SOME CURT
Mr. F. L. Shoop, formerly of Wake
field, Nebraska, and a newspaper man of
long experience, lias connected himself
with The Wageworker Publishing Co.,
and will in future act as business man
ager. The editorial end will continue
under the direction of Mr. Maupin. Mr.
Shoop's interests in the company is equal
to Mr. Maupin'.- If he receives the same
courtesies that have been shown to Mr.
Maupin in the past he will have no reason
to complain. From this minute on, an
active campaign will be waged to make
Will Maupin's Weekly a necessity in
every Nebraska household, and therefore
an advertising medium that can not be
profitably overlooked. Now watch is
grow.
The Wageworker Co. has the best
equipped printing office of its size in this
section, and is prepared to do just one
kind of printing the best. The location
is at 1705 O street, Lincoln, Neb. The
telephone number is Auto 2748. The
front door is open during all ordinary
business hours. Friends and customers
will be as welcome as the flowers in May,
or soaking rains in July.
Will Maupin's Weekly pleads guilty to
shortness this week. The rush and worry
incident to a change in business manage
ment, coupled with the work of getting
out the "Nebraska Booster Edition,"
which will appear on Tuesday next, have
combined to render imperative an issue
of half-size this week, with even less than
one-half the amount of live reading mat
ter therein. But the "Booster Edition"
will be so big and so fine that we are
quite sure our friends will overlook the
shortcomings of the present.
Speaking of the "Nebraska Booster
Edition" of Will Maupin's Weekly it is
going to be worth while. It will be
jammed from title page to finis with in
formation about Nebraska and Nebraska
industries, with facts and figures to
prove that Nebraska, is the best state in
the Union, and . with interesting data
that will make it well worth while keep
ing for future reference. The chief pur
pose of its issue is to advertise Nebraska
in the eastj and to that end 2,000 copies
thereof Avill be distributed by the Ad
Clubs of Lincoln and Omaha and the Ne
braska Publicity league during the con
vention at Boston next week of the As
sociated Advertising Clubs of America.
Get in your advertising copy today.
Last week we urged owners of automo
biles to act unselfishly and use their ma
chines to confer pleasure upon those less
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erous, humanity-loving men of the city
a letter which cheers us. We are not go-
CURRENT
ing to give his name now, because we do
not . want to embarass him, and we
wouldn't embarass State Fire Commis
sioner Randall for anything in the
world.
"I have just read your article ad
dressed to 'Mr. Automobile Owner," '
writes Mr. Randall, "and it strikes me
right where I live. I have been practic
ing that sort of thing for ten years, and
the only reason I am not practicing it.
now is that I am not aware where these
poor and sick mothers and children live,
through any of the departments that
If you will inform me, either in person or
know of any of these people, I will be
very glad to offer my services with my
machine at any time outside of business
hours. I am even willing to forego the
pleasure of attending church on Sundays
and devote the entire day with my ma
chine to carrying out your suggestions. I
have a good machine. I am of mature
age and a safe companion for widows and
children without a chaperone to take up
room in the car."
That's the right spirit. Let other auto
owners come to the front, and Will Mau
pin's Weekly will undertake to find those
to whom an automobile ride would be a
blessing and a benefit.
There are a lot of Lincoln citizens who
keenly appreciate the quandry in which
the Traction Co., the Gas Co. and the Be
atrice Creamery Co. now find themselves.
Those big corporations are not ade
quately supplied by the municipal water
department, either in quantity or quality.
While the water department has been
working under the mistaken policy of
making the department show a profit, the
consumers have been neglected. The
water system is inadequate. It is a sys
tem of patches. The truth is that Lin
coln has outgrown her easily accessible
water supply. We might as well face the
fact now as later that we must seek a
supply outside of the salt basin, and seek
it without frittering away any more time
in idle discussion and acrimonious dis
pute. And first of all the men who man
age the water department need ta jar
loose from the idea that "profit" is some
thing to be desired. The department
should not pay a profit. It should pay
expenses of maintenance and extensions.
When that is done if-there is yet net rev
enue, lower the rates. We have boasted
of. our "cheap water" supply until we
actually have come to believe it is cheap.
The fact is that it doubtless can be shown
that the water' consumers of Lincoln are
paying more per thousand gallons for
their water than the consumers of any
other city in the country boasting of a
municipal owned plant.
Will Maupin's Weekly opines that
COMMENTS
neither of the corporations above men
tioned is desirous of going into the water
supply business. And this paper would
oppose allowing them to do so to the ex
tent of occupying the streets with water
mains of their own. But it frankly ad
mits that if the city will not furnish them
with an adequate supply of good water
they should be allowed to get their water
some other way, even if they had to lay
private mains in the street. But it is up
to the city to supply them ; also to supply
citizens who are paying for the water
they too often cannot get.
"Mr. Bryan could not be elected dele
gate to the democratic national conven
tion from Nebraska." Mike Harrington.
"If that is true, it is the worst thing
that has ever been said of the democratic
party." Richard L. Metcalfe.
The decision of the court is that "Met""
put one over.
iisetzrr- m.. . ...
If President Taft "reprimands" Dr.
Wiley, so much the worse for President
Taft. Dr. Wiley's ofense consists: of
standing between the consumers and the
dopesters who are willing to poison the
nation for the sake of a few added dollars
of profit. Would that we had more of
fenders of like character! I.
Look out ! One by one the Nebraska
fire insuarnce companies are going out
of business swallowed up by the older
companies of the east. There can be but
one result. When the last Nebraska com
pany has been swallowed and the insur
ance combine has perfected its cinch
well, prepare to dig ! ;'
The Trade Review's ideas concerning
the architecture of the new high school
building meet with the hearty approval of
this newspaper. We want nothing of
great architectural beauty at the expense
of comfort and sanitation. The building
should not be more than three stories
high at the most, and far better if only,
two stories high, with high ceilings and
wide halls. Let it be built plainly but
substantially, and with the view to add
ing thereto in days to come. The board
of education is not cramped for room,
therefore need not build high in the air.
Let it spread out instead of going up. '
The bug sharps of the University of
Nebraska give forth the cheerful informa
tion that the grasshoppers now "in our
midst" are natives, and not of the breed
that made the famous invasion some
thirty-five years ago. For which informa
tion we are truly thankful. But, dod
gast it, those native hoppers eat as much
as the other kind, don't they?
