Prairieland Talk . . .
Take a Tip from Hens
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS. Retired. Former Frontier Editor
LINCOLN — The procession moving to and
fro on downtown busy thoroughfares makes the
concrete vibrate to the clatter of spike heels
supporting ladies’ dainty feet carrying the great
American bargain hunters through swinging
moving picture of humanity in
the mass whose faces reflect a
worried, hurried life, all “down
town” now', this hot day in July,
to spend their money that will
be necessary to keep industry
alive.
One large department store
is thronged daily with mobs of
doors. Ladies in summer garb,
bare backs sun-tanned, a coat
less gent now and then passing
with swinging stride. Romain*
A few are unhurried, ap
parently amused at the living, Sa^e",
women; some maybe stepping in to rest where
“ “yScf this great mart of trade is “air condi
tion^ by pipes through which flows ice water
from the store’s own wells.
* * *
It was August 3. 1804 when Lewis and
Clark held a council with Indian chiefs ai the
M^un r,v«. .he spot now being known . «
Council Bluffs. Ia. Historical societies are Ihi
Year taking note of the event.
1 * * *
Walking down a suburban street at y early
hour this morning I passed the h°me of a h°use
holder who had a chickencoop; also chickens, me
S had evidently started the day’s production
already as there was a united effort on the part
of the flock to tell the world that another SUPP J
of fresh eggs had just been deposited m the nests.
Hens are great advertisers, ably supported in
their efforts to call attention to their wares by
the rooster. Though he can’t lay an e®f ^ C
crow to beat the band when one of his harem
members does. If you have something go.xMc> of
fer the public, take a tip from the hens and ten
us about it.
* * *
A Lincoln patriot was caught “using water
unlawfully.” It is always “lawful” to Jake a swig
of cold water, but this gent went to bed and let
the water stream over his lily lawn all night and
wash the concrete street for a block °r two be
yond. And so an ordinary thrifty law-abiding cit
Len became an outlaw. Most of us are outlaws
in some particular. Jaywalkers include about ev
erybody. And many at the steering wheel ac
as if those stop signs at intersections mean to
slow down from 75 to 30 m.p.h. Left turns seem
to be alright when you can get away with it,
and getting one on the assessor doesn t land any
body in jail. But you better not try it on Uncle
Sam.
* * *
The garden is a lovely thing
From which thrifty housewives bring
Roasting ears, beans and spuds, tomatoes red
To keep their households properly fed;
And seeded pods and melons sweet
That everybody loves to eat.
Bursting bud and velvet-petaled floral bloom
Forming a centerpiece on the table at noon,
While around and across the dishes pass
Until down to about the last.
Have another ear of corn!
At a registered Hereford sale up in Box
Butte county 153 head brought a few hundred
over $35,000, one sire selling for $2,000 and a
9-year-old bringing one thousand dollars. Buy
ers came from Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota
and Oklahoma. . . Ruth Bryan Rohde, a romantic
figure in Lincoln more than a half century ago
and daughter of the late William Jennings Bryan,
silver-voiced orator and three times candidate
for president, died at the age of 68 while on a
visit to Copenhagen, Denmark. . . A citizen of
Dawson, a little town in Richardson county, re
ports finding a tooth of a long extinct beast in
a gravel pit. The tooth weighed six pounds. . . A
group of Nebraska democrats meeting in Omaha
August 7 will be favored by an address by Mr.
Stevenson.
* * *
Vacation periods are seasons when one or
more of our tribal group get together for a visit,
and friend meets friend. The family group, broth
er, sister, parent, sit down again at dinner to
gether. Events, experiences, incidents of life be
fore the family circle was broken and some mem
ber or members scattered to the rising or setting
sun are revived and we quaff again at the foun
tain of memories’ mellow wine. Yesterday the
charm of kinship and beauty of fellowship in
spired the soul. Today we smile, shake hands, say
goodbye and the dear one is gone—gone, leaving
tear-dimed eyes and something of a sense of deso
lation with the one standing in the door watch
ing the departing car roll away. And so our lives
are built around joy and sorrow, smiles and tears,
hellq, and goodbye.
* * *
The oldiimer had forecasl a change in the
weather with the advent of a late July new
moon. There was. From floating around 108
there was a drop to 85 at mid-day in the old
timer's neighborhood.
* * *
It costs money to got into the game for pub
lic office. Three of the leading candidatee for the
republican nomination for U.S. senator report a
total of about 25-thousand-dollars making up the
primary campaign funds. One of these I could
not support at the polls, not because of primary
campaign expenditures, but because of something
of reckless extravagance in promoting appropria
tions of federal funds to inaugurate some more
public works of questionable worthiness. And I
can’t harmonize campaign promises of “lower
taxes’’ with the official record. Of course, most
voters have tumbled to the fact that a campaign
promise for the most part is made to catch votes.
* * *
A farmer from southern Fillmore county, a
community that has not been favored with suffi
cient rain, informs me that he had gone to well
irrigation and has 75 acres in one corn field that
he is able to irrigate with well water that prom
ises a heavy yield. It was on Monday of the last
week in July that I talked with him and he said
unless rain came very soon in his neighborhood
there would be no corn raised there only such as
was irrigated. There are no rivers to tap in that
part of the state and the logical means of irri
gating is to go down into the earth where there
is an abundance of water. This farmer told me
that he had harvested a normal small grain crop.
* * *
The young husband being asked if his wife
was still asleep, responded: "I guess she is—
she's lying in there with her mouth ajar.''
Editorial . .
Tobacco Cured Grandpa9s Corns
Just when the cigarette makers had success
fully buried the “coffin nail” description, along
comes someone to leave the thought that maybe
cigarettes have something to do with lung cancer.
The cigarette makers are tearing out their
hair and resorting to every artifice in a vain at
tempt to convince the smokers that it just can’t
be true. So desperate have they become they are
writing letters to the weekly newspapers. How
they ever learned that the weekly newspapers ex
ist is more than we can understand. Surely they
didn’t learn of them through their advertising
agencies.
Guess someone told them that people read
and that the .opies remain in the home for a week
or more, while last night’s daily is used to wrap
their weekly newspapers from cover to cover
today’s garbage.
Anyway, a country editor down in Virginia
got one of the pleas for some free space. He
wasted no time telling them that if the non-daily
press is not effective for paid advertising for the
tobacco industry, it certainly is not effective for
free advertising. Then he ended his epistle with
this gem:
“We suggest you eat where you pay board.”
To us, all this talk on smoking reminds us
of grandpa. Grandpa attributed great things to
tobacco. He never smoked until he was 30 and
then to cure his corns. It worked and grandpa
kept right on smoking. He didn’t want corns
again.
When he was 72 he developed cancer of the
stomach and we drove 40 miles every Sunday to
see him ’cause grandpa wouldn’t live through the
summer.
Well, the doctors just didn’t know grandpa.
He still had faith in tobacco—one way or the
other. So he quit smoking, got up out of bed and
lived to be 96.
Grandpa was more tolerant with the tobacco
industry than folks are today. He never com
n. plained about tobacco and he didn’t go around
telling people that tobacco caused his cancer.
No sir. Grandpa was a loyal fellow. He insisted
that tobacco cured his corns and giving it up
cured his cancer.
Wouldn’t grandpa have been a find for the
tobacco industry research commitee?
P.S.: Some do gooder sent us a printed piece
which we have hanging on the wall in our office.
Against a black background there is illustrated
a white package of cigarettes. Instead of a brand
namp in fine print on the cigarettes, black letters
read “DEATH". Instead of a brand name on the
package, morbid letters read: “DEATH WRAP
PED IN CELLOPHANE (It’s milder that way).”
The “trademark” is a skull and crossbones.
Advertising is a good servant if wisely con
. trolled; undoubtedly advertising pays when prop.*
erly used.
Now that we have an air-conditioned office
we wonder how we ever got along without it.
The school bells will be tolling again sooner
than you think.
Eighty-Six Years Young
Comes now Senator Theodore Francis Green,
Rhode Island democrat, who has announced he
will seek a fourth term in the senate.
Green is 86 years young and if elected to the
upper legislative body and if able to serve out his
term, would become the oldest senator ever to sit
in the U.S. senate.
Coming only a short time after the announce
ment that Alben W. Barkley would run for the
senate in Kentucky, Green’s announcement proves
some senators are especially durable commodities
—although Nebraska has had no such luck. Three
senators have been fatally stricken within the
past 2% years—two of them—Sens. Kenneth S.
Wherry and Dwight Griswold — certainly not
regarded as old men.
Senator Green, like the late Carter Glass of
Virginia, refuses to fold in the stretch. Unlike
former Senators Arthur Capper of Kansas and
Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee, who backed
away from the job when they began towering
up into the higher mathematics, Green is willing
to give it another whirl beginning at age 86.
The late Senator George W. Norris of Ne
braska was an oldster and the late Hugh Butler,
who died a month ago, was no spring chicken.
Farming Is Hazardous
It should come as a distinct shock to every
one to learn that farming is the third most haz
( ardous occupation in America.
Farmers have always known that their job
is a hard one, calling for long hours, careful plan
ning, and a keen understanding of the close rela
tionship between nature and science that are ne
cessary to produce enough food each year to feed
15(5,000,000 citizens—not to mention much of the
rest of the world.
Last year in America, more than 327,000
farmers suffered disabling injuries on their jobs
4,700 others weren’t so lucky. They were killed
by falls, machinery, animals, or other “potential
hazards.”
Frontier
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News, Views
and Gossip
BY THE EDITOR
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Curtis Our Choice
If we might venture a peer into
the crystal ball regarding the
forthcoming primary election,
we’ll take Congressman Carl T.
Curtis against the field in the re
publican race for the long-term
U.S. senate nomination. Dave
Martin will finish second; Robert
Crosby, third; Terrible Terry
Carpenter, a maverick, fourth.
For the GOP short-term (va
cancy), it’s anybody’s guess and
the most pleasant-sounding name
most likely will win it. (There
are 16 candidates.)
For governor, republican tick
et, it’ll be Victor A. Anderson
although Frederick H. Wagener
is our personal choice. (His plat
form says something.)
On the demo ticket, it'll be
William Ritchie, who, inci
dentally, does not have the
blessings of the democratic
regulars.
Curtis’ experience (16 years in
the house of representatives) and
his conservative record should
be sufficient reasons for anyone
to vote for him for the senate.
In the past 2% years, three vet
eran Nebraska senators have
gone the death route, and two
freshman senators might be cost
ly in situations where seasoning
and experience are needed. And
capitol hill revolves around such
things as seniority experience,
etc.
Curtis has done something to
lower taxes while serving as
ranking member of the tax-writ
ing house ways and means com
mittee. He helped bring direct
tax relief to every Nebraska
home, farm and business.
Yep, we’ll ltake Carl T. Curtis
against the field in the primary.
This virtually will assure his
election in the fall.
* * *
Anniversary
Friday, July 30, was the first
anniversary of the crash of the
air force helicopter near here
in which six persons, including
a famous German scientist, lost
their lives.
We visited the site and found
the burned out patch the only
remaining evidence of the trag
edy—although still there can be
found small bits of the wreckage
in the field. Placid cattle are
grazing there.
It was a horrible accident and
long will be remembered by O’
Neill people.
We’ve understood, unofficially,
the air force board making an
inquiry into the cause of the
crash had the engine reconstruct
ed only to find one important
part missing. This could mean
that part of the mechanism might
have been lost in flight, intense
vibration set in, and the rotor
blade (which had been “’red
lined” earlier because of a flaw)
buckled under the strain of an
accelerated descent.
The mother and father of one
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of the crash victims, A/2c Donald
E. Eddy of Clarington, O., visit
ed the scene of the wreckage
several weeks following the ac
cident and William A. (“Pop”)
Ide of Scranton, Pa., father of
the crew chief, S/Sgt. Robert Ide,
arrived here the same day.
We recently received word
from Mr Ide he would be visit
ing O’Neill again soon.
Charles Johnson, sr., of San
Gabriel, Calif., the father of the
’copter pilot, wrote not long ago
saying he was considering a visit
[ to O’Neill enroute on a trip to
England.
* * *
Jack Tackles Sheriff
Jack Lough of the Albion
News presently is giving the
Boone county sheriff a going
over. The sheriff, Bernard L. II
lian, apparently has been off
base.
Jack discovered the sheriff
was using a prisoner from the
county jail to paint a house in
Albion owned by the sheriff. He
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_fr'OLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT
Now... more than ever before ...
NEBRASKA NEEDS
the EXPERIENCE of
\
CARL T.
CURTIS
in the
UNITED STATES
SENATE
I
CARL CURTIS SERVED 16 YEARS IN
CONGRESS. He knows how to get things
done. He has an unparalleled record of
achievement for our state. At a time when
Nebraska has lost so many of its elder
statesmen, everyone interested in sound
and sensible government should be cer
tain that Carl T. Curtis is promoted to the
U.S. SENATE!
CARL T. CURTIS
Member of Congress
1 1939 - '54
CURTIS LOWERED
YOUR TAXES
CARL CURTIS IS THE ONE CANDI
DATE WHO HAS DONE SOME
THING TO LOWER YOUR TAXES! As
a ranking majority member of the tax
writing Ways and Means Committee, he
has taken a prominent part in the tax re
duction and revision measures of Con
gress which have brought real tax relief
into every Nebraska home, farm and
business.
CURTIS IS THE FARMERS’ CHOICE
A FARM OWNER HIMSELF. CARL CURTIS TS ALERT TO THE PROBLEMS OF AN AGRICULTURAL STATE. He has
introduced and supported effectively much legislation on rural electrification, soil conservation, grain storage construction,
flood control, and other measures designed to maintain farm income.
MAKE YOUR CHOICE ON THE TAX RECORD. CURTIS CUT TAXES!
Vote for CARL T. CURTIS.Republican, U.S. SENATE (6-yr. term)
Sponsored by Curtis-For-Senate Club, Holt County, Elgin Ray, Chairman
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