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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (June 10, 1954)
Prairieland Talk . . . Irate ■Lady 9 Lampoons Guy Bj ROMAINE SAUNDERS. Retired. Former Frontier Editor LINCOLN — A newspaper man came over from Denver, Colo., not long ago and addressed one of those numerous association gatherings that is made up of patriots who think they .cnov. the score who had convened in Lincoln for a week’s confab. The Colorado gentleman vigorously defended the freedom of the press. There has not been a real outspoken press since Braun’s Iconoclast faded out a half-cen tury ago when its fearless edi tor was struck by a bullet and fell on the street of a Texas city. The nearest thing to the Iconoclast in journalism today is the Hearst publications and a sheet down in one of the Caro- Remain* linas known as the Yellow Jack- Saunders et. But freedom of the press provides also freedom to suppress some things. Standing on a street in O’Neill in front of hotel a day in the long ago with an eye open for a news story, a couple came along and the *ynan of the house" went into the hotel and asked a gent sitting in the hotel lobby to step outside with him. when the "lady” of the couple whaled away with an umbrella on the head of the de fenseless gent as her companion joined in the beating The friendly advice of an influetial citi zen was needed to make no mention of that street scene in our popular family journal next issue. newspaper should ever be free to suppress scandal as well as to protect the interests of com munities by exposing that which is detrimental • • • A toll gale highway from coast to coast is being urged by promoters. Pennsylvania and Ohio have it With Illinois and Iowa next. Then Nebraska or Kansas—which? • • • The able chairman of the state democratic the.adm^f^'toromed GOP. What goes coontuttee rrr. ■^jssrsss.'srsis when placed m corrp ' ■ America where a million heartache for fathers there have been „dves for sons and hus and mothers and yoan& ^ on battlefields bands who have bled ^ ^ a gen_ in distant larKH were running things., era bon while democrats bloodless battle The army now is engaged That’s with a fighting irishman ad the^ of it and • • • One patriot's suggestion to wav situation is to peimit =° *» a Ibeel who had attained the age of 70. Ma> be no dnveris licenses should be given to any under ,0. Young America, white and black face, to the number of three bus loads from an Omaha school, made a raid on the statehouse today while Gov ernor Crosby was out-of-town and then went to the State Historical society to visit the domain of Dr. James Olson. Segregation evidently is not a worry of the board of education in Omaha, judg ing from the sprinkling of Negroes among the white kids. See what an earlier generation missed —free bus rides to distant points and entertained by the state's great. Oh yes, kids in the long ago played hooky and maybe went out as far as Dry creek, and then had the home folks and the teacher to lace. • • * The State Historical society and all railroad lines operating in Nebraska are planning tours of the state with the “centennial car.” which will be a rolling museum bringing to the citizens of the state a rare collection of many things of his torical interest provided by the historical society and the Territorial Centennial commission. The car left Lincoln June 9 to spend the summer vis iting communities throughout the state and will end up the tour at the state fair which will be functioning from September 4 to 11. • • • A preacher gets off this, which he displays in large letters on the bulletin board of his down town church: "Profanity is the dirty fin gernails of speech." • * » Has any Frontier reader a photograph of the prairie sailing rig the late B. F. Cole, an O'Neill watch and clock repair man. built and with which he made the trip to and from his homestead in the Amelia neighborhood from time to time? This department would like to secure such a pic ture to be used in the Nebraska Highway maga zine, with the assurance of returning it to the owner. • • • The ultimate in scientific attainment has been reached. Towser may now have a scientifi cally balanced diet. Just how has the poor fellow made out all these centuries gnawing at bones and the like. With all the fervor of the nation’s perpetuity being at stake a guy just told us about it through the medium of the radio, with a money-back guarantee that Towser will go for it. $ t • Why should government guarantee the farmer a “reasonable return for his labors” and not the carpenter, the printer, the doctor and the lawyer, the butcher and the baker and the candy maker? Farming is but one of a multitude of in dustries that American citizens are engaged in and singling the farm out for special favors is strictly favoring one class above all others. • • * Traveling about in prairieland one is im pressed as they see conditions in villages, towns and cities tihat Nebraskans are well groomed, well fed and have comfortable homes surrounded by attractive grounds set with trees and shrubbery touched with the bright colors of floral bloom and a garden spot to work off our human urge to grow something from the soil. Editorial . . . Need for New Churches Rev. Dr. Eliot L. Fisher, an executive of the . division of home missions of the board of mis- j sions of the Methodist church, recently sa.d . 3S were more people living where churchy are not established than at any other period in American history. The churchman pointed this out at th^a *' nual meeting of the Methodist church s board o missions. To help combat the situation he out lined. the Methodist church is conducting a dr:\ e for 3.000 new congregations in the next three years. The church hopes to raise $100,000,000 to bouse them. Doctor Fisher savs the United States is suf fering from a large “displaced” population, con stantly on the move. He says that seven out oi 10 persons who moved in 1953 will move again before the end of 1958. He also pointed out that in some years more than 30.000,000 American:. have changed their places of residence. The problem outlined by Doctor Filter is one which all churches should seek to alleviate. We sometimes forget that the United States is sitll a very young, and rapidly growing, country, with large numbers of displaced persons and moving families. Such changes and population trends place a responsibility on the churches to keep up with the growing demand in new and growing communities. The churches thus stil. have a wide field in front of them, as they have had since the founding of this country. Watch Out for Terry (From Dakota County Star. South Sioux City) Terr>' Carpenter, voluble tongued state sen ator from Scottsbluff, may have rank republicans a bit worried. Carpenter, as you know, is one of five candi dates for the republican nomination to the U.S. senate. In fact, he was one of the first to toss his hat into the ring. Terrible Terry, who achieved the name through hours of debate on trivial issues in the state legislature, is a former democrat. He’s now masquerading as a republican. "He's no more a republican than Harry Tru man,” a top ranking state republican leader told us recently. A statement with more truth than fic tion. Terry apparently realized several years ago that Nebraska is generally a republican state. Carpenter has money. He recently ran page ads in two leading Nebraska weeklies. Although he wasn't present at the GOP convention in Fre mont recently, observers say he couldn’t have been any more conspicuous with his presence. Carpenter ran a page ad in the Fremont paper during the session. He’s radical and out-spoken. It would be a shame if the voters selected Carpenter in preference to such candidates as Martin and Curtis. One Nebraska newspaperman re cen11 v phrased it something like this: “I’ve come to the conclusion that Carpenter doesn't stand for anything except Terry Carpen ter." Lawyer (handing client SI00)—Here is the balance of your award otf $500, after deducting my fee. Why do you frown? Aren’t you satis fied? Client—I was just wondering who got hit by the car, you or me. Promises are easier to make than they are to fulfill, but people continue to make them care lessly Apathy on Commie Issue In spite of the McCarthy storm, in spite of the obvious guilt of many leading Americans, in spite of the alarming danger from both without and within—the American public still seems to be somewhat apathetic in regard to the commun ist menace. Last week a fellow said to this writer: “Why don’t you give ’em hell? Why don’t the newspa pers and radio stations of the nation bring th.s more strongly to the attention of the public?’’ What more can the information industry do? McCarthy’s investigating committee has been in the headlines almost constantly for the past three or four years. Grand juries have indicted several persons in high position, such as Owen Lattimore, and found them guilty of perjury’. The menace of communism from, within has been more than amply covered for years. Edi torial writers have expanded thousands of col umn inches to the fight against reds m our gov ernment. Still, many of the people look upon the subject just as did former President Harry Tru man—red herring! Well, it might be a red herring — but thai herring is beginning to smell. And if we don t watch our step it might stink us right out of the country. Only criticism we have of the treatment of the commie issue by the American press, radio and television field can be levelled at some of the pink-tinged boys who graftily dish up the Daily Worker line without the general public, even the chips who write their paychecks, know ing it. Traffic regulations, rigidly and impartially enforced, wall save lives on our streets and high ways. Freedom is a gift from the past, but it is not at all certain that it wrill be a legacy of the future. Education is not to be confused with going to college—not in these days. It seems that with Rocky Marciano two is a crowd. _ CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher Editorial & Business Offices: 122 South Fourth St. Address correspondence: Box 330, O’Neill, Nebr Established in 1880—Published Each Thursday ' Entered at the postoffice in O’Neiii, 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, S2.50 per year: elsewnere in the United States, S3 per year; raies abroad provided on request. All sub scriptions are paid-in-advance. Audited (ABC) Circulation—2,335 (Mar. 31, 1954) I f=====\ News, Views and Gossip BY THE EDITOR ^ TALK TURNED to the McCar thy-Pentagon hassle, as inev itably it does these days. In the circle on the street comer were Dr. L A. Carter, Col. Ed Evans, Joe Biglin and this writer. Ev ans was lamenting some of the time-consuming aspects of “the big show’ but Doctor Carter was concerned about the execu tive “gag” ruling, preventing federal employees from passing information. The grey, venerable doctor cited the Teapot Dome o.l scandal Joe Biglin and I pleaded youthfulness and, therefore, wouldn’t remember. Then the semi-retired medico delved into his historical treasure Doctor Carter pointed out the congressional probes in the twenties depended vitally upon information given by officials of the department of interior, de partment of justice and federal trade commission, sometimes by lowly employees. In or der to bare the story of giving away of oil resources by a mem ber of the cabinet, the investi gators, Sens. Burton K. Wheeler and Tom Walsh, both of Mon tana, demanded data from Atty. Gen. Harry Daughterly and the latter refused—a "gag” rule sim ilar to the now-famous Truman and Eisenhower rulings. The mailer was taken up with Presidenl Coolidge, a re publican, and he fired Daugh erty. Coolidge replaced Daugh erty with Harlan Slone (later chief justice of the supreme court), and Stone cooperated fully. Interior Secretary Fall was forced out and went to the pen. The moral: The right of con gress to receive information in the executive arm of the gov ernment is precious and of high est importance. The congress has the constitutional right and du ty to check on what goes on in the executive and to receive any i information it desires. Incidentally, the first article in the constitution deals with congress; the second, the execu tive; the third, the judiciary. The congressional prerogative in the checks-and-balances sys tem would be nullified without information Thanks, Doctor, for the history lesson, • * « MISCELLANY: Two pictures we wished we hadn’t missed —(1) Harden Anspach and Bart ley Brennan moving the manni quins from the former Apparel t>hop location to the new store; Anspach clutching lower ev tremities of the dummies in each arm; Brennan, uppers; (2) the sick horse being led up the side walk and into the veterinary of fice of Dr. G. C. Cook on South Fourth street. . . An O’Neill mother received a long-distance phone call the other day. The operator asked if the O’Neill party would accept a collect call from “Pvt. David Sehine.” Somewhat dumbfounded, the a yr—o. . ■ ■ wi — »—i , mother accepted the charges, anyway. ‘Mamma, get me out of the army!” came the voice of her son—a GI on the Eastern seaboard. His name isn’t David. ... A 3-year-old O’Neill lad, in the new swimming pool Sunday for the first time, registered dis like for wet trunks and disrobed before a large audience, explain ing to his mommie he had wet pants. —CAL STEWART Mrs. William Montgomery of Omaha spent the weekend visit ing her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Froelich. Former Prisoner of Japs Visits Stuart STUART— Dr. Esther Morse, missionary, came Saturday, May 29, for a visit here with friends. She addressed the congregations at the Cleveland Presbyterian enurch and Stuart Community church on Sunday, May 30. Doctor Morse was reared in the Cleveland community, was graduated from Stuart high school and Hastings college. She has been a missionary on the is land Hainan for many years. She became a prisoner of the Japanese when they captured the island during World War II. After her release from the pris on and a rest in the United States, she returned to the Chi nese people but was taken pris oner by the communists. She was released about four years ago and returned to the states. She has been assigned to go to Pakistan soon by the mission board. Returns from Washington— Miss Barbara Birmingham ar-1 rived in O'Neill Friday from Washington, D C , where she has been working on her master’s degree at Catholic university REX W. WILSON, M.D. ! ROBT. M. LANGDON, M.D. PHYSICIANS St SURGEONS 128 W. Douglas St-, O’Neili I O’Neill Saddle Club Arena (Northeast Edge of City) $1,000 In Prizes RCA Approved 5 EVENTS I Flag Races, Trick Riding, * Brahma Bull Riding I I Barrel Races • Mexican Steer Bulldegging | I Professional Clowns: Saddle Br«c Mint I | . Bennie Bender ~Mobridge, s.d. * Bareback Bronc Riding I 1 Gale Greenwood of White Clay, S.D. • Championship Calf Roping | f CLOWNS - ACTS - MUSIC - THRILLS ! € RODEO ANNOUNCER: JOE CAVANAUGH I I O’NEILL SADDLE CLUB | C Adm.: Adults $1.50; Children 75c % It s a BUCK! Its a\ <B ? 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For any way you look at it, you’re money ahead with the car that’s years-ahead now in looks and line and the lift of its power —and the car that’s outselling every other car in America except two of the “low-price three.” Drop in today or the first thing tomorrow —just to try and to drive and t6 compare a new Buick. We’ll let the car prove its points. *2,326-88 * ,9S4 *»»ecuT «» 2*°oos *‘******61*' Mo°n 4sl °4*' °’Ty- °cc»»Vy^, , "'«•* due lo **°y X»v ^ Vv» w *• ^ , ,x'’ *♦>■* v'cr,v tot v. Xo xconder Buick Sales are Soaring! ■ " —— taSM BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUat BUtCK W1U. BUILD THEM A. MARCELLUS PHONE 370 __O’NEILL, NEBR.