PAGE 2-A.—July 28. 1948.
Frontier
Editorial & Business OHices: 10 South Fourth Street
CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher_
Entered the postoffice at O’Neill, Holt county, Nebraska
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Youth Organizations
Youth organizations of various kinds occupy the center of the
*tage in the United States at this season.
It is alwavs so at this time of the year. From the date school
closes in the Spring until the date it reconvenes in the Fall, the
youth of the land are very much in the spotlight.
We don't know to what extent this is true in foreign coun
tries, but it is certainly true in our country. The Summer sea
son is preeminently the season of youth activity.
If youth are especially active in any foreign country, it is
usually'for some sinister purpose, as, for instance, in Germany
during the Hitler regime or, at the present time, under the rule
of Stalin in Russia.
Youth may be active and aggressive and be a powerful force
for evil.
But that i* definitely not the case in the United States.
In the United States, the young people of both sexes from
the smallest teenager on up to maturity spend the Summer
vacation months in wholesome, constructive activity and so
ciety is feeling the effect of the nationwide movement.
This youth movement is of comparatively recent origin. There
was a time which some of the older folks can recall when children
were supposed to be “seen and not heard,” then, a period followed
when youth had certain limited and restricted liberties and avtiv
ities and, then, the great historic era of youth leadership in vari
ous fields dawned upon the world.
We of this generation have the privilege of living in this era
and seeing some of the marvelous results which a wisely directed
youth movement has been able to achieve. A century or half a
century ago, such achievement would have been considered im
possible and fantastic.
Today, youth occupies the center of the stage and, while it
would be impossible in our limited space to mention all the organ
izations which they represent, a few of them suggest themselves.
There are, for example, the 4-H clubs, of which thousands of boys
and girls in the agricultural areas are members; the Hi-Y Clubs,
in the membership of which large numbers of high school stu
dents are enrolled in various cities and town; the Summer camps
which are attended by countless boys and girls all over the nation;
many church clubs and camps, intended especially for the in
struction and recreation of particular religious groups, and vari
ous other youth organizations which convene in the great out
doors every season for a certain length of time.
The purpose of some of these clubs is to make better farmers,
of some to make better housekeepers, of some to make better me
chanics, etc., but the principal point we are trying to emphasize
here is that they all make better citizens.
The youth organisations in this country today are the
greatest anti-communistic force in existence and they are also
a powerful force operating against juvenile delinquency. Ju
venile delinquency is one of the toughest problems which con
front society at the present time and the youth club with its
clean, constructive, uplifting and educational program is the
only solution.
Incidentally, it is interesting to note that large numbers of
boys and girls who are members of these different youth organ
izations make a trip to Washington occasionally and learn at first
hand something about the workings of a democratic form of gov
ernment. Needless to say, they return from these trips enthusias
tic and better informed.
To their credit be it said that the newspapers of the country
are very generous in giving publicity to all these youth activities.
As The Frontier sees it, the youth organizations of the United
States with their patriotic, progressive programs are one of the
strongest safeguards which any nation can possibly have.
Stormy Weather
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Prairieland Talk —
New Yorkers’ Ears Tuned to Money Jingle;
Prairielander’s Ear Hears Song of Cricket
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
LINCOLN—Two men walk- !
ed along a busy New York
City street, conversing as they
walked. One paused, so the
other stood still.
“I hear a cricket,” said the
first to stop in their walk.
“How could that be possible
amid the city noise?”
“Come and we’ll find the
cricket.”
Stepping down the steps of
a basement the cricket was
found on a
ledge.
What won
derful hear
ing you
have,” said
the one to
the other..”
“It isn’t
that,” was
the reply,
“but it is
what your
ear is tuned
to hear.”
Romaine He tossed j
Saunders a small coin
up and as it struck the pave
ment the moving throngs on
the street for a distance of 50
feet stopped to look for the
coin. New Yorker’s ear was a
tune to the gingle of money.
The gent from prairieland
who had never heard the song
of the cricket above the city
din had ears to hear the song
of birds, the hum of insects,
the call of the wildlings, the
drumming of raindrops, the
sweep of the wind across the
land and the footfall of nature
treading the great outdoors.
• • c
A Nebraskan is pretty pro
minently mentioned to head
the Republican national com
mittee and. our glamour boy in
the senate gets mention as a
possibility for president in the
next run for the White House
A committee composed of
T. V. Golden, Michael Slattery
and Martin Bazelman called a
town meeting for January 6,
1900, to start a movement for
the aid of Boers in South Af
rica in their uprising against
Great Britain. Anything with
an anti-English flavor had its
appeal in those days in O’
Neill. There was $26 raised
at that meeting. Capt. Fisher,
of Chadron, and John Maher,
of O’Neill, got a little notor
iety when they undertook—
by voice and typewriter—to
raise a regiment to send to the
aid of the South Africans.
• • •
Of course, we Nebraskans
knew if all along, bul if is
interesting to note that an
insurance survey credits Ne
braska with leading the
United States in longevity.
The average age of men
here is 66.25 years and wo
men 70.04.
• • •
The evening hour has come.
The day’s work is done.
Homeward bound. The men
and the women stop at the
grocery stores. And then one
by one out they come with
arms loaded with paper sacks
stuffed with provisions for the
family who await their home
coming. The day’s earnings
have been spent for some of
life’s necessities. Tomorrow
| evening and the next will wit
' ness the same scene. And so
from day to day the labors of
life’s ceaseless toil supply the
never ending demand for
bread.
• • •
Governor Peterson says life
begins at 46. Has the gov
ernor not spent an evening in
j a home where there is a one,
i three and five-year-old?
• • •
i A candidate for the office
of mayor of Philadelphia has
a campaign slogan that should
appeal to the voters. He ad
mits he needs a job.
For a Good Time
VISIT THE
OLD
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CLUB
Elgin. Nebr.
★
• Fine Food
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★
Members and their guests
are invited to visit the Old
Plantation Club.
Jubilee Congratulatory Messages Continue to Be Received
The Frontier,
2028 Creston Ave.,
New York, N. Y.
July 21, 1949
O’Neill, Nebraska
The Jubilee Edition of The Frontier was re
ceived a few days ago, and I am happy to send
this message of congratulation to you and each
member of your staff for the praiseworthy suc
cess of this issue. I was interested in every page
of it, as O’Neill was my home the greater part of
my life, and this edition revived many memories.
I was glad to be a contributor in a small way,
and am especially grateful for the prominence
given to my uncle (Father Cassidy) for his inter
est in the pioneer days of O’Neill.
Best wishes for your success.
Yours gratefully,
MARY E. CULLEN
Angleton, Tex.,
July 12, 1949
... I want to tell you how much I enjoyed
the Diamond (Jubilee Edition). If I had known
I could have told you a few things of interest.
You see, I lived through it all from 1880 until
1900.
Sometimes I would laugh and sometimes I
would cry (while reading), but was greatly in
terested all through. . .
I read it for a week. I would go back and
read over. I truly enjoyed it.
ALBERTA UTTLEY
522 Hayes
San Francisco, Calif.
July 5, 1949
Dear Editor: ,
I received the Diamond Jubilee Edition, j
Gee, it’s wonderful. . . How in the world did you
manage this wonderful edition? My hat’s off to
you.
W. J. JACKSON
Respectfully,
Oakdale, Nebr.,
July 22, 1949
Dear Sirs:
I cannot express my enjoyment in reading
the great Jubilee number. It’s the best I have
read and I’m going to preserve it.
If a better paper is ever made, I believe The
Frontier will do it!
Thanks ... a reader. . .
MABEL GUILD
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L-P (PROPANE) GAS CAN BE OBTAINED OF ... .
Ralph N. Leidy ... O’Neill
Down at Charleston, Ark.,
there is one of the very few, if
not the only woman now living,
who became a Holt county
homesteader 66 years ago and
still owns the land where she
started life as a bride of the late
James L. Shanner. Through the
long years of pioneering, the
homestead, two miles Northwest
of Page, was developed into one
of the best farms in that section
of the county. Mrs. Shanner,
with her sons, Paul and Luther,
went South a few years ago but
expect to retain their interests
in Holt county.
• • •
The red light blinks, shifts to
green. The tramp, tramp, tramp
of feet is on. Here they come,
good, bad indifferent—the nifty
clad gent who has an important
stride, the old timer with the
frosts of many Winters to his
credit thumping along with the
aid of a cane, the 300-pound ma
tron hoisting her huge bulk a
long on pins comparable to a
stove pipe in girth, the univer
sity student with a faded face
and arm-load of books, the sis
ters on a shopping tour carrying
precious parcels, the modernistic
coed keeping step with the
mothers who each lead a child.
Thirty seconds and the light
blinks again. The human stream
(Continued on page 7-A)
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