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
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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. The one an
able jurist and patriotic citi
zen; the other a symbol of the
best in American sports; and
both great Americans.
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