THE FRONTIER_O’Neill, Nebr. CARROLL W. STEWART. Editor and Publisher Entered the postoffiee at O’Neill, Holt county, Nebraska, as 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 provided on request. All subscriptions are strictly paid-in-advance. St. Anthony’s Hospital Every progressive community like O’Neill is always at work on various projects. Such communities have various "irons in the fire," as the saying goes. They are continually reaching out and branching out. No matter how much they have accomplish ed in the line of municipal endeavor in the past, they are not sa tisfied. Their eyes are upon higher goals. A nationwide survey, we believe, would prove that statement to be true. Trawl up and down the country, visit cities and towns in all parts of the United States, explore every nook-and-corner of every section of it and that fact would be obvious. You may pass through some communities year-after-year and observe little or no change—they appear to be at a standstill—and you may pass through others and find them constantly changing and improv ing. Projects spell progress. When you find a city or town which is doing things. you find a city or town which is on the march. It is not satisfied with its past achievements, but is ambitious to achieve more and greater things. It has its eyes on a certain goal and it is striving mightily to reach that goal. Of court*, that doesn't mean that every ambitious com munity will be abl* to attain all its objectives—to realise all its visions. Some of its goals may be impracticable and some may be unattainable, but that is beside the point. The idea is that every progressive community has these dreams, visions and am bitions and its progress is commensurate with its efforts to make them come true. The Frontier believes this to be true of O’Neill. O’Neill is a progressive city, an up-and-coming city. It "Fias dreams, visions, goals and objectives and that fact is the reason for its quite re markable growth, expansion and development in the past. It has made remarkable progress, especially in recent months and years, and this progress is noted even by casual visitors. One of the most important projects in which the people of O’ Neill are actively interested at the present time is the proposed 300 thousand dollar St. Anthony’s hospital. This great undertak ing has been under consideration for some time and has slowly but surely been assuming concrete form. The idea has passed out of the stage of discussion into the stage of reality. St. Anthony’s hospital is :ntended to be an institution trans cending in purpose all community bounds. It is intended to serve the Sand Hills area. But, because O’Neill will be the site of this magnificent new hospital, O’Neillites are obligated to bear the brunt of the load and to show the way. The idea of a new, modern, adequate hospital for this city is definitely in accord with the trend of the times. There never was a time when hospitalization was such a vital issue in the United States as it is today. Following World War II, with its terrible toll of wounded, maimed and crippled and as the result of the ever increasing number of automobile and other serious accidents, the need of greater facilities along this line has become imperative. New hospitals are being built everywhere, old hospitals are being enlarged and hospital facilities are being improved. O’Neill is keeping in step with the trend of the times and it is gratifying to know that this great project is gathering momentum and prelimin ary technicalities are being ironed out. The new hospital will be in charge of the Sisters of St. Francis, who have donated the land and have agreed to assume any reasonable indebtedness. The strategic importance of this community as the site of a large, up-to-date hospital is emphasized by the fact that there are no comparable facilities closer than Sioux City, Norfolk and Grand Island. In Norfolk, anyway, hospital facilities are acutely inadequate as proved by expansion plans in progress there. Sioux City, Norfolk and Grand Island are a considerable distance away and the desirability of a local institution is ob vious. Apart from compassionate and humanitarian reasons, it would be a big asset to O'Neill, would bring more business to town, and add to its prestige. Speaking of the trend of the times toward more and better hospital facilities, it is interesting to observe how this demand is asserting itself in cities and towns all over the country. This is particularly true of the big cities. In cities like Chicago and New York, new hospitals are constantly being built and old ones en larged and improved. Ambitious hospital projects are underway at Neligh, Tilden, Norfolk, West Point and Oakland—to mention only a few neigh boring towns. Plans for St. Anthony’s hospital are modest in comparison to some of these. West Point, for example, is building a million dol lar institution. St. Anthony’s, however, is intended to serve the great Sand Hills area and a minimum of 30 thousand people liv ing within a radius of O’Neill. St. Anthony's hospital, as plans now stand, will be adequate, and will serve an immediate need. The Frontier sincerely believes that when the hospital is completed and put in operation, all of us will legitimately ask ourselves: "How did we manage to get along without it?" The answer, of course, is simple: "We didn't". Events have been developing swiftly in recent weeks as the hospital move has been revived for the third and final time. James M. Corkle, a highly successful businessman in O’Neill during his 10 years here, has been made chairman of the building committee. He was given a rousing vote of confidence in a public meeting. The Sisters of St. Francis from their national headquarters have officially designated the hospital St. Anthony’s—named for their patron saint. A building fund headquarters has been erected on O’Neill’s main intersection—Fourth and Douglas streets—and Mrs. Glen Tomlinson has been engaged to staff the headquarters full time and to coordinate affairs with the corqmittee headed by Corkle. O’Neill marches on and top priority is St. Anthony’s hospital. All possibility of failure long since has been dismissed and stricken from the record. St. Anthony’s hospital will be a reality. ★ ★ ★ O’Neill merchants are always on the job, equipped and ready to serve their customers. Success Makes Him Ambitious k gAST SHOOTING GALLERY^ ft ~n/m — FRENCH INDO CHINA Prairieland Talk — About Jimmy Boyle: ‘When One So Young Meets Tragic Death... Blow Overwhelming’ By ROMAINE SAUNDERS The hazards of the highways have brought desolation to an other home in the community. Romaine Saunders Jimmy Boyle, like the rose bud crushed to earth nev er to open in full bloom and f r a g rance, was cut down on the threshold of youth, at that period of life when the pink dawn of each new day brings fresh adventure and youthful dreams come in vivid, alluring pictures—that time in the devel j opment of boyhood when step by step the unknown is explor ed. Death cuts deep wounds in the human emotions and in vades every home. When one so young meets a tragic end the blow is overwhelming to father and mother and the others. Time pours its healing oil on sorrow-laden souls but memory cherishes the loved and lost. • • • Farm organizations have ex pressed in resolutions disapprov al of the Washington plans and specifications for agriculture. Mr. Truman is quoted as saying of the program of the secretary of agriculture that it “is a part of our efforts to get the national income so distributed that every segment of the population can have its fair share of that in come.” Now, won’t that be sweet? Messrs. Truman and Brannan are going to manage things in true socialistic style so that the "segments of the popu lation” that produces the “na tional income” is going to have to whack up with the segment of loafers that produce nothing. * m m The boys and girls of Nebras ka desiring to pursue studiet and obtain liberal arts degrees may do so now in either of the state’s four normal colleges. This may draw some on the enroll ment at the state university but is a distinct advantage in mak ing such courses of study avail able other than at a centralized point. The governor had con siderable editorial advice from a quarter interested in retaining to the state university this edu cational function as respects the state’s cultural institutions. Per haps the urge to sign the bill au thorizing the change was fun damental to Mr. Petersen’s re sponsibility as governor of Ne braska as a whole rather than the considerating of the inter ests of the capitol city. • • • A gent is held in limbo over in London who is wanted here to answer to yncle Sam on some matters pertaining to the sneak ing work said to be going on by and between nations. Just what’s the matter with the human an imal that some carry on in an atmosphere of secrecy, oiled door hinges and plugged key holes? St. Paul advised, “Let brotherly love continue.” In stead of brotherly love there is hatred, suspicion, envy, jocky ing for advantage, evil designs. Maybe '“brotherly love” is only for the brethren. But that which is good for the brethren might help as between nations if tried out. • • • To the Elgin Review a poem plucked from the stars by in- j spired fingers which thrills the lovely maiden or brings healing to the wounded soul is just so much want ad stuff, run at regu lar rates. Such indifference to the rhythmic beauty of the offer ings of the poets, placing them on a purely commercial basis, must be attributed to the one male member of the Review's editorial staff. It is inconceivable that the j two ladies at the desk could be so proasic as to repulse the verse of a native coming to them flav ored with the fragrance of the prairie rose, and to lower the high reaches of song to the level of dimes is unthinkable. * * * The yellow bloom of the de spised dandelion has disappear ed, the fluffy balls of down gone with the wind, only the long stems from which children make curls stand definitely as if to i challenge lawn workers to do their worst. The fragrant bloom on lilac bush drops its petaline load and full botanic resources revert to nourishment of stock and stem. The gorgeous tulips, the gay iris, the spiraea bushes dusted with white bloom, the red rose and the apple blossoms distilling fragrance among May sunbeams, the varieties of na ture’s floral tribute all combine to spangle with bright colors the green and gray of earth. • * * Chicago and St. Louis papers j tell the stories of newspaper J men holding jobs in Illinois and j New York that put them on the state payrolls in these two states while also employed in newspaper work. I wonder what j is wrong about that. Probably I Because these newspaper guys ! were better qualified than most j men to deliver their salaries' worth to the state explains their : being on the pay rolls. • • * A part of the O’Neill street j scene today are the gents from out across prairieland wearing : the riding boots, tight-fitting pants and curled-brim hat, but there is lacking the spurs jing gling at theifr heels, the leather chaps and .44 sagging at the hip of the picturesque punchers of another generation, which daily ! enlivened the street scene. • • • Connecticut’s Democratic Gov ernor Chester Bowles engineer ed a neat political move when he j took Republican Senator Ray mond Baldwin out of the United States senate to put him on Con necticut’s supreme court bench j A Democrat will take Baldwin’s j place in the senate, strengthen- j ing the party’s power there by i one vote. * • • The seat of the able Sol Bloom in congress will be taken over bv a Roosevelt as the result of the election in the New York congressional district, for many rNINE MILLION PARr/ 0ISWS5- 2 O'CLOCK^ IN TWB N\OftNIN&/] INO NO HOT C-Zk r ' ' IP YOu'O LIKE PlENTIPUL wen WATSB..OAY Of NI&WT.-OuTIn AN |v f HOW HEAVENLY! 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