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Show r H America Faces Task of CoTnfiuskei4 State By EDWARD EMERINE WNU Feature!. Nebraska is the abode of the sour The seeds are sown, the plants nurtured, the harvest garnered. In war or peace, food is first on Nebraskas long production lino from Wyoming in the west, to the Missouri river on the east. Its corn fields, its grain lands, its rows of sugar beets, its ranges where cattle feed on native grasses from these come the foods that add to this nations greatness and the welfare of men everywhere. Orchards, gardens, fields and ranges are Nebraska's wealth and the top soil its source of The plains, with nature as the sower, were the camping and hunting grounds of seven tribes of Indians. The Otoes, the Omahas, the Pawnees, the Poncas, the Sioux, the Cheyennes and the Arapahoes hunted the shaggy buffalo, the fleet antelope, the deer and other game which had grown fat on the abundant fare provided by the prairies and streams. The Otoe Indians called the region Nebrathka,'' which means "flat water" and referred to the long, wide and shallow Platte river. Battleground of Indians. Tribe attacked tribe, fighting for this greatest of hunting grounds. The last great battle was fought between the Sioux and the Pawnees at Massacre canyon, near Stanton, in 1873. There were around 40,000 Indians living in Nebraska, and their chief occupation was hunting. Some of them, however, practiced P. GRISWOLD Gov. Dwight Palmer Griswold was born at Harrison, Sioux Co., Neb., In 1893. His parents were pioneers there. He graduated from Nebraska oniversity in 1914. He served on the Mexican border as a sergeant in 1916, and as a first lieutenant and captain in World War L He was first a banker, then newspaper publisher, before becoming governor In 1940. He has been reelected twice. His borne is Gordon, Neb. GOV. DWIGHT of Columbus. The Mallet brothers, with a party of eight Frenchmen, named the Platte river and traveled nearly the entire length of the state in 1839. Spain, France and England all claimed the Nebraska plains at different times. In 1769 France ceded all of her claims to the area west of the Mississippi to Spain, but in s wo s44 x f: g y yi r " Yteiii rE4 ' ? iv' I A, A' ; k'4 Xr g Gold-seeke- g. I New Policy Needed for Constructive Restoration of Reich; British and Russians the Nebraska region. The first military post was Fort Atkinson, estabAhead of U. S. in Creating Order. lished in French traders and trappers, hunters of the buffalo, soldiers and adventurers began to wear deep By BAUKIIAGE IVnci Analyst and Commentator. trails in the grass. The Indian tribes resented the white man. There it will be was unrest and battles and massa- WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N.W., the world can allay it, short of to hard anything D. C. expect Washington, cres. Blood stained the prairie in French all behind is policy This to hysteria route En Washington. war cries in grass. certainAnd relations. international the over somewhere the night drove fear into the hearts being written Atlantic ocean in the bright sunlight ly American can never change the of strong men. several thousand feet above a ceil- French attitude until France is asWestward, no! of snowy cloud. Hours ago we sured that we do Intend to "finish Rich land in Oregon. Gold in Call ing down on Santa Maria in the job. fomla. Nebraska became the high- dropped Azores into one of the island's the Another problem mentioned in the way of an expanding, restless winter drizzles. Price report, one which is being windy, gray, typical adventurous nation imaginative, After a good breakfast and a little widely discussed at the moment in Westward across Nebraska we took off for Bermuda. Germany, is denazification. We rethe course of empire wended its rest This is not going to be a travceived a fright on the subject that way. of some was chronicle a It is elogue. probably unfounded, although JoFrom Independence and St. the impressions I have garnered it may have been true that some of seph came the covered wagons 0f,of I America enter Its sec- the fairly dangerous Hitlerites were the Oregon Trail came as watched a world power, actu- being given jobs which they should as ond phase to join them and men heard of the in work at attempting to build not have had. Then we went to the California Trail. The Mormons, un- ally a new Europe. Everywhere, from other extreme, instead of swallowder Brigham Young, camped uneasily reached the ing camels we now strain at Nazis. one winter near Omaha, then struck almost the first day I and chatted with some An amusing incident occurred. A Paris airport next the out boldly spring to mark bound for an internation- member of the military government the Mormon TraiL Intrepid riders Americans al labor conference, to the moment set out in a methodical manner to a little while ago when a hospitget a list of the best experienced able air corps general "moaned men for a certain set of Jobs. With low" to me, as he called it, to the the of a properly accompaniment of the wind outside "screened" German he turned them everywhere I have heard earnest, up all right but when he submitted anxious voices raised in the same the names of the men and their query: Is America willing to flnisn qualifications all were put in jail-un- der the Job? the letter of the law the posiI heard this concern frankly ex- tions they had held under the Nazi pressed from the lips of American regime made them subject to "auofficials like Minister Murphy and tomatic arrest. This law is really Military Governor General Clay in only a directive which sets a cerBerlin. I heard another version of tain minor title (about equivalent to it from Ambassador Caffrey in the chief of a section in our federal govI ernment) as the dividing line. AnyAmerican Embassy in Paris. heard it repeated by professors and one above that rank is considered doctors, among the civilians and se a Nazi and suspect CHIMNEY ROCK . . . Near Bayard, technicians and specialists, among per and British have no such Russians Neb., one of the noted landmarks the military the men who are doand I was told of standards drastic on the old Oregon Trail. ing "better than a good job as By- what to a German who happened ron Price said in the special report lived right on the border of the lashed their horses from St Joseph to the President in November. American and Russian zones. He to Sacramento, and the Pony ExI do not to have been able came to the American Military govpress was bom, with 500 of its weary to make aspretend exhaustive a of ernment and applied for an adminmiles through Nebraska. Stage- conditions in American study occupied istrative job and presented his crecoaches traveled the Overland Trail Germany as Price did but what I dentials. After reading them the and the Union Nebraska, through would like to do is to report some of American to whom he applied said: Pacific struck out boldly from own impressions formed in dismy I certainly wont hire you. If I Omaha toward the Pacific in 1865. the main points he stressed. did you would be immediately arThe Western Unions telegrapn cussing less than a month interrested. As it is, since you have Although poles were often cut down by vened since Price wrote up his findapplied formally you will be arrestNebraska Indians. The Sower beckoned, and men ings and I followed his trail, I get ed in 24 hours anyhow. My advice to you is: move across the street came with plows that bit into the the impression that the "civilization of the American government into the Russian zone and apply for grassroots. Nebraska was organized in He did and was Germany has well begun and will a job there. as a territory in 1854 and became a move toward hired forward the Russians. its steadily promptly by state on March 1, 1867. Lincoln, named for the Great Emancipator, goal of completion in June as Price Confusion Marks was made the capitaL Nebraska be- suggests it should. Personally, it to seems me be it better that S. U. might came known as the "Tree Planters Operations for those hardy pioneers to set as a limit for the period of State, are two conflicting theories There from soon set out windbreaks, shade complete transmogrification now in operation in the American to uniformed clothes, plain regime trees and orchards. The home of zone. One is the theory attributed J. Sterling Morton, founder of a measure of accomplishment. Cir- to General Clay, namely, that the Arbor day, stands today as a monu- cumstances might alter specificaGermans must help themselves. The ment to his outstanding work in tions. other theory is that we must help g Nebraskas early days. Note Change them help themselves or well have to do all the helping. Cattle Ranching Comes. In other In Sentiment words, as one somewhat cynical The buffalo were replaced by catTypical of the rapidity of the If we tle, and on the open range thou- change both in conditions in Ger- gentleman expressed it: the Germans where they dont get sands of cattle from Texas were and in sentiment at home is can make to exchange fed and fattened. One of the most many the question of whether America for food enough goods well end up by paying the picturesque periods of Nebraska would be willing to send enough food other countries the reparations. history was that of the cowboy, from to Germany to prevent starvation 1867 to 1887. Enclosed ranches and The Russians know well how to and the epidemics which would mixed farming came next, but the be expected if German phys- exploit German resources. If they surely famous old cow towns of Schuyler, ical resistance was not built up. An see a factory which can produce North Platte, Kearney and Ogalla-l- a increased amount of calories is now goods they want and it is not pracwill never be forgotten. Their assured I might say that you tical to move it to Russia, they see 'and modem equivalents are Broken would be to it that German management is surprised at the surprise to operate as efficiently Bow, Burwell, Alliance and Valexpressed by a certain high official permitted entine. The epic struggle between in Berlin when Washington "came as possible and that German workthe cattlemen and the homesteadacross. Sentiment in that respect men get food or pay enough to make ers is recorded in Old Jules" by did in the States but I am them efficient. The British are likechange Mari Sandoz. it wasnt due to any keen wise far more lenient than we. They afraid The Sower planted good seed in realization that it was part of fin- have no more intention than the Russians of building up a potential engood earth. From that day in 1833 ishing an important Job. It was when Moses Merrill and his wife a sentimental and charitable emy but they do intend to build up settled at Bellvue and established just customers. gesture, typical of Americans who potential the first mission school. The Sower The while they are no to like see Americans, dont starve. anybody has blessed Nebraska. It was not a practical response to harder and no softer toward the Germans as far as personal relad a necessity. Nevertheless, we can write that tions go, have hamstrung rehabilitapoint off as on the credit side. tion by putting restrictions upon Weve been spared a fight against German industry and frequently disease. But what about the twin employ a negative attitude which factors stressed by Price and every- allows the natives to misdirect their one else who knows anything about energy. I talked with an American busiEurope today: the economic unification and the French deadlock ness man who represents a large which prevents it? How much American firm which manufactures knowledge or interest is America dis- chocolate and baby food. He displaying on that subject? From what covered some of his factories were General Clay said to me I feel he intact and easily put back into acbelieves a solution of bis major tion. But he found that the peasOMAHA problems is impossible unless Ger- ants who formerly sold him their many is united in a single economic milk refused to do so because they unit. There are no present pros- were able to convert it to butter and pects. butter, on the black market, is gold The French are stubborn and in Germany. Germany could use their motivating emotion in refusing the chocolate and baby food, espeto permit German Industry of the cially the latter, but the policy of Saar and Ruhr valleys to try to pay letting the Germans alone keeps the nations own way is fear fear those wheels idle, results in a loss as it was from 1870 until 1914, when to American business and cuts off a it was Justified. And from 1939 that vital food which has to be supplied fear has grown. Unless the rest of by the Americans. Blood-curdlin- er. M Finishing Job in Germany f Penetrate V Stimulates te upper brfBchlii ths chsst and back tube, with Its soothing aiedlctaal sapors. surf acts Ilka a mes, wanning poultice. 1819-182- TOP the magnificent Ne braska capitol stands a figure in bronze, The Sower. It is the symbol of Nebraska and its faith faith in the plains, in the soil, in nature. well-bein- Till Wodtm Wiy ; v - s i'y S I$ r 'V; S' 4 A V. M primitive agriculture between wars. 1801 Napoleon bought it back. Many Indian braves, including Spot- Thomas Jefferson, in 1803, purted Horse, are buried in Fort Mc- chased Nebraska from the Little Pherson cemetery, while others lie Corporal. in Pawnee battlefield. The names of Yellow Hand, Crazy Horse, Red Cloud, Sitting Bull and others remain a part of Nebraskas tradition. and lore. Francesco Vasquez Coronado and his party of 30 Spanish cavalry were the first white men to visit Nebraska. That was in 1541. French fur traders and trappers began to venture up the Missouri river about 1700. A Spanish expedition under Capt Pedro de Villasur reached the region about 1720 and was promptly massacred near the present site Lewis and Clark commanded the first expedition to Nebraska, The Hunt party of Astorians skirted the Nebraska region in 1811 on their way to Oregon. Seven of them returned the next year, finding their way across the vast region by following the Platte river to where it joins the Missouri. Major Long with a party of 20 men in 1819 traveled from the Missouri up the Platte to the headwaters of its south fork near Denver. From 1807 to 1820 Manuel Lisa became the leading fur trader and explorer of 1804-180- 6. cold-bloode- SOUTH DAKOTA stum n home remedy you can use to relieve coughing, congestion in upper bronchial tubes, muscular soreness or tightness due to colds is to rub Vicks VapoRub on the throat, chest and back. Right away VapoRuba penetrating-stimulatin- g action starts to work and keeps on working for hours to bring such wonderful re-L- et Try it. VICKS I IlfiO H llblllil OF CONSTIPATION! rs home-makin- NEBRASKA SOD HOUSE . . . This picture, taken In 1886, shows how a typical homesteader west of Broken Bow solved his housing problem. The modern, electrified farm homes now found in Nebraska contrast strangely with this primitive structure. Great Help to Mothers Best-know- Found Relief In Famous Breakfast Food, User Writes Suffer from constipation? Then read thia unsolicited letter! tu victim of constipation for I many years, trying all aorta of medicinal to no avail. Than I triad but rvmcdica, KELLOGG'S ALL-BRAand after the first trial experienced relief. 1 no-- r sat ALL-BRAKELLOGG'S every day ae part of my regular diet. The aufferinsa from constipation have vanished and I aa overjoyed at feeling Uke a new person at tha ass of 24. I am passing this news along so that others who are suffering may Urn. Beatrice kleyer, find relief. Hawthorns A vs., Newark, N. J. til Tou, too, may never need an other harsh laxative, if your is due to lack of bulk in the diet. Just eat a dish of delicious KELLOGGS ALL-BRAevery day, and drink plenty of water. If not satisfied after a trial, send empty carton to Kelloggs of Battle Creek and get doubts your money back I ALLBRAN is not a purgative. Its a wholesome food made from the vital outer layers of wheat. It provides gentle-actin- g bulk, which helps promote normal laxation. at your groGet ALL-BRAcers. Its made by Kellogg1! of Battle Creek and Omaha. N 10-d- ay N FEEL OLD? BACK ACHE? brings quick relief for muscle pains doe to fatigue exposure cold or overwork. Contains methyl salicylate ef- fective g agent Money - Back Guarantes , by McKesson & Robbins for Sale by your druggist Made Beware Coughs from common colds That Hang On relieves Creomulsion promptly because it goes right to the seat or the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, inflamed bronchial mucous membranes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the understanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. CREOMULSION for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis 0 NEBRASKA NORTH VLAi COLORADO KAN S AS I SENATOR NORRIS This reform is the handiwork of Many people know about Sen. George W. Norris who devised the George W. Norris of Nebraska and plan, spent his own money to cambis record in the U. S. senate, ex- paign and work for it. tending over a third of a century. Through the efforts of Senator But in Nebraska be is honored for Norris, Nebraska has a huge grid more than the bill, system which, in connection with the Tennessee Valley authority and irrigating a million acres of land, the "lame-duck- " amendment. supplies electric power to farms and towns. All except one or two pri--1 Nebraska has the only unicamstate legislature vate eiectrio utility companies eral, or in all of the 48 states. The have been taken over and added system began in 1937 and has the public power system. 43 members elected on a Senator Norris made his home at , ticket. McCook until he died there is 1944. one-hous- e, one-hou- se non-partis- BARBS by B aukha ge Agriculture and aviation, if they join hands, according to Chairman Wilson of the Aircraft Industries association, can revolutionize food and produce marketing. The first 40 million free road maps to be distributed will be 1942 reprints so dont be surprised if you run into a couple of new towns en route. The Council of American Business says for every day lost because of occupational disease 885 are lost from sickness. Stay on the job if you want to keep well The best shoes in the world, says Shoe News, were worn by the armed forces in World War IL But nobody seems to want to be in those shoes now. Sore Gums? Chewing Discomfort? Food Particles Under Plates? Troublesome Lowers? . Dont let the annoying loose-pla- te trouble make your life miserable another day Instead be guided by the experience of grateful thousands wbove found complete dental-pl- at security and comfort with 8taze the remarkable dentist's discovery that does what no "powder even claims I 1. Hold plates comfortably secure not for or it cost just a few hours,2. but p.ll daprelieves and you nothing. Quickly help prevent sore gums due to loose plates that slip and chafe. 3. Seals around plate edges to keep out Lrrl food particles. 4. 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