Prairieland Talk ...
Tints of Autumn Touch Land
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
LINCOLN—The bloom of summer has faded
and the tints of autumn touch the land. Foliage
turned to gold and stardust falling from denuded
treetops, drifting clouds across
the heaven’s blue, changing col
ors from sapphire to jasper tints;
the chill at dawn and the quiet
twilight hour, stars looking
down upon peaceful prairielana
from out of night’s purple vel
vet. The winds of this autumn’s
rainless days scatter dry leaves
and roll the tumble weeds into
the fences. The sun rides its
flaming chariot above prairie -
land as it did a year ago arid
countless autumns before and
the quiet hills of the great lands
are there unchanged.
Pride, greed, ambitions—the things that de
mand so much of us fade into the background as
we look out upon the pictures October days have
brought into the majestic charm of prairieland.
“Then open your eyes to the treasures close.
The tumbled gray and the bar of rose,
And the sea of pearl before it goes.”
* * •
Get out the vote! That organized efforts are
needed to get citizens interested enough in their
government that they will go to the polls and cast
their ballot is something new to our country. At
one time everybody was a statesman, discussed
the issues learnedly and nobody thought of miss
ing the opportunity to vote and if a fellow did
he felt as bad over it as if he had lost his wife.
Whether the political lethargy on the part of so
many citizens can be explained by a spirit of sat
isfaction or disgust with what is, or merely an
indifference to it all is not a good sign. When
American citizens have not interest in public af
fairs enough to go and vote the way is open for
the introduction of many evils in government.
Let’s keep the politicians afraid of us, making
them aware we do not stand for monkey business
and if we feel it is necessary “vote the rascals
out.”
“ * * *
Up the street a couple of blocks from where
the typewriter turns out “Prairieland Talk” is
the community’s banking institution. Everybody
goes to a bank, either to take in or carry away
cash. I stood at the bank comer a few minutes
this morning. In and out they went—a well-dress
ed lady, an ordinary housuekeeper, a girl from a
cafe a few doors down the street, clergy, profes
sional men, scholars and students, white, black
and yellow, the weatherbeaten gent in overalls,
the superannuated old guy and even a police offi
cer. Reds and patriot, saints and sinners — the
bank tellers get a look at them all, take their de
posits and cash their checks. It’s a great institu
tion that touches the lives of humanity in all stra
tas of society.
* * *
Political speeches this presidential year were
heavy with promises. Promises of an easy life and
material things. Yes, we want our daily bread,
but “man shall not live by bread alone.” We want
the freedom to go and come and operate in all
honorable and honest realms of endeavor without
official supervision, educate our offspring as we
see fit, buy, sell, plant, rent and live our lives
guaranteed the basic freedoms that make a man a
man. These things, things of our innermost souls,
are what Americans want. Let a Yankee have a
free hand unhampered by federal restrictions and
swamped by taxation and he will take care of the
material needs.
* * *
The retirement of George W. O'Malley as
collector of internal rtvenue and closing of
the Omaha office doesn't mean elimination of
any taxes. Just a consolidation move. In the
long ago a Holt county man. Clarence Selah,
held that post. Mr. O'Malley was a Greeley
county citizen.
* * *
Amish people in Indiana, Ohio and Pennsyl
vania are continually hounded by authorities be
cause these people want their children in shools
of their own. As a#class there are none any more
desirable citizens; industrious, peaceable and
above all attend to their own business, not telling
the other fellow where to head-in. Southern Ne
, braska has a group of these folks and their
neighbors of other religious strains speak well of
the Amish. All they ask is to be let alone. But
there is always some guy who wants to set you
straight
* * *
Every dog has his day. So they have folded
their tents like the Arabs and are ready for a
quick get away when others will take over at the
white house. That’s been going on since George
Washington packed his wigs and snuffbox and
went back to his Virginia home.
The state univeristy head push wants a few
more millions out of the taxpayers. They have got
into the habit down the£e of holding out the bas
ket expecting the rolls of currency to be tossed
in. At one time the head of the university, draw
ing less than $5,0(10 a year, was voted a raise and
declined to accept it. A vanished American. And
there is a lot of overdue taxes on Nebraska lands
and town lots. In one% northeast county over
toward the Missouri river it required three news
paper pages to publish the delinquent tax list this
year. In that county one tract of 30 acres has over
$1,200 taxes against it, and some as much as $1,600.
What think the taxpaying patriots of the call for
more millions coming from the classic realm of
overstuffed educational centers? Oh, our great in
stitution of learning must not be let down, cry the
highbrow adorers. I wonder if it would not be
helpful for us all to bring our educational insti
tutions down to earth.
* * *
Union labor bosses don’t cut much ice in Ne
braska but they do a lot of ranting. Down at Nor
folk a gathering of fellows from labor locals was
held, the chief object of which seemed to be to
talk politics, tell how to run the country, and rave
at the GOP that hasn’t had a thing to do with it
the past 20 years. The legitimate field of activity
for union officials is to promote the welfare of
the men of the organization. Mr. Gompers was
the best labor ever produced to promote the inter
ests of unionism. Results in recent years in a few
states in which labor bosses took a hand in elec
tions showed that the rank and file of labor
union men do their own thinking and vote as they
deem best.
* * *
A weatherworn citizen who works for his
daily bread was painting to us a glowing picture
of the times when any nitwit draws $2 an hour.
When his attention was drawn to the background
of $2 an hour times — times drenched with the
blood of American boys fallen in battle on foreign
soil, of the desolated homes, the tears and heart
ache of fathers and mothers and young wives, of
three times in a generation the tread of men to
the drumbeat as they march away to fight and
bleed and die in distant lands while such as he
stay at home and draw $2 an hour from industry
to keep the war machine going, he hung his dis
illusioned head and walked away.
* # *
Football, of which I know as little as the
next one, is it for the moment. I don't know
whether the fans flock to the arena to relax
from the daily grind or to blow off steam.
Something like the rodeo—one or more of the
huskies generally is picked up and taken to a
hospital.
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There are said to be a couple thousand
CIO’s in Lincoln. Some of the more progressive
ones among them, maybe merely the restless
fellows, got themselves resolved into a committee
which proposes to “improve the working condi
tions” where their members get the pay checks.
Whether this means more and better productive
effort and more pay has not been made known
to the interested spectator. I see where a few
thousand employees of one of the big airplane
plants in California thought to improve working
conditions by going out on strike. Result: Return
ed to the jobs and were out three weeks’ wages.
* * *
The following item is from the October news
letter from the office of the Nebraska Library
commission: The Wahoo public library board re
ceived $25,000 from the estate of Jake Hetrick. The
money is to be used to aid in the construction of i
a public library building to be dedicated to “the
pioneers of Saunders county who came here and
stayed.” The- state association of librarians met
at Kearney three days ending October 18 when
those interested in library work in Nebraska,
Arkansas, Oklahoma and Colorado were in session
for three days.
• * *
Two notable events took place in O’Neill
last month. The opening of the health center
found something less than 2,000 interested ones
making up the group on a tour of personal inspec
tion of St. Anthony’s. That was a sizable crowd
to take an interest in an institution for the ill’ of
the community. But that pancake feed! How
the throngs gathered at the cake baking from
morning until night. Of course, there is induce
ment in the lure of something to feed your face
though you may not relish thinking about going
to a health center with the gout. Remember
Mother Eve!
♦ * *
Maybe somebody is sorry he spoke. Sen.
Nixon’s $18,000 campaign expense fund looks in
significant beside Governor Stevenson’s $172,000
pile. Anyway, making an issue of whistle stop
expenses sounds pretty silly in view of national
matters of real concern to Americans.
Editorial . . .
Comes Now Another Board
On November 4 Holt county voters will join *
with others in the state in voting “for” or
“against” a state board of education.
While the plan was being readied for the bal
lot we gave the measure the benefit of the doubt.
We reasoned the highest education office in the
state should be above politics and affairs of the
state office could be better-managed by an elec
tive six-member board (non-salaried), and the
board would function much like the university
board of regents.
Then came the word from the proponents:
Let’s get away from the elective superintendent,
a hors and-buggy custom; let’s call the state su
perintendent a commissioner and perch him above
the currents and eddies of state political life;
let’s . . .'
There has been little or no opposition to the
amendment on the surface. Apparently it has the
blessing of both Robert Crosby and Walter
Raecke, republican and democratic gubernatorial
candidates, respectively.
We weren’t unduly concerned with the mat
ter until in a round-about way we learned that
at least some of the enthusiasts for a state board
of education also have enthusiasm for a county
board of education. This, of course, would tend
to eliminate or at least neutralize the rural
school, town and city school boards. We under
stand such a measure one day soon will be un
wrapped.
The Frontier is quite certain that rural
school boards are quite capable of running the af
fairs in their own districts. And, if they are not,
another election or two can change the composi
tion. We are champions of the home rule proposi
tion at the lowest level. Enough authority is
drifting to Lincoln and Washington without ev
erybody getting on and kicking it along. For
th"t same reason we’ll support the supervisor
and township form of government for Holt coun
ty, too, in a showdown.
If the state school board amendment is a
prelude to the county board school rule, and we
have reason to think that it is, then we’re
against it!
Roosevelt’s Own Words
Even the democrats should vote republican ,
in the year 1952, if they’ll read between the lines |
of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s words uttered in
1932.
Here they are:
“For one reason or another, even a wisely led
political party, given long tenure of office, finally ,
fails to express any longer the will of the people,
and when it does so fail to express the will of the
people, it ceases to be an effective instrument of
government It is far better for such a political
party, certainly better for the state, that it should
be relegated to the role of critic and that the op
posing political party should assume the reins of
government.”
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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
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Attend Funeral of
Ireland Ambassador —
Mr. and Mrs. G. C. DeBacker
went to Omaha Tuesday to be
present for funeral rites Wed
nesday mornine for Mi's . c
er’s cousin, Francis P. Matthews,
U.S. ambassador to Ireland. Mr.
Matthews died unexpectedly Sat
urday morning, the victim of a
heart attack.
The late Mr Matthews was a
prominent Omahan. He was ac
tive in financial circles and was
secretary of the navy in Presi
dent Truman’s cabinet prior to
accepting the role of ambassador
to Ireland—which had been a
lifelong obieetive.
Th^ late Mr. Matthews had fre
quently-visited in O’Neill.
Letter to Editor
Editor:
It is becoming apparent that
communism is a calculated long
r,,isre program designed to drain
the resources of the rest of the
world, to set the stage for a Chi
nese conquest of the wheatfields
and farmlands of Europe to feed
its hungry millions.
WILLIAM R. SULLIVAN
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
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To Radio School—
James DeBacker, son of Mr.
and Mrs. G. C. DeBacker, grrived
Sunday evening at Biloxi air
force base, Miss. He was acting
sergeant for a group of recent
inductees being transferred to
Biloxi.
INSTITUTE THIS WEEK
Holt county city and town
schools will be closed today
(Thursday) and Friday for the
annual two-day teachers’ insti
tute being held in a half-dozen
Nebraska cities.
Robert Tubbs of South Sioux
City was here from Wednesday
to Sunday, October 8 to 12, vis
iting his uncle and aunt, Mr. and
Mrs. C. H. McManus.
ATKINSON
Every
MON. and TOES.
Sale Starts 10:30 A.M.
MONDAYS
Calves and Lightweight
Yearlinos Will Be Sold
TUESDAYS
All Other Classes of Cattle
Will Be Sold
This will enable us to handle
your consignments better and
sell them at a better hour during
the heavy marketing season.
List your cattle early so we
have them on our list for coming
sales and can advertise them
throughout the eastern cattle
feeding states,
WE WILL HAVE THE BUYERS
Your consignments will be
appreciated
It’s Your Privilege
To Vote!
One of the most cherished
rights which we, in this free
land of ours, possess is the
right to vote as we please.
It’s like choosing the church
we attend and raising our
families as we wish.
All good citizens exercise
their right to vote as a
prime duty of good citizen
ship, and your neighbor, the
tavemman, is no exception.
He, too, exercises his right
by going to the polls.
In other ways, too, your tav
emkeeper is a good citizen.
He carries his share of
the responsibilities of local
government; he is a gener
ous contributor and taxpay
er; he maintains a home,
and spends money with
local merchants.
He is an important part of
your community.
NEBRASKA DIVISION
® United States
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Foundation
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otate Capitol News . . .
Junking of Educational Lands f*:ard
Is Prised by Young Senator
LINCOLN — A six-momber
! committee of the legislative
council, research agency of the
Nebraska legislature, has sub
mitted a series of recommenda
tions to the 1953 session concern
ing the administration of the
state’s 1,600,000 acres of school
lands.
The committee, headed by
young Sen. Robert D. McNutt
of Lincoln, proposed the junking
of the present board of educa
tional lands and funds and re
placing it with an agency created
by the legislature. The board,
now charged with administering
the state’s educational endow
ments, is made up of the govern
or, state treasurer, attorney gen
eral, secretary of state and state
superintendent.
To create a new agency, how
ever, would require a constitu
tional amendment, so the com
mittee proposed that in the
meantime, the board employ a
manager or director of school
lands to be paid a salary com
parable to other department
heads. A 1950 legislative coun
cil committee made a similar pro
posal but nothing was done
about it by the last legislature.
The McNutt committee also
called for an end to the present
system which permits the board
to consider mailed bids after a
public auction has been conclud
ed but before the board has
granted final approval.
Another suggestion was that
the board be given authority to
require its permission before a
lessee could install improvements
on school land. “It has been alleg
ed,” the committee said, “that
some lessees place improvements
on the land for the purpose of dis
couraging other bidders.”
The committee voted against
selling the school lands and re
jected the contention of the
Nebraska School Lands associa
tion that the counties in which
the lands are located should ad
minister them with the income
retained in those counties. An
attempt by the association to
place such a proposal on next
month’s ballot faile because of
insufficient petition signers.
McNutt’s group reported there
is no “practical alternative” to J
selling the leases at auction and
that 6 per cent appears not to be
“an unreasonably high rental
figure.” Twelve-year leases, the
committee said, should be given a
longer trail before changing the
lease term.
* * *
Going Up—
The University of Nebraska
laid its request for a 1953-’55
appropriation before Gov. Val
Peterson last week. It asked for
state tax funds totaling $16,356,
003, a 31 per cent increase over
the $12,500,000 granted by the
1951 legislature.
Peterson said he didn’t want to
“pass judgement” on the request
until he’d had an opportunity to
discuss it at length with Univer
i sity officials, but he told capitol
newsmen:
i
!
f “It had been my hope that all
state institutions in the coming
biennium would be able to oper
ate within the sum apporpriated
for the 1951-’53 bennum.” Flick
ing through his budget messages
to the last several legislatures, he
noted that the University’s ap
propriation had risen steadily
from $4,833,000 in 1945 to this I
biennium’s $12,500,000. Other
state agencies, of course, have
risen as well.
Chancellor R. G. Gustavson had
explained that more than half
the increase was due to inflation
and that the lion’s share of the
boost—if it’s granted—would go
to bolster the program at the col
lege of medicine and University
hospital in Omaha, where, he
said, there is a risk of losing the
American Medical Association’s
accreditation blessing.
Peterson observed, "I appre
ciate that as inflation continues,
it takes more of today's cheap
dollars to do the job. And I am
certain that the medical school
needs to be strengthened and
improved."
Gustavson said the budget re
presents “an honest and conscien
tious effort to solve the problems
of rising costs and stronger sup
port” for several university pro
grams, principally in medicine
and agriculture.
Peterson noted that if the uni- j
WALTER R.
RAKKE :
DEMOCRAT FOR I
GOVERNOR
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Will give sound,
faithful and im
partial “On the
Job” Service
Versity has to have a 31 per cent
increase the other three of Ne
braska’s Big Four spenuing agen
cies—assistance, highways andj
board of control — “can find
equally strong reasons for in
creaes.”
• * *
No—
The Nebraska railway commis
sion last week thumbed down the
application of Northwestern Bell
Telephone Company for a rate
increase in the state.
The commission by a vote of
2-0 dismissed the company’s
request for a boost which would
permit “a fair and reasonable re
turn’’ on its investment. Commis
sioners Richard Larsen and Har
old Palmer signed the order.
Commissioner Joseph Brown was
campaigning with the Republican
Caravan when the case was be
fore he Commission and .did not
participate in the onier.
The ruling said that “neither
the public nor the applicant nor
the commission has had sufficient
time to judge the impact of a
February increases” which the
company won.
Battling the increase were the
Omaha Grain Exchange and the
Nebraska Grain and Feed Dealers
; association.
Still before the commission is
a similar application by the
Lincoln Telephone & Telegraph
company.
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HARRY COPELAND
BASSETT, NEBRASKA
CANDIDATE FOR THE
NEBRASKA STATE LEGISLATURE
Holt, Rock, Boyd and Keya Paha
Counties
Your Support Will Be Appreciated
AUCTION
104 HEAD STOCK AND DAIRY CATTLE
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30
— AT 1 P.M. —
The sale will be held on the farm which is 6 miles Northwest
of Tilden on gravel and then % mile North on dirt, or, about
9 miles Southeast of Neligh.
32 HEAD OF DAIRY CATTLE
11 Holstein heifers coming with 1st calf; 4 long yearling heif
ers, 1 Holstein & 3 Holstein crosses; 10 Holstein milk cows
coming with 2nd and 3rd calves; 15 months old good breeding
Holstein bull; Jersey cow coming with 3rd calf; roan cow
coming with 4th calf; 2 black faces coming with 2nd & 3rd
calves; red Shorthorn coming with 3rd calf; HolsteimBrown
Swiss coming with 4th calf.
46 STOCK CATTLE
28 Herefords coming with 2nd calves, bred to Hereford bull;
2 Hereford yearling bulls; 4 long yearling steers, 1 red white
face, 2 blacks, 1 Holstein; 6 short yearling steers, 5 black white
face, 1 red white face; 2 yearling heifers, 1 red and 1 roan;
Hereford 1st calf heifer; brockle-face cow coming with 4th
calf; brockle-face heifer coming with 2nd calf; black white
face coming with 1st calf.
16 SUCKLING CALVES & 10 BUCKET CALVES
Inspect these cattle any time, a good offering of cattle right
off the farm. If you need replacement stock cattle or dairy
cattle, don’t fail to attend this sale. Each head positively sells
to highest bidder. * •
Stuart Investment Co. & Faye Primus,
OWNERS
FORME BROS. B FIBRE
321 Sharp Bldg. Lincoln, Nebraska Phona 2-7045
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