. Prairieland Talk . . .
Plot Foiled by Kindness
By ROMAirNE SAUNDERS, Retired, Former Editor The Frontier
LINCOLN—A state senator with a heart equal
to an able head had prepared a measure for enact
. ment into law that would have given kids who get
into trouble a break. The measure proposed would
have given youth the protection of a quiet court
hearing, the inquisitive with itching ears being
excluded from juvenile court hearings.
Some newspaper guys cried out in horror that
the “freedom of the press and the public” was
being violated. Dr. Frank A. Court, pastor of the
great St. Paul Methodist church
in Lincoln, appeared before the
legislative committee in behalf of
the youth of the state and urged
the adoption of such a measure.
The clergyman saw in the pro
posed law what others saw, that
it would protect children who get
into trouble from damaging pub
licity.
But here they came, the de
fenders of our freedoms with a
cry of “tire peoples’ right to
know.” RoiMtoe
. • « Saunders
Is there nothing that I have
a right not to know, that a neighbor’s boy has a
right for me not to know? Another kid and I in
the long ago formed a plot to steal apples. The
plot failed because our intended victim appeared
on the scene, greeted us pleasantly, and said, Want
some apples? Climb over the fence and help your
selves.” That did something to correct “juvenile
delinquency” that a public trial in juvenile court,
press and the public admitted, could not have done.
Wise newspaper editors know what the public has
a right to know and what they have a right not to
know.
• • *
A suggestion, a request, maybe it Is a de
mand, comes from the Women’s club down at
Weeping Water to adopt the Austrian pine as Ne
braska’s state tree. A state tree means little or
nothing, though we would not minimize the pa
triotic sentiment of the Weeping Water ladies.
But why go to a fading European country for an
emblem to express that sentiment? The cotton
wood or even the sand cherry bush has a native
flavor of prairieland and a picture of either of
these might well adorn a corner of statehouse
letterheads.
* * •
The Henry Field mansion, built in 1876 to
stand a thousand years, is being torn down to
make room for something else in the onward march
in America’s second city, Chicago (think the editor
puts in 111., but if there is a 10-year-old reader
who doesn’t know where Chicago is, he should have
a map). . . Two guys with guns walked into a bus
iness place in Marion two nights ago and floored
three men, robbed th$ safe and walked out with
$6,000. . . Another guy held up a bank in a small
Indiana town, secured a hat full of the bank’s
funds, walked out, an hour later he was in jail. . .
Six deaths on Hoosier highways last weekend. . .
The telephone bill of one corporation with a large
branch factory in Marion for last year totaled $93,
000. . . Some 60 persons offered to part with a sec
tion of their hide in behalf of an Oklahoma City
6-year-old whose life depended on skin grafting.
. . . Cutting $20 from your income tax bill will
meet with a responsive smile notwithstanding rev
enue collectors frown on it. . . Curtailing the ex
travagant use of paper at the nation’s capital now
undertaken by the Hoover commission will save an
estimated 125-million-dollars annually — a move
ment to curtail federal spending, something new
under the sun. . . A dance hall raid in a Indiana
town netted 26 arrests, each contributing a 20-spot
to the fines fund.
At the approach to the 15-rod long bridge is
a sign, “Travel at your risk!” Presuming that high
way authorities mean if you miss the bridge it is
your hard luck. Risk, hazard, taking a chance at
an uncertainty—life is beset yrith just such prob
lems and the wayfarer who has not the courage to
meet and overcome them will never cross his
bridge. The chocolate-grey waters of the river were
in a turmoil. I stood on that bridge, not at midnight
as Longfellow put into rhyme, but at midafternoon
of a bright, warm day in early March. The rest
less waters of the Mississinewa rolled in torrents
below. Upstream 20 rods is a dam from which a
towering mill gets power to move machines. The
river, as if to resent any confinement of the onward
sweep, roars over and around the dam and rushes
on forming white-capped billows, flows under the
bridge where I stood and calms its troubled course
a few rods below. White-capped breakers wet the
sands at the ocean shore, retreat and rush shore
ward every 10 seconds, century after century. Sym
bolic of some trouble-burdened lives that are never
at rest. The river roars and foams for a few rods
and then flows calmly on—symbolic of other lives
that have found the way to peace and serenity
through spiritual vision.
* * •
The editor has come out in print expressing
his concern over the mystery of the functioning
of time-seasoned grey matter under the iron grey
mane of hoary heads. Not long to wait until it
will all be clear.
• * *
In 1916 the national park service came into
action under whose supervision the 35 or more
national parks of the present day are directed.
When the national park proposal got started there
was some oppositon to man laying a vulgar hand
on our country’s scenic wonders. An Indiana con
gressman, Mr. Cobb, speaking of the Yellowstone,
opposed any such thing as hotel buildings, contend
ing that the great thrill of outdoor park life would
be the campfire. The parks for the most part are in
mountain regions. Nebraska has state parks and
most communities have their own little dedicated
spots for quiet retreat of any who desire to draw
away from daily cares for a few hours. Pioneers
park at Lincoln is one of note. Ft. Robinson in
northwest Nebraska may become a national shrine.
* * •
A writer in a popular magazine had the hard
ihood to tell the country’s law enforcement officers
how to prevent crime in a page of 10-point type.
He suggests the police of our cities read the comic
books to inform themselves on criminal methods.
He cites an instance where three officers had gone
to arrest a notable gent of criminal record who was
spending the evening with his girl friend. No ob
jection was raised by the criminal to accompany
ing the officers, but he thought he should put on
his topcoat before stepping out into the cold. His
lady friend got the coat which he put on, reached
into a pocket and came out with a gun, enabling
him to disarm the three officers. A likely story!
* * *
A 12-vear-old cow down in the Dawson neigh
borhood has her story as a producer of prairieland
beef in eastern newspapers. The old gal is a Here
ford, has a past record of six pairs of twins and
two single calves. Her latest contribution to the
Nebraska livestock industry is four calves born
early in March, three bull calves and one heifer
—a calf at each nipple at feeding time.
* * *
A swivel chair farmer down at Washington,
D.C., is quoted as saying. “The year will bring con
siderably better conditions for farmers in areas
that were seriously affected by drought in 1954, if
precipitation increases in those areas.” He means,
as Bill Grothe might put it, if it rains we’ll have
a whale of a com crop.
Editorial . . .
Yalta—After 10 Years
At Yalta in one fateful week Churchill, Stalin
and Roosevelt attempted to shape the postwar
world with •'wanton disregard for millions of souls
being used for barter.
Yalta was from the first indictable for secrecy,
and the secrecy on its major decisions was too long
maintained. But Sir Winston Churchill declares
that the release of details in the U.S. state depart
ment’s report is even now unwise. He also adds that
there are “serious mistakes” in the American ver
sion. So the report may easily start more contro
versies than it will settle.
Indeed, reactions at home and abroad suggest
that a Pandora’s box has been opened.
Yet its publication has one great value. It helps
to place the Yalta decisions more clearly in the
context of 1945 events. The Soviet union’s break
ing of Yalta agreements has made the whole ar
rangement appear much worse than it was. But
even in 1945 voices of warning were raised against
the assumption that those agreements—particular
ly on Eastern Europe—would hold.
History will not excuse the ailing Franklin
Roosevelt for seriously misjudging the Kremlin’s
postwar purposes. But the light shed by these doc
uments sharply jolts the easy hindsight of recent
years which has explained Yalta in terms of treason
or incredible naivete.
We acquire clearer views merely by noting
that Yalta’s agreements were made when the Am
erican army, recovering from the “Bulge,” was
just entering Germany; that Russian troops were
within 40 miles of Berlin; that the Pacific Amer
ican power had only reached Manila, and that the
atomic bomb was a fairly good bet.
The report reminds us of several other factors
which are essential to fair judgement of Yalta. The
ghost of Brest-Litovsk peeked over the shoulders
of western diplomats — they remembered that
agreement with Germany in 1918 by which Russia
withdrew from World War I. They greatly feared a
repetition. The joint chiefs of staff were saying
it would take 18 months to subdue Japan after Ger
many was beaten—and urging efforts to win Rus
sian aid. However, capabilities of our highly secret
A-bomb should have offered some bargaining pow
er for the U.S. and Britain.
It should be remembered that much of the
postwar expansion of Soviet power followed not
only from “gifts” at Yalta but from a retreat of
American power caused by disbanding armies to
"bring the boys home.”
The disclosure of Yalta records might well give
us wisdom for today—in at least four ways.
1. To seek a clearer line of action based more
on enduring moral principles, less on temporary
power policies, so that today’s allies will not be
come tomorrow’s enemies.
2. To improve our military intelligence, so
that such mistakes as that made about Japan will
not be repeated.
3. To avoid talking beyond our power to per- |
form; to take positions carefully, and then support
them vigorously by moral, military, and economic
strength.
4. To send delegates who are trustworthy
beyond all measure of doubt.
Now: The Red Cross
Christmas seals, the crippled children’s drive,
the march of dimes, the heart fund, several other
charity drives and now the annual American Red
Cross drive! This series of calls upon the average
citizen seems to get monotonous and we often hear
complaints that one just cannot contribute to all
these meritorious causes.
But when one considers our kind of govern
ment, and the fact that charity is the main financial
support of humanitarian and medical efforts to
eliminate these killers from the American scene,
we realize it is both an honor and a privilege to
live in a free country where we are merely asked
to contribute to such praiseworthy causes, and not
levied with an assessment by an all-powerful gov
ernment.
In our free government we have the right to
contribute to these charitable causes or not con
tribute. And every citizen should meet this respon
sibility and contribute to them whenever possible,
appreciating the fact that this opportunity is one by
which we can demonsrate both our good citizenship
and the merits of our social system in the United
States.
The Red Cross drive, now underway, deserves
your support. Despite the fact that it is not a per
fect organization, and never will be, it stands for
the right things in our society—kindness, emer
gency aid and even medical aid in epidemic or
plague areas. The Red Cross is a worldwide symbol
of the good neighbor spirit, which means aid for
those who need it badly in times of emergency.
We urge citizens of this community to support
the Red Cross drive this year with contributions as
liberal as they can afford.
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’Neill, Holt coun
ty, Nebraska, as second-class mail matter under
the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. This news
paper is a member of the Nebraska Press Associa
tion, National Editorial Association and the Audit
Bureau of Circulations.
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Audited (ABC) Circulation—2,335 (Mar. 31, 1954)
When Ton mud I Were Toting . . .
Doyle, Campbell
Mayor Candidates
Dave L o y Assisting
Brother
50 Tears Ago
W. W. Frost, a special agent of
the United States census bureau,
was in town gathering informa
tion concerning the industries of
the town. . . John Sullivan arrived
in O’Neill from Anaconda, Mont.,
and will spend a fortnight with
relatives and friends. . . Dave Loy
is driving the dray . while his
brother, Ed, is visiting his parents
in Nevada, Mo. . . D. A. Doyle and
Frank Campbell are the two can
didates for mayor in the city cam
paign that has begun. O. E. David
son is running for police judge;
Robert Morrison and Romaine
Saunders are the candidates for
clerk; alderman candidates are:
First ward—John Carton and Pet
er Kelly; Third ward—James Da
vidson and J. A. Cowperthwaite.
No announcements have come
from the Second ward.
20 Tears Ago
O. F. Biglin furniture store held
a successful two - day furniture
auction. Over two carloads of
furniture was sold. . . A four-day
boxing carnival was held at the
O’Neill public school. . . Harold
Wilson was accidently shot in the
foot while out hunting. The shot
tore off his big toe and part of the
next two — further operation on
the foot was necessary. . . Work
men have been busy making a
tennis court on the corner of Sev
enth and Douglas streets. There
will be three courts.
Ten Years Ago
Margaret Higgins won third
place in the class B discussion
contests of the Nebraska inter
collegiate forensic meet held at
Midland college. Miss Higgins is
a sophomore at Wayne State col
lege. . . Ed Hagensick has added
a new industry to O’Neill—in re
sponse to a request he started
making horn weights for the cat
tle belonging to our local ranch
ers. . . The high school auditorium
was filled to capacity when the
community responded to the an
nouncement of the American Red
Cross meeting being held. . . O’
Neill merchants were in posses
sion of more than their usual
number of no-fund checks. No
charges have been filed but one
culprit made the rounds and re
ceived greenbacks from many.
One Year Ago
President Eisenhower pushed a
button in Washington, D.C., and
the mighty Missouri river went to
work at Ft. Randall, S.D. . . Larry
Heiss and Joellen Kennedy were
the annual basketball banquet in
Page. . . Holt county’s polio drive
receipts totaled $8,692.78. . . Miss
Gladys Mae Durre and Everett
Schwager were united in marriage
in O’Neill. . . Future Nebraska
draftees will receive their initial
training at Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo.,
according to the Army Times, an
unofficial military publication
published in Washington, D.C.
School, Village
Caucuses Are Held
EWING—At the school caucus
held here on a recent evening
at the Ewing public school with
Lyle Dierks acting as chairman
and William Spence as secretary,
four candidates were selected: Al
fred Napier, J. L. Pruden, Lionel
Gunter and L. A. Hobbs.
T^o candidates are to be elec
ted for three-year terms. The two
members whose terms expire this
year are Lyle Dierks and M. B.
Huffman.
At the close of the school cau
cus, a village caucus was held.
The four candidates receiving the
largest vote and whose names
will appear on the ballot, are Roy
Rotherham, Ernie Norwood, Max
Wanser and Cecil Bergstrom.
Two are to be elected for two
year terms.
Ralph Munn presided at the
meeting with Allan Pollock, sec
retary. Retiring members of the
board are Ralph Munn and Dur
ward Loughrey.
Normal Trainers Do
Practice Teaching—
The following girls from the
normal training classes at the
O’Neill high school last week did
practice teaching in the rural
schools:
Norma Timmerman, Vera
Ernst, Patty Pierson, Jeanine
Backus Janet Hull and Mavis
Strong.
Lowry s Hosts—
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lowry enter
tained the pinochle club at their
home Sunday evening. John Ker
senbrock had the high score, Flor
ence Schultz the low score and
Mrs. Hattie Kindlund won the
traveling prize.
.Carload Going to
Hastings Meeting—
The Antelope county farm bu
reau met at the hall on Thursday,
March 17.
Members of the county affairs
committee gave a report on their
meeting with the county super
visors.
Mrs. Theo Weber, county chair
man of Associated Women, led a
panel discussion on “Safety in the
Home and on the Farm.” Mrs.
Clarence Godkin, Mrs. Maynard
Stearns and Mrs. Ralph Shrader
assisted her on the panel.
Discussion followed on women
of the county attending the farm
bureau’s “College of Knowledge”
at Hastings on March 31 and Ap
ril 1. A carload of women will
attend.
Mr. and Mrs. Ewald Spahn en
tertained by showing pictures of
their 1954 trip to Germany.
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Out of Old Nebraska. . .
Indian Activities
Choice Page 1 News
Early Bellevue Editor
Had Mail Ideas
By DR. JAMES C. OLSON
Supt., State Historical Society
If we would seek information
about Nebraskans a hundred
years ago, our best source of con
temporary information is the Ne
braska Palladium, Nebraska Ter
ritory’s first newspaper, publish
ed at Bellevue. A file in the li
brary of the State Historical so
ciety has three issues for March,
1855—the 7th, the 21st, and the
28th.
Indian affairs furnished the
most important items of local
news and editorial comment in
this Nebraska newspaper a cen
tury ago. The editor, in common
with the frontiersmen generally,
was highly impatient of what he
felt to be dilatory tactics on the
part of the government. He want
ed the Indians, and particularly
the Omahas, removed to their re
servation without delay and de
clared ominously in an editorial
of March 21: “If the Indians re
main to vex and injure the hard
working settler, the fault will be
with the government, and not
with them.”
Another item of concern to
the editor was the improvement
of the mail service. In his paper
for March 21 he wrote:
“A mail route embracing Belle
vue, Omaha City, Florence, and
the settlements in the Elk Horn
River, and Loup Fork are needed,
and no time should be lost in get
ting such a route established. Nu
merous families are preparing to
settle all along up the magnificent
valley of the great Platte River,
likewise on the Elk Horn and
Loup Fork. Give them mail facil
ities.”
Good news was provided by an
announcement that Peter A. Sar
py had acquired a new steam
ferryboat and had put it in opera
tion between Bellevue and St.
Mary, la. The editor described it
thus: “She was bought last season
for $12,000, and is altogether the
largest and best ferryboat ever
used on the Missouri River. She
is of sufficient capacity to cross
25 to 30 teams at a time.”
This augured well for Belle
vue because the General Mar
ion, a steam ferry which had
plied between Council Bluffs
and Omaha, had been totally
wrecked the winter before, “so
that crossing at that point is
done by skiffs and scows.”
Below Bellevue the crossing
was done by flatboat and skiff
causing great delay to emigrants.
The editor also advised farmers
in Nebraska to plant hedge fen
ces. He wrote: “The amount of
timber needed for a farm where
hedges or stone walls are made to
take the place of rails for fence is
very small; and can be raised as
well as a crop of com or wheat.
One or two acres of timberland
would be sufficient to afford fire
wood for the largest family,
without a dimunition of amount.
Nor is saving of timber the only
advantage to be urged in favor of
hedges. A hedge, when once
brought to perfection, requires
but a trifling outlay of capital or
labor to keep it in repair.”
Illustrating the state of law and
order was a news item reporting
the organization of the Union As
sociation of Nebraska Territory
and printing its constitution. This,
of course, was a claim club de
signed to prevent claim jumpers
from taking over the claims of
members. Claim clubs flourished
in the territory prior to the open
ing of the land offices, and while
they were extra-legal in nature,
they performed a valuable ser
vice. They passed out of exist
ence when regularly constituted
law enforcement officials began
to function as a part of local
government.
Flowers of the Amorphophallus
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Letters to Editor
I have been interested in trying
to get some information relative to
“Doc Middleton,” one of the early
notorious characters in Holt coun
ty, but haven’t had too much suc
cess. At one time I understood
that there was an article on him
in the Omaha World-Herald along
ir. the early 80’s. I wrote to the
World-Herald but they said there
was a gap in their files about that
time and articles on him were
missing.
Robert Houston informed me
that you did have considerable in
formation on him and that you
had had a good story about “Mid
dleton” in the anniversary edition
of The Frontier several years ago.
I would be very appreciative if
you might have that article or if
you could tell me where I would
have access to it. Thanking you in
advance, I am
Very'truly yours,
FREDRIC L. WILSON, M.D.
(A copy of The Frontier’s dia
mond jubilee issue, June, 1949, has
been forwarded to Doctor Wilson.
We continue to receive requests
for that 64-page issue—the largest
single issue of a Nebraska weekly
newspaper ever published. — Ed
itor.)
Senators Get Protests
on VA Closures—
U.S. Sen. Roman L. Hruska
(R.-Nebr.) says hundreds of pro
tests have been received by his
office after a recommendation
that Veterans’ hospitals at Grand
Island and Lincoln be shut down.
The senator said, “This concern
of Nebraskans for suitable hos
pitalization of veterans legally en
titled to it, is commendable.”
But Hruska expressed satisfac
tion that exhaustive study is
urged by the Hoover commission
on medical services before any
Veterans’ administration hospital
is closed.
Meanwhile, U.S. Sen. Carl T.
Curtis (R.-Nebr.) reports that
atomic power can some day be
harnessed to supply electricity to
towns and rural users throughout
the United States. He pointed out
that atomic power production, at
commercial rates, could not be
expected for at least 10 years.
The atomic energy commission
is spending 8% million dollars an
nually on research to develop
production of electricity for
peacetime uses.
O’Neill News
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hansen
and family of Norfolk and Fran
cis Flood of Neligh visited over
the weekend with Mrs. Hansen
and Francis’ parents, Mr. and
Mrs. E. N. Flood, and Mrs. Han
sen’s father, Carston Hansen.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Tallon and
family of Omaha visited over the
weekend of Saturday, March 12,
until Monday, March 14, with her
parents, Dr. and Mrs. O. W.
French.
Venetian blinds, prompt deliv
ery, made to measure, metal oi
wood, all colors.—J. M. McDon
alds. ti
Robert Carroll, student at the
University of Nebraska, visited
from Friday until Sunday morn
ing at the home of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Carroll.
Mrs. Mark Fangman of Omaha
arrived Sunday to visit for sever
al days’ visit at the home of her
brother-in-law and sister, Mr.
and Mrs. H. J. Lohaus, and her
mother, Mrs. Mary MacLeod.
Mrs. Alvin Bausch of Reseda,
Calif., Mrs. Owen Kissinger and
family of Canoga Park, Calif.,
and Mrs. LeRoy Baumister and
family also of Canoga Park left
Monday ' for their homes after
visiting for two months with
their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Bazelrnan.
Mr. and Mrs. Jarrold Dusatko
of Emmet were last Thursday
guests at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Benze.
Sunday dinner guests at the J
F. Contois home were Mr. and
Mrs. A. W. Contois of Neligh and
Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Workman of
Clearwater.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Houser
were Saturday evening guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Smithson.
Cub Adopts
Health Program—
The Elkhom Valley 4-H club
meeting was held at the George
Winkler home Sunday, March 13.
All of the members were present
and we have another new mem
ber, Earl Miller. We received the
rest of our new material for this
year. Our club is taking up a
health program. We are going to
keep up the record for a number
of years. We were measured and
weighed.
After the pledge we sang songs.
Our next meeting will be at the
George Skopec home April 17.
Everyone will bring wieners and
buns for their own family. We had
sandwiches, pickles, cake and co
coa for lunch. — By Maureen
Schaaf, news reporter.
Legal Notices
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that by
virtue of the authority granted
1 under the provisions of Chapter
72, Article 2, R. S. Nebr., 1943 {as
amended), the Board of Educa
tional Lands and Funds has ap
proved a reclassification and
adopted a new schedule of valua
tions of all school land under
lease in Holt County according to
such reclassification; that sudj
schedule of valuations, together
with a tabulation of the valuation
and amount of semi-annual rental
of each lease, has been filed in the
office of the County Treasurer of
such county according to law; the
said reclassification and revalua
tion to become effective July 1,
1955.
BOARD OF EDUCATIONAL
LANDS & FUNDS
Robert D. Hiatt,' Secretary
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Sunday dinner guests of their
son-in-law and daughter, Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Appleby and fam
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Hennings Hosts—
Sunday, March 13, dinner
guests at the Mr. and Mrs. Bert
Henning home at Atkinson were
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Yus tan of
O’Neill, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Farr
and family and Mr. and Mrs. Al
bert Henning and family.
Attend Convention—
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Contois at
tended the Nebraska Christian
college convention held from
Wednesday, March 16, through
Friday in Norfolk.
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