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The Way To Poverty
Reports from the American As
sociation of Petroleum Geologists
and the American Petroleum In
stitute indicate that there still re
mains unexplored approximately
1,000,000,000 acres ox geological
formation in which oil may be
found in the United States. Not
only does this vast area remain
unexplored, but today oil is being
produced from sands found at a
depth of 13,175 feet, and present
equipment makes it possible to
drill to a depth exceeding 15,000
feet—as contrasted to 59 feet for
the first well drilled in 1859. In
addition to oil resources being
plentiful, scientists are continual
ty increasing the power of gaso
line, thus tending to conserve
supplies.
At present the belief seems
prevalent in some government
regulatory agencies that the price
of oil has nothing to do with oil
production. But a protracted oil
shortage will be the fault of man,
rather than the fault of nature,
if oil prices are held at levels
which prohibit exploration and
development, and disregard pro
duction costs. As long as that
fallacy is maintained, the oil
shortage will grow worse instead
of better.
We will one day again realize
that the greatness of this nation
lies in its generosity in reward
ing those who work and produce
for the benefit of society.
Ruinous Monopoly
The leaders of the nation’s larg
est labor union, the United Auto
mobile and Aircraft Workers, CIO,
have asked the government to
take over and run basic private
industries after the war, on the
grounds that such industries are
“monopolistic” and strategically
necessary to the national safety.
It is a strange thing for leaders
in any branch of public or private
life to advocate further govern
ment domination over thifc-iDdi
vidual in a nation that is spend
ing three or four hundred billion
dollars to crush government con
trol over individuals in other na
tions. They either do not know
what they are asking, or they are
deliberately advocating state so
cialism—precisely the same kind
of liberty - destroying socialism
Americans despise.
It is also strange to see those
leaders demanding socialism of
industry on the plea of strategic
necessity. This war is being won
because private industry, the
plane and tank factories, the ship
yards. the coal and metal mines,
the oil, electric power pnd other
natural resource industries turned
to the task of budding a war ma
chine from scratch with a do-or
die determination. Success has
been achieved, 16* an undreamed
of degree—success that has been
marred by but one serious inci
dent over which management had
no control: the coal strike. After
industry has proved its ability to
meet a war emergency efficiently
and quickly, it is pure hvprocrisy
to demand that it be taken over
by government in the interests
of national safety.
It is even stranger for leaders
of organized labor to advocate
government ownership of indus
try on the ground of monopoly.
Any industry that is a monopoly
can be regulated or otherwise
controlled by law. On the other
hand, unions have demonstrated
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WAR BONDS
School Days |
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\ When our fighters fly at 400 miles
•n hour with a Jap Zero or a Mes
serschmidt on their tails there isn’t
much time for cogitation so the
Army and the Navy ahow at many
motion pictures of actual dog fights
and air battle* as poaaible to our
atudent fliers.
Pictures of trainer Sights, bomb
ing Sights and Sights by Sghters are
ail a part of the routine for our stu
dent pilots and must be drilled into
them just as it is necessary for us
to remind ourselves daily of the ne
cessity to buy an extra $100 Bond
la September.
BURNING STUBBLE FIELDS
EXPENSIVE TO FARMERS
Burning of a stubble field may
take $5.00 an acre out of the profit
on the 1944 wheat crop, judging
from results at the Nebraska Ex
periment Station at Lincoln.
In an experiment at the agron- j
omy fertility plots covering an
eight-year period beginning in
1921, yields of wheat were in
creased on the average from two
to three bushels per acre by the
application of one ton of straw.
In one year there was an increase
of seven bushels per acre and only
in one instance was yield reduced
as much as one-half bushel per
acre by the straw. This detra' ts
from the belief of some farmers
that turning under combined
straw decreases the yield of the
following crop of wheat, and that
burning the straw is therefore a
profitable practice.
During the last five years at the
Lincoln station, Dr. F. L. Duley
reports that with the application
of two tons of straw per acre,
yields of wheat averaged 4Mj bush
els more than where no straw was
applied, or the stubble burned. In
every instance the return of two
tons of straw per acre gave a
higher yield than plots with the
stubble removed.
Burning stubble destroys nitro
gen, one of the essential plant
foods. The addition of organic
matter and humus to the soil in
creases the absorption and water
holding capacity of the soil. Vege
tative residues on or near the sur
face increases infiltration, reduce
evaporation, and prevent blowing
of the soil.
In preparing a seedbed for
wheat, tillage of stubble fields im
mediately after small grain har
vest is important to kill weeds,
sprout volunteer grains, and start
decay of straw, if the stubble is
excessively heavy. EarHness of
tillage is believed to be an im
portant factor in obtaining favor
able results on fields covered with
a heavy stubble.
Stubble fields that will not be
cropped to wheat in 1944 may
save much more moisture than
bare or burned fields. Of seven
inches of rain received at Lincoln
in the fall of 1940, only one-sixth
of an inch ran off a combined
stubble field, while nearly twenty
times as much or over three
inches ran off a bare field.
their ability to wreck private in
dustry, just as they have demon
strated their power to say when,
where and how millions of pri
vate citizens may make a living.
They exercise unregulated, mo
nopolistic power over the most
valuable asset the nation posses
ses—the American workmen.
If this kind of monopoly pre
vails, our days of individual lib
erty are numbered.
The Pattern Remains
Management of industry and
the destinies of private citizens
are increasingly subject to the
control of federal government.
Under the weight of this growing
authority, private industry and
the liberties of the individuals
are steadily being undermined.
The coal industry is an exam
ple. Representative Robertson of
Virginia ably showed during con
gressionable hearings on the
question of renewing the Bitum
inous Coal Act, how that Act, os
tensibly enacted to put a floor
under the price of coal, in reality
increased the wages of one group
of workers at the expense of coal
consumers and resulted in bring
ing the industry and the workers
therein under complete govern
ment domination. It used the
power of taxation to penalize coal
operators who sold below decreed
coal prices. It encouraged strikes
and wage demands which employ
ers were powerless to meet on an
equal footing before the law. In
stead of rescuing the industry and
the miners from the rut of depres
sion, it created turmoil and strife
and ever-tighter federal control.
Today the coal mines are so
cialized.
As Mr. Robertson pointed out.
the Bituminous Coal Act set a
pattern for post-war operations of
the government in business. The
Act has been removed from the
statute books but the pattern still
remains. The cards are still stack
ed against private operation of in
dustry. Congress could render no
greater service to the country than
by kicking out pressure-group
legislation and equalizing the
laws under which they must op
erate. Congressman like Repre
sentative Robertson are to be
commended for efforts to awaken
Congress to the task that lies
ahpad.
South Side Imp. Club
The South Side Improvement
Club met with Mrs. Walter Pease
on August 4. Miss Lewis, of the
State Extension Service, Mrs. Bob
Pease and Mrs. Alfred Martens
were guests. As this was a Red
Cross meeting, roll call was ans
wered by some good things the
Rtd Cross has done. Mrs. Wink
ler’s story of what was done by
tha4 order for her son in service,
at the time of their recent be
reavement, was good.
When the death, message arriv
ed in camp, Eddie was fishing.
When he returned his papers
were ready, bag packed and a
plane held to get him to Denver
to catch a bus for Grand Island.
After the business meeting Miss
Lewis gave an interesting talk on
project work and 4-H activities,
and then the auction began, con
ducted by Mrs. Bert Gaffney, and
is she good! Twelve dollars were
raised and a total of $31 was turn
ed over to the Red Cross.
Mrs. Tenborg and Mrs. Winkler
served a high-calorie lunch which
was so good. Next meeting will
be held with Mrs. Winkler on
Wednesday, September 1.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles McKenna
went to Scribner Saturday, where
they met their son, Gene, who
has been attending summer school
at Wayne. They are visiting their
son and wife, Lieutenant and Mrs.
Hugh McKenna. Lieut. McKenna
is stationed at the Scribner Air
Base.
DON’T LET DOWN
DUTINO BONDS
The real test of your courage and endurance
is just beginning. Taxes will make increasingly
heavy demands on your income. Living costs
are going up. Your budget is being strained
to the bursting point. Still you must buy more
and more War Bonds if the war is to be won
— won without delay and without serious
inflation here at home. Buy your Bonds every
pay day, through a payroll plan or here at
the bank. We sell War Bonds without com
pensation or profit, as a patriotic service.
O’NEILL NATIONAL BANK
O’NEILL, NEBRASKA
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
An Irishman’s Salute To
Montana Jack Sullivan
I turn and look down Memory
Lane
For the gamest guy all the way
hack.
And I raise my hat or* my black
thorn cane
In salute—to Montana Jack.
Only a kid, and, at that, rather
light
They matched him to go, up the
Black Hills Line
In a winner-take-all, forty-five
round fight
With a clever, colossal Shine.
His friends bet plenty on Jack
to win
And though he was badly out
weighed,
From the opening gong he waded
in,
For tne forty-five rounds Jack
stayed.
Now some fellows quit when the
going is tough,
Some flop with a cheap alibi,
Few will fight on when the bat- j
tie is rough,
Fight on for their friends or die.
But Montana Jack would fight to
the death,
He proved it at Crawford that
night.
There was courage to burn in his
every breath.
He’s a hero in my spotlight.
I turn and look down Memory
Lane
For the gamest guy in the pack,
And I raise my hat on my black
thorn carte
In salute—to Montana Jack.
(The above poem was submit
ted to the Butte. Mont., Standard
by a Chicago friend of Montana
Jack Sullivan, who is now Butte’s
city electriciaa. The poet wrote the
following footnote to his poem:
(In 1907, Frank Leahy, father
of the present Notre Dame foot
ball coach, who then lived at
O’Neill, Nebr., made a match for
Jack Sullivan, now living in
Butte, to fight a supposedly col
ored soldier 45 rounds at Craw
ford, Nebr. Jack's opponent turn
ed out to be Nat Dewey, one of
the great heavyweight fighters of
that era. The people of O’Neill
bet $10,000 on Sullivan. The fight i
went 45 rounds to a draw, Dewey, j
weighing 200 pounds against I
Jack’s 150, had been imported
from New York by a group of
Deadwood gamblers. The above
verse was written in tribute to
Sullivan’s courage).
BRIEFLY STATED
Miss Della Bartos spent Sun
day in Page visiting her father,
James Bartos, and other relatives
and friends.
Misses Patty Wood and Irene
Hershiser left Saturday for Den
ver to spend a week’s vacation
visiting relatives and friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Waldrop of |
Kearney came Wednesday to visit
her mother, Mrs. Theresa Mur-'
ray, and other relatives and
friends.
The Misses Donna Gallagher,
Leah Her, Mary Miles and Yvonne
Sirek, spent Sunday in Stuart
visiting Miss Alvara Ramm and
Miss Mary Jewel Walker. They
returned home Monday.
Cpl. Jack Cromwell, of Tuscon.
Arizona; Mrs. C. E. Cromwell and
son of Salina, Kansas; Mr. and
Mrs. O. G. Cromwell, of Creigh
ton, spent Sunday and Monday
here at the Marvin Johnson home.
Miss Mary Lois Mohr spent
Sunday in Atkinson, visiting her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Mohr
and with other relatives and
friends.
Miss Marjorie Graybill returned
to her home in David City on
Wednesday, after visiting Mr. and
Mrs. John Harbottle for several
days.
Bill Harbottle, of Pasadena,
Cal., returned to his home last
Thursday, after visiting his
brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. John Harbottle, for the past
month.
The Eastern Star chapter en
tertained at a farewell handker
chief shower at the home of Mrs.
Harry Clausen last Thursday
evening in honor of Mrs. Emma
Dickinson Weekes.
Pvt. and Mrs. John Fox, of
Fort Bragg, Fayettville, North
Carolina, came last Thursday to
visit relatives and friends. Pvt.
Fox returned to camp today,
while Mrs. Fox remained for a
longer visit.
Mrs. L. A. Burgess and daugh
ter, Joan, went to Scribner last
Saturday, where they met War
ren Burgess, who had been at
tending summer school at Wayne.
They then left for Omaha and
Fremont to visit relatives and
friends for a few days.
Jack Gallagher, son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. C. Gallagher of this city,
and John Osenbaugh, son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. D. Osenbaugh, also of
O’Neill, who were recently in
ducted into the United States
Navy, are now stationed at the
United States Naval Training
Station at Farragut, Idaho, where
they will receive their basic train
ing.
Mrs. Lee Mathrie and Mrs.
Floyd Fast, of Butte, and Mrs.
Harvey Rosengreen of Rockford,
Illinois, visited here on Tuesday.
Pfc. Don Vequist, Wright Field,
Dayton, Ohio, arrived here Fiiday
to spend a ftfteen-day furlough
visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Vequist, and other rel
atives and friends.
Mrs. H. B. Hubbard and daugh
ter, Fern, of Lincoln, spent the
week-end here on a business trip.
They also visited friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Housman of
Elgin, visited relatives here on
Wednesday.
rlf Hitter wins, the Issue
for you will be living itself
and not Just the cost of liv
ing. Think that over and fig
ure it out for yourself how
much beyond 10 percent of
your family income you should put
into War Bonds every payday.
School Clothes
Save Money!
Start school sewing now. You
can whip up a school dress
easy as pie from these easy
to sew fabrics and save money.
Choose from ample stocks.
PRINTS f
59c .
RAYON prints, fast color in
pretty florals, stripes, fig
ures. Attractive colors in
various smart combinations.
PERCALE
29c
Fine, smoothly woven per
cales, sanforized shrunk.
Solid colors and figures.
Takes so little to make a
school dress.
SUITING
49c
Cotton suitings in popular
plaids, seersuckers in clean,
crisp stripes, spun rayons. ^
Early choosing is best. ^
CREPES
79c
Printed french crepes,
gaberdines and solid col*
or sport fabrics for jump
er style dresses. Popnlar
colors.
JERSEY
1.98 yd.
50% Wool Jersey for dressy
type Fall frocks. 54 inches
wide in red. green, Dutch
tan. navy, and black.
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Mrs. Edward Campbell return
ed Saturday from Rochester
Minn., where she had been receiv
ing medical treatment.
Relatives here have received
word 'ihat Mr. and Mrs. Russell
Bowen, of Bemidji, Minn., are the
parents of a daughter, born Au
gust 8. The baby has been
named Linda Dell.
Mr. Norton, of Omaha, who is
a member of the F.B.I., was a
visitor in this city on business
Wednesday.
Pvt. Ivan French, of Omaha,
arrived Saturday to visit his par
ents, Dr. and Mrs. O. W. French
and other relatives and friends.
Miss Esther Lindberg returned
Friday from Omaha, uffcere she
had been visiting Mr. and Sirs.
Ralph Swanson.
Miss Arlene Elkins returned to
Norfolk on Sunday, after visiting
relatives and friends for a few
days.
Sister Calixta. Miss Genevieve
Biglin, Mrs. Ben Harty and
daughter, Helen, and Mrs. Mattie
i Soukup, went to Sioux City on
, Thursday. Sister Calixta and Miss
Genevieve Biglin had been vis
I
iting relatives and friends here
for several days. Miss Harty will
«mter a hospital for medical treat
ment.
Mrs. Robert Miles and daughter,
Betty Jean, of Chambers, spent
the week-end here visiting Mr.
and Mrs. G. E. Miles.
Mrs. Catherine Keiser and
daughter, Patty, will leave Satur
day for Rapid City, S. D., to visit
Dr. and Mrs. L. R. Suttcliffe for
a few days.
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The American Legion Auxiliary
met Wednesday evening in the
assembly room at the court house.
The state convention in Norfolk
on August 22 and 23 was the main
topic of discussion. All members
are cordially invited to attend the
convention.
S. 2-c Bill Wilson returned to
his duties at Farragut, Idaho, last
Friday, after spending a furlough
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Ray Wilson of Redbird.
FARM LOANS
If yoQ are contemplating buying a farm we will
loan you fifty per cent of the purchase price.
Low attractive rates, prompt service, no red
tape. See our local correspondent or write
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