FOREIGN INFORMATION
A lot of Foreign Service officers
have been called home. Those who
know' a lot about our Foreign Ser
vice, feel that there has been a
quiet shake-up in the Service and
that the presence of Sumner Welles
in Europe has more than political
significance. The President is en
titled to have first-hand informa
tion from his diplomatic corps. The
Foreign Service is our first line of
defense. Some experts know that
the service sometimes stops wars,
is as important as the army and
navy. There are United States
military and naval attaches in all
the foreign countries. Foreign
governments have their military
and naval attaches in this country.
Everybody knows that these at>
taches are glorified spies. They are
on the job to look, listen and re
port. In times like these, those
who are unbiased feel it a pretty
good idea for the President to send
out a trained diplomat to look and
listen and bring back some reliable
information.
Picket lines continue in Wash
ington. Believe it or not, two
groups of organized labor are
picketing each other. The business
places which hire union men and
pay union wages are complaining
because the pickets are keeping j
business out of their establish- j
ments. One union leader tell Con
gressmen that the unions are hurt-,
ing themselves and unless they get |
together pretty soon they may lose
the good public opinion that was
built up for them by Samuel Gom
pers.
The end of the Russo-Finnish war
seemed to shock some people here
and, also, pleased others. A lot of
pressure was being put on Uncle
Sam to do something about the war
and now a lot of people here who
didn’t want that kind of peace want
Uncle Sam to do something about
that. There are some people here
who think peace will hurt their
business and there are some Scan
dinavians here who feel Finland
saved her republic an3 no matter
what kind of peace it was, it stop
ped human slaughter, at least tern-1
porarily. There is a feeling among |
many people here that so far as
Uncle Sam is concerned, he ought
to keep out of the entire mess and
tend to his own troubled business.
The best job for male stenograph
ers here is that of the men who take
down the debates in the Hpuse and
Senate. They get $7,500 a year;
work in fifteen minute shifts; dic
tate their notes into a machine and
have an expert transcriber. They
don’t work when Congress is not in
session. The stenographers who
take the testimony in commit
tees get around $G,000 a year.
United States exports for the
first nine months of 1939, totaled
82.184,893,807, a loss of $110,553,
564, from the first nir\e months of
1938, and imports rose from SI,
434,000,000 in the first nine months
of 1938 to $1,620,000,000 in the first
nine months of 1939, or a gain of
over $187,795,000. This answers
the question as to the volumne of
our foreign trade. It means that
our gross foreign trade was $562,
948,000 for the nine month period.
* MUST EAT
A letter from Berlin indicates
that January brought ten and
twenty below zero weather there.
Butter, coffee, fruit and fresh
vegetables can’t be had. The letter
says the coal shortage is or was
serious, which indicates the effect
of coal blockades. The people, the
letter says, are looking for spring
to bring relief from the cold and
perhaps some fresh garden pro
ducts. The letter says: “Don’t
let them kid you—you can’t do
without food.”
PARITY PAYMENTS
The week has been a hectic one
for the farm bloc, which succeeded
in putting the parity payment
money back in the agricultural
appropriation bill. Just how much
that bill will carry in parity pay
ment and farm surplus commodity
money, depends upon what the
'conference committee will do with
the bill when it gets it from the
senate. It is now admitted that
the present method of securing
parity payment money from the
treasury is temporary and must be
changed. That is why the chiefs
of the Department of Agriculture
have been appearing before the
various committees and before the
public urging the certificate plan.
On the other hand, farm leaders,
of whom Ed O’Neill, National Pres
ident of the American Farm
Bureau Federation is one, opposed
to that plan. Some of them feel
there ought to be a sales tax.
Others feel there ought to be some
kind of a processing tax. There are
a number of gigantic farm organ
izations. all of which have national
representatives here in Washing
ton. None of them seem to be
agreed on any particular plan and
a definite, permanent farm pro
gram is far from being complete at
this time. In the meantime, the
farm bloc is planning to get parity
payments so that the benefits prom
ised to the farmer shall be avail
able.
FARM CHEMURGY
Tho Agricultural Study Com
mittee of the house met the other
day and was told of many inter
esting things about farm chemurgy
in operation.
One of the illustrations was
farm products in a Ford V-8. Into
the construction of every million
Ford V-8’s today, go 89,000,000
pounds of cotton, the crop from
558.000 acres, for making upholstry
brake linings, timing gears, and
safety glass;500,000 bushels of
corn, tho harvest of 11,280 acres,
for rubber substitutes, buty’l al
cohol and solvents, 2,400,000 lbs.
of linseed oil, the yield of 17,500
acres of flax for making paints,
core oil, soft soap and glycerine;
2.500.000 gallons of mollasses,
from 12,500 acres of sugar cane,
for making anti-freeze shock ab
sorber units and solvents; 3,200
pounds of wool, from 800,000 sheep,
which go to make upholstry, gas
kets, anti-rust, floor coverings and
lubricants; 1,500,000 square feet of
leather, from 30,000 head of cattle,
for making upholstry and hide
glues; 20,000 hogs to supply 1,
000,000 pounds of lard for lubri
cants, oleic acid, and bristles for
brushes; 350,000 pounds of mohair,
from 87,500 goats, for making pile
fabrics for upholstry; 2,000,000
pounds of soybean oil, from the
crop of 10,000 acres for making
the lustrous and long wearing
enamel.
THE DAYS OF
LONG AGO
Fifty-Five Years Ago
The Frontier, March 19, 1885
A special election was held last
Friday to vote bonds in the sum of
$30,000 to pay off the indebtedness
of the county. They carried with
a vote of 936 to 313.
M. F. Harrington will locate
somewhere on the line of the rail
road west of Valentine. Harrington
is a promising young man, and
will no doubt be soon admitted to
the bar, and will make his mark as
an attorney.
The breaking up of the ice in
the Niobrara last week and this
took out every bridge between
Niobrara City and Fort Niobrara,
five in all.
The store of C. J. Schram & Co.
was closed by the sheriff last Mon
day. Liabilities about $10,000.00.
The Frontier, March 26, 1885
Died, on Monday evening of con
sumption, Mrs. Bridget Collins,
Mrs. Collins had been ailing for
some time and for the past two
months had been conofined to the
bed. She was a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Patrick Mullen and a
sister of Arthur and Barney.
Fred J. Herre opened the Bon
Ton barber shop just west of the
O’Neill State Bank building.
The school meeting held at the
school house last Friday was largely
attended. The question of bond
ing the district for the sum of
$4,200 was submitted to the vot
ers and carried almost unani
mously. The money realized from
the sale of the bonds would be used
to purchase a site and build a new
school house.
Fifty Years Ago
The Frontier, March 20, 1890
A contract was let last Saturday
by a special bridge committee of
the County board to W. C. Town
send of Ewing to build a bridge
across the Niobrara river at Whit
ing's Crossing. The bridge will
be a single span combination 192
feet long and will cost $2,280.00.
“Paddy” McManus returned from
his visit to Wisconsin last Friday
evening bringing with him his
father, Patrick McManus and other
members of his family, his wife,
two daughters and a son. They
will make their home in O'Neill.
The Frontier, March 27, 1890
George Ridgeway, one of the
lepresentative farmers of Agee,
was in town Wednesday and a
caller at this office.
The largest blacksmith and
wagon shop in Holt- county is that
of Emil Sniggs of this place and
he is now employing three men
regularly and sometimes four.
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Forty Years Ago
The Frontier, March 22, 1900
Charles A. Meals received a let
ter the first of the week from the
War Department at Washington
D. C., informing him he had passed
the required examinations for ad
mission to the United States Mili
tary Academy and that he report
on June 1, 1900, between the hours
of 8 A. M. and 12 M.
The Frontier, March 29, 1900
Mrs. James O’Neill died at the
home of her daughter at Columbus
last Tuesday evening. Mrs. O’Neill
was a resident of this city for
many years.
D. Delaney, of the firm of D.
Delaney & Co., general contractors
of Omaha, arrived in the city Tues
day evening, the object of his vis
it being in connection with the con
tract for the aademy which is soon
to be erecteed on the site of the
one destroyed by fire a few years
ago. The contract for the build
ing is to be let in Omaha Saturday.
Thirty Years Ago
The Frontier. March 24, 1910
Last week Henry Lorge of Ran
dolph purchased the old T. N. J.
Hynes farm adjoining town on the
north, paying $7,500 therefor. H"
will build this fall and move here
next spring.
Romaine Saunders, who had
been an employee of this office for
about 20 years, laid aside the stick
and rule last week and left for
his Wheeler County farm.
The Frontier, March 31, 1910
The bricklayers completed their
work upon the Catholic Church
last Friday and now slaters are
busy putting on the roof.
The first of the week D. D. Har
rington purchased the Horiskey
grocery stock and will take pos
session next Monday.
Twenty Years Ago
The Frontier, March 18. 1920
Mrs. Will Biglin went to Jack
son Friday morning for a short
visit with relatives.
Senator James A Donohoe re
turned to Lincoln Monday morning
after several days at home. He
expects the constitutional conven
tion to complete its labors this
week.
L. E. Skidmore of Ewing, filed
Monday as a candidate for the re
publican nomination for super
visor from the Fourth District.
Last Monday P. J. McManus sold
his grocery store to J. A. V’itt, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Vitt, living
south of town.
Ten Years Ago
The Frontier, March 20, 1930
The O’Neill Telephone exchange
was cut over to the new battery
system March 15, when the com
pany opened up for business in
their new building on the corner of
Fourth and Clay streets. Several
officials of the company were here
for the opening.
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. McKenna
have purchased the Scott Hough
residence on east Fremont street.
The farmers have begun to farm
in various parts of the county;
some are sowing spring wheat and
barley. Crop conditions are extra
good this year and point to a
bumper yield.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Cowperth
waite and the latter’s mother, Mrs.
Ida Peterson, arrived home this
morning from Tampa, Florida,
where they had been spending the
winter.
The Frontier, March27, 1930
Joe Jurgensmeier, of Emmet was
called to Lawrence, Nebr., last
week by the death of a brother,
who passed away Tuesday of las*
week in a hospital at Hastings
from injuries received in a head-on
collision of the car he was driving
and a truck.
John Abbott was the successful
bidder for the Chambers star mail
route; Otto Clausson was the suc
cessful bidder on the Joy-Meek
I route.
Alpha Club
Mrs. Esther Robertson was host
ess to the Club at her home in
O’Neill on Thursday, March 21.
Twelve members answered to roll
call: “An Old Superstition.” Three
guests were present. After a brief
business meeting the program com
mittee took charge of the meet
ing and the following program was
given:
Discussions Legal Matters a
Woman Should Know, led by Lil
lian Drayton.
Reading: "The Ship That Never
Came In” by Marian Pfeil.
A social hour followed the pro
gram. Easter decorations were
featured at the refreshment table
Next meeting will be held at
the home of Lillian Drayton on
April 10, 1940.
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“Tony” Asiraus
Candidate tor Legislature
28th DISTRICT
Non-Political
I am appealing to the voters of Keya Paha, Kook, Boyd
and Holt Counties. I would like to he your Public Servant to
represent your interests in this district.
I was born and raised in this section of the country, living
on the same sandihli ranch, east of Burwell, until coming to
O’Neill in 1934: opening the New Deal Oil Company, later the
New Deal Oil Company in Butte and the Outlaw Grocery in
O’Neill.
I know the problems and wants of the Farmers, Ranchers,
and Working People as we have fought side by side for each
other.
MY PLEDGE:—To work for the interests of the people of
this community, help make laws that will benefit you, try and
“kick out” those that hurt you.
Corporations, railroads and big cities are not interested in
the welfare of the people of this part of the state.
I’ll work to give you a clean, economical and efficient admin,
istration without graft.
Would like to call and meet you personally but time does
not permit. Visit me when you are in O’Neill—just call for
“Tony” at the "New Deal” or "Outlaw.”
Your vote greatly appreciated and many thanks for any
help you may give me.
TONY ASIMUS, O’Neill, Nebr.
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