Prairieland Talk . .Ik
No Room for Prejudice
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
LINCOLN—Reli',io^s prejudice or prejudice
directed to an indjffioudl, a people or a nation
because of their t^Sgion, has kept neighborhoods,
communities animations at sword points througn
the long swet pwf time. In the final analysis this
is what brought communism into being.
The claarch may have invited it or it may not.
flflaybe »aose Greek clergy got a little arrogant
with t'^e"result that the Rus
sians, Undergoing political ana
social changes^ turned a hateful
on everything of a religious
nature. This feeling is manifest
in some degree most everywhere.
My own neighborhood is
touched with a bit of it. Most of
the neighbors are of one faith.
In came a couple not carrying
the brand. They were received
cordially and helped to get set
tled. Somehow that old feeling
or prejudice that has been the
curse of the race got into their
thinking and they will not have
with others along the street, but will
quarrel if they can, and will not allow their lit
tle girl to play with the children of the neighbor
hood. Too bad for the little girl. But maybe that
newcomer mother ran into something that turned
her against all the others on the street.
Prejudice is the outgrowth of closing the
mind to all the facts. It erected a cross on Calva
ry’s hill, burned victims at the stake, started
witch-hunting and made fools out of otherwise
sane individuals. “Hatred stirreth up strife: but
love covereth all sin.”
There is no room for prejudice if we but
wrap ourselves in the mantle of charity for the
other fellow, the sort of charity that “suffereth
long and is kind, envieth not and vaunteth not
itself.”
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Earthquakes during the past 10 years took
the lives of 50.000 people and left 120.000 home
less.
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Soil conservation has become a fad. Trust it’s
not commercialized excessively. The few farmers
I contact in the com and wheat country pass it
off with a smile when conservation is mentioned
—apparently satisfied to harvest an individual
crop of anywhere from 10 to 15 thousand bushels
of grain by the farmer’s method he has tested in
a life time on the farm. The ancients had a simple
method of conservation. Every seventh year they
did not plant a crop. They seemed to make out al
right judging from the daily allowance for King
Solomon’s household, which consisted of 30 mea
sures of fine flour, 60 measures of meal, 30 head
of cattle, 100 head of sheep, some deer and roe
buck meat and “fatted fowl.” Qf course, that wise
man had something of a household to provide for.
His discerning eye had taken a fancy to a thou
sand Oriental ladies whom he must keep well
fed, beside the retinue of retainers.
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High in the heavens the full moon rides
across the prairieland sky as the month of March
has drawn to a close in a gust of wind. Trees are
taking on the emblems of renewed life, front
yards are putting on their summer robes of green
and early blooming plants are adorned in gold
and crimson colors. Back yards, garden grounds,
farm lands have been invaded again with plant
ers and gardening tools. Seeding time and then
the harvest. Out across the far-flung landscape
industrious citizens sow in hope. Nature blooms
again in shimmering shades on peaceful prairie
land, our favored realm in a troubled world. And
so once more down the highway of time nature
blooms forth in regal glory, flowers giving a
touch of color and fragrance to the scene, birds
and insects on the wing, while men growl over
high taxes, bad roads and scheme to put their
plans over.
O’Neill’s colony of Syrians, now a memory,
furnished one couple that provided a little ex
citement in Judge Morgan’s county court. It hap
pened the day after the big celebration of Inde
pendence day in 1902. Maybe they became over
charged with the American spirit. At any rate,
Mrs. William Staphen had her husband arrested
for striking her. Staphen had a little store on the
north side of Douglas street, having come here
from South Dakota. At the hearing in Judge Mor
gan’s chambers the accused denied beating up on
his wife and defended himself by saying, “She
talk too much—me no like that.” He had not yet
discovered that it’s the prerogative of American
women to always have the last word. Judge Mor
gan fined him $25 and the next morning he board
ed a train for parts unknown, leaving Mrs. Sta
phen and other interests to shift for themselves.
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Fifty years ago this month the O’Neill
Knights of Columbus council was organized with
a membership of 70. Knights from Sioux City and
Omaha were in O’Neill in numbers and perfected
the organization, were regaled with a big feed at
the Evans. The local Knights still carry on their
functions, though many of the original group have
died. . . Three patriots were taken to court that
year charged with illegal voting and one of them
soaked for a $25 fine and costs, not having resid
ed in the ward the required length of time when
he voted. . . T. V. Golden sold his residence on
Kid hill that spring to Mike Gallagher for $2,000.
. . . Jake Pfund went to Neligh and contracted for
the brick for the building to house his mercan
tile business at Third and Douglas streets. . . .
One bottle of Chamberlain’s cough remedy at P.
C. Corrigan’s was said to cure a “severe attack of
the grip.”
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Maybe they know more about agriculture in
those Rocky mountain states than appears to a
prairieland dweller travelling the desert trails.
Somehow, our great farming and ranching inter
ests as expressed in the federal department of
agriculture have been in the hands of first one
and then another, not from the country’s bread
basket, but from the mountain states. Possibly
the wheat and corn and grass would make a go
of it without this official oversight.
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A member of congress from Indiana is boost
ing a proposal for a federal toll highway to hook
up with the Pennsylvania turnpike and cross the
continent to an undetermined Pacific coast point.
Nebraska would logically be on the route of such
an undertaking. Toll roads may yet be the solu
tion of the much mooted highway problem.
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Hemoglobin levels—if you know what that is
—affects six million American women from 18 to
59 years of age. In other words there are that
many of them anemics. And 20 million of us,
gents and ladies, are classed among the deaf or
hard hearing.
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The Frontier is one of the 13 Nebraska pa
pers listed by the Nebraska Newspaper, organ
of the State Press association, which have re
ceived awards in newspaper making the past
few years.
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McCarthy in the United States senate and
Carpenter in the Nebraska unicam give a touch
of drama (or is it tragedy?) to otherwise staid
routine sessions.
* * *
One unionized group asks for an increase in
pay, sidestepping the old alibi of living costs
but that they are giving the bosses an "in
creased output."
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Of the many jobs a president can hand out,
the judicial robe of a federal judge is about the
choicest.
Editorial . . .
New Crusade
Gen. Maxwell Taylor, who succeeded Gen
eral Van Fleet as commander of the Eighth army,
had an interesting comment to make the other
day on soldiers as men of faith, according to a re
cent issue of the Christian Science Monitor.
Impressed by the number of chapels he saw
along the Korean front, he declared that people
at home might be surprised to see the extent of
the soldiers’ interest in things spiritual.
Men of the sword, he continued, had propa
gated much of the Christian faith, particularly
during the Crusades; many cathedrals were built
by feudal barons who were leaders of soldiers.
And today, he concluded, the United Nations
forces are in Korea “because we believe there is a
better world we con construct through our efforts
as soldiers.”
To this high-minded evaluation of the Al
lied soldiers and their purpose in Korea, The
Monitor added a further distinction. There is one
great difference between the “crusade” of today
and the “holy war” of earlier centuries. War it
self is now generally regarded as essentially un
Christian, as (at best) a necessary expedient in
the defense of freedom rather than a glorious vir
tue in and of itself.
To the pacifist who condemns war under any
and all circumstances this may seem a small dis
tinction; but to the Christian soldier in the front
lines it may represent the difference between ac
cepting the hideous destruction around him as
part of God’s plan for the world and seeing it as
the necessary cost of humanity’s failure to avail
itself, collectively as individually, of the higher
law of God.
The guns with which he resists the enemy’s
aggression are not the instruments of Christianity.
But the courage and faith he may find in a bunk
er chapel—or in his own heart—these are the
Christian weapons with which the good soldier
may help to wipe war from the earth. .
0 Death and Taxes
Nothing is certain, it has been said, except
death and taxes. In China, according to a report
by the official newspaper of the Chinese com
munist party central committee, Peiping People s
Daily, the two inevitable facts of life are being
more closely linked. Hundreds of peasants are
committing suicide because of high taxes, the pa
per admits, but one wonders whether the concern
expressed is for the death toll or for reduced tax
collections.
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The Missouri river on Easter Sunday this
year was a model child compared to its violent
behavior of a year ago when the worst flood
of the century swept down the Valley. The snow
blanket in the Dakotas this winter was negligible
compared to several feet of snow in 1952.
Next comes the special election on O’Neill’s
proposed 40-thousand-dollar swimming pool.
Balmy skies abetted Easter paraders in North
Nebraska cities and towns.
Tragedy Averted — Barely
George Hammond, the “Voice of The Fron
tier” announcer, seldom preaches, but on Mon
day’s program he unleashed a two-minute denun
ciation aimed at careless motorists he encounter
ed on a holiday trip.
Saith George:
“It isn’t often that the Hammonds—George,
Dorothy and the three kids—venture out on a hol
iday jaunt on the highways. And, I believe yes
terday’s trip from South Sioux City, was our last.
“Of all the gol darned crazy fools at the wheels,
we met them all!
“There was one fellow who was determined
to commit suicide. He attempted to pass us only
when there was a tight squeeze. Out in the open,
where there was lots of room and we were taking
it easy to encourage him to pull around, do you
suppose he’d do it? No!
“Then, we encountered a half-dozen fellows
on the last lap, between Orchard and O’Neill, who
had no idea what the floor button is for—the
button that dims the lights.
“Oh yes, and in the hills, I must tell you about
the enormous big truck that lumbered by us at
no less than 70 miles per hour. We were doing 45
and the traffic was heavy.
“I think there were at least four instances
when our Easter holiday trip might easily have
been tragic. And, brother, that isn’t fair. Because,
in those four instances, anyway, an accident
would not have been our fault—except that we
had no better sense than to venture out on the
highways on a holiday.
“Next Monday morning we’re going to preach
on beer cans and alcohol bottles along the road
side ...”
Communist peace gestures, under Russia’s
new Czar Malenkov, amount only to new strategy.
The overall real objective probably is unchanged.
How under the sun can Nebraska’s tax situa
tion become more muddled than it already is?
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Girls’ State Choice
Miss Mary Chvala (above),
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pete
Chvala of Monowi, has been
selected as the Lynch high
school girls’ state representa
tive in June. She is a junior.
Highway 108 to
Get Resurfacing
6.4 Miles on U.S. 281
Also Allowed
Announcement of an award of
a contract for resurfacing state
highway 108 south of Page was
made last Thursday by State
Engineer L. N. Ress.
Francis R. Orshek company of
Fremont is to receive $74,620.21
for rebuilding the 4.4 miles of
bituminous surfacing.
Nine contractors bid on this job
at the March 26 letting. Two of
the bids were below the depart
ment’s estimate of the cost, Ress
said. Orshek’s bid was $3,140.21
less than the next low bid and
$13,121.20 beneath the high bid.
According to the working sched
ule set by the department of roads
and irrigation, the contractor is
to begin operation by May 11 and
complete his construction within
75 working days. Sundays, Nebr
aska legal holidays and days when
the weather or soil conditions pre
vent operations are not counted as
working days.
Within Page, the new surfacing
is to be 47 feet wide, extending
to the existing curbs and gutters.
The rural width will be 22 feet.
All of the resurfacing will be at
least five inches thick. Some of
the existing bituminous surfacing
will be torn up and soils and
sands will be added to the bed to
improve the foundation.
When bids were asked for this
project, the highway department
announced that this road had the
lowest rating in the emergency
category of any bituminous sur
faced highway on the federal
aid secondary system in field div
ision eight.
A contract for resurfacing U.S.
highway 281 for 6.4 miles north of
St. Libory also has been awarded.
Robert M. Stump of Lincoln,
has tne contract and made a low
bid of $13,186.90 for the hot-mix
resurfacing. Seven firms bid on
this job at the March 26 letting
and four of the bids were under
the highway department’s esti
mate of the cost of the work,
Ress said. Stump’s bid was
$3,494.90 under the closest bid
and $28,766 beneath the high bid.
The contractor is to begin his
work by May 19 and complete it
within 100 working days.
The hot-mix is to be three in
ches thick and 24 feet wide. It
will be laid on only one lane at
a time, with one-way traffic
necessary only in the immediate
vicinity of the lay-down machine.
One important factor which
lowered the rating of this road,
Ress said Thursday, is that since
1949 it has cost twice as much
per mile to maintain this high
way as the average mile of bit
uminous highway in the state.
Ress pointed out that the three
inches of resurfacing will have a
cost per mile of nearly $14,600,
compared to a $6,800 cost per
mile for a three inch thick stab
ilized base and a two inch thick
bituminous mat laid in 1937.
Head for Omaha’s
Ak-Sar-Ben Meet
ATKINSON— Mr. and Mis.
Jasper Hitchcock left Atkinson
this week for Omaha where they
will be through the Ak-Sar-Ben
race meet, which starts next
month.
The Hitchcocks have 12 horses
—several of which have been
wintered at Atkinson and others
at Harrison. Mr. Hitchcock left
Monday with the horses and Mrs.
Hitchcock left Wednesday with
their house trailer.
They will be joined by Wendell
Leeling of Harrison, who made
his home with the Hitchcocks for
several years prior to army duty.
A veteran jockey, he recently re
turned from overseas and has
been separated from the service.
Wendell is well-known in the At
kinson and O’Neill communities.
Frontier for printing!
On Florida Trip—
John Bowen, w'ho is attending
Southern Methodist university at
Dallas, Tex., recently went by
air to Florida with the universi
ty ROTC band to witness an air
show on April 1. They stopped at
New Orleans, La., traveling both
ways. He will be touring the
southern states with the univer
sity chorus later this month.
HEARD AND SEEN
With its siren open, a fire
truck tore through the Sutton
streets. Then it stopped at the
fire station and the driver
jumped out—to brag about the
new truck he was delivering to
Wauneta.
Star to Meet—
The regular meeting of Sym
phony chapter 316, Order of
IT .
Eastern Star, will be held tonight
(Thursday), 8 p.m.
Dr. Rex W. Wilson,
M.D.
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O’Neill
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It Happened In NEBRASKA—
Range feuds between big cow outfits and “dry farmers” wrote a
vivid chapter in Nebraska history. When the farmers put up fences
to protect their acreage, big cattle raisers often cut them down.
Then farmers would retaliate on the range fencing of the cattle
men. Near Kearney in the ’80’s, it was common for both sides to
send out masked men to cut down “enemy” barriers.
Today a more law-abiding Nebraska is NEBRASKA DIVISION
typified by its tavern industry. Approved , _
and respectable tavern operation is no u ” otates
longer the exception; it's the rule—thanks c F retJe^s
to a continuing educational program by ,,ou„- foundation
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There’s an old saying that a thing is worth
what someone is willing to pay for it. Well, if
you could tour the wholesale and retail used car
auctions around the country, if you could survey
hundreds of used car lots you would discover that used
Fords bring higher prices than any competitive
make—and by substantial amounts.
THAT’S WHY we feel our ’53 cars should
not be compared with cars in the same price
range. Not because our competitors don’t do
a good job—obviously they do—but because we
feel Ford Cars have more in common with the
highest priced automobiles. The similarities are
far greater than the differences.
For example. Today, the most expensive cars in
this country have V-type, 8-cylinder engines. Ford
Cars have had this exact same type of engine for
over 20 years.
What’s more astounding, the current Strato-Star
V-8 sells for hundreds of dollars less than several
other makers charge for a six-cylinder car. Now
there’s nothing wrong with a Six but they do cost
less to make. Ford makes a Six—the most modern
overhead valve Six in the industry. And if it’s a
six-cylinder car you want, Ford has it and for less
money than the V-8, which is as it should be.
What about ride? Here’s another Ford similarity
with high-priced cars . . . Riding Comfort. One of
the misconceptions for many years has been that
weight—sheer weight—is what it takes to make a
car ride well. Ford has found that you can make a
3000-pound car ride softer and hold the road
better by far than many cars that weigh a full 1000
pounds more. In the ’53 Ford, for example, front
end road shock has been reduced up to 80%. We
say it compares most favorably with the heaviest
cars sold today.
What about automatic transmissions? It
would take the fingers of both hands to count the
various kinds of automatic and semi-automatic
transmissions on the market today. The one we
offer is called Fordomatic. It is the most versatile
on the market, it represents the most profound
consideration of engine-to-wheel power transfer—
and that it does the best job for our engines isn’t
even open to question. It "shifts” better than you
could shift by hand.
What you can see is also important. Here
again Ford Cars lead not only in their price field
but in the medium and upper brackets as well.
Ford visibility is Full-CircU Visibility. This means
huge, curved unobstructed glass area, front and
rear, plus side windows that allow all passengers
what the hotels call "room with a view.”
Appearance? A higher price, of course, does not
make a car more beautiful. Conversely, beauty in a
Ford comes "for free.” Ford has found that it
costs no more to develop a beautiful car than one
that is less pleasing in appearance. You can drive
up to the most exclusive doorways in the world
and feel perfectly at home in your Ford. Fords
"belong” ... in exactly the same social category
as the finest, one-of-kind creations. After all, a
Ford is a custom creation multiplied.
What about running costs? Here’s one place
that Ford’s advantages are obvious. For oil and gas
economy Ford has the big cars whipped. Ford
parts cost less. Ford service charges are less. Ford
tire mileage is thousands of miles greater. And,
Ford depreciation is the lowest of any car on the
market—bar none.
What are Fords made of? Some people have
the idea that the costliest cars are made of "better
stuff.” It’s true that some high-priced cars have
costlier upholstery and fittings. What Ford has is
so good, both in durability and appearance, that
you probably could not tell the difference. You
might even prefer it, because of its better design
and more pleasing appearance.
Then there’s the question of sheet metal. If you
were to measure and analyze the sheet metal
structure in the most expensive car, you most
likely would find it identical in thickness to the
cqrresponding panels in Ford.
After all, then, what is the difference
between a Ford and the costl t cars?
In our opinion, the difference is largely a matter
of dimensions, weight (and the power required
to move it) plus the distinction of owning a car
that not so many other people own. The desire
for these tilings is understandable . . . and probablv
justified for people who are willing to pay the
price to satisfy it.
As to comparing Ford with other cars in its
price range, by all means do so if you wish. But,
as we said before, you’ll get a better picture of
l ord value by comparing with cars that are most
like fords—those that are priced up to twice as
much. In fact, we think you’ll quickly begin com
paring the other cars with Ford—because the 195.1
Ford has really established the New Standard of the
American Road.
’53 FORP
Worth more when you buy it . . .
Worth more when you sell it . • •
Lohaus Motor Co.
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