Prairieland Talk —
Murder of Police Chief Calkins Brings
Unspeakable Sorrow to Entire Community
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
LINCOLN—The bullet-riddled
body of Police Chief Chester Cal
kins brings unspeakable Borrow
not alone to the family but to the
**itire community.
It is a tragedy which if the one
whose finger
Dulled the trig
ger is appre
hended, he will
encounter the
wrath of an out
raged people.
It is the first
time an officer
has been killed
on a street of
ONeill since
Billy Reed, a
cowboy, killed
_ . Sheriff Kearns
Romania back in the
Saunders early 1880'*.
That was the outcome of a per
sonal quarrel.
Chet met his death in the line of
official duty at the hands of an
evil man or men.
• • •
I don't know who named the
u»wn of Tilden, sixth station east
of O’NeiU, probably an admirer
of Samuel J. Tilden, the New
York democrat, who lost the
presidency by one electoral vote
to Rutherford B. Hayes, although
he received more than 200 thou
sand more of the popular votes
than did Hayes. Whoever is re
sponsible for starting the thriving
town of Tilden got half of it lo
cated in Antelope county and the
other half in Madison county.
There is also a town in Illinois
named for the democratic candi
date for president in 1876.
• • •
When Lincoln was In the law
business in Illinois, an irate
gent came to him one day de
manding him to atari suit
against a certain poor chap
who owed him $2.50. Mr.
Lincoln tried to talk him
out of going to court with such
such a small matter, but the fel
low insisted on bringing suit.
Alright, said Lincoln, my fee
will be $10. This was handed
over, when Lincoln went to the
penniless victim, handed him 15
of the $10 and told him to go
and pay the $2.50. Thai's one
way of managing so an obstre
perous creditor pays himself.
• • •
In a letter from Sen. Frank Nel
son, he tell* me the 81-year-old
farmer over north of Omaha who
gathered 1000 bushels of corn,
noted in this department two
weeks ago, is his brother-in-law
rind has lived practically all hia
Ufe in the community where he
farms. The senator also says Holt
county is water-soaked and he
looks forward to abundant pas
ture and hay in his community
tuit toward the Redbird as a re
sult
• • •
Big, brainy, well-fed, a disarm
ing smile, not what you would
t ali handsome. Sen. Everett Dirk
<*>
sen. of Illinois, was the cheer
rouser at the republican gather
ing in Lincoln last week on the
occasion of the annual founders
day banqueteermg, oratory and
fellowship of some 800 party ad
herents who showed up in spite
of a March blizzard. One of his
big hits that brought out cheers
that about cracked the plaster on
the walls was when Senator Dirk
sen said, “And to think that little
fellow in the white house under
cover of midnight fired one of the
Sreatest soldiers America ever
ad, Douglas IMacArthur.” And
then this sobering thought: “The
money you jingle in your pockets
has fresh warm blood on it.’’ The
mother who mourns her battle
battered son, the father now in
life's twilight and his boy gone,
the young wife with her father
less child facing the struggle
alone, the young woman who
thrilled when the soldier whose
blood stains some foreign soil
kissed her godbye, relatives and
friends would exchange’ this mon
strous curse of war for less in
dustrial activity, even financial
stringency, if thereby those who
have gone down in the struggles
and agony and death could be re
stored to them, and were among
men come to an end.
• • •
After a mild February, March
came strutting in to bury the land
under a blanket of snow and the
first week draws to a close in a
cloud of falling snow. A day in
late February of that hard year
just 20 years ago Mayor Charley
Stout received the first appeal
made to the city for bread. It was
in the form of a letter from a wo
man who said she was down to
a little flour and a few beans.
The county Red Cross were
taking care of relief work and
the city had set aside no fund for
that purpose. Mayor Stout saw
that the woman's needs were tak
en care of. There was a woman
in the long ago in time of famine
who had a little meal in a barrel,
a little oil in a flask, and a child
and herself to feed. She planned
to make a cake that she and her
child might eat a bit and trust to
the future, no mayor or relief
agency to appeal to, when along
came a bewhkkered old man and
asked for something to eat. The
woman hesitated and then baked
the old man a cake. “And the bar
rel of meal wasted not, neither
did the curse of oil fail.” She had
fed a prophet of God. Charley
Stout made no claims of being an
Elijah, but the "little flour and
few beans” in the home of the
woman who appealed to him
"wasted not”
• • •
Another Nebraskan is before the
court and jury charged with a re
volting murder. The defense is
not a denial of the crime but the
old moss-grown plea of psychosis,
the up-to-date day of saying he’s
insane. No doubt of that, insane
' lly jealous, insanely angered, hell
born “maniac-depressed” or what
ever legai phraseology can conjure
up to save the neck of the guilty
one. But has not an, evil genius
who takes the life of another for
feited his right to life? “Who so
shedeth man's blood, by man shall
his blood be shed,” is the divine
decree.
• • •
Some of them have a program
of sorts, others candidly admit
they are after a place on the bal
lot because the country needs
their services. Probably not a
thing a candidate can say whose
name appears on the primary
ballot will either make or cost
him a vote. Beside the candidates
themselves there are a few out on
the outer rim of the sidelines who
know all about it and prescribe
the course to pursue.
• • •
President Truman asks the con
gress for another seven billions in
American currency for “foreign
aid.” Not much indication that
congress is responsive. As the pil
grim of this department sees it,
the withdrawal of much of the
American interference in other
lands would be the best ‘foreign
aid” program for us, and slip a
few of those billions back to the
patriots who are paying the taxes.
• •
South Dakota patriots now
claim to outclass Kentucky in the
production of bluegrass. Maybe
those fellows up at Sioux Falls
could learn something if they
would come down and look over
Holt county at bluegrass seed
gathering time.
• • •
The 1951 food bill of the citi
sens of the nation Is reported
to have amounted to 56 billion
dollars, and for the same period
the tax load came to 75 billion
dollars. Mr. Truman's presiden
tial yacht Williamsburg has a
$500,000 annual share in the tax
load.
• • •
Astronomers tell of a recent
discovery that makes our globe
appear as a pretty small potato.
The planet is said to be 350 mil
lion miles in diameter and its dis
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CARPET RAGS FOR VETS . . . These ladies helped assemble this
impressive array of carpet rags to be sent to Veterans hospitals.
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monson unit, American Legion auxiliary. In the photo (left-to
right) are: Mrs. Palmer C. Skulborstad, Mrs. George Kline, Mrs.
Richard Minton, Mrs. Gilbert Winchell, Mrs. Axel Borg and Mrs.
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can he expressed only in light
years.
• • •
To put into tne marriage, “Till
death do us part,” a hopeful bride
and bridegroom had the wedding
ceremony in a cemetery.
Don Cunningham
Will Speak Here
Don Cunningham, well-known
Sioux City market news report
er and radio personality, will be
principal speaker at the annual
combined meeting of the Holt
county extension service and the
Holt county soil conservation
district. The meeting will be held
Wednesday, March 19. at the
American Legion auditorium,
registration starting at 12:45
p.m.
Everyone is invited.
Mr. Cunningham is a oonular
speaker and has appeared in
Holt county on numerous occa
sions.
His comments on local condi
tions and his homespun philoso
phy are widely recognized. He
will give his views on present
conditions and what he feels
farmers and ranchers mav ex
pect in the future.
Other highlights of the meet
ing will be musical and dramatic
talent from over the county, mo
tion pictures, colored slides, ex
hibits. door prizes and free cof
fee and doughnuts.
Reports on accomplishments of
the soil conservation district and
the extension service will be giv
en. There will be election of 3
extension board members and 2
soil conservation board members.
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Measles Victim—
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from Omaha Saturday morning,
March 8, from a week’s visit
with her daughters, Hyldred,
and Mrs. John DeGeorge. Little
Shirley DeGeorge, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John DeGeorge, has
had the measles but is “im
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