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A Weekly Journal of Cheerful Comment whose mission it is to reflect sunshine
and pilot people around and behind the dark clouds. It believes in the Ultimate
Good and strives for it Until it runs out out of Good Words to say about men
and women it will say no Harsh Words and there is so much of Good to be
said that Will Maupin's Weekly expects to be Very Busy on the Good End of
the job for many years to come. May we have your company along the way?
BOOSTING NEBRASKA ALWAYS
That is one of the best things we do and thepleasantest Just say "Nebraska"
to us and you've got us going. Nebraska is inspiration for song and symphony,
for oratory and optimism. Will you join our Grand Chorus of Nebraska Boost
ers, instructed and conducted by Will Maupin's Weekly? Initiation fee and
one year's dues, One Dollar the more dollars we get the better we sing.
TfflSIS A GOOD TIME FOR SINGING LESSONS
MEN & MATTER
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spinal rigidity to say wha-, he thinks,
and to do what he thinks should be
done.
To be elected senator from Nebraska
presupposes some knowledge of inside
politics on the part of the lucky man.
Al Soreuson exhibits sueh a dense ig
norance of politics in the fallowing quo-
atiou from his Omaha Examiner that
we greatly fear he is to forever re
main the will-be senator: "lie says:
There is getting to be a painful itera
tion iu the boosting of Bryan by F. V.
Brown, ex-mayor of Lincoln. Wherever
at reporter is willing to ply him his in
terview pencil Mr. Brown gladly pro
vides a Bryan boost. Vhieh suggests
that Mr. Brown is pursuing a still hunt
for a position on the nnional commit
tee to succeed Dr. 1. L. Hall." Such
an ignorance! And exhibited by Al
Soreuson. too! If Bryan is "in bad"
with the democracy to the extent that
Sorenson claims, how can Brown ad
vance his own interests by boosting
Bryant And what advantage would
accrue to Brown by reason of being
a member of the democratic national
committee t If Frank W. Brown is
JLooking for anything far himself in the
political game, we arc quite well as
sured that it is not a job as national
committeeman. We epine that it is
something vastly wore influential,
closer home, aud permitting of pastry
distribution without the necessity of
going to the backdoor of a president to
ask for it in wholesale quantities.
mous message, "There is glory enough
for all of us," ranks with Perry's "We
have met the enemy and they are
ours," or with Nelson's. "England ex
pects every man to do his duty." It
gave to the world the real measure of
the man brave, chivalrous and gen
erous without fear and without re
proach. His fame was next to that of
Dewey 's and lasted longer. Future
school histories will teach the rising
generation that Admiral Schley was a
hero, a gallant sailor and a great citizen.
If any concerted effort is made to in
duce" immigration to Nebraska it will
be made by the railroads. There will
be much talk about this or that method
and organizations will be perfected,
but the fact remains that until some
future legislature acts wisely enough
to make an adequate appropriation for
the organization and maintenance of a
bureau of publicity and promotion, the
railroads will have to do the real work
if any is done. And the railroads are
doing the very best they can under the
circumstances. Naturally each one con
fines its efforts to booming its own
particular territory. What is needed is
systematic boomg of every section of
Glorious Nebraska? And it is the state's
business to advertise its own business.
"How soon are we forgotteu when
we are gone." wailel poor Rip. And
how truly the merry s old vagabond
spake ! Thirteen years ago the name of
Admiral WinfieM Sott Schley loomed
large. Last Monday "'the announce
ment of his death received less notice
in the newspapers than a divorce case
in society- circle. Tt Schley ranks
with such great sea fighters as Nelson,
Jones, Lawrence, Farragut Foote and
Dewey. Despite tnt efforts of a ash-
I ington cabal to "pocBet him," tt
uc recognized in liifa the
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The rumor that Richard L. Metcalfe
is seeking to put the rollers under Dr.
Hall and trundle him out of the dem
ocratic national committee is a joke. If
Dr. Hall wants the thankless and pure
ly honorary position again he will not
only have no opposition worthy of the
name, but will have the active support
of "Met" and others we might name.
The efforts of busybodies to rupture
the friendly relations between the
genial banker and the companionable
newspaperman will fizzle like a wet
firecracker. We know whereof we
speak, therefore we claim to be speak
ing advisedly.
tion as a jokesmith. But if he is really
serious about it we hope he goes after
the job. Of course we have heretofore
expressed the opinion that Dan V.
Stephens of Fremont is the man for
the place, but if it is not to be Stephens
then by all means let it be Elliott.
"Jim" has surely earned the honor of
a nomination at the hands of his party,
for he has been a consistent and tireless
hewer of wood and drawer of water,
even if he hands the water along.
Congressman Norris did not meet
the president in either Omaha or Lin
coln. Just why is best known to Con
gressman Norris, of course. He is
frankly opposed to the re-nomination
of Taft, frankly opposed to Taft's reci
procity ideas, and really in favor of a
revision of the tariff downward. About
all they agree upon is arbitration. And
it takes no- exceptionally keen political
vision to see that the Nebraska man
voices the sentiments of a majority of
Nebraskans. Nor is it difficult to see
that Congressman Norris is a growing
force in the councils of his party and
of the nation.
"Jim" Elliott, the big, good natured
and able editor of the West Point Re
publican, yearns to succeed Congress
man Latta. He declares he is serious
about it, too which inclines us to the
belief that he is maintaining his reputa-
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ing their farms and contributing some
thing to society and being fined for
it. Soil and "lay of the land" being
equal, the unimproved half-section
ought to pay just as much tax as the
highly improved half-section. It is
"just as valuable for use and occu
pancy. And until it is taxed just as
niueh, just so long will there be in
creasing congestion of population in
the cities, an increasing shortage of
food supplies and an increasing
amount of human misery.
bound to present Stephenson with a
medal of honor.
The "million dollar rains" we failed
to get in July and early August are
coming along now and worth the
money. They are making the pastures
green again, rejuvenating even the late
potatoes and tomatoes, and putting the
ground in excellent shape for fall plow
ing. They means a bumper wheat crop
in Nebraska next year. Let 'er rain!
This Journal of Cbeerful Comment
has small opinion of the man who can
see "sport" in chasing jack rabbits
who have no earthly chance of ultimate
escape. If they dodge the dogs one
day they are almost certain to be
caught the next. And yet there are
men who claim there is sport in that
sort of thing. There may be some basis
for the claim that it is sport to
chase rabbits in the open, where the
rabbit has something like a show to
win. But "coursing meets" are about
as sportsmanlike as shooting live birds
from a trap, and live bird shooters are,
in our humble belief, men who in their
bod hood loved to pull wings from flies
to see them wobble around, or stick
pins in babies to hear them cry, or
bullyrag children smaller than them
selves. Jesse Pomeroy was about as
mean as they are made, but we never
heard that he was charged with shoot
ing pigeons from a trap.
Anybody expect that the ''investi
gation" of Senator Stephenson of Wis
consin will prove anything other than
a "whitewash?" If there be such a
man, bless his innocent heart." If he
will send in his name we can sell it at
a high price to some dealer in gold
bricks. A senate that found a" Lori
mer innocent of wrong-doing is in duty
A few weeks ago the daily papers
were full of the Astor-Force marriage
details. Last week the national con
servation congress met in Kansas City,
but the newspaper reports are meagre
in the extreme. The "big story" was
one that had a bad effect on public
morals. The other story merely had
to do with the happiness and prosper
ity of a people.
The railroads of Great Britain carry
more passengers than do the railroads
of the United States. Our railroads
kill and wound a thousand where the
British railroads kill and wound one.
The reason for the difference is that
our British cousins think more of .life
and limb than" they do of dividends.
A BIT REMINISCENT.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Carry of Oregon,
Mo., have been visiting with relative
and friends in Lincoln for the past
week. And the editor of Will Mao
pin's Weekly is proud to be numbered
among their friends. Thirty-one years
ago this editor entered the office of
the Sentinel at Oregon and began serv
ice as "devil." Tom Curry was then
foreman. During the years since then
the writer has roamed a bit quite a
bit but Tom has remained right there.
Only he is one of the Sentinel's editors
now, and only goes to the "ease" when
there is a rush on. His partner, "Dea
con" Dobyns, was the editor in the
writer's "devil" days, and is still do
ing active duty, using the same old
chair, the same old desk, and in the
same old building. We have olfactory
evidence, too, that the "Deacon" is us
ing the same old pipe. Tom and his
good wife have children older than
the writer was when he began learning'
the printer's trade. For the matter
of that the writer has also one of
them mueh older. But there is another
tie that binds this editor to the old
print shop down in Oregon. His "kid
brother" is now foreman of the old
shop, and daily pulls out the same old
cases, sits at the same old frames and
looks out of the same old windows up
on the same old scenes.
Mr. and Mrs. Curry they are Tom
and Minnie to everybody in and around
Oregon are taking life easy. Tom
wouldn't know what to do with a mil
lion dollars if he had it, and wouldn't
be happy with it. Assured of a mod
est income, he would rather catch crap
pie in Big Lake than to travel in a
private car. The Curry home is al
ways open, and Oregon young folks
make it their headquarters. And when
the house is full of them, Tom and Min
nie are the youngest of the lot.
, Isn't that, after all, the way to live?
Isn't it better than eternally striving
to pile up dollars that yon cannot take
with you? Isn't it better than to be
forever scheming to get ahead of your .
fellows? We wish the world, and par
ticularly this western section thereof,
had a whole lot more Toms and Min
nies, and a whole lot less of some other
kinds. ' It would improve things a heapl
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