Editorial & Busin*** Offices: 10 South Fourth Street O'NEILL. NEBR. *“ CARROLL W. STEWART. Editor and Publisher Entered the postoffice at O’Neill, Holt county, Nebraska, ms second-class mail matter under the Act of Congress of March 8, 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 of Subscription: In Nebraska, $2.50 per year; else where in the United States, $3 per year; abroad, rates provided ac request. All subscriptions are strictly paid-in-advance. _ i O’Neill s National Publicity Extensiveness of O’Neill’s publicity as a result of events dur ing and following the Hurricane Blizzard of March 7 only now gome 2 weeks latur—is becoming known. It is safe to say that the nation’s press—particularly the daily press—was sufficiently im pressed to give Mrs. Wallace O’Connell, her “blizzard baby,” Timothy Joseph, and O’Neill street scenes “a big play.” Clippings have been filtering back from every state in the Union. Clyde laylor, puDiisner oi me uawscn cuumy neraiu, «n Lexington, was a guest in Puerto Rico on March 7, 8 and 9 on a U. S. navy-sponsored tour of the Caribbean. While basking on a btach under the palms he picked up a newspaper and saw O’ Neill’s main street buried under mountains of snow. He had to examine the story to be sure he wasn’t looking at a year-old news paper. Mr. Taylor promptly advised The Frontier of its success in conveying the snow story to Puerto Ricans! Until Wednesday, this report held distance honors. News has a fascinating way of getting around. The Hurricane Blizzard was news enough. But when Mrs. Wallace O’Connell, an expectant mother, became marooned in the violent storm for 10 hours and, after her rescue, gave birth to a bouncing baby boy the nation became interested. This news, the highly perishable commodity that it is, had to be gotten out right away. News is no respecter of broken communications lines. It must be dispatched rapidly and as accurately as possible. This The Frontier attempted to do by the media of special radio broadcasts, pictures and print ed word. Photographs had to be flown. The question arises: Can all this hum-drum produce an ad verse effect? The Frontier doubts that any bad can come from that sort of publicity even though it is of a negative sort. Most sections of the country at some time or another come to grips with Mother Nature and when this happens national attention is bound to be focused, for a short time, on that particular region. The Hurricane Blizzard was as dramatic as any storm that ever ripped the Ever glades of Florida or any Mississippi flood. Subsequent cattle losses and other personal property losses are tnaking it nearly as costly. Loss of human life was held to a minimum—thanks to forewarnings and neighborliness. It all added up to thousands of inches of space in the nation’s press and The Frontier defends its treatment of the news while it was news, in spite of what a stray critic might say in the Omaha World-Herald’s Public Pulse column. t » I It’s the Idiots! (Guest Editorial from Dakota County Star, South Sioux City) The Democrats aren't ruining the country. Neither are the Republicans. It's the idiots. * At least, according to men of letters, idiot is derived from an old Greek word meaning one who takes no interest in public fiffairs. And idiots are plentiful.in America. Our system of government, which we hail so proudly in our conversation, is based on a minimum of such idiots. But we have too many. Actually, we cannot get any better government than we ask for. This is as true on the municipal level as in Lincoln or Wash ington. If we fail to acknowledge our responsibility toward good government by keeping abreast of its activities, we can continue to expect such things as deficit spending and visionary programs. The American press is accorded a place in our system as an informant. It generally strives to get all the governmental infor mation before all of us. But if we reject it for the funnies, leopard hunts or sensa tional trials, we are idiots. And we will get in government, at all levels, just what idiots deserve. t __ __ | Prairieland Talk — March 7 Has Honored Place on Calendar; Not Worst Storm-Just Another Exhibition By ROMAINE SAUNDERS i LINCOLN — The Lincoln Junior Chamber of Commerce has a committee at work dedi cated to the proposition of telling to the world the ad vantages o f the American way of life, j Among other things, atten- 1 tion is called to such facts j as that with but 6 per cent of the area of Romaine the world we g,unj„, produce 7/16’s Saunder. of the world’s production, have 48 per cent of ' the world’s electricity, 85 per cent of the automobiles and 92 per cent of the bath tubs. We believe in plunging into the bath tub in the morning and then getting there in a hurry on the rubber tires. The juniors might mention, too, that only under the Ameri- ( can form of government is it possible for 940,000 of its work- I ing citizens to acquire stock in a public utility like the Ameri- i can Telephone & Telegraph com pany, or that within the juris diction where Old Glory floats , can a boy who starts his busi- | ness experience carrying a pa per route as a man become pres ident of a great corporation. * * * The editor of a Dallas paper offers to build a portable taber nacle of aluminum to seat 25, 000 and place it at the disposal of Billy Graham, a Billy Sunday type of preacher, who has been stirring the great cities to re ligious ferver, if he will spend a year among the cotton pick ers, cowpunchers and oil field workers of Texas. The Rev. Dr Graham receives hundreds of letters, telegrams and telephone calls from all over the country soliciting his services for evan gelistic campaigns. He says: ‘‘I know we are beginning the greatest revival America has ever seen. Everyone, everywhere seems interested.” * * * The 7th of March will have an honored place on the cal endar that brought Nebras kans another big blow. No, not the worst ever—just an other exhibition of raging ele ments that have been experi enced at times on the great plains anywhere from Sep tember to May. • * • In the capital city, the center of erudition, culture and politi cal intrigue, tongues of spell binders wag daily expounding wisdom or nonsense. One of the city’s educational institutions put on an oratorical contest and along came a young colored gent with a tongue of fire from Wash ington, D. C., won the laurels, captivated the crowd with a flow of eloquence that marked him for a seat among the best. * * * Among the walkie - talkies around the statehouse is the authenticated rumor that the governor has up his sleeve a plan for a law authorizing and requiring a blend of alcohol in gasoline sold in the state for use in motor vehicles. It is assum ed the regulations as to alco holic blend at the steering wheel will continue in force. * • « During 1949, 584 men and 288 women lost their lives in Ne braska by accidental means. The biggest killer wras motor vehicles. Falls took a total of 121 men and 149 women. Ma chinery, explosions and fire ac counted for some, drowning? and accidents with guns had a part in the total loss of life by preventable crackups. • * # More tractors, bigger farms and nightly visits to the movies inspired Rev. Ellwin W Mueler when addressing the Lutheran National Council at Minneapo lis, Minn., to say: “Rural peo ple are being caught in the web of a social pattern in which it is more desirable to beget a re frigerator than a child." * * * Thirty-two national adminis trations covering a period ol 156 years spent 179-billion-dol lars. During 5 years of the pres ent national setup in Washing ton, D C.. more than 191-bil lion-dollars have been extractec from the United States treasury or more directly from taxable I citizens. • • • It’s admirable to fight for ; | principle—but be sure it’s i 1 principle, not a prejudice, ob ; serves a Mason City, la., editor Elegance not luxury, culture and refinement not gay fash ions, mental and moral and spiritual treasure store not riches, character not merly res pectable; to hear the song of buds and the laughter of child ren, to see in the gold of sun set, in tihe quiet charm of a starlit night, in the blooming rose and the fragrance of the apple blossoms, the sweep of the far-flung landscape or in the throbbing haunts of men our opportunities for growth in to the full measure of men and women, the enrichment of this life and making sure of the life to come. Read understanding^, think calmly, talk pleasantly, work and play with moderation, live simply, save something and help the less fortunate. And so the shadows will be tinted with the bright glowr of life’s sunbeams. * * ♦ A section of the state from Boone to Pawnee counties, from Dodge to Jefferson and from Hamilton to Cass, com prising 21 counties, is the milk pail that furnishes the capital city daily with 125,000 pounds of milk, according to city health officers. The milk is processed, homogenized, sterilized, cooked and baked and cooled until no Nebraska cow would own it as her product. That a cow doesn’t know how to turn grass and grain into milk is a modern scientific notion that robs hu mans of the real value of milJt. Take a look at a calf that has run with the cow all summer if you care to see what the natural product does for body develop ment. * # * The flight across the conti nent, from coast-to-coast, has been reduced to 4 hours, 52 min utes, 48 seconds—about the stretch that it took a pioneer to drive from O’Neill to Chambers. A striking blond up in old New England fired the fatal shot that killed her father. Daughter took this tragic means of ending the suffering of her cancer-afflicted parent She has oeen acquitted by a jury. Mercy killings are receiving more and more attention. Whether such killings involve a moral princi ple depends on individual con viction. A case 1 am familiar with in the Lincoln community it is really a pity he doesn’t die. Should this be hastened by medical science or a pistol shot, or let the ravages of time do the w®rk. * * * O’Neill has had visits from street preachrs, political spell binders, medicine show perfor mers, grafters and fakers of one kind or other. A summer eve ning in the long ago a gent with figures in his head enter tained street loafers with his skill in juggling numbers. Ask ed by one of the spectators to multiply 456,782,345 by 142,857, 143 while you batted an eye and he came up with the answer — 65 quadrillion, 620 billion, 779 million, 540 thousand. 335. No body contradicted the gent. • • * Mr. Truman asks for a mil lion dollars with which to provide a tomb for an un known soldier. Probably that soldier, if he could know about it, would prefer that the mil lion be used in ministry to the needy living. * • * The queen mother of the British soverign, now 82, has been working on a rug since 1941. This rug is soon to be brought to our shores and sold to raise some Yankee dollars to help out the financial stringency at the British exchequer. * # * The addition of a television tower 199 feet high to the Em pire State building will make that structure 1,449 feet tower ing above the busy streets of New York. # • * Of the 3,069 counties into which the 48 states are divided 857 are now dry territory. * • * To be hard up is no disgrace. To be too lazy to remedy the financial stringency is. Real Estate Transfers QCD-Merle Richards to Fred Wagman 2-23-50 $1-Part Block 29-Matthews Add-Atkinson, ly ing south of C & N W R R WD-George F Wadsworth to to Richard C Wadsworth 12-13 44 $l-SVi - S ViNEy<-NEViNEVa 15-NEy<-N ViNW Vi 22 - 31 - 15 subj to mtg to Fed Land Bk WD-Nellie S Wayniek to Ar thur E Ol'berding 2-24-50 $15,640-N Vi 7-SWy«-S%SEy4 S^NViSEyi 6-SM>NEV4- 5-32-15 WD-James Curran to Ardell V Curran 3-15-50 $1- Vi Int in EVi 21-31-12-Subj to mtg WD-Raiph E Stowell to Rob ert H Fox & wf 2-27-50 $5200 NWy4 33-30-13 WD - Joseph A Mlinar to George H Beck & wf 3-14-50 $1 Lot 3 Blk 26-Bitneys Add-Atk WD-Elmer Thomas Hewett et al to Russell P Hipke & wf f 1-6-50 $10,000- E% 35-33-15 SV2 SWt4 6-32-14 WD-Mary Husemann to Wil liam Wasson & wf 3-1-50 $4800 NE*4 30-SEl4 19-31-14 WD-Neil F Sammons et al to George Fullerton & wf-no-date $88O0-SW Va 18-26-13 Goes to Chicago— 4 Julius D. Cronin departed Sunday for Chicago, 111., where he was to spend several days od business. DANCE DANCELAND O'NEILL WNAX Bohemian Band ’ Sunday, March 26 Adm. & Dance: $1 MONEY TO LOAN ON AUTOMOBILES TRUCKS TRACTORS EQUIPMENT FURNITURE Central Finance ICorp. C E. Jones. Manager O'Neill Nebraska Even the COLORS sing of Spring ! I Too bad a newspaper has to be printed in black and white. For here we can show you only half the picture you can make this spring, this summer and for a long time to come. True, you can see the lines of thic tidy 1950 Supfr Convertible. You can, perhaps, imagine the top-of the-world feeling you'd know with the wind combing your hair, a great valve in-head straight-eight filling your ears with its song, these spinning wheels cradling each mile of your going in soft, coil-spring comfort. hat we can’t show you here are the bright, gay colors we have made ready just for you and just for this year. We can’t show you how they dress you up, clothe you in the very spirit of the season, add their own special plus to that unmatchable I-drive-a-Buick feeling. Best we can say is they won’t cost you one cent extra. They are part and parcel of this gor geous Buick package, like the Fireball ing power of our new F-263 engine — the level going of all-coil springing — the steady roadability of Buick’s solid structure—"the handy controls for top, windows and front seat, the satiny smoothness of Dynaflow Drive.* *Standard on all Roadmaster models, optional equipment at extra cost on Specials and Supers. Tvn, in HENRY J. TAYLOR, ABC N.twcrl. • very Monday -4 Why not come see the whole package for yourself? Your Buick dealer can get right down to cases—prices, trade-in, terms and all. See him —and this year you’ll want to meet spring in the gay Buick manner. Only Buick has Dynoflow— and with it goes: HIGHER-COMPRESSION Fireball voire in-head power in three engines. (New F-263 engine in SURER models.) • NEW-PATTERN STYLING, with bumper-guard grilles, taper-through fenders, "double bubble" iaillights • WIDE-ANGLE VISIBILITY, close-up road view both forward and back • TRAFFIC-HANDY SIZE, less over all length for easier parking and garaging, short turn ingradius * EXTRA-WIDE SEATS cradled between the axles • SOFT BUICK RIDE, from all-coil springing, Safety-Ride rims, low-pressure tires, ride steadying torque-tube • WIDE ARRAY OF MODELS *•“ c A. MARCELLUS PHONE 370 O’NEILL o _Whom better automobiles are built BU1CK will build them ___________________ ^