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About Will Maupin's weekly. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1911-1912 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1911)
BRIEF BITS. Little Items of News Plucked As They Flitted By. For fine printing call Auto 2748. Maupin-Shoop Publishing Co. H. C. Peate is in Detroit, represent ing the local lodge of Loyal Order of Moose. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Thompson were guests of relatives in Omaha the first of the week. The Maupin-Shoop printery is turn ing out the state fair programs and premium list this year. Mrs. Will Maupin and children have returned from a visit to Mrs. Maupin's parents' in North Bend. Mrs. Will Bustard is visiting with relatives in Washington, and will probably remain during the winter. Once more we are promised that the ' ornamental street lights will be turned on before the fair opens. It's the sahie promise that was made just one year ago. To date there has been no signs of retrenchment in railroad circles in , Lincoln. Shop hours at Havelock re main the same, with no hint of a de crease in the near future. Omaha's' last street car leaves Six teenth and Farnam at 1:40 a. m. In Lincoln we have an all night serv ice. It might be well to remember this while making comparisons. Several Lincoln printermen wore in Omaha Monday evening and were properly initiated into the mysteries of the Ak-Sar-Ben. It was "Ben Franklin" night at the Den. Mrs. Charles Righter was in Om aha Monday. Her little nephew, Master Frederick Righter, who has been visiting her during the summer, has returned to his home in Chicago. Lincoln Typographical Union will meet next Sunday afternoon, and it is .expected that Delegate Botrom will be on hand to tell a few things about the- San Francisco convention. The Bankers Life Co. has moved in to its magnificent new building on Fourteenth and N, and now enjoys the distinction of being the best housed life insurance company west of the Mississippi river. Col. James Dawson is the prohibi tion nominee for sheriff. He was ac corded the honor by reason of hav ing two votes cast for him by prohi bitionists. He is offering huge re wards for the conviction of the guilty parties. Mrs. Jess Mickel of Harvard, who has many friends in Lincoln, in pre paring to move to Florida, where Mr. Mickel has purchased an orange grove. Mr.. Mickel is still in Mexico City, but his contract soon expires and he expects then to take it easy among the yellow " fruit. Mayor A. H. Armstrong was called to Chicago on Friday of last week by the serious illness of Mrs. Armstrong, who has been an invalid for a long time. Mrs. Armstrong was seeking health at a Minnesota resort and when taken seriously ill was hur riedly removed to Chicago. A report received Thursday was to the effect that she was considerably better, al though not yet out of danger. The postoffice employes enjoyed a picnic Tuesday. The postoffice was closed during the afternoon in order to give every employe an opportun ity to enjoy the fun. Of course there were a few confirmed grouches who hollered because the office was closed, but only a few. The rest of us were mighty glad to see the clerks get a chance to have a good time. Sample of business acumen on the part of Lincoln's city council: A couple or three years ago the grade on O street east of Thirty-third was fixed and property owners on the north side of the street laid their walks according to the city engineer's stakes. Now the city is footing the bills for lowering the sidewalks twelve feet to conform to a new grade, the expense including a ce ment block retaining wall eight feet high. FOND OF ELECTIONS. THOUGHTS FOR UNIONISTS. Do you prefer union to non union conditions V Shun the sweatshops if you do and buy only union made goods. Have you the label of the United Hatters of North Ameri ca in your hat? If not your headgear is out of harmony with your union professions. What would become of the working men and women of the United States if the labor unions were destroyed? They would be wholly at the mercy of oppres sive and soulless employers, for one thing. ,How about you, Mr. Union Man? When you patronize a meat market do you look for and see that the shop card of the Meat Cutters' union is display ed in the market in which you make your purchases? If not, why not? es$xsxsses3xe WORKERS OF JAPAN. Wealth of the Nation Built on Blood of Women Toilers. A recent official report shows that women are responsible for building up Japanese industries. This report showa that Japanese women's labor as an industrial factor is very great, as their Influence is keenly felt in almost every industry. Commencing with the production of raw silk, which occupies over 50 per cent of Japan's total export trade, fe male labor largely enters into the manufacture of habutae, cotton yarn and other staples of export. The extensive employment of female labor may be due to its comparative ly low price, but in many instances work can be done better and more ef fectively by women than by men. The percentage of women engaged In the industries of Japan is stated to be as follows as compared with men: Men employed. 34 per cent: women employed, 60 per cent, showing that there are nearly twice as many wo men as men employed. There are usually fixed hours (twelve) as to the time for daily employment. In spinning raw silk, floss silk, cot ton refining, weaving, knitting and braid manufacture there were em ployed a total of 373,284 persons in 1908 Of these only 43.2(54 were males; the rest, 330.020. were females. The highest wages rec-eivrd by these women were 14 cents (28 sent a. day. Girls under fourteen years received as low as 4 cents (8 sen) a day. This accounts for the fact that Ja pan's export trade has increased from $70,000,000 in 1891 to $450,000,000 in 1910. What clearer evidence is needed than this that the wealth of every nation is built up from the blood and tears of its toilers, especially of its toiling women! Minnesota Union Advocate. In Switzerland They 8eleot Even Qravedlggers by Ballot. According to Professor F. F. ttoget of ; Geneva,: the Bwlss have the great est: political intelligence in the world today. "Every citizen of a canton Is a Swisa citizen," , says Professor Roget.1 "One must become a member of sonde local commune to become naturalized and in order to do so must be accepted by the local communal council. "Every male Swiss citizen is an elec tor from the age of twenty, there be ing no property qualification. Every Swiss is a soldier and every soldier an elector. . The federal elector may vote wherever' he may happen to be. guar antees being taken that he votes only once. "The cantons are the political units, and no elector may exercise political rights in more than one canton. On moving from one locality to another the Swiss must wait three months be- fore he may exercise the franchise in ' his new neighborhood." Professor Roget declares that "every collective authority In Switzerland Is elected. "The foreigner," he states, "is often surprised to see in a Swiss newspaper on a Monday the results of all kinds of elections on the Sunday. If he had gone Into a polling booth on the Sun day he would have found In this cor ner a clerk at a desk, at which the elector would vote for the local school master. "In another corner would be a desk at which he would vote for the local Judge, In another part of the same room he would vote for the local grave digger, and so on through a whole series of officials, all of whom are pop ularly elected. "The result of this training is that the political intelligence of the Swiss Is extremely developed, and that be thoroughly understands what he is vot ing about at home In his native coun try, and that when he goes abroad he finds it very easy to understand and to take part in any -political movements among which he may find himself." Exchange. A Sinecure. General Horatio C. King, on one oc casion narrating some war memories, said: "We suffered many .hardships on both sides, but the poor, brave Con federates suffered most. I remember a grizzled old colored man who at the outbreak of the Spanish .war applied for a place as an army cook. " 'What experience have you had? the old fellow was asked. " 1 was cook, sab., fo' a Confederate regiment In slxty-fo',' be answered that is. sah, I had the position of cook, but, to tell the truth, 1 didn't work at it' "'Why not?' I 'Thnio nraon'r nAthln' rrtr sah.' " Doctors In Russia. Dr. Ralph Thompson, in Medical Eu rope, states that "in Russia nobody ever asks a physician the amount of his bill. It is universally understood that a gentlemaD pays his doctor a fair sum such a sum as he can afford to pay within the limits of his in come and his sense of generosity. The Russian mind cannot conceive bow a man engaged in the holy pursuit of saving life and alleviating suffering can put a price on his services " After this it Is not surprising to learn from the same authority that Russia is the only European country of importance where the medical profession is not overcrowded. THE ONYX FOUNTAIN The fnest in fhe west. Just the place for those delicious summer drinks. Lincoln's popular after-the-mati-nee and after-the-opera resort. Good service quickly performed. The parlor de luxe. RECTOR'S 12th and O St. E. FLEMING 1211 O Street Jewelry and wares 01 Precious Metals. Best selected stock in Lincoln. 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