Prairieland Talk . . . 8 Columns Not New to Oldtimers By ROMAINE SAUNDERS LINCOLN—Instead of shrinkage that accom- ♦ panies age, The Frontier has expanded to eight columns to the page. That’s what it was in its in fancy and the columns were a pica wider, but at most 4 pages were printed. That was about the limit of the capacity of the one journeyman printer who did about everything. From the collection of watermelons, sweet com, jars of honey and dollars that found the way into the “print shop” he pulled down $12 a week for his knowl edge of the ’’art preservative,” and his efforts to keep a few Romaine score pioneer patriots informed Saunders Cf the latest shootings or a hanging out on Turkey creek, along with the edi tor’s classic blasts at an envious contemporary. See it now requires a force of several hands to handle the copy that comes from the weeping willows of the editorial sanctum. Of course, O’Neill is a growing center of trade for an ever-expanding territory and Edi tor-Publisher Stewart is keeping pace, maybe set ting the pace for the metropolis of the verdant and farflung prairieland. * • * * What this humble pilgrim knows about it could be expressed in one word, Nothing. But somehow we have our suspicions that not all that passes for worthwhile and construc tive professional service is of any real worth. Soil conservation, erosion and “watershed” wisdom. Here they come with the title of doctor with a line of talk that draws a following, Today I asked a son of the soil who went through the days of the hot winds in the 1890’s and made a success of farming, what he thought of the “doctors” who pose as erosion and conservation experts. Said he didn't like to be critical but it ap peared to him as a racket and if they came around a farm of his, proposing "conserva tion" methods, he would invite them to go jump into the lake. The successful operators of farms and ranches are those who have learned from the experience of a life-time how to operate profitably and have little consideration for the things they find enter taining at conservation gatherings and go back to their rural domains unimpressed. Even the title of “Rev.” is being used to work a racket, and if gifted with a good line of gab you will gather a following, mostly sisters. * * * Automobile license plates Nebraskans are re quired to buy are lacking in decorative fea tures to the worry of a lot of prairieland patriots, who point an envious finger at these plates of tin attached to cars from neighboring states. Did you catch the story in a recent national publication? Of all the thousands of automobiles that roll in and out of Washington over the bridges spanning the Potomac only the quiet dignity of a Nebras ka plate on the rearend of a coupe caught the attention of the magazine writer who tells the story. Probably if an emblem is to be attached to the license plates the fellow riding a cultivator would propose an ear of corn, another patriot a shock of grain, another a sugar beet, and if left to prairieland dwellers out Holt county way they would want a steer in one comer and a bale of hay in one comer. * * * I asked a fourth grader why we celebrate the Fourth of July. To shoot off firecrackers, he said. The same question put to an 80-year-old. His re ply was, To celebrate a battle. Has a knowl edge of the simplest facts of American history no place in the scheme of our national life today? ! ,1 ■ , , II t.—. ! I , . . , .... ■ - II. I I ■ . .. - The night is hot. Not a leaf or twig stirs. ! The afterglow of departed day gives way to en croaching shadows. Out in the gloaming a lone katydid rasps his evening tune. The grinding hum of a power lawn mower, guided by some householder in the gathering gloom, disturbs the quiet of the early July evening. The lawn mower is silent and now off in the distance, beyond crowded street, beyond the dwellings of city bound humanity, comes the sound of machines gathering the ripened grain. Night has closed in. Machines are silent. A pale moon looks down upon the hot earth. Street lights cast steady rays abroad. House lights are out. Sweltering folks in the nude stand under the bathroom shower and hope to make a night of it. And then our old re liable Nebraska wind sweeps out of the north with a fresh blast from the regions of the Arctic circle. Good night. * * * In Lincoln, state and city officials, the news paper guys and milling crowds of notables and no bodies, always ready to give one of the great who enters the gates a respectful hearing, saw and heard the notable army man who had visions of a seat in the white house. Looking down from the eminence above the steps at the north en trance of the state house upon the assembled Ne brakans grouped about the imposing figure of that notable Nebraskan, William Jennings Bryan, General Eisenhower addressed us as our guest of the evening of July 3. There is not much that a speaker can say under such circumstances other than the customary platitudes but after the work of the Chicago convention is over and the fire works begin no doubt the political spellbinders will have something interesting. Revised census figures give the population of the United States at 156,187,000. . . Young Amer ica was added to by the birth of 3,900,000 babies last year, if all were accounted for. . . A Con necticut chicken hatchery is filing orders for 210, 000 baby chicks contracted for by the Austrian government. . . The federal government has under’ lease 325,000 miles of wire service, over which 17 billion words pertaining to government business go annually. . . One railroad operating in Nebras ka reports 71,£-million-dollars gross income in five months’ operation, a million increase over a like period a year ago. . . Don’t go to Canada with the view of making it your home if you are taking a new car with you unless you are fixed to pay $872 custom tax and a few other incidentals. * * * Miss Nixon of the Nebraka public library com mission in a recent letter, says that the American Heritage Foundation, in conjunction with 25 other organizations, including the American Li brary association, are putting forth efforts this presidential election year to interest the public in the responsibility as citizens to register and vote. The slogan in connection with this movement is first to Listen, then Read, then Look, followed by Talk and Argue. And then the last, Think. Let’s have Think come after Listen, Look, Read. The heck of it is there is a lot of Talk not seasoned with thought. These organized movements to gether with individual activities will no doubt bear fruit in arousing us to action when the polls open in November. * * * Edward C. Carter, at one time a resident of Holt county over at the flourmill center of Mid dle Branch, next to the Knox county line, died last week at his home in Ashland. Mr. Carter was the father of Judge Carter of the Nebraska supreme court. * * * Need to punish a kid? Put him to work in a garden pulling weeds. Other Editors . . . Chancellor Views Education ' The Stuart Advocate in search for the de sired course of study needed for the Stuart pub lic schools wrote to Chancellor R. G. Gustavson of the University of Nebraska. His reply was one all Nebraskans might as well read and we are happy to reprint it here: Dear Mr. Yost: The ideal courses for a ranching and farm ing community which would benefit all students as fully as possible, is, as your community is finding, a rather large order. A high school education should enable all students, according to their abilities, to achieve certain ends. The first aim is that they should be able to communicate with and to understand other people in reading, writing, speaking and listening. In short, they should be able to handle the English language with the facility that their abilities per mit. The second aim is the development and maintenance of a mature sense of “getting along” constructively with others. In family and married life, with employers and employees, with civic groups and with other groups. This is the very heart of young people learning to live well in both their local groups and in the larger world community of which we are all a part today. Closely related, is the aim of citizenship, de signed to encourage students to think through the issues he faces as members of a local com . munity, and a much larger community. Students should learn the ways of democratic living. A good way to learn is through participation. They should learn, too, about the historical background in which they operate. The fourth aim is to acquire some interests in, and achieve according to their abilities in the world of science. Great achievements of mankind are recorded in the world of science, broadly viewed, and in men’s relationships with others. To understand this world it is necessary to have some knowledge of the scientific developments that have helped to make it. • A fifth aim is the development of interests in some of the literature, music, art and other parts of the heritage of young people, and it is the kind of expression that they should also learn in order to be well developed persons. A final aim in the education of young peo ple is health. During the high school age, students should learn not only to maintain good habits of health, but also should learn or improve in some athletics that they can continue into adult life. Health is both physical and mental, and high schools should not neglect either aspect. These aims are basic to a good education. With this background students should be well prepared for entering upon their careers or fur ther education. All of them should develop, through this type of education, the desire to con tinue educating themselves all of their lives. Beyond this basic core that all students should have there is the question of further train ing for those who conclude their school and the question of preparation for college for those who ' continue their formal education beyond high school. In a ranching and farming community boys and girls should have the opportunity to train in high school to do farming, ranching or to develop homes more successfully. Stuart might consider advanced education, on a community basis, to help boys and girls to improve their career work after they have worked on their ranches and farms for a few years. Boys and girls who have the possibilities of going to college, and who will profit from that experience, should be prepared to do so. Colleges the country over expect young people who come to them to be able to do college work. These young people are handicapped if they have not had the background that they need. For exam ple, it is difficult to undertake an engineering program in college if a young man has not had the mathematics work in high school. There are many other examples. These are not obstacles placed in the way of students. They are simply steps in a young person’s development, and it is difficult to make the college step if a young person has not had a good footing on the previous step of high school. With a limited teaching staff in high school, it may seem impossible to enable young people to have the courses in English, mathematics, sci ence, languages and social studies that so often are necessary for success in college. Yet, with such facilities as individual correspondence courses, a young person can be helped to com pensate for any courses he should have, but that the high school cannot provide. For boys and girls in Stuart, the foregoing implies that help should be given to them in working out their life plans. I feel that is a par ticular obligation to help those go on to college who should go and who will profit from the ex perience. The University of Nebraska has facilities available for help in planning such community programs as this. We will be glad to help you. Yours sincerely, R. G. GUSTAVSON Frontier Editorial Be Business Offices: 122 South Fourth Sf. CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher Established in 1880—Published Each Thursday • Entered at the postoffice in O’Neill, Holt county, Nebraska, as second-class mail matter under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. This news paper is a member of the Nebraska Press Associa tion, 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. LETTERS TO EDITOR Arkansas Experiences Severe Droulh Harrison, Ark., Rt. 1 „ . , July 2, 1952 Dear Friends: Enclosed is our payment for an other year’s subscription to your paper. Each week we race for the the first chairand devour the home town news while the wash ing—or whatever the chore is at hand—waits. We never appre ciated the paper as much as we have since we’re away. It’s been the driest period ever recorded at the weather bureau. In the month of June there was not enough rain fell to settle the dust. All told it has been 40 days without any moisture. Hay is selling for $1 per bale out of the field. Pastures are burning up so bad that many are having to sell milk cows and all, due to the lack of grass or water! We are on a low land place and still have some pasture but have no hay yet. If it would rain we could still plant cane or some such crop and fall garden. Lots of folks plant potatoes in July and then dig them just before it freezes in No vember or December. Wish we were up there for some of that good fishing we read about. The Ozarks are supposed to be a wonderful fishing territory but they have all managed to evade Joe’s and Scott’s lines. Yours truly, MRS. JOE WADSWORTH Everybody Talks About Roads Dear Editor: Everybody talks about the roads and highways. What sug gestions do The Frontier readers have to offer? Highway engineers so far in Nebraska have not come up with the ideal plan in road building. Traveling the highways today by bus or automobile or even by train you find you must hang on to the seat or be bounced out. Those of an earlier generation found it necessary to hang onto the saddlehom or dashboard as they waded through mud or swam the streams. Maybe those patriots of a vanished generation who hauled hay into O’Neill five bales high on a wide tired wagon with a four-horse hitch would feel they were in the city of gold-paved streets if they could have had what this generation rolls over in all directions. The ideal may never be at tained. The blacktop rides the smoothest, but is not enduring. Concrete answers the demand for permanency but the way these highways are built in block construction there is con stant jolting caused by the joints between each concrete section. It is claimed that is necessary because of frost. Perhaps the nearest approach to the ideal is the Pennsylvania turnpike ex tending from Philadelphia in the east to Pittsburgh in the west. Our highway builders might get some help by investigating the methods employed in building the turnpike. As one suggestion in the mat ter of highways, you might stay closer to home. But if you have the urge to go places board a bus and you will enjoy a profi cient shaking up, a pleasant smile from an accommodating gent at the steering wheel, and be kept awake by a matron with a wagging tongue and a rasping voice that like a scythe doth mow you. Or if you prefer being lulled to sleep by rocking in a chair car try the train. Have you a remedy for better ing roads and highways? (NAME WITHHELD) REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS WD—Stanley L Sohka & w to Stanley L Sojka 7-5-52 $1- W% SEV4- EMiSWtt 10-25-10 WD— Charles Ames to E W Brady & wf 7-3-52 $7800- Lot 2 Blk I- Neelys 2nd Add- Atk QCD — Katherine Verzal to Robert & Mary Fullerton 7-2-52 $100- Part of SEy4 32-30-14 WD — Emmet McCaffrey to James F Regal & wf 6-30-52 $1, 600- Lots 1-2-3-4 Blk 18- Haze let’s Add- O’Neill WD—Edwin L Sibert Jr et al to Ludwig V Tagel & wf 5-17-52 $7800- nwv4- wy>NEy4 15-25-10 WD—J T Fletcher to Olive M Fletcher Scott 5-1-48 $1- SEy4 Sec 20-28-9 Subject to life estate of Blanch Fletcher WD—John Miskimmins to W W Freeman 4-4-52 $2000- WJ/2 of east part of Lot 8 in the NWy4 33-30-14 WD—Edwin L Sibert Jr et al to Stanley L Sojka & wf 5-17-52 $5600- wy>SEy4- Ey2swy4 10 25-10 QCD—Anna Grace Parshall to Dell J Parshall 6-27-52 $20- Non No. 7A- Atkinson Sheryl Jo Harley Feted on Anniversary— Mrs. Ralph Beckwith was hostess at a birthday anniversa ry party Tuesday, July 1, in hon or of her granddaughter, Sheryl Jo Harley, who was 3-years-old After playing in the park the children returned to Mrs. Beck with’s home where Sheryl op ened her gifts. Mrs. Palmer Skul borstad baked the angel food birthday cake, which was decor ated with a cowgirl design. Guests were Dennis Wells, Sharon and Peggy Lyman, Bruce °kon, Gary, Mark and Dale Skulborstad, Joan and Andv Riffey, Sandra Coenen, Danny Karen Mike and Gloria Gilstrap and Stevie Harley. P Mothers included Sheryl’s mother, Mrs. Art Harley, Mrs. Joel Lyman, Mrs. Fred Wells Mrs. Palmer Skulborstad, Mrs’ Wes Riffey and Mrs. John Gil Strap. Tune in the ‘Voice of Th« Frontier”, Mon., Wed., Sat. JOHN R. GALLAGHER Attorney - at - Law First National Bank Bldg. O'Neill : Phone 11 State Capitol News . . . Strange Circumstances Leave Nebraska Without Chief Exec During GOP Parley By MELVIN PAUL ,Statehouse Correspondent LINCOLN—This was a quiet week at the capitol. The long Fourth of July weekend, coupled with the republican national convention in Chicago, 111., slowed down the statehouse pace to a walk. As a matter of fact, the GOP convention posed quite a prob lem so far as the governorship of the state is concerned. Gov. Val Peterson is attending the Chicago conclave to cheer on his favorite for the presidential nomination, Gen. Dwight Eisen hower. Ordinarily, his absence would mean that Lt. Governor Charles Warner would act as gov ernor. But Warner is a delegate to the convention. The state constitution pro vides that the speaker of the legislature is next in line but Nebraska legislature has no speaker since Ed Hoyt of Mc Cook resigned to accept a post with the state agriculture de partment. The chairman of the legisla ture’s judiciary committee would be next in the succession line, but since Sen. John P. Knight of Auburn resigned several months ago, that committee has no chair man. That’s as far as the constitution goes in outlining the chain of suc cessors. Actually, nobody here was ex pecting any trouble. * * * Water— Nebraska is currently involved in a contest over water rights which may make dull reading but is of prime concern to irri gators in the rich North Platte valley. Representatives of Colorado, Nebraska and Wyoming met at Denver, Colo., last week to seek a solution to the thorny problem which has been presented by the demands of Colorado that the 1945 U. S. supreme court decree which set up the present water alloca tion basis be reopened. Tentative agreement was reached on a proposal made by Nebraska that Colorado could ir rigate 10,000 more acres than at present and could store 3,000 more acre feet a year. But Wyoming reportedly balked at the proposals concerning the yet-to-be-built Glendo project. At week’s end, nothing definite has been settled but officials here at Lincoln are frankly wor ried the whole thing will erupt in to a major legal action which won’t end short of the supreme court. And if the whole matter is thrashed out again, they fear Ne braska’s position will be nowhere near so favorable as it is now. * * * How Many? — State Auditor Ray C. Johnson last week submitted to the Da kota county board of commission ers a report that the county’s school fund was poorer by some $3,200 because the county judge had suspended, remitted or al lowed to go unpaid that much in fines. The fines ranging up to $200 were for several offenses ranging from simple intoxication to petit larceny and drunken driving. In his own defense, Dakota County Judge Joseph E. Marsh said, “Enforcement of many of our sentences would cause undue hardship on some of the defend ants and their families and in crease the cost of operating the county jail. . Dep. Att.-Gen. William Gleeson took a pretty dim view of this and said, “People who cannot afford to pay fines violate the law at their own peril and no judge has any business violating the law in order to give such persons ‘a break’ from the confinement which the statute directs.” Lawyers at the capitol were wondering how many other coun ty judges are suspending fines. They'll have their answers in Johnson’s county audits. * * * Bogged — The Nebraska editors’ highway improvement committee, com posed of one editor and four oth er men, had little progress to re port this week. After a much-publicized start following a meeting in Kearney two weeks ago, the committee came up with little when it met in Grand Island the following Sunday. About the best thing Chairman Cliff Sandahl could say is the meeting was “harmonious.” Originally, the idea was for the editors to meet to see if they could produce evidence which would convince Governor Peter son he should call a special ses sion of the legislature to deal with the problem. Instead, the idea now is a sort of Panmunjon truce talk business and nobody has mentioned a special session late ly o___j_i.i_:__ _.2. UlUUiU UVIiV.--UtO Ult VlliUg gut out of his control but he thinks it might have been a happy kind of misfortune because maybe the people who have been feudin’ ov,er roads will somehow kiss and make up and Nebraska will again have good highways. * * * Fair — Quite likely you aren’t giving much thought to the 1952 Nebras ka state fair, still almost two months away, but amiable Ed Schultz, the fair board secretary, and his staff are thinking about little else. “I never saw things start so early,” Schultz said. He’s already received requests for tickets and entry blanks. Display space, he said, is all but gone. I know it sounds corny every year to say that the next fair will be bigger and better than ever,” he grinned, “but that’s the truth.” Up to now, nobody can argue that point with hard-working Ed Schulz. * * * Guests — Next week, this reporter will be vacationing and during my ab sence, two good friends have gra ciously agreed to write guest col umns. They are Walter R. Raecke, democrat, and Bob Crosby, re publican, the friendly rivals for governor in the fall election. Mr. Crosby’s piece will appear here next week and Mr. Raecke’s the following week. Each of them will have a message of interest to Nebraskans of both parties. O’NEILL LOCALS Mr. and Mrs. John Kemp of San Francisco, Calif., arrived Fri day to spend the weekend with Mrs. Kemp’s mother, Mrs. Nellie Beha, and other relatives. Mr. Kemp, a Hollander who is train ed as a mechanical engineer is working with Bethlehem Steel corporation at Frisco. Mr. and Mrs. Cletus Durr went to Nebraska City last Thursday and returned Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. George Janousek went to Columbus on Thursday, July 3 and visited at the home of Mrs. Janousek’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Hile, Friday, July 4. They returned home Friday eve ning. Mr. and Mrs. William J. Beha and family of Sioux Falls, S.D., arrived last Thusday to spend the Fourth of July weekend with relatives. Mr. Beha is on the Veterans hospital staff at Sioux Falls and attends Augustana col lege on a part-time basis. Mike Sullivan, a Phoenix, Ariz., insurance company president and a former O’Neill resident, spent Saturday, Sunday and Monday, June 26, 29 and 30, visiting in O’ iNeill. He was enroute to Chi o cago, 111., to Phoenix, having at tended an insurance meeting in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Sulli van returned Monday, June 30, from Excelsior Springs, M a., where they had been staying for 10 days. Mrs. Lod Janousek returned from North Flatte Monday, June 30, after spending three days with, her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Beckwith. The Beckwiths will move to Wallace as soon as they can find living quarters. Mr. Beckwith has been employed by the International Harvester company in Wallace since Tuesday, Juy 1. Miss Audrey Hunt and two friends, Miss Cura Sailors and Miss Helen Head of Omaha are guests in the K. C. Hunt and Earl R. Hunt homes. Mrs. E. W. Devereux and Mrs. J. A. Tubeson of Omaha came on Thursday, July 3, and were guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl R. Hunt. Mrs. Devereux isi Mrs. Hunt’s mother, Mrs. Tubeson is her grandmother. They re turned to Omaha Monday. DR. FISHER. DENTIST. o Charter No. 5770 Reserve District No. 10 Report of the Condition of the O’NEILL NATIONAL BANK I O | of O’Neill, Nebraska, at the close of business on JUNE 30, 1952 Published in response to call made by Comptroller of the Currency, under Section 5211, U. S. Revised Statutes ASSETS Cash, balances with other banks, including reserve balance, and cash items in process of collection $ 779,218.63 United States Government obligations, direct and guaranteed_ 1,865,011.84 Obligations of States and political subdivisions_ 53,251,70 Corporate stocks (including $3,000.00 stock of Fed eral Reserve Bank)-;- 3,000.00 Loans and discounts (including $89.07 overdrafts) _ 488,354.26 Bank premises owned $3,000.00 _ 3,000.00 Total Assets_$ 3,192,336.43 LIABILITIES Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships and corporations_$ 2,667,503.77 Deposits of United States Government (including postal savings)_ 22,124.03 Deposits of States and political subdivisions- 125,382.96 Deposits of banks_ 141,423.96 Total Deposits_$2,956,434.72 Total Liabilities_$ 2.956,434.72 CAPITAL ACCOUNTS Capital Stock: Common stock, total par $50,000.00 _$ 50,000.00 Surplus- 50,000.00 Undivided profits_ 135,901.71 Total Capital Accounts_ 235,901.71 Total Liabilities and Capital Accounts_$ 3,192,336.43 MEMORANDA Assets pledged or assigned to secure liabilities for other purposes_$ 340,000.00 State of Nebraska, County of Holt, ss: I, J. 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