THE FRONTIER_O’Neill, Nebr.
CARROLL W. STEWART. Editor and Publisher
Entered the postoffice at O’Neill, Holt county, Nebraska,
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S, 1879. This newspaper is a member of the Nebraska Press
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Courage Is Needed
Courage is essential.
Under a great many different kinds of circumstances and con
ditions in just the average life in this world courage is essential.
In the whole range of human experience and activity, both in
the world today and in past ages, there are a vast number of peo
ple who have needed courage to live and to carry on their various
projects: the explorer, inventor, scientist, religious leader, mis
sionary. pioneer, student, statesman, teacher, businessman, wife
and mother. All these and a multitude of other individuals, each
with his or her own problems, struggles and, perhaps, hardships to
perplex and contend with all in need of courage to overcome and
win the victory.
It is an inspiring thought and the glorious victory of other
people against tremendous odds in the past along various lines
of human endeavor should encourage all of us of the present
generation to fight harder and more courageously to accomplish
our own objectives.
When people become discouraged, they cease to live and
achieve.
This thought seems generally true and applicable to all classes
of individuals, but it seems especially appropriate at the com
mencement season when countless numbers of ardent, ambitious
young men and women are leaving our schools and colleges to face
the uncertainties, perplexities and dangers of the present age.
Life is not an easy proposition at any time and it was never
more difficult than it is in 1949.
It requires courage to live and accomplish things and the
graduate will require all the stamina and endurance possible in
order to succeed.
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School’s Out! Watch Out!
“School’s Out! Watch Out!" says the Nebraska safety coun
cil in one of its recent bulletins.
The Summer months, when the children are out-of-doors, al
ways brings an increase in traffic fatalities among school-age
youngsters. Last Summer, 19 children were killed in Nebraska
alone; the same number were killed in 1947 during the vacation
period.
These cold statistics do not impress the casual reader, much
less the careless driver of motor vehicles. A tragic incident in
which a child is maimed or mangled or even fatally injured some
times creates only a temporary impression on motorists.
Holt county has had more than its share of violent deaths in
recent months and drivers must use extra caution now that
school children are free in the out-of-doors.
But the responsibility doesn’t end with the driver. Parents
should take part in the safety program by teaching their children
the principles of safe walking and the necessity for alertness to
the dangers of automobile traffic.
One needs only to watch traffic move through O’Neill’s main
downtown intersection a few hours to witness “close calls” be
tween automobiles and pedestrians. Eternal vigilance is required
on the part of all.
Let’s be extra careful this Summer.
it it it
Romaine Saunders suggests there is a crying need for side
walk improvement. He doubts if ever the human’s walking legs
will be supplanted by new-fangled gadgets and suggests that the
Diamond Jubilee year is as good as any to replace many of the
walks that are up to three score years old.
it it it
People who are privileged to live in Nebraska at this delight
ful season of the year are also privileged to see some of the most
beautiful scenery in the world. Nothing more beautiful than the
green fields and hills and the luxurient trees, filled with warbl
ing birds.
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O’Neill will be a mecca for golfers early next week. Many of
these visitors will come intact with merchants, shopkeepers and
professional people on the sreets as well as on the links. Let s
greet them warmly and impress them favorably.
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The weatherman could by no stretch of the imagination be
called a conservative.
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“Problems Are the Price of Progress”—how would that be for
a slogan?
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Every holiday is followed by a ghastly toll of dead and in*
jured.
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And let us not forget all the beautiful June brides!
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NOTICE!!
1 have taken over DENNIS* SHOE
SHOP and am now open for business.
ANDY SCHACHT
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Prairieland Talk —
Everything from Sauerkraut to Atlantic Pact
Gets Attention on First National Steps
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
For 65 years the stone steps
of the First National bank have
served as the local Mars Hill,
where everything, from the
right method of making sauer
kraut to the Atlantic pact, have
been duly discussed and the
most profound
conciu s 1 o n s
arrived at.
Mike Sulli
livan. Bennet
Martin, Hank
McEvony, Bill
Fallon, John
McCaffe r t y
and many oth
ers, each in
h i s genera
tion, contrib
uted of their
Romaine
Saunders
• inexhaustable
fund of
knowl edge
and under
ing of the
times toward
the solution of domestic and
world problems.
This generation has its good
ly portion of able citizens con
tributing to the enlightenment of
those who daily gather on the
bank steps. Now it is time O’
Neill furnishes a fitting place
with benches, say in the shade
of the trees on the courthouse
lawn, where gentlemen of leis
ure and visiting friends can
gather to talk things over dur
ing the long Summer days.
• • •
Pink roses perfume the air.
Robins, bobolinks and cardin
als flit from bough-to-bough
among the foliage, the plain
tiff note of the mourning dove
at dawn, the flash of scarlet on
a blackbird's wing in the
morning sunbeam, the hum of
insects, the soft rustle of
leaves in tree tops, the green
and bright colors of floral
bloom adorning open spaces—
the long and dreaded Winter
is past, the charm of Summer
days again brighten, and quiet
nights enfold, the vast prair
ieland.
• • •
Friends and adherents, critics
and enemies of the late Presi
dent Roosevelt and the new gen
eration will have soon spread
before them in book stalls an
other volume portraying the
great New Dealer, this one by
his former confidential secre
tary. Biographies and memoirs
have become stale. I have seen
books with some national not
able staring at you from the
cover in great unsold piles on
the book counters, a line drawn
through the original figure on
the price tag and repriced at a
lower figure. This new one about
FDR will give the Women’s
clubs another chance at a book
review.
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The American Medical assoc
iation brings to bear the weight
of a great organization opposing
government interference in their
business. If socialized medicine
becomes a reality the physicians
of the large cities will be to
blame. The specialists in many
cities are in agreement for finan
cial reasons and there is neith
er competition among them nor
the high aims of professional
service in the healing art. This |
element of a great and honored
profession has become dominant
in many places and there is a
feeling among laymen and doc
tors themselves that the AMA
is due for a housecleaing.
• * •
If O'Neill is not to have
city mail delivery it would
help to remedy a situation
that the town has outgrown
to place mail boxes at con
venient corners where letters
could be dropped. As it is
there is no way to mail a let
ter but go to the postoffice,
and that is about a mile from
some points in the city. The
mail service is not keeping
pace with the growing com
munity. This doubtless is not
attributed to inefficiency in
thejocal office and if brought
to the attention of the depart
ment in Washington may not
accomplished desired results,
unless the citizens want it to
the extent that sidewalks will
be put in a condition where
by mail carriers can travel
the streets.
• * •
Humanism is being flaunted
as the hallowed highway to
peace on earth and good will
among the nations. I wonder if
it has not been humanism, the
human element devoid of di
vine inspiration, the greed and
lust for earthly dominion—dis
tilled, raw humanism—that is
the cause and fulfillment of all
the raging battle fields; human
ism that has inspired the Alex
anders and the Caesars, that has
driven the plowshare of destruc
tion across fair lands, dug the
graves of fallen nations and fil
led the earth with lamentation
and woe. Humanism indeed! Let
it step aside, make room for the
celestial spirit to come in.
• • •
While a lot of folks have been
fretting about the weather and
concerned over material things,
members of a church group
have been on their knees in O’
Neill for two weeks enjoying in
their way the things of the spir
it. The Wesleyan Methodist
membership of a number of
churches met here and for a
fortnight laid aside the affairs
of earth to lift their aspirations
in celestial realms. Maybe it
would help everybody to pause
on occasion to shake the worldly
dust from their garments and
start over clothed in bright new
spiritual robes. The Wesleyans
are now planning to take their
young people to the Niobrara
state park next month for a
five days’ youth camp.
• * •
It appears that they are not
frightened at the word tax up at
Bassett. They have just voted
on a bond proposition for an
airport and are for it strong. The
derrick long ago was taken
down and the search for oil
abandoned up there, the whistl- |
ing post to which Kid Wade was
hung was replaced after a few
years, the bedbug infested pion
eer hotel has disappeared from
the picture and our neighboring
countvseat town goes marching
on into the airplane and atomic
age. Who cares for cost?
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If enough signatures can be
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L-P (PROPANE) GAS CAN BE OBTAINED OF...
Ralph N. Leidy... O’Neill
| secured, the srtate’s 10 million
! dollar road building program
will run against a referendum
vote. A movement is on to get
the proposal before the voters
in 1950. To get the required
number of signatures appears to
be the simple process of seeing
the required number of voters
as the mood at present on the
surface is to vote down any
thing that savers a 10 million
dollar tax bill.
• • •
The paved lanes through O’
Neill’s business district are kept
swept and garnished for the
l—. .
glittering new automobiles but
the footman is officially left to
his peril on the jungle paths that
Dan Camron laid of concrete
nearly a half-century ago, now
fallen to decay and reposing in
mud and water. Householders
could well emulate the city
street sweepers and maintain a
bit of respectability along their
sidewalks.
• • •
Once in a while some one has
the courage to speak up. Here is
one thing they heard out at Al
liance the other day at the Ne
braska Stock Growers associa
tion annual meeting: “It is not
unusual to hear a rancher re
mark that his cattle are paid for,
his ranch is clear and that he is
better off financially than he
has ever been,” said Mr. Coffee
; of the Omaha Union stock yards.
“He should be reminded of the
252 billion dollar mortgage that
Uncle Sam holds on his place.”
Visit Pribils—
Mr. and Mrs. Levi Clemens
and Joan, and Mary Ellen Smith
visited at the Leonard Pnbil
home near O’Neill Sunday, June
5.
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Soap Flakes Box Tops and
Camay Wrappers in to help
on Hospital Fund.
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SIRLOIN STEAK.. 69
FRESH GROUND PURE BEEF ..lb. 47c
COUNCIL OAK SPECIAL NO. 1 GRADE
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