Prairieland Talk . . . Trip to Prairieland a Tonic By ROMAINE SAUNDERS. Retired. Former Frontier Editor O’NEILL _ “The death of the world seems imminent.” I wonder. But a world observer of note feels that way. What he needs is a trip to prairieland. Enfolded within the walls of a great city jungle you may wish it were so. I ve been to prai rieland and sometimes wonder why I left it. Oh, we have a lit tle of it within sight of our tow ering capitol dome. But for the green robed miles of open coun try where contented people dwell unafraid of the world threatened tragedies, take a drive through the flowing well land of southwest Holt county. This pilgrim enjoyed such a trip last week in company with Miss Elizabeth O’Malley and M. H. Horiskey, life-time friends in O’ Neill. We had intended to stop Saunders on the way out from Atkinson at the ranch home of Mr. and Mrs. George Meals, but found the highway so torn up there seemed no way to drive into the Meals dooryard. Our first stop was with Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Baker, who operate and make their home on the only cattle ranch in the county that has operated continuously since about the year 1882, known as the Riley Bros. Shorthorn ranch. Mrs. Baker is a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Will Riley. Just now Mrs. Baker is having a tussle with arthritis but gets about and greets her friends with a smile. Tom seemed to be stowing away in the refrigerator some beefsteaks. Maybe he had just butchered as he had acquired profi ciency as a meat carver in his native England. Tom lniormea me ne anu rrea watsun nau gotten their hay into stacks, something-iike 500 or 600 tons each, ahead of the late August rains. Time was limited, so we drove away after a pleasant hour’s visit. The next stop was in Amelia, the village famed for its flowing* wells of unexcelled pure wa ter. Met The Frontier’s representative and other friends. Strange how these newspaper gals and gents are everywhere. They could not find a more delightful region in which to hang their harp and woo the fickle literary muse. From Amelia we saw again the lovely landscape as we rolled toward Chambers and then on to O’Neill, the cap ital city of green gowned and velvet tinted prai rieland where countless herds of slick cattle graze and hay stacks dot the meadows. * * i * Celebrations and rodeos are over for this year. Maybe some friends of Prairieland Talk would like to look back at prize winners of 51 years ago at a blowout in O’Neill on the Fourth. A nag of hn McNichols’ entered the first place winnerwp Jack McAllister’s won the half mile running race and John McNichols entered the first place winner in the trotting event, while a pony of Frank Lea hy’s came in ahead of the other entries. John Mc Greevy won the running jump and R. E. Galla gher the standing jump. The five-mile race was won by James F. O’Donnell, at that time holing up in Atkinson. John Nolan won a foot race and Fred Ward the kids’ race, while D. A. Doyle took the first prize in the fat man’s race. The tug-o’ war was won by the huskies from Rock Falls and a team entered by J. B. Mellor was awarded the winner’s ribbon in the horse pulling event. Great men have had a sad ending. Julius Caesar bit the dust of Rome at the hands of as sassins at the age of 52. Alexander expired over the Herculean bowl at the age of 33 years, Na poleon died in exile with the memories of Water loo. Lincoln, America’s greatest, freed a million enslaved human beings and died a martyr. Wil liam Jennings Bryan, Nebraska’s most notable citizen, met defeat at the hands of a noted ag nostic with a Jewish rabbi in the background, and died shortly after. Jesse James, the country’s greatest outlaw, bit the dust with a bullet hole through his hide fired by one of his gang. North Nebraska’s greatest horse thief died a confirmed alcoholic on a jail cot. On a recent Sunday promoters and builders of new houses in a cluster at the outskirts but still within Lincoln city limits invited the public to look their architectural creations over and some thing like 15,000 citizens responded. Homes are be ing built with all the modern frills and if you ever get one it will t3ke a lifetime to pay for it. And 1 wonder if the owner will experience the domestic tranquility experienced by the Holt county patriot of the long ago who wrote about his “Little Old Sod Shanty on My Claim.’’ * * * This new gadget, radar, caught a Lancaster county district courl judge in the act of swoop ing down the highway at excessive speed. In stead of his honor stepping up and forking over whatever pecuniary penalty was involved like the rest of us he jockeyed around to see if there was a miscalculation on the part of radar. * * * The time for the flight of the wild goose is near. In stately military formation they pass high above the earth and the picture is too grand to spoil by a shot from a rifle in the hands of a guy out to kill. He might break a wing of the mate of a lordly male of the flock, who then would be a mourner to the end of his days. Unlike many of the human race, those great wildlings on the wing mate for life. A call has gone out to the hunting fraternity to spare the great birds we once knew as sandhill cranes, now reduced to a small flock. I would "nclude the wild goose. * * * This is morning glory time. Looking out of the window I see climbing over the hedgerow vines laden with blue and purple bloom that cause you to pause and look. The morning glories take you away from the florists’ artificial clusters and lead you down the cathedral halls of nature. Velvet petals of tinted beauties greet each autumn dawn until frost lays a withering hand upon them. * * * The Dallas (Tex.) News is said to be respon sible for three great chain stores in that city, Wyatt Food Stores, Skillem Drugstores and Seven-Eleven Stores, removing from their shelves and counters the comic and crime and sex publications flooding the country. As one of them expressed it, "We don't want to sell that filth." * * * Vice-President Nixon has beeyn looking us ever out on prairieland. Probably most of us will agree with what he said in an address at Grand Island that if the people are given all the facts relating to public affairs that they can be relied upon to do the right thing with respect thereto. Editorial . . . Joe Gets Black Eye, More Friends The celebrated Watkins committee, no doubt aided and abetted by left wing publications, com mentators and politicians, has deemed it necessary to censure Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R), the red hunter from Wisconsin. Censure of a senator doesn’t mean much, un less it can be likened to a carefully calculated black eye. Certainly it won’t affect in any way McCarthy’s congressional privileges. It’s our guess it won’t so much as slow down the Irish man with boundless guts and energy dedicated to making things tough for the communist conspira cy in the United States. All in the world the whole series of hearings and investigations has done is to slow down the red hunt and to give a measure of aid and comfort to the conspiracy it self. The Watkins committee, among other things, states that McCarthy, in six drama-packed years of red hunting, should be censured: For his refusal in 1952 to testify before the Hendrickson subcommittee (which also was out to “investigate” McCarthy). For “abuse” of Brig.-Gen. Ralph Zwicker, the Ft. Monmouth commandant. For making statements “clearly intemperate, in bad taste and unworthy a member of this body .. . etc.” Zwicker turns out to be a dual personality. He clammed up before the McCarthy inquisitors, presumably on authority from “higher up.” At a later date, he answered the same questions which he refused to do before McCarthy. The Pentagon crowd closed ranks on McCar thy on the Zwicker incident (it was an opportune time) and the details surrounding the honorable discharge of a Major Peress, a Fifth amendment guy, still are not known, although the army’s loyalty board (one of Joe’s targets) since has un dergone a complete change in personnel. Speaking of abuse. The Frontier cannot de cide which has been worse: Attacks on McCarthy by the leftwing press and pinko politicians or McCarthy’s attacks on known or Fifth amend ment communist sympathizers and egg-heads. Our guess is Joe will emerge with a well blackened eye, but with a larger, solidified band of followers—folks who admire a guy with guts to go out and get ’em. Community Concerts Will there be a series of musical concerts for the O’Neill community this winter? The answer, and it ought to be overwhelm ingly favorable, will be known during the week of October 18-23 when the O’Neill Community Concerts association sponsors its first annual membership drive. The group seeks to enroll one thousand members to assure a successful concert season. Those who value music for the schools, in their own lives and for the importance of a well rbunded community, should join in this under taking. Once established, we feel certain the O’ Neill association will live and prosper through a good many years. O’Neill schools have a good record for their sponsorship of music in the schools. But music, like other phases of life that may be termed cul tural, cannot reach fulfillment if the basic appre ciation taught in school is not carried further and made a part of the living experience of the com munity as a whole. Of course, there is inestimable value in good music that corses on records, on the radio and television airlanes, but this should only help, not supplant, a community’s desire for worthwhile music. People residing within a considerable radius of O’Neill will have an opportunity to hear artists of real stature. It will be particularly pleasant to become acquainted, face to face, with rising art ists of the musical world. This is the almost in evitable result when your city or town signs up with the Community Concert Services, Inc. What has been done so successfully in 1,500 other communities in the United States and Can ada is on the verge of becoming a reality here— if everyone who loves music will come forward and subscribe. Moreover, there is bound to be a lot of latent music appreciation in this or any other communi ty. Appreciation is something that is to be cul tivated and, the world around, is regarded as a rare international standard or language. We have heard through the grapevine a rank ing concert enthusiast at Valentine, which is now starting its second season of community concerts, is the town’s blacksmith. It is said he attended the first concert out of curiosity. We predict curiosity will be transformed into real enthusiasm for a good many O’Neillites if the concert series becomes a reality here—and we’re sure it will. The Hayfever Outlook The experts tell us that those among us who are bothered by hayfever have a poor future ahead in the coming weeks. Dr. Leslie N. Gay of the Johns-Hopkins allergy clinic says that the pollen count in late September is very heavy. Moreover, Gay says the hayfever season is late this year and that those who think they have escaped may be in for plenty of sneezes later on. Gay says the pollen count from one of the worst offenders — ragweed — has been very scanty be cause of the drought. The doctor says there are tree pollens, grass pollens and ragweed pollens, all of which cause hayfever sufferers much trouble. The ragweed pollen gets more publicity, as it is a fall pollen, but Gay says the tree pollens and grass pollens also cause considerable trouble to hayfever suf ferers in spring and summer. If you are a fall hayfever sufferer, Gay sug gests you get ready for a healthy crop of sneezes and some bleary eyes in the near future. CARROLL W. STE'WART, 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’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 year; elsewhere in the United States, $3 per year; rates abroad provided on request. All sub scriptions are paid-in-advance. Audited (ABC) Circulation—2,335 (Mar. 31, 1954) When You and I Were Young... Bareheads Will Vanish Come Snow K-nkaid Will Seek Reelection SO Years Ago Michael Gallagher had two head of catle killed by the train just east of town. . . The Frontier predicts that the barehead fash ion among the graceful dames will go out of fashion about the date of the first blizzard. . . The rising feminine generation in O’ Neill is taking to horseback rid ing. They hang a foot on each side of the horse just like the boys, which is the latest and best method of meeting the bumps of the saddle regularly. . . Hon. M. P. Kinkaid, M.C., is a candidate for reelection. . . Miss Hanna Morrison and Peter Donohoe were united in marriage at St. Patrick’s Catholic church in O’ Neill. . A liberal reward is being offered by Harry Weekes for the recovery of one bay mare and one brown gelding strayed or stolen from his place two miles south of O’Neill. . . The bunch of 24 head of stolen or stray horses rounded up by Sheriff Hall re cently have all been claimed by the owners.