LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Supreme Dictator Jones of Ander
son, lud., who is making a tour of in
spection of all the subordinate lodges
of the country, isited the Lincoln
lodge last Wednesday. Mr. Jones ar
rived in the city in the morning and
-was met at the train by a reception
committee and escorted to his hotel.
After luncheon he was shown about the
city and paid his respects to Mr. Bryan
at Fairriew.
In tha evening, at the regular meet-
wg, in supreme aiciaior maue an ex
tended address in 'which he outlined
the objects and aims of the Loyal Order
of Moose. The attendance upon the
meeting was not nearly so large as it
should have been under the circum
stances. Most of the members present
are members of other fraternal organi
sations and are accustomed to hearing
addresses laudatory of the organisa
tions. But without exception they all
united in declaring that Mr. Jones' ad
dress Wednesday night was the best of
its kind ever delivered in Lincoln. Not
a man present but what was made bet
ter by having heard it. After hearing
what the Loyal Order of Moose stands
for, and how it is working to carry out
its ideals, one can readily understand
why its growth exceeds that of any
other fraternal organization in the
world.
Supreme Dictator Jones is an easy
and fluent speaker. One can see that
his whole heart is in the work, and
that he is giving to it the best there is
in him. His description of the growth
of the order was a revelation, and he
euthused the membership greatly.
Especially interesting were his remarks
about the Junior Order of Moose a
branch devoted to the boys between
16 and 20. This order is growing rap
idly throughout the country, and it
will be a splendid training school for
good citiienship.
Mr. Jones electrified his audience by
outlining the plan now under way to
establish a great Moose Orphanage and
Industrial School. It will be the big
gest thing of its kind in the world. It
will be a trades school in which the
children of all Moose may learn the
trade for which they are best adapted
and educated along other lines, if the
parents are unable to give the child the
needed education. It will care for the
orphans of all deceased Moose who may
need the care and protection of the
order. It will make all Moose supplies,
teach agriculture in short, it will be a
great school in which better citizens,
better mechanics and better men and
women will be reared. The supreme
trustees are going to meet early in De
cember to consider the location of this
great institution, and of course it
should be located in Nebraska, and as
sure. From the middle of the after
near Lincoln as possible. There is no
better moral environment in which to
train the young, no better agricultural
country in which to educate young
farmers no better climate for health.
The board is looking for the best place,
not for a bonus. It will insist upon at
least 300 acres of land ,and if all other
things are better will not even ask the
donation of the land. This is a matter
that Lincoln's commercial club would
do well to take up. If we could secure
this institution it would be the biggest
thing ever captured by a Nebraska city.
AfVr the suoreuie dictator s sDlendid
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under the head of " good of the order."
Several important committees reported
and the evening concluded with a
school of instruction presided over by
the supreme dictator.
The entertainment committee report
ed a neat surplus after paying the ex
pense of the recent masquerade and
announced a dance for the evening be
fore Thanksgiving day.
Saturday evening a large herd a
Moose will assemble at the Oliver and
give fraternal greetings to "Honey
Boy" George Evans and his minstrel
men, all of whom are Moose. After the
show there will be a social session at
Moose hall, and Evans and his merry
men will participate. All Moose in
good standing are invited to attend the
social session. A section has been re
served for Moose at the minstrel per
formance. The sick committee is heviug mighty
close to the constitution and by-laws
in the matter of granting benefits, and
demanding strict- compliance with all
conditions.
Members are delighted with the new
hall arrangements. Not only does it
give better facilities for dancing, but
it provides many accommodations here
tofore missing. The club rooms in the
front end of the building will soon be
handsomely fitted up and equipped
with billiard and pool tables. Lockers
will be installed for the use of mem
bers, but there will be no bar, and the
xise of intoxicants in the club room will
be punished by the infliction of severe
penalties.
Two new members were obligated at
the last meeting, and there are others
on the waiting list. The membership
campaign is being forwarded with good
results.
THE POLICY OF ADVERTISING.
Within the past thirty days upwards
of 50,000 people traveled from 50 to
1,000 miles, at an expense of from $5 to
50 each, on the mere chance of "draw
ing" a quarter section of land in Mel
lette county, South Dakota. These peo
ple were attracted by two things an
opportunity to get a piece of land, and
the chance to indulge in the gambling
spirit.
We hold that the fortunate or un
fortunate 3.000 successful contestants
could acquire an SO-acre farm, in Ne
braska easier than they can secure a
quarter-section farm in South Dakota,
and that once improved and under cul
tivation the SO-acre Nebraska farm will
produce more at a less expenditure of
labor than the quarter-section farm in
South Dakota.
But the railroads advertised the Mel
lette county drawing "like a circus,"
with the result that 50,000 people were
attracted. If Nebraska's opportunities
for homeseekers were advertised on the
same plan the results would be equally
large. In fact they would be larger,
for Nebraska has vastly more to offer
the homeseeker than any other state in
the trans-Missouri country. But Ne
braska is neglecting her duty, with the
result that other and poorer states are
securing the industrious and frugal
homeseekers and homemakers who are
flocking westward from the stony hills
of New England and the congested
manufacturing centers. Nebraska
should be reaching these people by
means of a systematic course of publicity.
THE NEBRASKA ELECTION.
The results of the election in Ne
braska contained few surprises. The
effort to defeat Judge Hamer was
futile, as it should have been in view
of the basis of the attack upon him.
It would have been better for. the state
had one or two democrats been elected
to the bench, not because they were
better fitted, but because a bi-partisan -court
would have been more securely
entrenched in the confidence of the
people. The attacks made on Judge
Oldham were wholly unwarranted, and
it is doubtful if a more capable man
ever stood as .a candidate for the su
preme bench of the state. Judge Dean
deserved election upon the record he
made "during his short service as a mem
ber of the court. But the people have
spoken, and all good citizens will ac
quiesce in the result.
Just what the result portends for the
future is difficult to determine. But it
is quite certain that the progressive
and the stand-pat republicans do not
allow their differences on questions of
national import to disturb their fealty
to party in state and county cam
paigns. The republican victory in Lancaster
was a foregone conclusion. The repub
lican majority in Lancaster is big, not
because there is such a great prepon
derance of republican voters, but be-
, cause the democrats are not well or
ganized and are usually listless unless
something big is on. This time the re
publican vote was unusually well
brought out by reason of the fact that
the "Republican county committee put
up a mighty capable fight. Seldom does
"tnd see a county organization so per
fect and so smooth in its workings.
Chairman Hansen and Secretary Green
deserve the thanks of the successful
candidates for the clever campaign
made.
Now that the campaign is over for
heaven's sake let s take a vacation from
politics for a few months and put in
cur time advertising Nebraska as some
thing more than the abiding place of
perennial politicians and perpetual
elections. If we'd spend one-tenth as
niuel money advertising Nebraska dur
ing the next six months as we spent in
boosting a lot of politicians into office
during the last six weeks we would
make Nebraska famous the world over.
A PRACTICAL WORE.
The Lincoln Ad Club is now serious
ly considering the launching of a cam
paign having for its object the educa
tion of Lincoln people to the wisdom
of patronizing home institutions. Just
why it is necessary to educate people
along this line is a mystery, for cer
tainly commonsense ought to tell a
man that it is to his interests to build
up his home community. But we are
inclined to be careless or indifferent,
or ruled by prejudice or custom, and
as a result we are sending thousands
of dollars out of Lincoln to pay for
things that are made right here at
home and which we ought to buy in
preference to goods made elsewhere.
It was the Lincoln Ad Club that in
augurated the "Made in Lincoln" ex
position idea, and that exposition has
been a revelation to thousands of Lin
coln people who never knew that we
were making so many useful things
right here at home. Yet there are
other thousands to whom this knowl
edge has not yet come. If Nebraskans
today would determine and really do
it to buy Nebraska made goods when
ever possible, it wouldn't be five years
ere we had 50,000 more skilled me
chanics at work, a hundred million dol
lars more invested in manufacturing
industries, 250,000 more population,
and a degree of prosperity heretofore
undreamed of by the most sansruine.
THE IRONY OF FATE.
Last summer, during the hottest
part, a lot of Lincoln i householders
eouldn't get water from the city plant
owing to short spply and lack of pres
noon until late in the evening hundreds
of kitchen faucets were useless, and if
a drop of water exuded from a bath
room tap the .householder probably
threw a fit. And yet most of them are
now walking up to the water commis
sioner's office and paving from 50 cents
to a dollar and a half excess charges.
Wouldn't that jar you?
NEBRASKA LAND VALUES.
What is the limit to which the price
of Merrick eounty land will goT This
is the question that farmers and real
estate men are asking themselves. Last
week Bob Morrison was offered $175
per acre for his farm three miles west
of town. This is the place formerly
owned by A. J. Huxford and is one of
the good ones. This is a big price, but
it is not enough to tempt Mr. Morrison
and he rejected the offer. Once upon
a time some man said that Merrick
county land was no good. That was
in the days when it was selling for $10
per acre. The man who would make
that kind of a statement now would
have to explain things. to the insanity
board. The increase in values in the
past five years, however, has been a
constant source of wonder to those who
have followed them, and the end is not
yet. Central City Nonpareil.
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