dr. O. W. French and Dr. J. P.
Brown drove to Ainsworth on Tues
day night where they attended a
/neeting sponsored by the State
Medical Society. Dr. and Mrs. Gill
of Chambers, also attended the
meeting.
Frank Biglin drove to Omaha
Tuesday afternoon and took his
son, Robert and daughter, Betty,
and Ralph Oppen back to resume
their studies there, after spending
Easter visiting with relatives and
friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Robertson
have the sympathy of their many
friends on the death of their baby
daughter, born last Monday and
who lived only a few hours. The
body was buried in the Joy ceme
tery.
Mrs. P. B. Harty entertained at
a one o’clock luncheon at the M. &
M. Cafe followed by cards at her
home on Wednesday in honor of
Mrs. Roy Andersen, of Burns, Ore
gon, and Mrs. F. H. Butts, of Ne
braska City, Nebraska.
Mr. and Mrs. Atlee Graves and
children, of Omaha, came up last
Saturday afternoon. Mr. Graves’
father, W. B. Graves, who had been
in a hospital in Omaha for the past
three weeks returned home with
them. Bill is getting along nicely
and expects to be at his old stand
in the jewelry stove by the end of
the week, which will be gratifying
news to his many friends in this
city and county. Mr. and Mrs.
Graves and children returned home
Sunday afternoon.
The vote against the confirma
tion of Joudge Roberts of Virginia
seems to indicate that the Senate
is getting its bearings.
The first woman ever to preside
over the state normal schools board
will be Mrs. Evelyn A. Ryan, of
Grand Island, who was. elected
president of that board Monday.
Bernard McNeny, of Red Cloud,
was chosen vice-president, and Dr.
Walter Benthack, of Wayne, act
ing secretary. All members of the
board were invited by W. R. Pate,
president of Peru State Teacher’s
College, to attend the laying of
the cornerstone for the new dormi
ory at Peru Thursday.
A BOY’S best friend
may be his mother
--but a man’s best friend
is his bank account.
The
O’NEILL NATIONAL
BANK
Capital, Surplus and This Bank Carries No
Undivided Profits, Indebtedness of Officers
$140,000.00 or Stockholders.
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
EMMET ITEMS
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Patterson:
went to Petersburg, Neb., Monday j
where they visited Mr. Patterson’s
father and mother. They returned
home Thursday and brought Mrs.
Patterson’s mother, Mrs. Elda Lull,
of Albion, for a few wTeeks visit.
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Lowery,
Mrs. Clara M. Cole, Mrs. Ada John
ston and grandaughter, Ruth El
lingson, attended a ministerial
meeting at Ewing Monday.
Mrs. Charles Fox and family
were dinner guests at the Dever
Fox home Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Pettinger and
baby daughter, of Atkinson, visited
at the James O’Donnell home Sun
day.
Mr. and Mrs. John Conrad and
daughter, Mary Lou and Helyn
Anspach visited at the John Ans
pach home in Inman Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Foreman
and family, Mr. and Mrs. George
Reiss and family and Ed Walters
were dinner guests at the John
Pruss home Sunday.
A sunrise ureakfast was held at
the M. E. church at 6 o’clock Sun
day m o r n i n g by the Epworth
League. A delicious breakfast of
toast, eggs, oranges and cocoa was
served.
Luree Abart, of O’Neill, visited
at the home of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Abart Sunday.
Doris Patterson, of Wayne, vis
ited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
H. Patterson, over the week-end.
Mrs. John Jensen, of O’Neill,
called on Mrs. John Conard and
Mrs. P. W. McGinnis, Monday af
ternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Little and
daughter, of Wausa, Mr. and Mrs.
Eli McConnell and family of At
kinson, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Mc
Connell and children and Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Puckett and children
were dinner guests at the Alex Mc
Connell home Sunday.
The Ladies Foreign Missionary
Society held a business meeting at
the home of Mrs. John Lowery
Wednesday afternoon. A delicious
lunch of fake, sandwiches and cof
fee was served.
Shirley Luben visited at the home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Char
les Luben, of O’Neill, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Green, of Pierce
visited their son, Rev. W. L. Green,
Sunday.
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Mrs. Ruth Wagrnon returned
home from Lincoln, Nebr., Satur
day morning.
Mrs. Ada Johnston and grand
daughter, Ruth Ellingson, of Deloit,
Iowa, came Wednesday to visit Mrs.
Clara M. Cole and other relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Welsh and
daughter, Mary, of O’Neill, were
dinner guests at the Jess Willes
home Sunday.
Mrs. John Bonnenberger and son,
Duane, visited Mrs. Bonnenberger’s
mother, Mrs. Dallegge, of Atkin
son, Sunday.
Betty Harris, of O’Neill, visited
her counsin, Lois Cole, Sunday
afternoon and Monday.
EMMET METHODIST CHURCH
Warren L. Green, Pastor
Sunday school, 10:00 a. m.
Morning worship, 11:00 a.m.
Pastor’s theme, “Was Calvary Suf
ficient?”
Epworth League, 7:30 p.m.
Evening service, 8:15 p.m.
Choir practice at the church Fri
day evening at 7:30 p.m.
The district conference will be
held at Gordon, Nebr., on Monday
and Tuesday of next week.
We welcome you to worship with
us.
Grattan Project Club
The Gratton Project Club met
at the home of Mrs. Ed Leach, April
4th with only six members present.
Achievement Day was discussed
and the rest of the afternon was
spent socially.
An exhibit of quilts and tea towr
els was shown by Mrs. Leach.
Lunch was served by Mrs. Ray
Lawrence and Mrs. Leonard Lar
son.
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Mrs. Goldie Liddy received a mes
sage, announcing the birth of a
daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Liddy, of Lincoln, on April 2nd.
The baby has been named Judy
Ann.
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