PAGE 2—October 28, 1948
THE FRONTIER-O’Neill, Nebr.
CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher
Entered the pustolfice at O’Neill, Holt county, Nebraska,
as second-class mail matter under the Act of Congress of Marcn
3 1879 This newspaper is a member of the Nebraska Press
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Last Call To Vote
This is the last call of The Frontier to the people of O’Neill
and Holt county to vote in the national election on Tuesday, No
vember 2. In a few days, it will be too late.
Anybody who has ever traveled on a passenger train, carrying
a dining car, is familiar with the procedure. He or she knows
that a man in a white uniform goes through the train three times
announcing the various meals. The first time, he simply announc
es that such and such a meal is “now being served in the dining
car”; the second time, he makes the same announcement, but the
third time his announcement is different. He goes through the
train, saying “Last call to breakfast” or lunch or dinner, as the
case may be, and the passenger who doesn’t hurry out of his or
her seat into the diner is simply out of luck. A passenger may be
indifferent to the first and second calLs, but not to the third if he
or she wishes to get anything to eat.
Well, this is a crude illustration of an election. People have
been talking about the 1948 national election now for many
months, but there is not much time left for talk. The time has
come to act and, if a voter doesn't act quickly, the opportunity
to vote will be past. The voting places will be closed and it
will be too late.
This newspaper has tried for several weeks to emphasize the
importance of the coming election and point out certain reasons
why citizens should exercise their right and privilege to go to
the polls and vote.
There are, at least, three respects in which the national elec
tion this year is unusual.
In the first place, it is unusual because there are three tickets
in the field; viz., the Republican, the Democrat and the Progres
sive. Each one of these parties has a platform embodying the
principles for which it stands and there are enough real issues
involved in the campaign to challenge the thoughtful considera
tion of the voter. It is a long time since there were three parties
contending for the popular vote in a national election in this
country and a longer time since there were so many important,
clear-cut issues involved. In recent years, the national campaign
has been a good deal of a “cut and dried" affair.
There is no excuse for anybody voting blindly or ignorantly
this year. Issues and principles have been fully announced
months ago and all the candidates have been going up-and-down
the country in extenisve speaking tours for many weeks. Every
citizen knows or should know what the different candidates
stand for and should be able to cast an intelligent vote. And we
might add it is the duty of every citizen to familiarize himself
with the issues and principles involved in the national campaign
and vote accordingly.
In the second place, the 1948 presidential campaign is re
markable because it is the most spectacular ever staged in the
history of the United States. There have been many spectacular
campaign staged during the passing years, but this one tops them
all for the simple reason that present day facilities are greater
than they have ever been before. Older people can recall the
time when the torchlight procession, accompanied by the blaring
music of bands and speechmaking, was the highlight of a politic
al campaign, but not any more. The radio has changed the meth
ods of political campaigning and today special trains roll up and
down the country, equipped with loudspeakers and carrying a
small army of candidates, politicians, reporters, technicians and
other persons. Political campaigning is staged on a grand scale
in this country today.
And. in the third place, it may be suggested that the pres
ent campaign is outstanding on account of the issues involved.
These are more than local, more than state, and more than na
tional. They are even international in their significance and,
as we have suggested before, the election returns on the night
of Tuesday, November 2 will be watched with intense interest
by people all over the world, including Russia.
The result of the election, of course, will be eagerly watched
and will, no doubt, have an important bearing on the internaional
situation, but that is not the only thing that will be watched.
The size of the vote will also be considered and we do not think
the importance of this fact Can be over-emphasized. If the people
of the world, including the dictators, see a vast turnout of the
citizens of the United States on election day, indicating loyalty
and patriotism, it. is going to have a very wholesome effect. There
is nothing the dictators would like more to see than apathy and
indifference.
So we repeat and for the last time, go to the polls on Tuesday,
November 2 and "'ote!
★ ★ ★
In our humble opinion, too much publicity is a bad thing for
children. The old rule that “children should be seen and not
heard" had some merit.
★ ★ ★
Some people think that television sets in bars will really
cause a decline in drinking. Seems you can’t get as clear vision
after six drinks.
★ ★ ★
Too much excitement for one short season. The world series,
championship football games and a presidential election!
★ ★ ★
Indian Summer is a beautiful season in Nebraska.
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Bucket Brigade
Prairieland Talk —
Current Presidential Campaign Has Been
‘Pretty Much of a Flunk’; No Buttons
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
LINCOLN — Localizing the
spirit of the Amsterdam gath
ering of churchmen, there will
meet in Lincoln on Thursday
and Friday, November 11 and
12, ministers and laymen rep
resenting 26 denominational
groups hoping to find a way
to unify the foreign mission
work.
The program is in the
hands of a committee of
three. Paul W. Harrison, M.
D., a native of Scribner,
Neb., a member of the com
mittee, will represent the
Congregational work in Ara
bia at this gathering.
This unifying of forces has
gotten no where in uniting na
tions. It will be interesting to
learn how the churches make
out at it.
• • •
An eight-line paragraph in a
lower corner of a newspaper
page concluded the story with
these words: “He is survived
by his widow and several
children.” The father had been
crushed to death by an over
turned tractor while at work
on his Nebraska farm. Just an
other one added to the daily
record of tragedy born of the
modern jauggernauts cruising
highways and working the
fields. Another desolated
home, another mother and
children facing life’s problems
without the guiding hand of
husband and father. How may
these tragedies be lessened,
fewer scars inflicted on wid
ows and orphans? Why did
this man’s tractor turn over?
Why do laughing, animated
youth fall into the arms of
the messenger of death as they
speed along the highways?
Why do ship loads drop out of
men and women in the bloom
the sky to crush and burn
of health? Why has inventive
genius become the slaughter
weapon in the hands of so
many?
* * *
Mr. Truman snarls at us
that he has 5u«t begun to
f'ght. But that was befer"1
John L. Lewis peeled the
President's hide.
• • •
A young husband and fath
er, a young wife and mother,
have come to the parting of
the way. The young man
writes his tale of woe* that
separation has come to them
because they failed to find a
house to live in and could hold
together no longer with in
laws. What a tragedy and what
nonsense! And finally, he
blames it all on the govern
ment. Is he a representative
of the kind of generation Am
erica has as a heritage from
| that period of government cod
j dling and free-hand-outs? This
young man needs a hypoder
J mic of some of the stuff that
| characterized the men and
women who settled this prairie
J land.
• • •
The Frontier readers are
urged by the editor to vote.
Unlike previous editors, who
graced the editorial sanc
tums in O'Neill, he doesn't
i tell us how to vote. In oth
er days, voters had full, free
and complete instruction
about the sterling characters
and unrivaled ability of one
set of candidates and the ut
ter rascality of the opposing
group of candidates.
• • •
As long as the government
will loan more money on a
bushel of anything the farmer
produces than it will sell for
on the market there is little
chance of reducing the cost of
living. The OPA went out of
business but the government
has a controlling hand in so
many things that the law of
supply and demand has little
chance to operate. If the pro
ducer can borrow more on his
product than he can sell it fro
he’s going to take the higher
figure.
He would attract attention
anywhere. Squat, broad of
girth, a full flowing beard
white as the driven snow, the
hair of his head forming a
crown of white glory. He was
making his way through
crowded aisles in a downtown
store when I ventured a word.
Anyone in their right mind is
friendly if you show yourself
friendly.
We got through the crowd
and out onto the concrete
walk. The venerable gentle
man in undisguised German
accent to his English, ex
pressed his sentiments, not
on politics, but about the
modern woman, and she
probably doesn't care much
what a white - headed old
man thinks.
He told me he landed in Ne
braska direct from Germany
in 1885 and has been in the
Lincoln community ever since.
Ruby lips of a haughty dame j
curled over a little white fag
that sends incense into the air
was the old boy’s burden of
condemnation.
And when he ran across one
who had added a chew of to
bacco to the smoking habit it
was worth something to hear
the venerable patriot express
himeslf.
• * •
A state university director
is quoted as saying in a pub
lic address: that education is
the pole star to world peace.
It is amazing the little some of
our well-paid highbrows know
of human nature.
* The presidential campaign
has been pretty much of a
flunk. Neither Truman nor
Dewey buttons nor window
size portraits have been in ev
idence. In the campaign of
1896 everybody had a McKin
ley or Bryan button and a
picture of his favorite display
ed in a window. In 1876 Sam
uel J. Tilden, Democrat, gave
the Republican candidate, Ru
therford B. Hayes, the closest
shave any candidate for pres
ident has had in the electoral
college—Hayes 185; Tilden 184.
* • •
I see Frank Brady thinks
it's a cinch. After the Phil
adelphia convention nomi
nated the Dewey-W a r r e n
ticket, he stopped in Wash
ington to make hotel reser
vations for the inaugural.
♦ * ♦
It remains for the individual
to place the responsibility
where he will for America’s
failure to get out of the na
tional and international mire
in which the country finds it
, self. That all is not “quiet on
the Patomic” is increasingly
! evident. Who, what, when,
where—or are the peaceful,
normal days gone forever from
the earth?
* * •
I wonder if there is not
something lacking in a polit
ical system when duly elected
officers feel they can neglect
official duties and barnstorm
the country seeking to remain
in office. That is a legitim
ate goal but if worthy to stay
in the office campaigning
should not be necessary.
WWW
The wedding ring is of an
cient origin. A woman cap
tured by a young husky gent
was identified by requiring
her to wear a metal ring as
evidence to other swains that
she was already taken, more as
a slave than as a life compan
ion.
• • •
The times are so screwy
the big magazines run their
headlines like the wobbly
track of a gent in his cops.
• • •
Census gatherers tell us Ne
braska’s population shrinks a
little, standing now at a little
over 1,300,000. Good enough.
We still have elbow room in
prairieland.
* • •
The national Democratic
committee seems to be short
of funds. Contributors to
campaign funds place their
money on a winner.
Hot Weather Lasts
Long in Phoenix
By A. STROLLER
PHOENIX, ARIZ. — Last
week the writer suggested that
this week he might make some
comment on October weather
in Phoenix.
It is quite different from
Nebraska weather, as anyone
who has lived in the two
states knows.
The writer lived in Nebras
ka for many years and has a
vivid and pleseant recollection
of the Fall. Usually July and
August were very hot months
and quite often the early part
of September, but, then, the
temperature started to drop
and one of the most beautiful
seasons of the entire year be
gan.
We always spoke of it as
Indian Summer.
It was and is a* beautiful i
season. The hot Summer was
over, the blasting South winds
had stopped blowing, the yel
low leaves were dropping from
the trees, mellow sunshine
| flooded the landscape and the
I corn fields were ripe to the
I harvest.
There was an interval be
tween Summer and Winter
which was delightful. Some
years there was a cold spell
in late September and even
frost; but. in any event, the
weather warmed up again
and some years continued
warm for several weeks.
In Phoenix, as already sug
gested, the Fall season is quite
different. This year, for ex
ample, there was a spell of
weather after the writer ar
rived on September 27 which
was about as' hot as the wea
ther during the Summer. For
a couple of weeks, the mercu
ry stood at approximately 100
day-after-day and even the
nights were hot. It seemed
that it never would cool off.
Last Saturday evening, Oc
tober 16, the writer took quite
a long walk and he was in
terested to observe the scene.
It might have been an evening
in midsummer. People were
out riding in their automo
biles, sitting on their porches
and working in their yards';
women were wearing light
Summer dresses and men were
in shirt sleeves and the whole
scene was more suggestive of
a hot Summer night than o
late Fall.
That is the difference be
tween southern Arizona and
Nebraska, but a recent sudden
change in weather might be
mentioned. Yesterday, it
clouded up for the first time
in months and there was a
heavy rain and hail storm, fol
lowed by much cooler wea
ther.
That was an event which
made front page news.
(Next week: The Boy Who
Was Burned).
D. R. Mounts
*
1941 JUDGE 1948
Fifteenth Judicial District
Boyd, Brown, Holt, Keya Paha
and Rock Counties.
CANDIDATE FOR RE-ELECTION
November 2, 1948
Frank Nelson i
!
O’NEILL. NEBRASKA
Candidate on the Non-Political
Ballot for the
State Legislature
28th District . . . Holt, Boyd. Rock {
and Keya Paha Counties
A NATIVE NEBRASKAN
^ I live on, own and operate a farm 17 miles
North and 4 miles East of O’Neill, or 9 miles
Southeast of the Spencer Dam, and have served my
community on the school board and as township
treasurer, clerk, justice of the peace and assessor;
also in other positions of trust.
^ In my 42 years of residence here the problems
that have arisen have been similar to youi
problems; therefore this experience should enable
me to be of service to you.
^ If my qualifications meet your approval and
you want farmer representation in the legis
lature, I shall appreciate your support at the polls
November 2nd, 1948. I
i J
NOTICE
Dr. Edward J. Norwood. O. D.
Optometrist. from Crawford.
Nebraska, will be in O'NellL
Date: Oct. 29, at Hotel Golden
Eyes Examined Glasses Filled
A. L. Miller
Republican to
CONGRESS
(1) Born in Nebraska. A lan downer. Taught a
country school.
12) Former mayor, school board president at Kim
ball and governor of Lions clubs in the state.
(3) Past-president state medical association; serv
ved 4 yers in Nebraska legislature and as state j
health director.
(4) Three terms in Congress as member of irri
gation, Reclamation, Public Lands and Terri- ;
tories committee.
(5) Kimball county gave him 88.5% of their vote
at last election. The overall average ip the
38 counties was 71%.
Promises Eficcient, Courageous and
Honest Service
Your Vote Will Be Appreciated ! !
KEEP WHERRY
in the U. S. SENATE
AN
ABLE
LEADER
FOR
NEBRASKA
AN
ABLE
LEADER
FOR
AMERICA
*
Ke ineth S. Wherry is the only first-term Senator
ever given the high post of Acting Majority Leader.
He has staunchly supported legislation beneficial to
all Nebraska, such as:
• Farm parity and Price Supports and a Long
Range Farm Program.
• The Pick-Sloan Plan for Irrigation and Flood
Control.
• Adequate Funds for Soil Conservation.
• Extension of Rural Electrification and Farm
to-Market Roads.
• Tax reduction for small income taxpayers.
• Economies making possible a balanced fed
eral budget in 1947 — the first in 17 years.
• As chairman of the Senate Small Business
Committee he has given immeasurable help
to thousands of small businesses and indi
viduals in Nebraska.
\
VOTE TO RE-ELECT
SENATOR KENNETH S. WKEnRY
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George M. Tunison. Chairman