THE FRONTIER .... O'NtILL, NEBR.
CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher
Entered the postoffice at O’Neill, Holt county, Nebraska,
as second-class mail matter under the Act of Congress of March
8, 1879. This newspaper is a member of the Nebraska Press
Association and the National Editorial Association.
Established in 1880—Published Each Thursday
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PRAIRIELAND
.. . TALK
By
ROMAINE
SAUNDERS
LINCOLN — Arm the na
tion to the teeth, leagues and
world courts, United States of
Europe, and other plans are
urged to insure world peace.
Where would the capital of an
other United States be? In
London, Paris, Rome, Berlin,
Moscow, Athens or . on Scan
dinavian soil?
In 600 B. C. a Hebrew pro
phet, a captive in old Babylon,
set at naught all efforts to
gather up the scrap heap of
nations in Europe in these
words:
And as the toes of the feet
were part of iron and part
of clay . . . and whereas thou
sawesl iron mixed with miry
clay, they shall not them
selves with the seed of men;
but they shall not cleave one
to another, even as iron is
not mixed with clay.
At the close of World War I,
statesmen and the wise of
Earth sought for a way to per
manent peace. At the foot of
a cross erected on No Man’s
Land was found a German
helmet, a French sabre, an A
merican rifle and other em
blems of battle. Private sol
diers had placed them there.
The soldiers’ contribution to
the search for peace, still dis
regarded, was by way of the
cross. I
Bring on Canada wheat
fields, tall corn from Illinios,
lordly cottonwoods and the ce
dar’s green plumage from the
forests and the mountains, set
them among the prairie rose
and the nodding goldenrod,
dainty bluebells and endless
miles of grasslands where feed
countless herds; long ribbons
of living waters, crystal gems
sustaining hordes of beauties
swimming in the cool depths
and water fowl floating on the
placid surface; prairieland,
sweetened by fields of sugar
beets, sloping away from the
foothills; birds and floral
bloom, landscape reaching be
yond the distant horizon — a
peaceful spot on the troubled
earth, touched at dawn by the
pink glow of a new day, kissed
by winds in the full glare of
noon, serene in the gold of sun
set, calm beneath a night sky
that is spangled with the eter
nal stars — 77,520 square
miles under the American flag
where men live and labor and
learn and play and worship in
unhampered freedom. That’s
Nebraska.
There comes a day — and
as evening shadows gather in
the gloom of life’s sunset all
too frequent — when you are
left speechless. When I saw
those headlines announcing
the death of John O'Malley
they struck with a cold chill.
John, a gentleman of mor*
al rectitude, committed to
gathering into the experien
ce* of time that which is
carried into the tide of eter
nity, a scholar without a un
iversity degree, a philosopher
with mind and heart open to
understand the conflicting el
ements of human virtue and
folly whirling in the mael
strom of the multitudes about
him. But above all a friend.
And so once more the dark
shadows have fallen. Then 1
remember it is at midnight that
the fragrance of the rose is at
its best and is gathered at that
hour to be crushed and distilled
into sweet-smelling perfume.
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The first gent seen wear
ing a straw hat was on the
street April 3. Maybe others
have wondered how the able
editor of The Frontier secur
ed on the 1st day of April
the temperatures for the last
week in April. Or was that
his April fool joke?
(Editor’s Note: It was no
joke. Our phone rang 17 times
because of a glance at the
wrong calendar.)
A yearly record of a million
and a quarter traffic accidents
and over 30 thousand fatal.
The machine age takes its toll
of victims. And they say the
machine age is on the way out.
An oldtime printer is said to
have set a page of type by hand
in a little more than half the
time it took a linotype opera
tor and he produced a more
beautiful page than was pos
sible on the machine. An In
dian woman hand wove a rug
in less time than was required
with a loom, producing more
beautiful blending of colors.
Last year there was offered
tractors and combines to trade
for horses. Every dog has his
day and maybe men are ready
to use their hands again.
Maybe if labor unions
would trade their grievance
committee for a good cheer
committee they would make
out better.
At the north entrance to the
state house there has been e
rected a skeleton tower up
which loads of material for the
job of lowering an upper floor
and installing air conditiop
pipes. This is the first major
under taking on the capital
building since completed for
occupancy some years ago.
Gardening is an outdoor
activity for city-imprisoned
citizens. Next comes the
dandelion-digging season.
rt is inconceivable that the
supreme court could find oth
erwise than it has in the “right
to work” amendment case. By
setting itself against the ex
pressed will of Nebraska citi
[ zens, the American Federation
1 of Labor adds another black
mark against union labor.
If the voters of a sovereign
state can not determine by
ballot what the provisions of
their constitutions shall be
they can decide nothing by
ballot. The bull-headed AFL
is g. ing on to the ccurt of
last resort, so their attorney
says, and the treasure chest
is at his disposal.
Eighteen states have adopt
ed similar measures to check
mate haughty union bosses, and
in these states have been shorn
of the power to paralize indus
try. No one desires to see la
bor amply compensated under
desirable working conditions
more than the writer, but I
can not go along with them in
trying to set up a hard and
fast labor trust.
Senator Taft, Mr. Stassen
and Governor Dewey talked
it over with Lincoln audi
ences during last week and
left the matter of endorse
ment to intelligent republi
cans who voted Tuesday.'
Stassen made a showing in
Wisconsin but he may not
be so very proud of it in
view of what the Badger
state does politically. As 1
view it, this free-for-all pri
mary is a lousy thing. Del
egates are elected to the na
tional convention and it
should be left to them whom
they will support for the
nominations.
There they were in bold but
crude letters drawn with chalk,
a circle resembling a heart
drawn around them. B. H.
and underneath L. M. An
urchin had drawn them and
passed on out of sight. A dain
ty young maiden came along,
say what had be&n marked on
the sidewalk, paused and with
an indignant foot rubbed away
the lower initials, passed on
and paused again.. Her child
ish admirer had drawn anothei
design that mean to convey to
L. M. his boyish heart. Again
an indignant foot erased the
lower initials. Girls just don’t
fancy being wooed with chalk
marks on the sidewalk.
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Saturday, April 3.
Elmer Luedtke and family
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Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hiscocks,
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Mr. and Mrs. Art Bessert
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and Rollie Truax autoed to
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Henry Hull and family, of
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Dale Bessert is sporting a
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Robert Wells visited over
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William Conard and family
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