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Editorial 8c Business Offices: 10 South Fourth Street
O'NEILL. NEBR.
CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher
Established in 1880—Published Each Thursday
Entered the postoffice at O’Neill, Holt county, Nebraska,
M second-class mail matter under the Act of Congress of March
■» 1879. This newspaper is a member of the Nebraska Press
Association, National Editorial Association and the Audit Bureau
of Circulations.
Terms of Subscription: In NebrasKa, $2.50 per year; else
where in the United States, $3 per year; abroad, rates provided
Mi request. All subscriptions are strictly paid-in-advance. _
Postal Rates and Competition
Postmaster General Jesse M. Donaldson would increase the
postal rate on second, third and fourth-class mail enough to wipe
•ut the department’s entire annual deficit.
The postmaster-general describes the present rates on these
3 classes of mail as "hidden subsidies,” and declares that there
fe no sound reason why the low-revenue producing classes should
enjoy preferential rates.
The loss on second class matter is around $200,000,000, he re
ports. On third-class mail the difference between expenditure
«nd revenue is $135,000,000; on postal and postcards, $70,000,000;
w parcel post, $100,000,000; and special services, $65,000,000.
The postoffice department of the government does not rep
resent a business in the proper sense of the word but a service
to the people of the nation.
While it would be good if the service rendered did not cost
2be government any money, there is no compelling reason why
the making of profit should be a motive in connection with post
al activities.
The postmaster-general particularly objects to second-class
rates applied to newspapers and magazines, saying that there
was need for preferential rates as encouragement when the pub
fishing industry was in its infancy, but that now it is “in the bil
lion dollar class, so to speak." ,
When Mr. Donaldson goes on to assert that the magazines
mad newspapers are "in competition with the telephone, tele
graph, radio and television,” he stretches his comparison too far.
We can see no possible competition between the telephone and
the telegraph and the business of newspapers and magazines.
When it comes to radio and television, there is some com
petition for advertising revenue, but, certainly, the functions
mt newspapers and magazines can hardly be classified as re
sembling those of radio and television.
Moreover, the newspapers of the nation and, to some extent,
the magazines, contribute millions of dollars worth of free space
to the promotion of programs for the common good.
We are not attempting to say that there should not be any in
crease in the charges made for postal service in regard to the
natter mentioned by the postmaster-general, but the facts we
cite seem to say, rather positively that there is more to the post
• office business than the making of profits.
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No Way to Foretell Time of Attack
Promptly upon the invasion of South Korea, the senate ap
propriations committee summoned Rear Admiral Roscoe H. Hil
tenkoetter, director of the general intelligence agency, to discov
er whether his organizations had been taken by surprise.
The admiral pointed out to the general that North Kor
ean forces have had the capacity to invade South Korea for a
year, but nobody could predict the time-table under which they
would march. He said that his agency had given information
about continuing troop and tank concentrations near the border
■nst recent was on June 20, 5 days before the attack,
between the 2 segments of Korea for the past 2 or 3 months. The
It would be perhaps unfair to attempt to criticize the gov- j
eminent of this country for its failure to assume that troop con
centrations in Northern Korea represented positive indication
of immediate attack.
The strategy of the communists, in many countries, has been
to mass military strength on the frontier and to use the presence !
of force in connection with bargaining negotiations.
Nevertheless, we think it is fair to observe that the invasion
of South Korea should have been no surprise to the United
States government. The time may have been uncertain but the
probability of such an invasion has been apparent since the di- j
vision of the country into 2 segments. A Soviet-dominated North
Korea resolutely refused to participate in the efforts of the Unit
ed Nations to set up a republic and there has been abundant evi
dence of an intention to “unify” the country.
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Every eligible voter should resolve now to go to the polls on
August 8. There is a great deal of misconception in the minds of
**ne regarding primaries. Actually the primary election is the
most important- the one that narrows the field.
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O’Neillites rejoice in the activity on the site of the proposed
St. Anthony’s hospital. There are pessimists who said dirt would
never be turned.
Donat* $30 to
Youth Center—
The regular club meeting
was held Wednesday, July 12,
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Dr. j. l. sherbahn
CHIROPRACTOR
Complete X-Ray Equipment
^ Block So. of Ford Garage
O'Neill. Nebraska
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at Mrs. Francis Curran’s. All
members but on were present
Roll call was a description of
some historical place visited.
Proceeds $36 from the pro- j
gram held at Albert Stevens
June 30 were donated to the j
youth center fund at O’Neill.
The next meeting will be J
held at Mrs. Lewis Brown’s on
August 9. Plans were made for '
a picnic in the Johnson grove
Sunday, July 23.
RUTH HOFFMAN
Republican Candidate for Nomination for
COUNTY CLERK OF HOLT COUNTY
Voters of Holt County:
The work in my office is especially heavy now, keeping
me very busy and I shall not fry to contact many of you per
sonally, so am taking this means of asking you to support me
for a second term of office.
Because of the varied kinds of work in this office, I feel '
that my experience will enable me to run il more efficiently i
Khan one who is not familiar with the work in this office. If
reelected. I will endeavor to carry on the work as faithfully,
economically and honestly as I have in the past.
Your vole at the Primary Election will be appreciated.
RUTH HOFFMAN
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The Home Front
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Prairieland Talk —
if Leaders Responsible for Involving Us
in War Had to Face Guns, What Then?
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
A I
LINCOLN—How many prai- j
rieland patriots would refuse to
accept a government check for
a quarter-million-dollars if ten
dered him. About 00000.
A Baptist church group in old
Virginia says “no” to the invi
tation to accept federal funds
for the build
ing of a hos
pital. Such
funds are a
vailable f o r |
what are'
known as
non - profit
sanitar i u m s
and hospitals.
They may go
as non-profit,
but the pa
tient whacks
up for his
Romaine treat m e n t
. there just the
Saunders same.
The Baptists go still farther
in that fiercely American com
monwealth that has a history of
its own. They object to chap
lains receiving their pay from
public funds
“Virginia church leaders hold
that the work of chaplains in
prisons, industrial schools, hos
pitals, sanitoria and colonies
presents a missionary oppor
tunity for the church, and is not
a function of the state.”
Let the idea spread.
• • •
There are 5 Democratic can- '
didates for the nomination for ]
governor to be voted on when
primary elections are held Au
gust 8 and 3 Republicans, in
cluding Gov. Val Peterson. Two
candidates in the 4 congression
al districts are unopposed, Stef
an and O’Sullivan. One hundred
and twelve patriots are offering
themselves for the state legis
lature. A lone Democrat had the
hardihood to go gunning for
nomination for a county office
in Lancaster. Over in Douglas
county, 31 candidates are out
for the job of sheriff, including
a truck driver, a baseball player
and an elevator operator.
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"I can’t slay in congress and
vote to send millions of other
Americans to fight, as I think
we will, unless I go too."
Brave words spoken by Rep
resentative Magee, a good
Missouri Democrat who at 51
volunteers for Korean service.
He has served in 2 wars and
is ready to go again. If those
who are responsible for in
volving this country in for
eign wars had to go and face
the guns, what then?
• • •
Wheat farmers in Southeast
Nebraska report the yield grat
ifying. One farmer from the
Bi uning neighborhood, near the
Kansas line, says he has the!
best crop of wheat he ever had
on his section farm, but rains ■
have been delaying harvest.
Murphy, our friendly neighbor
hood patrolman, told me he had
just talked with a farmer who
informed him his wheat fields
turned out a yield of 43 bushels
to the acre.
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Sometimes we were tossed
of a cantankerous cayuse in the [
“horse and buggy” generation j
but we got up to remount and
have it out with him. Day-by
day reports come from over the
state of tractors toppling over
and pinning their victims to
earth to rise no more.
Washed Gravel
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Concrete - Road
Plaster Sand
We Deliver Anywhere
NO JOB TOO LARGE
OR TOO SMALL
Walker Gravel Co.
Ewing, Nebr.
Residence Phone 146
Pit Phone 25
The pioneers knew it was
root hog or die with them. There
were no subsidies, federal, state
or county handouts to uphold
the shining banner of the abun
dant life. But the abundant life
and joy untold were the fruits
of self-reliant effort.
The story is told of a gent
by the name of Sludavillc,
who went to the fields of tall
corn in Illinois looking for a
job when the cupboard at
home was nearing the empty
stage.
He landed on a farm owned
and managed by a widow who
was hiring men to cut her corn I
and shock it. She informed the
newcomer from prairieland
that she paid $1 a day and !
meals or 12 cents a shock, 16
hills of corn to go into each
shock.
He elected to take on the job
at 12 cents per shock and went
to work. When they counted
that gent’s shocks of tall Illi
nois corn after he had wielded
the corn knife from daylight
until dark there were 59 shocks 1
—$7.08 his day’s earnings.
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Had a gent appeared on the
streets of O’Neill in the days of
gun-toting and straight-shoot
ing hombres from the open
range clad in an outfit like the
Hollywood “cowboys” are wrap
ped in there would have been
the thud of flying bullets a
round his polished boots and air
holes in his 50-dollar hat.
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With floods, strikes, truck and
bus competition, the railroads
are having their share of grief. I
Holt county is in the list of
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No Sales
TO
Minors
*50 FINE
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Minors in Nebraska face a
fine of up to $50 if found
guilty of misrepresenting
their age to purchase beer.
To discourage minors from
attempting misrepresenta
tion, retailers are provided
with “Sworn Statement of
Age''' blanks which custom
ers must sign in doubtful
cases. The $50 fine for false
statement is emphasized.
Please Cooperate
With Your Retailer
Do not ask him to sell beer
contrary to law. And do not
object when he “leans back
ward” to be sure he is right.
Be as good a citizen as your
retailer—do your part in
helping him conduct his
business legally and in the
public interest.
NEBRASKA DIVISION
□ United States
Bretcers
Foundation
'10 First Nat’l Bank Bldg., Lincoln
localities within Nebraska to be
explored by archeologists of the
university museum this season.
They think to find the bleached
bones of something that can be
assembled to make an elephant.
Holt has had its big things, pol
itical and otherwise and if a
prehistoric elephant is buried
under the verdant sod along the
Elkhorn it will not be surpris
ing. The surprising thing is that
digging for bones of long dead
grown men can find nothing to
do in this distracted .world but
creatures. The ologists can un
earth the bones of horses most
anywhere in Holt out of which
to form the framework of a
stuffed monstrosity.
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American medical men at
the international cancer re
search in Paris have stated that
lung cancer is traceable to cig
arette smoking. Years ago the
little white fags were classed as
“coffin nails.” You have all the
nails driven in you need when
cancer takes over.
• • •
Subsidies, pensions, social se
curity, free medical care and ■
other of the home front “fair*
deals” will not be worrying
statesmen down at Washington
since the bugle call to another
battle front has been sounded.
OAK or SUMAC Stop itching, dry
up blisters quick
ly, safely. 594
IVY-DRY
CATCH your LIMIT j
in food
values!
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Oak
ZEP1IYB
NECTAR 0 ... 1C
For Cold l»i inks Bottles Ivy
EVERYDAY
CRACKERS 0 Lb. 41a
Thin Style 4L Box *T 11#
COUNCIL OAK
COFFEE 70a
Fresh Ground, 1-Lb. Bag ■ UjS
COTTAGE FARM GRAPE-APPLE JELLY, l-lb. jar.19c
OREGON RED RASPBERRY PRESERVES, 12-oz. jar.29c
SUPERB MEDIUM SWEET PEAS, like garden-fresh ... 2 No. 2 cans 39c J
MORNING LIGHT Whole Kernel GOLDEN CORN.2 No. 303 cans 19c 1
RED DOT POTATO CHIPS. Giant l-lb. Picnic Box .59c
BOOTH’S CRESCENT DEVILED TUNA, 3-oz. tin.13c
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FRUITS & VEGETABLES
ORANGES
Dozen ... .43c
LEMONS
Dozen.. .49c
PEACHES
2 Lbs.31c
CARROTS
2 Bunches 15c
CUCUMBERS
Lb. 8C
POTATOES
10 Lbs,.29c
TOMATOES
Lb.23c
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