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About Will Maupin's weekly. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1911-1912 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 22, 1911)
w Y A Weekly Journal of Cheerful Comment whose mission it is to rellect sunshine and pilot people around and behind the dark clouds. It believes in the Ultimate Good and strives for it Until it runs out of Good Words to say about men and women it will say no Harsh Wordsand there isso 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 SMGMG LESSONS 9 THE CORNHTJSKEKS. Will Maupin's "Weekly heartily joins with the esteemed World-Herald in adulation of the cornhuskers. Neither the World-llerald nor this newspaper has reference to the -warriors of the gridiron who so successfully carried the scarlet and cream of the Univer sity of Nebraska up and down the Missouri valley. We mean the eal-lonsed-handed boys who are out in the cornfields of Nebraska, playing a musical tattoo by throwing the plump ears of corn up against the throw-board of the wagon. No cheer ing thousands are whooping these eornhuskers on to glory but they are getting the glory just the same. They are not being petted and feted and made much over by fair damsels adorned with variegated ribbons and muchly puffed coiffures, But it's dol lars to doughnuts that these eornhusk ers of the corn fields are satisfied with the smiles of girls who may be dressed in calico and quite accustomed to having their hands reddened by hot dishwater. And we are of the candid opinion that in the after years the boys with the huskingpegs are going to be of quite as much service to the state and the nation as the boys with the spiked shoes and nose guards and padded gear. You bet we are for the eornhuskers-the boys in the corn fields. We. don't hear a whole lot about them, but wouldn't we be in an awful fix if they quit? AS REGARDS RUSSIA. Every time some one raises up and denounces Russia for her treatment of the Jews and asks that this repub lic resent it, up jumps another some one and begs us to remember the time Russia came to our rescue and sent a fleet to the port of New York with sealed orders. We are getting almighty tired of being reminded of that fleet incident If it ever happened, and Russia did really help us out of a hole, we re paid her fully when Seward gave her seven million dollars for what both Russia and Seward thought was a desolate waste of ice and snow A Real Cut Price Sale of Men's Suits and Overcoats 1-3 to 1-4 OFF All $10.00 and $12.50 Suits C OC and Overcoats reduced to... . DD All $15.00 Suits and Over- f Q q coats are reduced to p 7D All $16.50 and S1S.00 Suits 1 Al and Overcoats reduced to J) 1 i ,5 D AU$20.00 Suits and Over- rfjio nr coats are reduced to p !) D All $25.00 Suits and Over- Cl Q QC coats are reduced to )J.OD Lincoln Clothing Co. 123 N. 10th St, Opposite Postoffice Alaska. That fleet incident was the only excuse we had for buying Alaska of Russia, and Russia . offered to sell because she thought that a good way to pick up seven million dollars. That Alaska turned out to be a treasure house does not change matters a little bit. We squared accounts with Russia when we bought Alaska; now we have a perfect right to -insist that Russia respect passports shown by American citizens, regardless of their race or religion. We've had alto gether too much maudlin sympathy for the Muscovite, and not enough self-respect It is high time that the title of "American citizen' be re spected everywhere in the known world. A LITTLE BIT LATE. It is just a bit difficult to frame into newspaper print the opinions one would like to express concerning the Rev. CL V. T. Richeson of Boston. Rev. Mr. Richeson is in jail awaiting trial on the charge of having mur dered Avis Linnell in order that he might be free to wed the daughter of a rich parishoner. He declares he is innocent, but the other day he seized a jagged bit of tin and at tempted to perform a surgical opera tion upon himself. He came so near succeeding that the surgeons had to complete it for him. What we would like to do is to make some extended remarks expressing regret that Rev. Mr. Richeson did not think to per form that operation some seven x eleven years ago. It would have saved him a lot of trouble, at least one woman her life and another wom an her happiness. By the same token, we wish a whole lot of other men might be persuaded to take time by the forelock, not waiting, as Kev. Mr. Richeson waited, until a lot of dam age had been wrought WILSON AND CARNEGIE. Wood row Wilson was an unsuccess ful applicant for a Carnegie pension. Governor Wilson has been drawing a salary of $8,000 a year for about twenty years. Recently he gave it up to accept a position paying- $10,000 a year. In other words, for more than twenty years he has been draw ing more thousands per year than the average wage earner draws hundreds. If he has been unable to save a bit out of his thousands, what about th wage earner with his hundreds? And if the college professor is entitled to a pension after years of "prof essoin ing," isn't the university fireman and the university teamster and the uni versity janitor also entitled to pen sions? This Carnegie pension scheme makes us tired. It would be all right if of universal application, for we believe thoroughly in the old age pension plan. But it should be paid by the public, not by the beneficiary of a robber tariff who seeks to establish his scheme for the purpose of perpetu ating the graft We opine that we are just about as tenderhearted as the average man, certainly not less ko, but to date we haven't been able to wring any sympathetic tears from cur eyes for the poor college professor who has been drawing from $2,500 to $5,000 a year all his life. If we have any sympathetic tears they will be shed for the poor devil who has been struggling along on $500 or $600 a year, raising a family honestly and decently, and living like a good citi zen should live. He's the man we want to see pensioned first of all. The well paid college professor can wait a bit A CHRISTMAS PRESENT. Ton could make your children no more acceptable Christmas gift than a copy of "Kiddies Six," the new volume of verses from the pen of Will M. Maupin. These verses are mostly about children and . home and other comforting things, and were written because the author felt just what he was writing. The book contains a number of poems that have won nation-wide recognition, such as "The Lookout Man," "Baby's Shoes." "My Pa," "Hello, Pop," "Dood Night, Sleep Tight," and others. The vol umn is handsomely bound in cloth, with a frontispiece showing the author, the Little Woman and the whole bunch of Six Kiddies. Price $1. Phone Auto L22T7 or address Will JL Han pin, 240 No. 33.- The book will be rushed right over to von. SENATOR ALLEN'S DEFEAT. If Secretary Leo Matthews of the democratic state central committee is correctly quoted, he should retire to some secluded spot and think it ovev. He says Senator W. V. Allen was d feated for district judge "because he is too partisan and entered the ract from selfish motives." If there an those who believe this we want it dia tinctly understood that we are not of the number. Senator Allen is too big of heart and of brain to be a mere partisan. He is too patriotic to seek office from selfish motives. We do not know the causes that led to Senator Allen's defeat but what ever they were they are not to the credit of the - voters of that judicial district And it iHy-beeomes a young man like Mr. Matthews, an amateur in politics and party service, to pass judgment upon a man of Senator Al len's commanding ability, ripe experi ence and public service. President Taft is advocating a re duction of the wool tariff. We should hope so. There are two classes of peo ple who are not benefitted by the wool tariff those who raise the wool, and those who have to boy woolea goods. Those who profit are those who have built up a Mg wed trust behind the bulwark of the tarrSL . The social evil will never be elimin ated, but it may be minimized. Seg gregation seems the best plan. Herd the demi-monde inside of certain Era its and then let them alone. Bat put a cordon around them and make every man who enters pay a license, said license to be recorded in public records. Put the burden of ptmish ment on the male prostitute, not wp on the female prostitute. But few heaven's sake let us have jnrt of. these 2x2 reformers who think that by the enactment of statute and the flourish of a constable's club they can succeed where all others have failed through more dan 3.000 years" of civilization. V