The Frontier
O'Neill. Nebraska
CARROLL W. STEWART
Editor and Publisher
Entered the Postoffice at O'Neill,
Unit County, Nebraska, as sec
ond-class mail matter under the
Act of March 3. 1879. This news
pr n«r is a member of the Nebras
ka Press Association and the Na
tional Editorial Association.
Established in 1880
Published Each Thursday
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In Holt and adjoining counties.
f> Der year; elsewhere, $2 50 per
}ear.
AMELIA NEWS
Mrs. Vern Sageser returned
home from Council Bluffs Sat
urday morning on the train.
She had been with her mother,
who is ill.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Wick
ham spent Sunday afternoon
and evening in the Alfred James
home.
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Small and
family were Sunday dinner
ruests in the Lawrence Barnett
home.
Rae Dee Wickham spent the
weekend with the Asa Matson
girls.
Mrs. Vernon Sparkes and Lon
rie spent Saturday night and
! nday with Gertia and Joan
1 /.dalr.
Mrs. Mamie Sammons and
r
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For a Good Time (
VISIT THE
OLD PLANTATION
CLUB
Elgin Nebr.
•Fine Food
• Dancing
• Entertainment
Members and their guests
are invited to visit the Old
Plantation Club.
Mrs. Hazel Ott went with Mrs.
Asa Matson and girls to Grand
Island Thursday.
Mrs. Ralph Rees gpve a talk
! at the Amelia school Friday af
ternoon on articles made in
China.
Mr. and Mrs George Fuller
ton and family were Sunday
dinner guests in the Harold Ful
lerton home.
Mrs. Lawrence Barnett treat
ed the small Amelia school
room to cake and jello Wednes
day afternoon, it being her
daughter’s birthday anniversary.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Dexter, Ben
Turk and Ed Coolidge were Sun
day dinner guests in the Ray
mond Bly home.
Rev. and Mrs. Floyd Mason,
and Mr. Hankins, of Ravenna,
visited Rev. Wesley Hankins
over the weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jungman
and the Lloyd Clemens family
spent Sunday at Milton Clem
ens’.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Johnston j
were Sunday visitors at the Si- '
las Johnston home.
GIRL SCOUT NEWS
The Irish Lassies Girl Scout
troop had its last first aid class
Sunday. Dr. W. F. Finley com
plimented us on our good atten
dance. We will have our exam
ination next Sunday, and will
then know how many of Us will
be awarded our first aid badges
the following Sunday.
After our first aid class, we
had our usual meeting with flag
salute, patriotic songs, and roll
call. We made plans for a hike
and weiner roast to be held on
May 4, if it is not raining.
Our investiture ceremony is
planned for Sunday, May 11.
Our new Girl Scouts will be
able to attend, and any other
girls who would like to be Girl
Scouts will be welcome. We
hope our mothers will all come,
too.
—Suzaane Moss, Troop Scribe
Mrs. M. B. Mareellus and chil
dren went to visit Mrs. Marcel
lus’ mother, Mrs. George Robert
son, of Springview. who is a pa
tient in the Stuart hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Bert E. DeGroff
Friday entertained their son,
Gerald, and his wife, Mrs. De
Groff and their new baby, of
Atkinson. Mrs. B. B. Kelly al
so accompanied the younger De
Groffs.
Mrs. D. D. DeBoJt visited in
Neligh Sunday her mother, Mrs.
Sophia Lusnett, who fell • and
broke her ankle.
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Corkle
Sunday visited Mr. and Mrs.
Gordon Harper.
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Merriman, Nebraska *
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ENVOY TO IRELAND
George A. Garrett, of Wash
ington, D. C., investment brok
er has been named by Presi
dent Truman as new U. S.
minister to Ireland. He will
succeed David Gray, who re
cently retired
BENITO’S SLAYER?
Walter Audiso, known in
wartime partisan circles as
“Col. Valerio,” is shown as he
told 10,000 Communists how
he personally executed Benito
Mussolini and Clara Petachi.
GOLF WINNER
Jimmy Demaret. 35, of Ajai,
Calif., the former Texas croon
er, won the 11th masters goif
championship for the second
time His score for the 72
holes was 281, seven under
par.
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LINCOLN — The defeat in
committee of the proposed
sales tax inspired a Lincoln ed
itorial writer to the venture
some guess as to what Nebras
ka voters had in mind in re
jecting the school amendment.
He credits the rejection of the
sales tax to “the thought on
the part of some members that
the voters had given the legis
lature a mandate to avoid a
sales tax when they over
whelmingly rejected the state
school aid amendment.” Then
he remarks: "Actually the vot
ers did nothing of the sort.”
Is that so? If you favored
the sales tax you could say
that? Then another evidence
of prophetic wisdom tells that
the voters were “against ap
proaching the question of a
sales tax obliquely.” Out
there in my precinct there
were no abstruce or "oblique”
ideas about a sales tax being
wrapped up in an amendment
package but the men and
women aligned their sights
and whaled away at dead cen
ter—and they knew what they
were shooting at.
• • •
It was A. D. 06. He was
about to be led from the dun
geon out beyond the wall of
old Rome; the swish of the
sword and his venerable head
rolled from the execution
block. Shortly before he had
thrown out the warning, “In
the last days perilous times
shall come.” Paul, here they
are. A top-heavy civilization
has overloaded itself with dan
gerous things, piled up ele
ents of destruction that in a
moment blows mankind and
his works into kingdom come
without an instant warning to
take to the tall timber. Tex
as City was the latest—unless
something worse happens be
fore this is printed—to be vis
ited by a disaster of appalling
horror. Disasters follow dis
asters, the angry crash of ex
plosions, forces of nature roar
ing with the breath of death
and devastation, and the skull
and cross bones riding at the
steering wheel. But why ex
patiate on the ruins spattered
with human blood and greased
with human flesh? The m n
istration of the Salvation Ar
my and other organizations as
well as the individual re
sponses to mitigate the suffer
ing are the only hopeful signs
of the “perilous times.” And
there is little assurance ol
safety in the mad whirl of the
age only as repose of soul is
found in spiritual assurance.
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In the 10 years of social se
curity payments by industry
and labor it is said that nine
billion dollars has been receiv
ed as a trust fund by the fed
eral government. Two per
cent of the Nation’s payroll
produces a sizeable fund. Of
tnis sum a billion and a half
dollars has been paid to retir
ed workers under what is
termed an “old age and surviv
or’s insurance.” The seven
and a half billion dollars that
should have been paid to re
tired workers has been “bor
rowed” by the government and
spent for other purposes. A
magazine writer recently
branded this sort of govern
ment manipulation as dishon
est. Nebraska citizens think
the same of the tran fer of
money paid by taxpayer's for a
specific purpose to another
fund. If a hapless jake would
abscond with four bits of U.
S. funds he’d have the FBI af
ter him.
* • •
Why spend a lot of money
and years of study acquiring a
trade or profession? Get a
two dollar spade and dig
ditches at $1.50 an hour.
gr^W™ "t GOES HOMeI
I TO HER MOTHER I GO TO THE 1
L HOTEL OMOCM/M
HOTEL LINCOLN sleeping rooms are
1 new and streamlined — none better I
HOTEL LINCOLN food—something to
write home aboutl
HOTEL LINCOLN
l amas-agao ice watei _ home of leqiom .clot.
fcH ETtur BOOM LINCOLN, NEB*. FINEST W AMERICA
Just how reliable is the no
tion of “worn out land?” Just
what help comes from spread
ing fertilizer on crop lands?
Trees develop and bear fruit
from season to season without
the aid of manure and grass
repeats itself from year to year
with no encouragement
through artificial means. The
notion prevails that the fertili
ty of the soil becomes exhaust
ed and requires a coat of fer
tilizer. Soil is but one agency
in producing growing things.
Sunlight, air, rain and even
moonbeams play a part; and
the efficiency fo these agencies
are not renewed by any con
trivance of men. The ancient
Hebrews renewed the fertility
of the soil by the simple expe
dient of letting, it lie idle once
in seven years and the ox
teams with their swarthy driv
ers having a year’s vacation.
In this strenuous and grasping
period of agriculture a fellow
would be counted pretty lazy
if he did not work his fields
for a year.
* * *
Gov. Blue told a crowd of
wild-eyed unionists that the |
Iowa legislature was not a rub
ber stamp for any executive or
pressure group. The union
crowd had gone to the state
house to bring pressure to bear
against the passage of a meas
ure to ban the closed shop.
Unions having abandoned
their legitimate field of activ
ity and become more or less
arrogant and insolent have in
curred public disfavor and in
vited legislation to subdue
them. The situation in Eng
land illustrates what happens
when labor organizations take
over government functions.
• * *
God knows the world is
weighted with a burden of
troubles without taking on a
program of the busy-bodies
who want to disrupt our time
system by calendar changes
embodied in H. R. 1242 and H.
R. 1345, now in committee of
the House of Representatives.
Their scheme would do away
with the weekly cycle that has
flowed uninterrupted since
time began.
* * *
The Lord knows most of our
mothers are entitled to the lit
tle public tribute that comes
their way, but who can say
which is to be America’s or
Nebraska’s state mother?
Marian Anderson, the queen
of song and a giantess beside
her accompanist, with regal
bearing ana matchless plat
form manner captivated a Lin
coln throng that filled the uni
versity coliseum the night of
April 15. The printed program
occupied four pages of a six
page folder but admitted not a
dull moment throughout the
long evening. Instruments
discourse “concord of sweet
sound’’ but the human voice
rolls a transcending charm un
matched in the realm of music.
• • •
Hitherto thrifty Norway ne
gotiates a 10 million dollar
loan in New York City, the
world’s treasure storehouse for
cold cash.
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After two great wars in the
name of freedom not more
than one-tenth of Earth’s peo
ples are- actually free.
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fcour peddlers at the door
within an hour. Are old times
on the way back?
I asked one of the workmen
why an apparently substantial
stone building on a busy cor
ner was being torn down.
“About to fall down,” was the
curt response. That was prob
ably as good an answer as any
to an inquisitive stranger, but
it reminded me of the verbal
observation of a friend who
had watched the wrecking of a
building. “They done gone
tore down and throwed away
more than I made in all my
life,” he said in a rich Texas
drawl.
• • •
The action of the House
committee on appropriations
making a cut of 47 percent out
of the funds for the interior
department is cordially rec
ommended to appropriation *
committees everywhere.
* * *
Mr. Wallace may be of no
more importance than any oth
er Iowa corn planter, but in an
exchange of courtesies with a
Britisher we should be loyal
to our kind.
ARE YOU THE MAN
FOR THIS POSITION?
Must have some selling ability, some mechanical
aptitude, steady and reliable, good personality, and
able to meet the public to some degree.
References required. Age limits 25 to 35 years,
if single; and not over 38 years, if married. High
school education is desireable.
This position is now open in our service department
for steady employment with good compensation
and good working conditions.
NO PHONE CALLS
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JACK DAVIS or RAY EBY
MIDWEST MOTOR CO., LTD.
“Your CHEVROLET Dealer”
BENEFIT
DANCE
O’NEILL HOSPITAL
TUESDAY, MAY 13 th
— Sponsored by the —
O’Neill Lions Club
DANCELAND ... O’NEILL
Music by
Duffy Belorad
AND HIS ORCHESTRA
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ADMISSION: Each — $1.20, (Including Tax)
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