Prairieland Talk . . .
Ike Pledged End of Secrecy
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS. Retired. Former Frontier Editor
LINCOLN—For the most part I have been
able to go along with Senator McCarthy in his
thankless efforts to rid the goivemment of dis
loyal elements.
And certainly citizens everywhere who voted
to that end at the last presiden
tial election feel about as he
0 does when he says:
“I want to point out to the
president that he and I and
many others of us campaigned
with the promise that if the
voters would remove our dem
ocratic friends and give us con
trol of the government, we
would no longer have govern
ment by secrecy, coverup and
whitewash." Romnine
• • • Saunders
Building programs should provide an addi
tion to the country to make room for the auto
mobiles . Someone has remarked that for one
young person interested in the atomic age there
are ten thousand interested in the comic age.
Freedom of the press is just something that isn t.
... Are you a Methodist, a Catholic, a republican
or a democrat because dad was? . . The ban on
the sale od' liquor has been lifted at 79 of the 900
military posts in this country. . . A 12-story school
building costing two and a half million dollars is
beng planned for Chicago, 111., by Roman Cath
olic officials. . . The motto on the silver dollar
that Teddy Roosevelt thought should be dropped,
"In God We Trust,” is to be added to the eight
cent postage stamps, the rate of postage for over
seas mail. . - Lincoln is to have one more place
where the spellbinders and keynoters can cut
loose. After years of wrangling over a location,
the supreme court says it must be built where
designated in the proposal for voting bonds, so
the big building will be going up at N street
between 15th and 16th. where now something
less than a million automobiles are parked.
• • •
July 31, 1906, Swan and Wyoming precincts
had an election scheduled to vote on the proposal
of a bond issue to raise funds for the Midland
Central railroad, where was never heard the toot
of a locomotive. . . The postmaster and merchant
prince of Dixon, S.D., was convicted that year in
the district court at Fairfax. S.D., of horse steal
ing. . . Miss Kate Mann, an early day teacher in
the O’Neill schools and later connected with the
J. P. Mann stores, died in August that year, as
did the grandmother of Archie Bowen, Mrs. E. F.
Bowen. . . Mrs. F. C. Gatz and daughter, Mrs.
Clift, spent a fortnight with friends in Columbus
that summer. . . Walter Campbell, appointed
poundmaster, warned citizens that any and all
cattle caugnt running at large in territory within
his jurisdiction would be impounded. . . Ryland
Parker was out in the Shoshone country with a
view of hanging his sombrero up in Wyoming
but came back to his native land and still abides
with us.
* * *
Subscribing to a creed, which is joining a
church, at the order of cupid may not mean a
thing.
* * *
Sunshine dispels the shadows, rain encour
ages, snow peps you up, wind carries away un
pleasant odors. There is no bad weather—just a
variety to break the monotony. I talked with a
bona fide dirt farmer today. Rain fell in his
neighborhood last night and he said his broad
acres had never looked better. And another pic
ture is that of the windblown patriots in three
southwest Nebraska counties whose denuded
fields now mock them. Had the virgin sod been
left to the tread of cloven hoofs they might
now have had herds of $390 cows instead of
nothing. But they must have help and none
know it better than those who remember the
summer of 1894 in Holt county.
Down he gangplank of our scnoois marcne.
the long procession of graduated young men and
women, some from high schools perhaps to make
up the student body in colleges, and others to
plunge into the activities of life to win for them
selves an honest livelihood. Another group of
professionals has bid farewell to the university
campus and goes forth to compete in life’s stem
battles. We have become an educated people,
the worthwhile in education overshadowing in
the long run the superficial and frills. Schools
are here to stay and education marches on, but
life’s anchor forever rests upon your good sense
and moral values fortified by human bravery.
* * •
The ruling of the federal supreme court that
outlaws segregation in the public schools brings
out the bristles in some Southern states. The
fault, if such there be, is not with the finding of
the court but in the amendment to our federal
constitution dealing with the subject. Instead of
hotheads in some localities defying our supreme
court they can take action to have the provisions
of the constitution altered so that segregation,
desireable in some communities, may be done
legally.
* * *
There are two and a half million Jews in
New York City, about the combined popula
tion of Nebraska and Wyoming. And that s
more Jews than came out of Egypt in 1491 B.C.
* * *
How far shall we go with respect to any ob
ligation to the DP’s? Native sons applied for
jobs at a Lincoln concern and didn’t get work.
Along came two DP’s and were given jobs by the
same concern. First the employer considers his
own interests. A foreigner will work for less
than a native £\nd the paymaster does not have
to bother with the social security and withhold
ing tax when employing noncitizens. This is a
situation the labor unions may deal with.
♦ * •
The spirea hedge rows are arrayed in white
glory these radiant mid-May days, contributing
a luster to the floral tribute to another season
of growth and beauty. Nature’s adornment is an
array of colors upon which there play the lights
and shadows to unfold the loveliness in bud and
bloom. Among bush and shrubs there is nothing
hardier than the spirea and when the green of its
luxuriant foliage is spread over with the white
bloom you may know that summer is just around
the corner.
* * *
A lady was at the steering wheel as the car
came down the driveway and turned to head up
the street, when a front wheel went into the
ditch over which the driveway passes. Sliding
out from behind the steering wheel to get help,
the fair driver said: “I didn’t know the driveway
was so narrow; but I found out.” That’s one
way to learn.
* * *
On May 14 Alice served her first installment
of homegrown radishes—grown from seeds plant
ed by her own capable hands. Now the house
holds look forward to the day when the red ripe
tomatoes can be plucked from the vines.
* * *
“For God sent not His Son into the world to
condemn the world; but that the world through
Him might be saved.”
* ♦ *
The ladies having put on breeches for street
wear and general utility, maybe men will be per
mitted to come out garbed in skirts.
• * *
“No man can avoid his own company — so
he had better make it as good as possible.”
* * •
If you stand for nothing you will fall for
anything.
Editorial . . .
Questionnaire For Senate Hopefuls
Howard Buffett, Omaha investment banker
who served four terms in congress as a repub
lican representative from the Second congres
sional district, has formulated six questions for
U.S. senate aspirants. He says the questions en
compass vital foreign policy issues and maintains
that “every honorable candidate for the senate
should be willing and anxious to declare his
position.”
These are the questions, as published last
week in the Human Events newsletter supple
ment:
1. Will you vote for one of these alterna
tives; (a) to cut military spending to balance the
budget, or (b) to increase taxes to achieve that
goal?
2. Will you support the Bricker proposal to
prevent the chief executive from nullifying con
stitutional law by treaties or agreements with
foreign powers?
3. Will you favor or oppose any legislation
that would give over to the United Nations any
power to control our government or our citizens?
4. Will you favor or oppose the continuation
of peacetime conscription when the present
peacetime draft law expires in 1955?
5. Will you introduce or, if already intro
duced, support legislation to renounce and termi
nate the status of forces treaty (putting our sol
diers in foreign lands under the jurisdiction of
foreign countries)?
6. Do you favor or oppose the current mil
itary policy of attempting to police and finance
the non-Russian world by levies on American
youth and American wealth?
Everybody’s Rain
(Guest editorial from The Nebraska Signal,
Genera)
Whenever you hear someone say “it surely is
cold today,” “my isn’t that a terrible wind,” “it’s
a nice day, today,” or something along that line
you usually feel he is just passing the time of
day and that his mind isn’t on what he is saying.
When, however, you hear someone in Ne
braska approach a farmer after a nice rain and
ask: “How much rain did you get?” you can mark
it down that isn’t just idle conversation. He
probably wants to know.
Which leads us to observe that in agricultural
communities drouths or threatened drouths dem
onstrate the close economic and social bonds that
necessarily exist between town and rural people.
This explains why all of us expectantly await a
reply when we inquire: “How much rain did you
get out your way?” Your rain is everybody’s rain
and let’s never forget it.
& -—
‘Be Different — Be Courteous’
O’Neill’s problem otf youth driving, we
imagine is no worse or better than that of any
other town ir this area. To think of young folks
nowadavs brings to mind immediately automo
biles and driving around the streets. A few years
ago, youth w'as associated with bicycles, but
times have changed, and cars are now the popu
lar means of transportation.
We have no quarrel with young folks who
drive automobiles. In fact, we believe that on
the average they are aware of traffic laws and
abide by them more than adults.
But we do think that excessive honking of
horns and driving around corners at reckless
speeds have no place in our city. Almost night
ly, there is a parade of cars, piloted by a minority
of young folks, on our streets. Invariably one of
them will start honking and others will follow,
in a rhythmic cacophony designed to “liven up”
the evening or irritate the general public, we are
not sure which.
A town we know has a safety slogan which
might be appropriate here: “Be different — be
courteous.”
The circus is coming to town two weeks
hence. Right or wrong, it’s a handy reference at
our house in order to bring the children into line.
Whatever happened to the miniature golf
courses that once occupied a prominent comer
In most towns?
Law's and commandments, in the minds of
many people, were made to guide other people.
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When You and I Were Young...]
Pacific House
Has New Owners
Mercury Hits 103
in May, 1934
50 Years Ago
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Collins,
formerly of Valentine, have
bought the Pacific, House and
were open for business last
week. . . The annual entertain
ment incident to the closing of
the school year at St. Mary’s
academy was held at the opera
house. Some of those appearing
on the program were: George
Harrington, Rutih Testman, Mar
tha McNichols, Grace Ward,
Julia Biglin, Louise Stirk, Estel
la Nicholson, Marguerite Doyle
and Loretta McHugh. . . Funeral
services were held for Joseph W.
Ryan, native Holt countyan,
born in 1875. . . E. H. Whelan,
A. F. Mullen, O. F. Biglin and
J. V. Owens were in Deadwood,
S D., attending a Kinghts of Co
lumbus initiation. . . Henry Gilg
cf Atkinson and Miss Mary
Hynes were joined in marriage
at St. Patrick’s Catholic church
in O’Neill.
20 Years Ago
Chauncy Porter hooked a 9im
pound catfish at the riverside
dam. . . Miss Mary O’Donnell
and Ray Pettinger were united
in marriage at the Catholic
church in Emmet. A dance was
given in the evening. . . Temper
atures ranged in the high 90’s
this week and an all-time high
of 103 was recorded. . . John Er
win, formerly of O’Neill, died in
Grand Island. Funeral services
were held there with graveside
and burial rites in O’Neill.
10 Years Ago
Mrs. C. E. Stout and Mr. and
Mrs. J. V. Dwyer of Butte, Mont,,
attended the anniversary cele
bration of Father Isadore’s or
dination to the priesthood at the
monastery of Sierra Madre,
Calif. . . Vera M. Coleman en
listed in the WAC. She will re
ceive her basic training at Ft.
Des Moines, la. . . A Page pio
neer, R. K. Stevens, 88, died in
Omaha. . . Householders of Holt
county were urged to return
their next season fuel oil re
I newal forms as promptly as pos
sible. . . Robert E. Hutton won
his wings and was commission
ed an ensign in the naval re
serve at ceremonies at the naval
air training center, Pensacola,
Fla.
One Year Ago
The Nebraska Stockgrowers’
convention was held in Omaha.
James W. Rooney headed an O’
Neill Chamber of Commerce
committee which invited the
Nebraska Stockgrowers to hold
their ’54 meeting in O’Neill. . . A
cow gave birth to a two-headed
calf on the Wade Davis farm—
Veterinarian Charlie Sigman
prounounced the freakish ani
mal dead on arrival. . . One hun
dred and two people gathered at
the Redbird school for the clos
ing day picnic. . . Jeanine Back
haus won a blue ribbon placing
in the state 4-H timely topics
speaking contest held in Lincoln.
. . . Mary Jo Mahoney was sen
ior queen of the May at St. Ma
ry’s academy.
Move from Verdigre—
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Angus are
now residing in the William C.
Artus apartment. The couple
moved to O’Neill last week from
Verdigre.
MILLER THEATER
— Atkinson —
Fri.-Sal. May 28-29
The Mightiest Adventure of Them Al
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Sun. Mon.-Tues.
May 30-31, June 1
Wed.-Thurs. June 2-3
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New Chancellor
Dr. Clifford M. Hardin (a
bove), Michigan State college
dean of agriculture and direct
or of the agricultural experi
ment station, will head the
University of Nebraska as
chancellor beginning July 1.
Doctor Hardin, who will be 39
next October 9, is Nebraska’s
youngest chancellor arid one of
the youngest university presi
dents in the nation. He, his
wife, and four children plan
to move to Nebraska late in
June. Bom on a farm near
Knightstown, Ind., Doctor
Hardin as a boy was intensely
interested in 4-H club work
and his achievements included
the winning of a club scholar
s h i p to Purdue university
where he received his bache
lor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. de
grees in 19^37, 1939 and 1941.
He began his professional ca
reer at the University of Wis
consin but moved to Michigan
State college in 1944 and be
came professor and chairman
of the department of agricul
tural economics there in 1946.
Fire Chief Miles
Gets 25-Year Pin
On Saturday, O’Neill’s Fire
Cheif G. E. Miles was presented
a 25-year pin from the state vol
unteer firemen’s group for be
ing a member for 25 years.
Miles was elected to the O’
Neill department September 9,
1924. He was made president of
the department September 8,
1925, and elected chief May 7,
1928.
Stewart Receives
Good Conduct Medal—
LYNCH— Ronald J. Stewart,
boatswain’s mate third class,
USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Glen
R. Stewart of Lynch, and hus
band of the former Miss Mary
.Jane Hopkins of Niobrara, has
been awarded the navy’s good
conduct medal in ceremonies
aboard the attack transport USS
Rockbridge.
The medal is awarded to en
listed personnel for three years
of exemplary conduct and per
formance of duty.
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