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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1942)
Food for Freedom IT e all know the vital part that food plays in any war, and food can be expected to play the same role in our war with the Axis powers that it has played in all the wars of the world. Your farm can h.lp, says Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. K ickard to more than six million V. S. farmers in urging them to produce more national defense foorls such as milk, meat, eggs and vegetables, as part of our new Food for Freedom campaign. TOUR m C£R HHP Here is Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard. He prac tices tcliat he preaches by making out an AAA farm plan for his own Indiana farm, showing how he will expand production in 1942. Perry Thompson gives his hogs extra rations of corn to help provide plenty of pork, drawing on the huge reservoir of feed on hand in the nation's “Ever-Normal Granary.” . ^...V .W.. ■ ..W ■mil,v: ’u%v ... W.x •..v ' ■ •:x^vr ■. v. Farm boys help with milkinn and similar chores all over the nation, as their fathers strive to increase dairy production. Cheese is one of the most popular of dairy products. Cheese factories in the V. S. are working overtime to supply the demand. nr^nfw■'/tT»rTTiM tm™1- **--.- - — - rr. Dairy products being loaded on freighters ready to run the gauntlet of the Atlantic. 1 An Odd Experience By MEREDITH SCHOLL (Associated Newspapers— WNU Service.) II—^ VERY once in a while one |-H comes in contact with the > unexplainable, something which strengthens our belief that there is something behind this thing called life. My experience with Byron Horne was of that sort. Byron was a gambler when I met him. That was at the Hialeah track. We were both young and footloose and out for a good time and we found a lot in common. Wfc palled around together all that winter and became close friends. In the sum mer we went up to Narragansett and Salem, then back to Tropical park and Hialeah in the winter. It was at Miami that Byron met Lillian Bickford. You’ve heard about this love at first sight busi ness? Well, that’s the way it was with Byron. I never did see a man become so cracked over a girl. For a time Lillian played around with Byron. Or perhaps that’s put ting it too strongly. She tolerated him. Pitied him, to my way of thinking. Anyway, when she sud denly woke up to the fact that Byron was serious, she broke the thing off. There wasn't any use, she said, letting it continue. She didn’t love him, had never given him to be lieve that she did, and unless he could think of her only as a friend, it was best for both of them to call a halt at once. Byron was like a crazy man. He pleaded with her, begged her to give him a chance to prove his worth. And at last he resorted to threat. She’d either marry him, he said, or no one. He'd not let her marry any one else. Crazy talk. It wasn’t Lillian’s fault. She tried to reason with him at first, explain Byron was like a crazy man. lie pleaded with her, begged her to give him a chance to prove his worth. ing that she didn’t have any inten tion of marrying anyone right away. Then when Byron got ugly she grew contemptuous. If she wanted to marry anyone she would, and noth ing he could do or say would stop her. The next day she left for the north. Byron followed. And because I was his friend and the season was near ly ended anyway, I went with him. Lillian lived in Boston, and Byron and I took up residence in a room ing house on Beacon street, not far from the Bickford homestead. He called at the Bickford estate and was thrown out by the butler. Then he began phoning, but the same butler told him where to head in. I tried to argue him back to his senses. But it was like talking to a stone wall. I’d heard about guys being affected that way, but Byron’s case was my first experience. In July he read in the papers that the Bickfords had gone to Bar Har bor, and within 30 minutes we were headed for the resort too. We put up at the same hotel and he'd sit in the lobby for hours, waiting for her to come down But Lillian wouldn't listen. If he didn’t cease bothering her, she said, she’d have him arrested. Byron didn’t believe her, and he kept on. But Lillian was serious. One day in the lobby she called a house detective. The detective grasped Byron by the scruff of the neck and turned him over to the local police. The next day Lillian and her father appeared in the dis trict court, and Byron was given 30 days to think it over. By the time Byron got out Lillian and her folks had gone. I brought him over to the new hotel where I was staying and tried to argue him into forgetting her. A change had come over him. He didn’t say anything, but sat in moody silence, drinking my liquor. That winter we went to Califor nia. And the first person we saw after registering at the hotel was Lillian. That’s fate for you. She was with a young good-looking chap, and she looked right at Byron without recognizing him. That’s how much he’d changed. Byron never said a word. Odd, 1 thought. He never said anything even after we read in the paperi that Lillian and this young chap Sydney Young, his name was, wen going to be married within a montl out at Santa Barbara. Curious thi way he was acting. Five days passed and suddenl; Byron disappeared. He staye< away two days and then came inti the room late one afternoon. He was grinning, but there was a wild look in his eyes. •■Well." he said, “it's all fixed." “What’s all fixed?” I asked. He laughed "I said she never would marry anyone else, and she never will. I’m going to kill ’em both. Tomorrow night. I’ve got everything arranged.” "You’re crazy!” 1 told him. "You'll hang for it." But he didn’t hear me. He’d sunk Into a chair and picked up a bottle. I came and stood over him. “Don’t be a fool, Byron. You can’t get away with it. What do you want to kill a couple of innocent kids for? It isn't fair or right. They’re both good kids!” But he only sat there, grinning and drinking. I got kind of panicky. He was my friend, but it wasn’t right to stand by and let him knock off a couple of innocent youngsters. I went out, but when I got back an hour later with a copper, Byron was gone. Well, heck, it was hard trying to sell the copper the idea that Lillian j Bickford was in danger. He sort of snickered. The Bickfords were big shots. They’d be looked after. I didn't know what to do. Then I thought of calling the Bickfords. When they told me Lillian and Syd ney had gone to Hillstown to spend ! the night with some friends I went cold. Byron had found out about that trip and that’s where he planned to kill ’em. I yelled into the phone to have ’em stopped—and at that minute the earthquake happened. The build ing shook and I fell down, and went out for awhile. When I came to folks were running around yelling and there was a general hullabaloo. It wasn't a bad quake. Just a little shake-out with no real damage. By morning things were pretty near normal, although the papers were full of the phenomenon. I bought one and read the headlines. Only one man had been killed, a man identified as Byron Home, who was found in a Hillstown rooming house, dead by asphyxiation. The quake had cracked a gas pipe in his room, and the gas had slowly leaked out. Mr. Home had been drinking and probably thought his drowsiness due to the liquor. His was the only life that had been taken as the re sult of the earthquake, one of the mildest jolts ever reported. Spider Gets Name From Spinning; Not Insects The word “spider” grew out of an old Anglo-Saxon word meaning “to spin.” We may give this mean ing as "spinner,” and that is a good way to describe this little animal. Silk is spun by spiders, good silk which could be made into thread and woven into cloth if enough of it were obtained. Spiders do not get along well together, and that is why they are not kept in colonies like silkworms. Some spiders never spin webs in the open air. Yet they use silk in preparing nests, and for other pur poses. A person is apt to think of spi ders as insects, but men of science do not class them as insects. They are classified as "arachnids.” They differ in several ways from true insects. A true insect has six legs, but a spider has eight. The body of a true insect is divided into three main parts, but the spider’s body has only two main parts. Most kinds of insects have wings. Certain insects, like ants, seldom have them, but in the spider world we find no wings at all. There are hundreds of kinds of spiders but none can spread wings and fly. The nearest thing to a “flying spider” is one which spins out silk, and then sails through the air when blown by a strong breeze. A little “aviator” of this type may travel miles before landing. Many female spiders spin silken cases in which to place their eggs, and then drag the egg case after them as they move about. When the young spiders hatch they may crawl on the body of the mother and cling there day after day. Spiders differ a great deal in size. Some, when full-grown, can stand on a dime and have space left over. Others are very large. The largest member of the whole tribe is the so-called “bird-eating spider.” It is a native of the trop ics, and is found chiefly in South America. Some bird-eating spiders are large enough to spread their legs clear across a man’s hand. The body alone may be as much as three inches long. The bird-eating spider has a hairy covering. It lives chiefly on insects, but has been known to attack and kill hummingbirds. Egyptian Social Butterflies Egypt's social butterflies went tc i their beauty parlors for the “works" i too, eyebrows plucked, hair waved, mud baths and all the rest of the - ritual. Spicy lip salves were used I in 3,500 B. C and palms of hand: i and heels were hennaed for beauty r -1 (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Honors to an Exile ON JANUARY 22 the Sarasota (Fla.) chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy will unveil in that city this monument: HIS SPOT ON o ?; benjaMin : A$Y Of STATE FOR THE CONFEDERACY'' SET SAIL FOR A • FOREIGN LAND HIHIHill II lil^milliollllllli III Hill III ml II II ...WHIP I HI Thus will belated honors be paid to an American exile whose career was unique in the annals of his country. For when Judah Philip Benjamin ‘‘set sail for a foreign land” he left behind him a distin guished record under two American governments. Twice elected to the United States senate, he was the second Jew who had ever attained such a high place in the national legislature. In the government of the Confederate States of America, he had held successively three cab inet posts—attorney general, secre tary of war and secretary of state— and had the reputation of being the "brains of the Confederacy.” But on June 23, 1865, he was a fugitive in disguise with a price of $50,000 on his head. Such a fact should have marked the end of an ordinary man. But in the case of Benjamin it only marked the begin ning of a new life. Escaping to Eng land he resumed his law career and within seven years had a practice not exceeded by any attorney in Great Britain. In sharp contrast to the wealth and influence to which he attained Judah Benjamin in the British capital was the status there of his parents — an unsu ccessful Jewish merchant and a Portuguese Jewess. In 1808 they left London for New Orleans. But the blockade of the Mississippi, caused by the Napoleonic wars, forced them to stop at the island of St. Croix in the West Indies (now one of the Virgin islands under the American flag) and here their son was born on Au gust 6, 1811. He was admitted to the bar when he was only 21 and his success soon brought him into prominence and made him a member of the cele brated Arm of Slidell. Benjamin and Conrad. By the time he was 31 he had an annual income of $100,000 and two years later he was elected to the Louisiana assembly. Elected to the United States sen ate in 1852, he was offered a place on the Supreme court by President Pierce but declined and was re elected senator in 1859. When Jefferson Davis became president of the Confederacy, Ben jamin was the logical choice for at torney general but after five months he was made secretary of war. Smarting under the injustice of Con federate senate criticism, Benjamin resigned the war portfolio, where upon Davis immediately made him secretary of state, a position which he held until the fall of the Confed eracy forced him to seek refuge in ' England. There, besides earning fees total ing almost $1,000,000 during his 16 years of practice, he completed his famous work on the English laws of | sales, known now as “Benjamin on j sale,” which is still in use today I as a major law school text and THE ! authority in its field. When he re tired, leaders of England’s legal ' profession honored him with a ban quet, the first of its kind ever given an English barrister. Later he moved to Paris and there he died on May 8, 1884. Besides being a man of great natural talent, Benjamin was noted as an indefatigable worker. While he was secretary of state. President Jefferson Davis, relying upon his versatility and capacity for hard i work, often called upon him to per i form many tasks outside his own department. As an example of Ben jamin’s industry it is recorded that often during the dark days of the | Confederacy, it was his habit to be gin work at eight o’clock in the morning and continue uninterrupt edly until two o’clock the next morning. SEWING CIRCLE C^ASY to make, inexpensive to ^ make and one of the most be coming, attractive and practical outfits any youngster could have —this jerkin suit pattern is one you’ll prize! The diagram reveals the wonderful simplicity of this design—for the jerkin which but tons in place at the sides and the Blessed by Doers The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them. —James Oliver. skirt with a pleat front and back to it has ample width. The tailored blouse has long or short sleeves. * * • Pattern No. 8076 is designed for sizes 4 to 12 years. Size 6 jerkin and skirt require l?i yards 54-inch material. 1% yards 35-tnch. Blouse with short sleeves, Tt yard 35-inch material, long sleeves. l*,i yards. For this attractive pattern, send your order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. Room 1324 311 W. Wacker Dr. Chicago Enclose 15 cents in coins for Pattern No.Size. Name . Address . CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT BEAUTY SCHOOL Enroll Now. Nebraska’s Oldest School. Individual instruction, graduates placed in good paying positions. Write Kathryn Wil son, manager, for FREE BOOKLET. CaU fornia Beauty School, Omaha, Nebr. Visible World The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself. — Henry James. i RMttt3e4 alultyaiq B mashed potatoe*. corn, pickle*, raw cub B bage, apple pie, cheese,coffee. Tastes good, ^B while it lastal But how that stomach can B grumble if one eata too muchl ADLA B Tablets with Bismuth and Carbonates I relieve QUICKLY. Oet ADLA Tablet* I from your druggist. Search Thyself Search thy own heart; what paineth thee in others in thyself may be.—J. G. Whittier. COLDS quickly u-it LIQUID TABLETS SALVE NOSE DROPS COUCH DROPS Reward Is Sweet Patience is bitter, but its fruit sweet.—Rosseau. Light From Unseen Stars On a moonless night, the earth receives more light from the stars I that cannot be seen by the unaided ! eye than from those that are visi ble. DELICIOUS • QUICK • EASY Van (amp’s PORKand BEAN Supper AS SERVED BY /tMJosephine Culberlscn FAMOUS BRIDGE AUTHORITY BRIDGE SUPPER APPETIZER • Relish Tray • Chili Sauc0 Stuffed Celery Carrot Strips l Stuffed Eggs and Pickles van camp s PORK and BEANS, BARBECUED Baked Applet with Sausages Assorted Bridge Sandwiches Pastel Frosted Cakes • Coffee TRY IT —it’s delicious. Ask your grocer for complete details . . . recipes, and l quantities — or write Van Camp's Inc., I Indianapolis, Indiana. MRS. JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON solves the bridge-supper problem in this smart and pleasant way. Mrs. Josephine Culbertson —bridge authority and gracious hostess— suggests this easy-to-prepare, delightful-to eat answer to the bridge-supper problem. “A FEAST-FOR-TH E - LEAST**