Prairieland Talk . . .
Programs of Men Plentiful
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
Retired. Former Editor. The Frontier
LINCOLN—The churches are busy as rarely
ever before. Bible schools, pulpit preaching, tele
vision, radio, books and papers invite you to read
that which would make you out a sinner in need
of a particular brand of salvation. The simple
plan of redemption is beclouded with a maze of
men’s ideas. Let us see what is
said of the churches of our day
as recorded in the last message
in that volume these Bible
schools have been considering
this summer:
“And unto the angel of the
church of Laodceans write,
These things saith the Amen, the
faithful and true witness, the
beginning of the creation of
God; I know thy works that
thou art neither cold nor hot
... so then because thou art Romaine
lukewarm and neither cold nor Saunders
hot I will spue thee out of my mouth . . . Thou
sayest, I am rich and increased with goods and
have need of nqjhing, and knowest not that thou
are wretched and poor and blind and naked. I
council thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire
that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment that
thou mayest be clothed and that the shame of thy
nakedess do not appear; and anoint thine eyes
with eyesalve that thou mayest see.
“He that hath an ear let him hear what the
o spirit saith Unto the churches.’’
The churches were never more occupied with
the programs of men; never less spiritually en
feebled.
We could not think the editor assumes Fron
tier readers do not know where Chicago is locat
ed on the map when he adds 111. Newspaper guys
take pardonable pride in conforming to certain
rules in getting up their paper. When mention
ing Chicago everyone knows you refer to that
multimillion population center crowding the
shores of lower Lake Michigan. There are a few
little villages known as Chicago. O’Neill has an
imitator out in Nevada. We had on the wall in
the old Frontier bulding a style board that
George Riggs put up for printers to refer to,
which meant a printed list of do’s and don’ts,
what to capitalize, what to express in figures,
what to abbreviate, punctuate, paragraph and
other guides to uniformity of style in which the
force took pride. Printers edited the copy, punc
tuated and changed it to make sense, other than
that which came from the editorial desk. The
conjunction “and” is frequently used in writing.
Some haughty publications now employ the char
acter & as the conjunction. This character was
used only in such combinations as John Doe &
Co. Well, most of we newspaper guys feel that
what we don’t know about it has been rubbed
out.
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Self-appointed guardians of the “rights of
the people” condemn Sen. Hugh Butler for vot
ing as he did supporting the measure to give
western cattle men a chance to survive with their
herds on the public domain. It required courage
on the senator’s part knowing that the cry would
be raised by demagogues of “land grab” by cattle
barons. If the critics of this action knew as much
as they think they do about the grazing situation
in sparsely grassed regions or got aboard a bronc
and rode the range for a season they would have
nothing to say.
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Lawyers often defeat the process of justice.
The Rosen bergs, husband and wife, convicted
as spies and condemned to the electric chair,
had a bank roll available from some source to
secure able lawyers to go the limit to save them
from the penally for the crime of which they
were convicted. Defending a criminal in court
is one thing; contributing to his escape from the
police is something else. Anyway, they lost and
hey*ve made the march to the chair.
• • *
A little under one thousand stepped from
the classic halls of our state university with their
degrees won as students. Other institutions of
higher learning within the state sent forth still
more to take up life’s struggled. And so they
come, hordes of them, from schools in every
states. Some will profit more than others from
education. I once heard a college man say you
must be educated to “get anywhere.” The last I
knew of him he was driving a taxi. Another is a
meat cutter. But what’s wrong with having ed
ucated taxi drivers and meat cutters?
Baseball survives though it is not what it
once was in the realm of entertainment. It has
become one of the country’s commercial activi
ties—a business proposition. At least one Nebras
kan rated among the great pitchers, considered
good enough for a place in the hall of fame and a
paragraph in the encyclopedia. Grover Cleveland
Alexander was born in St. Paul, countyseat of
Howard county, third county south of Holt. May
be, like Bob Feller, he acquired his skill pitching
at a bam door. Of course, there have been many
Alexanders since the days of that Macedonian
who wras conquering the world until the Hercu
lean bowl conquered him. About the time Abra
ham Lincoln freed the slaves, Alexander II lib
erated the serfs in Russia, more than 30 million
of them and established them as landowners. For
this and other measures beneficial to the Russian
people he was assassinated by a Nihilist, as Lin
coln was by a slave driver. America produced a
noted physician, a soldier, an astronomer, an
artist besides a ballplayer among the Alexanders.
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If you kept up with the enactments, repeals,
changes, new laws, amendments, resolutions, etc.,
to the credit or disgrace of the late lamented
legislative session, you are qualified to rank with
John Clark Ridpath as a historian. Guess the
general election still falls in November but the
primary has been shifted to come in May some
times, in August another time; you’re a criminal
if you flip a lighted fag out the car window along
a highway, and don’t engage passage in a bus
over 40 feet long. Maybe it is just as well to se
cure a copy of the new laws if you don’t want
to become a jailbird. And you can’t change your
mind once you have affixed your John Hancock
to a school redistricting petition. But Senator
Carpenter’s measure to outlaw price quoting in
liquor advertising was snowed under. One of
the senator’s private enterprises is supplying
firewater to western Nebraska guzzlers.
Had a pirairieland patriot been doing it he
would have said: Alright, Mr. Rhee, it's your
war; we're going!
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The courts have ruled that public eating
places in Washington, D.C., shall not discriminate
against the Negroes. The courts should have gone
a little farther and ruled that the guy in shirt
sleeves when it’s 110 in the shade can also buy
a meal. . . The story is told of a pet eagle being
taken from its cage to the freedom of the open
country, and returning for the third time to the '■
security of its cage. Even the birds caught the
new deal idea. . . Assessors in the city demanding
to come into your home to see what sticks of
furniture you have being refused admittance by
householders. Is our formerly simple method of
assessing turned into a dictator program that is
going to make anarchists of Nebraska patriots?
. . . Over a published list of members of the Jan
uary 12, 1888, Blizzard club who died the past
year is this headline, “Hallelujah, Praise th^
Lord.”
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Widely separated communities on prairieland
have taken beatings this early summer. In point
of deaths from cruel cyclone visitation the farm
home of the Madsen family near Arcadia, in Val
ley county, was the scene not only of complete
ruin but the horrifying picture of 10 dead bodies
strewn about the place, A family reunion was
being enjoyed at the home when the twister
struck, killing all when the house was destroyed.
Property loss can be replaced, fathers and moth
ers and little children are gone forever. One
family just across the road saved themselves by
taking refuge in their outside cellar, storm caves
the pioneers called them and every family pro
vided themselves with such a place of refuge.
* * *
He was about a 12-year-old. Barefoot, bare
head, shirt tail hanging out over overall waist
on right rear and he hobbled with a limp from a
sore knee. Summertime has come with its trea
sure of scenery, and a 12-year-old barefoot kid
completes the picture.
* * *
Senator Nelson voted with the majority that
defeated a proposed measure to revamp primary
elections and mess things up still further with re
spect to presidential candidates. Presidents are
made in national conventions, not at the Nebras
ka primary.
Editorial . . .
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Rosenbergs Get Justice
Seldom in history have a nation’s courts gone
to such lengths as have those of the United States
with regard to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to
assure that persons charged with espionage
should have every protection of law in the de
termination of their case. The ultimate sustain
ing of their conviction is well borne out by
the evidence, and even the more troubled ques
tion of the death sentence has been answered
and re-answered by the highest appellate tribunal
of a patient nation. Now, they’ve died in the
electric chair.
All this has taken place in no atmosphere of
hysteria or ferocity; it has been a cold, judicial
o search for the right course.
As in every suit, there have been two parties
for whom it was important that justice be done.
One of these was the Rosenbergs. The other was
the people of the United States. The nation, and
indeed the world, must not be rendered impotent
to restrain those who plot its damage. If capital
punishment is ever to be invoked, it is not out of
keeping with a treachery which endangers the
lives of thousands of human beings.
It well may be that the actions of the United
States in this matter need to be better understood
abroad than they are—just as Americans should
realize that others than communists have be
lieved sincerely that the death sentence should be
reduced to some lesser penalty.
But proceeding from the validity of the con
viction, the judgment of qualified authority has
been that the sentence was valid. There must be
power somewhere to make such a determination,
or society is bare before its enemies. National
self - protection demands that other saboteurs
should not gain the impression that spying is
relatively safe or that communist intimidation
can gain them immunity.
The very brassiness of communist propa
ganda over this case tended to make it more dif
ficult for President Eisenhower—if he ever had
any such inclination—to commute the sentence.
Any leniency would have been seized upon by the
followers of Moscow as a victory for their pres
sure tactics over the processes of law. There is
good reason to believe that release of the Rosen
bergs was the last thing Moscow really desired.
If any comparison of systems of justice is
required, the functionaries of Soviet-style com
munism supplied it in East Berlin on the same
day the United States supreme court met to con
sider the final question raised by Mr. Justice
Douglas’s stay of execution. There a Russian army
officer announced that a German workman who
was charged with participation in the riots of the
preceding day but who may merely have been
caught up in them had been sentenced to death
by shooting. The announcement grimly conclud
ed: “The verdict already has been carried out.”
Contrast that with a case in which the de
fendants had ample benefit of counsel, had a
trial of three weeks before *a jury, and enjoyed
the right of appeal to such an extent that the
latest action of the supreme court was its fourth
finding in more than eight months against reopen
ing the case.
Justice may be hard but in the nearly three
years since they were indicted the Rosenbergs
received far more of it than totalitarianism af
fords.
Anyway, the recent legislature did something
the 113 days the session lasted. Seven newspaper
columns were required to list the bills passed.
Legally, there is no longer an undertaker. He is
now a funeral director. If you should feel like
punching the face of one of the senators, better
oe prepared to pay $500 fine for assault and bat
tery or lay out six months in jail. And it is ad
visable to work up a stand-in with the district
judge; the court has been granted additional
“discretion” in granting paroles. Lee, McHutt and
Carpenter were the busy senators cooking up new
things to embellish the law books. And it will
take a pretty penny to embody them in the
statutes.
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Out of Old Nebraska . . .
State Pointing
to Its Centennial
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Controversial
By DR. JAMES C. OLSON, Supt.
Nebraska Historical Society
May 30 marked the 99th anni
versary of the organization of Ne
braska territory—it was on that
date, 1854, that President Frank
lin Pierce signed the controiversial
Kansas-Nebraska act. Come mem
orial day, 1954, then, Nebraska
will celebrate its territorial cen
tennial. The occasion can mean a
lot to Nebraska, if we will let it.
The state historical society now
has a committee at work consider
ing the best way to commemorate
this important event, not only in
the history of Nepraska, but in
the history of tne nation as well.
The Kansas-Nebraska act was
closely bound up with national
and sectional politics in the 1850’s.
The basic impetus for the organ
ization of the territory came from
the needs of the greatly-desired
transcontinental railroad. North
erners were much concerned that
the road follow a northern route.
The Platte valley, over which
thousands of covered-wagon emi
grants had traivelled to the far
West, offered a marvellous road
bed. No one was interested, how
ever, in building a railroad
through unorganized Indian
country.
If the Platte valley were to
be utilized for the transcontin
ental railroad, the territory
would have to be organized.
To help make the dream of a
Platte valley railroad come true,
U.S. Sen. Stephen A. Douglas of
Illinois, one of the project’s most
ardent enthusiasts, repeatedly
introduced bills in Congress pro
viding for the organization of Ne
braska territory. In this effort he
ran directly afoul of southern
ambitions to build the road west
from some city of the south—no
one ever dreamed that there
would be more than one trans
continental railroad.
He also ran into a nasty com
plication regarding the extension
of slavery. By the terms of the
Missouri compromise of 1820,
slavery was prohibited in the
area out of which Nebraska would
be carved. Southern politicans,
unenthusiastic about the organ
ization of Nebraska for railroad
purposes, were downright hostile
to the idea of setting in motion
the chain of events that ultimate
ly would lead to the admission of
another free state into the union,
thus worsening the South’s al
ready dangerous position in the
sectional struggle for power.
In his enthusiasm for Nebras
ka, Douglas agreed to the
creation of two territories in
stead of one, and to the doctrine
of "popular sovereignty." by
which the citizens of each terri
tory would decide for them
selves whether or not they
would tolerate slavery.
Many Northerners were highly
critical of this concession to the
institution of slavery, and “Anti
Nebraska” meetings were held all
over the North, particularly in
the states of the Old Northwest.
Out of these developed the Re
publican party. Out of the con
troversy of which the Kansas
Nebraska struggle was an import
ant part came the Civil war.
4 Members in Star
Sewing Club—
The Steeil Creek 4-H sewing
home. There are four members,
club met Wednesday afternoon,
June 17, at the Elmer Juracek
Judy and Irma Juracek, Janet
Krugman and Barbara Miller.
Mrs. Ewalt Miller is the leader.
They are taking “Let’s Sew” and
are now making dust cloths
which are to be completed by
the next meeting to be held at
the Harvey Krugman home in
July.
Mrs. Juracek served lunch at
the close of the afternoon.
Allen Martin has returned af
ter spending the week in Omaha
and Columbus. He attended the
Nebraska Stock Growers conven
tion while in Omaha. He visited
Mickey Prang in Columbus from
Thursday, June 11, until Satur
day, June 13, when they came
to O’Neill. Mickey spent the
weekend visiting Allen and oth
er college friends here. They
spent a day in Cherry county.
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Sun.-Mon.-Tues. June 28-29-30
Wed. thru Sat. July 1-4
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Star News
Randall and Ranelda Juracek
of Norfolk spent the past week
at the home of their uncle, Elmer
Juracek and family. They return
ed to their home Sunday.
Mrs. Tom Boyd and children
of Omaha are visiting relatives
here this week. Mrs. Boyd is the
former Mable Derickson.
Mrs. Ewalt Miller and Barbara
spent last Thursday afetemoon
visiting Mi's. Bill Hibbs and Rod
dy.
Kay Hibbs visited last week
with Mary Fetrow in O’Neill.
Mrs. Ben Miller called on Mrs.
Ewalt Miller Wednesday, June 17.
Kay Hibbs spent last Thursday
at the Art Benash home with
Becky and Bruce, while Mr. and
Mrs. Benash were in O’Neill.
Miss Joyce Miller and Mrs. Lyle
Walters were hostesses at a wed
ding shower in honor of Mr. and
Mrs. Dean Farrier Saturday eve
ning at Christ Lutheran church
basement in O’Neill.
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Dodd of
Lincoln were Sunday guests at
the home of Mrs. Dodd’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Ewalt Spangler.
A baseball game was played
Sunday afternoon at the Derick
son ball park between Venus and
Star with the Venus team win
ners.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Krugman
and family attended a family re
union at Columbus Sunday.
Lois Miller of Grand Island
spent the weekend with her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Miller.
Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Johnson and
Wayne were Sunday dinner
guests at the Ewalt Miller home
and Sunday supper guests at the
Dave Johnson home in Creighton.
The Steel Creek 4-H meeting
was held Friday evening at the
Charles Cole home.
Mrs. Ewalt Miller and Barbara
spent Friday afternoon at the Lyle
Johnson home.
Arnold Miller spent Saturday
night with Eddie Price in O’Neill.
Ewalt Miller and son were in
Page Saturday on business.
Kay and Rudy Hibbs called at
the Ewalt Miller home Friday.
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Viislors Here—
Mr. and Mrs. Max Paulson of
Sioux Falls, S. D., were Monday
guests at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Don Petersen.
Arrives from P hilly—
Mrs. W. C. Stevenson of Phila
delphia Pa., arrived Friday to
visit her father, Dr. W. F. Finley.
Mary Jo Finley.
Scott Clubbers
Hold Final Meeting—
The Scott Community club met
at the hall Tuesday, June 16, at
8 p.m. The president, Mrs. FranK
McDonald, called the meeting
to order. We sang “When We Get
Together.” Each member de
scribed her wedding dress. There
were 8 members present and sev
en visitors.
Mrs.- Charles Gifford and Lei a
Carson gave a lesson on “Cake
Decorating” and showed us how
to make roses from the frostings
and how to place the colors to
harmonize. Mrs. Charles Gifford
made bells and trimmed them.
She sent a cake to Mrs. Hull,
who is a shut-in. Lunch consist
ed of cakes, sandwiches, tea and
coffee. There will be no more
meetings of the club until Sep
tembed.—By Mary E. Luber,
news reporter.
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Letter to Editor
Brookings, S.D.
June 15, 1953
SUMNER DOWNEY
A man was of no prominence
in the Brookings community un
less his picture had been taken
by Sumner Downey, nor was a
woman to be accepted as a rec
ognized social favorite and ac
knowledged beauty if she had not
posed for his gallery.
To say that he was dean of
our photographers is to do him
less than justice. He was a man
whose sole aim in life was to
create and to create not in the
tradition of the past but only in
the tradition of Sumner Downey.
He knew he was right witn the
same certainty that he knew he
had two hands with which to
create. No one could convince
him otherwise. It did not bother
him—the fact that people tried
to. He was a challenge to the
people who lived on the borrow
ed vision of others. He was an
eccentric and a man to rejoice
in!
He knew his sitters and that
knowledge was refleced in the
portrait, which, when it left his
atelier, became a chronicle, a
document, a part of a man’s:
story.
A great many people will raad
that the end has come with a.
sense that an old friend has been
[ lost—an older day come to its
sunset.
Respectfullv submitted,
PATSY T. HUSMAN
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