The Frontier
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THE DAYS OF
LONG AGO
Fifty-Five Years Ago
The Frontier, Nov. 25, 1886
Morris and Co., did not secure
the Hagerty building for their
holiday goods, but will open
them up at the old stand. Ells- j
worth Mack will have charge of
that counter.
The Commercial Hotel changed
hands Monday, Mr. O’Neill has
leased it to William Laviollette,
who is now in possession. Roscoe
Coughlin is in charge as man
ager.
The first number of the
Chambers Journal was printed
last Saturday morning on The
Frontier press.
Fifty Years Ago
The Frontier, Nov. 26,1891
Drilling on the artesian well
was resumed Monday and up to
Tuesday night all worked nicely,
but a tool got stuck and they are
working to get it out.
The Eagle club ball will he held
at the rink tonight
Foity Years Ago
The Frontier, Nqv. 28 1901
The present weather would
suit very well for the month of
September. A refreshing shower
fell Tuesday and the warm sun
shine Wednesday made one forget
R was time for winter.
Telephone connections have
been made and the first “hello"
was spoken over the wire to Om
aha by S. J. Weekes, secretary of
the local company.
Mrs. Catherine Murray died at
the home of her son, Lawrence,
ten miles northwest of O’Neill on
Wednesday, November 20, of
dropsy, at the age of 56 years.
County Judge Clarence Selah
died at his home in this city Tues
day morning at 2 a. m., November
26, He had been ill for five weeks
with typhoid fever and was
thought to be on the way to re
covery, when he suffered a re
lapse which ended in his death.
He was 44 years of age at the time
of his death and was serving his
second term as County Judge. In
1883 he established a newspaper
at Ewing called The Item, which
he moved to O’Neill several years
later.
Th;rty Years Ago
The Frontier, Nov. 23, 1911
The hay market took a jump
upward again last week. They
paid $11.00 a ton for choice No. 1
hay.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde King and
family arrived in O’Neill last
Thursday night from Moline, 111.,
and will make this city their fu
ture home. Mr. King has pur
chased the Galena Lumber yards
and will take possession as soon
as the invoice is completed.
The Frontier, Nov. 20, 1911
Col. Neil Brennan and son,
Francis left for Washington, D. C.,
last Monday morning where
Francis will enter school to pre
pare to take the examination for
admittance to the Military Acad
emy at West Point, N. Y., to be
held next spring.
A very pretty wedding was
solemnized at the Catholic church
this morning when Rev. M. F.
Cassidy performed the ceremony
that united Charles E. Burks of
Cordon, to Miss Laura Stannard
of this city.
Twenty Years
The Frontier, Nov. 24. 1921
Ne’igh was the victor over
the O’Neill High football team, at
Neligh for the annual Turkey
Day came, which marks the close
of the season, by a score of 33 to
0.
Nine blocks of water main for
the n„w water system at Page, al
rea'4’”' a”e laid and the base for
the - w waVr tower Is now be
ln -.mnteted.
Ten Years Ago
The slayers of F. J. Sexsmith
i were apprehended at Niobrara
Monday and the younger of the
' two. Lloyd Hammond, 23, is in
jail here, while his confederate,
Frank Mackey, 50, part Indian, is
in jail at Niobrara. The young
man made a full confession to the
authorities.
Now that the architectural con
tract for the bomb loading plant
in Saunders county has been
awarded, it is expected that the
first of the construction may be
let soon. Many letters regarding
employment are being receivd by
all members of the delegation. It
suggested that those interested at
tend to their immediate registra
tion in the nearest area office of
the State Employment Service
also, that they contact the em
ployment headquarters of con
tractors when such headquarters
have been established.
J. Russell Young has been a
newspaper man on the White
House beat for twenty years. He
was recently appointed Comm is
sioner of the District of Columbia
by President Roosevelt. During
his newspaper work at the White
House, Young was usually the
spokesman for the newspaper
men. The President dubbed him
the ‘‘Dean of the school of ex
pression.” Young then organized
a school naming it the “J. Russel.
School of Expression.” He holds
annual meetings during which
“examinations’’ are conducted.
The President is one of his gradu
ates. So are members of the Sup
reme Court, the Senate, House
and many others prominent in
public life. Mayor LaGuardia of
New York is one of Young’s pu
pils. He has failed in several
examinations and has not yet
earned his diploma.
Visitors to some of our Island
bases are wondering why two air
ports are constructed—one for the
army and one for the navy. Those
who are fighting for a separate
air force believe that competitive
aviation branches increase dup
lication and decrease efficiency.
Congress has passed and the
President has approved a repeal
er of three key sections of the
neutrality act— Sec. 2, banning
merchant ship entry into bel
ligerent ports; Section 3, barring
combat zone travel and Section 6,
prohibiting the arming of ships.
After eight hours of solemn de
bate and after direct appeals from
the White House and the State
Department, the House voted
concurrence in the Senate amend
ments to the joint resolution that
it had first passed on the 17th of
October, by a margin of but eigh
teen votes. Sixteen democratic
committee chairman including the
Chairman of the Committee on
World War Veterans Legislation
voted against the resolution.
Many who voted against it did so
believing that it was one of their
last opportunities to protest
against our possible active in
volvement in another foreign war.
The Administration promise to
stop strikes in national defense in
dustries and to help pass some la
bor legislation was the thing that
switched some votes in favor of
the repeal of some sections to the
j neutrality act. Bills are ready ih
! both houses and leaders tell mem
bers to expect labor legislation
soon. ,
Just what is left of our neutral
ity law. The scrapping of all ship
ping restriction left the following
provisions:
1. President power to issue a
proclamation naming belligerent
states when he finds that a state
of war exists among them; power
to rescind the proclamation when
hostilities cease.
2. Permission for American
Red Cross vessels to enter com
bat zones. •**
3. Prohibition Of travel by
Americans aboard b<Aligerent ves
sels. ’ *■
4 Prohibition of anyone within
the United States to purchase sell
or exchange bonds, securities or
other obligations of a belligerent
state or its political subdivision.
5. Prohibition of the solicit
ation or receipt of contributions
for belligerent or their nationals
execpt those authorized by the
Government.
6. Exemption from the act of
any American republic engaged
in war with a non-American state
provided it is not co-operating
with another non-American state.
7. Authorization for the Pre
sident to restrict the movement of
foreign vessels, including sub
marines, and armed merchan*
ships in American ports.
8. Establishment of a nationa’
munitions control board compos
ed of the secretaries of State
Treasury, War, Navy and Com
merce.
9 Prohibitions against th'
“unlawful” tt-'f* rf A Torino-! Par
bv vessels of fe~<->5"n t,*n*es.
10. A fine of $10,000, imprison
ment not more than two years, or
both for persons convicted of vio
lating any provisions of the act.
Are we in the second world
war? That question comes in many
letters. Technically, we are not.
Congress has removed legal lim
itations so that armed merchant
ships flying the flag of the United
States may travel through combat
zones to belligerent ports. But the
constitution reserves to Congress
alone the right to declare war. It
is generally felt here that we are
in a sort of undeclared naval war
with the Axis countries. As our
armed merchant ships get into
combat zones incidents are likely
to occur. That means shooting,
sinking and death. Some leaders
feel that is as far as Uncle Sam
needs to get into the war. There
is no sign of an AEF yet. Our
country and even Britain are not
ready for that now. So the pro
gram is to build up our program
rapidly and be ready for what
ever may come. Nobody in Wash
ington, today, knows what to
morrow will bring.
While we build our defense pro
gram, the clever diplomats ^re
busy The Foreign Service which
is sometimes called our first line
of defense is busy. That service is
given credit for keeping Russia
active against Germany. That
service, too, is given credit for
playing clever games with Japan
and Finland. What it is doing!
with Italy and other countries is
not 30 well known, but it is cer
tain while soldiers fight, clever
men sit around mahogany desks
in great buildings playing a game
of chess which has as its objective
the greatest trade in human lives
ever known to man. Sometimes
the victory around these tables
decides what soldiers on the bat
tlefield are going to do. In recent
days it is belived here the diplo
mats on the side of the Allies have
been winning.
The State Department contin
ues to be troubled by some South
American countries in which j
there is not whole hearted co-j
operation with its plans. Some
time ago, the President issued an
order stopping credit and ship
ments to 1,700 firms in those
countries which were charged
with transshipment of essential
war materials to Germany and
Italy, probably through Spain and
Portugal by the air-lines between
those countries and South Amer
ica. But the lure of credit extend
ed by the Export-Import Bank to
foster South American trade
seems to lead to more and newer
firms engaging in such interna
tional bootlegging of war sup
plies. So now comes still another
executive order, forbidding credit
and shipments to 623 more firms
along the east coast of our south
ern neighbor countries which have
been caught in this profitable
game of double crossing our |
government. There may be more
discovered.
Among recent visitors in the
Third District office were: Miss
Mary I. Anderson and Mrs. Ray
Muzzie, all of Fremont, and Mrs.
W. J. Kirtbridge of Lincoln.
New Books In IJbrary
MRS. ROSE HENIFIN
Two new books have recently
been placed in the local library
“The Story of the Church” and
“Joseph’s City Beautiful’’.
“The Story of the Church’’ is
an official history in brief of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Lattei
Day Saints, and of its successor,
The Reorganized Church of Jesur
Christ of the Latter Day Saints
The author is Inez Smith Davis,
a great grandaughter of Joseph
Smith, commonly known as The
Mormon Prophet. The central
theme revolves around the social
ideals and the plan for the so
lution of social inequality today
by the establishment of Zion, a
new social order where genuine
Christianity would prevail, and the
problem of poverty to be solved
by the development of the indivi
dual and the application of the
law of Christ to the distribution
of wealth.
‘‘Joseph’s City Beautiful” is a
historial novel dealing with the
building of the City of Nauvoo
which at the prophet’s death in
1844 was the largest city in the
state of Illinois. It is written by
Mabel A. Sanford, who has re
sided at Nauvoo, 111 , for more
than twenty years, and the social
ideals and philosophy of the
founders of the city are woven
in a most interesting story. This
was the prize book of the year
1939 for the church.
These books are of special in
trest at this time because of the
widespread ciculatlion and re
view of Vardis Fisher’s book, “The
Children of God”, which the Re
organized Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter Day Saints claim is a
bald misrepresentation of facts
and a libel on the founders of
their church; also, because of the
widespread showing of the recent
film “Brigham Young’’.
Members of the Reorganized
Church of Jesus Christ of Latte?
Day Saints were among the pi > j
neers in Antelope county. ThL I
! was Elder Thomas Dobson, who
1 preached in August, 1870, at
Blain township (see history ol
Antelope county, chapter 37, page
215). They have always been
strong advocates of monogamy.
The headquarters of the Re
j organized Church of Jesus Christ
I of Latter Day Samts is in In
dependence, Missouri. Dr. Fred
rick M. Smith, grandson of the
founder, is the present leader.
Members of the church reside in
many sections of Nebraska and
among them are found men who
are leaders in business and pro
fessional circles.
Inquiring students are kindly
invited to read these books as op
portunity affords. *•*
Higher And Higher
Statesmen who steered through
Congress the new tax bill which
will lake ten per cent of every
man and women’s income above
the legal exemptions next year
told us that “we haven’t seer
anything yet.’’ In order to prove
it they are already beginning to
talk about the next tax hike. The
other day Congress decided to stal
off serious discussion until the
first of the year, although it wa
admitted that the evil day could
not be postponed much further
than that.
Nevertheless enough has leaked
out unofficially to give one a de
finite idea of what is in mind.
There will be an increase in busi
ness taxes all along the line. But
the average man is principally
interested in the taxes on his sal
ary or wage.
Proposals which will be con
sidered include another increase
of fifteen per cent in the surtax
Another is a hike in social security
taxes from one to four per cent
There is talk also of having the
wage worker’s or salary earner’:
new taxes collected in advance s
that the process will involve a sor
of pay envelope tax.
It is said the rich cannot be tax
ed much further because they
have been soaked the limit, am
further increase would discourage
individual effort, dry up earning:
and bring in less revenue.
It is possible this may happe
in the lower brackets too when
the day arrives—and it seems no
far off—when a man will have to
pay a third of his net earning in
taxes.
Some men are already saying
that when income taxes get so
high they seem to be working
and worrying principally for the
income tax collector they propose
to “go back home and take a rest”
in a place where they and their
wives can get a litle “ground”
and live on $1,500 a year, or even
less, and thereby divest them
selves of a lot of worry. Such time
has not arived yet, but it may
come in the near future—a time
when a lot of folks now earning
sizeable salaries or wages will de
cide it is easier and cheaper to
get by with a more modest living.
Nothing more greatly discourages
the ambition to have a get along
in the world than over-burdening
taxation.
The Methodist Church
V. C. Wright. Minuter
Church school 10:00 a. m. H. C.
Burch, Superintendent.
Public Worship 11:00 a. m.
Music by the choir and sermon by
the pastor.
Youth Fellowship worship hour
7:00 p. m. This will be a mission
ary program.
Booth Festival at which the
northwest group of churches com
prising the young people from
Chambers, Ewing, Inman, Lynch,
Bristow, and O'Neill will contri
bute for the support of the Cro
well home for the aged at Blair,
There is not a guest in the home
under sixty-five years of age. Rev.
A. D. Burress, superintendent ox
the home will speak.
The Woman’s Society of Christ
ian Service will hold their annual
bazaar and serve a turkey dinner
in the evening Wednesday, Dec
ember 3. The WSCS will also give
! MICKIE SAYS—
IF YOU WERE HIRIN'
A SALESMAN, YOU'D
WANT SOmeBOPV 'AT
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PACKED SOME GOOD
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MAWSHIPj OR, ADS**
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a special program at the church
on Friday December 5. Special
talent will feature this meeting
For this tea meeting at 2.30.
Hiking “Social
Security” Taxes
For several years critics of the
administration of the Social Se
curity Law have objected to cer
tain provisions of the statute for
different reasons. One objection
has been that the amount asked
from workers and employes is
greater than is necessary for the
setting up of a fund necessary to
pay social security. It has been
declared that we could get along
on much smaller sums than are
being collected and that since the
money has gone into the general
fund it is “borrowed” by the
government for other uses.
That there is some weight to
the arguments presented is in
dicated by action now proposed
by the federal government. The
proposal is that the social security
system be utilized for the collect
ion of 5 or 6 billion dollars a
year, not because the money is
needed for the objectives of socia
security but to supplement the re
venue which is being collected
from general taxes. In fact, it it
admitted that no increased collect
ion is needed for social security
purposes.
On the other hand it is de
clared that the government un
der its present heavy expenditure?
needs all the money it can get to
meet the rapidly mounting ex
penses. Even with all the money
scraped together the national deb
will steadily go skyward.
Therefore it will no longei
seriously be maintained that the
collections from employers and
from the pay envelopes of the
workers is to meet social security
outlays. In addition to the excuse
that more money is needed tc
meet administration expenditure
it is declared advisable to “mop
up the extra money in the peo
ple’s pockets for which there are
no goods to buy.” This it is added
will help avoid inflation, because
if the wage earners have any mon
ey left over the bare cost of living
they will use it either to bid foi
floods which are scarce or put the
money in the bank and make pos
sible more credit extension. This,
it is said, will lead to inflation!
Without going into the soundness
of this argument for increasing
"social security” taxes it may be
said that a lot of things are now
being proposed to avoid inflation.
The proposal is to increase the
wage earner’s tax for social secur
ity from one to five per cent of
his wages. To the man earning$3,
000 a year this means an increase
of $80 in thiis farm of tax, in addi
I
tion to increases in all other forms
Will this add to his ‘‘social secur
ity”?
SSpeaking of priorities, the
government has had a priority in|
red ink since 1933.
Fay Allendorfer, Wililam and
Russell Weber and Allen Hend
erson left Sunday for their homes
in Chicago, after spending several
days visiting at the homes of Mr.
and Mrs. Phil Allendorfer and
Mr. and Mrs. Allendorfer.
THE PRESENT
That Lasts A Year
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A SUBSCRIPTION TO
The Home Newspaper
t1Sam Farmers9 Best Customer;
30 Marketing Centers Established
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FRESH
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'rm ""
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Uncle Sam, the American farm
er’s best individual customer,
spends $750,000 a day every day in
the year on foodstuffs for his
army.
To afford the best possible facil
ities in handling these immense
sales, it is announced that 30 re
gional marketing centers are being
established throughout the country
where producers may sell direct or
through commu . y or farm co
operatives. In this manner the
Quartermaster Corps bought 760
tons of turkey together with all
the trimmings for the soldiers’
Thanksgiving dinner, and just now
Uncle Sam is stocking up for the
Christmas holidays and all the
hearty meals that will come in
between.
Through the marketing centers it
is declared that Uncle Sam and
the millions of American farmers
will get better acquainted. Uncle
Sam will get fresh produce of the
highest quality and the farmers
will get higher prices. An example
of the volume of goods taken by
the army is reported in recent re
quisitions for rations during the
autumn maneuvers in the Carolinas
where the purchases in Columbia
and Wellington marketing centers
included: 2,600,000 dozen of eggs,
1,600,000 pounds of butter, 420,000
pounds of cheese, 315,000 pounds of •
turkey and 704,000 pounds of
chicken.
At the same w*ne a program has
been announced for the purchase
of a large part of the seasonal out
put of local canneries, smaller
industries situated in the various (
fruit and vegetable growing re
gions. These district purchases will
augment the recent buying of 126,-'
000,000 cans of vegetables through,
the Chicago Quartermaster Depot. (
Of the 50,000 horses and mules
doing their bit in the army th*{
great majority of these equine re-,
cruits were brought from the farms
within the last few months, the
purchases amounting to $239,872.
The spring program calls for a still
greater number of riding horses
and draught animals.
From all sections of ti... country
come reports that Uncle Sam’s
marketbasket is a symbol «€ pros
perity on the farm.
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TOY LA? D
OPENING ERIIH', NO' " ' ,’S
Gifts, Toys, and every thii g 1 e v <1 1 :j j? J<i>rrias.
This is the year you suould y<» ’ ^hopping
early and avoid the Shortage.
Git* IS K>k bO^a
Ties
Sweaters
Billfold Sets
Rash Lights
Socks
Gloves
Scarfs
Trucks
Books
Games
IJol!s r~ Bugg es
ck g C.-airs
; i p r’ iefs
oy I) sh Sets
Barnes of all Kinds
Purses
Comb and Brush Sets
Toilet Sets
10 and 25? Je^relery
Gifts for Mot/ Dad
Bet?room Slippers
Nylon Hose
Nylon Slips (all sizes)
To let Sets
I)re««er Sets
Scarfs
se.s and Lamps
Sets of Dishes
OH Tables
ni*
oners
^ets
r,f>fks
ct?n',s
Pets
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