THE FRONTIER_O’Neill, Nebr. CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher Entered the postoffice at O’Neill, Holt county, Nebraska, m second-class mail matter under the Act of Congress of March I, 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 ol Subscription: In Nebraska, $2 50 per year; else where in the United States, $3 per year, abroad, rates provided cm request. All subscriptions are strictly paid-in-advance. A Parking Problem The Chamber of Commerce in its most recent session decided to do something about the downtown parking problem. A com mittee was appointed to work with the city council and make recommendations with a view to improving what is now a seri ous situation. In other years O’Neill may have had a parking problem of a sort, but in the Summer of 1949 the matter requires immediate ac tion. On Saturday evenings, particularly, the condition is acute, dangerous and creates considerable inconvience to O’Neill visit ors. Recently published Letters to the Editor from agitated readers have been well intended and. The Frontier believes, well found ed. One writer pointed out that on occasion he has been hem med to the curb by the hour because of double parkers. An other reader, a farm resident, wrote that when members of her family reached O'Neill on Saturday nights they were tired, worn out and usually were in no mood to park some distance from their shopping points and lug groceries and other supplies back-and-forth to their car. The Frontier offers these suggestions, none of them new or or- j iginal, to help aleviate, temporarily, at least, the parking crisis: 1. Fresh marking of parking stalls on street and curb so | motorists will have a clear-cut idea of how to park. This will conserve space and possibly will accommodate 15 cars or more on Douglas street alone. 2. Merchants, clerks and others who work in the downtown section would do well to show courtesy to their rural friends by leaving their automobiles at home on Saturday night or, if nec- j essary to drive downtown, park the machine in the rear of their j place of business. One store manager told The Frontier recently it was the firm’s policy in their chain of stores that employee automobiles were to be parked in the rear. 3. Well-meaning townspeople who occupy choice parking locations and watch the passersby by the hour should confine ; their amusement of this sort to nights other than Saturday out of consideration to our country friends. 4. Some action should be taken toward lighting and improv ing alleys where shoppers can park with convenience and safe ty. 5. A study should be made on the parking requirements for the future and arrangements made for a municipal parking lot. Most cities and town realize the necessity too late and pay a prem ium for such a location. Already a lot of this type can be justi fied, and if O’Neill continues to grow, and if automobiles continue to be manufactured, we’re running-headlong into a need for a well lighted, convenient, policed parking lot. As a matter of public safety the practice of double-parking should be eliminated once-and-for-all. It is not only a hazardous practice but it is unfair to the motorist who is imprisoned at the curb. Eventually, perhaps, diagonal parking will give way to par allel parking to conform to highway standards. When this time comes (as it already has in many cities), the parking problem will become a major crisis in O’Neill. Thus, the city council is being confronted with still another in a series of problems that accompany the growing pains of our city. O’Neill is fortunate in having a council composed of rep resentative citizens who, The Frontier believes, ar» -.aking things in stride and getting things done. With the appointment of a special Chamber of Commertfe committee to work with the council, The Frontier is confident there will emerge a workable plan to immediately improve park ing in the downtown area as well as anticipate and meet the parking problem of the future. ★ ★ ★ Timid Youth (Guest Editorial from Omaha Journal-Stockman) What in the world are we Americans doing to our children? That question arises automatically when you read that in a recent survey made by a national magazine among this year’s college graduates, only two percent of them had a thought of ev er going into business for themselves. On the contrary, what the great majority of the men getting their degrees in 1949 want is the "security” of a position (and not necessarily a high- paying po sition, either) with some sound corporation. Shades of the pion eers who built this country! And small wonder that socialism, communism, fascism and every other ism offering a chimerical “security” to its followers is gaining ground. True, these wily salesmen of new political sects say noth ing about the freedom of thought, action and opportunity which their followers must barter in exchange for doubtful remedies for the world's ills. But apparently that is not a big item with the majority of young people today, to judge from the results of the survey. What a pity! And what a sad future for America it bodes unless it should turn out that the youngsters were just kidding the poll-takers, and that the spirit of our founding fathers isn’t as dead as the gloomy results of this survey would make it seem. * * * It’s definite now—the publication date for The Frontier’s big Diamond Jubilee Edition. The date is next week—Thursday, June 30. There will be pages and pages of pictures and stories concerning people and happenings in the early days in O’Neill and Holt county. The historical sections will be a part of the regu lar edition. If you re not already a regular reader, better sub scribe now and get the big Jubilee edition at no extra cost. ★ ★ ★ Have you given to St. Anthony’s hospital? What finer invest ment in the future could there be for you and your children? There’s Only Room for One Flag Prairieland Talk — Half-Hour with Venerable Sam Barnard | Like Reading a Western Thriller By ROMAINE SAUNDERS Sam Barnard, father of Mrs. • C. E. Yantzi, of West Everett street, lacks only five years of being one of O’Neill’s Diamond Jubilee group. He was in O’Neill 70 years ago and now at 90 years of age recalls serving as a juror in Coun-j ty Judge Ma loy’s court when a horse thief was on trial The jury found the prisoner guilty. At the conclusion of trial the gent Romaine made threats Saunders of what he would do to judge and jurors when released from jail. Whereupon a strapping juror arose, addressed the court and invited Judge Ma loy to lock him in a room with the convicted man, after which there would be no need of pas sing sentence on the horse thief. Mr. Barnard may be the old est native Nebraskan now in the state. He was born in the vicinity of Grand Island in 1859 and his life has been spent for the most part in frontier communities. He is active, interested in ev erything but automobiles and would rather trust himself on a burro than in a car. He is a prospector by instinct and has claims in Wyoming hills. He has a hunch there is oil in the terri tory where the land slides oc curred a month ago up along the Niobrara. It is like reading a Western thriller to spend A half-hour with the venerable Sam. m m * The Nebraska delegation to the Des Moines, la., gathering of administration Democrats and some with diverse views flaunt ed a banner before filing into seats of a seven-coach special train which bore these starling words: “Brannan or Bust.” While none of them in the pic ture at the railroad station re sembled real dirt farmers from that slogan it may be under stood the Nebraskans were tor the subsidizihg of the farms. And this, the banner proclaims, must be or the nation’s agricul ture is ruined. How did agricul ture survive for 250 years and grow great before price supports were thought of? There are two newspapers published in O’Neill. These go to readers one year for $2,50 paid by each subscrib er. Would it be unreasonable to suggest that the publishers be guaranteed the $2.50 by the gov ernment? • * • Mr. Truman’s pre-election promises seem to be regarded as a joke by the Democratic con trolled congress, or maybe as one gent puts it, a politician promises anything for a vote. But the president has more than three years to make a comeback on his word to American voters. However, he lacks the glamour and hypnotic snap of a finger of his predecessor. Americans like to think well of their chief ex ecutive and although there has been some pretty shabby state ments emitted from White House conferences, maybe the president will yet get his feet planted on the earth. • * * One of the ablest citizens to come forward to denounce the Truman program of socialized medicine and schools and farms is Gen. Dwight D. Eis enhower. The general is pret ty popular himself and prob ably could have been in the White House if he had spoken the word. But in view of the kicks and cuffs that go with public office he doubtless did not care to jump from the fry ing pan of a great war into the domestic fire. • * * The tall grass fringing each side of the walk has been spar- j ed the ceaseless slashing of the lawn mower. There in a se- j eluded nook bloom the pink prairie roses and by their side the pale stems of native plant life adorned by blue beauties in full Summer dress—a bit of na tural charm only a step from the puritanical stiffness of pre cise front yards. Nature has little chance to spread the green and floral bloom where the machines of men ravish the land. Trimming and pruning, plant ing and plucking up, the out doors becomes more and more artificial. Pause for a moment among the lofty berch and hem locks to listen to the roar of rushing water down a mountain canyon, see the dark outline of timber-covered slopes with bare rocks reaching on up into the region of perpetual snow; go to the top of a sandhill to look out across vast prairieland and thank God some of His handiwork is unspoiled. • • • If toddlers of today are the warriors of tomorrow they are getting an early start in the use of guns. A little child barely able to walk went down the street one hand in the hand of his mother, the other grip ping a double-barreled toy gun. It was only a toy but from play with toys young America takes to reality. Children are given toy pistols. This is the beginning of the cultivation of a desire for deadly weapons. Next they want the thing that shoots to kill. A toy gun in the hands of a child gives his young mind the wrong picture of life. • * • The O'Neill territory has been visited by frequent rains but so far has been spared a beating by tornado or other destructive storm. A few com munities have suffered the loss of life and property through the work of raging elements. The past several months man has been made aware of the mighty forces at the command of nature s sovereign. • • * Astronomers of Palomar and Mt Wilson observatories have undertaken the task of produc ing an atlas of the sky which is to reach out into unexplored space to a distance of 300 mil lion light years and the work when finished will be available ISN'T rr A SHAME^ ALL THAT LOVSLY J k HOT WATS*. SOI NO | TO WASTe-ANDWe 1nI»0 IT SO BAOLY #»y AT HOANtf^y Y NATURE IS W0NDEREUL-8UT SO ( iS SCIENCE-AND YOU CAN PROVE IT V BYSETTiNS AN LP-OAS QUICK ^ F RECOVERY WATER HEATER AND / I Show *OLO RAIThFul A WtRiCK OR two !— •* YOU WERE RiSHT, liTTlE ELPEI-1 YBU.OWSTONE iSPamOY-BUT EOS. ^ PLENTY hot water au a The Tl*\f • vVI LL TAKE OUR NEW LF «AS V* water heater* #1 rDfi,_/ < I L-P (PROPANE) GAS CAN BE OBTAINED OF... Ralph N. Leidy... O’Neill to universities at $2,000 a copy. And so while floating out upon the untraversed depths of eter nity they are going to keep their feet on earth to be within reach of the cash register. • • • The nation’s imposing capitol building has been receiving a fresh spread of paint about ev ery four years and is ready for treatment again. Washington painters are said to draw $18.40 a day for sloshing around with a paint brush and the present estimate for doing the capitol building is slightly less than $53,000. Not so much as New Deal spending goes. Salary considerations have brought about the resignation of two state officials—the head of the health department and the executive secretary of the library commission. Perhaps their personal interests are such as to require that they retire from public service, and one can not go on forever sacrificing for an indifferent public. • • • Play ball! The great American sport is on. The professional stem winders facing the huskies with the bat will have the pleasure at the close of the sea son of counting up and thrilling over the crisp crinkle of more U. S. treasury notes than many of us make in 10 years. • • • A young woman felt an urge to kill. She pressed the trigger that did the job. One of those gents called a phychiatricist says the young woman “is either schizophrenic or deep in the in fluence of a major hysteria.” The electric chair can cure both that and the urge. • • • Bugs are taking the growing grain. Send a delegation to Washington. Need printing done? Prompt deliveries . . . The Frontier, aclv * I'm on my way to COUNCIL OAK Like scores of other thrifty folk « Who know that there’s the place to bay, The prices low—the values high I We’re eatin’ better every day , And savin’ money’s just like play. For Council Oak I’m sure a rooter— gThat’s where Fm hustlin’ on my scooter! FRUIT COCKTAIL 9 M SUPEKII, Cubed Naiad Frail* V Can* Vl ROYAL ANNE CHERRIES 47. SUPERB, 14-os. Can . fclV WELCH'S GRAPE JUICE Ad. Pore Fall Strength. Qnart Bottle . *l"w^ PORK AND BEANS 4 „„, AQ. VAN CAMP'S, A Quirk Meal V Can* Bfv|p EARLY JUNE PEAS O . 00* MORNING LIGHT £ Can* 4vV SUPERB TUNA FISH Ai« A Nammer Salad -'avorlte. No. H Can . ■IjP SANDWICH SPREAD OJU SALAD BOWL, Plot Jar .. ROBB-ROSS PEANUT BUTTER 41. “Stabilised”. 10-os. Refrigerator Jar __ w flp RED DOT F0YATO CHIPS 00* Serre Them Often, Big