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Say That Again
Robert Ruark. New York columnist, said something in a re
cent column that should be repeated again and again to every
adult person in this country until we are aroused to the danger
of present trends
The same thing has been said by others many times, but
Ruark’s robust style appeals to many readers. We quote from one
of his recent columns:
“The biggest puzzler, in my naive approach to the weighty
problems of the world, is just what has become of the famed
American competitive spirit. ,
T am referring to the rugged individuality for which the
Yank has been famed for a couple of hundred years.
“I seem to recall that we supposedly sprang from a rough-cut
people who plowed with one hand and shot Injuns with the other;
who bore babies and loaded rifles simultaneously; who invaded
the wilderness, dug gold, drank and fought.
“We leaped, I believe, from a people who worshipped suc
cess; who prided themselves on fulfilling the Horatio Alger tradi
tion of paper boy to president in six leaps; who haughtily rejected
charity and who resented being lumped together as “humanity"
or “the little man" or the other contemptuous titles coined by the
directors of mass destiny.
“My life of slothful ease and vast riches, such as $6 a week,
was not ever thus. There were a fair share of lumps on the road
to my stealing license.
‘Those lumps I recall as fun. The rocks in the path seemed
pleasantly challenging. Any I could kick out of the way or leap
over made me feel triumphaftt at the time.
“When I was filling paste pots and hustling coffee for the
city editor, my evil brain was abuzz with plots and plans to knock
him off his chair some day.
“But I never wanted any mass action to knock him off that
chair. And I certainly did not wish to be cheated of any fun of
the combat.
"Certainly I did not care to retire at 21 for a lifetime of
having things done for me. I realise that this is heresy for this
day and age and probably will get me shot by some hot-eyed
se&lot.
“It seems to me that perpetual care, from birth to death, by
a government which shapes your life and curtails your room to
expand is no great gift.
“There is not a great deal to this short and bitter span but a
sense of physical and spiritual achievement. Both are gained
largely through strife.
When the right to rassle is denied and you are presented
with an underwritten existence, all I can think is that there will
be a great many dull people yawning at each other in perpetuity.”
Butchers Top $15.10
At O’Neill Sale
Eight hundred twenty - five
head of hogs and 388 head of
cattle were sold at the Thurs
day, December 8, sale at the
O'Neill Livestock Market.
The market was higher than
the December 1 sale.
Butchers brought a top of
$15, mostly $14.85 to $15.
Feeder pigs sold from $7.50
per head to $14.50.
The cattle market was steady
with the December 1 sale and
many buyers were on hand,
many coming from a consider
able distance.
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Prairieland Talk —
Interesting to Know What We Don’t Know
About What We Think We Know’
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
LINCOLN — Authorities have
us to understand that the far
mer and, gardner to successful
ly grow his crops must from sea
son -to-season enrich the land
by the use of fertilizer. The the
ory is something cannot be tak
en from the land and put noth
ing back.
Sounds good enough.
Just what does a stock of
Romaine
Saunders
corn, a cab
bage head, a
tomato or a
bundle of
grain take
from the soil?
Certainly not
bulk. A culti
vated body of
land remains
physically the
same from
century - to -
century. What
is that mys
terious thing
that has to be
replaced.' (Jr is it mostly human
iancy.
Nature has a way of taking
care of its replacements through
the medium of the falling snow,
the hail and the rain. In the
more than half-century that hay
crops have been garnered out ot
the grass lands the past sea
son’s yield has exceeded any
previous gatherings. Snow lay
deep on the meadows last Win
ter. Grain yield has been abun
dant in sections where there
was much snow.
The ancients, of whom we
can yet learn much, left their
barley and wheat fields lie idle
every seventh year.
It would be interesting to
know what we don’t know about
what we think we know.
• • •
University highbrows have
put forth several names of
gents that stand out in their
scholarly opinions as the man
of the half-century. Herzl, Ein
stein, Shaw, Morgan and Hutch
ins are some of the notables
nominated for this honor. No
one man is the most important
in a given period of time. Left
alone on the planet the discover
ies of Einstein, the automobile
of Henry Ford, the winged mon
strosity of Orville Wright, or
the inventions of the Edisons
would have never come about.
It is the group effort that makes
not the man of the hour but the
achievements of men and wom
en for a generation. The little
known family out on the soil,
the artisan at his bench, the
workman with his spade and
the builder with his hammer,
the teachers and the editors and
the newspaper makers, the doc
tors and the lawyers and the
homemakers and whosoever is
part and parcel of life’s product
ive effort is as much “man of
the half-century” as any long
haired human oddity.
• • *
I don’t know whether they are
perverts or simply hellhounds
at large in the country ravish;
ing and butchering little girls,
mere babies. The physiognom
ists, the physiologists, the do
gooders, the sobsisters want to
take over such specimens of de
praved humanity and coddle
them in state-supported institu
tions.
The institution for them is
the pillory of colonial days
and then the hangman's
noose. And if mob action is
ever justifiable tearing a vic
tim limb-from-limb it would
be in dealing with an inhum
an wretch who lures a little
child to a horrible death.
Crime is rampant, as a noted
lawyer puts it. If the laws were
all enforced half the population
of America would be in jail.
This is a serious indictment of
apparently orderly citizens, but
what language is strong enough
to express the feelings over
the hellish horrors reported of
late. What if it were your little
Kiri?
• * »
Taxes, Red Cross, Salvation
Army, Chest drive leaves us a
little short for Christmas buy
ing.
After making monkeys out of
police officers and patrolmen of
five or six states the escaped
convict from the Nebraska pen
itentiary was shot down by an
officer when the hunt became
one of shoot to kill.
For some reason the outlaw
had lost the vision of a guid
ing star and his spectacular
career had determined him to
go to his grave rather than
return to confinement.
That it was necessary to shoot
him down may be questioned.
While he relieved police and
patrolmen of their guns and
cars with impunity he harmed
no one and his ability to outwit
the representatives of the law
makes the outlaw a semi-hero
or the officers hardly qualified
for the job.
Sen. Hugh Butler says it is
time for the U. S. to reduce for
eign gifts. The senator might do
some missionary work among
his colleagues in congress and
get enough of them to /think
that way to make it a reality
rather than something to talk
about.
* * •
Any guy with the hat and
boots passes these days as a
cowboy whether they would
know which end of the horse
takes the bridle. The old timer
from the Spade toteing a pair
of sixes would have a lot of fun
with the modern make believe.
* * •
Amid the welter of human
disasters and baffling world
problems, John Nance Gar
ner is serene and happy down
there among his pecan groves.
More from the wonderland of
Washington, D. C., should be
retired to the immutable and
indestructible and imperish
able job of holding the plow
handles.
• • •
With a hand upon the Bible
the chief executive takes oath
to uphold the constitution and
enforce the federal laws. The
Taft-Hartley law sets the stage
tg handle strikes. All that is
needed is the actor.
• • »
Two colored gents were ex
changing the latest news within
their respective realms u |yn
the status quo of a mutual fi-|pnd
was mentioned by Sam. “Sljtus
quo,” piped up the other, ^-fhat
you mean by that?” Sam ^id:
“That’s the fix he’s
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