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What Is Ahead for Cattlemen?
America has become great because Of its Christian people and
production know-how and will stay that way as long as these 2
•can flourish.
This expression of confidence keynoted the address by Dr. A.
L. Miller, representative from the Fourth congressional district
at the district meeting of the Nebraska Stock Growers association
in convention in O'Neill on Wednesday, April 26.
It can be said that Doctor Miller made a hit with the stock
men. His Fourth district contains more cattle than any one of the
other 435 congressional districts in the United States. Excerpts
from his half-hour talk may partially explain why his talk was
«o popular:
“What’s ahead for the Nebraska cattlemen? In my opinion
if employment and wages stay high, there will be a continued de
mand for meat. If unemployment increases and the people’s con
fidence in our money decreases, then I would expect a general
pulling in of the belt and less buying all along the line.
“The American people have always been meat eaters. Meat
has been the principal item of diet for the human race from the
beginning of time. Primitive man found satisfaction in making
a kill and eating the meat . . . this good meat is produced from
Nebraska grass and feed. The people of Nebraska should be
thankful that they have a quantity and quality of grass upon
which to grow their livestock. There are more than 26 million
acres of grass in Nebraska. When it is properly pastured, it will
give excellent returns on labor and investment. Your livestock
makes a good harvesting machine that seldom needs repairs.
Some of this livestock comes off the range ready for the butcher’s
block.
“It is estimated that in 1950 there will be 23,200,000,000
pounds of meat produced. This is 6 per cent more than in 1949 and
8 per cent less than in 1944, when production reached the all-time
peak. This would mean a possible per capita consumption of 150
pounds, as compared with 145 pounds in 1949.
"The United States imported 241 million pounds of meat in
1949, the bulk coming from Canada and Argentina. We export
ed 130 million pounds, ! would also point out that we imported
10,000 carloads of potatoes from Canada, a million and a half
pounds of powdered eggs from China, 48,000 cases of crab meat
from Russia, and huge quantities of beans, fish and other agri
ultural products from other countries.
“When we consider what is ahead for the cattlemen we must
consider what the international trade organization will do when
the nations of the world meet in England on September 17, 1950.
If they follow the pattern of their last*meeting they will make
further reductions in tariffs on agriculture products. In their last
meeting, 80 per cent of the reductions on imports coming to this
country were on agriculture products. This could have unusual
results to your business.
“The production of cattle has increased about 2 million head
in the last year. It is estimated that all types of cattle in 1949
amount to 80,277,000 head. The all time high was in 1945 when
there were 85,573,000 head. It is estimated that beef cattle num
bered about 43 million head.
“It should be remembered that our human population is ift
ereasing about 2.5 million a year. It would seem that the number
of cattle should increase to 90 million head in the next few years
if we are to keep pace with the demands of our increasing popu
lation. Thirty years ago we had 70 million head of cattle when
our population was only 105 million.
“The increase in the number of livestock would solve another
problem. It is estimated that if an additional 2 per cent of the
cattle were fed grain, it would completely wipe out our surplus
of feed grains. It is natural that the high support leveled on grain
will discourage feeding it to livestock.
“In considering what is ahead for the cattlemen, we must
speculate upon how far the administration will go in adopting
such measures as the Brannan farm program, socialized medicine,
or the so-called Spence bill, which is nothing more than a super
duper OPA with more trimmings and regulations than we have
ever had before.
“If we adopt the Brannan plan, which is similar to the Eng
lish agricultural program, you would not be able to sell your
cattle without a permit; you could not kill them or produce more
than the Secretary of Agriculture would indicate. You would be
told when to sell and what to feed. The regulations in England,
and those under the Brannan bill would be so numerous that in
centive and free enterprise would then be smothered. There are
15 pages cf penalties in the Brannan farm program, which would
require you to keep such records, letters, memoranda, accounts
as the Secretary would indicate. Your books would be inspected.
For non-compliance you coiild be fined $5,000 or be placed in
jail. Adopt this plan and the future of the livestock industry
would not be very bright.
“There is another move that should be watched carefully by
your association and that relates to the intense pressure by the
consumers of the east to lower the barriers and permit cheap meat
to come in from South America. I know’ there are groups who are
considering ways and means to bring this about. If fresh meat is
permitted to come from Argentina, Mexico and other countries
infested with foot and mouth disease, and this disease is trans
planted to our cattle herds, as it surely will be, then the future
of the cattle industry again grows precarious.
“I must sound another warning on what is ahead. In my
opinion we have two Frankenstein monsters facing our people
today. One is increased inflation: the other more taxes. Either
can destroy the economy of this country. You people on the farm
will be in an ideal position, if an uncontrolled inflation takes hold,
because the quart of milk and the dozen of eggs, and your meat
still has the same food value regardless of the value the dollar
may assume.
"You cannot escape so readily the taxes. The huge spend
, ing of this administration, with a 7 billion dollar deficit this
year, can mean but one thing—more taxes and more inflation.
“Another note of warning must be sounded and that refers
to the growth of socialism and regimentation. It is not only in
the Brannan farm program, socialized medicine and attempt to
nationalize steel and other industries, but it means bigger gov
ernment w’lth more controls in Washington. I am fearful that
socialism, like the termites in a building, is silently destroying
our way of life. It is destroying the rights of individuals. The
holding of property should always be a human right, but under
socialism, government assumes ownership and denies that indi
viduals have the right or the capacity to manage their property
and economy.
“We have seen big government grow, from 1933, when there
were only 533,000 on the federal payroll, a debt of 16 billion dol
lars and only 5 billion to run all phases of government, up to this
time when we have more than 2 million on the payroll, a debt of
260 billion dollars, and 43 billion dollars to run the government.
This dots not include a deficit of 7 billion dollars for this year'
In 1933 there were 351 departments of government. Todav there
are more than 1,850,
“The need for the adoption of the Hoover commission recom
mendations is imperative if we are to rid ourselves of the dead
wood, duplication and extravagance in federal government. In
peacetime years, we spent more than 190 billion dollars. This
is more than 32 Presidents spent in the first 152 years of our ex
istence, and during that time we went through several wars and
depressions. We cannot be in a good position with printing press
money. It seems to me that our government, the banks, trust and
insurance companies, who are the unofficial custodians of the
people's money, ought to be able to tell the citizen that the dollar
that he puts in bonds today will always be worth a dollar. Un
sound economic policies, with more unemployment, mounting
surpluses, declining exports, with threats of government opera
tion of business, are real storm clouds.
“I also know that our citizens have great faith, energy, char
acter, and are of sound moral fiber. We have more food, electrical
gadgets and new inventions than any other country m the world.
We have great power to produce. The strength of our country
rests in our soil and the spiritual make-up of our people. We are
a Christian nation—a praying nation. We have the ability to meet
great emergencies and still keep our economic and social balance.
Our know-how of production leads the world. It is a bright shin
ing beacon light. It is my great hope and fervent prayer that the
congress and this administration will be able to guide the frus
trated world through the international fog and rough economic
waters so that we may be able to pass on to future generations a
type of society in which they can be secure and our nation will
rejnain strong.”
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luctant to have the season come to a close.
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Prairieland Talk —
Minneola, Once a Boom Frontier Town,
Sat Like a Dog on a Treeless Prairie
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
I
LINCOLN — Not only a mem
ory. A few survive in Holt coun
ty who remember the Minneola
of long ago.
Setting like a dog town on
the treeless
prairie on the
stage route
from O’Neill -
to - Niobrara,
it was a boom
frontier town
that had about
everyt h i n g,
even a news
paper. And
then one by
one, there was
a pulling up
of stakes. O’
Neill caught
Romania the backwash,
including Dr.
Saunders charley
Hall, Andrew Watson, J. C.
Ecker, the Shelhart family and
some others. In time the ghost
town was no more.
The L & R outfit took over
and the village that had flour
ished between new moons be
came a cow camp. Early day
cow outfits shifted from place
to-place, and when Lamont &
Richards moved on Bill Goree
and wife, the former Miss Mc
Cutcheon, were the next to loll
in their saddles in the glow of
summer sun and keep an eye
on the herds that browsed over
the endless miles of shoulder
high blue stem.
Mrs. Goree was the nisi
"cowgirl" to discard the con
veniial side saddle and ride
like a man. And she was a
graceful rider.
The Gorees moved on and
then came the Massey family
] A dwelling and a store and
postoffice building took root on
the open prairie.
On a quiet Sunday night the
! Massev family were awakened
j to find the store and postoffice
in flames. And Minneola ceased
to be.
My first night in Holt county
| was spent in a building that was
fearfully and wonderfully made
i in the original Minneola. Mem
ory still lingers of what the
community once was, and there
comes unbidden the mystery
question: Why so many things
to bring up the dead past?
• * *
On a day nearly a half-cen
tury ago James Willis was up
from his ranch on the South
Fork and informed us at The
Frontier that he had shipped
into market 3 carloads of cattle
and that during the year and a
half he had been in Holt county
he had made more money than
ever before. They are still do
ing it.
• • •
The happiest couple has been
found in the persons of Mr. and
Mrs. John Morrison. Mrs. Mor
rison says her husband brings
her a cup of tea in the morning
while she is still in bed, hands
her his weekly pay envelope
unopened, helps with the dishes,
■nd on her part she regards
John’s snoring as “love lyrics.”
* * *
Husband and wife shot
down by an assassin in a sa
loon in Wilber, the next week
a little farther east in the cul
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lured precincts of the Peru
State college the president of
the institution and one of the
instructors were shot down by
a third member of the teach
ing force, who then went
home and killed himself.
Looks like he should have
been in a different kind of
state institution. These 2 trag
edies recorded on the dark
pages of crime in this state
following close the criminal
acts of 4 young thugs at e
lonely street corner in Lin
coln.
# * *
Clergymen are at once gath
ering adherents out of pagan
lands and concerned for their
communicants at home. The
passing centuries have ushered
in an age of question marks and
bred a generation that is not
taking everything for granted.
Reading, study, investigation,
scientific demonstration is lead
ing many to recast their belief
and venture out in what they
have come to regard fuller
light.
On the one hand, pagans dis
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SOME car makers say springs
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Some say the drive is important
how power is transmitted to the
rear wheels.
We agree—and use a torque-tube
drive, that takes up all the thrust,
freeing rear springs of driving
pulsation.
Some stress tires —so you’ll find
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t
Then there are frames—and car
weight — and engine mountings,
which on Buick are a very special
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They’re all important —yet the
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We feel it takes all of them —
springs, tires, shock absorbers,
drive, engine mountings — care
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;.rd the superstitions of long
: nturies accumulation and ac
cept Christianity; on the other
..nd men are breaking away
.. im the denominational stand
ards of their fathers and reject
erything or are joining those
with a distinctive creed.
Much that Christian nations
have clung to as the spiritual
guiding star is a hangover
from ancient paganism. How
much are we still pagan?
The third generation following
the flood was introduced to the
first bogus Messiah in the per
son of Tammuz, the illegitimate
son of Semiramis, widow of
Nimrod, the greatgrandson of
Noah. Another bogus Messiah
stepped into the scene some
centuries later in India, Prince
Siddartha, assuming the title of
Lord Buddha. Again the third
one came out of the Arabian
desert after the advent of the
heaven-sent Messiah, and the
countless millions of the Mos
lem world will fight for Mo
hammed at the drop of the hat.
The Messiah of Christendom
said, Put up thy sword; all they
that take the sword shall per
ish with the sword. And to the
exalted concepts for human con
duct revealed in the sermon on
the mount have been mixed the
philosophies of men. Into the
vortex of a world in confusion
has been thrust a generation
that is breaking away from old
moorings and setting sail on
other seas. It is a time to know
definitely the reason for the
faith within you and hold
steady.
* * *
Upon a modest Lincoln news
man has been bestowed the
honor of being Nebraska’s out
standing young man. The coro
nation was the act of an organ
ized group of young fellows and
confined to such a circle it was
doubtless wisely placed. Recent
years have produced quite a
collection of outstanders and
maybe it has not always taken
such a wonderful guy to be so
exalted. I think of a young man
working in a garage whom I
had the privilege of giving a lift
in a small way that supports his
widowed mother, recently bore
the expense of the funeral of
his grandmother, and is also
struggling to get an education.
I I wonder if such a young man
I should not have an honored
place among the outstanders.
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A Guy Can Dream, Can't He?
O'Neill Coloratura Soloist
Will Play 'Gretel'—
Miss Kathleen Flood, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Flood,
of O’Neill, will play the lead
“Gretel” in the St. Mary’s col
lege spring festival to be pro
duced by the fine arts depart
ment of the college May 7, 8
and 9 at 8:15 p.m. in Xavier,
Kans., auditorium. The May 7
performance is scheduled for a
homecoming festival on the eve
ning of the alumnae reunion at
St. Mary.
The festival, under the baton
of N. DeRubertis, director of the
college orchestra, opens with
excerpts from the fairy opera,
“Hansel and Gretel,” by Engel
bert Humperdinck. The orches
tra accompanies the 52-voice
chorus, the vocal solos, duets
and ensembles, as well as the
dance soloists, the ballet and
dance groups.
Miss Flood, coloratura solo
ist, will appear also in part II
of the program — “Starlight,
Songnight,” singing “Romany
Life,” by Herbert, and as a
member of the ensemble: “When
a Maid Comes Knocking at /
Your Heart,” by Friml; “Love’s *
Own Sweet Song,” by Lehar, and
“Chiapanecas,” by De Campo.
Final Papers Signed
For Chambers Port—
CHAMBERS — Final papers
were signed here recently for
the construction of the Perkins
memorial airpark here.
The contracts, zoning and lo
cation, were approved by the
state civil aeronautics officials,
according to Mayor Ed Thorin.
Ground-breaking will begin
on the $13,500 airport May 15.
Coutts and Nagel construction
company, of Creighton, are the
contractors.
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delivery, made to measure,
metal or wood, all colors.—J.
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