Prairieland Talk . . .
Foreign Relations May Be Issue
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS, Retired, Former Editor The Frontier
LINCOLN—The great game of American pol
itics has begun to smolder. The democrats are in
control of the national law-making body. That is
not enough, they want it all. Half a loaf never
satisfied a politician.
What the war cry will be heading into a na
tional election next year is yet to be sounded,
though rumblings so far indicate
the bombardment will be direct
ed at the administration’s for
eign relations policy. Following
three disastrous wars within a
generation under the Wilson
Roosevelt - Truman administra
tions that brought death and
desolation to a million American
homes, the bugle call to arms
has now been stilled and we
are at peace, our military forces
guarding that peace.
Politics breeds more or less Romaine
partisan hogwash, and that is Saunders
the Yankee privilege. Out of this hog wash the
GOP is crowned with the ignominy of sponsoring
“big business.” Maybe so. No big business means
no little business. When big business closed the
factory doors, as conditions forced it to do in the
1890’s and 1930’s, bread lines and soup kitchens
and the tramp of armies of the unemployed
sounded the doleful cadence of tough times. Big
" business and little business, from railroading to
shoe cobbling, seem to be doing very well while
a democratic congress and republican chief execu
tive’s supporters exchange partisan hog wash
thrusts.
* * *
Jack Gilman down there by Amelia rolled
out to the Scottsbluff country and came borne
with a load of spuds. Are they becoming so
high-toned down there where the artesian wells
flow that was the home of the late Rhody Ad
ams that they will no more stoop to plant a po
tato? And where could you grow better ones!
* * *
The marriage of Kittie Bright to Harvey
Stocking took place at the home of the bride’s fa
ther, C. L. Bright, November 25, 1902. This is the
way brides and bridegrooms were editorially
treated in those days: “The bride is a youny lady
of amiable ways and charming personality and has
always been a favorite among her companions. The
bridegroom is a traveling representative of the
Hanford Produce Co. of Sioux City, has made O’
Neill his headquarters the past five years. He is
an energetic and capable young man and has many
friends here.” . . Duane Sammon and Mamie
Pierce, both of Amelia, were married by County
Judge Morgan. . . “Will Build to the Coast” was
a headline at-the top of a story pertaining to a
railroad that had and still has a depot in O’Neill.
. . . Phillip Winegartner of Racine, Wise., was in
the city visiting his brother, George, and sister,
Mrs. Cress. . . The Frontier editor was of “the
opinion that there was a good thing financially for
the one who would start an electric light plant in
O’Neill.”
A graying beard protruding from the grime of
days unwashed, clothing soiled and badly worn,
head bowed and halting stride as he walks away
from the hovel he now regards as a dwelling place
and heads uptown to the corner drug store, ex
tracts a nickel from his ample store, lays it down
and walks out with a copy of the morning paper.
Informed on world events, unsociable and may
respond with a grunt without looking up when
greeted by a passerby. One of those misfits of hu
man society that neither wills nor wishes to be
different, a wreckage from the pangs of unrequit
ed love of a long dead youthful romance. It affects
a few guys that way, while most fellows snap out of
it and soon are ensnared by a more serious affair
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If there should be some troubled soul upon
time’s highway, some burdened fellow creature
that life has dealt a crushing blow that I meet
upon the way today and he knows not where to
go, a stranger, man or child, I chance to meet,
maybe some word of mine, an oustretched hand
or just a smile will help to lift that crushing load.
* * *
The noncoms ont at the air base have a club.
Some gent felt they over-stocked with non-es
sentials in the air service, broke in and made a
haul of twelve hundred dollars worth of cig
arettes, cigars, candy and gum.
Flashing a gleaming white background through
a bank window and on that white background an
artist’s brush had traced in bold letters: “Every
body Come.” A church group was having an event
climaxed by a supper. A social function, a place to
meet and mingle with unworried ladies and gents
for an evening of fellowship. Or is that it? I see
at the bottom of that gleaming white square of
cardboard: “Admission: Children 75c, adults
$1.25.” That’s it-—a commercial enterprise. Money
needed for the pastor’s salary. They are paid sal
aries now. In the long ago in O’Neill a gentle
man of the cloth got the few nickels and dimes
gathered once a week on the collection plate.
Harking back across the centuries the Hebrew
temple service and those who ministered therein
were supported by the tithe brought in by the
people. That system continues today by the de
scendants of the ancients and the clergy of at least
one Christian church group lives in moderate lux
ury out of one-tenth of the earnings of the mem
bers of then- flocks.
* * *
The drop in prices of fat cattle hits the feed
ers, some of whom now ask for Uncle Sam to do
something for them. Others take their losses as
part of the game they are in. Livestock and grain
prices, wages and salaries and everything with
money value attached is still too high. Prices
must eventually drop to a lower level and as
usual it begins with agricultural interests. How
ever, a recent visit with a real son of the soil and
a look at the countryside out where things grow
and herds roam, one arrives at the conclusion that
our farming interests still function on a sound ba
sis. And when a rancher from Alberta, Canada,
comes down here and puts up $3,100 for a Ne
braska bred bull, as was done at the Hereford sale
at Broken Bow last week, it indicates there is
still faith in the future of the cattle industry.
* * *
Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Adams are
glad to learn that they have returned to Holt
county, their wanderings over. Leo is a native
son, knows the banking business and now is
connected with the Atkinson bank.
* * *
The north wind moans across the land, rat
tling at door and window. Morning glory and as
ter bloom no more and dead leaves drift with the
wind. Robin and thrush and yellow-plumed canary
are gone and we miss their song. White clouds
drift across the etherial blue, lights and shadows
play upon nature’s frost bitten scene and our step
is quickened as we hasten along, then meet a lit
tle miss in coat and hood and muff on her way to
school. We pause for a moment in the wind to ex
change greetings and she looks up at granddad
with a smile—my own charming little granddaugh
ter. And there it seems is where “mercy and truth
are met together, and righteousness and peace
have kissed each other.” The wind moans, cars
rush along and man and child go on their way as
the gales from out the Arctic regions sweep the
continent.
* * *
The ladies, having exhausted native modes,
now turn to the Orient and the ultra do for flow
ing tresses is the Chinese que. If the three-dollar
hair cut proposed by some union barbers becomes
general, men may soon be seen with braided hair
hanging down over manly shoulders.
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.
Terms of Subscription: In Nebraska, $2.50 per
year; elsewhere in the United States, $3 per year;
rates abroad provided on request. All subscriptions
are paid-in-advance.
Audited (ABC) Circulation—2,463 (Mar. 31, 1955)
An OPPORTUNITY
and a
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RESPONSIBILITY
Consumers Public Power District, along with the whole state, re
joiced in the recent announcement that Nebraska was one step-and a
large one—nearer to building a nuclear power plant.
Investigation and study by the Division of Nebraska Resources,
the University of Nebraska and Consumers’ staff over the past few
years have revealed that the advantages to Nebraska of a nuclear
power plant are multiple. These advantages lie not only in providing
for the generation of electricity with a new “fuel” that experts agree
will replace conventional fuels in the years ahead, but in developing
and fostering an entirely new industrial and agricultural economy for
our state, built around the use of the nuclear by-products.
Coupled with the joy came the sobering thought that the real
work is just starting. The negotiation of contracts, the solution of
problems with answers unknown as of today, and the training of em
ployees in new tasks, are all ahead. When they are successfully com
pleted, Nebraska will have nuclear power, a milestone in the world’s
progress.
The entire Consumers organization is determined to successfully
complete its part of the task without delay.
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Bringing a New Era to Nebraska” explains
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CONSUMERS PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT
When You and I Were Young . . .
Deaver Raps City
for Being ‘Dark’
Bad Impression for
New Arrivals
50 Years Ago
Farmers adjacent to O’Neill are
making considerable improve
ments on their farms in the way
of building. The O’Neill lumber
vards are kept oretty busy load
ing farmers’ wagons with lumber.
. . . Mr. and Mrs. Roy Townsend
are the parents of a son. Roy says
he is going to make him general
manager of the Townsend Bridge
company and, if he is as success
ful in running the bridge business
as he is his home, he will make
all competitors look like a 20-cent
piece alongside a double eagle. . .
Fred Morse informs us that the
Great Northern has designated
the station west of Plainview as
Copenhagen. The settlement is
Danish and the name pleases!
them. . . Speaking of the propo- 1
sition of J. P. Connolly to build
an electric light plant in O’Neill,
D. C. Deaver said: “I know of no
city the size and importance of
O’Neill that is dark. A large per
centage of the people who come
here with a view of investing
money in Holt county arrive on
the night train and as most peo
ple are influenced by their first
impressions, the finding of the city
in darkness gives them a poor
first impression.”
20 Years Ago
Fire broke out along the North
Western railway southwest of O’
Neill on hay land owned by Mrs.
James O’Conner, and destroyed
seven tons of hay. Thirteen acres
of fall feed grass owned by James
Moore also was destroyed. . .
Judge Robert Baker, formerly a
resident of this county, died at
his home at Ainsworth. . . Donald
Mitchell, 14, was injured when
a car struck his bicycle. . . Char
les Richardson sold his building
to the Putnam Implement com
pany. L. D. Putnam will open an
implement store and handle John
Deere farm machinery and imple
ments. The store will be managed
by Mr. Putnam, formerly of
Gregory, S.D. . . Mr. and Mrs.
Anthony Sobotka of Inman are
the parents of a 10-pound babv
boy. . . Joe Martin, Mr. and Mrs.
Francis Bazelman, Mr. and Mrs.
Martin Bazelman and Fred drove
north to witness the landing of
the big balloon. There were hun
dreds of cars from all directions
there to view the landing.
10 Years Ago
They came a thousand strong
to the show and banquet sponsor
ed by the Commercial club for
the veterans’ day celebration. . .
Mrs. Elizabeth Jones was sur
prised by a group of friends on
her birthday anniversary. The
evening was spent playing cards.
. . . The Catholic Daughters of
O’Neill received 22 new members
and reinstatements. . . Mrs. Mary
Hartigan has moved her beauty
shop to the second floor of the
Farmers Union store in Page. . .
Mrs. Hazel Ott was hostess to
the Amelia Study club. Twenty
members were present. . . Miss
Marjorie Sholes and Pvt. Dean
Hopkins were married at the
Methodist church in Inman. . .
Miss Marjorie. Cronin left for
Santa Barbara, Calif., where she
will spend some time with her
uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs,
Fred Butts.
One Year Ago
Hundreds of people lined the
streets of Chambers for a centen
nial parade, which featured the
veterans’ day observance. . .
Family night will be observed by
the Methodists at the church. . .
Funeral services were held for
Mrs. Lottie Thompson, 67, who
died at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. Pete Cooper, at Orchard. . .
Charles. R. Stout of Neligh has
been named as the new Harting
ton sub-district superintendent
for Consumers Public Power
district. . . The Inman WSCS met
Thursday in the Maxcy Memorial
addition for a regular meeting.
. . . Holt County Sheriff Leo
Tomjack says Jack Montgomery
has confessed burglarizing the
Gill Motor company in Stuart.
He also admitted robbing the
William Krotter Lumber com
pany, Flannigan Red & White
store and the Circle bar, all of
Stuart.
Tune in “Voice of The Fron
tier”, thrice weekly!
Likes About Month
Are Told—
The Golden Keys club met Fri
day, November 11. A film “The
Dog and the Cat” was shown.
Roll call was answered with
“What We Like About Novem
ber”.
Nearly all the mothers visited
the lower ‘grade room during
American education week.
The upper grades recently pur
chased new games. They have
been helping their teacher fold
tuberculosis letters. — By Mary
Richards, news reporter.
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