The Frontier D. H. Cronin, Editor and Owner Entered at the postoffice at O’Neill, Nebraska, as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION One Year, in Nebraska -$2.00 One year, outside Nebraska. 2.25 Every subscription is regarded as an open account. The names of subscribers will be instantly removed from our mailing list at expiration of time paid for, if publisher shall be notified; other wise the subscription remains in force at the designated subscrip tion price. Every suscriber must understand that these conditions are made a part of the contract between publisher and subscriber. Display advertising is charged for on a basis of 25c an inch (one column wide) per week. Want •ds 10c per line, first insertion, lubsequent insertions. 5c per line. Watch the progress of gliders. Many young officers doing desk work in the War Department are making plans to transfer to the glider corps. Believe it or not, the number of letters received by the Army En gineers each day is nearly thirty thousand. General McCoach, re cently Engineers Commissioner of the District of Columbia, takes care of the Washington Board of Trade has been commissioned a Captain of Engineers. The silver dollar is still a very important coin but during this war silver isn’t worth as much as brass or copper. Uncle Sam has about 35,000 tons of silver to back up his silver certificates, but that silver may soon be di verted to all kinds of things such as taking 42,000 tons of silver for bus bars in aluminum plants to replace 47,000 tons of badly need ed copper. The “worms” of grain alcohol still and even the lining of cans may come from our sil ver stock pile. It is generally conceded that our big surplus of wheat will ex ceed the value of our immense gold accumulation in Kentucky. Mike Elizalde, the Philippine Commissioner, gave a reception for Manuel Quezon, the Philip pine President in exile. Nearly all foreign ambassadors, minis ters, military and naval attaches now in Washingon and members of the House and Senate were there. Filippinos who had just come from Australia were plied with questions about friends in mation that could be secured about Charley Cotterman of Al bion is that he is probably all right and living in his home in the suburbs of Manila under Jap anese surveillance. Efforts to get more information about Ameri cans in Manila are being made through the International Red Cross. Manuel Quezon’s favorite story about Corregidor is one about the heroism of American and Filipino nurses. Quezon tells friends that he lay sick on a stretcher in Corregidor for many days and gives high praise to the treatment that he received from the Americans. The Filipinos and the Americans became brothers ©n Bataan and on Corregidor, the Filipino President tells tha Third District Member. Gordon Lederer of Norfolk is one of the dental technicians in the recently completed National Naval Medical center in Wash ington. The laboratory in which he works is said to be the finest in the world. Ledeuer got his first training in the Welles Lab oratory in Norfolk. He then join ed the navy and after training in the great Navy Medical Center he will receive a duty assign ment. George Petrow of Fremont is at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, near "Washington, in Officer training school. His brother, Christ Pet row, is joining up with the Coast Guard. A constituent asks why we can not go back to the horses and buggies for the duration. In re ply to that, agricultural experts here say that so far as our farm-, ers are concerned, they cannot go back to the horse and buggy days because the number of horses and mules on our farms has been reduced nearly one-half since the first world war. Also, even if we have the horses, their legs and feet would not stand the strain of traveling long distances over modem hard-surfaced roads. Many people have written re garding the location of their sons who are in the army and navy. The War Department appreciates the desire of men in the service to receive mail from home and every precaution is being taken to see that all mail is delivered However, due to the military sit uation and the great distances in volved, the transmission of mail to and from members in the arm ed forces is sometimes unavoid ably retarded. Because of mili tary reasons the destination as signed to certain men in our armed forces cannot be diclosed but the War Department is doing everything possible to see to it that mail is delivered. The War Department here receives report of the serious illness or injury of any soldier and the emergency addressee is immediately noti fied. There has been a helpful revis ion in the sugar ration regula tions which is hoped will meet some of the complaints made by American housewives. Among other things, the new order al lows one pound of sugar per four quarts of finished canned fruit. Applicants for home canning are asked by the price administrator here to obtain full information from their local war price and' rationing board. Clarence Meisner of McLean writes that he bought a crate of strawberries and drove 18 miles to Pierce to get a sugar ration order to can the fruit, only to find the rationing board member away from town. Leon Hender son, the price and rationing boss, says his plans are to expand the personnel of local war price and rationing boards so that event ually most towns will have boards and citizens will have less need to travel long distances in order to attend to their rationing I needs. _ The Third District Office has asked the price and ration ad ministrator to explain the future plans for ration board personnel, and the Administrator has re plied as follows: “The plans of the Office of Price Administration for expan sion of its personnel include con siderable increase in the staffs as signed to work under the direc tion of local war price and ration ing boards. We fully appreciate the tremendous burden which has been imposed upon these boards by the various activities which the OPA has undertaken, and we owe the members of these boards a debt of gratitude which we can never adequately repay. We feel certain that the efforts which we are now making to provide these boards with ade quate staff, proper quarters, and other facilities necessary to carry on their work, will make the load they have to carry a much lighter one. We are making every effort, both by providing these aids and by the manner in which we plan our work, to relieve the board members of the burden of time which has been taken from their private affairs in the past.” In Nebraska there will be n state administrator and sever al district administrators with boards in most communities. It is predicted here that Grant Mc Fayden of Omaha, who has been in charge of tire rationing, may become the state chief for war price and rationing boards. Judge Orville Chatt of Teka mah is a captain in the Army Air Corps. He has completed six weeks of training at Harrisburg, Pa., and came to Washington for orders. He tells the Third Dist rict Office that he expects to be overseas within a short time. Mrs. Chatt and son John accom panied him to Washington. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor have been in town. The Duke went back to the Bahamas in a hurry. The reason is alleged to have been that the British just don’t agree on his staying in this country for any length of time. Some kings and queens and for mer kings and queens and other royalty are here. A lot more are coming and many are trying to come. King Carroll and his com panion, Madame Lupescu, are in Mexico writing letters to a lot of influential people asking them to get it fixed so they can come here. Hundreds of thousands of foreigners of lowly rank are try ing to come here. About every body in the world figures today that the United States is a mighty fine place in which to live. President Quezon of the exiled Philippine Commonwealth Gov ernment addressed the House of Representatives the other day. It was an eloquent speech by a man who for seven years was Philip pine Resident Commissioner in the United States and who sat in the House of RepreshentativeS' during that time. He received en thusiastic applause when he ask ed the House to give him the same assurance as the President gave him in writing, that inde pendence would be given to the Filipinos when the war is over Uncle Sam has promised the Is lands complete independence on the Fourth of July, 1946. The Home Front Because of dstance, western Nebraska was not well represent ed at the State Nutrition Confer ence in Lincoln April 29. Dr. Ruth Loverton, State Nutrition Committee Chairman, has now completed arrangements for meetings at Alliance June 10 and North Platte June 11. Plans for community nutrition program will be made at these meetings. 1 Besides Dr! Leverto’h, these ladies will assist in the western' meetings: Margaret Fedde, head of Nebraska University’s Home Economics Department; Mabel Doremus, Agricultural Extension Service; and Florence Atwood, Farm Security Administration. Mrs. Mary McVicker and Mrs. C. R. Calev will represent the Ne braska Advisory Committee. The Cuming County Defense Committee tells why large numb ers of defense workers should be trained: “It’s better to have pro tection and not need it than to need it and not have it.” The Red Cross is official agency for salvaging wool for processing. Omaha workers recently com pleted a successful “wool gather ing” campaign, first in the nine state Seventh Defense Region. It included collections from homes and retail stores. Salvaged wool is sold to manufacturers and re ceipts are added to local Red Cross funds. Rubber is scarce. Our big gest stock pile is on motor ve hicles. We must preserve it; make vehicles and tires last for the duration. Here are some tips from a tire conservation program prepared by Mark T. Caster, Ex ecutive Secretary, State Salvage Committee. Drive cars only when absolut ly necessary. Each extra mile aids the Axis. Drive under 40 miles an hour. Check tires fre quently for proper inflation. To equalize wear, change from wheel to wheel every 1,000 miles. Pool ca^- use with neighbors and fellow workers. It is said, “A Jap sits in every unoccupied seat.” June, 1917—Draft registration on June 5. Nebraska demon strated enthusiastically. Business houses closed; town whistles tooted; bands played martial music; parades passed in review. Many communities held special patriotic services. Nebraska was bombed on June 6 when Ruth Law, pioneer avia trix, dropped Liberty Loan liter ature on her way from Lincoln to St. Joe. Bond sales were booming. One slogan was. “To avoid bombs buy bonds.” Yes, that was 1917. War gardens were producing victory food. Gardening pro vided conversational topics and newspaper copy. Nebraska found time in mid June to celebrate 50 years of statehood. Colonel “Teddy” Roosevelt was nrtain speaker at a big semi-centennial meeting in Lincoln. General Pershing arrived in Paris on June 13. On June 14 Nebraska observed Flag Day, as proclaimed by Governor Keith Neville. *jj * - Burwell, home of “Nebraska’s Big RodeoJ’ has another fine ac tvity in the fbt-rri of chain or group letters to Garfield county people in service. Space forbids reproduction here, but each letter is full of home news from various friends. Just what any man from is for “Generate,” For hoar upon hour The turbines must turn To supply you with power. Of coins*, everyone realises that electricity must be generated at some central point before it can be distributed on the lines to homes, stores, farms and industries. And because of the nature of electric service—IT CANNOT BE STORED in the practi cal sens* of "storage." Therefore, it is necessary for the electric generator* at your Consumers plants to keep their turbines turning, hour after hour—day and night—seven days a week. Without this constant source of supply, you and the hundreds of thousands of others who have come to depend so completely upon the multiple uses of cheap electricity throughout your everyday life, would be seri ously inconvenienced, handicapped in many ways in the conduct of your business. Tha man behind your elec tric system daily are devot ing Ihair skill, their bast ef forts, and their vary lives to sea that this vital service is ready for you around tha •lock everyday in the year. Buy U. S. War Bonds ivory Pay Day any community would be glad to receive. USO Chairman Lew Wiliams keeps the chain’s links bright and strong. Nebraska’s fame is growing. State Defense Coordinator Walter F. Roberts has received from W. D. McIntosh, Southern Area Man ager of the California State Coun cil of Defense, a letter which compliments Nebraska upon state and local defense organiza tion and activities. Mr. McIn tosh is particularly impressed with the way in which Nebraska uses Regional Defense Committes to spread defense responsibilities and aid in local organizaton. Each day brings more enroll ments for the raid warden in structors school to be heid in Lin coln June 14 to 17. Indications are that 75 or more will attend. In proportion to population west ern Nebraska will be as well rep resented as the eastern part of the state. Men are coming from western grazing counties which have very scattered populations and no large towns. American Legion posts at Fair mont, Exeter, Milligan, Ohiowa and Geneva were cited in The National Legionaire, May issue, for their combined efforts in giv ing farewell parties to Fillmore county selective service men. At one party 114 selectees and their fathers enjoyed a patriotic pro gram and dinner. Each selectee leaving that county has been giv en cigarettes, candy, toilet arti cles and other non-issue items. BRIEFLY STATED Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Gatz wentto Omaha Wednesday on business. Laura Parker entertained her bridge club at her home Wednes day night. High score was won by Mrs. Grace Walling and Mrs. Dora Murphy. K. D. Fenderson went to Lin coln Wednesday on business. Junior Johnson went to Page Wednesday. He will return Fri day and bring back Franklin Bressler of Wayne, who will visit here for several days. — Jack Vincent left Thursday for Omaha, after spending several days here visiting his parents and ! other relatives, to attend he Uni | versity of Nebraska College of ! Medicine. A very pleasant afternoon was spent at the home of Mrs. Vinton Simonson Wednesday when the O’Neill Women’s Club was the guest of the Alpha Club. Mrs. Helen Gillespie gave a very fine review of “The Chuckling Fin gers” by Mable Seeley. Lunch was served. Mrs. O. W. French, daughter, Leona, and son, Ivan, left for Omaha Thursday. They will visit in Norfolk, Fremont, Lincoln and Nebraska City. Ivan will at tend the University of Nebraska College of Medicine. Mr. and Mrs. Bud Thomas of Hastings came Sunday to visit Mrs. Thomas’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Protivinsky. It is a triumph in ex celsis when a man sternly denies himself present luxuries, so his family may not suffer for future ne cessities. O’NEILL NATIONAL BANK Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits, $140,000.00 This Bank Carries No Indebtedness of Oncers or Stockholders. Member Federal Depoeit Insurance Corporation LLAST CHANCE ! r r <\ |fr^ ^ _DUPLER FURS A ipecial Dupler represen tative will be la our store I on the following days to j help you with your selec tion. ' Tuesday June 16th We know fur prices are drifting upward. We know furs will be harder to obtain. We know that now is the time to invest in furs. We know that every woman desiring furs can save from 35% to 65% .'hen she buys right now! 'ou should not buy a new fur coat unless you NEED a new •r coat . . . that would be hoarding. You should not buy TORE fur coats than you need . . . THAT would be hoard*