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About Will Maupin's weekly. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1911-1912 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 22, 1911)
.1 I 'MtTISK XEIiRAHKA. All of our exchanges papers from this state and Kansas tell of big yields of alfalfa seed and enormous profits, 100 to the acre and higher. One paper says, "How Texas would advertise such yields as these." Sure, Nebraska accepts it as a matter of course, yet in other states where land dealers are at work selling melinite brush and sand hills for farms, such stories as these would be sown broadcast. Nebraska has wonderful re sources yet undeveloped. She is the great est agricultural state in the union, and has the most healthful climate and it is the duty of the newspapers to let the world know these facts by. constantly printing such stories of wealth as these altout alfalfa seed, and others of people seeking a better climate elsewhere and at last returning here .satisfied with Ne braska. Eairbury Journal. ACTLMX IX XEItRA&KA. Talk alnrnt "Sunny Spain" and "lilue Italian Skies!" Talk about the balmy air of France, the health-giving breezes of the southern pine lands! Talk about climate anywhere. Why, Nebraska in the autumn has got 'em all backed off the boards and calling for help. Just enough of clouds floating lazilv across the blue of the skv to make a delightful contrast of color; with a clear sun shining with just enough heat to send the blood coursing merrily through the veins; with soft breezes car-, rving on their wings the balm for the healing of all the ills to which flesh is heir; with orchards a riot of red and gold as the apples hang ready for the gather ing. With the sumac gleaming along the roadsides, the goldenrod nodding to the passerby, with pastures fresh and green as when spring first opened, with granar ies full to bursting say, search the world over and nowhere will you find a state or a province to .compare with good old Nebraska in all that goes to make the life of the citizen worth living! There is an inspiration to endeavor in the very air. There is irovoeation for song in the gleam of the sun among the rapidly changing leaves and grasses. There is health and vigor in sunshine and atmos phere. As the sun rises in the morning it conies up in the midst of colors that only the master-painter God knows how to mix, and at eventide the flashing col ors, changing with kaleidoscopic rapidity make man stand in awe as he views the wonder-working miracles of the Creator. Everywhere is jeace and plenty and pros perity; everywhere is everything that is conducive to the happiness of mankind. Out here upon these broad plains where men have a chance to expand, mentally as well as physically, where womaiihMd is not blighted by commercialism or indus trialism, where children troop merrily to school well fed and well clothed out here In Nebraska when? breadline are un i known and the hopeless worker a re 'scarce as moisture in Hades, we are building the mightiest state of the Union. Are you looking for bright sunshine, and clear skies, and balmy winds? Come to Nebraska. Are you looking for con tentment? Come to Nebraska. Are you looking for opportunities to grow in grace and knowledge? Come to Nebraska. And come right now! We await you with a welcome that will warm the cockles of vour heart, a welcome as genu ine as the laughter of childhood, the song of the birds or the rippling of the streams. POOH-POOH ALSO PISH-TCSH.' Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is to be honarary president of the Internation al Brewers Congress in Chicago next month. Secretary of State Knox wrote some letters to foreign countries giving formal endorsement to the congress. Now comes a lot of. ministers to protest and to ask President Taft to order his secre taries to have nothing to do with the meeting. Of course President Taft should pay no attention to the ministerial pro testants. What a waste of vaJuable time and effort such protests are, anyhow. And how much letter employed our minister ial friends might be, to Ie sure. If we mistake not the brewing business is quite as respectable as many other lines of human endeavor. It has the added ad vantage of leing formally recognized bv the government, and it seems to us that we remember the fact that the brewers lear quite a large share of the expenses of conducting the government. The trouble with so many of our prohi bition friends is their impraetieability, their failure to recognize existing condi tions, their lack of poise and balance. They spend altogether too much time tilt ing at windmills and not enough time in fighting real facts. While our ministerial friends are raising particular hobb over Secretary Wilson's being made honorary president of the brewers association, doubtless there are scores of people right in the home towns of the aforesaid min itsers. who are injuriously affected by evils that the ministers have been stu diously, overlooking for years. Why not spend a bit more time fighting the causes that lead to conditions, and less time bat tling with conditions that must forever remain if causes are not abolished? Those Iowa ministers who declare they will take the Wilson-Knox-lJrewery matter up with the president when he arrives within the Hawkeve state, are merelv advertising themselves as a lot of notoriety-seekers. Thev make us tired. rut: wroxg view. A scientist once evolved the idea that grasshoppers heard through their legs. He proved his contention by placing an 1111 mutilated grasshopper upon one end- of a loard and scratching the other end of the hoard with a pin. The grasshopper jumped, "Aha, he heard through his legs!" shouted the professor. "Now to prove the assertion." Wheieuion he pulled the legs off the grasshopper and returned him to the board, and no mat ter how hard the professor scratched with the pin the 'hopper did not jump. "Aha," shouted the professor, "this proves that having no legs to hear with he therefore does not jump with fright!' Every time we hear some social reform er declaring that strong drink is the prime cause of poverty we are reminded of the professor and the grasshopper. Drunkenness thrives lest in communities where idleness is most prevalent. Given opportunities to work at decent wages, and drunkenness diminishes among men. This newspaper holds to the theory that poverty is the prime cause of drunken ness. Abolish the causes that prod nee pov erty and you have limited drunkenness. I Jut poverty does not follow overindulg ence in strong drink. On the contrary it comes on ahead of it. AX IMPORTAXT COXVEXTIOX. During the past week Lincoln has lieen host to two conventions which, though small in numlers, were among the most important gatherings Lincoln has ever entertained. These were the International Association of Factory Inspectors and the International Association of IJnreaus of Labor Officials. The delegates attend ing these conventions were vastly more than mere ofifceholders. Many of them are sacrificing greatly to le in a position to enforce laws benefiting humanity. We know of a dozen or more of the delegates who are working for from $1,800 to 2, 500 for their states who could get double that salary as specialists for big corpora tions. I Jut their hearts are in the work. These men are constantly stndying to protect life and limb, to, make the lot of the wage earner easier, and to lift the lev el of social well being. Their declarations were marked by zeal to advance the cause in which they lalor. What they accom jdished while in Lincoln will have a marked bearing on the work of the de partments during the years to come. It has been the pleasure of the editor of Will Man pin's Weekly to know most of these men for years. It was through his efforts that the two conventions selected Lincoln. Now that the -delegates have gone this edi tor believes that they will advertise Lin coln to an extent that will make the small outlay for their entertainment trivial by comparison. To the Commercial Club and its efficient secretary, 3lr. Wliitten, Will Maupin's Weekly extends its thanks for the courtesies extended to the dele gates to these two splendid conventions. The real worth of a convention to a city is not always measured by the conven tion's size. The two conventions just closed have benefitted Linitiln am! Ne braska immeasurably.