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
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