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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 4, 1948)
THE FRONTIER .... O’Neill, Nebr. CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher Entered the postoffice at O’Neill, Holt county, Nebraska, u second-class mail matter under the Act of Congress of March S 1879 This newspaper is a member of the Nebraska Press Association, National Editorial Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Established in 1880—Published Each Thursday Terms of Subscription: In Nebraska, $2.50 per year; else where in the United States, $3 per year; abroad, rates provide* an request. All subscriptions are strictly paid-in-advance. A Forward Look During the past several weeks, The Frontier has been dis cussing with its readers various current events and problems and making various suggestions which seemed to it timely and im portant. These discussions ranged all the way from Fourth of July celebrations to national elections. Quite a lot of territory has been covered in recent issues and we hope that our readers have found the discussions of some profit and interest. A number of events both of local, statewide and national interest have occurred during this period. Indeed, it seems in retrospect as though this particular period has been one of un usual importance and interest. It is not easy to recall any other patricular period when so many major events have taken place. In the f'rst place, there were such important local events as the opening of new business firms and the dedication of new business buildings; there was a special election on a question of vital interest to the people of O’Neill; there was discussion of a new hospital; there was the county fair and the state fair; as al ready mentioned, there was the national Fourth of July celebra tion and the fall season brought with it a number of particular ly interesting events of both national and local interest. There was National Newspaper Week, when tribute was paid to the free press of America, there was National Fire Pre vention Week, when the terrible destructiveness of fire was stressed and greater vigilance against it was urged, there was National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week, when that important duty was urged and there were several other spec ial observance weeks and days. And, topping the entire list of special events and observances, of course, has been the national political campaign which has been in progress for the past several months and which will have "climaxed in the general election of Tuesday, November 2 before this edition of The Frontier goes to press. The great political campaign of 1948 will long be remember ed. It was the most important, interesting and spectacular that has been staged in the United States in a long time and, while we are writing this several days before the election, we have no hesitancy in saying that it will be one of the greatest ever held in the history of the nation. Interest increased steadily as the day approached, the candidates made tneir last appeals to the voters as the campaign neared its Vhirlwind finish. It is too late now obviously to comment on the national cam paign and election as a current event, but The Frontier would like to make a suggestion. It would like to suggest that, alter the election has been held, the votes counted and the result an nounced, we will, as good Americans, accept the verdict of the voters as calmly and courageously as possible and get back to normal as quickly as possible. It will not be easy. It has been a hard fought political cam paign and there will inevitably be some humiliating defeats and bitter disappointments; but we must, both for our own peace of mind and the future welfare of our country, be reconciled to the result and go forward together to achieve greater things in the futura than we have in the past. That is our duty as patriotic American citizens and we should all be thankful and proud that we have such a country to live and work for, regardless of the election returns. Jealously, rancor and hate should not be allowed to enter into our national life as the result of the campaign and elec tion and all our political differences should be forgotten in our common devotion to our national ideals and objectives And, apropos to this thought, we would like to remind our readers that now is the time to take a forward look. We have been discussing current events and problems; now is the time to turn our eyes to the future to see what it has in store. In a few days after election, another Thanksgiving day will roll around when we should pause to give thanks and enumerate our blessings and, then, it will only be a short time until Christ mas. Regardless of the result of the election in nation, state and county, let us rejoice that we are American citizens! ★ ★ ★ I he Farmer Speaks Seventy-two percent of American farmers feel that the Unit ed States is too soft ’ in its policy toward Russia. Only five per cent feel that we are being “too tough” and 12 percent think our present policy is just right. These opinions were revealed in a national survey of a cross section of 6,000,000 farmers conducted for Successful Farming magazine. The same survey shows that 70 percent of the farmers think Russia definitely is trying to build herself up to become a “ruling ,n the world °nly 16 percent of the farmers feel confi M ussia'}s are simply building up protection against attack in the event of another war. * * ★ Gra.Iid lsa word whirh is Probably more often incorrectly the radio than any other. Wonder just what exactly is meant by a "grand time.” To The NEW OUTLAW STORE ^ We take this means of extend mg our very -best wishes to Philip Cohn and Joe Grundman in’ West O’Neill. ★ Since 1886 The GREER CO. has been serving the midwest with custom-built store fixtures and spec ialized millwork. You’ll see GREER . CO. fixtures in your visits to the New Outlaw Store. THE GREER CO. Grand Island, Neb. After the Brawl NOW LETS GET THIS WORLD BACK ON ITS FEET/ J Prairieland Talk — Mysterious Thing Known as ‘Buck Fever’ Overtakes Oldtimer Within Reach of a Doe By ROMAINE SAUNDERS LINCOLN — The sale up at Bassett of 3,135 head of ranch cattle for $590,000 was the in spiration for a column in the Lincoln Sunday paper recent ly about the Nebraska sand hills, closing with this brief but worthy tribute: “One would dislike to see the poetry and the beauty of this region disappear. Against that the old hills stand sentinal.” The “poetry and the beau ty,” the wmd-waved sea of grass through miles of wind ing valley, the white sand of the funnel formed by a “blow out” that has taken the pin- j nacle from a hill when winds are playful in prairieland, the streams of clear water and little lakes reflecting the sun light, the floral bloom, the wild life, the song of birds, the booming at early morning of the strutting prairie rooster, the plaintiff call of the coyote, the circling among the clouds of the majestic eagle, the freshness of morning, the warmth of midday, the color of calm evening, the celestial tapers glowing out of the night sky—I have known it for more than a half-century. I have lived Intimately within its en folding, unchanging embrace and it will never be other than it has been, the great do main for free men and feed ing cattle, Nebraska’s unplow ed grass lands. • • • Shotguns have been ' taken out of storage and the mighty hunters go forth to get a few birds. Game is pretty import ant to a modicum of citizens— so important as to have a de partment of state government to fix the days, hours and minutes for drawing beed on a ! flying fowl. In that happy day when big 5[ame was plentiful on prairie and an oldtimer down on the Calamus' had been crawling through the grass until he j thought he must be about where the herd of antelope1 were that he had spotted. Moving the tall grass as de w th his rifle barrel, he found himself in the midst j of the herd that had laid down to rest. He could touch a fine doe with the end of his gun barrel just in front o' him, but that mysterious thing known among hunters as "buck fever" got him and he fired into the sky. It was his only cartridge | and he saw the antelope bound away across the prairie while he stood there helpless. • m » Timothy Iron Bear, a Sioux Indian, is in the Nebraska penitentiary under sentence of death for murder. Tiiere lies a lingering shadow across the legal picture that brought about conviction of one of the copper-skin tribe of Sitting Bull that suggests a possible innocent victim. The pardon board may or may not inter vene. September 12 is the dead line for appeal to the United States supreme court, and this fatal word comes from the red man’s attorney out at Chadron. “This is out of the question because of lack of funds.” Whether guilt shadows or innocence lights a candle in this instance the avenue to the last judicial word is open only to the one with a full purse. Out in Hollywood, where the very air reeks as you pass through the streets, the wnole motion picture industry comes to the recsue with a pot of gold to redeem the fallen an gles from the judicial penalties for violated law and contempt of social decency. • • In view of the insults they are subjected to from low brow partisans, it takes cour age for any patriot to become a candidate for president Maybe "there ought to be a law.” •> Busybodies run their legs off to get to conventions, con gresses, meetings of one sort or another that are encompas sing the globe. Psychiatrists, if you know what this is, are back from a meeting in Lon don whefe admittedly nothing was accomplished in the realm of promoting mental health. A large body of churchmen are now beating the air over in old Amsterdam and denounc ing both capitalists and com munists. Anyway, it’s prettj’ fine to have your expenses paid as a delegate and when the blare of oratory is over and resolutions all “whereas ed” to get out and look over the relics of departed glory. I . " ' — I When a fellow “goes dog” he will talk by the hour about his canine friend, if he can ! get someone to listen. I en countered such a gent the oth j er day. His dog was with him, a fat little stub-leg creature that they would like to get in to the stew pot over on the {Rosebud. The gent sat down on a stone step by me, maybe be ! cause I lacked the courtesy to | get up and offer him the only chair available and in which I reclined while rpusing on things earthly and celestial as1 | evening shadows gathered. The day had been hot. the night was hot and the tongue of the little dog hung from his open jaws. I learned that the dog had attained the venerable age of nine years, was the only compan ion the owner had in his home, had a place with him on his bed, could raise win dow shades, open and close windows, challenge the en trance of a stranger at the door and understand about everything said. How much of all this was apparent only to the fellow telling it is your guess. At any rate, during the hour’s eulogy of an apparently worthless llt | le mutt I drew the conclusion that if parents were as devot ed to the care and training of their children as my visitor was with his dog we would not read of 13-year-olds being in volved in revolting crimes. And a grown man walking abroad with a dog attached to a string spells just zero. m • m Tax is a hateful word. May be that has had something to do with the retirement of two able Nebraskans in recent years from the job of state tax commissioner. But Mr. Arm strong, the retiring commission er, is not divorcing himself from taxation problems as he goes at it from another angle when he becomes head of an association of taxpayers func tioning in Omaha. His for mer chief assistant at the state house, P. K. Johnson, takes over the duties of commisson er under appointment by Gov ernor Peterson. • • • Losses sustained because of storm and flood water arouses communities to action. Waste in the federal government in recent years eclipses a half century’s losses by storm and flood. What floods destroy may be grown again. What government wastes is a gon er. Four-H club interests are giving the youth something worthwhile and we will not hear of any so engaged becom ing involved in this thing known as “juvenile delin quency." Charles Evans Hughes and Babe Ruth have gone the way of all the earth. 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