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“Armistice” Over as Royalty
Departs
The armistice which hushed “war
talk,” “neutrality and “war debts”
while the King and Queen of Great
Britain were here, is at an end. No
sooner had the royal couple left
town than members started discus
sing war debts, neutrality and for
eign entanglements.
Third District Not Represented at
Garden Party
Letters coming to the congres
sional office ask if we were invited
to the English Garden Party. The
answer is “NO.” Another question
is “How did the King and Queen
look?” The answer to that is that
the queen looked very pretty but
not any prettier than most Ne
braska girls. She appeared un
affected and used very little lip
stick or paint, and had a smile for
everybody. The King looked tired
out, acted unassuming; talked very
little; didn’t stutter; and gossip
from nearly everybody in the House
who talked to the Royal couple, is
that the King didn’t like the hot
Washington weather and was very
glad the ordeal was over. The
town was decorated with a lot of
British flags which were taken
down eight hours after the visitors
departed; the town was filled with
a million people who were up from
daylight to dark lining every
street and avenue the visitors
passed through. The welcome was
a real good American one and there
was no disorder of any kind. Most
everybody thought it was all right
for them to visit us and there are
many people who hope that this vis
it does not mean that we are obli
gated in any way.
To Retain Excise Tax on Oil
Farm district members ever
watchful to protect their districts
against importation of foreign com
petitive farm produce, are given
credit for retention of the 3 cent
excise tax on oil in the Filipino bill
on which hearings are to be held
soon. Many Filipirie lobbyists are
here. After a conference these
Filipinos abandoned their hope to
remove the excise tax during this
year. Farm district members feel
that this excise tax which is col
lected from American consumers
and paid into the Phillipine Treas
ury should in reality be paid into
the Treasury of the United States.
Filipinos had planned to change
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the law and make it possible for
the Filipinos to take this tax money
and use it for the subsidization of
cocoanut oil. They can only use
it for general expenses of their
government now.
Why Americans should pay the
Filipinos an excise tax on their oil
is hard to explain except that the
Filipinos still consider themselves
as subjects of the United States.
After July 4, 1946, when they re
ceive their complete independence,
however, that picture will change
and the subsidies now paid the
sugar and oil kings of those islands
may cease. That’s why these Fil
ipinos are here now. They want
their complete independence but
they also want free trade and some
subsidies after 1946.
Suggest Need of Farm Relief
Telegrams come from Nebraska
stating that due to short crops this
year there will be a greater need for
farm relief than ever before. These
telegrams ask at least 175 million
dollars for the Farm Security Ad
ministration. Among these tele
grams is one from the head of the
Nebraska Farmers Union.
Want 2'/, Billion WPA
Appropropriation
The convention of the “right-to
work” congress and the Workers
Alliance which attracted about 2,
500 delegates wag one of the most
orderly of the workers groups to be
held here. Delegates who came
here had plenty of opportunity to
hear all kinds of speakers and
prominent citizens. Among the dele
gates was Paul Wheeler of Norfolk.
They held their meetings in govern
ment buildings and many of them
were in the House and Senate gal
leries during the sessions of con
gress. Following these meetings
the delegates urged appropriations
of not less than $2,260,000,000 for
WPA. The relief bill is in the
House this week at the same time a
committee is investigating WPA.
Just how much money the new re
lief bill is to carry depends on the
action of the full committee and
the success or failure of many pre
pared amendments to increase and
to decrease the total amount in the
bill.
States Criticized for “Hands Out”
Attitude
The amendments to the Social
Security act which took up most of
the week's time in the House, were
approved by thb house with only
two dissenting votes. The bill now
goes to the Senate. The hearings
conducted by the Ways and Means
Committee preceding the report of
thiB measure, began the first of last
February.
The legislation increases the fed
eral grants for old age assistance
from $15 to $20 a month and also
makes important increases for child
welfare and vocational training.
Members are told that many new
amendments will be offered by sen
ators and it will be some time be
fore the completed Social Security
bill comes to conference and is
finally enacted into law. Through
out the debate, the various states
of the union were criticized for
failure to match federal funds for
old age assistance. These criticisms
came when amendments were of
fered to make the federal participa
tion larger. Leading members of
Does
Your family
enjoy
Visiting Friends?
My children are always talking
with their friends over the tele
phone,” a farmer told our man
ager. "They say they wouldn’t
stay on the farm if we didn’t have
a telephone. I’m not sure my wife
would either.”
You get many benefits from telephone
service besides those which make and
save you money. If you don’t have a
telephone, why not stop at the telephone
office soon and talk it over with us?
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the committee insisted that unless
the status quo of a 50-50 matching
program is continued, many states
would shirk their duty to the needy.
They felt it was unfair for the state
governments to balance their own
budgets and expect the Federal
government to keep on spending
more than it takes in. The entire
debate indicated that the admin
istration wants the various state
governments to take more responsi
bility for spending money.
Vote Fund to Fight Hoppers
Members, particularly those from
the prairie states have received a
flood of letters and telegrams urg
ing the appropriation of supple
mental funds for use in the grass
hopper control campaign. i.
House and the Senate quickly re
sponded by passing a special joint
resolution appropriating an ad
ditional fl,750,000 immediately
available for expenditure.
THE NEBRASKA
SCENE
By the Lowell Service
Lincoln — Pioneers in champion
ing the unicameral system of leg
islation are exchanging views pre
paratory to outlining proposals for
improving methods of law making.
As to personnel, the membership
of the last session scored an unus
ually high average. In 1940, it is
believed, the sponsors will empha
size method, seek to inspire indi
vidual research and maintain a high
average of ability of the candidates.
There seems to be a belief that
the legislative council is a creation
of the extremely conservative. It
is a bar to individual initiative and
investigation, assert some legisla
tors.
Undoubtedly the proponents of
the unicameral will have some def
inite plan of improvement for the
next session. Said one of the
cham» ions:
“Senator Norris did not take any
part in the first unicameral setup,
either in the 1935 session or in the
organization of the first unicameral
legislature. In letters to friends,
he suggested that the members be
permitted to work out the details.
‘He did, however, suggest the
elimination of the committee of the
whole and reviewed the history of
the United States senate in abolish
ing it.”
In a letter to a unicameialite Sen
ator Norris wrote: “I think some
of the questions about the organi
zation and rules, while sbeming
very important now, will as time'
progresses, settle themselves.’ ”
The attempts to restore the par
tisan tinge to the unicameral, like
the chronic efforts to amend the
primary laws, did not meet with
firm support last winter. Pkrty
whips were manipulated without
result at the beginning of the leg
islative session. When the party
organizations met with failure, the
lobbyists assailed the membership.
The lobby prolonged the session and
delayed action. However, the spec
ial advocates undoubtedly failed in
exerting any marked influence on
the members.
Col. John G. Maher, who died
recently in Rome, took a prominent
part in promoting the unicameral
amendment. Col. Maher has a
long and brilliant record as a lib
eral in politics and as an advocate
of reforms in government.
In the 1932 campaign he was
national committeeman for the Na
tional Progressive League. Harold
L. Ickes, Edith Abbott and hun
dreds of leading progressives were
prominent in this movement, for
independent political action.
Mr. Maher and George W. Kline
discussed unicameral legislative
ideas with Senator Norris in the
summer of 1933. Senator Norris
recorded his views in a series of
b: illiant letters which embody in
valuable information on the science
of government. Mr. Maher was
chairman of the committee that out
lined the plans for the circulation
of the initiative petitions and the
placing of the unicameral proposal
on the ballot.
The political future of Governor
Cochran continues to be a subject
of considerable public discussion.
An Omaha newspaper nas been
pressing the executive to make a
statement on whether or not Coch
ran is to enter the race for the
senatorial race against Senator
Burke. Mr. Cochran has declined
to make a comment.
Col. Frank Stech, journalistic
aide-de-camp of the Cochran co
horts, has prepared a chart of the
possible political honors that await
the governor. According to Col.
Stech, these are:
1. Cochran may pun for vice
president under certain conditions,
or
2. He may run for Congress in
the First district, or
3. He may oppose Senator Burke
for the United States Senate, or
4. He may seek a fourth term as
governor,
“Mr. Cochran knows something
about the psychological moment to
make an announcement,” said Mr.
Stech. “He will have a statement
ready at the proper time.”
“Anything less than $100,000
shows little trouble with snow
drifts,” explained F. H. Klietsch,
state highway praintenance engin
eer, when he handed in his report
that $67,325 was the cost of the
removal of last winter’s snow from
Nebraska highways. In 1937, the
cost was $48,474*.
J. A. Little, ifcte expert for the
state railway commission, on be
half of Nebraska attended two In
terstate Commir.ce Commission
hearings last week. Oh Tuesday,
he objected before the ICC exam
iner in Chicago |o a rate pf 86 cents
per hundred on shipments of pine
apple to Nebraska, while a rpte1 of
70 cents per hufldred is maintained
from the west coast to Chicago. He
urged that Nebraska rates be at
least no higher than on the long
haul. On Wednesday, Little ap
peared in Washington before the
ICC in the case in which reduced
rates on heating equipment were
recently suspended because of pro
test from Wichita, Kas. shippers.
The shipments were between Ne
braska and two points in western
trunk line territory.
Representing 13.824 weeks of
compensable unemployment, checks
for $117,250 were issued during
May by the state unemployment
compensation division. This is less
IT is humiliating for a
man to confess that in
all the years he has
earned money, he has
accumulated nothing
in bank worth while.
The
O’NEILL NATIONAL
BANK
Capital. Surplus and
Undivided Profits,
$140,000.00
This Bank Carries No
Indebtedness of Offices
or Stockholders. , I
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
than the amount paid in Aprir "by
$48,000. Of these checks, 1,182, for
$11,392, have gone to claimants
outside of Nebraska, who had
earned credits here. JBoth in num
ber of claims and in amount of
payments, Omaha was first of the
20 Nebraska offices, with 5,519
checks, amounting to $47,097.
It cost less to draft bills during
the recent legislative session than
it has for 20 years, according to
the report of George R. Mann, bill
drafter and general counsel of the
now defunct legislative reference
bureau. The cost was $2.57, as
compared with $2.90 in the past.
Provision was made for this work
by a legislative appropriation of
$4,652.
The new motor fuel division, re
cently created by the legislature
in the state department of agri
culture, has for its first Chief John
A. Ainley of Scottsbluff, appointed
by Governor Cochran last week. As
an oil inspector in western Ne
braska, Mr. Ainley has served the
department for the last seven years.
A traveling laboratory is to be used
in connection with the new division
work, the governor stated.
His final act being the issuance
of a statement declaring his inno
cence, Walter H. Jurgensen, former
lieutenant governor of Nebraska,
entered the state penitentiary,
June 12 to begin serving his two
to-five-year sentence on the charge
of embezzlement for which he was
convicted in March, 1938. The in
tervening time has been given to
fruitless appeals which took the
case as far as the United States
supreme court.
Governor Cochran made final dis
position of the four bills that re
mained on his desk last week by
signing three and by sending one
to the secretary of state to become
a law on Sept. 8. without his signa
ture. The one that he refused to
sign was LB 350, the truck measure
which includes a provision for leng
thening trucks and semi-trailers
from 35 to 42 feet. The governor
objected to this provision from the
standpoint of highway safety, and
he recommended that the legis
lative council study thjs subject
and make recommendations. The
three bills signed were LB 120
which re-enacts the law outlawing
certain unfair discriminatory busi
ness practices repealed by the 1937
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unfair trades practice act; LB 202,'
which requires egg dealers to ob
tain an annual $1 license as buyers
and a $1 permit as candlers; also
that they dispose of their eggs
within a reasonable time; and LB
206, which requires road construc
tion contract bidders to qualify to
highway department as to ability to
fulfill terms.
Surveyors, reported to be acting
dn‘behalf of the national'defense
setup, have- collected information
for the eight lane Highway across
the state. According to reports
the surveyors entered the state
south of Plattsmouth and proceed
ed westward, passing about a nrile
north of Seward. .It is reported
that the proposed highway avoids
all large cities and towns. Some
time ago a similar survey was made
along the route of U. S. highway
FOR SALE
Both of the Zebb M. Warner High Quality Farms
To Be Sold at Administrator’s Sale on
JULY 5th, 1939
At 10:00 O’clock Forenoon.
Sale to be held at front door of Court House,
O’NEILL, NEBRASKA
These farms have a record of being very pro
ductive and are of black loam soil.
320-acres in one farm. High grade black loam soil. Nearly
new set of buildings. 6-room house, large basement; large
barn. All fenced and cross-fenced. Land is nearly level.
Rich, productive soil, quite well balanced as to hay and
pasture. Good title.—Southeast quarter 23 and northeast
quarter 26, twp. 30, range 13 is the location of this farm.
R. H. Parker, administrator, will show anyone all over the
farms. If terms are desired, please talk to the Administrator
before sale day.
These Zebb M. Warner farms have a good reputation for
productiveness.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO COME AND BID ON THESE FARMS?
480 acres in the other farm, and it adjoins the first farm.
Black, heavy, loam soil. Farm land level, pasture slightly
rolling. Good set of buildings. 6-room house, and several
other farm buildings. All fenced and cross-fenced.
Good Title. West half of section 24 and northeast quarter
of section 23. township 30, range 13 is description of farm.
These two farms adjoin each other and can be operated as
one large farm if desired.
R. H. Parker, administrator, will show anyone over these
farms.
If terms are desired, please talk to Administrator before
the sale date.
Also one quarter section of hay meadow land, all hay mead
ow, contains 160 acres. South east quarter section 13, town
ship 32, range 12 is description.
For further particulars, see
R. H. PARKER,
Administrator Zebb M. Warner Estate
. r O’Neill, Nebraska
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