THE FRONTIER_O’Neill, Nebr.
CARROLL W STEWART, Editor and Publisher
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It s Up to 0s
(Guest Editorial from the Omaha Journal-Stockman)
Do the American people want better and more economical
government? And, if so, are they willing to put in the time and
effort it will take to get it? Those are questions to be considered
as the nation mulls over the series of reports being made by the
Hoover Commission on the results of its studies with a view to re
organization and simplifying our government setup
A great deal of painstaking research and farsighted thought
has gone into these reports. Some of the instances which they
describe of waste, overlapping functions and frustration have been
aptly termed "shocking.” But what will we do about it, we the
taxpayers who foot the bills and suffer from the extravagance and
inefficiency described?
Will we be spurred fo demand that, as one editor puls it
"Politics be forgotten and this costly confusion ended"? Or will
we settle quietly back in our chairs and trust someone else to
do the job for us?
At best there isn’t too much hope. Entrenched holders of of
ficfcs and jobs are not going to see their bureaus and departments
cut down or eliminated, their office staffs reduced and their own
importance deflated, without a struggle. Nor are congressmen
and senators going to risk the ire of these worthies unless the al
ternative is facing an even greater wrath from the folks back home
-—a wrath which might even sweep them out of office.
Members of the Hoover Commission have done their work
and apparently have done it well. Their findings are not neces
sarily the “last word” but they form a basis for action. But will
we gjet anything done? The answer to that last question is strict
ly up to us.
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A Step Forward
Developments in recent weeks have brought about a plan to
provide O’Neill’s two principal thoroughfares with a modern
“white way". The plan is being fostered by Consumers Public
Power district and it can be applied in cities and towns that are
receptive to the idea.—or, in other words, are on the march.
Actually, O'Neill’s new criss-crossing “white way” will cost
the city but little and then indirectly. Payment for the new fix
tures will come from revenue collected by Consumers from the
city for street-lighting purposes.
Tht Frontier it pleated that Contumert Public Power dit
trict hat deviled an arrangement for adequate itreet lighting on
the city's two most-travelled streets. The new lighting plan,
which may require a year and one-half to be placed in action,
represents a forward step in municipal improvement.
In the case of many municipal, county and even state govern
ments, there seems to have been a void of a decade or more in the
matter of improvements. Same can be said for segments of pri
vate enterprise. It has been easy to blame the late war and our
unusual economy for not keeping pace.
Adequate street lighting on Douglas and Fourth streets has
been in urgent need for many years. The present antiquated
lighting system, designed for horse and buggy and Model T days,
may have been responsible for loss of life and uncounted traffic
accidents.
Besides, the new four-directional “white way” will provide
• sight to behold.
The Frontier welcomes the step forward.
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Your Help Is Needed
The annual American Red Cross membership and fund rais
ing drive has begun in Holt county.
Fresh in the minds of most of us is the work of the Red Cross
in our own tragedy of the past Winter. That organizaton came
to the aid of distressed rural Holt county people in a heroic and
never-to-be-forgotten way.
It shouldn’t be necessary to have to conduct a solicitation at
all in Holt county. Grateful citizens undoubtedly will respond in
a generous way. One-half of all that is collected in Holt county
remains with the Holt county chapter.
During the recent emergency here, over nine thousand dol
lars were spent by the Holt chapter alone and the national chap
ter spent some six thousand dollars.
In administering storm relief, as far as The Frontier knows,
the American Red Cross opened its coffers for legitimate expense
items. It did a remarkable and a most praiseworthy job.
Mrs. Guy Cole, of Emmet, is fund chairman for the 1949
drive. There will not be a rural solicitation this year because of
bad road conditions. Let the American Red Cross know of your
gratitude by sending your contribution to:
Mrs. Guy Cole, Chairman
Holt County ARC Fund Drive
Emmet, Neb.
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Those two Burlington locomotives, which were derailed by
the snow in December and were dormant for two months, will now
have to go to work again.
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A few years ago, we were worrying about dry weather and
now we are worrying about too much moisture.
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Abundant moisture in the soil should produce bumper crops
of all kinds during the coming year.
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The army bulldozers did a bully job in bucking the snow
drifts.
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As usual, the Red Cross was on the job.
FARMERS AND RANCHERS
DO YOU NEED A . . .
Shelterbelt or Windbreak?
THE
Holt Soil Conservation District
has a limited supply of a large variety of trees available to
cooperators. Prices include Trees and Planting.
500 or less___$4.00 per hundred
500 to 1,500 ____ $3.50 per hundred
y 1,500 to 2,500 $3.00 per hundred
2,500 and over -_$2.75 per hundred
Cedars Are Now $5.00 Per Hundred plus Planting. Available
Only in Limited Numbers.
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Not Very Impressive, Joe
Prairieland Talk —
Roy P. Eichelberger, Native Son, ‘Put
Democracy into Action As School Principal’
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
LINCOLN— Roy P. Eichel- •
berger, son of pioneer Holt
county couple, born here on a
homestead, died last week in
Santa Barbara, Calif. Mr. Eich
elberger attained to a promi
nent place in school work and
his passing received more than
a column attention by the
Santa Barbara News - Press,
and I am indebted to my sis
ter-in-law, Miss Meals, for the
full story taken from the
News-Press. In view of the at
tainments of this Holt county
native, I shall use liberally
from the Santa Barbara paper’s
story:
“Roy P. Eiehelberger, genial
solf-spoken educator who had
unostentatiously, but effective
ly put democracy into action
as principal of Santa Barbara
j junior high school, died early
, today at his home, 1762 Pros
pect Ave.
In a brief but impressive
assembly this morning, the
students and faculty at his
school, who had looked to
him for guidance in practical
and inspiring guidance in
education, paid silent tribute
to Mr. Eichelberger when
announcement was made of
his passing."
He had been connected with
the Santa Barbara schools
since 1827. He was born in
Holt county in 1886. Some
r later the family went to
He had degrees from
three universities, one from
Columbia in New York. He
had connection with various
organizations for worthwhile
objects and worked in the
United Nations organization as
j representative of the Lions
club. Mr. Eichelberger was a
member of the First Presby
'■ terian church in the city where
he lived. He is survived by
his wife and four children.
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When "civic pride" wants
a building replaced with a
new structure an engineer
will be available to condemn
the old house. The Lancaster
county jail has been con
demned. More than one gent
who enjoyed its hospitality
has been condemning it
throughout the years.
• • •
The heavens declare the glo
ry of God, exclaimed the
psalmist. Man will discover
that they can also declare His
wrath. The serenity of the
heavens is now said to be fac
ing invasion by a satellite
platform out beyond the
earth’s gravity, from which to
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operate interplanetary arma
ment in the form of mirrors
that will reflect the sun’s rays
on given spots of “enemy terri
tor’’ and burn ’em to a frazzle.
Presumptious men have not
yet proposed a flight to the
heavenly city, there to unhook
the pearly gates and carry
them away with glittering trea
sures uprooted from gold-pav
ed streets.
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Jim Killoran of the long de
funct O’Neill Tribune on May
10, 1888, delivered this editori
al shot: “Here is a specimen of
startling literature from an At
kinson exchange: ‘There will
be a division meeting at the
rink this Thursday evening.
| Let everybody come out as
important matters will be dis
cussed. Come early. We hope
the balmy mildness of that
May evening, in conjunction
with the interesting topics,
stimulated the slothful divis
ionists and compelled them to
attend unless they are con
ducted with closed doors.”
Given Away— On Saturday,
February 26, 1887, I will give
to the person holding the
lucky number, one of Dutton’s
celebrated Daisy washers, us
ually sold at $15. Chances will
be given from date, one on
each and every one dollar’s
worth of goods purchased for
cash at my store in Inman,
Neb. Goods cheap as the
! cheapest. —L. T. Shanner. This
inducement to spend a dollar
appeared in the Inman Index
February 18, 1887.
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No sooner has the battle with
snow subsided than the annual
complaint comes out of the
mud flats, intimating that sin
ister forces at the statehouse
combine to hinder road im
provement. If we have no
Spring mud we have no Sum
mer harvest. Anyway, it hurts
nobody to stay at home a few
days and get acquainted with
the family.
Twice within the week two
homes of aged Nebraskans
have been entered by thugs
and their little—all in cash—
taken from them. Able-bodied
men w’ho can work have about
reached the bottom of low
down conduct when they re
sort to robbing old men and
women.
There is an adequate supply
of the would-be and the near
great but none stand out in
these ragged times' as the real
thing. Just as well—the com
moners are the salt of the
earth, preserving and adding
flavor t o life’s worthwhile
things.
• • •
Four months to a day since
Winter’s first blast brought the
Arctic Circle to prairieland
and we still await the arrival
of “the morn in russet mantle
clad” that ushers in balmy
days and awakens nature to
renewed^life.
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The great things promised
by the 81st congress turn out
to be mostly horseplay.
An American minister of a
Protestant church had boarded a
train in Dublin to go to an in
land point and found himself in
a compartment with a sister of
a Catholic order. They fell into
conversation and the minister
remarked about the ill feeling
existing between the North and
Soyth Ireland people. With a
smile the sister said, “Yes, they
! hate each other for the love of
God.”
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Southern patriots are as
fiercely Baptist as they are
Democrat. This group claims to
| have added more than 300,000 to
their membership last^year. And
with the Baptists this means
those who have reached mature
! years as no child among them
is administered baptism.
• • •
The drunks at the steering
wheel have a friend in the Ne
braska legislature. Penalties
have been reduced about a
half by a large majority vote
of our stale's statesmen.
• • •
The bill to do away with the 1
electric chair in Nebraska was
rejected in committee, with
word from its author that he
will try to revive it on the
floor of the legislature.
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Regardless of the fate of the
uttmititimxtmtmimiumiuittmtnt
bill before the legislature to do
away with convention endorse
ments, what is there to hinder a
political convention from in
serting in the resolutions a
statement reading something
like this: John Doe for govern
or and Mary Roe for superin
tendent are the choice of dele- ,
gates present at this convention.
If political parties are to sur
vive there must r\eed be con
ventions and if these gatherings
have no bearing on the choice
of party candidates they may
as well pass out of political his
tory.
• • •
The legislature raised the
pay Of some state officers $2,
500 the year and added $60 to
the sum those on old age as
sistance may be given in the
course of a year.
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A river called the Blue
winds its way across Eastern
Nebraska counties and, as you
look into its dark muddy
epths, you wonder why so
named.
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The fair employment practice
act looked decidely one-sided
and was killed in committee. It
originated with union labor in
terest in Omaha, who try to hog
tie the employer while demand
ing a free hand for the unions.
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