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THE FRONTIER D. H. Cronin. Editor and Owner Entered at Postofrice at O’Neill, Nebraska, as Second Class Matter ' SUBSCRIPTION One Year, in Nebraska. $2.00 One Year. Outside Nebraska 2.25 m . - Both the Republican and Demo cratic Whips are having consider able trouble keeping members on the floor of the House. The rel ative strength of the two parties is so close that any test of party strength may be won or lost due to absentees. The Democratic Whip has the greater difficulty. About a dozen members from New York City, whose principal allegiance is Tammany Hall, come to Washing ton only on call. Thus far the Re publican side has been the more successful because the Demo cratic Whip has been unable to keep his majority on the floor. The first test votes came on the bill making appropriations for the Post Office and Treasury Depart ments. The second test will come when the two million dollar In dependent Offices appropriation bill is brought to the floor. Some attacks have been made cn the State Department for not doing better in North Africa. Act ually, the State Department did a good job and saved many lives by getting the free French to stop shooting at Americans landing on African shores. Robert Murphy, who represented our State De partment in France, went to Al giers during the time that the North African expedition, was be ing planned. He kept the free French leaders informed and got them on our side. He refused to meddle in French politics. There was a dozen or more different French political parties, and Mur phy told the French that Uncle Sam was not interested in their political affairs but merely want ed their assistance to help us whip the Germans and Italians. He was decorated for the successful con duct of his mission. Robert Mur phy's job is civilian affairs officer and member of the staff of Gen. Eisenhower, who is the number one man representing Uncle Sam in North Africa. Murphy’s title is Minister Plenipotentiary. One theory is that the attack on the State Department is attributable to Murphy’s unwillingness to meddle in French political affairs. Uncle Sam’s job is to win the war and let our allies run their own political squabbles. Both political parties hold cau cuses and confidential sessions during which politics and strategy are discussed. Believe it or not, in one discussion one political leader said that 26 counties in the United States elect the President of the United States. The predic tion is that President Roosevelt will be a candidate for a fourth term. Agriculture and War Produc tion chiefs tell Nebraska members that the plains stales will get more farm machinery. The weld ing rod bottleneck has been solv ed and our blacksmith and farms will get sufficient of this metal to make repairs for farm machinery, these chiefs say. The reason for giving plains states more atten tion is that there will be several million more acres put into corn production. Uncle Sam is very good to his fighting men. Sailor Brummond, of Norfolk, went to Iowa to visit relatives on his furlough last fall. While hunting squirrels he shot off half of his left hand. The Navy decided that Brummond could do limited service and, after hospital ization, he was sent to a camp in Virginia. As a second-class petty officer he gets $98 a month with assurance of a promotion to chief petty officer within a short time. When in Washington the other day, Brummond stated that while he was fortunate in Naval promo tion, he was most unfortunate in squirrel hunting because of the injury to his left hand—the hand he uses most. Congress has heard from home. Democrats and Republicans work together to cut appropriations. The Appropriations Committee gets another big job. All charges against Federal employees that they are members of subversive organizations that advocate ov erthrow of our government by force and violence, will be in vestigated by the Appropriations Committee. The same committee will now get experts to go into various departments to get disin terested information as to whether or not appropriation requests are absolutely necessary. It is believ ed that this plan will save hun dreds of millions of dollars dur in the next few years. ' ■ t Speeches against bureaucracy and bureaucrats are becoming of daily importance in other cities outside of Washington. Congress man Hatton Summers, an old timer from Texas, is among the speakers in much demand in east ern cities for oratorical bom bardment of the growing govern mental civilian staff. He is one of the leading constitutional lawyers in the nation and he declares that there are 2,500,000 government workers drawing five billions an nually. Another disclosure is that the OPA has in excess of 1,900 employees, each of which draw an annual salary in excess of $4,500. There seems to be plenty of employees available for the better-paying positions, but one department advertised exten sively for stenographers in the leading dailies of New York and Philadelphia. Only one stenogra-( pher was obtainable in response to the advertising. The War De partment expects to add 65,000 to its office forces this year if it can obtain them. The Department of Agriculture has ordered the production of ice cream for 1943 reduced 65 per cent of the 1942 volume. The or der covers custards, milk shakes, sherbets and other forms of such delicacies. It claims that the re duction will save enough milk and cream to make 68 million pounds of dried separated milk and 97 million pounds of butter. The total butter production last year was 1,700 million pounds. This year Russia will demand 130 million pounds of butter un der lend-lease. Another meat "delicacy” which received newspaper publicity re cently was the “marsh rabbit” meat served to a group of con gressmen at the House Restau rant by a Louisiana member. The “marsh rabbits" were obtained from the swamps of Louisiana and Maryland. Those who par took of the delicacy pronounced it good. While they may be “marsh rabbits” in Maryland and Louisiana, we call them muskrats in Nebraska. How many more in novations there may be in line of meats cannot be guessed. Some substitutes may be offered for ‘ox-tail’ soup or ‘pickled pigs feet,” which also are becoming scarcer because of the shortage of oxen and hogs. Another order forbids the sale of milk in bottles for home uses in quantities smaller than one quart. The smaller sized bottles may still be sold over the count ers and in restaurants. Further rationing orders are anticipated soon for butter, cheese and con densed milk. VIEWS of CONGRESS By Dr. A. L. Miller. M. C. One week after the Nebraska Delegation with representatives of the WPB and OPA, mentioned last week, WPB announced the release of zb&.uuu * tons of steel for making farm ma ** chinery and re I pair parts. This ! l will help in time, I but as Secretary Wickard stated before the Senate Agriculture Com mittee on February 15 he fear ed it would be too late to help in planting and harvesting this year’s crop. Again, too little and too late! The Secretary told the Commit tee that the hoped for increase in farm products" this year depended on four things, viz: labor ma chinery, fertilizer and transporta tion. Farm labor supply, he said, was three million workers short, but that 300,000 had been deferred I since November by the new selec I tive service rule. He was hazy on how the rest of the shortage was to be made up, suggesting that children, business and profession al people from the villages and towns would be recruited on pa triotic grounds and the Mexican labor internees and war prison ers might be used. He said he would request the War Depart ment to furlough experienced farm workers, but admitted that he had been turned down when he had requested help for harvest ing wheat in Dakota last fall. Income tax collection has been under consideration by the Ways and Means Committee of the House in executive sessions. It will write some form of pay-as you-go bill to present to the House in the near future. Many men in Congress feel that the Ruml plan is simple, scientific and fair and will produce the most tax money. It will collect the taxes from highly paid wage earners when they have the money to pay them, and from business while they are making profits. As long as the war boom lasts it won’t make much differ ence* to the nation’s financial pos ition whether we pay taxes on current or past incomes. However, if we are not paying as we go when the war ends, the expected slump will catch some fifty mil lion citizens in hock to the gov ernment and perhaps an unem ployment figure around fifteen million. That would be serious. Your Congressman would like to know what you think about it. One thing is certain! There is going to be a heavy tax burden. Everybody is going to feel it and feel it badly. The President’s bud get calls for more than a hundred billion dollars for the next bien nium. This is more than the entire cost of government from the time of its inception to June, 1943. The Legislative Reference Bureau of the Library of Congress gives the true valuation of the United States as approximately 208 billion dol lars in 1940. When we find that Great Britain after two years of war is spending $440 per capita while we are now spending $840, we are wondering if our bureauc racy has lost control of our ec onomic system and are wasting money and manpower. Are our industries working too few hours? Is too much time-and-a-half going Into our costs? Isn’t it about time that our war industries practice a little of the patriotism that Sec retary Wickard expects the farm belt to display in getting out this year’s crop? Appropriating and spending money will not in itself win this war. Well, one of these general grants of power to the bureau crats was taken out of a bill be fore the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation by the action of your Congressman. After author izing the Secretary of the Interior to do certain things, the bill ended up with the words “and providing for the general welfare,1*’ one of those wide open ends that permit the bureaucrats to make their own plans and write their own regulations and incidently spend a lot more of the taxpayers’ money. Promising to oppose the measure on the floor, we succeed ed in getting the Committee to strike out the clause. Visiting us the past week were: Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Waite and daughters of Loup City, Mrs. E. M, Sunderland of Omaha, sister of Mrs. Martin W. Dimery of Sid ney, Charles Ammon of Lincoln, and Neil Haskell of Laurel. xjfM iuectR'C ’«“’ VV^AIVK.S —----J^f 'VJj\ ** _ A !^ Bto SP*'"0* \f !\\V^l BROKEN RftOlOa I'/ j''V\l COPPER «R«n* 1 IvV^M COAW STOVES l ■\VM **'* r",',f* \ __ B _ *' V\vv\ RAOlATOAft \ |'\M PEUHB^NOr^TURES ^ IWC-WCOT ' \ AUTO PARTS \ 0uoTTRESM*°TUO«S SCRAP \ otoaicvcv.es \ (VOV.U«A SKATE. 6 WE know just how you feel. You ore rest less, mad, anxious to do something defi nite and concrete to help win the war. Well, here’s how. Have a scrap hunt in your home and on your property. If it’s metal it’s needed to make munitions. Track down every ounce of scrap metal you own and start it on its way to war. Remember this—even though you can’t fight, your scrap can. O’NEILL NATIONAL BANK O’NEILL, NEBRASKA Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation THE DAYS OF LONG AGO Sixty Years Ago Holt County Banner, Feb. 6, 1883. Groundhog'r day last Friday. The old fellow didn’t eome out, as the thermometer ranged from 10 to 20 degrees below zero all day. We wfcre Visited Thursday, Fri day and Saturday of last week by another of those cold, piercing northeastern ; blizzards, coming from the great lakes and Canada. Friday morning the thermometer stood at 36 below zero and all that day and until Saturday af ternoon the wind blew a perfect gale from the northwest, having changed to that' quarter. Fears were entertained that some might suffer, as the soft coal at the yard played out Thursday afternoon, and wood was rather a scarce art icle. Those who burned hard coal had plenty. Some were required to burn hard coal in soft coal stoves. Holt County Banner, Feb. 13, 1883. W. E. and David Adams pur chased of P. Hagerty the corner lot south of and opposite his store, consideration $500. Several business men and far mers of O’Neill and vicinity con gregated at the Odd Fellows’ hall last Saturday for the purpose of discussing the feasibility of estab lishing a creamery and cheese factory in O’Neill. Michael W. Flannigan was chosen chairman and Sanford Parker secretary of the meeting. After considerable discussion it was resolved, on mo tion of Patrick Fahy, that an or ganization be formed known as the “Holt County Creamery and Cheese Association,” and that the shares be $10 each. One hundred and forty-one shares were sold at the meeting. A committee of nine was appointed to canvass the far mers contiguous to O’Neill and all others who wished to avail them selves of creamery facilities, and ascertain as near as practicable how many cows could be furn ished for a period of one year. The following composed the com mittee: G. M. Cleveland, chair man; W. D. Mathews, John Dwyer, John Cronin, Pat McCoy, James Ryan, M. O’Laughlin, Wm. Fallon, Neil Brennan. The meet ing adjourned to meet March 8, 1883, at 2 o’plock p. m. Holt County Banner, Feb. 27, 1883. The Ancient Order of Hibern ians will give their fourth annual ball in McCafterty’s Hall on Fri day evening, Inarch 16. Commit tee on arrangements: M. M. Sul livan, M. D. Long, M. J. Kennedy, James Connelly, M. E. Tierney, Thomas Kearns. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. M. Flan nigan, Saturday, February 17, a son. To Mr. and Mrs. B. Martin, Blackbird, Monday, February 19, a daughter. Fifty-Five Years Ago The Frontier, February 2, 1888. The appointment of Elsworth Mack as deputy sheriff will give eminent satisfaction we believe. Elsworth is a young man of con siderable force and push, a gen eral favorite and we would con gratulate the sheriff on his choice. We learn that, John Hecker has sold his interest in the firm of Mann & Hecker to J. P. Mann, who will take control as soon as an invoice of the goods can be taken. The Frontier, February 9, 1888. The Emmet Echo has at last succumbed to the inevitable and ceased to breathe. D. M. Roberts, the proprietor, was recently ap pointed postmaster at that place, but informs us that he expects to resign and go to New York state. Stuart Press: The 12-year old son of John Hedrick, nine miles south of this place, lost in the blizzard, <was found Saturday about six miles from home. The overcoat was one-half mile from where the body lay. A constant search by friends and neighbors had been made for the child for more than two weeks. Miss Etta Shattuck, the Holt county teacher who was teaching south of Emmet at the time of the, big blizzard on January 12, diedl at the home of her parents in Seward last week. Her death adds one more to the list of fatalities in Holt county, making the num ber 17. The Frontier, February 16, 1888. Below we give the names of those who perished in the great storm, or died from the effects of exposure, together with a few words of explanation. Joseph Beller, a Menonite about forty years old, living about ten miles northwest of town. Left a wife to whom he was recently married. Thomas Keller, of Shamrock, brother of j. S. Keller, aged about 70. He was hauling hay and got caught out in the storm. Found the next day about thirty rods from a house. Mr. Keller was a bachelor. Jacob Kohler, a German living near Shamrock, drifted to William Lell’s farm near Little, where he was found next day dead. A boy about 16 years old by the name of Gibson perished near Goose lake. He and his little sis ter were out all night and were alive at daylight. Boy was frozen to death trying to reach a house. A man by the name of Glaze perished near Goose lake. Mrs. Kruppe, of Shamrock, was another victim. Frank Metz, son of Mrs. Joe Miller, was frozen while on his way from Ewing to Goose lake. The boy, mother and little sister were out all night before relief came to them, but the boy was beyond need of same. He was 12 years old and his mother’s child by her first husband. Miss Cora Riley was the only case reported from Inman. She started for a neighbor’s just be fore the storm and was not found for several days. She was about 22 years old, the daughter of J. H. Riley, and sister of Mrs. Wil son Hoxsie of this place. Russell Carey, of Middlebranch, was the only victim in the east or northeast part of the county. Mrs. Chapman, mother-in-law of Harry Faust, of Stuart, and his two little children, aged eleven months and five years, respective ly, perished. They were coming from the northwest part of the county to Stuart and caught out. A boy by the name of Hedrick, son of John Hedrick, living south of Stuart, was lost and his body recovered only a week ago Satur day. He was 12 years old. Mr. Mattis, of Dustin, quite an old man, was another victim. Another boy about the same age, the son of Mr. Schaaf, living eight miles north of Atkinson, was lost and the body found on Monday. Mrs. Henry Stewart, of Deloit precinct, was frozen. She went out to meet her husband who was after hay. He got in his load of hay and stayed all night, while his wife, unable to find him or reach the house, perished. The death of Miss Etta Shat tuck makes the list of fatalities in Holt county seventeen. The Frontier, February 2, 1893. There is a move on foot among Irishmen in Omaha to erect a monument to the memory of Gen. John O’Neill, the founder of this city. The Frontier, February 9, 1893. P. J. McManus left Monday for Chicago and other eastern points to purchase his spring and sum mer goods. The Frontier, February 16, 1893. The Pacific Short Line snow plow carried a horrible sight into O’Neill yesterday about 1 o’clock. It was the remains of two boys from Inman, Nute McCleary and Will Moore, aged respectively 21 and 28, who had been run over and mangled beyond recognition about two miles east of O’Neill. Sheriff McEvony and Undertaker Biglin at once took charge of the remains, and found papers in the pockets of the remnants of cloth ing by which they were identi fied. The deceased were highly respected residents of Inman, where their parents reside. The Frontier, February 23, 1893. With this issue of The Frontier W. D. Mathews retires from the editorial management and here after the paper will be under the control of King & Cronin. Last Friday W. D. Mathews en tered upon the discharge of his duties as register of the United States land office, vice B. S. Gil lespie resigned. BRIEFLY STATED Miss Redina Schindler spent the week-end at Laurel, visiting friends. Miss Ellen Lois Wilcox spent the week-end in Elgin, visiting relatives and friends. Mrs. Anna McCartney and Mrs. Marguerite Hoffman spent Sun day in Stuart visiting friends. Mrs. M. J. Wallace, daughter Alma and son Bob went to Sioux City on Wednesday. Clint Wolf spent the week-end in Norfolk visiting his mother and other relatives and friends. Miss Jeanne McCarthy spent the week-end in Grand Island, visiting her sister, Katherine and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Morton and Mrs. Mat Morton, of Basset, visited relatives here over the week-end. Miss Mildred Fauquier spent the week-end at Chambers visit ing her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fauquier. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Alton, of Atkinson, spent Saturday and Sunday here visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Gilday. Mrs. B. J. Shemwell returned home Sunday from Fremont, where she had visited relatives and friends for a few days. 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Brown leather bluchers with heavy leather sole, Goodyear welt. Wide cap toe. Made for comfort. TRY TO BEAT THIS VALUE WORK SHOES Made for Comfort and Wear ] Solid leather Ja _Counter fj Oak | Leather Sole ■ An all around work shoe for men . on the farm, mechanics, truckers, jA K; Construction men. Retanned ^1^ /I E| brown leather uppers for extra V J I softness and wear. Goodyear * JL I welt oak sole, plain easy toe. 6 to I 11. The Presbyterian Ladies’ Guild will meet at the home of Mrs. Melena on Thursday afternoon, March 4. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Tomlinson, Mrs. and Mrs. Ralph Tomlinson and daughter and Mr. and Mrs. James Coventry and daughter of Inman, were dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Turner at Chambers last Sunday. | Mr. and Mrs. Ramon Bright went to Wayne Monday to bring home their son, Archie, who at tends Wayne State Teacher’s Col lege. He is recruperating from an attack of measles. Mrs. Irving Johnson entertain ed the 9FF Club at her home Tuesday evening. Mrs. Walt Pharris won high score, Mrs. Merle Hickey second high. ■ STOCKMEN! For highest net returns, bring your livestock to your nearest and best > market :*N. ? We Sell Every Monday On a Strictly Commission Basis O’Neill Live Stock Com. Co. Phone 2 O’Neill, Nebraska
