The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, January 30, 1941, Image 1
i __ ____ VOL. LXI O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY. JANUARY SO, 1941 NUMBER 38 SOUTHWESTERN BREEZES By Romaine Saunders Along with the inability to keep, track of the growing billions of, •federal debt, the public has also| forgotten that starting in ’33 we were to be led “out of the red with Roosevelt,” Raymond and Ford Garwood moved a large herd of cattle from the ranch down at Swan Lake to feeding grounds up in the Inez neighborhood a day last week. With the slaughter of four hogs and a beef the Fredericks family are wintering with an ample meat supply. Elmer Fix pulled his saw and grinding outfit to the James ranch Thursday for a job of fuel sawing and feed grinding. A young baseball performer has been signed up to put his fast balls over the home plate next sea son for $30,000. Just about take oare of the payroll of the entire high school teaching staff of Holt county. The top administrative head of WPA in Nebraska receives $5,500 annually; on down through 113 others the annual pay ranges from $4,400 to $2,160 at the bot tom. No—the bottom is around $600 which goes to the man with the pick and shovel who does the real work. We will have to admit the “weak ness of democracies” as exemplified by our big town gunmen is petty larceny in comparison to the jobs | of the lords of totalitarianism— not merely a lone payroll messen ger their victim, but whole nations —bodies, souls, money and prop erty. Sun and stars have been obscur ed during much of January. Pink tints of early dawn, the yellow and gold of sunset, the gleam of dis tant stars, has for days been shrouded with mists and fog. But these emblems of gloomy desola tion have touched the southwest with artist finger and decorated tree and bush and grass blade with cold but delicate beauty. Snow, in “silence deep and white” lies across valley and hill. Hoarfrost makes ropes of wire fences and hangs in heavy cluster everywhere, fsnow, mist, fog have settled over the prairie like a moist blanket from which is wrung a goodly quantity of water as warm days follow winter frosts. On my last business visit to ■O'Neill, early in January, 1 had thought to get around to see J. C. Harnish, having for twenty years been a near neighbor of the family. ' Weather conditions became threat ening, so it seemed best to hasten homeward while traffic was open. And so that opportunity to rem inisce with an old neighbor is gone forever. Selkirk, Harnish, Cor bett. Evered, Smoot, Meredith, Baldwin—that was the neighbor h*>od of whom only Mrs. Harnish and her daughter Ruth remain. We were just across the street and though but a youth on whom life’s darker shadows had not yet fallen, an admiratoin for Mr. Harnish de- j veloped from observing the in-1 dustry, the thoroughness, the! methodical, and moreover artistic management of the simple affairs of the home premises. He gave encouragement by precept and ex ample to we obstreperous youth in the ways of industry, sobriety, learning and spiritual aspirations. John O’Malley would discover a •gold mine of interest in a letter 1 lately reeived from John Brennan out at Salt Lake City. Mr. Bren nan, happily unincumbered by j great learning, has what is more important, a heart; and this with a peculiarly distinctive analytic strain combined with a droll humor, a shocking disregard of all rules <of orthography, punctuation, syn tax cm’ rhetoric, make his letters of J A O'NEILL GIRL SINGS WITH URGE CHOIR Miss Ruth Harris, daughter of Mrs. Esther Oole Harris, of O’Neill,! will be a member of the Morning- j side A capella choir which will leave on its annual trip Thursday, January 30. The group, directed by Paul MacCollin, head of the Morningside Conservatory of Mu sic, will make the two-weeks’ trip in two busses, singing high school and miscellaneous concerts during the day as well as presenting even ing concerts under the auspices of Methodist churches. The high spots of the tour are Northwestern Missouri State Teachers College, Maryville, Mo., on Friday, January 31; University of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla., on Wednesday, February 5; North Texas State Teachers College lo cated at Denton, Texas, on Thurs day, February 6; Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas on ! Friday, February 7; Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Tex., on the same day; Southwestern Missouri State Teachers College, Springfield, Mo., on Tuesday, Feb ruary 11; University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo., on Wednesday, February 21; Wyandotte High School, Kansas City, Kansas, on Thursday, February 13. Other con certs will be given in churches and schools in various cities including Shreveport, Louisiana; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and Joplin, Mis souri. The choir personnel num bers sixty, including Mr. MacCol lin and choral sections. Seed Prospects Scarce For 1941 According To Holt County Agent Scattered returns on a question, wire to locate available seeds for 1041 planting which will be com piled in the office of the county agent, Lyndle R. Stout, indicates that seed for spring planting will be scarce this year. First reports show tiat nearly three farmers wish to purchase seed for each one that is planning to sell some. Due to the early freeze last fall much of the sorghum seed failed to mature and as a result is of poor germination. Spring small j grain is also in demand. Farmers j having a supply of any seed for | sale are being reminded to list it ! at the county agent’s office in or i der that it may be easily located. Seed testing for purity and germination is another free service carried on through this office which serves not only as a protection to the purchaser but enables the owner to comply with the state law which requires that all seed sold must nave been tested and labeled. vast interest. John speaks very highly of his Mormon neighbors and asks me to treat them as I friends of his should their mission aries call at our door. 1 try to j treat all fellow travelers on the highway of life with the courtesy due a lady or gentleman, whether they are propogatihg hairtwain ideas or just the common run of ev*ery day sensible people who stand for decent living and honest dealing; so send them along, John. Of their well-organized relief work John remarks: “They may have the wrong idea in saving souls but they have a good idea on saving bodies.” It would be a happier world if we would say nice things of our neighbors. He tells of Mrs. John Dugan (nee Lilly Brooks) and other relatives going to Montana to attend the burial of her half broth er, James McCarthy, who many at O’Neill will remember. He was jailer for a time when the late Chas. E. Hall was sheriff. “It looks like God lets some people live long enough to find out that their earlier ideas were all wrong.” This as introductory to a typewritten page dealing with the Barret Scott lynching in which he concludes, as many will concur, that Scott was' an innocent victim. John assigns me an impossible task for this column—that of warning young suckers to keep out of the clutches of loan and installment sharks. Suckers delight to get caught and warnings are useless. Keep Ua Out Of War j Urges County Pioneer War is terrible and listening to the people discussing the prospects of America entering into another terrible, destructive World War be fore we have fully recovered from the last one, twenty-one years ago,; doesn’t seem to meet with the ap proval of the multitude, who have tasted the bitter dregs of the last tragedy. The progressive em phasis on material until we have developed on one hand a race of sub-men, living below the level of the human, and on the other hand a set who without any conscious deceit, affirm as good everything they do, who refuse to accept di rections from any quarters who make their lives independent, and who have become deficient in giv ing attention to anything outside of themselves and their pleasures; in other words have become un teachable, more interested in seek ing truth than finding it . At the present time the young I men, the choice and the flower of America, are about to undergo a grinding process necessary in the ! transformation of a civilian into a man of arms. They are taking up a heavy load and are beginning to realize the mighty task that is be fore them. True they gladly welcome the present opportunity to build up our navy, air force and army, and believe it necessary in self defense when Hitler decides on making a successful invasion of either continent, North or South America. Before he is ready to | police and dominate the world we I will be equipped to entertain him ; and give him one of the biggest surprise packages he ever got in his life. In other words we can [ afford to keep out until war comes to us and it won’t be like crossing the English Channel from Calais to Dover. The chances in his favor i would be too big a risk. Last time ; when the war was done the boys | came home resolved that they were : done with any more European en tanglements and we all agreed with them. The way the peace confer I ence turned out, war did not settle anything but apparently seemed I to hatch out a bunch of dictators to | crush the rest of Europe. What happened in Europe may ! happen here and will happen here j if we lose sight of the underlying ! principles of that great document, the Constitution of the United j States, which is our proof to the world that it can’t happen here, j Perhaps it would be well for us to re-read that Constitution together with the Declaration of Independ ence and rekindle in our hearts an appreciation of the fundamental [ principle which is its core and sus ’ tabling power. I am afraid that some men in America are in dan ger of acting as if America’s sys tem came into being almost auto maticly and can be sustained with out constant rethinking of the rea. son for its existence. Many are under the illusion that America is I so great geographically, so vast in material resources, that these things would support us and insure our stability. We all have a right to an in dividual opinion, and our sympathy is with the Allies, and we realize Great Britain has taken up a heavy load and it is our duty to do every thing we possibly can to lighten that burden, to console and com fort the brave hearts that are putting up a terrible battle for an existence, but I do think it is a grave mistake for the United States to try and pacify Europe, Asia and Africa with American soldiers. Edw. S. Early. CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our sincere thanks bo the many kind friends and neighbors for their many acts of kindness and assistance given us following the death of our be loved mother and grandmotR«r. also for the many beautiful floral I offerings. The kindness shown us i will never be forgotten.—Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Keyes, Murl, Lorin and Cecil, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Clark and La Mars, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Clark and Zada, Mr. and Mrs. Ermond i Keyes, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Han sen. ERADICATE OBNOXIOUS WEEDS j ttNQWCCO . INFESTATION .IN i NEBRASKA. inn MTM«rtt «■ NMUM '*•» l*«m Nebraska is well under way on the fourth year of its state-wide noxious weed eradication program. Based on education, organization and prevention, the state campaign has been getting results. In gen eral, the Weed program is directed at Bindweed which is considered the most serious and destructive weed in the state. A recent survey shows that more than 415,000 acres of Nebraska land is infested with bindweed. Through regularly organized bindweed districts, farmers are trying to reduce this infested acre age and are making headway. There are sixteen district established in the state at the present time. They comprise a total of 1,511,080 acres. The districts range in size from 0600 acres to 566,000 acres and are distributed quite uniformly over the state. Landowners in Cuming and Per kins Counties established their or ganizations on a county-wide basis. Petitions to establish other similar districts are now being circulated in a number of other counties. The districts are administered by local supervisors ejected by land owners within the organization. The State Department of Agricul ture assists the organizations in making plans for their operations, in making surveys and in other ways. Although the weed law makes provisions for compulsory eradication measures, the work in all districts has been done on a voluntary basis and in a cooper ative manner. The state weed law is adminis tered by the State Department of Agriculture and acts upon sug gestions of the State Weed Advis ory Committee. The methods of eradicating bindweed and other noxious weeds recommended by the State Department of Agriculture are those outlined and developed by the Department of Agronomy of the Nebraska Experiment Sta tions. An intensive educational pro gram is being constantly carried on by the State Department in co operation with the Agricultural Ex tension Service of the College of Agriculture. County Agricultural Agents have assisted greatly in the local educational work. Many Holt County Auto Drivers Are Liable To Be Before The Court The office of the County Treas urer reports that as of January 30, 1941, they have issued 3,100 licenses plates for this year, which leaves approximately 2,700 plates yet to be sold. 1940 license plates are illegal after the first of Febru ary, and motorists driving with 1940 plates are subject to arrest and a fine. It appear® that a great many Holt county residents are going to have to hurry to get their new plates before February 1. The treasurer’s office reports that last year they had sold approxi mately 400 more plates at this time, but that weather conditions last year were much more favor able than this year. Mrs. Anna J. Clark Anna J. Dickinson, daughter of David and Catherine Dickinson, was born at Indian Springs, Martin county, Indiana, January 8, 1868, and passed away at Inman, Nebr., January 23, 1941, at the age of 73 years and 15 days. She came to Nebraska with her parents in 1884 to a homestead south of Ewing, Nebr. When her parents returned to Indiana, she remained in Holt. county, and has spent practically all her life in this vicinity. On May 5, 1887, at Inman, Nebr., she was united in marriage to Kalph J. Clark, who preceded her in death on September 28, 1911. To this union were born three children, one daughter, Mrs. Estella Keyes, of Inman, Nebr.; and two sons, Albert M. Clark, of Wait hill, Nebr., and Edgar C. Clark, of Harrison* Nebr. Besides these she leaves to mourn seven grandchild ren, one great grandchild, other relatives and a host of friends. In her childhood she became a member of the Presbyterian church and was still a member of this church at the time of her death. When we’ve ended our combat and struggles on earth, When the fire’s gone out and cold in the hearth, _ May we find at sunset in Heaven above, A spot so quiet and full of love. *** REI) CROSS NOTES The response to the call of the Red Cross for Volunteer workers for refugee sewing, knitting and crocheting has been most gratify ing. In Holt county units have re ported from Stuart, Emmet, Cham bers, Inman, Ewing, Paddock and six clubs in O’Neill have volunteer, ed for sewing and knitting. Atkin son and Page are still to be heard from although individual work has been done in each of these towns. In O’Neill the production will be carried on through the various clubs and by individual workers. Any club or individual wishing to volunteer please call your local chairman. The following is the organiza tion for Holt county: General Chairman, Mrs. Dave Stannard; with the chairman of their respective groups as follows: Mrs. Bessie Earner, Stuart; Mrs. Robert McGinnis, Emmet; Mrs. Al ma Ferrier, Chambers; Mrs. Wal ter Jacox, Inman; Mrs. Brion, Ew ing; Mrs. Axel Borg, Paddock; Mrs. Harold Lindberg, Secretary; F. N. Cronin, Treasurer. During the absence of Mrs. Stan nard, Mrs. F .J. Dishner will take her place as chairman. Saturday has been designated as general meeting day for issuing supplies and receiving finished garments to be packed for shipment before March first, meeting to be held at the Golden Hotel until further no tice. We hope to have one hun dred workers in this county to carry on the work. If the spirit moves you to help in this worthy cause, call the chairman of your nearest branch. Your help will be appreciated. Most of the overly vociferous persons favoring our immediate entry into the war are beyond the age of conscription or enlistment. Wendell Willkie hfcs gone to Great Britain. Wonder if he is going to check up on Harry Hop kins? If Mussolini doesn’t know how to get out of that hole in Albania why doesn’t he call on Dick Tracy j for advice? 9 --- Nebraska Advertising Commission After New Defense Industries Nebraska will continue its ef- \ forts to secure new defense indus tries through the pages of nation ally circulated business magazines, according to an announcement by the Nebraska Advertising Com mission. Full page advertise ments, headed “Safe for Defense Industries,’’ will appear in the Feb ruary issues of Nation’s Business and Business Week, magazines which are widely read by promin ent business men and national de fense officials throughout America, and which will be on the news stands about February 1. Featur ing Nebraska’s strategic location and natural protection against coastal bombing in time of war, these advertisements point out that Nebraska lies over a thousand air miles from either sea coast, hun dreds of air miles from the two in etrnational boundaries to the north and south. Business leaders who are assisting in the location of de fense industries are invited, thru these advertisements, to write for a copy of Nebraska’s new “De fense Brochure” which gives com plete information about Nebraska’s advantages for defense industries and military operations. On The Sidelines By Observer Well, well, so now we have to look at the city dailies to get the low-down on what's going on in our own town. It seems as though between now and the last time you read this column that the old rivalry between the two town schools was again pulled out of the moth-balls and that O’Neill defeat ed St. Mary’s by a score of 30-27 in an overtime game. From our viewpoint we would say that must have been quite a game, but when and where was it played, and why didn’t anybody in this vicinity know anything about it until they read it in the dailies. We can imagine that Yehudi was high scorer for O’Neill while Nobody’s Baby play ed a bang-up game f r St. Mary’s. All week we’ve heard, “Well, 1 knew that Observer didn’t know anything about picking games.” Well, I must say it sure doesn't look as though I have luck on my side, in reference to the Butte-St. Mary’s game which incidentally came out 55-34 with Butte taking the honors. But from our viewpoint Butte was hot. Every time they took a step over the half way line they were a scoring threat and when a team does that then they really have what it takes. But from this point in the season we’d say they have nothing to worry about when the “B’ ’Tournament comes along in March or April. Last week at Atkinson once again a St. Mary’s team lived up to its reputation and became runners up in the Atkinson Grade Tournament. It was the St. Mary’s Grades who came ofr the floor defeated 34-7 by a strong Valentine team. Sidelines Once again both O’Neill Grade teams will go into Tournament competition when they go to low ing on February 5-0, for their an nual tourney. Orville Lewis, who has starred on the Alliance High team for the past few years has enrolled in the O’Neill High School. The O’Neill Grades turned back the Ewing Grades Tuesday after noon to the tune of 21-0. Sports-Comings Jan. 31—St. Mary’s over Elgin. Febr. 1—Ainsworth over O’Neill. Feb. 3—Atkinson over St. Mary’s (I hope we’re wrong). Feb. 6—St. Mary’s over Sacred Heart (Norfolk). Unfortunate The British, a misanthropic local business man remarked this morn ing, haven’t yet been able to hit Hitler’s personal headquarters in Berlin, but whenever they draw a bead on the treasury in Washing ton they hit the jackpot every time. —Jack Harris in the Hutchinson, j Kan., News. BLUEJAYS WIN ONE AND LOSE ONE Last Friday, O’Neill defeated Creighton in basketball 23-16 at Creighton. Taking a lead in the first period the Blue and White squad was ahead 9-5 at the quar ter, 14-7 at the half and 21-13 starting the final period. Don Lowery made good on five free throws in six tries and carried two field goals to lead O’Neill’s scoring. After three games away frotn home, O’Neill plays Ainsworth at O’Neill this Friday, January 31. Ainsworth is one of the leaders in the North Central Nebraska con ference and features two sharp shooters in Richardson center and Gruhaugh forward. O’Neill’s Jun ior High team will play St. Mary’s in the preliminary game starting at 7:30. O’Neill (23) fg ft pf Lowery .3 5 0 French .... 0 12 Vincent ..3 1 2 Burgess ..0 0 1 Leach ...0 0 4 McKenna . „1 0 1 Cole .-.0 0 0 Calkins .10 2 8 7 12 Creighton (16) fg ft pf Higgins .2 3 0 Carder ..0 0 0 Hladik ...1 0 2 Hazphplug .. 0 0 2 L. Burt . 10 3 J. Burt..2 12 0 4 9 I A rousing last quarter gave At kinson a 20-24 win over O’Neill’s baskecball team last week. At kinson served first but after Mc Kenna's fielder tied the count, O’Neill went ahead and lead 7-3 at ; the quarter. A mental lapse by I O’Neill in the last minute of the half gave Atkinson two baskets to cut O’Neill’s advantage to 13-10. The third period ended 16-16 and until the middle of the final quar ter it was nip and tuck. Then At kinson connected for a couple of long goals and O’Neill dropped be hind. A big second quarter gave At kinson’s second team the prelimin ary game 28-18. Playing evenly for most of the first quarter O’N'eiH’s passing went bad and Atkinson built up a ten-point lead that O’Neill couldn't overcome. O’Neill (24) fg ft pf French .1 4 0 BurgesS .0 0 0 Lowery . 5 0 2 Vincent . 0 1 2 McKenna . -2 0 2 Leach .0 0 0 Mitchell .. 1 1 3 Calkins .0 0 1 Cole . 0 0 0 0 6 10 Atkinson (29) fg ft |»f McKee .3 1 4 Schultz . 0 0 0 H. West .4 0 4 Seibkin . 3 0 1 Babcock . 1 1 2 Pock .0 1 1 W. West .1 0 0 Millet .0 0 » I Smith .—...1 0 1 i 13 3 13 Marriage Licenses Marriage licenses issued recent ly by the County Judge include: Walter Fressler of Ogallala, and Genevieve Dierks, of Ewing, on j January 24 Earl Sybrant of Bassett, and Phyllis Brown, of Bassett, on Jan uary 29. Lester Fernam of Naper, and Fern Brauslaugh, of Butte, on Jan uary 24. Plhilip Bohnet of Burke, S. D., and Shirley E. Alexander of Naper, on January 18. Edwin Elmer Kahn, of Bone steel, S. D., and Alta M. Whealy of Herrick, S. D., on January 18.