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About Will Maupin's weekly. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1911-1912 | View Entire Issue (May 5, 1911)
est bearing securities in its permanent school fund. At the same time, too, the state owns $25,000,000 worth of school land daily growing more valuable and an nually turning thousands of dollars into the school fund. On the same date the banks of Nebraska contained deposits amounting to upwards of $1G0 for eack man, woman and. child in the state. Dur ing the last ten year period Nebraska has harvested more corn per acre, more wheat per acre, more oats per acre and more rye per acre than any other state Today Nebraska is the fourth largest corn pro ducing state, and the youngest of the four. The fourth largest wheat produc ing state, and the youngest of the four. The third largest butter producing state, and by far the youngest of the three. She has the- third largest packing center in the United State, and is the youngest of the three. The more you study Nebraska the more you will be impressed with her wonderful development ' and her still more wonderful possibilities Let all the world . know the real facts about Nebraska. school surroundings what they should be? Will Maupin's Weekly, after earn estly and consistently advocating the es tablishment of the southwestern school of agriculture, now expresses its desire to have the school located at Mascot. houses and some big manufacturing plants. "See Nebraska first" and learn to know your own state better. We are having a surfeit of maudlin sympathy for the young woman who stole $150,000 worth of negotiable bonds from Mrs. Ogden Armour. She stole the bonds. Of that there is no question. She did not need the money, for she had a luxurious home, all the comforts of life and many of its luxuries. But she didn't have as much money as some of her friends, therefore she stole to make up the difference. She did not have the ex cuse of hunger, of cold or of any other privation. Will Maupin's Weekly has no sympathy for her, being only sorry Vtliat she was such a fool. It is reserving its -sympathy-for-the jobless man who is caught stealing bread for his hungry babies and sent to jail for it. Every now and then quite too often, in fact organized labor perforins some fool stunt that tries the patience of its best friends and staunchest advocates. The building trades council of Des Moines has just performed one of these fool stunts. It notified Mr. Bryan that if he laid the cornerstone of the new Y. M.1 C. A. building in that city it would adopt resolutions of condemnation and scatter them broadcast. The reason for this notice was that the Y. M. C. A. build ing is to be erected by non-union work men, a fact unknown to Mr. Bryan when he made the engagement. Where does the Des Moines building trade council ex pect to get off at by condemning Mr. Bryan? Is he to blame for the failure of Des Moines unionists to "square" tho Y. M. C. A. job? Would his making an ad dress at the cornerstone laying under all the known circumstaffees overturn the fact that organized labor has had in him one of its staunchest friends and most eloquent supporters? The time spent by the Des Moines building trades council in drawing up resolutions condemning men like Bryan would be better spent in try ing to organize the city. Why shouldn't the little community of Mascot have the first call of the location of the new agriculural school? It is in the very heart of the territory the school is intended to benefit. It is a farming community with none of the "city attrac tions" that tend to distract the minds and divert the attention of the boys and girls who are going to study farm and domestic science problems. It has every advantage demanded for a successful school of this kind, and none of the dis advanages that may not easily overcome. And, besides, has it not the one great ad vantage of having a big, whole-souled, en terprising and wideawake man like John Grace to take the lead m making the "See America First" is a slogan being adopted by the railroads, the idea being to divert passenger traffic from the ocean to the land. " And the slogan is a good one, not only for the railroads but for Americans. Scenery in the Alps? TJie Rockies have the Alps beaten both ways from the middle. All Europe and Asia can not show a wonder of nature to com- pare with the Grand Canon. Yellowstone Park has the storied Rhine loking like a cheap chromo alongside a Landseer or a Reubens. The Yosemite valley has no equal in its way. Niagara is still the wonder of the world. The valley of the Nile is a mere strip of land compared with the wonderful valley of the Mis sissippi. The "Blue Danube's" storied scenery isn't acmarker to the scenery along the James, and the "sunny hills" of France are mere imitations of the real thing when contrasted with the Blue mountains of the Carolinas. And before Nebraskans even start to seeing America let them "see Nebraska First." Minne haha falls, famous in song and story, never saw the day when they were as pretty as the Falls of Wauneta on the Stinking Water river in Chase eotiny. Mortal eye never saw a prettier sight than the one offered the tourist who stands on the summit of Scotts Bluff and gazes out over the beautiful valley. Deep Canon in northwestern Nebraska is com parable only to Cheyenne canon, and there are bits of scenery along the Nio brara that are not excelled for beauty by anything in Europe or America. And if you want a boat ride down a river, with scenery and sights that will make, a Nile journey seem like floating down a creek, ride down the Missouri river from Sioux City to Rulo, past the overhanging bluffs, giving way to little valleys rich in pro ductivity, vast orchards and vineyards, -snug homes and fat kjne And yet 99 per cent of Nebraskans think their state has nothing better to offer the sightseer h'an cultivated acres, a few packing The milk producers get 10 cents a gal-. Ion for their product, the same being paid by the men who distribute it. The dis ajara t? si ajaqj jouinsuoa aqj put? jaonp tributors get 29 cents. Between the pro matter of 190 per cent increase. Either the producer is getting too little or the consumer is paying too much. The fig ures prove it. Maybe this same sort of increase between producer and consumer of other necessaries of life is responsible for the "high cost of living." It is worth thinking about. AUTOMOBILE LICENSE MONEY The state treasury is no longer to be enriched by the receipts of automobile license money. Hereafter the license only will go into the treasuries of the various counties and devoted to road im provement. Unless there is a radical change from the past they money will be worse than wasted. Nebraska's road laws are chaotic, meaningless and wholly impracticable. About $700,000 a year is annually expended upon Nebraska roads and each succeeding spring finds them is just as bad shape as they were the pre vious fall. About the most sinful waste of public money occurs right there in the roadmaking efforts of Nebraska. A spe cial session of the legislature called for the sole purpose of giving us a good code of road laws would be worth the expense, if it gave us the laws. Enough money is uselessly wasted in road work in Ne braska every ten years o, build a mac adam roadbed sixteen feet wide from the Missouri rived to the Colorado line. Commonsense and a due regard for eco nomy demand that a reform be accom plished in the very near future. WILL MAUPIN'S WEEKLY A JOURNAL OF CHEERFUL COMMENT Dollar A Year Fifty-two doses of Nebraska Opti mism a dose a week for a whol year. . , Snd th Dollar to Will Maupin's Wkly, Lincoln, Nbraska. P. S. Send the Dollar Today.