Prairieland Talk . . .
Right Triumphed for David
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS, Retired, Former Editor The Frontier
LINCOLN—Russia’s military might developed
while preaching peace to outstrip all others has
become a concern of world nations.
There was a Hebrew lad by the name of Da
vid in the long ago, who trotted down to the
brook, gathered up a few stones and put them
into his shepherd’s bag and-with
sling in hand trotted out to face
a giant and that giant’s boasting
and cursing.
“Thou comest out,” said Da
vid, “with a sword and a spear
and a shield. I face thee in the
name of the Lord of hosts, the
God of the armies of Israel
whom thou has defied. And I
will smite thee, and take thy
head off and will give the Car
casses of the hosts of the- Phil
istines this day unto the fowls Romaine
of the air and the wild beasts Saunders
of the earth and all this assembly shall know that
the Lord saveth not with sword and spear for the
battle is His and you are delivered into my hand.”
A stone in a sling in the hand of that Hebrew
lad killed the giant and the giant’s army
took to flight. Not the arm of might but the ever
lasting right will triumph.
For what it may be worth to a tempest-tossed
and troubled world, we now have it from an. eye
witness that Adolph Hitler shot himself and his
paramour, Eva Braun, in 1945, the bodies of both
being soaked in gasoline by the “eye witness” and
burned. Hitler drove the plowshare of conquest
across the realm and was hailed by German poets
and orators and people as their god, in the end
to conclude that it all was worth just a bullet to
his brain. German writers of floral prose and hon
eyed lies of rhyme had sought to emblazon the
fuehrer’s evil deeds and consecrate his crimes.
Heinze Linge, Hitler’s valet and close friend, re
cently set at liberty after 10 years imprisonment
in Russia, tells the story of the end of the man
who brought ruin to the great German nation.
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A child held to his heart with one fatherly
arm, a little girl clinging to the other hand, a guy,
who must be a real dad, was running and play
ing in the open with a group of boys. They had
left the concrete and crowded marts of trade, had
found scope for the exuberance of young life
where grass and flowers are still unsoiled by the
hand of man. When gathering shadows down the
highway of time turn their raven locks to gray,
memory of a father who entered into the pleasures
of childhood in the long ago will be cherished.
* * *
A capital city trust company offers as an in
ducement to open a savings account with them
the bulbs or roots of a plant that'bears gorgeous
floral bloom. . . A stolen automobile, a filling
station holdup that netted the bandit $90, the dis
appearance of a safe containing $1,200 at another
place were among the things pulled off last night
down town. . . . The city authorities decided to of
fer a few hundred thousand dollars in bonds for
sale, the proceeds to be used for more water.
A cultured, attractive appearing matron still in
the flush of young though mature womanhood,
but deprived of the thrill of natural motherhood,
sat on a bench in a public place where grass and
leaf grow with a little one in a baby cart as I
passed that point yesterday. A picture of a mother
and a baby to make you pause. She told me the
story. She is the wife of a professor in an educa
tional institution. We sat under the shadow of its
many buildings. Their home was one of culture
and refinement but there seemed to be something
lacking. Was it the cry of an infant, the patter of
childish feet—a little one to look up to mom and
dad? They went to Omaha, to a children’s home
and came back with a seven-months-old baby boy
who has been adopted as their own. The void in
that cultured home has been filled, and by a boy
baby. With a boy—to carry on the family name,
and the little one who might have remained only
a spawn of a broken home now will be brought
up surrounded by the comforts, love and devotion
of foster parents. My guess is that eminently fitted
lady will go to Omaha and bring home a girl baby
so their son will have a sister.
* * *
He had gone to bed. At an unknown hour that
night another life was snuffed out. Morning re
vealed a lifeless form under circumstances that
indicated a possibility of suicide. Another funeral
and again the rites of burial were intoned. Sur
rounding and over that coffined clay were banks
of floral tributes to the dead. Had the pathway
of life for the 30 years he had lived been strewn
with flowers instead of thorns, who can know?
Should it be a rose for the dead, a thorn for the
living!
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What is this “farm problem” that comes up
every so often? Probably just something for poli
ticians to blather about. Most of the citizens here
and there, neighbors, friends have their problems.
I heard two housewives just now discussing their
problems, little details of home life, merging into
the broader field of community interests. Prob
lems are forever, perpetual, and life would be
stale, flat and unprofitable if there were none to
exercise our faculties and fancies.
* * *
Crazy Woman creek in Wyoming, Dirty Wom
an creek in Colorado. Within the boundaries of
Holt county are a dozen or more small streams,
among which is Louse creek, the Eagle, the Tur
ket, Cache and Dry creeks. The Elkhorn river
flows down midway of the county and the Nio
brara is the north boundary line. The county, 48
x 60 miles, well watered by clear streams, lakes
and flowing wells, constitutes one of the best wa
tered sections of the state.
* * *
A look at the Holt county delinquent tax
list discloses that patriots down in Swan precinct
pay their taxes. A precinct composed of three
townships shows only four properties against
which there are unpaid taxes.
* * *
Prairieland Talker happily is contemplating a
trip to O’Neill soon.
Editorial ....
Rugged Individualist
Gov. J. Bracken Lee of Utah is boldly chal
lenging the government’s right to levy taxes
against United States citizens and spend the
money abroad to pep worn-out countries and sick
governments. He is putting his income tax in
escrow and says he intends to let the supreme
court decide whether or not he should pay it.
Internal revenue people smile and say they
have plenty of legal right to attach the escrow ac
count.
This man Lee is an individualist of the first
class. He is not a Mormon yet he is governor of a
state very nearly dominated by Mormons. He re
sents the United Nations and won’t decree a
United Nations day. In fact, for the past three
years he has made it a point to designate the day
before as a socalled United States day in Utah—and
issues a proclamation to that effect.
Anybody who underestimates Mr. Lee on the
national political scene is making a mistake be
cause the anti-U.N., and anti-One-World feeling
is gaining momentum.
There was a grand hassle at the national Am
erican Legion convention last week in Miami, Fla.,
concerning U.S. participation in the cultural and ed
ucational branch of the United Nations, designated
as UNESCO. A full-scale fight developed on the
floor, and the Chicago Tribune declared the state
department was well-represented in the Legion hall
to help protect good oP UNESCO, the darling of
the One Worlders and liberals.
The Trib said a “stacked” committee tried to
whitewash UNESCO, but the Legion wouldn’t
budge.
The principal interest in the Legion dispute
arises from the fact that internationalist propa
gandists have sought to infiltrate one of the most
nationalistic of American organizations and con
vert it to their own uses. That being so, it is un
derstandable why the Legion is suspicious of at
tempts to use the teaching profession and other
groups influential in shaping public opinion to
advance the U.N. and One World cause.
For, if it can happen to the Legion, it can hap
pen anywhere.
As one of the outspoken foes of the United
Nations, Mr. Lee, the rugged individualist, will
rally many to his side who are sick and tired of
financing the world and shouldering a dispropor
tionate share of the cost (in blood and money) of
“police actions.”
A Twilight of Dictators
With considerable reason the new provisional
government of Argentina has taken up quickly
the offer of Paraquay to intern former President
Peron. Latin-American republics are properly
solicitous about the right of political asylum, but
the ousted Argentina dictator overstepped this •
right by telling newsmen he considered himself
still the constitutional head of the country he had
fled.
Of course, overstepping at this late date is not
too important.
Whoever would erect a democracy on the
wreckage of a police state must know that dictat
orship dies hard. Return of German war prisoners
from Soviet Russia has brought double confirma
tion that the career of Adolph Hitler really did
end in a bomb shelter in Beriln. And the turn of
affairs in Argentina makes it less likely that some
of his lieutenants might find there a base of
operation.
In nearby Brazil a close watch is being kept
lest President-Elect Kubitschek give too much rein
to followers of the rather mildly dictatorial former
President Vargas. Though no hard and fast pre
dictions can be made, the prospect seems fairly
favorable that governments which respect civil
liberties will at the same time protect their own
security in these two major South American coun
tries.
As hemispheric neighbors, we North Amer
icans are properly concerned that democratic
principles prevail in all of South and Central Am
erica.
A Year Has Passed
Time flies!
It has been a whole year since the Chicago &
North Western railroad chiefs in Chicago dropped
the word they were considering taking the ne
cessary steps to discontinue passenger-mail-ex
press trains 13 and 14 operating between Omaha
and Chadron.
But patronage along the line is better now
than it has been for a number of years. Service
is better, too.
The idea of a “$64 million question” may be
more than a Martin and Lewis gag. It may be,
that is, if they can come up with a query or a
stunt with a solution worthy of that much dough.
Like, for example, who staged the Brinks robbery,
and where is the missing money? The cash would
come in handy as a consolation prize.
One of our correspondents, missing a typewrit
er key, tells of two couples who were sopping in
Denver. . . And a “typo” error makes a radio pro
gram “prograb.” Not bad, as a new word for the
give-away shows, is it?
Most people had just as well prepare for the
barrage from the politicians pointing toward the
1956 presidential campaign. It’ll be a long grind
and those who live through it will be eligible for
the Survivors club.
The football season soon will be over. J. Wil
liam Glassford of the University of Nebraska
Cornhuskers no doubt will search for a secluded
hideaway.
Rivaling the politicians’ harangue on the 1956
election is the installment gossip on the romance
of Princess Margaret and Captain Peter.
Have you noticed how even tiny little girls
love to be all dolled up?
CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher
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Audited (ABC) Circulation—2,463 (Mar. 31, 1955)
Pontiacs for ’56, going on display Friday at the Wm. Krotter Company showrooms in O’Neill
and Spencer, include the Star Chief custom four-door Catalina sedan (above). Strato-Streak V-8
engine and the revolutionary new Strato-Flight Hydra-Matic transmission make the ’56 Pontiacs
the smoothest handling, most powerful ever produced by Pontiac.
GM ‘First’ for
1956 Pontiacs
New Transmission Is
Smooth, Effortless
The new 1956 Pontiac models
which go on display at the Wm.
Krotter Company showrooms in
O’Neill and Spencer on Friday,
October 21, introduce a General
Motors “first,” a completely new
Hyrda-Matic transmission. Call
ed Strato-Flight Hydra-Matic by
Pontiac engineers, the new trans
mission is designed to provide
smoother, quieter shifting of
gears.
The Pontiac Strato-Streak V-8
engine, introduced last year, is
larger in 1956 with horsepower
upped to 227 in the Star Chief
and 205 in the 870 and 860 series.
Fifteen new body styles, longer
by 2.4 inches, include six “hard
top” Catalinas, three of them
four-door and three two-door.
“Hardtop” models are available
in all three series, the Star Chief,
870 and 860.
There is a choice of 57 new
colors in “Vogue” two-toning or
solid colors. Interiors utilize new
fabrics and leather in a wide
range of colors.
“Pontiac is proud to be the first
to introduce a big and vital Gen
eral Motors first—Pontiac’s new
Strato-Flight Hydra-Matic trans
mission,” according to Robert
Krotter. “In over two million
test miles, this revolutionary
transmission system demonstrat
ed smooth, effortless shifting.
The new Strato-Flight Hydra
M a t i c transmission combined
with Pontiac’s more powerful V-8
engine will give Pontiac owners
a new experience in positive per
formance. There is no interrup
tion in transmitting power to the
rear wheels and gear action is
barely noticeable. This positive
action insures unhampered accel
eration for quick, safe maneuver
ing.
The longer and lower look of
Pontiac’s new body styles com
bine with big-car riding com
fort in the new series,” Mr. Krot
ter pointed out. “The rich colors
of Pontiac Vogue two-tones are
picked up in the luxurious in
teriors. Exciting new fabrics are
colorful with durability, clean
ability and slideability.”
Foremost among the mechan
ical improvements in the 1956
Pontiacs are the new Strato
Streak V-8 engines—bigger and
sturdier than ever and upped in
horsepower to 227 in the Star
Chief series and 250 in the 860
series. The upsurge in horsepow
er comes from the increased dis
placement, higher compression
ratios up to 8.9:1, and improved
carburetion.
Pontiac offers three Strato
Streak body series in 1956. Long
er by 2.4 inches overall, the 15
new body styles have a longer,
lower looking silhouette.
Most luxurious of the three
series, the Star Chief line con
sists of the custom Catalina two
and four-door “hardtops,” four
door sedan, and convetrible, on a
124-inch wheelbase and the Sa
fari station wagon on 122-inch
wheelbase.
In Pontiac’s middle-priced 870
series with 122-inch wheelbase
are the Catalina two and four
door “hardtops,” a four-door se
dan, a two-door two-seat station
wagon and four-door three-seat
station wagon.
Comprising the low priced 860
series are the Catalina coupes
and sedans, two- and four-door
sedans, two-door two-seat station
wagons and four-door three-seat
station wagons.
Bauman Completes
Stay in Alaska—
Army Pfc. Eugene F. Bauman,
son of Mrs. Ralph Bauman, 132
Bronson avenue, Big Rapids,
Mich., recently returned to San
Francisco, Calif., having spent
the last six months at Umiot in
northwestern Alaska.
Private Bauman is a record
specialist in the 660th engineer
battalion’s base topographical
unit. Bauman graduated from the
quartermaster school at Ft. Lee,
Va., in October, 1954. He was sta
tioned in the quartermaster cen
.
ter at Ft. Lewis, Wash., before
shipping to Alaska.
The Bauman family formerly
resided in O’Neill.
Entertains on Anniversary—
Sharon Murray entertained a
group of girls on Thursday after
noon, October 13. They went on
a. hike in the Rock Falls vicinity
and then enjoyed a wiener roast.
The occasion was Sharon’s birth
day anniversary.
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Public Sale
I am going to quit farming, and will hold a public sale at my
place 3 miles north, % mile west and % mile north of Orchard
on —
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21
— Stale Starts at 1:00 O’clock —
27 — HEAD OF CATTLE — 27
4—MILK COWS — 23—Yearling HEIFERS and STEERS
45 — HEAD OF SPRING PIGS — 45
Machinery, Etc.
Allis-Chalmers tractor, ’49; A-C cultivator; A-C lister; ’51 A-C
combine; 2 eli’s; A-C 2-row plow; IHC H tractor; loader, stack
er, hay boom fits H and M IHC; No. 5 John Deere mower,
new; 2—12-fL IHC rakes; 3-rake hitch; J-D manure spreader;
J-D 4-section drag; J-D windrower, 8-ft.; hay cage, on rubber;
IHC separator, electric; electric sickle grinder; saddle; toote;
chicken feeders and hog troughs; many other articles.
125 CHICKENS — SOME OATS — SOME CORN
9—STACKS ALFALFA — 9 STACKS BOTTOM HAYTbVoh
9 Stacks Alfalfa — 9 Stacks Bottom Hay — Some Baled Straw
TERMS: Cash or see your banker. Nothing to be removed
until settled for.
M. R. CEDERBURG
WALLY O’CONNELL, Auct. CHRIS LIEDING, Manager
BANK OF ORCHARD, Clerk
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Introducing A BIG AND VITAL A new Strato-FIight Hydra-Matic—coupled
GENERAL MOTORS with P°ntiac’s strat0'streak y'8~
results in performance so new and dramatic
AUTOMOTIVE FIRST ”! it must be experienced to be believed!
^ | With all that’6 newest in glamour
_ —and all that's greatest in “go"
—the fabulous ’56 Pontiac, now on display,
awaits your hands on the wheel.
And when you drive it, you will get
the biggest thrill in all your motoring ex
perience—because this car is really loaded!
The big and vital General Motors “First”,
which heads its long list of look-ahead fea
tures, couples the two most advanced high
performance developments in the industry:
1. An all-new, big-bore Strato-Streak V-8
engine that puts 227 blazing horsepower at
your toe-tip.
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2. A completely new Slrato-Flight Hydra
Matic* that delivers this terrific “go” with
a smooth surge of power at any speed.
You now sweep from take-off to top
performance with the ease of a sailplane.
You slow down for traffic, speed up for
passing, or gun for a high hill with the
changing pressure of your toe on the accel
erator the only sign of effort.
You may have had it smooth before—but
never like this! It literally must be experi
enced to be believed.
That’8 plenty—but there’s much more to *
make this a date to be long remembered.
There’s smart, new beauty and luxury
for America s most distinctive car. There a
the safety of big brakes and road-hugging
length . . . the security of a smooth new
ride and sure-footed cornering.
There are many, many other things
which mark this beauty as the glamorous
pattern for tomorrow’s cars. But come in
and see for yourself. Take a long look at
the six luxurious new Four-door and Two
door Catalina hardtops. Sample the results
of its fabulous General Motors “First”.
Sure as you enjoy thrilling action, here’s
your next car! •Optional ot atra cott.
SEE AND DRIVE IT!
ON DISPLAY TOMORROW
Wm. Krotter Co.
305 W. Douglas O’Neill, Nebr.
