THE FRONTIER_O’Neill, Nebr.
CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher
Entered the postoffice at O’Neill, Holt county, Nebraska,
as second-class mail matter under the Act of Congress of March
3, 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 provided
on request. All subscriptions are strictly paid-in-advance.
The Lenten Season
The T.enten season has arrived again.
Ringing of church bells, the sight of people on their way to
earlv morning devotions and various other seasonable signs pro
claim it.
I-ent commenced with Ash Wednesday and will climax with
the holding of joyous and impressive Easter services around the
World,
It seems especially fitting lhat Lent should be observed in O’
Neill, Holt county and Nebraska on account of the dark and ter
rible experience of the past few months.
The cold season, now drawing to a tardy end, was the worst
in the recorded history of the Midwest and its inhabitants passed
through many—endless, they seemed at times—hours and days and
weeks. Finally, the time lengthened out into months and still
the blizzards continued to rage and the snow continued to pile up
in huge drifts on the plains.
The Frontier does not believe that the past awful Winter was
sent as a punishment on the people of Nebraska for their sins. We
believe it happened like many other great disasters in the inscrut
able program of Nature—snow like rain "falleth on the just and
unjust alike;” but we do believe that it gave us all an excellent
opportunity to think and meditate.
That, as a matter of fact, was about all that most of the in
habitant! of this snowbound area could do for a long time_
think and meditate and read The Frontier if the mailman got
through or listen to the "Voice of The Frontier" when it came
on the air.
Yes, the past Winter has been a strenuous period in the lives
of all of us and, now that Spring is here again and Lent has ar
rived, we may all profitably continue our thinking and meditat
ing.
The only difference now will be that our thoughts will be
turned inward and our meditations will be along spiritual lines.
Lent is one of the most interesting seasons in the history of
Christianity.
It has been observed for centuries by ritualistic churches all
over the world and, like Christmas, it is being increasingly ob
served today by the evangelical churches.
In the ritualistic churches, services are held regularly and
various rules of self-denial observed during the season, commenc
ing with Ash Wednesday and culminating on Easter Sunday, and,
in almost all churches, the season is observed to some extent while
the resurrection of Christ is universally celebrated at Easter time
by the Christian world.
Good Friday, commemorating the crucifixion of Christ, is sol
emnly observed by the silencing of the bells and other appropriate
rites in many churches and, in various communities, business
houses are closed during certtain hours on that day.
Easier occurs at a season of the year when Nature is clothed
in her qreatest beauty—the beauty of early Spring, when the
trees are putting forth new leaves and the birds are singing
their sweetest songs—and the joyful theme of the resurrection
of Christ harmonises with this spiritual background.
In all Christan churches all over the world, Easter is celebrat
ed and impressive services are held with appropriate sermons,
special music and a profusion of flowers.
Some reader may be wondering why it is that, if the Lenten
season commemorates the various events leading up to the cruci
fixion and resurrection of Christ, it is 40 days in length when
those last events were actually crowded into a very few days.
The reason seems to be that it is a custom which has been
adopted by the churches during the passing years. Actually and
historically, the 40 days, now observed as the Lenten season,
commemorrate the 40 days which Jesus spent in the wilderness
when He was tempted by the devil.
That, however, is historical custom and not important. The
important thing is that the world is approaching another Easter
and that Easter, the most joyous and jubilant event in the history
of the Christian church, will occur this year in O’Neill, Holt coun
ty and Nebraska at the end of the most terrible and destructive
Winter in history.
It is the devout hope of The Frontier that Easter this year may
herald the beginning of a new era of life, beauty and happiness for
all its readers and all the people of the Midwest.
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Grocery stores should do a rushing business now replenishing
supplies which ran so dangerously low during that long, hard Win
ter.
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Fortunately, the floods following the heavy snows of last
Winter were not as bad as it was feared they might be.
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The army bulldozers immortalized themselves in fighting the
snow in this area during recent weeks.
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Along about this time of the year, the tourist and traveler be
gin to think about returning home.
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This is the drab Lenten season which will culminate in the
joyous observance of Easter Sunday.
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You will always find the best merchandise at reasonable
prices at the O’Neill stores.
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If snowbank are any criterion, there should be a bumper crop
of everything ihis season.
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Before buying anything, read the advs of O’Neill merchants
in The Frontier.
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BELVILLE DRAGLINE COMPANY
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BUILDS — Dams —Fish Ponds
DRIVES — Wood or Steel Piling
PULLS Trees and HAULS Dirt
EQUIPPED WITH CRANE — for heavy
lifting of small buildings — steel set
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CLIFF & LOWELL BELVILLE
Valentine, Neb. Phone 379-W
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Just a Lover’s Quarrel
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Prairieland Talk —
Legislators Chosen to Represent Us-Not to
Prosecute Us’, Irate Constituent Declares
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
LINCOLN — A gent out at
Scottsbluff scorches the hides of
two members of the legislature
who’ve come
Romaine
Saunders
forward with
the time dis
honored sales
and state in
come tax.
What the
gentle man
out there
near the
Wyoming line
has to say in
h i s caustic
letter prob
ably repre
sents the
sentiments of
Nebraska pa
tnots all over the state.
"What we send you fel
lows down there for is to rep
resent us, not prosecute us,"
says this irate Scottsbluffian.
"We all out here are against
both bills and we're against
everybody who votes for
them."
On the other hand, hpre comes
delegations with blood in their
eyes demanding something be
done with the roads. Maybe the
state officials should say, all
right, you fellows put up the
money and we’ll see that they
are paved with gold for you.
There are sections of North Ne
braska with inexhaustable
sources of gravel, and the citi
zens of these mud-bound com
munities might get together, get
out and get gravel in dry times
and make their roads passable
at all times.
The early settlers helped
themselves but the fashion now
is to put up a holler, then head
delegations for Washington and
Lincoln.
* * *
The glow of sunlight out of a
fau blue sky rests upon the
white house and barns on a dis
tant hill visible from my win
dow. A step from the concrete
streets to cultivated fields. There
is more land than there are
cities. The fiery orb of day
moves in silent majesty across
the firmament. On earth’s Wes
tern rim hang the celestial
shades of departing day. Night
enfolds the land. A mile or two
from the swank homes on Sher
ridan boulevard lies jungleland.
Darkness deepens, street lights
make a mockery of illuminating.
The early Spring night wears
on. At 2 a. m. a lone wolf down
in jungleland calls to its mate.
The cry is taken up and others
of the hated race join in the
cry of the wild. Wise to the
ways of the untamed creatures
you know that the glow of sun
light out of a fair blue sky will
be for another day and then
storm. So today we meditate in
wet gloom. The weather bureau
came on with its predictions af
| ter the announcement by the
. coyotes.
• * •
A Yankee clergyman found
himself in one of those commun
ist ruled countries of Europe. He
had registered at the hotel and
left his passport at the desk as
required and gone to bed for
the night. At a late hour the
telephone in his room rang and
he hastened to answer the call,
but found he was undertaking
to talk to one of a strange lan
guage. After trying the little he
knew of one or two languages
other than his native American
tongue he discovered the police
wanted to knqjv who he was and
what he was doing in the coun
try. He informed them his
passport at the desk identified
him. The police were puzzled
over the title “clergyrnan" and
wanted to know what that
meant. He replied that there
had been a large sum of money
sent bv his group in America
for relief of the country he was
now in and he was here to look
after that work. That settled it.
He was welcome. If they do not ;
understand anything more they j
never fail to understand the |
American dollar.
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Nebraska borrowed from Aus- j
tralia its form of election bal- j
lot. Now its the Australian i
method of shearing sheep. A
Chicago man, Warner by name,
came to Nebraska to show the
boys in a few localities how to
fleece ’em. Don’t understand
why he did not go out where
there are real bands of sheep
instead of visiting a few grain
farms in Eastern Nebraska, there
holding a convention of the
farmers knights of the clippers
to tell them how it is done.
Maybe the boys out on the
sheep ranges would disdain a
gent from the city coming
among them on such a mission.
Might be what the sheep shear
ers organization needs is a la
dies auxiliary.
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If the legislature follows the
lead of the committee on gov
ernment there will be an anti
picketing law with a new set of
teeth. At the public hearing
before the committee there were
sizable groups both for and
against the proposed law, Om
aha patriots taking the most
active interest.
The small business men's
groups were supporting the
measure on the proposition
that the picket line is the mak
ing of the mob.
Photographs were shown to
the committee disclosing what
took place in Omaha at the time
of the packing house strikes.
Opponents of the bill, union la
bor, had some able rabble rous
ers but the committee sent the
bill forward for action on the
floor of the senate. A majority
of the voters of Nebraska have
their faith anchored in the prin
ciple of the right to work. The J
picket line denies that right.
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In 1898 there was held in Om
aha a Trans-Mississippi Expo
sition and International Show.
Such men as G. W. Wattles, Her
man Kountze, John Wakefield, J
Edward Rosewater and others j
put it across. It was a great
show but a financial breakdown.
Twenty-one competent ladies
looked after the bureau of en
tertainment, among whom was
Mrs. Wattles, Mrs. Clement
Chase, Mrs. Bruce and Mrs. G
M. Hitchcopk. Nebraskans have
dared nothing since but a some
what shabby state fair, the an- j
nual Ak-Sar Ben and a football |
game. At one time, Sioux City [
drew the crowds with a corn j
palace and a wild open town, j
We have grown old a day at a j
state fair is about all-we want.
. . .
Editorial courtesies in the Gay
Nineties: In a column and a
half of editorial spume in the
days when politics were politics
in Holt county, this outburst is
extracted from an O’Neill parti
san paper: "That mouthpiece of
the excrements of the two old
parties called The Frontier, is
now in the throes of agony be
cause the taxpayers have throt
tled it and the pack of plunder
ers by which it is surrounded,
forced them to seek other means
of prolonging its more than use
less existence.” Two years after
this was printed the paper re
sponsible for it suspended publi
cation. while The Frontier’s
"useless existence” goes on for
ever.
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A sizable group of the big
boys and prominent ladies of the
GOP came to town for Founders’
day love feast and to tell and
find out how it happened. Prob
ably one individual’s idea is as
good as another. I have indulg
ed profound thought on the la
mented theme of the ’48 presi
dential election and there has
been recorded in the cranial re
cesses of that thing the doctors
call the cerebrum the conviction
that the candidate from New
York went down to defeat be
cause the sovereign citizens of
this great country failed to i
whoop up enough votes to elect
him.
• • •
Here they come from several
states to another of those con
tinuous rounds of assemblies in
T incoln to straighten out the
world’s kinks. This particular
group is concerned over the edu
cational and cultural affairs of
the small towns. Don’t worry
about the small town; it will
take care of itself.
In recent years many Am
ericans have had enough of be
ing pushed around in crowd
ed cities and have made them
selves homes in small towns
where there is space for a gar
den of blooming roses and
the morning glories climb ov
er the cottage windows.
The small town is where quiet
streets are flushed at dawn
with the pink glow of each new
day and at evening you can
look into the matchless glory of
the prairieland sunset; and
above all, where you know and
are known for what you are |
worth. You might appear to the
folks in your block in the big
town as “some guy,” but you ;
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will fool nobody in a small com- j
munity.
• • •
The president talks of devo
tion to his friends. The presi
dency is not a vehicle of favorit
ism on the part of the executive
to coddle special friends or pun- j
ish any who may come within;
the scope of his pet hates. That
function is among corrupt city!
politics. It is regretable to think
such has crept into the New
Deal program along with the
assumption of dictatorial meth
ods of government.
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Governor Peterson does not
agree with his party colleagues j
who have been indulging some
caustic comment of the GOP af- |
fairs in Nebraska. I think the j
governor’s statute is growing in
the estimation of party laymen
and independent voters in the
state. In an era of new deal,
fair deal, free handouts, square
deals and bureaucrat deals Ne
braskans have done pretty well
to keep their heads and stay in
the Republican fold.
* * *
If you don’t care to face the
prospects of ending your days
in the electric chair down at
Lincoln better get along with
your neighbors. The state sena
tors voted two-to-one against
the measure to do away with
capital punishment on convic
tion of murder. The author of the
bill urged its adoption on the
authority of the command Thou
shalt not kill, but overlooked
the further Biblical instruction
that if you do your right to live
has been forfeited.
• • •
Looking for something out
of which to get a "kick?" You
can find plenty of it that will
kick you into the gutter.
(Continued on page 7)
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