The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, March 29, 1951, Page 2, Image 2
I ■_ Editorial & Businas* Offices: 122 South Fourth Street O'NEILL, NEBR. CARROLL W. STEWART, Eklitor and Publisher_ ' Established in 1880—Published Each Thursday Entered the postoffice at O’Neill, Holt county, Nebraska, as sec ond-class mail matter under the Act of Congress of March 3, 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; elsewhere in the United States, $3 per year; abroad, rates provided on request. All subscriptions are strictly paid-in-advance. Highway Fatalities Rival Those of War While we are concerned about those who die in warfare, it might be a good idea for us to think about the hundreds of Amer icans who die terrible deaths every day in automobile accidents. This is a fearful price for a nation to pay for transportation. Naturally, some citizens will be killed on the highways, due to causes that are not preventable. This does not excuse us for ignor ing the death of those who die from human carelessness and individ ual acts that are reprehensible and criminal. Most of the American stales have competent highway patrol men. They do their best to make highway traffic safe for every body. Frequently they arrest speeders; at times, they apprehend drivers operating vehicles under the influence of alcoholic bever ages. Formal charges are made against the offenders and many are convicted and punished. It happens occasionally, however, that one who violates the highway law demands a trial before a jury and the men sworn to try the case, out of sympathy or other maudlin excuse, turn loose individuals, who, they are convinced, have violated the law. The jury in such cases exercises its right and there is no appeal from the verdict rendered. Frankly, a man or woman, who sits on a jury in a case involving the operation of a motor vehicle by a driver under the influence of alcoholic beverages, has a responsibility to society. He, or she, should not hesitate to join in a verdict that will speak the truth, regardless of what happens to the accused. Other citizens, using the highways, have a right to protection and it should not require a fatality, upon the main street of a town, to create a sentiment that demands en forcement of the law. + + + Not So Asinine . . . President Truman said the report on the RFC by Senator Full bright was “asinine.” But the financial monkey shines of the RFC are worse than asi nine—they are sickening to read. Loans to California snake ranches, to cactus and pottery plant ventures jn Texas, to hoodlum syndicates for lush gambling joint ho tels are just a few of the questionable loans made by the RFC. And when some of the ill fated, starry eyed ventures crashed, the “assets” were usually found to be about a tenth of what the RFC had esti mated. Wors* yet are the tactics used by former RFC officials who would loan huge lumi to financially distressed corporations. Sud denly the RFC official who had made the loan would resign his Rn^faTwUaryh UP “ °,ficer of the corporation at a And if the company finally folded the smart man would land back in the RFC roost again. congress HFC haS strayed far» far away fro™ the original intent of ...To •et ■ loan from the RFC the question “who do you know Thin th V' *lfS beei? determinin« yardstick of the loan rather than the soundness of the loan. Rather than being asinine the Fullbright report of the senate ^ 18 8 Jorthri?ht* factual report of a situation that begins to have the rank smell of a gigantic scandal. The RFC seemingly has become a fouled roost for Dolitical vul tures and congress should either give the agency a too to bottom complete cleaning or junk it completely * P h°Uom ★ ★ ★ We speak flippantly of “all out war” but there never has been Marriages, Divorces Showing a Decline Number of marriages in Holt county during the past three years has been dropping stead ily, according te figures released this week by the state depart ment of health. Number of di vorces, likewise, has decreased. Summary: Marriages Divorces 1948 - 129 25 1949 _ 123 14 1950 119 14 The Mountain Climber * Prairieland Talk — Wherry a Ladies’ Favorite, Nixon Causes Walls to Tremble in Annual GOP Pow-Wow By ROMAINE SAUNDERS LINCOLN—Richard Nixon, of California, Hugh Butler and Ken neth Wherry, both of prairieland, three distinguished gentlemen and members of the United States senate, were in the crowd that swarmed the spacious pre cincts of the venerable Lin coln hotel at Ninth and P streets a day last week. It was the annual GOP pow-wow that brought together a large gathering of men and women who are arous ed to action over what they feel is taking place under the guid ance of the White House. I was merely a spectator on the sidelines, in anticipation of probably seeing one or more stal wart from O’Neill like Henry Grady or Julius Cronin and may be Mrs. Harty might be seen mingling with the 500 ladies present. But not seeing anyone from out that way, I concluded they were snowed in. One gent entered the lobby looking for a Democrat, but they were all across the street in the federal building holding down government jobs. There were the usual banquet spreads, heap big talks, whereases and resolving. Senator Wherry was a favorite with the ladies and Nixon’s stirring oratory brought forth applause that made the mezzanine walls tremble. Senator Butler, among other ob servations of the national scene, brought this indictment of the administration: “A wanton dis regard of elementary public mor ality.” The gathering partook of the spirit of priming up for next year’s presidential election. • • * Newspaper editor, governor, hopes for a seat in the United States senate turned to ashes, then to an important post in Greece, Dwight Griswold’s polit ical longings have turned their toes up to the daisies and hence forth he will be loaning money to the horny-handed sons of toil in the west end of the state at 8 percent. He has recently taken over a bank at Gering, in addi tion to one at Gordon. Griswold by inheritance is part and parcel of western Nebraska and as a banker will do a lot to advance the interests of that section of the state. • • • Out of a half-century of social enactments, revolutions and up heavals mankind has reaped the whirlwind, leaving us with a world of tragedy, a world with countless desolated homes, of wartorn lands and once prosper ous peoples turned into beggars. Criminals laugh at the commit tees investigating them and defy the courts. United Nations dele gates continue to beat the air and draw fat salaries, while the pow wow in Paris of the “big four” begins to look like another inter national joke. Icicles point threatening spears from the edge of roofs, an auto mobile tire suspended by a rope from a limb of an elm sways in the wind, across the land as far as vision penetrates snow has blan keted the brown earth, sunbeams that look in at my window tem per the arctic gale and make an impression upon the covering of snow, white CiOuds drift before the wind, wildlings of earth and air are in hiding. But the irre pressible highway traffic is on the go this not too forbidding March day, and ere long the red bloom of summer roses will be seen. • • * Down in the Ogallala coun try they are talking about "cloud seeding." That seems to be some sort of hocus-pocus to woo the favor of Jupiter Plu vius to the end that southwest Nebraska may be refreshed with showers. Citizens of long standing in Holt county know what it is to be in the rainless belt. Maybe there are a few left in O'Neill who recall the rainmaking days when a gent sat in the lower of the old courthouse squirting chemicals skyward and Ed Hershiser touched off dynamite bombs, i and devout citizens over the county prayed for rain. Now the latest thing in rainmaking is "cloud seeding," whatever that means. But good luck to the Keith county patriots. • • * Is it the grease, fat or grunt ! that qualifies a hog for cham pionship? A young fellow was down from West Point the other day to show his chunk of bacon on the hoof that bore the name of an English knight in armor and got its picture in the papers. • • • The human propensity for in vention has inspired someone to remark that the most wonderful thing ever made by man is a liv ing for his family. That important and ever un welcome visitor, the assessor, has been making the rounds of the city since the 10th inst. The man ner in which property returns are to be made is provided by law and applies to all counties alike, but each county custodian of property schedules has a way of his own to gather in the list of assessable commodities within the confines of his official terri tory. Down here, gray - haired gents are going from door-to-door to ascertain what the household ers have. Nebraskans have escap ed the state sales and income tax todate, but they are coming some day. • * • Mabel Guild, writing from Oakdale, tells The Frontier family of readers an interesting story of one thousand handker chiefs. Collecting such an array of plain and fancy nose wipers is an unusual hobby and must have been no end of fun. 1 think Miss Guild's accumulation of these emblems o f running snouts should be brought to Lincoln for exhibition at our next state fair. • * • The head of the state depart ment of health is quitting the job, but no doubt another will take over. Healthy guys know nothing of what this state-financed setup is doing, if anything, to promote the welfare of our citizens. Any way, hospitals are full of afflict ed humanity and more are being built. Wheezing and sneezing and groaning is not being perceptibly reduced by official flourishes and it is not too difficult to find some near cesspools of insanitary liv ing conditions. For helpful minis try for aches and pains Nebras kans still rely upon the family doctor and the corner drug store. * » * Hon. William O’Dwyer, Irish immigrant, ex-mayor of Ameri ca’s largest city, Mr. Truman’s ambassador to Mexico, says it’s all the fault of the prohibition period Most of the gangland big shots of that day are dead or in jail, while in this day of free flow ng legalized fire water and moonshine stills skid rows are no longer confined to large cities but have hit the country towns ' as well, with crime and immor ality at an all time high. Liquor is getting out of hand again and American citizens will not long put up with that. In the 1880 period there were blue ribbon societies and or ators stumping the country ap pealing to the emotional with tear-jerking stories as they twisted the tail of John Barley corn. That wave subsided. Some years later the Demerest movement swept the country. Next was Carrie Nation, follow ed later by the Eighteenth a mendment, which met with cool reception in many ecclesiastical and judicial circles and law en forcement officers found them selves butting a stone wall. * • * The story is told at a meeting of three bigwigs, Messrs. Roose velt, Churchill and Stalin. Said Churchill, I am master of the seas. Said Roosevelt, I am master of the air, which was before the seas. Said Stalin, I am master of chaos, which was before all else. * • * The top price for a sire paid at the Hereford Breeders’ associa tion sale in Valentine was $3,000. 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