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Anxious Days
These are anxious days—days of uncertainty and apprehen
sion.
There is always plenty to worry about, but it seems as though
worries had been piled up in recent months to an unusual extent.
It is only necessary to read the newspapers, to listen to the
radio, or to take a comprehensive look around your own vicinity
to realize that fact.
There is a vast, unprecedented number of perplexing prob
lems confronting the American people at the present time and the
mental strain is becoming constantly more intense. So great has
this strain become for some individuals, indeed, that they have
desperately decided to “take up arms against a sea of troubles and
by opposing end them,”
There have been some conspicuous examples of that laiely
in public life which have attracted wide attention. These indi
viduals have cracked under the mental strain of living and
have committed suicide.
Of course, there are countless other people who have taken the
same easy way out of their difficulties who are less prominent and
whose names do not appear in the newspapers, at least, not on
the front page.
Not knowing the problems and perplexities of various indi
viduals, one should be charitable and suspend judgment; but,
generally speaking, it may be said that suicide is a cowardly act.
It solves no problems and dispels no perplexities and it adds
heavily to the burdens of those who remain.
The courageous soul does not run away, but stays on to fight
to the bitter end.
Obviously, however, the suicides are a relatively small number
and the great majority of people do face life with all its problems
and difficulties courageously, but, nevertheless, it must be conceded
that these are anxious days for almost everybody.
That is true internationally, nationally and locally.
Internationally, the situation is tense and critical and news
reports are scanned with interest day after day. Always in the
background, is the fear of another war. The recently adopted
Atlantic pact may prove an effective means of averting war—we
hope and pray that it may, but distrust, suspicion and fear still
exist in the hearts of men. The world is in a state of turmoil with
fighting between various nations going on all the time and world
peace is still a long, long way off.
Nationally, these are also anxious day*. Fortunately, the
United Slates has been spared any great natural calamities
and disasters in recent months such as have occurred occasion
ally in the past, but the national scene is very far from being a
peaceful one.
Strikes, walkouts, riots, lynchings, murders and terrible crimes
and accidents of all sorts are occurring every day and there is a
certain amount of nervous tension always in the air on account
of the turbulant conditions abroad. There is also anxiety about the
nation’s reckless spending and the constantly mounting national
debt.
This is not hysteria, nor is it losing sight of the fact that the
United States is the greatest, the most prosperous, the most pro
gressive, the most peaceful and the most hopeful nation in the
world today. It is simply citing some of the facts and conditions
which cause more or less anxiety among its happy and contented
people.
Locally, these are anxious days, but in an entirely different
sense than they are on the international and national scene. Nat
urally, the inhabitants of Nebraska and the Midwest share in the
concern felt by the rest of the people in world problems; but,
nevertheless, when you leave the big, congested cities and travel
West, you enter different surroundings. There is an atmosphere
of peace, contentment and security which is in striking contrast
to the hectic and dangerous conditions which exist in many other
parts of the world.
That is not to say, however, that we people of the agricultural
areas do not have our problems. We do and plenty of them. We
have at every season of the year. Last Winter, we had the prob
lem of terrible blizzards, excessive snowfall and unusual cold and,
then, when the snow had melted and the cold abated, we were con
fronted with the problem of raising another crop.
We are wrestling with that problem at the present time and,
while it is a local one, it has state, national and even international
ramifications for it should be remembered that the Midwest is
“the breadbasket of the world.” What we raise on our fertile acres
will be used to feed countless millions of people.
And the farmers and ranchers of this and other areas have
been beset by unusual difficulties this season on account of the
various insects which have invaded their fields. It seems that they
are unusually numerous this year—aphids, corn borers, locusts,
grasshoppers and numerous other pests which have attacked the
growing grain and done an untold amount of damage. In addition
to insects, the threat of drouth, hail, wind storms, etc., is continual
ly present.
These are anxious days in Holt county and all over the Mid
west.
Anxiety is a bad mental state—in a sense, it is worse, more
disturbing, than the reality itself and every individual needs all
the hope and courage possible to combat and overcome it
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Heat is only relative.
An Appreciative Audience
-JO Europe
Prairieland Talk —
Columbus a Fitting Locality for Reverting
to Garb and Gaiety of the Old West
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
LINCOLN—A citizen of Co
lumbus came to Lincoln and
from his celestial perch on the
back of a beautiful white
horse, dolled up with fancy
trappings, presented to Gov
ernor Peterson in the shadow
of the bronze statue of the
great commoner an official in
Romaine
Saunders
vitation t o
come to the
Platte county
city for an
address o n
the occasion
of the mod
erns up there
reverting to
the pictures
que garb
and gaiety
o f the Old
West in a
three day
c e le bration.
I don’t know how many if
any may survive at Columbus
who were there at the time,
but it is one of tihe fitting lo
calities in Nebraska for such
an undertaking.—here was the
home of Indian scouts, the
•cene of Pawnee camp fires
and the gathering ground for
the first great undertaking to
preserve in living drama the
story of the trail blazers of
prairieland, when Buffalo Bill
assembled his magnificient
gang at riders and marksmen.
In this age of rubber tires
and the Increase of burning
gasoline there will be a few
if any found who can mount
a horse with the grace and
regal bearing of Bill or hit
riders but that there will be
plenty to make a stab at it
is already understood.
After the toil and travail of
four score years what is it that
we wish to mimic of the past?
i The romance and adventure,
the heroism and the lawless
ness, the untrameled freedom
iof life and culture piety linked
this the thing we look back
with primitive barbarism — is
upon with yearning? Has the
soft touch, yet the subtle de
signing, of modern life becomes
a bore to the men of business,
and professions so that they
crave somethig of the rudiments
of the wild? Back of it all is it
not a love of nature that sur
vives in an artificial world?
Go out in the morning to far
prairieland and camp in nature’s
solitude for a day and a night,
and stay over another day and
night. Catch the inspiration of
the open air, the fragrance and
color of prairie flowers, the flash
of gold at sunset, the mystic
charm of the heavens when stars
shine afar, the call of a prairie
wolf to his mate to startle you at
midnight and the pink glow
touching a distant sandhill at
dawn.
The longing, seeking, striv
ing to loose the bands of artific
ial living is realized for the mo
ment in the presence of the tre
mendous panorama of prairie
land.
• » •
At sunset a stillness rests over
prairieland. The little lake mir
ror, the blue above and the long
stems of the cat-tails skirting the
lake’s rim stand motionless. The
row of jack pines on the crest of
a hill form a dark line against
the incandescence of the sky.
The meadow lark has sent forth
his evening note, folded his
brown-grey wings and gone to
rest, the fierce July day dies and
ali things for the moment are left
without a shadow. The hum of
the night insects is heard as they
rise up out of the grass, one by
one stars burn over the sandhills
and the brooding calm of night !
spreads a haunting charm across I
the grass lands. Sunset and even- I
ing star—it is the hour that re
mains forever in the memory, |
the hour when day is over on
prairieland and night has unfold
ed a quiet calm over the earth as
if listening for a message from
i the skies.
• t •
A fuel oil truck has drove up
to the house next door, the
hose connected with the base
ment tank and the streams of
oil turned on. Early prepara
tions for a changing season and
a reminder of what lies ahead
during moths to come.
• • •
There is an over production of
experts telling “what ought to be
| done.” To overcome the 10 per
I cent shrinkage in the income of
Nebraska farmers the university
specialists in such things have
cast out on the desert air their
advice to increase production
“per acre, per sow, per cow.” No
class of citizens get the hooey
handed to them so freely and
fluently as do the folks out on
the land, who look tolerantly
and smile. The tragedy of it is
much of this socalled expert stuff
is a racket that flourishes on the
doles from public funds.
• • •
Carrying a stock of cigars in
♦he vest or shirt pocket so far
remains the prerogative of men.
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The foliage-laden elms bend
before the wind and the long
plumage of the weeping wil
lows swing and sway in
graceful attitudes; bush and
blooming flower beds to« yield
to the kisses of the fresh
Northern gale; a streak of
light cuts across a cloud bank
and the roll of distant thun
dtr warns of rain. Nature’s
mood this morning invites to
the open t-o let the wind dis- !
hevel your hair.
• • •
Those who have been there tell
us that from a high ridge among
Judaean hill, snow-capped Her
mon to the North is visible, the
sands of the desert to the South
are seen, the suUen outline of the
mediterranean Sea to the West
and Trans-Jordan mountains to
the East are plainly visihle.
Within this spot of earth was
born the faith that has cheated
the modern world, and here
again the banner of a revitalized
Hebrew nation is unfurled.
(Continued on Page 7-A)
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