Prairieland Talk . . .
$5-Millions to Be Dumped
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS. Retired. Former Frontier Editor
LINCOLN — Five million of government
dough for a new postoffice for Lincoln. To the
patriots who have survived the homestead shanty
days the present federal building occupying a
half - block on North Tenth
street seems wholly adequate
to the needs of the postal service
and other federal functions
therein having their headquar
ers.
If congress has five million
to drop in the lap of our capital
city there are citizens who are
inadequately housed and some
with no home they can call their
own for whom cottages might be
built rather than laying tile
floors, erecting ornate walls and Remain#
furnishing soft plush quarters Saunders
for public officials who are now amply provided
a spot to perform government service.
• • •
It was on August 11, 1904, Ed Whelan. O'Neill
superintendent and later an agressive la\vyer,
received a wire from Lincoln that he had been
nominated as candidate for attorney general by
the democratic convention and the nomination
endorsed by the populist convention. . . Rev. M.
y. Cassidy, pasior of St. Patricks parish and a
tive in his church work in other communities
reported that summer that sufficient funds had
been raised for the building of a church in Clear
water. . . The marriage of Grant Smith to Grace
Emma Noll was solemnized at Grinnell, la., Aug
ust 11 that year. Mr. Smith was station agent for
the Great Noithern (now the Burlington) in O -
Neill. . . September 13 that year was a busy day
in Judge Morgan's county -courtroom perform
ing official duties thrust upon the court bv Dan
Cupid. That little rascal brought in five couples
that day. four from Brunswick, and Robert Roy
of O’Neill became the husband of Miss Minnie
**ierce of Amelia.
The state university provides tor a iew scnoi
arships from time to time. Through the efforts of
an influential Lincoln woman, one of these schol
arships has been made available to a woman
from the Philippine Islands. In a great church
gathering recently this woman told her life’s
story from the time she was 7 years of age. It
was freighted with human emotions and tears
stained the cheeks of the speaker as she recount
ed the tragedies that beset her pathway from
childhood. The overwhelming sorrow was laid
upon her heart while the Japanese were on the
warpath, took her husband a prisoner and tor
tured him to death. How much heartache has
come to mankind because of the revolting deeds
of evil men! While this woman from those far
Pacific islands was taking life’s beatings she ac
quired an education and is at our university to
get her master’s degree and then return to her
home land as an instructor in a similar institution
there. And the large congregation that heard her
story contributed funds to sustain her while here.
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Senator Knowland threatens to introduce in
congress a measure authorizing our withdrawal
from the United Nations in the event red China
is to become a member. Maybe if they were taken
into the UN they would turn yellow again. . .
"I like soldiering,” a member of the Nebraska
state militia is quoted as saying at the outing in
a camp over in Wisconsin. He should have had
a chance at the pleasure our men have had on
the frost-bitten slopes of the Korean battle zone.
. . . The upper Platte river country has robbed the
center section of its natural heritage. Only the
white dry sand of the bed of the river shows at
Grand Island. The Loup, the Cedar and the Elk
hom wash otherwise dry shores of a thirsty
Platte between Columbus and Fremont. . . White
cottages, green lawns and shaded nooks char
acterize the dwelling places of patriots that make
up the substantial citizenship of prairieland's
towns and villages.
• • •
That night they slew him on his father’s throne,
The deed unnoticed and the hand unknown:
' Crownless and scepertless Belshazzer lay,
A robe of purple round a form of clay.
Sir Edwin Arnold put into verse the story of
the last of the Babylonian monarchs. Potentates
marching down the centuries haven’t fared too
welL Alexander died at the age of 33. Jezebel
was eaten by dogs. Herod by worms. Caesar was
assassinated.' Brutus killed himself, Napoleon
died in exile. Kaiser Bill took to his heels. Hitler
was cremated. Mussolini was beaten to death,
two American presidents were murdered and it
is suspected Stalin met a like end. Stick to it out
on prairieland; your name will not adorn the
pages of historv but you will live to see your
children and ycur children’s children.
• • •
Could father, could mother, could anyone
in whose soul throbbed a single human im
pulse hare been so pitiless es to abandon that
little boy to become bait for the fish? Unbeliev
able savagery.
• • •
Too bad ’t could not have been in the days of
John Harmon. But no doubt some survive in O'
Neill who thrill over the story that the Irish Free
State will commemorate the 150th anniversary
of Robert Emmet by issuing postage stamps bear
ing the likeness of the great Irish patriot. The
demand for these stamps among Americans with
an Irish background may be met by sending 65
cents to the Irish Cachet Cover Service at 947
East 32d street Brooklyn, N.Y. The stamps are
issued in two series, red and green.
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With 220 quarts of good Nebraska tomatoes
in glass jars now on the shelves, four bushels of
peaches in a similar setting, a few bushels of
sweet com and dressed chicken in the locker and
other products cf garden and field in storage,
Alice feels “relief measures for her household
are taken care of for another season.
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By the consolidation of school districts 10
.school buildings with the school properties were
recently sold at auction in a southeast county, the
sale resulting in a little over $500 for each sep
arate school property.
A Nebraska boy survived the prison camps
and Korean war only to come home and be
killed on the highway. Are the public thor
oughfares more dangerous to life and limb than
battlefields?
• • •
I take it Editor Cal has been reading edito
rials of his predecessors at the editorial desk in
the long ago when they wrote in longhand and we
fellows at the cases had to figure it out. Those
were the days if you were on the public payroll
you were legitimate meat for the editorial cleaver.
Editor Cal says O’Neill has had enough of Big
Joe who guards the peace and dignity of the
community at the corner of Fourth and Douglas.
I have been a little amused when visiting my for
mer haunts where the Irish melodies and the
wearing of the green were popular in days now
gone to note that the emblem of law and order
looked me over maybe with the view of identify
ing a big shot the FBI was after. Trust the ed
itor has not been too harsh wTith an otherwise
swell guy who seems to overrate his importance
in this lawless age.
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From away up in Vermont comes the word
that four Nebraska cowrs have topped all records
in milk and butterfat production. Three of these
dairy queens are down at Norfolk, the property
of the state hospital. The other is at Curtis under
the management of the Nebraska school of agri
culture. The record for butterfat production for
a year of one cow at the Norfolk institution is
given at 3.750 pounds, with 108,065 pounds of
milk produced by another cow. The cow at Cur
tis produced 140,136 pounds of milk and 4,723
pounds of butterfat. These figures were given to
the public by the Holstein-Friesian Assoeation of
America.
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We not only lost the war, but the Nebraska
corn crop is a failure. The com fodder makes feed
but little or nothing in the corn belt of the state
to eat it. Farms are void of most everything in
the way of livestock in the section of the state
devoted to raising grain. But there are thousands
of bushels of corn left over from previous sea
sons. though that does not help the fellow on a
rented farm who must depend upon this season’s
crop.
Editorial . . .
Anti-Farm Legislation Ahead?
American farmers, like other occupational *
groups, may some day suffer public disfavor and
cause the enactment of legislation to curb them,
if they do not play fair with the public, according
to Elmo Roper, nationally known public opinion
authority.
Mr Roper points out in the September issue
of Successful Farming magazine that with the
trend toward fewer and bigger farms, the farm
er is becoming a "big operator.” The farmer may
fall into the s;-me public relations “hot seat” oc
cupied by the unions in the forties, when they
were curbed bv the Taft-Hartley act, and by big !
business at the turn of the century and in 1929,
when it was hit by the Sherman and Clayton anti
trust acts.
Roper stresses that American farmers have
enjoyed much general good will and have been
favored with more congressional legislation than
any other group in two decades. Farmers have .
made great political gains as their numbers have
• slumped from one-fourth to one-sixth of the na
tional population.
Roper does not think that comparable legis
lation for agriculture need ever be passed, if
farmers do not act aganst the public interest as
big businesses and unions sometimes gave the
appearance of doing.
So far, there has been no important farm leg
islation of which the majority of farmers did not
approve. Rooer reports. He said that the “potato
scandal, for one thing, might have had far more
serious implications than it did. The butter sub
sidy may give *he farmer an even worse beating
in a public relations sense. Seventy-six percent of
the American people applauded when the dairv
farmers took a legislative beating bv wav of mar
garine-tax repeal.
Roper attributes the political gains of Amer- •
ican agriculture to these reasons:
(11 Since farming is our most essential in
dustry. people feel that they must assure the well
being of those who grow our food.
Tr.e sericulture community has had a dis
proportionately high representation in congress.
(31 Since farmers generally did not share in j
the prosperity of the twenties, the public, during I
the last two decades, felt that farmers needed a
break.
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Editor Jack Lough of the Albion News raises
• question most editors probably ask at various
times. He writes: "Doesn’t it beat all how those
who want their paper to be fair and unbiased al
ways think up a million excuses why stories re
flecting discredit upon themselves 'should be
ditched? Newspapers don’t make the facts they
0aiy print them.*’ !
Pioneer Woman
Grandmother, on a winter's day
Milked the cows and fed them hay;
Slopped the hogs, saddled the mule
And got the children off to school;
Did a washing, mopped the floors,
Washed the windows, and did some chores;
Cooked a dish of home dried fruit,
Pressed her husband’s Sunday suit.
Swept the parlor, made the bed.
Baked a dozen loaves of bread;
Split some wood and lugged it in,
Enough to fill the kitchen bin;
Cleaned the lamps and put in oil,
Stewed some apples she thought would spoil,
Cooked a supper that was delicious
And afterward washed up all the dishes.
Fed the cat and sprinkled the clothes,
Mended a basket full of hose;
Then opened the organ and began to play
"When you come to the end of a perfect day.”
In the interests of national civil defense,
which he supervises. Val Peterson flew to Lon
don to see how the British are managing in
this respect. A strange state of affairs has come
to a supposed enlighten! ed race of men, every
nation feeling the need of self defense.
The concrete paving fever Is catching a-hold
and before snow flies the oT town will have taken
on a right sm^rt dressed up appearance.
CARROLL W. STEWART. Editor and Publisher
Editorial & Business Offices: 122 South Fourth St.
Address correspondence: Box 330. O'Neill, NeLr
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
newspaper is a member of the Nebraska Press
Association, National Editorial Association and
the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
Terms of Subscription: In Nebraska, $2.50 per
ye»ri elsewhere in the United States, $3 per j
/ear; rates abroad, provided on request. All sub- !
scriptions are paid-in-advance.
Audited (ABC) Cirrulatiao—2£00 (Mar. 31, 1953).
Back from Korea
Pfc. Harlan E. Petersen
(above) arrived home from
Korea Tuesday, September 22.
He was separated at Camp
Carson, Colo., after having
been in the army for two years.
He spent 16 months with a
military' police unit. His par
ents are Mr. and Mrs. Pete Pet
ersen of O’Neill. Snapshot was
taken on a street in Petersen’s
military port in Korea.
Old Copy Tennessee
Newspaper Found—
Mrs. Della Eby recently sub
; mitted to The Frontier office a
copy of, The Union Herald, pub
lished at Fayetteville, Lincoln
county, Tenn., June 18, 1862.
The paper was found while pe
rusing some family effects.
Front page first person stories
dwelt at length with the Civil
war battle of Richmond, the at
tack on Charleston and the cap
ture of Memphis.
A “filler” «=tory was entitled
‘Indian Sagactiy” and was an
indictment of the Chickrsaw In
dians.
Regarding the Richmond bat
tle, The Herald said:
“Napoleon never was received
hv his enthusiastic troops with
greater manifestations of delight
than was General McClellan
(North general),” said the paper
| ’McClellan mounted his horse
and rode along the line of his
troops, back-and-forth, until all
the soldiers had a good oppor
tunity of seeing him. This scene
showed that he possessed the
confidence as well as the hearts
of his men. They feel that they
must be ever victorious under his
guidance.”
Frontier for printing!
Many Long-Married
Couples at Page
10 Couples Wedded
Over 50 Years
PAGE—Page, a village which
had a population of 275 when the
1950 census was taken, claims the
distinction of having more elder
ly married couples “per square
mile” than any other town in the
state.
Since September 19, four cou
ples have observed wedding an
niversaries ranging from their
55th to 61st.
There are six other couples
in Page who have been married
50 years or longer.
Mr. and Mrs. Rollie Snell
started the current series. Their
58th anniversary was September
19. They have spent most of
their lives here. Relatives gath
ered Sunday, September 20, at
their home to help them cele
brate.
The 61st anniversary of Mr.
and Mrs. John Stauffer was ob
served September 21.
Their observance was a quiet
one, since Mr. Stauffer has been
confined to his home two years
by failing health.
The same day Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Snyder observed their
55th anniversary. Both are in
good health.
This year they raised a large
garden and canned or put into
freezers several hundred quarts
of fruit and vegetables. A group
of friends honored them Mon
day evening, September 21.
Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Downey
had their 55th anniversary Sep
tember 22. Mr. Downey, 88, is
Page’s oldest resident. He is most
active.
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Stuart News
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Shearer
of Peroc. Ia.. came Friday, Sept
ember 25, and Mi', and Mrs. Man
Ion Shearer accompanied them
on a vacation trip to the Black
Hills and points West. Claude
Shearer is a cousin of Mahlon
Shearer.
Mrs. Mary Henning of Atkin
son visited at the G. L. Ober
mire home and helped her grand
daughter, Brenda Obermire. cele
brate her third birthday anni
versary on Friday, September 25.
Mr. and Mrs. John Henning of
Atkinson were evening visitors.
Pvt. Fred Mitchell is now sta
toned in Korea. His address: Pvt.
Fred Mitchell, US55374393, Btry.
B 1st FA Ohsr. Bn., APO 8, % P.
M. San Francisco, Calif.
Mrs. Alvina Smith of Bartlett
spent the weekend at the Arthur
Runnells home.
Mr. and Mrs. James Nachtman
and son went to Verdel on Tues
day, September 22, to attend the
funeral rites for John Svatos.
Mr. Svatos was an uncle of Mr.
Nachtman.
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Juaracek
and son, Archie, of Star were
Sunday. September 20, visitors at
the James Nachtman home. Mrs.
Juaracek and Mrs. Nachtman are
cousins.
Edwin Sweet, son of Mrs. El
sie Sweet, entered the University
of Nebraska college of medicine
this week as a freshman.
Mrs. Berlin Mitchell and dau
ghter, Lucille, were in O’Neill
Saturday, September 26, on busi
ness.
Miss Faye Moses, student in
Wayne State Teachers college
spent the weekend with her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Moses
and family.
Miss Barbara Moses, who teach
es in Omaha, spent the weekend
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Moses and family.
Miss Doris Pettijohn, Who is
employed in Omaha, spent the
weekend with her mother, Mrs.
Clara Pettijohn.
Miss Marge Chaney, employed
at the Mutual Insurance company
is Omaha, visited at the home of
her mother, Mrs. Earl Chaney
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this weekend.
Miss Marcia Bigelow, student
in St. Joseph's school of nursing
at Omaha, visited at the home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs, Dana
Bigelow and family over the
weekend.
To Hear Story—
Betty Perry will tell a story at
the Golden Keys club meeting
Friday at Emmet. Last week rid
dles formed the entertainment,—
Kathleen Grothe, reporter
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Display and Office
of the
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was Saturday, September 19
in Ainsworth on Highway 20
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Our markers are priced from S35 up.
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guaranteed.
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E FINE CAR
the fine car price
Duplicating America's costliest cars, feature after feature, Ford is wordi
more when vou buv it . . . worth more when you sell it!
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—that the appearance of a Ford Car
leaves very little to be desired. It is
“at home’ wherever it goes and it
goes everywhere.
But what about Ford quality? '
Does it too match the fine car? Is the
sheet metal of the body panels as
thick? Is the finish as good? How
about the trim and things like that?
Well, as far as we can determine, the
sheet metal is identical in thickness
in practically all instances. As to
finish - we believe Ford's bakcd-on
enamel has no equal in any car. Ford
upholstery fabrics and trim are less
costly , but they 're less delicate, too.
and if anything, more durable.
Hov then it it possible to give you
this fine oar at half the fine cm price?
Part of the answer lies in Feed
manufacturing skills and knowledge
as evidenced by the V-S engine. Part
of it comes from the ever increasing
numbers of cars Ford produces and
the economies they make posable
And, part of it coroes from Ford's
willingness to give greater values
than might be exported in CATS s
mg in Ford s price range. And that's
the horn idea.
FORD
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A FEW MINUTES on the tele
phone calling the dealers who
. sell America’s finest cars will
reveal there are at least eleven models
among four makes with price tags
over $4,000!
Now the interesting thing is that
In feature after feature the Ford car
duplicates each of these fine cars, and
for less than half the fine car price!
Look under die hood of the most
expensive cars and what do you find?
A V-8 Engine!
Well, the Ford car has a Y-8, too. In
fact, it has had a V-8 since 1932, and
since that time Ford has built more
V-8's — by millions — than all other
manufacturers combined. And there’s
no other builder in Ford’s price range
that’s seen fit to offer one yet!
But the engine, as fine as it is, is
only one of many things that make
a fine car fine.
Automatic shifting, for example.
All the fine cars offer it in one form
or another because it’s one of the
things that make a fine car fine. But
if you’ve never driven a Ford with
Fordomatic you’ve missed one of the
finer things of life. This amazing
transmission not only does away with
clutching and shifting forever — it
gives you exactly the amount of
power you want, when you want it
—automatically.
Fine car power steering, too. The
big, heavy costly cars offer it for the
same reason they offer power brakes.
It’s a man-sized job for a 120 pound
woman to handle a car weighing two
tons or more without it—especially
when parking. Our “Master-Guide”
has two distinct benefits.
First, it gives a hydraulic power
assist right down at the wheels and
fust enough to take out the work. You
don’t relinquish one particle of con
trol—rather your control is more com
plete and far easier.
Second, being hydraulic. “Master
Gnide” power steering absorbs those
fatiguing steering wheel tremors
caused by ruts and roads in bad
repair. And you don’t pay a fine car
price for “Master-Guide.”
But there is another fine car fea
ture—the Ford ride. Books have
been written on the subject of riding
quality in an automobile, but the
payoff comes on the pavement — or
lack of it! Many people associate a
comfortable ride with excess weight,
but it’s not weight alone that makes
for comfort If it were, those big five
ton trucks which you see every day
would be the most comfortable ve
hicles on the road.
Without being technical we can
tell you that what’s been done with
Ae suspension and springing system
gives the Ford a softer ride, a
smoother ride than many cars which
tip the scales at better than an added
half ton.
What about room? Here's an inter
esting point If you’ve felt that onh
a cosdy car offered enough room, you
just ought to sit down in a Ford even
if you’re out-size and six feet four!
The so-called big car is bigger on the
outside, but unless you buy a limou
sine with those litde jump seats, it's
not one passenger bigger inside.
Visibility is another fine ear Ford
feature. We say Ford cars offer “fuD
circle” visibility because they all have
huge, curved one-piece windshields
and a huge rear window to match_
plus side windows that mean every
passenger gets room with a view!
Hotc beautiful is a Ford? A great
English poet John Keats, once wrote
“Beauty' is Truth, Truth Beauty”—
well, he could have been writing
about our car for its beauty comes
from honest clean lines in every
diroension. In fact, we think most
people agree—even our competitors
LOHAUS MOTOR CO.
PHONE 16
— O’NEILL
