Front® Editorial & 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, as second-class mail matter under the Act of Congress of March a, 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 on request. All subscription* are strictly paid-in-advance._ Prophet Churchill Is Worried—Rightly The fighting in Korea has compelled the Western nations of the world to consider the state of their defenses. A debate in the British House of Commons brought Winston Churchill, Prime Minister during World War Ii, to resume his role of prophet and to warn his country that the military threat of the Soviet Union is more menacing than was that of Nazi Germany. Mr. Churchill said that, if the facts at his disposal were cor rect, the preparations of the Western nations to defend themselves “certainly stand on a far lower level than those of the South Kor eans.” He contrasted the 12 divisions that the Allies possess in Western Europe with the 80 Soviet divisions reported to be fac ing the West and the less than 2 Allied armored divisions with the 25 to 30 Soviet armored divisions. Tha former Prime Minister seamed to think that it might be possible for Soviet armies to reach the English channel be fore any substantial force could come from the United Stales. This, he said, would subject Great Britain to an unprecedented bombardment by rockets and guided missiles. He warned that this fate might be near but “how near, no one knows for certain, except the dictator oligarchy in the Krem lin.” Taking up the submarine situation, Mr. Churchill thought it probably true that the Soviet Union possesses 360 submarines. These he warned, could threaten the British lifeline and world communications, including the route of reinforcements from the United States, and would be a more severe peril than the German U-boat attacks in 1939 and 1940. In the fourth sphere of defense (that of atomic warfare), Mr. Churchill found some hope. He thought that the extra-ordinary efforts being made by the Soviet to obtain even small quantities of uranium justified the opinion that the United States "possess at this moment a superiority #o vast that a major act of Russian aggression is still subject to an effective and even perhaps a de cisive deterrent.” W# have always regarded Mr. Churchill as a great leader, particularly in war time, and as perhaps the greatest man of letters and oratory in our time. “Winnie* ’was quite right in his objective prophecies on world affairs in the events that led up to World War II. He has been a steadfast arch-foe of communism since be became of age in pol itical thinking and his wisdom and knowledge applied to the present red menace should be heeded. ‘Winnie” thinks we might enjoy a 2- or 3-year “breathing spell" before the red hordes swing out in force. He thinks West ern couhtires should put their house in order—now! ± ± -ir Let’s Do Something About Parking The parking problem in O’Neill probably is the city’s most important domestic issue right now. And no doubt the same prob lem confronts officials in other nearby small cities—just as it is a major problem in metropolitan areas. No one who has tried to find a parking space on O’Neill streets on a Saturday night, for example, can argue the fact. With double-parking practiced extensively (though frowned on), there's scarcely room for 2 cars to meet in the middle of Douglas or Fourth street. Moreover, some folks who are properly parked find themselves virtually “imprisoned” for extended lengths of time because of double-parking and congestion. Tha new white way helps relieve the parking problem a little because previously dimly lighted sections of Douglas street and Fourth street are now bright, and people can find a parking place all right if they search far enough. The irony, of * course, is parking a half-mile from where you wish to trade. The tragic part of the parking problem, as we see it, is that it is unnecessary. There’s no reason why the city shouldn’t take steps to purchase or lease a suitable site adjacent to the business district for a sizeable city parking lot—free. i All that would be necessary would b e smoothing the surface, a little gravel, perhaps, and a few floodlights. The bigger our town grows and the more automobiles that are built the more imperative becomes the alleviation of the parking problem. The fact that 3 federal highways converge at the O’Neill center further emphasizes the need for action. Our chances for retaining these highways through the heart of our ci ty will be enhanced if we recognize the traffic and parking prob lems and do something about them. -a- + + Reopening of school means that automobile drivers will have to be more vigilant and careful. Watch out for the kids! ★ ★ ★ Talk about monopoly. What about the Golden - Jaszkowiak domination of the city golf honors for 6 straight years! ★ ★ ★ Let’s go to the fair! & R H. SHR1NER Wind Sc Tornado. Truck Sc Tractor. Personal Property Liability GENERAL INSURANCE Livestock REAL ESTATE. LOANS, FARM SERVICE. RENTALS Automobile O'Neill —:— Phone 106 Farm Property Where There's Smoke . . . jLfoHg home-fqdfor? Tttttv rrrrv rTTn/.m There's Fire! Prairieland Talk — Old Rome Fell Forcing Roman Way of Life on Entire Civilized World By ROMAINE SAUNDERS LINCOLN—While visiting an old friend the other day, who had been dealt a blow by life’s misfortune which placed him on the assistance roll, one of those f u n c Romaine Saunders t i o n a r i e s known as case workers came in, a repre sentative of a group that gets very lit tle credit for what they are doing. This woman had come to find out how the old timers were faring ana ascertain their needs, and was every inch the kindly, sym pathetic lady in doing so. Probably my newspaper in stinct was responsible for me “butting in” to learn something of the workings of the old age assistance program as it func tions in Lancaster county. A downtown city office is maintained where 60 people are employed to direct the work of caring for 11,000 on the assist ance rolls within the county. There are 3 old men where the case worker 1 met that day have pleasant quarters which they share, have their meals brought to them, medical care when needed and other services, all paid for out of assistance funds, the charges for each at the place they stay being $80 a month. Th»y are paid each in cash $8.90 ewary month with which they meet the simple personal needs, making a total of $88.90 for each 1 of the 3. Having expressed a thought on our involvement in another war, the lady asked if I was a communist. That seemed hardly worth replying to in view of my solid American traditions, but she was assured I had neither sympathy for nor connection with the reds. My conception of liberty is that if the people of Asia want communism that’s their busi ness. Our government has ven tured far out on a program of forcing upon other peoples the American way of life which they neither under stand, want or are fitted by tribal traditions to make work. Old Rome rode to her down fall on the hobbyhorse of forc ing the Roman way of life upon the entire civilized world. The Muscovites are following the same pattern. Heaven help America from following a like course. Our mil itary might is concentrating in Asia, not against Koreans but to meet the sinister thing to the north. American patriots will support them to their last pen ny. You run across them most everywhere. Down there in San Diego in Southern California, if an oldtimer from O’Neill hap pens down that way, they might visit an old lady now past 4 score years of age, who was a pioneer school teacher in Holt county. She may tell you of the time she rode into O’Neill horse back from out on the prairie in the days of the sidesaddle for ladies and took the exams from John Bland and secured a cer tificate to teach. Later, she be came the wife of Norman Mc Namee, who functioned as a pedagogue in the O’Neill schools during the late ’80s. Mrs. Mc Namee is living in comfort and ease in the charming Southern California city. • * • A lone sister sits in on the deliberations of the Lincoln ci ty council, Mrs. Fern Hubbard Orme. And she has had the courage to stand alone on more than one issue. When the budget measure came up, Mrs. Orme was the one member to vote a gainst its passage because it carried appropriations for junk et trips for the members of the council. But with 5 patriotic gents on the council against her, they are going to have their traveling expenses paid by the city as usual — presumably on city business. Mrs. Orme is the daughter of a former O’Neill couple, Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard. * • * I wonder how that clerk “Happy Mom” wrote about (in The Frontier Woman depart ment) in the first store she vis ited with her children felt if she learned that her rudeness lost her employers a customer. The clerk in the second store visited knows how to appeal to a moth er’s heart and doubtless has a (Continued on page 3.) f l C*rrttft< 1M »» J*» »«■«»•• »***■<*« C« rWOW UTTERLY PftIMmv* MA