Prairieland Talk . . .
Poking ‘One World Philhsophy *
By KOMAINE SAUNDERS, Retired, Former Editor The Frontier
LINCOLN—Our capital city is the mecca for
many group gatherings. The weekend of late Oc
tober brought teachers, professors, heads of insti
tutions of learning—a formidable group of the
highbrows gathered in council chamber and ban
quet hall.
An instructor from an Iowa university was
among the prominent speakers. A public school
teacher, who as a part and parcel of the gather
ing, told me he was impressed by
the message of the university
man from Iowa, who told his
hearers that religious thought
and teaching are sorely needed
in ©ur schools. Education apart
from religious teaching leads to
self-sufficiency.
A teacher who had been sent
at public expense to look in on
the United Nation sessions came
back with “one world” vision
and is reported to favor the ov
erthrow of our national govern
ment in the interests of world Saundera
oeace This teacher today stands in a Nebrask.
School room poking such philosophy down the P
PilS To escape what they consider objectionable
in education, as well as to hold therfsmg *
tions various church groups conduct at their
own charges what are known as parochial schoo-s,
academies8 high schools, colleges and universities.
Sns hav’e been formed to have enacted at the
ne* sess.on of the state legislature a law requir
ing a guaranteed enrollment of 15 pupils in order
Tor a parochial school to operate. If the proposal
were to apply to public schools I f“ he B'rjj|
school down in Swan precinct, as well as others in
Holt and other counties, would have to close.
Placing obstructions on a railway track in
volving possible fatal results, as vandals did down
near Meadow Grove, is carrying Halloween
pranks into the realm of the tragic. . . Nebraska s
population averages about 20 people to the square
mile. The United States as a whole: 57 to the
square mile. Belgium, the most densely populated
of European countries, has 700 to the square mile.
34,232 students from foreign lands were reg
istered in U.S. education centers last school year.
The sheriff in a North Carolina county has re
placed the comic books in the jail with Bibles. . .
Some one has it figured out that 10 percent of the
world’s population consumes 80 percent of all
goods. Getting yours? . . The gent who hypnotizes
another to commit a crime is now considered
equally guilty. . . Put down a figure “2 followed
by 11 zeroes and you have the number of gallons
of water we Yankees consume daily. Maybe it ex
plains why the brewers and distillers are worried.
/. . The world’s population increases by four mil
lion annually—move over.
* * *
The world news has just been plucked from
the air this late Sunday afternoon hour as I look
at that little box-like instrument called a radio.
From lands afar come tales of a troubled world,
our honorable secretary of state meeting with
the great and turning away worried, Egyptians
and Hebrews out of the hatreds of long dead cen
turies marching on to war it out, India, China,
the entire Orient braced for the gathering clouds
of war, the gentler notes of a royal love affair
now demanding attention in sovereign England,
a millionaire sportsman shot by his wife, the
Russian plebs smiling or worried, according to
who tells the story and Minnesota democrats at
a banquet of wine and fresh fish introduce us to
the next president—Ad Stevenson!
* * *
A full stomach induces slumber; privation
arouses to action.
, Yellow leaves of autumn carpet the lawn. Elm
anH cottonwood and oak stand stripped of sum
mer adornment reaching nude arms upward. A
little bird hops to the porch bower not knowing
what to do now that its summer treetop home has
lost its foliage, wheels away on outspread wings
and may be in Mexico by now. Those weather
trouble makers have been saying snows will blow
in from the Arctic today that were promised for
yesterday, but the sun shines to warm and bright
en the land by day and the full moon rides over
head by night, a cloudless blue sky by day, aglow
at night with countless dots of light. And so the
days, the nights, come and go while everywhere
we are on the go on hurrying feet or slide in and
grasp the steering wheel to get there before the
other fellow. And here comes down the calendar
another Thanksgiving feast, then Christmas in
troduced by gifts we love to bestow.
A three-man committee is scouting the country
visiting governor’s mansions in various states to
load up with ideas, plans and specifications for a
proposed new residence for Nebraska governors.
Whereupon Mrs. Dwight Griswold comes out in
print to inquire why women were not included as
members of that committee, pointing out that it is
the wife of the governor who has the manage
ment of affairs in that dignitary’s residence. Hav
ing been the mistress of our ancient statehouse
mansion, Mrs. Griswold doubtless knows more
about what the layout of such a structure should
be than any or all the guys who have been as
signed the job. The ladies should be consulted or
turn the whole thing over to them.
During a visit to O’Neill in late October, I
had crossed Fifth street two blocks north of Doug
las, headed for Fourth steet. A call came from a
doorway on the opposite side of the street. Cross
ing over, I was greeted and invited into the pa
latial home of Mr. and Mrs. Huhg J. Birmingham
to see the bits of art treasures from Oriental lands
brought to the city by their daughter, Miss Mary
Louise, who has been to the far places of the earth
in Red Cross service. Since the days of Miss
Zink’s “grass widow” and before, interesting
things have been exhibited, but it remained for a
native daughter to leave O’Neill, go to the ends
of the earth and bring home works of art never
seen here before. While Hugh was guiding me
from den to den to see the objects, the impression
of earlier in the day still lingered. At heart, Hugh
as a better cowboy than art critic. He had taken
me out that morning to see his herd of Angus
beeves just west of town. The son of a lumber
man, Hugh’s interest turns to livestock
* * *
Hallowe’en this year introduced a new thing
in the neighborhood. Well groomed, clean and
courteous teen-age young fellows rang door bells,
asked for any money the householder had to spare
for the cause they represented. They were raising
funds, it was explained, to help in providing
homes and food and clothing for fatherless and
motherless young children in the homeland and
abroad. And so an annual occasion devoted to van •
dalism for this once at least promotes a worthy
undertaking. How much the harvest was has not
been learned. The city of Lincoln, in the annual
“chest drive” for charitable work has garnered
over a half million dollars.
* * *
Billy Hagerty, Sliver Triggs, Sherd Simons
—the likes of these will never again be seen on
the streets of O’Neill. And of the important
ones—yet, who shall say this one or that one
will count as important when the drumbeat of
eternity sounds—will there be a counterpart of
such as Doc Mathews, Moses P. Kinkaid, M. F.
Harrington, R. R. Dickson, Neil Brennan, John
McCafferty, John Mann, Ed Gallagher, all in
the realm of law and business; or in the spirit
ual realm another Rev. Bartley Blaine or a Very
Rev. M. F. Cassidy?
Editorial ....
Hoover Describes Phoney(Liberals ’
We were leafing through the pages of a book
published in 1950 which listed the affiliations of
a number of the leading personalities in the the
atrical, entertainment and literary world.
A well documented book, it listed the political
affiliations of these people with the communist and
communist front organizations that were under
mining America.
Publicity has removed a few of these people
from their high income brackets, but very few.
Too many are still confronting us, “as great art
ists.” from our TV and movie screens, our theat
rical stages and from the pages of magazines and
newspapers.
Ir. the past few years it has become financially
unwise taste to be known as a “lefty” so these
persons have done a chameleon-like change to
“great liberals.”
Biding their time they will again emerge, if
and when the time is ripe, from under their flat
rocks like the white, grubby lice they are.
“Liberal” is the most dangerously misused
word in the American vocabulary of today.
It is so fashionable to be known as a “liberal”
rather than a reactionary. And under that “liberal”
label we get the weirdest assortment of ideology
one can imagine, true and honest liberals and a
.* conglomeration of phonies and lefties.
J. Edgar Hoover, who is the best informed
and mOst effective enemy of communism, had
this to say the other day:
“Communists do their most destructive work
through fictitious liberals.”
Hoover pointed out that true liberalism and
communism are and must be implacable enemies,
o True liberalism has been a part of the American
tradition since our country’s birth and always will
be
Mr. Hoover defined the phoney “liberal” as
follows:
“They are individuals who through insidiously
slanted and sly propagandist writings and reports
oppose urgently needed internal security meas
ures: present the menace of communism as a myth
of hysteria; urge that we tolerate the subversive
acts of communists because communists are only
‘non-conformists’; pretend that the communist
party is a political movement and that it is im
proper to consider it a criminal conspiracy linked
to a world conspiracy to overthrow our government
by force and violence.”
The main objective of the communist attack
now is to smear the confidential informant as a
means of discrediting judicial processes.
Mr. Hoover reminds us that the use of confi
dential informants goes back to the days of the
Old Testament.
It is a good thing to remember that, unlike
"old soldiers,” “communists never die—they just
fade away—temporarily.”
‘Cow Country Champions’
During the past few days the Save-the-Trains
association cooked up a veterans’ day football
game between the undefeated class C Ewing Ti
gers and the top-ranking class B Gordon Broncos
from out in northwestern Nebraska. The afternoon
game was to have been played at Ainsworth. Spe
cial trains were to have converged on Ainsworth
from Norfolk and from Chadron, bulging with
football players, bands, pepsters, partisans and
family groups having an outing highlighted by a
daylight train ride.
The C&NW was to have moved streamlined
coaches one thousand miles from Chicago to Chad
ron to be in position to handle the throngs.
Ewing school officials were highly cooperative,
their team had sailed through 16 straight victories,
the townspeople were expectant.
Negotiations with Gordon by the train-saving
committee were begun by telephone on Wednes
day, November 2. The school superintendent, J. C.
Berguson, was in Colorado, but he was contacted
by the coach, and apparently gave his approval—
provided the Gordon board of education approved.
The board convened on Thursday and the presi
dent of the board telephoned A. P. Jaszkowiak
saying “the plan is okay—go ahead.”
Mr. Jaszkowiak and John C. Watson, both of
O’Neill, met the Gordon coach at Ainsworth on
Friday night and plans were finalized with both
the coach and the Ainsworth officials.
Publicity was released Saturday and advance
ticket sales were to begin Monday at Gordon. On
the east end, where the “haul” was shorter and
where several hundred more passengers were
needed, ticket sales were begun Saturday. The
railroad in Chicago needed to know how much
equpiment would be needed where. Deadline on
that information was set for Tuesday noon.
On Monday the Gordon superintendent began
to find reasons why the game couldn’t be played.
The Gordon civic group president, train-saving
committeemen and hundreds of people in Gordon
were dumbfounded by the turn of events. One
member of the board of education sided with Su
perintendent Berguson. The S-T-A officials, close
to the finalizing deadline with the railroad, threw
up their arms and cancelled everything.
Thus the Ewing Tigers became the unofficial
grid champions of the cow country.
Frontier
CARROLL W STEWART, Editoi and Publisher
Editorial & Business Offices: 122 South Fourth St.
Address correspondence: Box 330. (O’Neill, Nebr
Established in 1880 - Publisned Each Thursday
Entered at the postoffice in O’Neill, Holt""coun
ty- Nebraska, as second-class mail matter under
'he Act of Congress of March 3. '870 This news
Daper is a member of the Nebraska Press Associa
'•>n. National Editorial Association and the Audit
Bureau of Circulations.
Audited (ABC) Circulation—2.463 (Mar 31. 1955)
When You and I Were Young . . .
End of Populism
Told by Headlines
Hall, Chittick Wage
Hot Campaigns
50 Years Ago
The grand old party gains vic
tory! Holt county reformers re
form the reformers! End of pop
ulism! Those were the headlines.
Sheriff Hall and Treasurer-Elect
Chittick, the two hardest fought
candidiates of the campaign, led
the party vote by large majori
ties. . . The Carlisles, one of the
most versatile comedy teams on
the American stage, will be seen
at the opera house in the stage
production, “Rip Van Winkle.” . .
Fred Martin’s two small boys of
Atkinson met with a serious ac
cident which may result in one
of them losing his eyesight. They
got some loaded shells and cut
them open, putting the powder
into an old tin can, touching off
the powder with a match. . . Dr.
Douglass monopolizes both sides
of the street and acts like a little
boy with his first new red wagon.
The reason—a little girl weigh
ing 8% pounds arrived at his
house.
20 Years Ago
The most serious fire in months
broke out in the Shelhamer’s fill
ing station. The building was en
tirely demolished and loss was
estimated at several thousand
dollars. Police Chief Chet Cal
kins suffered a severe electric
shock in the handling of a wire
while trying to reach Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Shelhamer, who were
trapped upstairs with their eight
months-old son. . . Miss Catherine
Finley entertained 13 young la
dies at a Hallowe’en party. . Work
was begun on the two blocks
north of Douglas street on Fourth
in order to put in the copper wa
ter connections preparatory to
the laying of the pavement next
spring. . . C. A. (“Doc”) Green of
Lincoln was in the city. He is a
candidate for the republican
nomination for lieutenant-gov
ernor on the republican ticket. . .
Hundreds of taxpayers inspected
the courthouse here and every
one expressed themselves as sur
prised at the condition of the Holt
headquarters.
10 Years Ago
Mrs. "Wagner of the state su
perintendent’s office in Lincoln
was in the city and in company
with Miss McCullough visited a
rural school or two. . . Kenneth
Coover, 21, of Page was accident
ally shot while out hunting. He
is in a Norfolk hospital and his
condition is critical. . . Army
Capt. R. J. Parr, formerly as
sistant at St. Patrick’s Cathoiic
church and just back from army
duty in Italy, was in the city
during the week. . . The first cold
day of the season brought in an
alarm of fire. The home of Rev.
Lloyd Mullis, adjacent tr> the
Methodist church, was damaged
when a box of clothing and bed
ding was found to be on fire.
One Year Ago
Twelve hundred persons, who
heard James Melton sing a two
hour concert at the O’Neill pub
lic school auditorium, ran out of
superlatives before they couid get
into their automobiles and chive
away. . . A 26-year-old newly
ordained Catholic priest from the
Galway district of Ireland stop
ped off in O’Neill to visit kinfolk.
Rev. John Hynes was enroute
with 20 other young Irish priests
to posts in the Philippines, Japan
and Korea. . . Two hundred peo
ple attended the dedication ser
vices for the Rev. Victor Ray Bell
memorial chimes at the Metho
dist church here. . . Mrs. Max
Karo, 54, of Stuart, who had been
a lifelong Holt county resident,
died in, the Atkinson Memorial
hospital. . . Rev. J. Olen Ken
nell, his wife and five children
were honored at a reception in
the First Presbyterian chirch
parlors. The Kennell family ar
rived in the city last week from
Orleans, where they had been
the past five years.
Kansas Visitor Here—
Joseph J. Flynn of Parsons,
Kans., stopped in O’Neill Sunday
evening to visit friends. Mr.
Flynn, who is recognized as one
of the best trap shooters in Kan
sas, was enroute to Kimball, S.D.
Miss Dorothy and Don Dono
hoe spent the weekend in Sid
ney, la., visiting Mr. and Mrs.
Vurl Cloyd.
Royal Theater
— O'NEILL, NEBR. —
Thurs, Nov. 10
Family Night
ONE DESIRE
Print by technicolor. Starring
Anne Baxter, Rock Hudson, Julie
Adams with Carl Benton Reid,
Natalie Wood. Tacey had been
many things to many men . . . but
only Clint, the gambler, took her
as he found her . . . and loved
her for what she was!
Family admitted for 2 adult
tickets; adults 50c; children 12c
Fri-Sat. Nov. 11-12
WICHITA
Cinemascope and technicolor.
Starring Joel McCrea, Vera Miles,
Lloyd Bridges. The incredible,
but true story of Wyatt Karp,
greatest of all the gunfighters.
Adults 50c; children 12c; matinee
Sat. 2:30. Children nnder 12 ad
mitted free when accompanied
by parent
Sun.-Mon.-Tues. Nov. 13-14-15
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis in
YOU’RE NEVER TOO YOUNG
Co-starring Diana Lynn and
Nina Foch. Color by technicolor.
Vista Vision, high fidelity. Dean
and Jerry are cutting up on the
campus with 500 luscious co-eds!
Dean’s the singing dean of a
girls’ school . . . Jerry’s a kidder
in kid’s clothing who proves in
clinches that you’re never too
y oung!
\dults 50c; children 12c; matinee
Min. 2:30. All children unless in
arms must have tickets
Ruroede, Tinsley
Purchase Land
SOUTH FORK—The land sale
of Edward and Ervin Pribnow on
Saturday was well attended.
The farm of Edward Pribnow
sold for $60.50 per acre to Don
Ruroede. The farm of Ervin Prib
now sold for $39.50 per acre, also
to Mr. Ruroede, while the pasture
was bought by Jim Tinsley for
$30 per acre.
The Upper Room of the Ewing
Methodist church served lunch.
The ladies who served were Mrs
Tinsley, Mrs. Sedivy, Mrs. Earl
Pierson, Mrs. Archie Tuttle and
Mrs. Cliff Fleming.
Other South Fork News
Jack and Shirley Hawk of Om
aha spent the weekend with then
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John
Hawk.
Tom Lambert put down a well
for Cliff Fleming one day last
week.
Russel Woeppel spent the
weekend with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Woeppel. Russel
attends the Grand Island Busi
ness college.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Slizoski
and family spent the weekend in
Omaha visiting relatives.
Riverside News
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Johnston
and family attended the wedding
of Archie’s nephew, David John
ston, in Columbus Saturday.
Mrs. Earl Pierson spent Friday
afternoon at the Dewitt Hoke
home. The two ladies prepared
things to be served at lunch at
the Prebnow farm sale Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Pierson helped
with lunch at this sale.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Napier
were callers Sunday afternoon at |
the Lynn Fry home.
Mrs. Ralph Shrader and Diane
went to Tilden Friday.
A large crowd attended the
prayer conference at the River
side church Saturday of last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Pierson call
ed at the Edward Pribnow home
Sunday afternoon to visit with
Marvin and Maranna Pribnow of
Cedar Rapids, who were up to
truck some of Mr. Pribnows ma
chinery. Mr. Pribnow plans to
move in the spring.
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Fink and
Jim Pollock visited at the Lee
Fink home Friday afternoon.
Walt Snyder of Ainsworth was
buried at Page Tuesday, Novem
ber 7. He was a brother-in-law of
Bert Fink.
Mr. and Mrs. Duane Jensen and
daughters of Newman Grove
were overnight guests Saturday
at the Bill Fry home. They were
Sunday dinner guests at the Dale
Napier home and Sunday evening
ate turkey supper at the Bill Fry
home. Other guests were Mr. and
Mrs. Dale Napier and Mr. and
Mrs. Richard Napier and daugh
ters.
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Fink went to
Fremont Saturday. Mr. and Mrs.
Russell Fink accompanied them
to Elm Creek.
Howard and Vera Miller visit
ed at the Grant Motts Sunday af
ternoon.
Mrs. Alfred Napier and Glenda
and Mrs. John Wunner were call
ers at the Daisy Miller home.
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Harpster
and sons were Sunday guests at
the home of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Web Napier.
Janell Hoke was an overnight
guest Wednesday, November 9, at
the Watson McDonald home.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Lofquist add
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Hobbs, jr.,
went to Omaha Sunday.
Johnny Millers and his mother,
Anna Miller called at the Otto
Kallhoff home Sunday.
It Happened In NEBRASKA
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Nebraska’s first “highway” was smooth, hard-packed—and 100 feet
wide! “Paved” only by the passing of thousands of oxen, mules, horses
and plodding feet, the Oregon Trail followed the south bank of the
Platte on its route to the West.
Today over the route of the old Oregon NEBRASKA DIVISION
Trail aie cities and towns which represent
the new Nebraska. A part of this “new- United States
ness” is our modern-day respect for Ne- Brewers
braska taverns—earned by the operators’ Foundation
.awareness to community wishes and needs. . T.
710 Fine Nat 1 Bank Bldg., Lincoln
I Mr. and Mrs. Art Bushardt and
Jacky and Pamella, spent Sunday
at the Dave Pollock home.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Anderson
visited at the home of their
daughter, Mrs. Robert McDaniels.
Booth in Solo
Tonight—
Sixty-five University of Ne
braska members of Phi Mu Alpha
Sinfonia, national professional
music fraternity, will present
their fall concert tonight (Thurs
day) at 7:30 o’clock in the student
union ballroom. Wesley Reist, in
structor of music, and Jack Sni
der, instructor in brass and the
ory, will direct the program. Du
ane Booth of O’Neill is a member
of the Glee club and plays a solo
with the Sinfonia Sinfonette.
Dinner Guests—
Mr. and Mrs. Burton Kimball
and Mrs. Bea Wilson were Sun
day dinner guests at the Mrs,
Robert Cook home.
Takes Post with
Omaha Court—
Miss Ardyce Alton, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Elvin Alton of O’
Neill, who recently was graduat
ed from the Commercial Exten
sion School of Commerce in Oma
ha, has accepted a position as dep
uty clerk of the United States
district court in Omaha. She is a
graduate of the O’Neill high
school class of 1955.
Observe Open-House—
Rev. and Mrs. J. Olen Kennell
held open-house Sunday after
noon from 2:30 to 6 o’clock, ob
serving their first anniversary in
O’Neill.
Dr. J. L. Sherbahn
Vz Block So. of Ford Garage
Complete X-Ray Equipment
O’Neill, Nebraska
II SO
Northwest Nebraska Hereford Association
Annual Fall
SHOW and SALE
Fair Grounds
VALENTINE, NEBRASKA
Friday, November 18
Show 9:00 A.M. Sale 1.00 P.M.
55 BULLS - 2 FEMALES
All strong aged bulls, ready for heavy
service. Mostly 2-year-olds. Several
i herd bull prospects.
CONSIGNORS
Kenneth Leistritz, Lakeside; Hubert Forny, Lakeside; Donald
Forney, Lakeside; Mrs. Roy Ross, Gordon; Lewis Schmit, Gor
don; Larry Schmit, Gordon; Dale Steele, Bassett; Harry
Brown, Bassett; Leonard Phipps, Whitman; Everett Brown, Val
entine; Brown & Porch, Valentine; Harold J. Harms, Valentine;
Harley Dehaven, Hay Springs; Lyle Best, Wood Lake; Gue &
Slider, Crawford; Wilford Scott, Chadron; Furman Hereford
Ranch, Marsland.
EMIL REZAC, Julge CHARLES CORKLE, Auct.
I Northwest Nebr. Hereford Assn. Inc.
Wilbur Drybread Harold J. Harms
President Sale Manager
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