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About Will Maupin's weekly. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1911-1912 | View Entire Issue (July 7, 1911)
gradually increased the production per acre, and have made larger the tillable area. They have developed the dairying industry until today the dairy cow and the modest, hen are two of Nebraska's greatest, wealth producers. The Agricul tural College is returning dollars to the state for every penny given for its main tenance. It is of more practical benefit fo the state than all the universities and colleges within the state's borders. The daily newspapers of July 4 saw fit to chronicle the fact that there is a famine of silver coin in the north Pacific states. Had we know that a dearth" of silver coin was an item of news we could have put the papers wise to it a long time ago. No need to worry for fear the city council will consent to allowing the pub lic service corporations to occupy the streets with private mains. Doubtless the public service corporations are suf fering from inadequate service from the municipal plant, but at that they are no worse off than hundreds of private consumers. As a matter of fact, if a privately owned public service corpora tion were guilty of giving the people tle kind of service they are getting from the municipal water plant right now, there would be an insurrection. The manage ment of the water department has been playing for a record. Instead of bending every energy to giving good service the managers have been trying to show up big in the profit column-. The city should not seek to make a penny of profit from the water plant. It should seek to give the best possible service at the least pos sible cost. Mayor Armstrong is stirring things up in the water department, and as the stirring proceeds the water con sumers will be wise to a lot of facts that have been concealed from them. Everybody will regretjto hear that Sec retary C. E. Mayne of the Y. M C. A. is to sever his connection with the local or ganization to become connected with the organization at Gary, Indiana. For elev en years Mr. Majnie has been giving loyal and efficient service in a cause that means much to the young men and boys of this city. He has proved his efficiency by getting hold of boys in a manner that few men are capable of accomplishing, lie has the knack of knitting them to him, and exerting upon them a powerful influence for good, never making the morals so obtrusive as to make boys with red blood in their veins shy away from him. Such men are all too rare. Vigor ous, full of initiative and always "on the job," Mr. Mayne is making a record in the Y. M. C. A. work. His departure from Lincoln will be regretted by thou sands, especially by the young men and boys who have felt his influence forgood upon their lives. Garry is to be congrat ulated upon having secured this splendid worker in a splendid cause. Lincoln Ad Clubmen who have never been the guests of Samson in the Den of the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben at Omaha have a treat coming. To be the guest of Samson is to get a touch of high life, be filled full of Nebraska enthusiasm and sent forth to boost. Next Monday night Samson and his loyal knights are going to entertain Omaha and Lincoln Ad Clubmen, together with members of the Commercial Clubs throughout the state. Some special stunts will be pulled off. President Westfall and Secretary Mur ray of the Lincoln Ad Club are desirous of having the local organization repre sented to the limit. If seventy-five or more members will signify a desire to at tend a special train will be provided, and the clubmen can go and come when they please. If you want to be counted in on the splurge, just telephone Secretary K. L. Murray. It will be a trip to cling to the memory for many years to come. We've been through the mysterious reamlm of Ak-Sar-Ben a few times, and Ave know what we are talking about, thank you. We're going up next Monday and take it all in again. The office of the Columbus Telegram was gutted by fire a few days ago, but that won't prevent the Telegram from coming out as regularly and as full of ginger as usual. About the only possible difference that fire could have made would have been to make Judge Howard forget that drawl for a minute and talk real fast. And even a costly fire would scarcely be too high a price to pay for the privilege of listening to such. Colonel Charley Pool, who edits the Tecumseh Journal-Tribunal brilliantly when he is not politicking, and always en tertainingly no matter what else he may be doing, says it is up to the bo;ys wheth er he shall be the Democratic nominee for governor next yetr. There is no dis puting that Charles would make a strong candidate, and were it not for the fact that we have already picked out the dem ocratic gubernatorial candidate we'd be for Pool with enthusiasm. Just as soon as Senator John.Morehead winds up two term of two years each we will attnd to the matter of putting Charley Pool in the executive chamber of the convict built stone pile that sets across Fifteenth street.. COLONEL SAM ME LI OK. Col. Sam Melick, than whom there is not a better known man in Lancaster county, lias an ambition to serve the county as sheriff, and with that end in view is a candidate for the Republican nomination. Colonel Melick is no novice in the work apertaining to and touching upon the duties of sheriff. He has lived in Lancaster county long enough to know about everybody and to be well and fav orably known by everybody. His expe rience as chief of police of Lincoln, and as an officer of the law in various capa cities peculiarly fit him for the position. He is making an active canvass for the nomination, and the smile he is wearing is indicative of the fact that he is well satisfied with the results to date. His rec ord as a citizen and as an official is an open book for all men to read, and he is perfectly willing to have his candidacy judged by that record. If he is success ful the people will have the satisfaction of knowing that they have selected a cap able official, and one who will do his whole duty without fear or faor. THE SENSIBLE PLAN. This week is the anniversary of the agreement formulated between the cen tral labor bodies of this city and the or ganization of employers. During that period the rules of the agreemnt have been strictly adhered to by both parties. Labor disputes have been settled by both parties. Labor disputes have been (settled by means of arbitration while the men continued at work. With the excep tion of one contract in which jurisdic tional controversies arose between the men employed, there has been no strike upon the work controlled by members of the two organizations. Before the agree ment became effective one year ago there was not a week passed but what the busi ness agents and the secretary of the em ployers' association were not engaged in endeavoring to settle some trouble and return the men to work. The contrast be tween the situation in this city and other municipalities throughout the state is so great as to cause astonishment to em ployers and employees in these places. Conservative but energetic Cedar Rapids has as much cause to express pride in the manner in which labor and capital dwell in peace and harmony as she has in her other great achievements in the indus trial field. Cedar Rapids, la., Tribune. WHY THE "PERHAPS." The Red Cloud Chief, referring to the dry spell and sounding a note of cheer, says: "Perhaps no state in the union can show such marvelous recuperative powers as Nebraska." Why the "per haps?" It is redundant, tautological and irrelevant. The plain, simple and truth ful statement would be this: "No other state in the Union can show such mar velous recuperative powers as Nebras ka." Nebraska can stand more rainfall and .get along with less, than any other state. It can store more moisture in its soil, and draw upon it longer, than any other state. Its people get along in com fort when the thermometer is registering 104 in the shade, while people in New York and Massachusetts and Ohio and. Illinois are dying of the heat when the thermometer registers but 90 in the shade. Nebraska corn grows so fast you can hear it under conditions that would shrivel the corn crop of Iowa or Illinois or Indiana. By and large, up, and down, around and across, Nebraska is the most productive, most enterprising and most resourceful state in the Union, And there is no "perhaps" about it.