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Drifting and Dreaming
There’s a sweet and lovely old waltz that talks about drifting
and dreaming—while shadows fall.” .
We wonder if that isn’t about the state of mind of too many of
us We are lulled into a false sense of security, drifting and dream
ing. And the shadows of urgency are creeping closer and closer but
go unheeded. ,
There is no reason for this complacency. The situation is just
as desperately terrible as it was 4 months ago when everybody was
looking over their shoulders, waiting for the first bombs to fall.
We’re militarily stronger—on paper that is, but a paper defense
of “orders placed” would be scant help if Korea should blaze up in
new fury, or Iraq or Iran should touch off the spark that would
automatically bring World War III.
Some observers have every reason to be discouraged about the
American people's ability to take it for a long pull in a battle for
survival. Three months ago the sky was the limit in girding our
selves as a nation. Now—we are beginning to hedge. We lack the
will to make sacrifices, to fight inflation to have our melting dol
lars, to do the things that must be done to keep our nation strong.
If the yoke is beginning to gall after only 3 months we better
awaken to what has to be done if we are to face it through 10 years
or more of armed peace that may be required to settle the issue of
American survival.
The urgency—the terror—is just as great if we only look at the
maps of the world. Stalin hasn’t relaxed his relentless pressure. We
can’t afford to selfishly surrender to complacency.
If nothing else the General MacArthur incident has done much
to shake that complacency.
Mrs. Earl Billings
Heads Ewing WSCS
EWING—The Women’s Society
of Christian Service, of the Ew
ing Methodist church, has an
nounced the election of the fol
lowing officers for the coming
year:
Mrs. Earl Billings, president;
Mrs. Wiliam Spence, vice-presi
dent; Mrs. J. L. Pruden, record
ing secretary; Mrs. E. Billings,
promotion secretary; Miss Anna
Van Zandt, treasurer; Mrs. Char
les Chappell, secretary of spirit
ual life; Mrs. Florence Ebben
gaard, secretary of missionary
work; Mrs. R. G. Rockey, secre
tary of Christian social relations;
Mrs. Harold Harris, secretary of
literature; Mrs. D. W. Gemmill,
secretary of student work; Mrs.
Leland Welke, secretary of youth
work; Mrs. Florence Butler, sec
retary of children’s work; Mrs.
Henry Fleming, secretary of sup
plies; Mrs. Lee Woods, secretary
of status of women.
SUPPLY GRAVEL
EWING— The Walker Gravel
Co. and the Shrad Brothers are
furnishing gravel from their pits
to rebuild Nebraska roads. Train
load after trainload is going out
from Ewing and will continue
until their contract is filled.
Some of the best gravel for road
construction comes from these
gravel pits near Ewing.
“Voice of The Frontier” . . .
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Prairieland Talk—
Activity at Lake Success Would Be
Comical If It Were Not So Tragic
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
LINCOLN— Red China is re
sponsible for prolonged war in
Korea. Why not go after Red Chi
na, as General MacArthur pro
poses?
The MacArthur plan is under
standable — carry the roaring
guns into ene
my territory or
throw up the
job and get out
of Asia. It is
not clear what
the Truman
and Marshall
plan is. And
the blood - let
ting goes on,
young America
__is on the altar.
Romaine I^hers and
mothers pay
Saunders the costly sacri
fice in tears and heartaches. Lit
tle children, widows and the
aged, sorrow-laden leave their
desolated homes and push on to
the southern shores of once
peaceful Korea.
Is there no way to end the car
nage, no way to wipe away the
tears, no way to heal the wounds?
The 52 nations represented at
Lake Success, what are they do
ing, what is their plan, where are
they headed?
It would be comical if it were
not so tragic. And, too, if the civ
ies feel equal to direct or sup
press the uniforms, let’s hand
them the weapons and send them
to the battle field.
• • •
Among the frightening things
looming on the horizon comes a
warning from one of the experts
that within 20 years farm land
will be so depleted by erosion
that the food supply will about
vanish — unless. These experts
find it advisable to fall back on
that proviso. It is a proverb with
them.
Instead of oroakm jeopardiz
ing crop returns, nature is tak
ing care of that and actually
larger returns are gathered
from the land through both the
operation of intelligent farm
management and the restora
tion of soil wastes by frost and
snow and rain.
Those who have known Holt
county since the pioneer period
see now heavy sodded areas and
productive fields where once
were sand wastes or swamp
holes. The old earth has been
feeding beast and bird and hu
man for 6,000 years. That it will
continue to do so is backed by a
promise that transcends the de
ductions of the experts. “While
the earth remained! seed time
and harvest, and cold and heat,
and summer and winter, and day
and night shall not cease.”
• * •
Clean-up on a mile of high
way a 2 - fon truck garnered
two-thirds of a load of by-pro
ducts of civilisation. Among
the gatherings were 1.086 beer
cans, 38 oil cans, 34 whiskey
bottles. 30 milk cartons.
• • •
A young man came to the door
toady. Clean, intelligent, a ser
ious look overspread his young
and handsome face. He introduc
ed his mission by handing me a
printed sheet inviting all, and
sundry saints and sinners to at
tend a gathering to be addressed
by one of the leadership of a re
ligious group that manifests its
zeal by sending forth their adher
ents to persuade the world to
come along with them.
In view of what I have learn
ed of the way of life, I could
not join the procesion in which
this young man marches, but
it is not for me to condemn
anyone's mode of honoring
Diety.
Yes, there is a warning of false
prophets, but one could but ad
mire the zeal that sends forth the
flower of youth into an unfriend
ly world with a message they re
gard as something sacred.
Better, far better, that my
young visitor today is going a
bout with what may be an er
roneous and harmless dectrine
than to shoulder a rifle and
march off to battlefields or to
mark a criminal trail across the
land.
• • •
Bitterness and the war cry, evil
surmising and hair pulling, iron
curtains and a world gone mad—
mad because everywhere there
are men gone mad in their lust
to run things. But there are “com
mon people.” Lincoln once said
the Lord must love them, having
made so many of them. And in
the ample bosom of the commor
man and the common womar
there throbs the kindly emotions
that save from despair. Day bj
day kindly deeds are flashed intc
the picture that gives hope foi
: the race. Down at Trenton a lit
tie girl lies on a bed from whicl
; she will never more rise. Sh<
! expresed a desire for water mel
1 on. This desire came to the at
1 tention of the country. The mill
j of human kindness began to flov
from far and near in the shape o
1 loads of melons. But if set upoi
| the pedestal of authority can th<
' "common man” be trusted.'
southeast Nebraska has put on
a robe of green. Farm activities
are in high gear. Much of the
wheat sown area is in verdant
promise, though some is being i
turned under for further plant
ings on the land. Oat seeding got
a late beginning due to April
weather interference. Corn
ground is in the annual work
over for the hybrid harvest, gar
dens and potato fields are in the
process of bringing to fruition the
kitchen demands for things of the
vegetable kingdom. Dandelions
flaunt their yellow bloom in pro
fusion amid the velvet green and
the dainty meadow bells impart
their beauty in colorful floral
fragrance. Excessive rains hinder
operations on the land, convert
dirt roads into muck and inire
and fill the wayside pond holes,
but every day of sunshine urges
to long hours out with the trac
tors. The season thus far is a rep
etition of that of 1915 when prai
rieland was visited with gully
washers week after week. Theie
is no demand in southeast Ne
braska for irrigation ditches or
“cloud seeding.”
Everybody hugs a hero. Ne
braska has one right up-to-date.
The little town of Dwight in But
ler county has the honor of being
the “home town” of Nebraska’s
lately crowned hero, M/Sgt. Er
nest R. Kouma, who received the
congresional medal of honor for
service beyond the demands of
duty when he cleaned up a nest
of the red army in Korea. He is a
Butler county farm boy and is
part and parcel of the village of
Dwight only in the same sense
that the folks out in Shields and
Grattan precincts are a part and
parcel of O’Neill. In a larger
sense, Sergeant Kouma is not on
ly a Nebraskan but a national
hero.
• • *
Speculators oppose the “roll
back” in beef prices, yelping that
such a move will bring on a meat
famine through the reduction in
the number of herds. Of course,
this is a lot of boloney. Cattle
prices can be cut in half with no
diminishing of the cow herds and
annual crop of calves on prairie
land.
The legislature’s final action
was to kill the measure that
would put the penny back on the
gas tax which had been repealed
by vote of the citizens. The pow
ers that be seem to be “between
the devil and the deep sea” in the
matter of raising funds for high/
way work, salary raises and in
creased costs of government on
all sides. Maybe the final solu
tions will be in cutting out a lot
of tax-supported frills, commis
sions and bureaus by a return to
the simple life when everyone
does “that which is right in his
own eyes.”
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