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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
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(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 . . .
Last night we had the movie
“Harvey” aboard — the story of
the invisible rabbit 6 feet tall.
Needless to say, “Harvey" is very
much present aboard this ship
today. Everybody is seeing and
talking to “Harvey.”
Love, J. C.
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