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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (May 10, 1951)
jjjjjgfF Frontier Editorial & Business Offices: 122 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 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. _ _ Prairieland Talk— Holt Minds Have Contributed to Airplanes, ‘Horseless Carriages,’ Adding Machines By ROMAINE SAUNDERS LINCOLN—Necessity is said to be the mother of invention. Holt county has had fertile minds that brought out inventions, practical or maybe at best the beginning of an idea. The first “horseless carriage” hereabouts was the product of an an O’Neill mim, B. F. Cole, whose mechanical con trivance con sisted of a sail attached to a platform on wheels. The “filling station” was anywhere. Prair i e 1 a n d winds supplied the motor pow er. In some re _ . spects this gen Homaine eration toes Saunders not measure Up to the brilliant fellows the coun ty has known. The adding ma chine comes out of Atkinson. A pioneer, from which the Slay ntaker family sprung was the in ventor. Homer Campbell, living out at Seattle, Wash., recalls seeing the crude model and thus tells about it in a personal letter to the engi neer of this department: “It was rigged on a panel of wood about 4 feet long, held in the hand; the free hand operated a set of fig ures actuated by pulling a heavy string." This was back in the 1880s and the inventor, Homer recalls, was in the graying period of life. "It occurred to me," writes Mr. Campbell, "that you might car* to claim for Holt county tha distinction of having had an early inventor of the me chanical adder." The Savidge brothers in Deloit precinct spent much time in bringing out new things, their greatest contribution being in the eld of aviation. Guy Green con tributed to printing plant equip ment a simple invention that was taken over by a manufacturing company producing printing house furniture. Other Holt county citizens made worthwhile contributions with various sorts of gadgets. And everyone out on the land has to revamp the machines that fac tories turn out before they can be made to work. • • • Legislative halls echo with the rumble of hectic committee ses sions. One of the latest in our own stately statehouse came off when the unicam statesmen drew a Lincoln editor through a knot hole. The editor had made dis paraging remarks about the com mittee. Isn’t that what editors are for? Down at Washington a sen ate committee comes up with this classic they hooked onto a former district attorney and later mayor of New York, now American am bassador to Mexico: “Contributed to the growth of organized crime, racketeering and gangsterism." Mr. Truman has been unfor tunate in extracting that class of patriots for some of his ap pointments out of such places as K.C., St. L„ the Windy City by Lake Michigan and the im posing metropolis where Euro peans salute the Statue of Lib erty. The governors of 2 states also have the shadows cast over them. Evidence is in. What’s going to be done about it? One thing can be done: Recall the ambassador from Mexico, : strip the Costellos and the Adon ises of citizenship, deport them without delay. And there are ru mors of “police protection,” at least indifference, in many cities, including some in Nebraska, even under the shadow of our great i cultural and educational frame work. Yet back of it all there is i within the shadows the enlight ened public sentiment and moral forces that sweep out like a surg ing tide when the agents of hell become insultingly bold. • • » A colored gent was caught at it. Taken before the court he in- ; formed the judge he would make his own defense. He stated his ' case with such moving Negro elo- 1 quence that the judge let him off with 60 days. Two others charged with a similar offense engaged lawyers to defend them, and got .2 years each. Why employ a law yer? • * • Praixieland is bathed in warmth and sunlight this noon day in May. Velvet foliage has adorned the nude arms of elm and willow with green ban ners. buds unfold to the sun beams and floral bloom con tributes to the spring landscape fragrance and color. Earth has been rain-soaked to give life to the growing things and high above it all is spread the blue robe of eternity. • • • The federal payroll in Albu querque, N.M., amounts to $40, 000,000 annually, according to what one bank of that city re ports. There are more than 12,000 persons in the city alone employ ed by the government. Lincoln citizens have voted themselves into another indebt edness of 6 - million - dollars for school expansion if 12,866 votes can be said to represent 100,000 people. In the past 30 years they have paid more than 3*6-million dollars interest on bonds In addi tion to the 6-million just voted, there are something like 2-mil lion-dollars of the old bonds. Who cares for debts, seems to be the attitude so long as they can float in the stellar realms. May be there will be a drop to earth with that dull sickening thud. It is not so much worthwhile edu cation that we are in pursuit of as it is the frills—imposing build* i n g s, gyms, swimming pools, dance floors and social centers. Fine—if it made for better Kids, better men and women. We know it doesn’t. Juvenile delinquents, vandals, street loafers, narcotic addicts in high schools still have to be dealt with. Kids of the sod house period were no angels but they had some sense of responsi bility, learned to work as well as learning lessons to recite in school. From what is disclosed through military sources of the mental and physical qualities of American youth there is little room for pride in our magnifi cent display in schools. • • m Senator Nelson has been vot ing "no" pretty consistently, probably on the conviction that the fewer new laws set up the less damage all around. • • * That Connecticut lady who heads a factory or so and has de fied federal agents, won a jury verdict against the government and says she is not taking any “withholding tax” from any of her factory force of workeis, has been to Nebraska, the guest of the cowboys out at North Platte. Nebraska cow men love a scrap per. That’s why they invited Viv ien Kellems to come out and give them a talk at the Stock Growers’ association gathering in the cap ital of Lincoln county. I trust the plucky New Englander took back with her a 10-gallon hat as one of the tokens of a visit to the Ne braska prairieland. ♦ • m Motorists from the country finding they were being soaked a dollar pretty regularly for parking cars overtime took it upon themselves to remedy the lituation. A boycott was started with the word from some 200 families or more that there were owns beside Lincoln where they would do their trading. So the ;hreatened loss of farm patron ige got the interested ones busy md clod - hoppers have been in cited back to town with the as surance that no more fines will ae assessed to them on account if over-staying the limit at the marking post. * * a Dr. W. J. Douglas, of Atkinson, ;s one of a group given attention ay the state medical association dr a half-century’s medical work, rhe doctor has had the 50 years’ ixperience mostly in ministering o the afflicted in and around Atkinson and western Holt coun ;y. He has been active also in public affairs and political party •uccesses. • • • The gent out on the land in iveralls who does the sowing and reaping is known as a farmer, rhe gent in white collar and pressed pants who holds a job at ag college is known as an agron omist. O'NEILL LOCALS Mr. and Mrs. Leo Tomjack vis ited in Elgin Sunday with Mrs. A E. Ponton and George Ponton. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Karr and Mrs. Ella Karr, of Spencer, spent Sunday at the C. E. Worth home. Western Auto is again your fishing supply headquarters. l-3c Mrs. Vada Weier, of Dakon, viisted this week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. ’Harold E. Weier. Mr. and Mrs. William White visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Tom White, of Dorsey. The freshman class of St. Ma ry’s academy had its annual class picnic Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ol iver Ross, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Winched, and Bill Miller accom panied them to Long Pine. Navy Officer Holds Admiration for Japan __ ■ (Editor’s note: The author of | the following letter, Joel C. Smith, is a grandson of Dr. and Mrs. L. A. Carter, of O’ Neill. Smith is the son of Mrs. Carl Grabo, the former Eunice Smith, of Albuquerque, N. M. A former student at the U. S. Naval academy at Ann apolis, Md., Smith spent a con siderable portion of his boy hood in O’Neill. He served with the navy in World War II, and was recalled to active du ty last year. He has made in teresting and keen observations of the Jananese people which will be of interest to The Fron tier readers.) USS Bairoko Fleet Postoffice San Francisco, Calif. Dear Grandma and Grandpa: Back in port again—and hap py to be here. We’ve been riding out one storm after another and I don’t mind admitting that I’m very relieved to see spring come, and with it the end of the ty phoon season. Each storm causes a certain i amount of weather deck damage. ! My particular headache is the anchor engine, located on the bow. Every time we’ve hit a storm that poor engine gets strip ped of its insulation and usually has several pipes twisted or broken. I finally got tired of repair ing that thing so I hired a bunch of Japs to cover the engine and all its piping and parts with a sheet metal sheath. The chief engineer nearly tore his hair out when he saw what I had done. In order to get at the engine or piping now it will take a cutting torch and a can opener. Every time we get into a port I try to see as much of the sur rounding country as I can. I’ve been learning Japanese while at sea in anticipation of using it in port. However, the Japs are by this time so Americanized that trying to talk Jap just wastes time since they talk English bet ter than I do Japanese. The Japanese language is gram matically difficult in practice al though in theory it is about par with German. The sentence struc ture is nearly the same as Ger man. Their practice and theory are quite different, however. We Americans commit mur der with our vocabulary but our grammar is pretty consistent. The Japs, however, perform mayhem on their sentence structure so that I cannot even approximate the meaning of their spoken sentences. It’s really humerous. They can understand me when I speak in Jap but the only way I can un derstand their reply is when they make it in English. The method by which this country has be come Americanized is novel and certainly effective. It has been done through movies, radio, mag azines, newspapers and Amen can products such as drugs, cos metics, machinery, cigarettes, drinks, etc. The country is flood ed with American movies which (as is everything else, practical ly) are highly superior to the Jap productions. In addition to this, all high school kids must study English for 2 years and another year in college. This situation having ex isted for 5 years, it is no wonder that the country has become so Americanized. There still remains enough of old Japan, however, for me to get a pretty good understanding of their culture. Actually I believe that anoth er war with Japan would be ex tremely difficult to precipitate_ or rather let’s say that the prop aganda which proved useful dur ing the last war would prove en tirely ineffective now in view of the understanding which thou sands of service men have ac quired of things Nipponese. I myself have become quite fond of the Japs, their way of life, their culture—so much so that I shall always remember this country with considerable nostalgia. In innumerable ways they are so much more civilized than we that I frequently find myself embarrassed by my self ishness, crudity and clumsiness, rheir generosity and good man ners have made a great impres sion on all of us, and their many fine customs are conducive to more pleasant living and closer ’amily ties. In short, I am very iealous of them . . . There are, of course, many un desirable features of life here in Japan but these features for the most part are not a matter i of choice but rather of wealth shortage, such as poor roads, i streets, sewage systems, water supply, lack of refrigeration, modern medical facilities, and to I me the most important—lack of j fuel. Some of the things I like best are the removal of shoes in homes, simplicity of furnishings, no chairs, big tables or beds, tiny kitchens, thick soft woven straw mats wall to wall in all rooms, sliding doors, extensive wndow space, flower arrange ments everywhere, special al cove in the sitting room for dis play of art objects, miniature gardens, beautiful kimonos and other gorgeous accessories of the women. Also absence of paint— everything has a natural finish, and courtesy and respect they extend one another . . . The more I learn about this country the more unbelievable it becomes. Fabulous! Or per haps I should say that American society, customs, etc., appear lop sided! Sailors that have spent time over here are referred to as “Asi atic” in other words a little un usual. I sure wish Harriette and the kids could be here to see some of the country. I’m afraid though that we’d never have enough money to buy the things she would want—beautiful kimonos, laquer ware, etc. I want to get back to the States in the worst way to see the kids. I guess they have a fine time down at the beach. They live only a block from a good beach. The war over here seems to be rapidly heading for a climax. The Red Chinese are develop ing a terriffic build-up of men and material just north of the 38th parallel. I assume we are doing likewise south. My confi dence may be unfounded but I expect the show down fight will find us in command of all Korea, y This Korean war seems su spiciously like a classroom classi cal campaign . . . 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