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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1950)
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 8, 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 subscriptions are strictly paid-in-advance. Practical Christianity When you take the initials of Christian Rural Overseas Program and put them together you get OROP, which is a happy result be cause CROP is not only a handy word, easy to use and easy to re member, but it is also an earthy, practical word suggestive of the practical Christianity being performed by its many supporters in the churches and on the farms. . CROP sends food in kind to hungry people overseas, in both Europe and Asia. Founded and operated by Catholic Rural Life, Church World Service and Lutheran World Relief, CROP collects gifts of wheat, soybeans, cotton lard, honey and other foods that can be readily handled and distributes them directly to people in need of them. No requirement of faith or sect is set up. In Palestine, CROP commodities feed Jews and Mohammedans as well as Christians. CROP beliaves that sharing the abundance with which Amer ica is favored is a truly American expression of friendship and hope for a peaceful world. CROP agrees with Dr. Max Warren, of the Church Missionary Society, who said recently. "The world's lack of food is more dangerous than the atomic bomb." CROP has a statewide organization in Nebraska. Through this unit, Nebraska farmers and church people were represented in a dramatic episode in Chicago, 111., on Tuesday, October 24, marking the fifth anniverasry of the United Nations. Sixty carloads of food made posible by contributions from 18 states were loaded aboard the MS Prince Wilhelm III and sta rted for Germany as a gesture in the spirit of the brotherhood of nations. But the sailing of the friendship food ship does not mark the end of OROP’s program, which in the last three years has sent more than 3,500 carloads of food overseas. The need continues in a des perate degree. And in a quiet, unobtrusive manner in which it has carried out its great task, CROP is confident that from the 1950 har vest will come a steady flow of food that will maintain, in this coun try as well as overseas, the conviction that Christianity works for men of good will. 4 Holt Countayans At Wesleyan— Four students from Holt coun ty including one from O’Neill are among the 737 students enrolled at Nebraska Wesleyan university at Lincoln this Fall. Students from 197 Nebraska cit ies in 80 counties, 17 outside states and four foreign countries, are in cluded on the student roster. The student from O’Neill is James Bridges, son of Alice Brid ges. He is a junior at Nebraska Wesleyan. Other students from Holt coun ty are: Joan Jarvis, daughter of Mr las Rossman, son of Mrs. Gertrude and Mrs. Raltorv Jarvis, and Doug Rossman, bath of Atkinson. Victor Marquardt, son of Mr. and Mrs. V. C. Marquardt, of Ew ing. Weekend Guests Attend Game— Mr. and Mrs. Allen Jaszkowiak and daughter, Nyla spent the weekend in Lincoln and Omaha. They attended the Nebraska-Penn State gaime in Lincoln and \vere guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Schwertfeger in Oma ha on Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. C- V. Sullivan accompan ied them to Lincoln where she spent the weekend with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Weiseman. Prairieland Talk — Hilltop Abodes of Departed Kindred and Friends Have Become Densely Populated By ROMAINE SAUNDERS LINCOLN — The tribal blood stirs when autumn days lure and the call to go to the old home community drums upon the sens es. Then away to the land of en chantment, the land of the ad ventures of youth, of the blooming roses of early ro mance, of life’s worth while friendships and the memories of that full and interesting peri od of our allot ed days. Not Rorname many are left Saunders up there of the pioneer fepoch. But the sun still bursts upon prairieland with a pink glow at dawn, touches the horizon with gold at close of day, stars hold their steady course in the blue above and the open me sa stretches to the distant hills. October winds whirl the dry leaves over the path ahead. Down the path comes Herb Hammond and then the ample proportions of Ed Campbell cast a shadow in the morning sun. Both are on their way down the trail to their places of business, as they have done throughout the years. I move on. Spellbound feet take me to the graves of the dead. The years have taken a toll of the living and it is discovered that the a bodes of the departed kindred and friends have become densely populated. Downtown I meet John Sul livan. Lloyd Gillespie, Tom En right. Charley Harding, Eli Hershiser and Sam Bernard, who form a living link con- 1 necting the present with the past history of Holt county, a past both heroic and barbaric. Sam has a fund of personal experiences with the Doc Middle tons and Kid Wades to relate. Eli recalls the time he apprehend end a fugitve wanted in an east ern state and received a $500 re ward, as well as other experiences dealing as an officer with thieves and cutthroats. Night life in O’Neill is open to the glare of the lighted way. The pioneer planted a tree. The mod erns hang out a light bulb. Near the corner of Fourth and Doug las streets stands a building that has been damaged by fire, if wrecking crews come along the first store building in the hamlet that was planted upon the open prairie as O’Neill City will be no more. It stood for more than a quarter of a century on the cor ner now occupied by the Golden hotel. There the corpulent and friendly Patrick Hagerty supplied settlers, cowboys and villagers with everything from a plug of J. T. tobacco to a barrel of salt. Barney Ryan later occupied the building with a stock of groceries. The next was Joe Horiskey in the grocery business. The late Mr. Horiskey had the building moved to its present resting place when Tom Golden acquired the corner for the ho tel. And so the onward sweep of the years forge on the anvil of time changes that leave only the memory of the past, memory that is cherished by those whose an cestral roots stem from the pio neers, while they are part and parcel of the onward march of a larger and better community. But prairieland retains much of its charm unspoiled by engineer ing projects and conservation movements. • • • Battle-scarred American Legion patriots up at Atkinson are con cerned lest the draft boards will defer young men who should be taken into the army and express disapproval of what was done in this regard during the late un pleasantness with Herr Hitler. War involves not only fighting forces but productive forces as well. Somebody has to man the factories. These are not arrayed in uniforms, their achievements are not enrolled in the heroics and they have no official consid eration when the roar of guns cease. The fighting forces should have full credit, but maybe the factory or farm worker has been the forgotten man. * * * In the library at Baldwin City, Kans., is said to be a Bible print ed in 1617. It has gold edges and when closed nothing unusual is shown on the gilded bulk, but Vvuen tne leaves are slightly op ened an image of the Christ is seen. Maybe the artist had in I mind o suggest that if we are to acqu;. nt ourselves with the out standing character of the book we must open it and read. • * * With a population of 1,318,079 as of April 1 last Nebraska stands 32nd among the states. Colorado is behind Nebraska in population jt©t 31 patriots. I talked the other day with a clergyman who had spent 40 years in China. He is now home in his native America in retire ment. One thing he learned in red China was the art of keeping his mouth shut. I had thought to get first hand information of the workings of communists’ setup, but to all questions the answer was we know all about it here in the USA. Probably under a sys tem o f government dictators where you lose your head if you open your mouth you acquire a mummy attitude toward every f thing political. The gentleman did venture to say that the national government of China had become so corrupt that the reds were in vited to take over. * • * Election is just over the next hump. Let’s go and vote. If you don’t like the present setup the voting boofh is the place to say it. If you do like the administration of county and state affairs your ballot can express it best. A change in the Nebraska congres sional delegation would mean helping along the president’s program of extravagance and un i ion labor bosses’ ambitions, j Retaining the present members of congress will help to curtail both the ambitions of the CIO AFL bosses and Mr. Truman’s insults directed at American cit izens. • * • Egypt beats us to it with a Townsend pension plan of the Arab’s own making. Beneficiaries include all workers, farm and town, women and kids. Pensions have a strong appeal for this generation, but somebody has to put up the cash. " 11 A Witch Way Will He Go Now? / What Chance Does A Fellow Have These Days? Hi 0 Q ff Actually, Sonny, your chances are far better today than they were |p ■ even a few years ago. Tremendous developments in the field of medi- B ■ cal science improve your chances of growing to healthy manhood— fi-; B valuable improvements in our school system offer you the very best B ■ education. | ' I Sure, we know a fellow like you must look farther ahead |; ■ than that—that you must have an opportunity to establish yourself ■ as a substantial income-producing citizen. But, here, too, your chances B are better. Look about you, Sonny, Nebraska has many advantages. |pj Whether your life’s career takes you to the city, village or farm, * jp! modern electricity is helping to create new and better opportunities || for you. H Consumers Public Power District, a self-supporting Nebraska in §| stitution—created to bring the benefits of the state’s power resources ! jp to Nebraskans—makes available essential electric power for communi f ties, large and small, to progress and prosper. f Yes, Sonny, while helping to increase industrial expansion, agri- I I i cultural development and economic improvement, Consumers Public S|| ||! Power District is helping your Mom and Dad to make a better life l gif for you today and in the future. p An advertlsement of Consumers Public Power District—0 B W self-supporting tan-paying public Institution—serving % 356 Nebraska communities electrically. v W BUYS AT COUNCIL OAK * Be prepared next Tuesday by stocking up this week-end. The "trick or treat" spooks must be fed, the Halloween party calls for tasty snacks in keeping with the occasion and the family eats whether or not the witches ride. Council Oak has all the fixin's and the prices 1 wouldn't hurt even a Goblin's budget. 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