THE FRONTIER D H. Cronin. Editor and Owner Entered at Postoffice at O’Neill, Nebraska, as Second Class Matter ~ SUBSCRIPTION One Year, in Nebraska ..$2.00 One Year, Outside Nebraska 2.25 Display advertising is charged for on a basis of 25c an inch- (one column wide) per week. Want ads 10c per line, first insertion. Subsequent insertions 5c per line • - " ' ■■ ^ ^ Z'Z Views of Congress... By Dr. A. L. Miller, M. C, It seems quite apparent that price ceiling are to be placed on all livestock to be slaughtered. I have attended meetings in the past two days at which fifty live stock organizations from all over the United States were represented. Officials from OPA and the De-‘ partment of Agri culture and Mr. Jones, of the Ec-^ onomic Division,| attended. T h e livestock men. spoke some very plain and hard words to these men against plac ing ceilings on livestock. It is my feeling that the meeting might just as well not been held, for I am certain that the Office of Price Administration and the Depart ment of Agriculture had already determined to put on these ceil ings before even consulting the men on the firing line who know most about meat raising. This is rather typical of the way OPA has been operating. Your repre sentative spoke strongly against this and read into (he record tel egrams from Mr. Jirdon, pres ident of the Colorado-Nebraska Lamb Feeders Association, and H. H. Selleck, of the Nebraska Stock Growers Association. Government officials seem to think that there is too much in flation in farm prices. The live stock men submitted the fact that inflation was due to the increased returns going to industry and la bor. Prices the farmers get cannot be blamed for inflation when dairy herds are being sold because of insufficient returns to pay bills and hire labor; when farm labor is being attracted to better jobs in factories, and when by leaving, the farm a farmer can make twice j as much and work only 48 hours' instead of 80. A bill was recently passed ap-1 propriating money to be used by the Extension Departments of the various states in getting addition al farm labor. This might help in some sections by bringing in Mexican beet workers and Jap labor, but it is questionable with the shortage of labor in every state if this will help matters generally. The past week we have had a number of letters from folks who are concerned about the future of the Triple A program, and our criticism of the Department of Agriculture. I feel definitely that the Agriculture Department should represent the farmers. My predecessor, a democrat, stated that this administration was against agriculture. I am of the same opinion. Under the present conditions the farmers are being traded out of their shirts by the Manpower Commission, the Of fice of Price Administration, the War Production Board and the Commission on Economics. I believe that farm problems should be solved by the farmers at home and not by bureaucrats in Washington. I believe the far mers want the heel of government off their necks, fair prices, suffi cient manpower to carry on their operations and machinery and re pair parts. With these I am con vinced they will produce to the utmost. I do not object to farmers getting a subsidy or incentive payments if these will help him produce, but I do object to these being used as an excuse for regi menting, controlling and brow beating him by some bureaucrats in Washington, some of whom would have you take the shoes off the horses at night, change the lambing season and divide the steers into males and females. That sounds silly, doesn’t it? But this actually happened in the De partment of Agriculture. The far mer knows best what his land will raise and what he can pro duce with the machinery and manpower at his command. I be leive quotas should be removed and a fair price guaranteed through a loan guarantee. No longer should the land be checked and double-checked to ascertain if he has overplanted any particu lar crop. This is a needless waste of manpower when it is so badly needed for actual farm operations. The functioning of Congress requires the service of about 60 page boys between the ages of 11 and 17 years. These boys go to school in the basement of the capitol building from 7:00 in the morning until noon. From the time Congress takes up at noon the page boys are busy running errands, answering phone calls and doing athousand and one things for the 531 members of the two Houses. The Supreme Court also requires their services for running errands and carrying messages. They receive in this way a training in practical pol itics that they could get in no other. Some members in both Houses have been pages. The chief parliamentarian of the House started as a timekeeper 18 years ago. They are fine bright eyed youngsters and some of them may one day sit in our seats in the House. The Administration has come to realize that the food problem has been badly mismanaged and horribly bungled. Most men in Congress feel that Chester Dav is, the newly appointed adminis trator, is a strong-minded indi vidual with an understanding of the problems of the farmer and will represent them, and will bring order out of the chaos. They will support him in his efforts. Leaders on both sides of the House indicate there will be a ten day or two weeks recess at Easter time. Your representative feels that that woukl be a good thing if the members would go back home and visit with the peo ple they represent. Speaking of Easter, one naturally thinks of the peace that we hope soon will come. To be a lasting peace it must be built on the teachings of the Christ who said, ‘‘It is better to give than to receive,” and ad monishes us to “Love thy neigh bor as thyself.” Many groups are now planning for that peace. We must all be willing to make sacrifices for it. Readjustments after the war must be placed in the hands of those who believe in our way of life and can quickly place our indus try again on a basis where it can go ahead and make the things we will be wanting and thus re-em ploy our soldiers when they come home. The President and his staff are doing a splendid job of carry ing on the war and no doubt con scientiously making plans for the peace, but there are too many in dividuals in his administration, particularly in OPA and WPB, who do not understand the tem per of the American people and are basing their plans on theory | of regulation and regimentation. The people will not stand for this totalitarian plan of life. Bureau cratic control must be dissolved and individuals at home must again be permitted to seek life, liberty and the pursuit of happi ness on democratic lines with out detailed direction from Wash mgton. Something happened last week that may bring greater benefits to Nebraska than anything that has happened for a long while. The Board of Investigation and Re search. created by the Transpor tation Act of 1940, submitted a report to the President recom mending abolition of long-stand ing freight rate discrimination, establishment of a uniform na tional rate structure. For many years the West has suffered from discrimination that has favored j the manufacturing centers of the I East. Now a board, expressly set! up by Congress to do so, has made a study of the situation and has made its recommendations. It is very likely the Congress will soon do something about the matter. While in the Legislature and since, your congressman has been active in the efforts to get these discriminations wiped out. Spring comes earlier in Wash ington than it does in Nebraska, in fact it is upon us right now. Forsynthia and magnolias are blooming on the capitol grounds and the oriental cherries will start blooming soon after April 1. The grass is green and the trees are budding. This pretty pictures is somewhat spoiled to us new mem bers by the old-timers who warn us we are approaching that pe riod in Washington when the heat is stifling and unremitting. We from Nebraska will then be envying the folks back home who can enjoy cool nights and days that are not too hot. When George Washington laid out this city he provided for a number of “circles" at street in 1 tersections and a number of av enues that lead directly into the capitol grounds and the down town section, intersecting the north-south and east-west streets at angles. Then there are a great number of short streets running in any direction. It is all very confusing to a newcomer who is used to the broad plains of Ne braska and the checkerboard lay out of our towns. In the horse and buggy days this was alright, but with the advent of the auto mobile the traffic problem is the world’s worst. The circles which : were planned for gun emplaee | ments to guard the capital have become traffic bottlenecks. In ' stead of cannon in these circles, we are now “protected” by wood en machine and antiaircraft guns. However, Washington is probably as well protected as is possible with real antiaircraft guns and several squadrons of attack and interceptor planes. With the coming of spring most of you are planning your Victory gardens in which you will raise the vegetables and other foods you will need next summer and winter. With the present system of point rationing in effect you will be wise to raise and put up all you can. If some “expert” in OPA doesn’t pull some bonehead that will interfere with your get ting sugar or enough containers and “closures,” as they call the jar lids, the folks in Nebraska should be pretty well able to pro vide enough food for their own consumption during the next year. The Nebraska delegation has been working on these prob lems and have strongly impressed on OPA and WPA the importance of making proper and sufficient provisions for an adequate supply of sugar and containers. As a boy I can remember mother drying corn on the roof of the milkhouse and the woodhouse. We put up eggs in salt brine and preserved our meat by smoking. I remem ber carrying what seemed like hundreds of pounds of nice dry sand for burying our carrots, turnips and other vegetables. In the face of our present condition it might be well to revive some of these old practices and we no doubt will. Washington is full of plans to aid the farmer and mpst of these plans involve some methods of control of his activities and of telling him how to run his farm. Your congressman believes that what the farmers of this country needs most is less controls and more action to get him what he needs to run his farm. He believes that all restrictions should be re moved so tho farmer can produce the greatest harvest that is pos sible under his individual circum stances as to soil, climate, ma chinery, labor, fertilizer, and transportation. We need have no fear of surpluses. We need rather to fear shortages. The consuming sections of the east may well feel the pangs of hunger next winter. If the administration will con sider that food is as vital as sol diers and ammuniton and bend every effort to provide labor, ma chinery, fertilizer and transpor tation facilities and will oust the “social planters,” the farmer will do his utmost. He will raise the War Damage Insurance IF you haven’t already protected your home and its contents with War Damage Insurance, we suggest that you do so without delay. Cost is very low and the protection you get can be had in no other way. The government requires an inventory of dam aged property in case of a claim, so we also suggest that you make such an inventory now, in duplicate, storing one copy in a safe de posit box in this bank. Safe deposit rental cost is moderate and you can store many of your personal valuables in the box you rent. O’NEILL NATIONAL BANK O’NEILL, NEBRASKA Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Money to Loan ON AUTOMOBILES TRUCKS TRACTORS EQUIPMENT FURNITURE Central Finance Co. C. E. Jones, Manager O'NEILL : NEBRASKA crops even at this late date. In simple justice to the farmer, price ceilings should be adjusted to include labor costs. There is no other industry under Heaven where labor costs are not consid ered as a part of the cost of pro duction. All necessary farm work ers should be deferred from the draft as essential workers and those needed at home should be permitted to return to the farm. To equalize conditions, the indus trial work week should be no less than 48 hours with no overtime. I If that would result in greater I profits to industries, these profits ! should be taken by taxation, All surplus feed grains should be re leased for feeding. And finally, all questionnaires and red tape that confuse the farmer and con sume his valuable tme should be done away with. Our recent visitors were Edwin J. Quinn of Kimball, Emma Rou sek of Burwell, R. S. Hunt of Scottsbluff, Cal A. Ward of Lin coln, and Chris Milius of Omaha. State Bankers Cancel Convention Plans In order to better co-operate with the country’s war effort, the Nebraska State Bankers Associ ation has just announced that all regular group meetings of bank ers for 1943 will be abandoned.! The purpose of these group meet- j ings has always been for the dis cussion of purely banking prob lems, and in the present emerg ency the banks of Nebraska have, announced that they will forego discussion of their own problems ! in order to concentrate all of their efforts to the problems of our. Nation at war and to co-operate in the conservation of rubber, gasoline and transportation. An important co-operative ef fort of Nebraska banks this spring will be to offer a new type of or ganized banker suport to aid the government’s manpower problem. To this end machinery is being devised for co-operation with the Government Employment Bureau and other official agencies in the procuring and placing of farm la bor to plant and harvest Nebras ka crops. Banker organization for the sale of government securities has been intensively developed for more than a year and has won high of ficial praise. In addition to this sale of government securities and the handling of ration banking ac counts, the bankers of Nebraska feel that they can make another contribution to the government by assisting the government in its farm production objective for the crucial year to come. VICTORY DIGEST As the date for point ration ing of meats, butter, edible fats, cheese and canned fish, April 1, approaches, the Office of Price Administration warns that to make the ration program effect ive and fair to all consumers, the co-operation of consumers must be matched by the conscientious efforts of every retailer, whole saler and food handler. Danger of black markets in food is a men ace to our wartime economy and those who have any dealings with such illegal practices must be considered as public enemies, OPA adds. The prospect of greatly increas ed home canning of foods on the farms and in the cities this year, as a result of OPA restrictions on sale of commercialy packed goods, has caused the War Production Board to make provision for an ample supply of metal closures and rubber jar rihgs. The board has removed all quota restrictions on the manufacture of certain types of metal lids used to seal the jars. Prohibition of the use of zinc is continued. . School authorities of both rural and city schools operating school buses are urged by the Office of Defense Transportation to promptly file applications for re vised certificates of war necessity for the second quarter of 1943. Failure of school organizations to return their applications may re sult in insufficient gasoline al lowances for the affected school bus operations, the ODT warned. School buses represent more than 50 percent of the nation’s passen ger buses. It is of major import ance that they be properly con served and used, since new buses can be procured only in the most urgent cases, ODT points out. Miss Laverne Borg was a guest of Lydia Halva on Wednesday. THE FRONTIER'S HONOR ROLL The following Frontier readers have either remitted their sub scriptions or called and paid same during the past two weeks, for which they have our sincere thanks. Now is a good time for those in arrears to call and ex tend their subscription. The com ing year promises to be one of the most important in the history of the United States and people will want to know what is going on in the old home town, as well as elsewhere, and the easiest way to find it out is through the week ly visits of their home town paper: Rudolph Brockman. William DeVall. C. F. W. Lehmann. A. M. King. George A. Fox. E. W. Richter. Mrs. V. M. Searles. Con O'Connell. Northwest Bell Tel. Co. Carl F. Hoppe. Henry Murray. McMillan & Markey. Mrs. J. C. Reynolds. M. F. Stanton. Mrs. Emma Maring. Mrs. Frank Hansen. Mrs. George Hay. Clarence Shaw Ralph Burival (new) Fred Vitt Pfc. Joe Bartos (new) Lt. M. E. Harty Mrs. Fannie Ernst Architectural Record Universal Clipping Bureau Mrs. Edward Adams AN OPPORTUNITY AND A CHALLENGE The greatest shortage in the American economic system is rubber. As a result drastic changes in the American mode of living is necessary. Most of Eur ope has gone back to the “horse and buggy days,” except there are few horses and no buggies. The automobile for civilian use there is almost non-existent. In America the automobile greatly changed our living. It helped to make cities bigger and small towns smaller, because peo ple thought nothing of going 50 to 100 miles to shop. As automo bile use is restricted, the small towns will now become more im portant. What does this mean to local merchants and business men? Doesn’t it suggest that the small town is about to have a rebirth as a trading center, and in this change isn’t there opportunity with a capital “O”? For these people “who have thought noth ing of going 50 to 100 miles to shop” now think more about the wear and tear on their automobile tires. They think more about shopping nearer home. But do not think, Mr. Merchant and Mr. Business Man, that peo ple are going to be forced to trade with you because you are located where you are. It is not going to be as easy as that to get back the trade that has been going away, for the merchants in the cities are not going to surrender that trade without a fight. The big city papers bring their advertis ing message into your community and they are using every method they can—including perhaps the development of mail order bus iness—to hold on to that trade. Preaching the doctrine of “trade at home” isn’t enough. Urging people to support “home enter prise” isn’t enough. You have got to show them why trading at home means money in their pock ets; that they can buy as good quality at home as elsewhere. This car crisis offers an opportun ity for showing them. The Frontier, which covers Holt county very well, can help you reach the people. You will al ways find us willing and ready to work for you as your sales man, as we firmly believe in building up O’Neill and Holt county in any way possible. Crowded Out Last Week Miss Ruth Watson of Inman visited Miss Lydia Halva on Tues day of this week. Mr. and Mrs. Miles Finley of Norfolk visited friends here last Sunday. The Presbyterian Ladies Guild met Thursday afternoon, April 1, at the home of Mrs. Ryland Parker. Hugh Connelly of Tilden has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Cars ten Hanson and family for the past few days. Misses Madalaine Hynes and Lavonne Borg spent the week end in Grand Island. Miss Katherine Murray of Om aha spent the week-end here vis iting her mother, Mrs. Theresa Murray. Lieut. Harold R. Tushla of At kinson has been cited for an award presented Tuesday by headquarters of the Eighth Air Force Command in London. Be sides being the recipient of the air medal, he also received an oak leaf cluster. Mr. and Mrs. George Worth and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Worth of Dal ton visited their brother and fam ily, Bob Worth, and sister and Sho. .. Rationing Emphasizes the Importance of Brown-McDonald Shoe Quality Brown-McDonald built a shoe business based on Quality and Value. Now—even with shoe rationing—you can still get excellent quality in the price brackets you have been used to paying. Thrift-minded folks, rationed to three pairs of shoes per year, want to get the most for their shoe money. You can do just that at Brown-McDonald’?. 9 98 3-98 4-98 1. Square toe oxford with me dium heel and walled last. For sport or street wear. Pair $3.98 2. Trim dress oxford with the higher heel. Smart perforation trim on vamp. AAA to B width. $4.50 3. Shoe for all occasions. Wall ed toe, medium heel, a large flap tongue, saddle stitched. $3.98 4. Press pump, a stepin with a scroll trim at instep, modified heel. AAA to B widths at $4.98 5. Moccasin type sport oxford In brown leather and with leather sole. Long wearing, comfy. $2.98 r~_ husband, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Carr, in O’Neill this week. E. H. Chase and Harry Pelcer of Atkinson were visitors in the city Tuesday evening. The glider plant at Alliance has brought so many soldiers and oth ers to that town that business men are wringing their hands in despair, says a press report. They cannot get enough goods to sup ply the demand. There is not enough entertainment in town for the soldiers. The drug stores have to close Sunday because their sup ply of rationed goods is not equal to the demand. Several restau rants had to close for lack of help and those that are still open find it difficult to get enough sup plies.—Battle Creek Enterprise. 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