Prairieland Talk
"Autumn in Prairieland"
By HOMAINE SAUNDERS, 4110 South 51st St., Lincoln 6, Nebr.
Mild autumn days come once more to prairie
land. From east to west and north to south this
favored land we call Nebraska has its cities, towns,
farms and ranches, flowing streams and inland
lakes, clear soft water in
abundance; hills and valleys
and miles of open prairie robed
in silken green and touched
here and there with the golden
rod, the prairie rose and the
blooming flowers our charming
prairie maids have put there
along the way. High altove the
silken grew at our feet is the
rich blue sky lighted day by
day in golden glory and where
at times rain clouds gather and Romalne
sprinkle the land. Abundance Sauuders
grown another year Under the blessing of the One
ujxin his golden throne far above us and the work
of human hands till about us. Yes, cities, towns,
farms and ranches and our prairieland people law
abiding, industrious and God fearing, with as few in
the synagogues of Satan as can be found anywhere.
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She sat u[x>n her ix)rch railing looking at the
“Man in the M(X)n.’’ Eyes closed in slumber, then
she took a tumble. Got up with a broken collar
bone. The "M;in in the Moon” looking on.
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The first week in September brought crowds
to our Capital City to take in another State Fair.
Cattle and horses, sheep and pigs on exhibition, ma
chines, farm and orchard products anil the races and
show places.
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A hot day the 2nd of September, just about up to
KM) on the weather gauge. Next day overcoats were
put on as out we went. C<x>l weather State Fair
week. Yes, its coming blizzard time just ahead.
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State Library Commission officials are planning
for a gathering in Omaha sometime in October to
promote interest in the work of the commission,
the gathering to be held at the Paxon hotel in Oma
ha. Serving a one time as a member of the Library
Board at the State House Prairieland Talker still
has an interest in what the commission does to
carry on library work and supply Nebraska citizens
with plenty to read of historical and literary in
terest.
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When our walk down life’s highway is at an end
have our steps day by day led us to eternal death
or eternal life?
Another day we have traveled along life’s high
way, with its smiles, its tears. Struggles and
pleasures along the way, and now a night of rest
with eyes closed in slumber and dreaming sweet
dreams.
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When O’Neill got the Short Line railroad, now
the Burlington, the railroad needed a Round House.
Does it stand yet at the southeast limits of the city?
And it was in the Round House the town had its
first electric lighting plant which became a place of
interest and you and I, Jack and Jim, Kate and
Sue went there from time to time in the evening
to see the wheels and belts and bolts make, that
strange thing glow an electric glare. At first the
plant produced its electricity only until midnight,
so we still had to have our oil lamps. But you have
that electric current day and night now in home
and factory and shop, giving light and turning
wheels.
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That city in central Europe has the attention of
the people of all lands as it seems likely that there
it will begin, a third world war. A city that had been
the seat of government of a great people the great
German empire, now split in half east and west
Berlin. Why has Germany come to it, a great
people to become but a memory. Yes, other “great
nations” have disappeared from the scene of human
history Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome and
now the once great Germany to be no more. Time
moves on to close the door on human history and
open the door to eternity where all is to be peace
and joy.
For nearly a year a change over in occupants
of the White House in our nation’s capital and other
accupants of the Governor’s Mansion in our state’s
Capital City. What has it meant to you and me?
Nothing much. Prairieland patriots carry on year
liy year and leave the concerns of state and nation
to be solved by those elecled to office. And from
Douglas street south on First street in O’Neill for
three blocks no one there who was there 60 years
ago. And I count two old guys beside myself and
one aged lady that were in ‘‘our crowd” less than
60 years ago. Where now those smart young chaps,
charming young ladies? And another election may
remove present occupants of White House and
Governor’s Mansion.
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Many Lincoln householders have a garden in
their back yard. This has been a season to raise
tomatoes and we have a lot of the large red ripe
fruit of the tomato vine. So much better than the
high priced ones shipped in from the west coast.
Editorial
Welfarism Marches On
A last ditch effort to push a Federal Aid to
Education bill through Congress in the current ses
sion is under way.
The case against centralized government con
trol of education should be obvious—and never for
a moment believe that government "aid” would
not mean government control. As the Supreme
Court of the United States held in 1942: "It is hardly
lack of due process (of law) for the government to
regulate that which it subsidizes." This is the prin
ciple at the heart of the whole matter. Moreover,
aside from principle, the federal government is in
a worse financial position than are the state and
local governments. Federal debt is now 367 i>er cent
of federal yearly revenues as compared to a state
and local debt of 192 per cent of their annual re
venues.
There is nothing wrong with our schools that
cannot be corrected at the local level, Since 1952,
according to the President's economic report, public
school enrollment has increased 35 per cent; in
structional staff, 45 per cent; teachers' salaries,
52 per cent, current exiwnditures per pupil, 53 per
cent; school revenues, 103 per cent. Significantly,
the National School Hoards Association has gone
on record as being opposed to the further extension
of federal aid to education until the school hoards
of America express the need for such funds.
Once the government moves into the field of
education, there will be no turning back. In all
'likelihood, the majority of school board members
agree with Senator Styles Bridges, of New Hamp
shire. who recently observed: "As a former Cover
nor and as United States Senator for almost 25
years, it has been my observation (1) that education
is the foundation of freedom, (2) that most citizens
want public schools to be directed by the States and
communities, and (3) that mothers and fathers of
each locality apparently want to make the decisions
about the education of their children .... The issue
has been hanging in the balance for years; the time
for a decision appears at hand . . . .”
Attempts to cure motorists' driving ills through
"fright campaigns'" may actually do more harm
than good, according to Dr. James L. Malfetti, dir
ector of the Safety Research Project of Teachers
College, Columbia University. He finds that the
failure of most safety efforts is attributable to the
fact that they raise a high level of fear but then
fail to capitalize on the fear by suggesting specific
actions to reduce it.
The Masonic Service Association of the United
States says: "if we slip into socialism as proposed
by a welfare state philosophy of government, we
will have removed the last obstacle to world Com
munism, The Communists fear only America. The
greatest opposition to their threat is our traditional
democratic system of free enterprise, with an em
phasis on personal responsibility and Initiative. The
stronger we main and Implement this traditional
American philosophy, the surer Is our eontlnuance
as a society of free men."
Frontiers
Ago
50 YEARS AGO
Howard P. Greeley, Atkinson,
and Miss Signora Peppina Mura
tori, music teacher at Randolph
were married at Omaha last
Wednesday . . . Neil Brennan,
agent, announces the 1912 Stude
baker Flanders "20” with four
doors at $840 . . . John Horrisky
returned Tuesday morning from
a protracted visit with friends at
Cody, Wyo., rigged out in a
genuine "cowpuncher” hat . . .
The ladies of the Methodist
church will serve a chicken pie
supper in the Market building
with supper served from 6 p.m.
untill all are fed and satisfied
. . . Miss Rose Fallon returned to
Chicago where she has been
taking vocal lessons the past
year.
25 YEARS AGO
A. T. Crumley, living about 10
miles east of O’Neill says they
harvested over 4,100 bushels of
rye from 410 acres, but other
crops are about a failure for
him . . . F. C. Gatz, 84, dies last
Friday evening at his home af
ter a short illness ... A son was
born to Mr. and Mrs. Howard
McConnell, Emmet, at their
home Friday morning and he has
been named Larry Gene . . .
LaVeme Stahley is riding five
miles a day on his new bicycle
to attend Emmet high school . . .
Lightning caused two fires Mon
day night, one a hay stack fire
on the Karl Miller’s place, and
the other was in the pastures of
Joe Stein and Blake Benson . . .
A shower was given Friday after
noon in honor of Miss Muriel
Chicken, Inman, who is to be
married to Donald Noe, Allen
September 2.
JO YEARS AGO
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lowry cele
brate their 50th year of marriage
.. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Sedivy,
who reside 12 miles west of Ver
digre, September 1 marked their
60th wedding anniversary . . .
Nine Holt county men departed
Wednesday for military induction
. . . The 20-month old twin
brother, Terry, runs, to house
for help when sister Sherry Kap
lan, Atkinson, falls in stock tank;
her life is saved. . . “Grandma”
Sarah Hull, beloved northeast
Holt county resident celebrates
her 96th birthday Thursday . . .
Mr. and Mrs. Orland Fryrear,
Amelia, purchase John Allen
ranch selling for $45.25 an acre.
5 YEARS AGO
Public school has 539 students
enrolled at opening of school
year; 431 listed at St. Mary’s
. . . The farm house soouth of
Ewing belonging to Mrs. George
Koch, was destroyed by fire
August 29 . . . The 4,000-acre L.
W. Barthel, located in the south
west Holt county, will be offered
at referee’s sale September 24
. . . Vernon Whitaker recently
received notice of his appoint
ment as rural mail carrier on
route 1 out of Chambers ... A
group of relatives and friends
gathered at the Paul Krugman
home for a surprise party to ob
serve the Krugman’s 20th wed
ding anniversary . . . Mr. and
Mrs. Ben Hanlon, new owners of
the O’Neill Cleaners, Monday
moved from Atkinson to O’Neill.
DR. D. E. DAVID
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Spencer, Nebraska
The Long Ago
At Chambers
50 YEARS AGO
A former Chambers resident,
Mrs. Sarah Schmutz died yester
day morning at the home of her
daughter in Grand Island follow
ing a short illness of heart failure
. . . Dr. Hardy, Eli Root and
several others expect to go to
Omaha this week to confer with
Burlington officials as to the
practibility of securing a Bur
lington extension to Erina . . .
Roily Blair, who had his foot
crushed in a mowing machine
last week, is improving and
there is great hope of saving his
foot . . . Percy Holden has ac
cepted a position as railroad
claim agent in California.
25 YEARS AGO
A large portion of Chambers
and community were in O’Neill
Friday afternoon and evening to
see a whale which was brought in
on the railroad and was there for
a few hours . . . Saturday morn
ing Leonard Miller, Leo Adams,
Ernest Farrier, Eugene Baker,
Robert Kiltz and Harry Cooper
joined a group of country enter
tainers to go to Yankton, S. D.,
where they advertised the
coming South Fork Fair . . . The
local Rebekah lodge enjoyed in
itiation services Friday evening
when Miss Dorothy Grimes was
taken into the lodge . . . This
week, a deal was closed whereby
C. E. Remington sold his per
sonals, livestock, machinery and
feed to one Joe Kearnes, Laurel,
with possession given at once
. . . Mr. and Mrs. Frank Adam
son left Friday morning for
school where they will study
French before returning to the
Congo.
Report from
Washington
By Congressman Dave MarMn
Fourth District, Nebraska
The education and Labor Com
mittee, of which I am a member,
met this morning to consider the
two compromise aid-to-education
bills recommended by Secretary
of Health, Education and Welfare
Ribicoff.
These were entirely new bills
and had not even been seen by
most Committee members until
we went into session. Steamroller
tactics were used by Chairman
Adam Clayton Powell, and a mo
tion was immediately made and
adopted by the Democrats on the
Committee that the bills be con
sidered as read and open to
amendment. (Normally, in full
Committee, a bill is read section
by section with amendments be
ing offered during the reading.)
A second motion was promptly
made that all debate on the bill
and amendments cease in one
hour and fifteen minutes. Ninety
percent of the Committee mem
bers on both sides of the aisle
had not set eyes on the bills be
fore this morning; and, as a con
sequence, the Federal aid to ed
ucation bill for public school con
struction ($325 million per year)
and the higher education bill for
assistance to colleges and univer
sities (900 million for construc
tion grants over five years) were
reported out by the Committee
without the members having ade
quate opportunity to study the
contents of either measure.
The “gag rule” was successful
ly applied by Chairman Powell,
and the legislation was not even
intelligently considered by the
Committee. The Chairman wanted
to get both of those bills reported
before twelve o'clock in order to
bring the public education bill
to the Floor of the House on Ca
lendar Wednesday — under Ca
lendar Wednesday procedure, the
Rules Committee is bypassed and
Committees are called alphabet
ically to bring up bills for House
consideration.
I condemn such tactics by any
committee on any piece of legis
lation and particularly on legisla
tion of this importance which in
volves the expenditure of over
$2 billion. I feel the people at
home should be properly inform
ed on the situation of the ruth
lessness to which some members
of this important Committee re
sort. It is an insult to the intel
ligence of the citizenry and vot
ers of this great country of ours
and a mockery of our legislative
system established by the con
stitution.
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The Tariff Commission has sub
mitted an unfavorable report to
the House Ways and Means Com
mittee on the bill which I intro
duced early in this year to in
crease the duty on beef imports
from foreign countries. The duty
on beef in 1935 was six cents per
pound but, under the Reciprocal
Trade Program which gives the
‘President the power to reduce all
duties by fifty per cent, this rate
was cut to three cents per pound,
where it remains today.
A substantial amount of beef is
coming into the United States
from foreign countries and is com
peting in the domestic market
with our own livestock producers
in the United States. These live
stock men have not asked for
any government supports nor for
assistance under the agriculture
program, and I feel very strong
ly that they are entitled to the
protection of an adequate duty on
beef imports. My bill would im
pose a 25% duty on meat and
meat animals in excess of im
ports during 1957. The Reciprocal
Trade Agreements Program ex
pires June 30, 1962, and a major
battle looms ahead to change the
provisions of this Act. A duty of
three cents a pound on beef is
certainly not much prtetection for
the ranchers and livestock feed
ers in the United States.
Heard on Capitol Hill: Defini
tion of the NEW FRONTIER -
out where the WASTE begins.
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From Mrs. Eby ...
—The Masters Touch—
The world’s noted violinist, Old
Bull toy name,
Loved to wander in the woods,
sort of game
On day he became lost and wan
dered ’til night,
Stumbled onto a hut with a very
dim light,
The home of a hermit who took
him in,
Fed and warmed him, then took
down a scratchy old violin,
He picked a few tunes on the
battered old wreck,
“Do you think I could play that”,
old Bull craned his neck,
“Oh, No! it took me years to
learn the thing,
But old Bull took the bow and
drew it across the string,
The hut was filled with music
divine,
The old hermit wept at the m'u
sic sublime.
Our lives may be wrecks, our
strings snapped and bent,
But if we let the Master touch the
marred instrument
He’ll bring fourth music fit for
angels to hear,
If we only trust Him without
doubt or fear,
I firmly believe any broken life
jagged with discord,
Unadjusted and tossed in some
dark corner need not be lost,
A Master’s hand though wounded
and scarred,
Can mend broken lives that sin
has marred,
“So are ye in my hand” Jera
miah 18:6,
(Della Stuart Eby)
Monowi News
By Mr*. Mike Ptklapp
LOcuM 9-3529
Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Eiler and
children and Mr. and Mrs. Ste
wart Stringfellow visited in the
Dwayne Piklapp home at Huron,
S. D., Sunday. Mrs. Mike Pik
lapp came home with them af
ter visiting the past week there.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Heiser
left Tuesday for a trip to Wash
ington State.
Ed Kopke, Jim Eiler, Terry
Zach and Vic Carney were Lynch
and Monowi visitors Monday af
ternoon.
John Chvala was a business cal
ler in O'Neill Thursday.
Lena Johnson called on Mrs.
Frank Lewis Monday afternoon.
School startl'd in District 79
September 1 with Mrs. Velma
McDonald as teacher.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Zach and j
family visited in the Rudy Eiler •
home Thursday evening.
Mrs. Frank Ertz sr. returned
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home Sunday evening after
spending the past week at the
home of her sister in Hastings.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray McGeorge
and boys spent 'Labor Day week
end at McCook with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Christensen
and daughter, Melba and family
visited a feiw days with their
daughter, Tolsa and husband at
Colorado Springs, Colo., last
week.
Lois Geuser and family were
business callers in Lynch Friday
afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Charley Kolar
and daughter, Norfolk, are spend
ing this week with relatives and
friends here and at Bristow.
The Frontier
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Closed Wednesday
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