AC* * A^ The Frontier VOL. LXI O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY. JANUARY 9, 1941 NUMBER 35 SOUTHWESTERN I BREEZES Ry Romame Saunders “Arsenal of Democracy.” What’s that ? A New York congressman asks $25,000.00 damages of a railroad for being pouted out of his berth on the train at 6 in the morning. Is another hour’s sleep AT the break of day worth that much to a congressman ? Conceived by statesmen, patri ots, pioneers, the Declaration of Independence sets forth “that all men are created equal.” In the sense in which the minds that ex pressed it meant the statement forever true. An A. M. jointly with our L. H. D., L. L. D. in a text book for colleges gives their in spired comment on the statement to the effect that “all men are not created equal.” Rather too bad that the authors of the blue print for the U. S. A. did not have these college highbrows to guide them. It was January before ranchers of the neighborhood had caught their breath and began to be organ ized for winter. Snow blockades began early in November with none prepared and some tall hust ling has since been going on. Thursday saw the first supplies replenished when Ted and Bob Frederick blew the last of a numb er of logs for the compiler of the Breezes and that afternoon Elmer Frix sawed them into fuel size; also a quantity each for Mr. Fred ericks and Bernard Kennedy. Over at Raymond Bly’s a like work was done the same day with Henry Greenslits outfit. The boom of ^ exploding logs the past few weeks * indicates a belated gathering of the winter’s wood has been more or less general. I have searched the night sky in vain for a glimpse of the comet -astronomers told us would appear within range of our vision early in January. We do not infer that Governor