Prairieland Talk —
Romaine, a Thorough-Going Republican
Sees Commendable Qualities in Opposition
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
LJNCOLN — Talk, talk, talk
—poured at perspiring mobs in
conventions, echoing along the
walls of banquet halls, beating
flic air from platform and pul
pit, clattering nonsense to the
select groups, bellowing over
sadios and mingled with the
deliberations in solemn aisemb
Mes—a conglomerate mass of
coca I gymnastics freighted with
MUle enlightenment and less
inspiration
Where are the silver ton
gued who could sway multi
tudes with their simple elo
quence? Has the elegance
of the voice, the grandeur of
the pen, had to be sacrificed
to a roaring machine age?
A Nebraskan took a national
convention by storm with a
spontaneous burst of eloquence,
"You shall not press down up
on the brow of labor this
crown of thorns, you shall not
crucify mankind on a cross of
fold!”
Fifty-six Americans once
dipped their quills in the
flame of freedom and signed
that document which reposed
«n the final words, "And for
the support of this Declaration,
with a firm reliance on the
Protection of divine Provi
dence, we mutually pledge to
each other our Lives, our For
tunes and our sacred Honor."
• • •
Those news men who un
scrupulously emblazen figures
in large type have it that Ne
braska wheat farmers are pul
ling down an income of around
150 million dollars from this
season's crop. What isn’t men
tioned is the cost.
Much of the wheat is grown
•n rented land. That means a
third or two-fifths goes to the
land owner, who may be a
banker or insurance executive
or even an auctioneer.
That’s the first dip out of
the farmer’s income. Then
feere is the expensive machin
ery, tractors and trucks, har
mt hands at 10 a day and
0rub. Unde Sam also gets in
«n a share of the income. So
feat the gent who really put
himself into the venture in the
caul looks at his collection of
weigh slips, receipts and un
paid bills and wonders where j
Ua share of the 150 million
comes from.
AW*
Experts are advancing their
theory to explain away the
•uses of high living costs. We
have given the dark subject
E found thought and there
been registered across the
•erebral of our brain the con
tusion that prices are high be
cause the gents who sell the
■tuff set the price.
* • +
This is the machine age.
With wheels under us and in
•ur heads we have neither ele
Since of voice nor beauty of
terature.
• • •
The state liquor commission
denied a grog shop license to
an applicant by the name of
finner.
Attention!
For LIABILITY INSURANCE on
FARMERS’ CARS
5-10-5.$16.00
10-20-5.$17.35
15-30-5.$17.89
20-40-5.:.$18.16
25-50 - 5. $18.43
TOWN CARS
5-10-5.$17.00 to $22.50
10-20-5.$18.50 to $25.00
15-30-5.$19.50 to $26.00
25-10-5.$21.00 to $27.50
Dwelling Insurance
5 Year Term, $12.80 per $1,000.00
SEE_
L. G. Gillespie
INSURANCE AGENCY
— O’Neill —
• There w&s heated rivalry lor
the Republican presidential
nomination but a united party
stands behind the men select
ed at the convention. The
Democrats arc in a vastly dif
ferent position with respect to
their standard bearers. By ali
the forms and practices under
the code of American political
usages, Mr. Truman had first
claim on the nomination that
has split the party. Any of the
several candidates for the Re
publican nocniantion were ac
ceptable to the party.
Governor Dewey was nom
inated because he had the
convention voles. His chances
for election appear at pres
ent not seriously challeng
ed. The attitude of South
ern Democrats toward Mr.
Truman is understandable
and this opposition combined
with a northern revolt places
a millstone to the bid of
Mr. Truman for a full term
in the White House.
It is admitted he is not a
bad guy but a little under
weight for the difficult job of
president of our country.
The Frontier readers are
aware that the engineer of this
department is a thorough-go
ing Republican, but not the
sort of partisan who sees noth
ing commendable in those of
opposing political creed.
• • •
Kentucky is illustrious for
a number of outstanding
things. The announcement of
an 11-year-old girl becoming
a mother adds another star
to the diadem of the blue
grass state.
• • •
It takes a secretary and a
reception functionary to man
age them. They come singly
and in groups. Some looking
for jobs, others to pay their
respects, news hounds looking
for what’s up officially, out
state delegations with propa
ganda of a variety, political
friends with a mission and an
odd one at times with a worth
while suggestion. Such are of
some of the less
important activities in
the charming suite of the chief
executive at the state house.
Governor Peterson is holding
up under it as fresh as a daisy
and his friends say he looks
wholly fit for another term.
“The Phrygian queen to her
rich wardrobe went,
Where treasured odours
breathed a costly scent;
There lay the vestures of no
vulgar art;
Sidonian maids embroidered
every part,
Whom from soft S y d o n |
youthful Paris bore,
With Helen touching on Ty
rian shore.
Here, as the Queen revolved i
with careful eyes
The various textures and the
various dyes,’’
She chose the slacks with the
yellow bar
And went forth resplendent
as the morning star.
An able functionary of tne
| decrepit United Nations has
come to town. Within the cLas
[sic precincts of the University
of Nebraska he addressed those
who cared to go and listen in
at the third of 4 clinics held
at the university this Summer.
Nobody knows how much
money is being spent to flag
down the country's effulgent
spellbinders and rabble rous
ers thai the university cen
ters all over America may
have the benefit of their life
saving messages.
This gentleman from Lake
Success is something of an
apologist for the obstreperous
Bolsheviks, and moreover in
dites the citizens of Nebraska
with those of the rest of the
country as being responsible
for the inefficiency in this lat
est attempt at rolling the het
erogeneous mass of earth into
political unity. “God . . . hath
made of one blood all nations
of men for to dwell on all the
face of the earth and hath de
termined the times before ap
pointed and the bounds of
their habitation.”
0 0 0
The flame of chivalry may
be burning low, but not with
a gent from Scottsbluff and an
other that holes up in Lin
coin, who tossed into the po
lice court funds $150 each in
fines and costs, an estimate o
what it was worth to beat up
a thrid Adonis, who had been
toying with the fickle affec
tions of a lady in whom the
assailants were interested. The
armored knights of old broke
their lances in a rush upon a
rival when fair ladies were
not as numerous as they are
today.
♦ * •
Much of Europe and Asia is
n seething caldron, the fruits
of enslavement of the con
sciences and bodies of men by
madcaps with lust for power.
Our own fruitful land is com
paratively tranquil under a
rule that springs from the
consent of the citizens, guar
anteeing to all life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness. While
the course rests upon Mount
Ebal we may claim the bless
ing upon Mount Gerizim as
long as we are true to the best
American traditions.
1 wonder if The Frontier
editor would mind giving us
an interpretation of this which
has been attributed to the head
of Nebraska’s educational de
partment found in a recent is
sue: “The larger the adminis
trative and fiscal unit for
schools the less the inequality
among units in the ability to
support education, in tax bur
den and the quality of instruc
tion provided.”
• * •
The most cheering word for
Nebraskans is not what was
done at Philadelphia. It is the
bountiful harvest of grain, the
meadows in the grass lands
dotted with hay stacks, graz
ing areas amply sustaining the
beef herds and the tall corn
holding a promise of full cribs
on the farms when frost comes
around again.
* * *
Whatever t h e individual
nerve response to the revolu
tion in the ladies’ attire may
be it must be admitted it is all
to the good for comfort on a
hot July day.
Attend Rites for
Returned Soldier
INMAN—Mr and Mrs. John
Gallagher, Mr. and Mrs. James
Gallagher, Joseph and Beatrice
Gallagher drove to Sioux City
Thursday, July 22, for the fun
eral services of their nephew,
Jack Gilligan, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Gilligan, whose
body was among those recent
ly returned from overseas.
Young Gilligan lost his life
in the service during World
II.
The services were Friday at
9 a. m. at a Catholic church.
They returned Friday eve
ning and Mrs. Mayme Harte,
who has been in Sioux City,
the past 3 weeks, a guest in
the Gilligan home, aecompan
ied them home.
Mrs. Kiveti Hostess _
INMAN — Mrs. Emma Ki
vett was hostess to the LL club
at her home on Wednesday af
ternoon, July 21. The time was
spent socially. Mrs. Kivett
served refreshments in late
afternoon.
Mrs. James Gallagher was a
special guest.
Frontier Want Ads will sell
that excess property.
^ HE3 THE MOST SUCCESSFUL POCTOR I
rrv UN TOWN - HE PRESCRIBES SCHMIPTS JV^
l± all his f*nENTs£j>“^ 1^*1
Lt«m«
Sem/ors CITY CLUB BBBR
mtww0 ^ n »•»»* ' ■*»««•
ENTERS TRAINING . . .
Miss Ardene Andersen,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Ray Andersen, of Amelia,
will enter nurses’ training at
the Bryan Memorial hospital
at Lincoln in August.
TO LIVE IN OREGON . . .
Mrs. Rudy Norton (above),
was the former Miss Bonnie
Couch, of Inman, before her
marriage on Monday, July 19.
The Nortons will reside in
Blodgett, Ore O’Neill Photo i
Co.
Butler Family in
Sunday Reunion
INMAN—The A. N. Butler
home Sunday, July 25, was the!
scene of a family gathering
when all of their children
were home.
Here for the affair were: j
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Brower
and daughter, Sally, of Inde
pendence, Mo.; Mr. and Mrs.
Rex Butler and son, of Bas
sett; Mr. and Mrs. Vere But
ler and family, of Neligh, and ;
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Youngs, j
and daughter, Barbara, from j
south of town.
Other Inman News
Mr. and Mrs. Haddin Geary
drove to Omaha Wednesday,
July 21. Gifford Tompkins ac
companied them to his home in
Omaha after spending 10 days
here with relatives. His sister,
Nancy Tompkins, of Omaha,1
accompanied them home and
she will remain for a 10-days’
visit with relatives.
Mrs. George Morey, of Con- ,
rad, Mont., returned to her I
home Friday, July 23, after
spending 10 days with her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Haddin
Geary, and family.
Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Clark of i
Burwell, spent Sunday, July!
25. at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Moore. Mrs. Anna j
Clark accompanied her son and
daughter-in-law back to Bur
well for an indefinite stay.
Mr and Mrs. Arthur Tortn
linson, Mrs. Virgil Tomlinson
and daughter, Bonnie, Mrs. Leo
Harte and son, Joe, and Mrs.
E. L. Watson were Norfolk cal
lers on Tuesday, July 20, and
on Friday, July 23, Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Watson drove to
Norfolk.
Mrs. Helen Sholcs returned
to her duties at Brown Me- ;
Donald's in O’Neill on Mon
day, July 26, after spending a
week’s vacation at home.
Mrs Arthur Tomlinson and
Mrs. Leo Harte and son, Joe,
drove to Dorsey Saturday to
see their father, Joe Scholl
meyer, who is ill.
Mrs. H. S. Overocker and
Miss Jennie Mills, of Los An
geles, Calif., and Mr. and Mrs.
John Overocker, of Norfolk, j
spent Tuesday and Wednesday, |
July 20 and 21. here at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. L. R
Tompkins.
Mr. and Mrs. Gurney Ben- j
shoff and 2 daughters, of Van
| Tassel, Wyo., stopped in town j
a short time Wednesday, July
i 21, and called on Mrs. Ben-|
| shoff's niece and nephew, Mr.
and Mrs. E. L. Watson, and
i family. L
YOU DON’T EAT JUST ON
* WEEK ENDS ! ! .
V'OLniULSV Council Oak brings you groceries at the
f lowest possible prices EVERY day . . .
M ^ we do have week-end specials too, as our
M 17 HUB % buyers are constantly on the alert for
m JtJ w Hi AH -M- H extra values to pass on to you, but we
I JA ALT ■ mr 1 DO MOT feature a few items at less than
I Brim ■ ■ i ml I cost and make it up on other over-priced
1 I items ... we believe in bringing you
1 B BB Bis / EVERY ITEM EVERY DAY AT THE
\ T M LOWEST PRICES . . . This policy makes
\ VH lli B< B4 w your T0TAL S1*006^ biU less when you
shop at . . .
TIME TO CAN
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1 California Elberta
I PEACHES
1
Crate 4 ■*
* $2.29 • Lb.I fC
WHITE SEEDLESS GRAPES OQ*
California (frown, round —VV
NEW CROP DUCHESS APPLES OEa
Bnohel *3.4» 3 Pound. .. fcVV
SUNKIST ORANGES 7 ‘U CQa
SUNKIST ORANGES C CQa
Large Slsea _ _ V ibe. VVV
TEXAS GRAPEFRUIT C AC*
Seedleaa V ibe. “fvv
CALIFORNIA GRAPEFRUIT C EL
Seedleea . V ibe. VVV
LOUISIANA GOLDEN YAM O OCa
Sweet rotators ... ...Mm ibe. wVy
YELLOW ONIONS * IQ*
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CANNING SUPPLIES
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1MENT OF JARS, LIDS, RUBBERS, JELLY |
GLASSES
Columbia Rose SMOKED SALMON 40.
Mewl Detlelenu! Reonealeall % lb. flat mm ..JfcVg
DOMESTIC OIL SARDINES 9 ^ ,44.
Melwee, For taety eaaebt L £vf
SOPERB “Aristocrat” PEAS ft .-.SI iM
Baser Sweet Large Peas V QHH lalAJ
WON-UP GRAPEFRUIT JUICE 9 4C.
Unsweetened. uerre erery morning . 4a Case Vv(
SUPERB GRAPEFRUIT HEARTS 9 *. , 00„
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1 Tender, Savory
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Shoulder
\ ROASTS
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SIRLOIN STEAKS, Per Lb. 74 C
ROUND SWISS, SHORTCUT, T-BONE STEAKS, lb. 77c
PORK CHOPS
• Roasts • End Cuts
£ 45c
Center Cuts, lb. 65c
LARD |
El23c|
RING BOLOGNA WHITING FISH
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Vienna Sausage 9 OOa
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I SUPERB CATSUP 90a
rhlek u4 Spicy, 14-os. MMk ... £vV
PICKLE STICKS OQa
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RIPE OLIVES 90a
Ltndaay. Med. Pint Jar _ £vfd
CHEESE FOOD 9 Lk.$1l5
Fabat-Btt . £ Boat |
Everyday CRACKERS 91a
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RICE KRISPIES 14a
Kelloffs, IVfc-ea. box —_____ ■ ■V
PET MILK Caae A $704
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Devil’s Food COOKIES 01a
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HARDEE HANKIES ICa
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