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EDUCATION FOR
The best investment Nebraska is
making these days is the money it is
putting into its agricultural schools,
experiment stations and related works.
Three-quarters of a million dollars is
the amount Nebraska is spending for
this sort of thins this biennium. be
ginning April 1. 1911. And every dol
lar of it is brinsrinsr results as fast as
spent.
Time was when farming was a hap
hazard sort of occupation. Land was
cheap and plentiful. That is all
changed nowx Iaud is no longer to
bo obtained for the mere asking. And
the successful farmer must be an edu
cated farmer. The work that brought
a profit from 10 an acre land would
bankrupt the man who is farming
100 au acre land, and most of Ne
braska's farm land is the 100 an acre
kind. There are a few old fogies who
assert that it is all a waste of money
to maintain agricultural schools .and
experiment stations. They think the
way of the fathers is good enough for
them and for their sons. Glory be,
the boys of today don't think so!
That's why the boys are going to agri
cultural schools and then going back
to the farm and making the soil yield
twice as much with less toil. And that
is why every dollar Nebraska spends
for agricultural education is better
than money invested, in securities bear
ing 100 'per cent a year. Suppose the
State Agricultural College teaches
farmers how to feed their dairy cows
so as to secure five pounds more of
butTer per cow per year. Figure it
cut: 600.000 dairy cows. 3,000,000
pounds more of butter per year, at 25
cents a pound 750,000. Or suppose
the scientific gentlemen managing that
school breed a wheat that will aver
age a couple of grains more to the
head, or, say a peck more wheat an
acre. Figure it ont. Two million, five
hundred thousand acres, 625,000 bush
els more of wheat, and 75 cents a
For Economical Men
The man of moderate means who must have something
more than style, who must have in addition thereto a sure
return for the money he invests in clothing the return of
durability, clothing that not only looks well but will last a
long time and look well all the time. It is to this man, and
men of his class, that we make special appeal.
What we are offering you now at from Ten to Thirty
dollars is always good, often better, than others will offer at
the same price after the season is ended and claim "special
bargain prices" for. The difference is that we are offering
the bargain prices right now at the beginning of the season,
when you want seasonable styles and when the selections
are good.
The Bargain Now
We make our bargain prices now, not after while. "Cut
price sales" are tabooed with us.
We are offering you at this time clothing made by firms
whose labels are absolute guarantee of merit, labels which
stand for quality just as the "hall mark" of England stands
for quality. And we are quoting now right now the
prices that others will quote as "cut price bargains" six
months from now. It will be to your advantage to make
careful inquiry into the system pursued by Speier & Simon
Largest line of
in
We make a specialty of Union-Made Goods in fact we
have established the reputation of being the "head to foot
outfitters" of union men. And in addition to the union label
our clothing possesses the merit of style, fit and wearing
qualities.
Get your clothing bargains now not six months later.
SPEIER & SIMON
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WE SAVE YOU MONEY
THE FARMER
bushel 468,000. Or add a bushel of
corn per acre to the average! Or put
twenty-five or thirty pounds more on
a hog or steer in the same length of
time at the same average cost!
But better than the financial gain
direct this agricultural education is
keeping the boys and girls on the farm
instead of their being inveigled into
the towns and cities, there to become
helpless molecules in the great indus
trial grind.
Three-quarters of a million dollars
for agricultural education is not so
much, considering what is to be done
and the advantages to be gained from
the doing. Will Maupin's Weekly
wishes that the appropriation might
be doubled, or trebled better still,
quadrupled. It wishes that it might
be possible for every farmer, and
every farmer's boy, and girl, and every
farmer's wife, to visit the State Agri
cultural College for a month each year.
It wishes that the regents, or whoever
has the authority, would get wise to
the fact that what the Nebraska State
School of Agriculture needs is a press
agent who can make good; . who can
write up what the school is doing and
purposes doing, and write it up in
newspaper English so that the people
would read it. The bulletins issued by
the professors are all right but your
average eollege professor knows about
as much of writing for general con
sumption as the veriest freshman
knows about the fourth dimension.
Nebraska people are not well enough
acquainted with the state's agricul
tural educational system if they knew
more about it they would come across
with more money for its support and
extension.
We've got millions of fertile acres
in Nebraska that are idle. There are
several reasons why this is so, but it
is necessary to mention only two:
First, Nebraska is criminally negligent
in the matter of properly advertising
and the Service Now
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her resources and possibilities to the
world. Second, her revenue system
puts a premium on holding land idle
for speculative purposes. There is
hope that these two difficulties may be
overcome in time. But while waiting
for this let us educate the boys and
girls of today, the farmers and farm
ers' wives of the future, until they
can make two blades of grass grow
where only one grows now, make one
acre produce what two acres scarcely
produce now in short, teach them soil
conservation, intensive farming, seed
selection and all that sort of thing.
Far be it from Will ilaupin's Week
ly to speak slightingly of the "higher
education!" But we need farmers
more than anything 1 else educated,
scientific, knowledgeous farmers. An 1
in the humble opinion of this unprF
tentious little journal of good eheer
the Nebraska School of Agriculture is
the most valuable educational asset
Nebraska posseses that and its re
lated branches, such as the experiment
stations and corn improvement asso
ciations and swine breeders' associa
tions, etc.
Three-quarters of a million! We're
rather proud of that. It's a fine
record for a new state. But let's make
it a round million for the biennium
beginning April 1, 1913. Couldn't
make a better investment.
THE WEEK'S PARADES.
The success of the parades during
the German Day festivities was so un
qualified, and gave such splendid en
tertainment to the people, that similar
parades every year are assured. Lin
coln owes much to the enterprising
and energetic citizens who paved the
way for these demonstrations and car
ried them to a successful eonclusion.
They brought thousands of visitors to
the city. More than that, they created
an enthusiasm and an interest that
will bring greater crowds in the years
to come.
It is beeoming more and more evi
dent to the pushing and progressive
citizens of Lincoln that we are not
doing all that should, and might, be
done to attract holiday crowds. Of
course the state fair is the big annual
attraction,- hut would it not be pos
sible to make even the state fair more
attractive by a series of parades and
entertainnents that would keep people
in Lincoln over night and induce them
to spend more time in the down town
districts! That the people will turn
out in crowds to witness parades that
are really worth while has twice been
demonstrated when the German-American
societies and citizens gave their
"German Day" festivals. Doubtless
these enterprising citizens are willing
to maintain the standard they have
set, but it is manifestly unfair that
they should carry a burden that
should rest upon the whole people,
for, after all, it is the whole people"
who profit from the influx of so many
visitors from abroad. Other cities are
offering inducements to people from
abroad, and while Lincoln has not
been lacking wholly in this respect, it
would easily be possible to do better.
MOOSE NOTES.
The Lincoln Moose are always on
the alert for something that will keep
the herd interested. Just now a
membership campaign is on with a
view to increasing the membership
above the 1,000 mark not mere mem
bers, but good men who will maintain
the high average of the order.
The entertainment committee is
going to see to it that the winter
season is full of offerings for the en
tertainment of the members and their
friends. The first winter function
will be held on October 25th, at
which time a grand masque ball will
be given at Moose Hall, Sixteenth
and O streets. It is going to be vast
ly different from the general run of
masque balls. Firstly, the committee
purposes seeing to it that the people
who attend are the kind of people
Moose would welcome into their own
homes. Secondly, there is going to
be an entire absence of the features
that have resulted in making masque
balls persona non grata with refined
people. And thirdly, there will be a
social air about this particular masque
ball that will make appeal to those
who like innocent amusement in con
genial surroundings.
Following the masque ball there
will be a series of social entertain
ments during the winter season, and
the entertainment committee is
going to make a record that
succeeding committees will find diffi
cult to excel.
Early last summer there was some
talk of a club house at Capital Beach,
but the matter was finally abandoned.
But the club house idea is not aband
oned, by any means. On the con
trary, the idea is sizzling around in
the brains of a lot of Moose these
days. Not a summer club house, but
an all-the-year-round club house that
would not only be a splendid monu
ment to the enterprise of the L. O. O.
M., but would be a credit to Lincoln.
There'll be a lot of talk on the build
ing line this winter. Some of the
members have the "building bug"
developed to a wonderful degree.
Couldn't a thousand Moose raise
enough money to build and equip a
magnificent club house? Think it -over.
And while thinking it over, don't .
forget the masque ball on October
25th.
Secretary Fred Kind has invented
a little reminder to mail to members.
It will inform them the amount of
dues they owe, and for what quarter.
The best way to keep in good stand
ing, and at the same time save the
secretary trouble and expense, is to
list your house or office number with
him and instruct him to "send for the
dues." Pay your dues to the secre
tary now, and tell him to remind you
of the masque ball on October 25th.
Don't you know some " good fellow
of your acquaintance some fellow
you like and whose character you can
vouch for who is not a Moose? And
couldn't you, by a little effort, induce
him to become a member? Why not
try to increase the membership? It
is your duty to help the membership
committee. And while talking about
the Moose to your friends, don't for
get to mention the masque ball on
October 25.
WE'RE ALL GETTING WISER.
Mike Harrington, one of the big
democrats of the state, says in the
World-Herald that he will not vote
the democratic state ticket straight.
That is not strange enough to be op-to-date
news. We can not find a re
publican, democrat or populist in this
neck of the woods who will vote the
state and county ticket straight. The
whole herd has been stampeded. Oond
thing, too. York Teller.
THE LIKELY NOMINEE.
Big of heart and of brain and of
body! Intrepid in the service of the
people; long tried and never found
wanting in the cause of true democ
racy ; against whose integrity no voice
has ever been raised; whose. leader
ship would unite the party and draw
heavily from the republican ranks
Champ Clark. The true elements of
strong and virile candidacy are in the
Missourian, and as conditions political
now exist, he is likely to be the nomi
nee. Marion, Lv, SentineL ,
POPCORN IN NEBRASKA.
Colorado has her "Cantaloupe
Day," Georgia has her "Watermelon
Day" and Missouri has her "Persimmon
Day," but Nebraska has one that pots
them all in the shade, "Popcorn Day."
You may not know it, but Nebraska,
raises more popcorn than any other
state, and the largest popcorn
shipping station in the world is North
Loup, Valley county. From North
Loup the famous Nebraska popcorn is
shipped all over the world all over
the world, mind you, for the succulent
cereal is finding its way into the favor
of our foreign cousins.
There seems to be something about
the soil and climate in that part of
Nebraska, that makes it peculiarly
a popcorn producing territory- At
any rate Valley county popcorn is as
famous in popcorn circles as Rocky
Ford canteloupes are in melon circles.
Every year North Loup celebrates
"Popcorn Day" with pomp and cir
cumstance, and the festivities are
participated in by thousands. Its
then that buyers flock in from all over
the country, sample the year's prod
uct and make their purchases. This
product brings thousands of dollars
to Valley county every year, for the
crop is practically a sure one. And
although the product is immense, and
growing larger every year, the sup
ply is seldom anywhere equal the
demand.
This is another "big thing" in Ne
braska. But we are so accustomed to
raising big things in Nebraska that
we often forget that perhaps the
rest of the world isn't wise to it at
all. What we need to do is to let the
world know what we are doing out
here and what we are capable of
doing.
Special,
Weather conditions have been
remarkably fine-for everybody
but the clothing- merchant.
If the weather will not induce
you to buy well make b price
inducement that will demand
you attention.
$10.00 s
$12.50 U
$15.00 I
$17.50 T
$20.00 S
Actually worth $5 a suit more
money, but we must move
them.
You get two benefits-one the
fine weather: the other these
remarkable suit bargains.
LINCOLN CLOTHING CO.
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