The Frontier
O’Neill. Nebraska
CARROLL W. STEWART
Editor and Publisher
Entered the Postoffice at O’Neill.
Holt County, Nebraska, as sec
ond-class mail matter under the
Act of March 3, 1879. This news
paper is a member of the Nebras
ka Press Association and the Na
uonal Editorial Association.
Established in 1880
Published Each Thursday
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rear.
INMAN NEWS
Harry Johnson and son, Clif
ford, of Newport, spent Wednes
day afternoon and evening visit
ing Mr. and Mrs. Bill Butterfield.
Richard Roberts, of Ewing,
spent Monday evening visiting
his grandmother, Mrs. Kate
Smith.
Donald Keyes came Tuesday
from Springfield, where he has
been employed. After March 1,
Donald and his father, Karl, j
will return to farming.
Joe Gallagher returned from
Omaha Saturday where be has
been visiting his sister, Mrs. Neal’
Chase.
Miss Bea Gallagher went to
Omaha Tuesday to spend a few
days visiting her sister, Mrs. Neal
Chase.
Mrs. Anna Smith left Sunday
for Lincoln, where she will visit
her sister-in-law, Mrs. Eva Mur
ten, who has entered Bryan Me
morial hospital for surgery.
Mr. and Mrs. John Watson, of
O’Neill, visited in the Ira Watson
home Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Vern Butler and
children, of Neligh, spent Sunday
with Mr. Butler’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. A. N. Butler.
Mrs. Howard Miller, of Ewing,
is caring for her mother, Mrs.
Etta Trowbridge, in the Anna
Smith home while Mrs. Smith iy
in Linclon.
John Carey left Monday for his
home at Henderson, la., after vis
iting his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Pearl Cary.
Robert Retke returned Thurs
day from San Francisco, Calif.,
where he has been visiting rela
tives.
Harmony Meets —
INMAN — The Harmony club
met Tuesday afternoon with Mrs.
J. T. Thompson, sr. The after
noon was spent visiting and a
luncheon was served by the
hostess.
Mrs. Coleman Hostess ,—
INMAN — The LL club met
Wednesday with Mrs. George
Coleman, sr. The members spent
the afternoon sewing. At the
close of the afternoon a lunch
was served.
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NOTICE:
Dr. Edw. J. Norwood, O. D.,
Optometrist, from Crawford,
Neb., will be in O’Neill on
! February 28 at the Golden
Hotel. 39-41
Eyes Exam'd-Glasses Fitted
“ DANCE
At
SUMMERLAND
Ewing
Sunday, Feb. 16
Music by
HANK WINDER
and His VSA Orchestra
ipRAIRIELAND FOMAINE |
S SAUNDERS
' TAT ATKINSON
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LINCOLN—Under the influ
ence cf a steady gale from the
arctic circle the concrete had
become treacherous in spots. I
don't know how batter to pic
ture the resultant street scene
than to borrow from an old
school book.
Mary wLnt to the frontdoor
last evening to see if the paper
boy had come. She had been
addressing me for the purpose
of correcting what she pleased
to call my “cold molasses" style
of moving around. As she op
ened the door, she remarked,
“I like to see a body move
quickly, prompt, emphatic . .
That was all; then I heard
someone bumping down the
steps in a most prompt and em
hatic manner, and I reached
the door just in time to see
Mary sliding across the side
walk in a sitting posture. I
suggested, as she limped back
to the door, that there might be
such a thing as too much celer
ity; but she did not seem in
clined to carry on the conver
sation and I started for my of
fice.
Right in front of me on the
slippery sidewalk strode two
independent knights of St. Cris
pin. They were talking over
their plans for the future, and
as I overtook them I heard one
of them say: “I have only my 1
two hands to depend upon; but |
it is fortune enough for any
man who is not afraid to work.
I intend to paddle my own ca
noe. I believe I can make my
own way through the world
. . .” His feet slipped out from
under him and he came down
in me snape oi a big v. i
told him he never could make
his way through the world in
that direction, unless he came
down harder, and if he did he
would come through among the
“heathen Chinese.” He was
grateful for the interest I man
ifested, and invited me to a
place where ice never forms
on the sidewalks.
Then 1 slid along behind a
loving couple on their way to
hear Madame Anna Bishop.
Their hands were frozen to
gether. Their hearts beat as
one. Said he: “My own, I
shall think nothing of hard
work if I can make you happy.
It shall be my only aim to sur
round you with comfort. My
sympathy shall lighten every
sorrow, and through the path of
life I shall be your stay and
support; your . . .” He stopped.
His speech was too flowery for
this climate, and as I passed
she was trying to lift him up.
Two lawyers coming from the
VUMI illl/UOU 1UAI U L tl uv. ICU Illy
attention. “Ah,'’ said one,
“Judge Foster would rule that
out. We must concede the first
two points. We can afford to
do it if evidence sustains us in
the third, but on this position
we must make one firm stand,
and . . .” His time was up. I
left him moving Tor a new trial.
What a lesson the ice teaches
us. How easy is man controlled
by circumstances, and the at
traction of gravitation. What a
sermon might be based . . .
I got up and took the middle
of the street to prevent further
accidents.
* * *
It has been known as Boulder
dam long enough to serve the
vindictive purpose of small
souls and the proposal to re
store the original name to that
masterful work of engineering
could hardly be objected to. Mr.
Hoover has emerged from un
just, censorious blame to loom
large in recent years; has been
big enough to sacrifice person
al interests and respond to the
call where he could serve his
country and the cause of hu
manity.
* • •
It will take something more
than a few crafty spies from in- j
sane Europe to overthrow the
government of the United
States.
<
I am not cne to belittle any
one’s religious connections
though undoubtedly some dem
agogues make a racket of it, but
those deluded dupes down there
below the Mason and Dixon
line who drink strychnine, toy
with rattles and corme heads,
as a part of their creed, should
have their heads thumped to
see if they could contain a mod
icum of sense.
* * *
Assessor L. G. Gillespie was
in Lincoln a few days last week
looking in on the legislature
Wednesday and participating in
the deliberations of the assess
ors’ association Thursday and
Friday. Mr. Gillespie came
from O’Neill with his son, Ben
net Gillespie, who took in a
gathering of Skelgas dealers in
the capital city.
* * *
About everything except su
gar and rents has been res
cued from the OPA price con
trol with satisfactory results,
leaving little excuse for ration
book number 4 to continue clut
tering milady’s purse.
* * *
The glamorous “World of To
morrow” built once on Flush
ing Meadows was ignominiously
submerged in the tragic reality
of the world of today.
* * •
Nothing ia quite up to its ad
vertised merit—honest adver
tising laws to the contrary just
the same.
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PA PAP LEG ICS REFUSE TO BE GROUNDED
Though confined to wheel
chairs by war-inflicted back in
juries, these three patients at a
Veterans Administration hospi
tal at Memphis, Ten., refuse to
be grounded. Russell Heriford
(right) exparatrooper from
Thornfield, Mo., bought the
new plane and cut his two air
minded buddies, Herbert Pauly
(left), Washington, la., and
Complete Lesson Study
AMELIA— The Amelia Pro
gressive club met last Thursday
at the home of Mrs. Vern Sagesser
with 16 members and one visitor
present. The lesson “Avoiding
Property Losses and Tangles,'
which was begun at the last meet
ing, was finished at this session.
A covered dish luncheon was ser
ved at noon.
Shiegmitsu Suyetani (center),
Seattle, Wash., into his flight
training schedule. Their in- |
structor, R. S. Weaver (stand
ing) says all three will solo
soon. None had previous pilot
instruction. Pauly was hit by a
sniper near Bastogne. The
American-born Japanese was
wounded in Italy while serving
with the famed 442d combat
team.
Entertain Mothers, Friends
AMELIA—The Live Wire Girls
4-H club held a party Thursday
evening at the home of their lead
er, Mrs. Vern Sageser. The girls
invited their mothers and a few
friends as guests. Some demon
strations were given and games
were played. Mrs. Sageser gave a
report of her trip to Linclon.
Mrs. Daniel Sullivan, and I week here with Mrs. Sullivan’s
laughter, Rita, returned Tuesday [mother, Mrs. Ross Ridgeway, who
to St. Libory after spending a | was ill. •
McCARVILLES
Luggage
Headquarters
ALL
SIZES
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FROM
OVERNIGHTS ■ ■ 3.48
TO
HETAL LOCKER TRUNKS ■ 13.95
* TAX INCLUDED
McCarvilles .
CLOTHING : READY-TO-WEAR : SHOES
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Check for $981,660,783
un rural routes everywhere m America, on snowy
highways of the north, on sunny tn^-ways of the
south, live the 5,500,000 ranch amHarm families
who produce America’s supply of food. It’s a big
supply, too, the greatest in the world. From your
farms and ranches in 1946 came livestock, dairy
and poultry products and crops to the value of
about twenty-three billion dollars, according to
latest available government estimates. Meat ani
mals and dairy and poultry products accounted
for about 60 percent of the total farm cash in
come, current estimates reveal. Agriculture, the
nation’s most essential industry, is "big busi
ness” in every sense of the phrase.
Of all your cash income last year, $981,660,783*
came from Swift & Company in payments for
livestock and other agricultural raw materials.
We purchased your livestock and other products
and converted them into millions of pounds of
quality meats, valuable by-products, other foods
and products. Part of the money you received
®Soda Bill Sez: . . . what's wrong with
people is not their ignorance, but the num
ber of things they know that aren't so.
from Swift came from our meat packing plants,
dairy and poultry plants and buying stations.
Another portion of the money paid out by us
was for soybeans, cottonseed, peanuts and other
raw materials.
Swift provides a wide, ready, year ’round mar
ket for your livestock and other products—and
out of every dollar we receive in a year from
sales, we return, on the average, 75«f to you. Last
year, 1.3^ out of each dollar of sales was profit.
Part of this amount was paid out as dividends to
the 63,365 shareholders as a return on their in
vestment. Part was retained in the business for
future needs. -
*The actual amount paid for livestock and other agricultural products is
greater than shown by the amount of the subsidies paid by the Government.
Returns for Savings. It is not the investment of I
a few rich people that has built Swift & Company,
but the pooled savings of 63,365 people. Among
them you’ll find farmers, ranchers, lawyers, doc
tors, mechanics, business people—folks from every
walk of life . . . including 29,941 women.
The savings these shareholders have invested in
Swift & Company provide the plants and facilities
—the tools with which we handle your products. !
The return for their thriftiness comes to them as
dividends paid out of the company’s profit. In 1946
that dividend amounted to $1.90 a share.
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For People ... By People
We at Swift & Company think of our business as
being owned by 63,365 people, the shareholders
and their families, and operated by 66,000 em
ployes. We provide essential services for agricultural
producers and many other large groups of people.
Employment is created for other thousands who
work for railroads, trucking firms, livestock com
mission houses, stockyards companies', and the
suppliers who furnish us salt, sugar, boxes, barrels,
machinery and a thousand-and-one other things.
A part of the business of thousands upon thou
sands of retailers everywhere in the nation is in
purveying Swift’s quality meats and other prod
ucts to millions of American families.
In return for all the effort that made these serv
ices possible, the folks who work for Swift earned
$164,013,099 in wages and salaries in 1946. This
sum is 88% of the total remaining after all bills
except taxes were paid, and is ten times more than
the company’s total net profit.
FEED VALUES ARE
SOIL VALUES
by Wm. A. Albrecht
University of Missouri
Recently a farmer friend of mine
told me, "I’ve moved to another
Wm A. Albrecht farm where I get bigger yields in
all my feed crops. Rut even though 1 shovel much
more corn and pitch a lot more hay, 1 can’t get my
calves to market as early. I’m just not growing as
much meat per acre.”
This man doesn’t realize that feed bulk is no
indication of feed value. Livestock will not gain
more on larger rations unless the feed value of
any crop is derived from the basic plant food ele
ments found in the soil. The crop must first build
up the woody structure that makes up its bulk.
Then, if soil conditions are right, the plant will
store up a supply of the raw materials of protein,
vitamins, and mineral compounds. Thus, whether
a crop offers anything more than bulk and fatten
ing power depends on the condition of the soil on
which it grew. Lii>estock may be fed great quantities
of feedstuffs produced on poor soils and still fail to
gain weight. Tt is soil that has been guarded against
erosion, fertilized properly, and carefully managed,
that grows nutritious crops. Such soil will produce
crops that give better feeding results and make
more meat per acre.
Swift & Company
UNION STOCK YARDS, CHICAGO 9, ILLINOIS
Nutrition is oar business—and yours
"WHERE DID THAT $1,308,364,15 5 GO?"
During 1946 Swift & Company received $1,308,364,155 ^ from the sale of its
products and by-products. By the end of the year the Company had
earned a net profit of $16,394,739, which is slightly less than 1.34 (£/ $ on each dollar of sales.
fa//za£ to t/ie mcmeyf
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Well, the largest part was paid to farmers and ronchers who sold us
livestock ond other agricultural products. They got $981,660,783* or 754
out of the average sales dollar we received for products sold, including all by-products such as
hides, wool, soybean meal, etc. ^
The next largest portion of our sales dollar went to all Swift employes.
Their share of the dollar was 12.64.
Fuel barrels boxes paper salt sugar and other
supplies took 4.84 out of the average dollar. *
Transportation took 24. <£)(£) (Meat travels, on the average, over 1,000 miles I
from producer to consumer.)
^ Taxes took another 14. (f*) All other expenses, including depreciation,
interest and miscellaneous business costs, amounted to 3.34. (C)(£)(?) :-. Q
All these costs taken out of the sales dollar left 1.34. This was Swift & Company's net
profit in 1946— a profit of only % of 14 QrJ on each pound of the millions of pounds of !
products and by-products handled. yu (“V. ^ !
Wm. B. Traynor, Vice President & Treasurer •* (
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