f 1 The Frontier P. H. Cronin, Editor and Proprietor | Entered at the postoffice at O’Neill. Nebraska, as Second Class Mattel. SUBSCRIPTION One Year, in Nebraska.-.- $2.00 One Year, outside Nebraska. .. 22b £>ery subscription is regarded aa an open account. The names of subscribers will be instantly re stored from our mailing list at ex piration of time paid for, if pub lisher shall be notified; otherwise the subscription remains in force at the designated subscription price Every subscriber must understand that these conditions are made a part of tha contract between pub lisher and subscriber. Display advertising is charged for on a basis of 26c an inch (one; column wide) per week. Want ads 10c per line, first insertion, subse quent insertions, 6c per line. BRIEFLY STATED Germans ini Russia are said to have used arificial fog to advance. The idea has frequently been uti lixed by campaign orators and practical politicians in the United States. Will Johnson of Plain view enter tained at a dinner party Tuesday night at the hotel for Mr. and Mr*. R. E. Lucas, Mr. and Mrs. Ross Rice of Creighton, and Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Mason of Plainview. According to State Terasurer Johnson the gas tax for the month of June amounted to $1,139,823. Of this amount Holt county will re ceived as its share of the tax the sum of $3,868.29. Mr, and Mrs. Albert Rathchotic, of San Franisco, Cal., arrived in the city Monday afternoon for a few days visit at the home of Mr. and M rs. Lod Janousek, Rathehoic being a brother of Mrs. Janousek. Ed O'Donnell returned on Friday from Cheyanne, Wyo., where he spent a few days visiting his sister, M rs. William Mclnherney and her husband. Mrs. Mclnherney re turned with him and will visit rela tives and friends here. ,1 .1 i Mr. and Mrs. Emmet Moore and daughter, Marilyn, and Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Harty and daughter, Ann, drove to Milford, Nebraska, on Sunday, where Marilyn and Ann will spend this week at- Camp Kiwanis. « *t<\ 7 i'1** Miss Vi Eidenmiller left on day morning for Denver, Colo, where she will join Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Dimmitt and Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Stoner and will go on to California with them to spend her vacation. Miss Catherine Finley, who has been attending school in , Paul. Minn., and then visiting heV sister. Mrs. W. Carrol] Stephenson in, Evanston, Illinois, is expecikUltT > arrive home this week end tt> visit her father, Dr. W. F. Fjoky—.*,... Mr. and Mr*. Ray Verzel and son, Jerry, of Wayne, spent the Fourth here with Mrs, Verzel’s par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Qiwjnu.'Thev ,1 eturned home on SundaJ^but Jerry remained for,a longer visit with his grandparent*,' 'i|i ~ k For months Joe Stalin has been encouraging the democracies and the totalitarian governments to fight tothe point of exhaustion so' that he could pick up the pieces. It was a good idea if it works, but there ha# bean soma slight vari ation to tha plan. , , fr" - - - Mr. and Mrs. Gene Kilpatrick of Norfolk, spent Sunday here vis iting at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Kilpatrick. Gene left Norfolk on Wednesday for Omaha, having been one of the Madison county draftees for the July quota. The employees of the North western Bell Telephone Company had a dinner at the M & M Cafe, followed by a shower at the home of Mrs. Bernard Madison on Wed nesday, honoring Mrs. Carl Miller, who before her recent marriage was Miss Stella Van Avery. Mrs. E. L. Gabrielsen and Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Spies of Gilmore City, Iowa, and E. H. Gabrielsen »f San Francisco, California, spent ihe week end here visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hayes. They left on Monday for Omaha, where they will visit relatives. Dressmakers announce the in vention of a double dummy which will make the art of constructing dresses at homo much easier. We presume one section of the dummy is to represent the lady for whom the dress is being made and the other dummy will resemble what she wants to look like. William Martin, and his son Private Don Martin, and Joe Mar tin left Wednesday afternoon for Omaha, from which point, Don will take the train to Fort Knox, Ky.. j where he will rejoin his regiment, after .spending the* past week here visiting. Bill and Joe keturned Thrusday morning. ■ - ■■ — Mrs. F. J. Kubitschek and her sister, Miss Helen Van Sant, of Omaha, arrived here on Thiusday. Mrs. Kubitschek has been in Omaha for the past two weeks, being called there by tfn- serious illness of her mother, whose funeral was held last Wednesday, and her sister will make an extended visit here. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hancock and children and Mr. and Mrs. Gene WTard returned on Monday after noon from a visit with friends and relatives at Casper, Wyoming.They also made a short trip through Yellowstone Park, Mgs. Frank Kubitchek who left with them, re mained in Casper, for a extended visit at the home of her daughters Mrs. Timlin and Mrs. Haggerty. Dr. and Mr*. L. A. Carter re turned last Thrusday from Chicago Illinois, where they visited their daughter and other relatives and friends. Bob and Deloris Smith their grandchildren, returned with them for a visit. Mrs. Vance Begh tol of Kearney, drove up on Friday and spent the week-end, with her parents, and returned on Sunday taking Bob and Deloris back with her for a short visit in Kearney after which they will again return to O’Neill. This office is in receipt of a letter from Robert Vierfc *>m, of Highland Falls, N. Y., enclosing a renewal of his subscription to this household necessity, which pays his dues up to January 1, 1943. Thanks. Robert. Mr. Vierbeom was a resi dent of this county in the days that are gone, in other words in the horse and buggy days, even before the buggies, when it was mostly oxen and he has visited this section about every year for several years to re new cquaintenance with boys of long ago. Bob says that he con templates coming out again this fall anu take in the Old Settlers Picnic when he can meet many of the "boys” of the long ago. Come out Robert, we will all be glad to set you. _ EVerett L. Hoffman, son of John G. Hoffman, returned to O’Neill for a two weks visit with his folks and friends. Everett lives in Santa Monica, Cal., where he is employed by the Dttujflas Aircraft company. He is thb' first O’Neil) boy to be employed by an aircraft industry for the National defense of the U. S. A. Mies Loretta Enright left Tues day for Winner, S. D., where she her uncle, Loui Storm of Rapid City, S. D.. and they then left foi St. Faul, Minn., where they attend ed the Eucharist Congress. They returned to O’Neill on Sunday, and Jtlr. Storm visited here during the day( before leaving for his home at Rapid City, S. D. \, . National Affairs , By Frank P. Litschert Beyond question ninety-eight per cent of the people of the United States favor for our government, the republican farm, or the repre sentative democracy under which we have lived and progressed for a century and a half. Ours is not. of course a true democracy in the classical sense of the word. Unfor-j tunately, however, since the days of the World War the term “demo cracy” has been used so frequently in many quarters, as a symbol for our government, that most people now use the terms republican and democratic, as synonomous. We favor the American form because it has worked in our country because it has given the largest measure of liberty, consistent with MICK1E SAYS— ( ---N NES.SlR, \ KNOW WE’RE IN TVV DOGHOUSE NOW BECUTVERAD REAR * STRAW BERRIES, PER BOX"—JUST A UTTLE i MISTAKE-BUT NONVV’ ) KNOW "FOLKS READ \ VOUR AD! I I individual security. It has fitted ; admirably well in this country be | cause we have been and are pos sessed of boundless resources which have built up the greatest market in the world, and a nation, the fu ture prospects of which dazzle the eye of the thinking man Fortunate ly we have been protected on the east and the west by thousands of miles of water which have permitt ed our people to work out their ex periment to a successful conclusion in safety. To the north have been a friendly people, and to the south a people who, while not always friend ly, have been so weak military that they have never dared interfere with our destiny. 1 In this time of ideologies, when democracy and totalitarianism > seem to be clashing in Europe, al though the lines are not clearly de fined, there is great disposition on the part of many Americans to say that democracy, as we conceive it, works because it is right. This is a dangerous conclusion. We all agree that our form of government is best, but to say that it works merely because it is right, is to get into a dangerous state of mind. No sy stem of government, any more than j any fine mechanical device, will work because it is right. In the case of the mechanism a skilled driver or operator is required. In the case of a free government, an alert, patriotic, self - sacrificing people are necesary to make govern ment “work.” This is true of a democracy more than of any other system because in our instance the people are, or should be, the govern ment, and cannot long depend on any leader or set of leaders to do their thinking for them. If they once relax into this practice then they no longer have a free repre sentative government as we under stand it. Here then is the danger of sit ting back complacently in the be lief that democracy works because it is right. There is only a half truth in this statement. If and when democracy works, as it has had an ambitious, alert, liberty-loving individualistic people, each seek ing to work out his own destiny in the light of his efforts and ability. Here is the real reason for our success. We got the best found ation possible when the founding fathers created for us the best Con stitution ever to come from the brain and hand of man. But if those who followed had been a lary, profligate, self-satisfied people willing to “let George do it.” we would not have succeeded even with a porfeotjy balanced constitu tional government. What made us the greatest nation in the world was a sound Constitution and a great people, willing,. and courageous enough to cherish it and follow it for a century and a half of the greatest progress* any people have ever made. 1 There is a disposition now to follow off after strange gods, to adopt new theories, contradictory to the ones our fathers lived by Once we follow this road we will find that democracy doesn’t succeed because it is right. We will find that our democracy is no longer succeeding—perhaps that it is no longer a democracy. According To , The Constitution Secretary of the Navy Knox is reported to have told the conference of governors in a recent meeting in Boston that now is the time to strike the Nazis while they are engaged in Russia and he is quoted as having suggested that now we should sweep the Nazis from the Atlantic by the use of the United 1 States Navy. It is difficult to see the connection between the Atlantic and Russia as Germany is using little of her depleted naval strength there, although there is some evid ence Japan might get busy with her navy in the Pacific were we to engage in the war in the Atlantic. Aside from questions of strategy, however, it must be admitted that the attack Secretary Knox suggests would take a lot of shooting and shooting means war. Under the Constitution of the United States the right of declaring war is left to the people’s representatives, the Congress of the United States. One is inclined to wonder whether the Secretary means that we get such a declaration from Congress or whether he is in favor of violat ing the Constitution this one time. The waging of an undeclared war in the Atlantic without authoriza tion of Congress, especially now that Joe Stalin is in the middle of the scrap, would certainly not tend to give the American people the kind of unity they ought to have for such a task. The people are 100 per cent for national de fense and protecting our shores. But they are, in the majority, ac cording to all polls, against our entering this war. In view of all this it is interesting to note what Senator George of Georgia said the other day: “The way to national unity is to give our peopl.* the assurance that when we are called upon to move into the actual range of fire and send our men * there, whether on board naval vessels or in aircraft, the American people themselves will have some opportunity to pass upon that question; in other words, that they will have the ultimate decision, through the machinery to which they have become accus tomed, and the only machinery which they have at hand; will be able to pass upon the question of whether an actual state of wai shall be brought Into being or a formal declaration of hostilities shall be made by the people of the United States." In view of the recent things which have been said about the status of our present prepartian for defense, especially by the House Military Affaifs Committee, it would seem that, 'waiving the ques tion of unity and constitutionality, for the moment, the United States is not exactly prepared for war If the administration at Wash ington will go about building ourj defense in an efficient manner the) time will come when we will be ready for all comers. But certainly that day is not here now and we do not want war at this moment, especially an unconstitutional one. BRIEFLY STATED Mrs. Margaret Claitssen, who fell and broke her arm about ten days ago, has her arm now out of the sling ami is back at work. BUI Ryan and Ted Sirek, who are attending an airplane mechanic school at Norfolk, spent the Fourth with the home folks. Elaine and Gene Streeter re fumed Sunday from Lincoln, where they had spent the Fourth with relatives and friends. Miss Mary Ellen Jensen, of Spen ser, is in the city visiting rellatives and friends. The Catholic Daughters enter tained at a picnic dinner at the City Park on Wednesday evening,' honoring Mrs. Walter Stein, who! will leave on Monday for California, with her family, where they will join Mr. Stein who has been on the coast since early this spring. They plan on making their home on the west coast. O’Neill was*very quiet last Fri day as most of the inhabitants of the city had gone to Other towns to help them celebrate the Glorious 4th Many Q’Neillites journed to Neligh, while others pot in t|*e day helping the residents yf Stuart properly celebrate. Practically all the busi ness places of the qity closed at noon and it was nice and quiet all over town.., * , Petition Being Circulated For Swiming Pool Past Week Three of O’Neill's younger folks were circulating a petition, today for the installation of a swimming pool in this city. If is something that is badly needed in O’Neill. We have a splendid place for one, the southside of the City Park and it would not take a great deal of money to install one that would be a credit to the city and the people thereof. Even if some of us are too old to swim many of the young-1 sters are not and we should make it possible for them to enjoy one of the greatest of eiercises, that will build health, bone and muscle. Fire Department Busy This Past Week The fire department has been busy the past week. Last week they responded to four alarms, all grass fires, caused perhaps by too many firecrackers. This afternoon there was another alarm and it was discovered that a truck, parked in the rear of the Gamble store was on fire, but the alert department soon subdued the flames. If the suc ceeding months bring as many fires as the past two, it might be neces sary to put on an all time paid department. O’Neill Should Have An Airport In ten years from now airplanes will be as popular and as'common as automobiles were ten years ago. The city or cities that have good air ports are the ones that will be on the direct lines of travel across country. O’Neilll, being one of the greatest centers of Federal High ways in the state, would be a likely place for a good airport and our citizens will be derelict in their duty to the rising generation unless they get together and try and pro mote a good landing field for this city. Now is the time to get ready for a field as the Federal govern ment is going to spend a lot of money within the next year in biulding airports in cities along Fed eral Highway® and we should get into the rank of the applicants. Bernard Madison Buys Store Bernard Madison, who has been employed by the Gamble Store in this city for several years past, has purchased the Farmers Union Store from the stockholders of the Farm ers Union, and took possession this morning. Bernard says that he will operate a clean and up to date grocery and meat masket, with a competent meat cutter, and carry a full and complete line of grocer ies. He will continue to buy and sell cream, poultry and eggs. The Frontier joins the othevr business men of O’Neill in wishing him suc cess in his new venture. The Old Swiming Hole Thanks kind friends for signing our petition. No harm in our hoping and your well-wishin. i With smiles we will drop the whole i 11 ♦ , i > .' » • .. , matter, . , ; And go back where the river mos quitoes grow fatter. Everything modern in our beauti ful city; , We boast of its lawns, be t-xUrkl Dcpoail Inaurutca Corpontxxi Come join us and swim in the oW swimmin’ pool. When you’re tired of that lets go to Tilden Maybe Pearce or some up-to-date town that’s building A pool by the boys who have’nt forgot The old swimmin’ hole when the days grow hot. Three Muskiteers. This Week In Defense President Roosevelt told his press conference he still hopes the U. S. can stay out of world conflict. His statement was made in answer to a reporter’s question if changing interrnational situations had caused the resident to aller his belief, stated in 1939, that the U. S. could and would say out of the war. Navy Secretary Knox told his press conference reports that Navy vessels were engaged in convoy duty were “absolutely untrue,” and said reports that the Navy had lost lives, material and equipment or had been involved in any encounter with belligerent craft, were “most decidedly” not true. OPM Director Knudsen issued a statement urging greater defense efforts and said “nothing could be further from the truth’’ than that Russia’s entry into the war had averted danger to this country. Mr. Knudsen said “we are in somewhat better shape than we were last Summer but we need the spark of enthusiasm, yes, of patriotism—to carry the program forward faster.” Acting Secretary of State Welles announced Russian requests to buy strategic materials had been re ceived and brought to the attention of the proper Government officials. Mr. Welles also said the U. S. has under consideration a plan to relax export restrictions on Russian com merce to permit the flow of wai materials to that country. He also announced U. S. and North African French officials have ar ranged a plan calling for contiu I ous movement of two ships carry ing tea, sugar and other food to Africa, and two carrying strategic materials to the U. S. President Roosevelt suspends! duties on British Burma vessels reaching the U. S., to aid the flow of supplies to China over the Burma Road. Treasury Secretary Morgen Women's Society Of Christian Service Will serve Ice Cream — Cake Pie and Coffee. At tile Golden Hotel— July 12 — Afternoon And Evening thau extended China'? ,$50,000,000 credit here for another year. As sistant Commerce Secretary Hinck ley asked commercial airlines for lp transports planes to meet "emer gency defense requirments of tVie democracies.” In his bi-annual report to the Secretary of War. Army Chief of Staff Marchall urged that Congress pass legislation permitting use of armed forces outside the Western Hemisphere and permitting holding selectees, National Guardsmen ami i reserve Officers in the service for 1 more than one year. Gen. Marshall said that conditions have changed ! to such an extent that a “grave | national emergency” exists of a ' more severe chactor than the public | realize. The War Department announced it will promote its officers on the basis of merit instead of seniority and permit re-enlistment for regu lar Army men only if they are qual ified for promotion in order to weed out those not able to take advantage of further training. More than 750,000 men who reached 21 since Selective Service registration last October registered for service this week throughout the nation. President Roosevelt ordered 900,000 men inducted into the Army as selected now in service finish their year of training. Pending final action by Congress on legislation deferring men who were 28 on July 1 or before, Selec tive Service Director Hers bey or dered temporary deferment of this age group. He also advised local boards to defer registrant* with one or more dependants to whose support they make “any sustantial contribution." The only execept ior. to this, he said, would be men who married in the hope of evading service . Auto Loans Our auto loan service is fast and complete. Cash is avail able at once, with just your car as securitv. BUY WITH CASH Need auto rpairs, a better car, new home equipment or furniture. A loan from us will enable you to buy with cash. Repay on convenient I terms. 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