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“No Real Prosperity ”
By ROM AINU SAUNDERS. Retired. Former Editor Tbr Frontier
LINCOLN — With about 67 million citizens
who work with their hands holding jobs and re- i
ceivmg a weekly pay check, other millions in
the professions under high pressure, we in
Yankee Land seemed to be doing alright. But out
of that partisan assembly of democrats came the
word that there is “no real prosperity.”
“My barber,” who conducts a shop here ir
the city, goes to a nearby vil
lage one night a week to shear
the locks of villagers. Told me
he came home from his last trip
to the village with $16 in his
pocket, the evening’s receipts.
No "real prosperity” — the
kind that the political god of
those convention delegates
tirought about based on blood
shed, on bursting bombs and ru
ined lands abroad, sorrowing
mothers and fathers and sweet
hearts and desolated homes. Romaine
The kind of “prosperity" Saunders
experienced during the administration of an ear
lier period of democratic rule when Nebraska
grain growers got five cents a bushel for corn,
farm women three cents a dozen for eggs, Holt
county ranchers $15 for a fat steer—when armies
of unemployed tramped the country over, bread
lines and a free bowl of soup.
No “real prosperity”—real or fictitious, what
more do you want?
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Sally, living just across the street, opened the
bird cage for her parakeet to leave its narrow
abode and hop about the room. A door opening
to the world of birds and other wildlings had
been left ajar. The parakeet darted out on swift
wing, flew to a high treetop to perch upon a twig.
Rain came, lightning flashed and thunder crashed.
Parakeet perched and sat on a twig in that tree
as Sally with measured and mellowed words
sought to induce her bird to return to its cage.
The bird was out where wild things make their
home. All life seeks freedom from confinement.
That little winged creature’s first night of freedom
was a night of storm and crashing thunder. It may
have perished, but it was free. ,
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If the CiNW's long passenger train trailing
across north-Nebraska is operated at a loss,
why not cut it down to a combination baggage
and mail car and one coach? North-Nebraska
should have some sort of passenger train service
or tear up the rails.
* * *
The clean, white home of our governors for
more than three score years, standing in a setting
of shrubs and green verdure at 15th and H streets
near the state capitol, is to be wrecked to make
•way for a mansion of ornate design. In view of
this being the “beef s-tate,” why not put up a
ranch house at that corner to be the home of fu
ture governors? That would have had an appeal
to the late Sam McKelvie, who did not occupy the
“mansion” when serving as governor.
Manneola is but a memory—the Addisons, the
George B. Little homestead abode on Louse
creek not even a memory. The H R- Henrys, La
mon’s and Richard’s grazing herds, the pioneeis
who traveled those prairie trails 70 years ago aru
no more. But out of the struggles of the past, out
o/ the joy and pain, the smiles and tears of the
years now gone there stand erect with snow
crowned heads, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Tomlinson. I
have read the story of their 60th wedding anniver
sary in The Frontier and reach a hand across 200
miles of prairieland to grasp their hands and offer
congratulations as they now face the gathering
shadows of lfie’s sunset hand-in-hand. I do not
know when Hank last visited the scenes of his
youth but more than 60 years hang a curtain over
the enchanted hills looking down upon the abode
of John Addison since Prairieland Talker rode his
bay gelding across the gulches of Louse creek to
pull up at John's hospitable home. The landscape
stretches its endless miles to the distant blue hori
zon. Where are the friends we once knew, Hans?
Shall marble slabs in the Minneola graveyard give
the answer?
» • •
It’s enough to make a well man sick. The
president’s health is probably about the average
of that of other public men and this thing of
bringing up a sore toe as a campaign Issue is
about the limit. What have the outs to offer
that they should be voted in as government
bosses?
• • •
Hans Herman Koenig writes from a West
German point to a Lincoln paper hoping to locate
relatives whom, he says, came to America and lo
cated at Butte, Boyd county, “in 1882.” Of course,
there was neither Boyd county nor Butte at that
time or for 10 years later. What is Boyd county to
day was the domain of Spotted Tail and his Sioux
Indian warriors until it was withdrawn from the
Rosebud and opened for white settlers, deriving
the name Bovd county in the early 1890’s from
the then governor of Nebraska, Mr. Boyd. The
writer of the letter hopes to locate relatives and
come here himself. His father died in a Czechoslo
vakian concentration camp from which the son
has escaped, and his mother died of a broken
heart. He believes he has an uncle by the name of
Koenig somewhere near Butte, Boyd county.
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This is about the 25th anniversary of tne
present Holt county fair, not the 64th. Yes, there
was a fair at Chambers over 60 years ago, but that
went under the name of South Fork fair. Memo
ries of Doctor Norval, of Reverend and Mrs.
Coppoc, of the Grimes family, of John Alderson
and all the others who promoted fair exhibits and
inspired local pride and community patriotism.
Somewhat regrettable that the rodeo show as it
now functions was not a feature of the fair in the
days of Hay McClure and Tim Bunnell. Citizens
of the Chambers community and those from other
communities enjoy a few days at the fair whicn
provides not only social contact and interesting
j entertainment but some fine exhibits.
Editorial . . .
Train-Savers to Be Heard
Interested persons residing along the Omaha- I
Chadron 450 - mile line of the Chicago & North
Western railroad, under the banner of the Save
the-Trains association, emphatically decided Mon
day night to oppose C&NW’s proposal to discon
tinue the last two remaining passengei-mail-tx
press trains serving much of north-Nebraska and
part of southern South Dakota.
C&NW has filed an application for permission
to discontinue trains 13 and 14, pointing to an
annual loss of 205-thOusand-dollars. About two
years ago C&NW announced it would take steps
to discontinue and pointed to a 60-thousand-dollar
annual loss.
How the losses could mount so rapidly when
the trains are more popular than at any time in
recent years is not clearly understandable — al
though shrinking mail revenues and increased ex
penses cannot be denied or argued. However,
according to the railroad’s own station-by-station
ticket sales, the train-savers show 1955 sales al
most 50 percent above the 1954 sales. This cer
tainly proves the public is responding to the im
proved equipment and to the train-savers cry toi
more patronage.
But whether the losses can mount that rap
idly in the face of these factors plus a 27- to 30
thousand-dollar annual savings on the elimination
of tho flagman, is something that will have to be
studied by the auditors.
C&NW doubtlessly is charging a percentage of
officials’ salaries, agents’ salaries and maintenance
to the two trains, whereas most of these expenses
are fixed and will prevail whether or not the pas
senger trains are operating. This will provide an
area of study for the train-savers’ attorneys and
auditors. . .
The raiiroaa s xouiiuia iui .
sheets where discontinuance is desired will be the
nub of the argument if and when a hearing is
scheduled before the state railway commission.
One would have to be shortsighted not to be
lieve the freight business Omaha-Chadron is prof
itable. On the other hand, one can easliy believe
some of the short branch lines are plunging
C&NW’s overall Nebraska operations into red ink.
True, trucks are not required to maintain
passenger service and, true, railroads are operat
ing in a highly competitive era.
The loss of these two trains would be a seri
ous blow to the economy of the area served and
to the well-being of the people. The train-savers
now have only one course—to take their case and
state it before the state railway commission.
During the decade prior to the forming of the
train-saving group, the railroad was slipping each
year in its conduct of trains 13 and 14. Some of
the decline can be attributed to the fact the
C&NW adhered to a time schedule which enabled
the Burlington to grab off chunks of mail at the
west end with the government employing a truck
to “back track” from Crawford to as far east as
Gordon.
If the train-savers, during the past two years,
have succeeded only in arresting the rapid rate of
decline their efforts have been worthwhile and
successful compared to the C&NW’s own pattern.
The newly-installed C&NW president, C. J.
Fitzpatrick, has boldly labeled the train-saving
effort a failure.
With these general facts, it would appear the
state railway commission would be erring great
ly in permitting the railroad to curtail service.
And the train-savers no doubt will present a con
vincing argument.
The New Code
A proposal is in the mill to cut the wordage
of the code of ethics of the American Medical as
sociation by 90 percent. Action will be taken next
December.
Some of the new principles in the proposed
code are these;
The prime objective of the medical profes
sion is to render service to humanity.
Doctors should try to increase their own
knowledge and share it with others.
Doctors should expose unethical conduct of
other doctors.
They should not permit anything to interfere
with their independent medical judgment.
They should limit their professional income
t<* medical services.
They should seek consultation on difficult
cases.
They should participate in any community
activity that has the object of improving the
health and welfare of the people.
These are perhaps as good as any Hippocrates
ever drafted for the medical men. We like the ref
erence of sharing their knowledge with others. We
hope that will be the death knell of the profes
sion’s limiting the number of graduates from the
colleges of medicine.
Discipline for Brass
An army general whose office defense de
partment officials suspect "leaked” staff docu
ments criticizing air force-centered strategy has
been “sent to Siberia.”
Translating lurid service jargon into precise
terms—Brig.-Gen. Lyal C. Metheny, senior mem
ber of a top-level "coordination group,” has been
detached from the pentagon to head a reserve
district in Florida.
Here is a close parallel to the 1949 instance
of “Operation 23” and its head, the then Capt.
Arleigh A. Burke. Captain Burke was removed
from the next promotion list.
We’re reminded of the two-star general who
recklessly discussed the approximate dates of D
day in a London dining room in the spring of
1944. He was "busted” to a lieutenant-colonel and
sent back to the U.S. There wasn’t a GI in Eng
land who wouldn’t have gladly accepted a "bust”
and have been meted out the "penalty” of being
sent back to State-side.
Harlan Miller in the Des Moines (la.) Reg
ister: Just a cautious note here while I’m foment
ing all this friendly feeling toward the people of
Russia: Let’s carry a big stick while we talk soft
ly; let’s disarm only if they’ll let the UN inspect
their weapons; and let’s keep ’em outgunned. Then
we could be wonderful friends.
One thing which would attract oter peoples tc
Christianity is for Christians to act like Christians
which is not a bad idea, on its own.
If you haven’t bought any counterfeit mer
chandise lately, you will probably soon buy some
This racket is now booming.
CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher
ARTHUR J. NOECKER and ESTHER M. ASHER,
Associate Publishers
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Wiun You and I Were Young . •
Atlantic Hotel
Needs 2d Cook
S4 Weekly Wage Is
Offered
i
50 Years Ago
United in marriage: Miss Bes
sie Fay Snyder and Arthur I.
Myers and Miss Fannie Pribel
and Cyril M Ervchleb. . . Miss
Kate Mann, one of the foremost
business women of this section,
Elizabeth L., wife of E. F. Bow
en, and Mary Kelley Ragan died.
. . . Wanted: Good second cook
at the Atlantic hotel, wages $4
per week. . . It is an outrage the
way livestock is allowed to roam
about the city these days and the
authorities should devise some
means to stop it. If they are not
stopped there will not be a live
tiee or lawn, unless fenced, in
the cities. All the gardens have
already been ruined. “Tie them
up” should be the slogan of the
city officers.
20 Y'ears Ago
For the third consecutive year,
the descendants of the John Mc
Whorter and James Brady fam
ilies met in Norfolk. . . Mrs. Ma
ry Hancock and daughter. Miss
Gladys, and Wayne Hancock of
Inman spent Sunday at the W.
E. Jones home near Chambers. . .
Those who helped Opal Jean
Griffith of Meek celebrate her
12th birthday anniversary were
Lavene and Helen Borg and Bet
ty Jayne Puckett. Mrs. C. E.
Griffith, Mrs. Fay Puckett and
Roxie were also at the Frank
Griffith home.
10 Years Ago
Holt county’s lone polio vic
tim, Donald Linquist, 12, is “re
covering satisfactorily” in St. Jo
seph’s hospital in Omaha. . . Dan
Finnegan, an old-time resident, is
a patient at Hot Springs, S.D. . .
Mrs. Mary Paddeau of Chicago,
111., an aunt of P. V. and J. W.
Hicey, spent last week visiting
here. It was her first visit in 26
years. . . A family reunion was
held at the D. N. Loy home. . .
John Bowen of Ceattle, Wash.,
visited his brother. Dave Bowen,
and Mrs. Bowen of Page. This is
the first time they had met in 23
years. . . Bom to Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Walker, a daughter, Mary
Jo, in Omaha August 8.
One Year Ago
Top C&NW officials said they
were “favorably impressed” with
a showing being made by the
Save-the-Trains association. The
president, executive vice - presi
dent and three members of the
board of directors visited O’Neill.
. . . The annual reunion of the
Fuelberth families was held at
Page. . . The Albert Larson fam
ily of Riverside held a reunion.
. Mary Ann Winchell and
Thomas as Clark and Jo Ann
Boeltcr and Donald Knori were
married; also Joan Burhans of
Stuart and Marine Cpl. Jesse L.
Gibney, jr., of Clearwater, Fla.,
and Miss Lita Tolle of Alva and
Rev. Duane R. Lauber.
, Nielsen Gets Army
Promotion—
INMAN — Harold H. Nielsen,
22, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert
Nielsen, formerly of Inman, re
cently was promoted to specialist
third-class while serving with
the 11th airborne division in
Munich, Germany.
Specialist Nielsen, who arrived
overseas last January, is a field
wireman in service battery of the
division’s 457th field artillery
battalion.
He entered the army in Febru
ary, 1954, and completed basic
training at Ft. Riley, Kans. Niel
sen is a former student at Inman
high school and a former em
ployee of the Hon Construction
Co. in Horton, Kans.
Attend Church
Camp at Ponca—
Mr. and Mrs. Rex James and
two sons attended the Niobrara
Christian service camp at Ponca
state park last week. They re
turned Saturday.
Mrs. Lloyd Peck and Mrs. Iva
Hopkins cooked for the group.
Among those attending were
Cheriann Knepper, Linda and
Shirley Storjohann, Ronnie
Knoell, Kenneth Franklin, Gail
Johring, Joyce and Carol Harmon
and Richard, Verna, Phyllis, Lila
and Joan Larson of Ewing.
•
Charlotte A. MeVay
Shares in Scholarship
Donor scholarships totaling
more than 14-thousand-dollars
have been awarded to 111 Uni
versity of Nebraska students for
the coming year.
Miss Charlotte A. MeVay,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E.
MeVay of O’Neill, is a recipient
of the LaVerne Noyes scholarship
fund.
Otto G. Schipporeit of Ains
worth is a recipient of the Scot
tish rite scholarship.
; Attend Reunion—
Mr. and Mrs. Dean Jeffery at
tended a family reunion at Co
lumbus Sunday.
the 1956 Nebraska
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O’Neill News
Guests in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Havranek Sunday
were Mr and Mrs Albert Nys
wonger, Donna and Jimmie of
Fond du Lac, Wise.
Mr. and Mrs Marvin Strong
and Garry of Sidney were guesis
of Mr and Mrs Lyle Homback
the past week. Mrs Strong is a
sister of Mrs. Hornback.
Monuments of lasting beauty
made by skilled craftsmen of
the J F. Bloom Co. . . . monu
roents from the factory t«> th*
consumer. — Emmett Crabb. O'
Neill. phone 1.19 .1 17ti
Supper guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Elmer Edmisten at Page were
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Holz.
Mr. and Mrs Kenneth Waring
are spending this week in Min
nesota on a fishing trip.
Mr. and Mrs. D. N. Loy, Mr.
and Mrs. John Kersenbrock, Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Grenier, Mrs.
Robert Cook and Mrs. Hattie
Kindlund held a picnic in the
Niobrara state park Sunday.
Fifteen-foot Deepfreeze, 5-yr
guaranteed, only $248 at Scovie's
Western Auto, O'Neill. li»-18<
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Walker left
Wednesday for Casper, Wyo.,
where they will make their
home. They had been residing tor
several years in the Sauers resi
dence on East Benton.
Visitors at the Fred Salak
home Friday were Mr. and Mrs,
George Sakak and daughters ol
Kearney, la.
Venetian blinds, prompt deliv
ery, made to measure, metal or
wood, all colors.—J. M. McDon
alds. tl
Mr. and Mrs. Otto Hoehne and
f.unily of Boulder, Colo., are ex
pected to arrive this week. They
will visit Mrs. Hoehne’s parents
Mr. and Mrs. John Pruss, at Em
met and Mr. and Mrs. Ivar
Pruss.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Ed Hancock
left Sunday for Denver, Colo,
for a week’s vacation. They wii
meet their daughter, Miss Shar
on, who will return with them
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Dahl ol
Swea City, la., were August 9-1J
weekend guests of his brother
in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs
H. G. Kruse.
Twenty-four month guaranieec
battery, only $9.45 ex. at Scovle’i
Western Auto, O’Neill. J6-18»
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Krugmar
and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Krug
man visited in the Edwin Krug
mau home Sunday.
Accident Victim
Burial at O’Neill
George Koch, 77, Dies
in Hospital
EWING— Funeral services
i were conducted at 2 p.m., Friday,
I August 17, for George Koch, 77.
| of Ewing at the Biglin chapel in
j O’Neill,
Mr Koek died Wednesday,
August 15, at St. Anthony's hos
pital in O’Neill. He was taken to
the hospital after he was injured
when his team ran away on Mon
lay afternoon, August 13. while
he and his wife were enroute
home following shopping at a
country store near their home.
Mrs Koch. 72, received a leg
injury. She was confined to the
hospital.
Mr. Koch and his wife made
their home on a farm about 10
miles south of Ewing for many
years and after retiring from ae
years after retiring from acitve
life.
Their nearest neighbor was
two miles distant.
Survivors include: Widow —
Minnie; son — Arthur Koch of
Wood River; brothers—Otto and
Henry, both of Columbus, and
John of Leigh.
Burial was made in the Pros
pect Hill cemetery at O’Neill.
Other Ewing News
Sidney Wolf of Lodi, Calif., is
a guest at the home of his broth
er-in-law and sister, Mr and
Mrs. John Pruden.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Urban, who
are vacationing in the West,
wrote friends they are sightsee
ing this week in Oregon.
The Misses Winnie Vandersnlck
and Patsy Pollock attended re
heat at the new Assumption
academy at Norfolk from Sunday
until Wednesday, August 12-15.
Mr. and Mrs. John Walker and
son, Bobbie, were overnight
guests at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Max Wanser last Thursday,
returning to their home in Nor
folk on Friday.
Miss Geraldine Grubb of Ch.
cago, 111., was a guest of Mrs.
Jerry Tom jack and family on
Wednesday, August 15. She was
1 a college friend of Mrs. Tomjaek
1 and formerly lived at Tilden.
Mrs. J. L. Pruden returned
home last Thursday from Ash
land where she had been a guest
at the home of her brother-in
law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. P.
!» Cooper, and family. While
there Mrs. Pruden accompanied
1he Cooper family on a trip to
Oklahoma City, Okla.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Pruden and
Mr. and Mrs John ITuden, ac
companied by her brother, Sid
ney Wolf of California, attended
the Holt county fair held at
Chambers Friday evening
Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Harris and
daughter, Bertha, and Marie Da
vis and Carolyn Tams made a
combined business and pleasure
trip to O’Neill last Thursday.
Miss Tams remained for a long
er visit with relatives.
Mrs. J. L. Pruden and Mrs.
Charles Good spent Wednesday,
August 15, at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Sam Burtwistlc.
Mrs. Victor Briggs and Cindy,
who have been guests at the
home of Mrs. Grace Briggs, left
last Thursday to return to their
home at Oklahoma City, Okla.
Miss Joellyn Eacker left last
Thursday for Lincoln where she
was joined by some girl friends
for a trip to Oklahoma and other
points of interest in the South.
Miss Eaeker will return to Ut
Cool Junction as music instruct
or in the school there.
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who are intersted in a career with a fast growing
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