o Prairieland Talk . . . Undertakers Keep Busy 8 By ROMAINE SAUNDERS LINCOLN—It is appointed unto man once to die, an irrevocable decree. I have in hand a learned treatise on what medicine has done to prolong life. Very good, but somehow the under takers keep busy. Doctors find means to defeat one thing that cuts down human life and a new thing develops. Moreover, what advantage is it to prolong ex istence beyond the productive ° period of life? Today I saw two snow white heads in one of those institutions where sons and daughters place or abandon their aged parents, one of these snow white heads being a man 87 , ! years of age, the other 97, a T2omainP, physicians of many years service, / now mentally and physically maunders faded away as he lay upon his bed, waiting the hour when the now feeble heartbeat throbs its last. He will leave a daughter and sons serene in the consciousness that their father had left to them the heritage of an unusual span of years of right living. The aged, those in middle life, the young and those in childhood are swept away by the remorseless hand of death. But whether or not medicine has added a minute to the span of years what we put into it and what we get out of life is the real meaning of it all. AAA He got back last night from California, a big Swede who has been tailoring and putting up big buildings in a suburb of Lincoln for 40 years and pronounces Nebraska his unqualified choice over anything in the Pacific coast states. . . Three men each lost a hand in com picking ma chines the same day a young gent down by Hum bolt husked 238 bushels of com by hand in 11 hours—and still has his two hands. . . Continued rainless days with forest fires in many states have brought an order from the federal forest setup to close the 30,000-acre tract of trees of human planting in Thomas and Blaine counties. . . Eighty-four people in the U.S. are killed or badly injured by fires every day, smoking in bed ac counting for most of them. . . Harpers Ferry, where John Brown touched off the spark that started the war between the states, is in the cen ter of a tract of land lying in the three states of Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia out of which it is proposed to make a national park. . . A guy out at Albuquerque, N.M., hammers out ladies’ hats from thin sheets of iron and has cus tomers in Hollywood and New York. They say they wear like iron. If Mrs. Charley Hall was still around town she would be the envy of some O’ Neill ladies. * * * Probably in these days of inflation you fel lows who get 650 for one animal are not sitting as pretty as Jim McAllister did a half century ago when he sold 10 Holt county bred register ed young Galloway bulls to a rancher from Bil lings, Mont., for just that—$650. * * * O’Neill has had a number of notable visitors, but doubtless few if any who were in the picture in 1901 will recall the visit of George M. Sheehan of Boston, Mass., editor of the Hibernian, who was in the community a few days looking the country over as to prospects for further coloniza tion. He was accompanied by a Boston friend and they were interesting themselves in finding homes on Nebraska prairies for some of the over-stocked population around Boston. Their visit here did not result in any large influx of home seekers in the O’Neill community. About that time some from Russia came to Holt county and secured lands in the Stuart neighborhood and to the northwest of O’Neill. * * * A legislative committee promulgates the idea of annual sessions of our law-making body. Some Nebraska patriots think once in five years would be better. Maybe the bounty on coyote pelts holds no special inducement or hunters are after some thing they can roast over the campfire. At one time a Niobrara paper reported that a gent over that way one day brought into the office of the clerk of Knox county 71 pelts and got the bounty of one dollar each pelt. For the week that this haul was made 101 pelts had been received at the clerk’s office and for the year 450 pelts indicated the reduction of the prairie wolf population by that number. . . Looks like Old Sol will take care of “watershed” worries for awhile. . . As of Octo ber 30 there were 285 traffic deaths in 10 months in 1952, or 15 more than were reported for the same period in 1951 in Nebraska. . . Anyway, the two candidates for governor of Nebraska conduct ed clean campaigns and treated each other as gentlemen. . . Rev. D. C. Winship mentioned in The Frontier as the officiating clergyman at the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Burch at Central City in 1902, 'was pastor of the Methodist church in O’Neill in 1887-’88 going to Oakdale from O’Neill. I hauled with a team and wagon the Winships’ earthly goods to the railroad to be loaded into a box car. • * • A section of the capital city which aspires to be a swank neighborhood has a Sunburst Lane and a Bryan Circle. Now they ask the city council to adorn the landscape with fancy • doodads. WWW If men, women, children and babies will each chip in $1,800 we can wipe out that national debt of 282 billion dollars. Who will pass the hat? . . The Greek Orthodox church people are opening a two million dollar cathedral in Los Angeles, Calif., where devotees of everything known to man as objects of worship may be found. . . A carro of 633 monkeys from the jungles of the Phi^-mine Islands has been brought to the United States to be experimented on with the hope of f'-ding a cure for polio. . . One Nebraska patriot, writing of the honored gent he was voting for for president, says he was “cut in the mold of Georye Washington.” Wonder if he also has to his credit a riiopoed down cherry tree. . . The Cham ber of Commerce down at Wilber is invited to send a delegation to O’Neill n°xt time to get some tips on ruling nancake batter. Only be tween 500 and 600 Saline county patriots turned out for the annual nancake feed in their county seat. a A In a spirit of humility, sensing the grave re sponsibility, Mr. Truman took over upon the death of Mr. Roosevelt and the public felt a wor thy successor had become president. Four years ago he who had inherited the office of chief ex ecutive was then elected. That went to his head. At the polls last week the sovereign citizens of America repudiated the new-fair deals and a cloud settled over the democratic party because of the dead weight of the Truman administration. No, the democratic party is not dead: neither would the republican party have ceased to exist had this election been lost to them. The sweeping victory places upon republicans to whom the country now looks a responsibility we believe will be met courageously and honestly. * * • A portion of it in North Dakota and a por tion in Manitoba is the International Peacs Garden. Upon the cairn are inscribed these words: "To God in His glory, we two nations dedicate this Garden, and pledge ourselves that as long as men shall live we will not take up arms against one another." * * * We have been feeding ourselves for the past six thousand years and now professional cooir stove artists forge out a livelihood by going about the country putting on “demonstrations.” * * * The fundamental purpose of too many organ izations that use the farmer as part of the setup's name is to farm the farmer. _ Editorial ... Provincial View of Ike From this provincial corner of the midlands it might be appropriate to evaluate briefly the future now that Dwight D. Eisenhower, the war hero, is the overwhelming choice of the American people as the next president. Holt countyans and northcentral Nebraskans won t notice much difference for the first year or so, it’s our guess. On domestic issues: Ike’s agriculture platform favors price sup port to the tune of 90 percent of parity. He probably will make an effort to abandon the latest income tax hike that went into effect a year ago. His stand on FEPC already is well-known and, while it isn’t an issue in the cow country, all observers are aware that his stand cost him the Negro support. A wholesale shakeup in the state department and in several hundred agencies is bound to pro duce a wholesome effect. Any governmental dynasty built up over 2t) years needs new' blood and fresh ideas and the new deal-fair deal crowd will be turned out forthwith—the express will of the people as evidenced by the November 4 bal loting. Korea? The war will either be expanded broadly or we’ll pull out. We’ll' predict the status quo won’t long exist. The defense department? Ike steadfastly has refused to turn his back on Gen. George C. Mar shall, whom The Frontier, anyway, holds respon sible for manifold mistakes. Therefore, t Ike’s re vamping of the military brass won’t be as drastic or thorough as many republicans might hope for. Anyway, not as sweeping as if Sen. Robert A. Taft or Gen. Douglas MacArthur were the presi dent-elect. From The Frontier’s provincial periscope we see the Ike tidal wave not necessarily as a tribute to the general’s generous grin. Americans signaled emphatically for a change—a departure from the dark road toward socialism. On the eve of the recent election, Bill Froe lich, jr., a versatile interim employee awaiting the navy’s beckoning (he’s now at Great Lakes), and the editor boiled the election issues down to what they believe were the basic facts. It was Bill’s contention that Americans would vote from the heart. It was our belief they would vote from the belly. The editor had seen evidence of where fas cists had taken over by default when tables were set better (in Germany) and trains bfigan running on time (in Italy). That was not too many years ago. We were fearful the “you never had it so good” attitude would prevail and the grand old party would be ready for the funeral orations. But the editor was wrong and Bill was right. Americans voted from the heart. And cow coun try mothers and fathers in effect said they would exchange five - cent beef for the return of their son or sons from foreign wars. Laborers like $2.25 per hour wages but they, too, would • take less “for a change.” Eisenhower has a big job and not too envi able a position. These formative days of building a new government are very important—more important, perhaps, than the first year or two af ter the inauguration. The Frontier entertains certain misg4vings concerning some of those men whom Ike most certainly will be obliged to appoint to high, im portant offices. We believe his chances of success in the light of world history will be considerably greater if he thinks twice before handing political plums to Messrs. Thomas A. Dewey, Henry Cabot Lodge, the young internationalist, and others who have been repudiated by the people. The greatest popular vote in history ever ac corded a presidential candidate cannot be cred ited to his political background or know-how. President-Elect Eisenhower is almost a political accident who awakened one morning to find that he’s in the role of a Moses. We wish him God-speed. O’Neill’s two prep football teams have wrap ped up the 1952 season. Now we can devote al most exclusive grid interest to two important en gagements for the University of Nebraska Corn huskers: Minnesota, November 15 at Lincoln; Oklahoma, November 22 at Norman. Mild weather has been a boon to O’Neill builders this fall. New homes continue to go up, lots of improvements are being made, and a rash of new sidewalks is noted. There were skeptics who predicted that the new St. Anthony’s hospital is too big. We noted 26 patients in the 35-bed capacity hospital one day this week. And the hospital has been open for business only seven weeks. --— The prolonged moisture lack in northcentral Nebraska already has broken a 54-year record. Editorial ft Business Offices: 122 South Fourth St. 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. AH subscriptions are strictly paid-in-advance. | State Capitol News ... j bovernor-idect Would Remove Public ! Health, Patrol from Present Departments LINCOLN—Robert 6. Crosby ! won’t become governor of Nebras ka until early in January but he was preparing to plunge into the complex duties otf the chief execu tive by serving a whirlwind ap prenticeship for Nebraska’s No. 1 political job. His first chore is one of the toughest faced by any governor— preparation of a recommended budget for the legislature. The governor-elect has been invited by Gov. Val Peterson to sit in on the budget hearings starting No vember 24. These are sessions at which heads of various state agen cies explain to Tax Commission er Philip K. Johnson, Governor Peterson and Budget Supervisor Paul Wagner the reasons for seek ing the amounts they have. * * * Reorganization — One of Crosby’s principal con cerns, once he takes office, will be the preparation of a program before the 1953 legislature. He has indicated that high on his priority list will be reorganization plan for state government. He has outlined his thoughts on this subject, in a recent inter view: “It is my belief that all tax collecting functions should be in one department. The appropri ate department is the tax commis sioner’s office. In addition to the duties he now has relating to taxes I would want to withdraw from the department of agricul ture the collection of cigarette taxes and the colelction of motor fuel taxes and place those in a finance and budget department headed by the state tax commis sioner. “It is my belief that public health functions can be handled most efficiently if placed in one department. Therefore it would be my recommendation that the state activity that involves the in spection of restaurants and hotels and rooming houses should b© withdrawn from the department of agriculture and placed in the public health department. "I think to most people it is quite apparently ridiculous ior any employe ot the department of agriculture to be calling on a hotel, measuring the sheets to make sure they are 90 inches long as required by state law. “It has seemed to me that we can have the most efficient opera tion of a department of agricul ture if we permit the director and the personnel to concentrate at least most of their attention on problems of agriculture. Natur ally, in a state like Nebraska where agriculture is the basis of our economy, we want a well or ganized department of agricul ture. Therefore, if it can be done under the constitution I would like to transfer the activities that involve inspection and regula ions of grain warehouses from the railway commission to the depart ment of agriculture. “We have in Nebraska what is called a highway problem. It is one of the most frequently men tioned issues in this campaign. It has seemed to me that we could expect the best performance from our highway department if we al lowed this director, the state en gineer and the personnel to con centrate their attention on high way problems without being dis tracted by unrelated problems. Therefore, I would like to with draw the state safety patrol, j whose function is one of law en forcement, from the highway de partment and place it either in the department of justice headed by the attorney general or in a department of administration un der the governor. “Pursuing the same line of thought with respect to the high way department I would like to withdraw the activity that in volves the supervision and reg ulation of irrigation from begin ning at the west end of Nebraska and continuing at least half way across the state from the high way department and place it in a division within the agricultural department because it relates, of course, primarily to agriculture and the problem of irrigation THE SMOOTH ’N GOLDEN MELLOW BREW! • All around the country you hear people sing ing ...singing out for Falstaff... singing Falstaff s praises. Because Falstaff is so smooth... so golden...so mellow! The Choic est Prod uct of the Brewers' Art/ ' falstaff brewing oorf.. St. Loots, Mo.. Onate, Nobr.. New Orloaao, La. V farmers. "11 would be my hope lo ef fect some consolidation of the testing laboratory activities in Lincoln. 1 am told that we now have a testing laboraiory in the department of agriculture, a testing laboratory in ihe depari ment of healih. a testing lab oraiory in the highway depart ment and one or two testing laboratories in connection with the university in Lincoln. The possibility of consolidating some of the testing laboratory functions in two or possibly one well equipped laboratory recom mends itself to me as one way of effecting economy. “In the last 10 years the num ber of automobiles owned and operated by the state has prob ably doubled or more than dou bled. And frequently I hear com plaints from citizens that the state is not getting the maximum in good use out of its automobiles. Therefore, I would like to effect an automobile pool so that one au tomobile that is presently, per haps, assigned to a department that uses it only a half or third of the time could be used by several departments when needed.” * * * New Faces — There will be some new faces in the Nebraska legislature next January. The voters decided that last week when at least four in cumbents bit the dust, to be joined perhaps, by three more af ter the official county canvassing boards meet. Sen. Thomas A. Adams of Lin coln was beaten by a political unknown, Howard Britt; Sen. Herman Wellensiek of Grand Is land lost to Joseph D. Martin of Grand Island; Sen. William Hern of Chadron was trounced by J. Monroe Bixler of Harrison, and Sen. Carl Lindgren of Campbell lost to Dr. William McHenry of Nelson. bull not out of the woods were Sen. H. H. Kreutz of Giltner lock ed in a ding-dong battle with ex Sen. Lester Anderson of Aurora; Sen Charles Wilson of Norfolk, running against William Purdy, a Madison farmer, and Sen. Ed Lu sienski of Columbus who was having a tough time with Robert C. Brower of Fullerton. Wilson appears to be the victor by a narrow margin. O’Neill’s State Senator Frank Nelson was handed another term by an handsome margin—indicat ing he was ably representing his constituency. * * * Sales Tax? — A state sales tax for Nebraska got one of its strongest boosts in years last week with the release of a report from a legislative council committee which has been studying the state’s over-all tax problem for months. The report was frankly critical of the present property tax meth od of supporting state and local government and ticked off four major shortcomings: 1. That real estate pays a greater proportion of the state’s property tax burden than do some forms of personal property, since a large part of the intangible property and of certain forms of tangible personal property, such as stocks of merchandise, grain in storage, etc., escape the tax rolls altogether, or are assessed at a small fraction of their actual value. Some other forms of per sonal property, notably motor ve hicles and livestock, are assessed at a greater proportion of actual value than is real estate. 2. That while virtually all real estate is assessed for tax purposes, there is some inequality as be tween classes of real estate by virtue of the fact that farmlands, insofar as averages go, are as sessed at figures more nearly ap proaching their sale value than is true of city real estate. 3. That great inequalities in tax burden are found as between individual owners of the same classes of property. Cases are found in which two properties bring substantially the same price , on sale, but one of them is as- 1 sessed at a much higher figure than the other. Some of this in ROYAL THEATRE — O' NF’LL — Thursday, November 13 Family Night MY SON JOHN Starring Helen Hayes, Van Hel lin, Dean Jagger. Powerful, dram atic! Shocking! The FBI wants John—Alive. . . The enemy wants h'm—Dead. The suspense story of our times about the nation’s most notorious scandal! Family Night $1.00; Adults 50c Children 12c Fri.-Sat. Nov. 14-15 M-G-M’s new drama of Scot- ; i land Yard’s Master Manhunt! Walter Pidgeon (for the first time as the famous private eve!) CALLING BULLDOG DRUMMOND Co - starring Margaret Leigh ton, Robert Beatty. The thrilling case of the com mando gangsters! Exclusive. The first time on the screen! Thrills! walkie-talkie raiders. Radar rob bers! Adults 50c; Children 12c. Matinee Sat. 2:30. Children under 12 free when accompanied by parent. Sun.-Mon.-Tues. Nov. 16-17-18 Ray Bolger in Warner Bros’. WHERE'S CHARLIE Color by technicolor She’s a he—and he’s a howl. It’s that 2-year-run laugh’n song sensation of the stage hilarously brought to the screen by Warner Bros.! Adults 50c; Children 12c. Matinee Sunday 2:30. Children under 12 free when accompanied by parent. Wed-.Thurs. Nov. 19-20 Family Nights DOUBLE DYNAMITE Jane Russell, Groucho Marx and Frank Sinatra. TNT tunes! “It’s Only Money” Kisses and Tears.” Everything goes double when Jane and Groucho start foolin’ around! Family Night $1.00; Adults 50c Children 12c equality arises from the fact that , the original assessments were not made on a scientific basis and some of it from the fact that prop erty values have changed rapid ly during the last 10 years, with no corresponding adjustment in assessed valuation. 4. That while most citizens in the state ultimately pay their taxes, some others escape, at least in part, through the simple procedure of failing to pay. Be cause of the fact that some coun ty treasurers fail to issue distress ! warrants, and some sheriffs fail to serve them, a great deal of personal property disappears or is removed from the taxing jurisdic tion without having paid any taxes. Because of the failure of some county treasurers and at torneys to bring action against delinquent real estate, the taxes may go unpaid for 20 years or more until the property is worth ■°ss than.the amount of delin quent taxes. Much of the loss, however, results from circum star~°s beyond the control of the taxing authorities. This is notab ly true of motor vehicles, which „rr> r_.,,ed in March kut may -c moved from the state before the tax ’• : it i , f • I '; J U ![• ; , | U |/l j M It’s The Most Beautiful New Be Soto Ever Introduced! j $ j COME SEE IT! BRAND NEW STYLING! 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FIRE DOME V-8 and POWERMASTER SIX' a SMITH MOTOR CO. jr PAUL SHIERK, ManagerV.!^f Phone 562 — Fourth & Fremont Sts. — O’Neill .„... . . 79 REGISTERED 79 HEREFORDS AT PUBLIC AUCTION O’Neill Livestock Market O’NEILL, NEBRASKA Show 10:00 A.M. — Sale 1:00 P.M. 'A onday,Nov. 17 54 bulls: 51 of serviceable age. 1 Herd Sire, 47 long yearling bulls, 2 yearling bulls, 1 short yearling bull, 3 bull calves. 25 females: 5 bred cows, 2 bred 2 yr. old heifers, 13 bred long yearling heifers, 5 open long yearling heifers. WHR’s, Silver Knights, North Stars, Regents, Mischiefs, Stanways, Dominos, Baca’s, Royal Dukes, Paladins, Asters, Prominos, T O's, Pioneers, Blanchards, Lamplighters, Caldo’s. Bred females are mated to Proud Mixer 31st, FA Baca Pioneer, Eclipse 3. Midway Larry and Baron Dandy 7th. Cattle will be judged. Animals lacking quality and breed characteristics will be sifted and WILL NOT BE SOLD. Come early and see the cattle judged Holt County Hereford Breeders’ Ass’n. For Catalog Address: JAMES W. ROONEY. Sale Mgr.. O'Neill, Nebr. CHARLES CDRKLE, Auctioneer BENTON MARSHALL, Crawford, Nebr., Judge ROSS MILLER. LAURENCE BULLER. HI MACKEY, Fieldmen