Cute TTirfn il SociejT'
A WEEKLY
JOURNAL
OF
CHEERFULNESS
Printed primarily for people
who look upon life cheerfully and
hopefully. Also for people who
ought to do m. The promoter of
all good things and good people,
of which first Nebraska is chief
and of which second Kebraskans
are mostly.
DOLLAR A YEAR
fOLUME 8
CURRENT
March 1, next, will be the forty
fifth anniversary of Nebraska's admis
sion to the Union. In just five years
this great state will be celebrating her
seiin-centennial. And why not cele
brate it fittingly t Why not begin
right now laying plans for a great
semi-centennial exposition that will
show by song and story aud physical
exhibit the marvelous progress Nebras
ka has made during the half century.
hat anniversary will come shortly
r the time of the Panama exposi-
on at St. Louis, and those who travel
from the east of us to the Pacific coast
wilt go through Nebraska. How easy
it would be to induce them to stop
over in Nebraska and see our own ex
position, thus giving them a better
idea of Nebraska than we could possi
bly give them with an exhibit at the
San Francisco exposition.
Such an exposition would bo worth
millions to Nebraska, and cost but
very little. The legislature next win
ter should make an appropriation suf
Scient to start it in good shape. A
commission of pushing and represen
tative Nebraskans should be appointed
to handle it. We've got men right
here in Nebraska who were the most
successful exposition promoters on rec
ord men like Guerdon W. "Wattles,
F. P. Kirkendall. Chas. W. Pickens and
others. These men and their asso
ciates made the Trans-Mississippi ex-
h position a wonder; the only big expo
sition that paid expenses and re
turned 90 per cent on its donations.
These men could make Nebraska's
semi-centennial exposition the biggest
thing for Nebraska that the state ever
had.
At an expense of not to exceed
$250,000 or $300,000 the state could
make an exhibit of its resources and
give a resume of its history that would
bring thousands of people to the state,
many of whom would remain as home
builders. It would bring millions of
ney to the state through tourists,
and other millions through the years
to come. It could be made the most
unique exposition in the history of
expositions, first because Nebraska's
history is unparalleled, aud second be
cause Nebraskans have the ability and
the energy needed to make a success
ful exposition.
Just pause for a moment and re-
the accomplishments of a short
half century. Fifty years ago a prac
tical desert, with a little handful of
people clinging close to the bank of
the Missouri river; today and empire
numbering a million and a quarter of
happy, prosperous, intelligent people.
Then looked upon as the western out
post of civiliiation, beyond which
there was nothing for a thousand
wiles; today the third largest agricul
tural welth producer in the Union.
Then a mere stopping place on the
way to the gold coast of California;
today the third largest meat produc
ing state in the Union, the fourth larg
est corn producer, the third largest
wheat producer and the fourth larg
est dairy products producer. Then a.
struggling handful of pioneers; today
a. state with a permanent school fund
that is the admiration of all her sis-
er states, w;th more school houses
per capita than any other state, with
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fewer illiterates per thousand than
any other state, with more money in
school property per capita than any
other state, with the fourth largest
state university in point of attendance,
with a manufacturing industry grow
ing by leaps and bounds and now
amounting to more than $300,000,000 a
year.
It is a marvelous record none
NEBRASKA'S SEMI-CENTENNIAL
Friday, March 1, 1912, will be the Forty-fifth an
niversary of Nebraska's admission to the Union. Five
years later will come the state's semi-centennial. The
anniversary should be celebrated by an exposition that
will attract thousands to the stale'and show to them
and to our own people the wonderful progress of this
Commonwealth. It is not too early to begin. We have
the results to show, the money to make the show, and
the men of brains to manage it Such an exposition
would be worth untold millions to Nebraska.,
greater in the .history of the world.
And to show it all by the exposition
method would be an advertisement
worth millions to the state. This isn't
a dream; it is a business proposition
that demands attention from progres
sive and enterprising men. Let's all
go to talking for Nebraska's Semi-Cen-tennial
Exposition in 1915. And ti
avoid all jangling and friction, let us
have it understood that the location
shall be where a majority of the people
of the state shall decide.
Speaking of Nebraska's marvelous
history of achievement, are the public
schools teaching Nebraska's children
the fscts about Nebraska? Are our
children Wing made cognizant of what
has been accomplished in this short
half century. It is all well enough to
teach them dates, and all about this
little Indian Hurry, and that bold sol
dier, and this interesting landmark
and that incident; but are the chi!
dren being taught the wonderful story
of material progress and development?
A little less of ancient history and a
lot more of real Nebraska history
would be a mighty good thing for our
children and children's children.
The subject of "home patronage'" is
receiving more and more attentiou
every day. It can not receive too
much. But it requires vastly more,
than mere' talk to make it a reality.
The merchant who prates about "pat
ronizing home institutions" and then
smokes eastern made cigars, and eats
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, JANUARY 26,
eastern made candy, and buys eastern
made insurance, is not practicing what
he preaches. The man who really
means it is going to buy all those
things right here at home because
they are just as good usually better.
You need not howl if the home patron
age idea doesn't do you any good in a
business way if you are not practicing
what you preach. You've got to go
the limit to make the campaign ef
fective. This newspaper has been
preaching the home patronage idea
for a long time and practicing it.
Its editor always buys Lincoln made
cigars when he buys any. Nothing
but Lincoln made flour enters his
home. He buys Lincoln made candy
for his kiddies, and the little jag of
property he owns is insured in Ne
braska companies, just as his Nebraska
life is insured. If we get anywhere
with this home patronage movement
it will be only after we make good our
prating.
With a family of seven the butter
question is pretty big with this editor,
lie dislikes paying 36 to 40 eents a
pound for butter just as much as any
body, yet he oposes reducing the tax
on oleomargarine. It is a butter sub
stitute, and when sold as a substitute
it ought to be taxed. When sold on
its merits it isn't taxed. Oleo is cheap
er than butter, and may be just as
good. In fact, oleo is better than
some butter we've been compelled
to buy at times past. Butter is high,
to be sure, but the butter trust, if such
there be, got a bump the other day.
They put the price up until the people
simply quit buying butter. Then the
price slumped. There are some things
that the trusts can not hoist the price
on as they see fit. If butter goes too
high the people simply sop their bread
in the gravy and wriggle their fingers
at the huttermakers."
We buy butter a pound or two at a
time, hence we are very apt to over
look the magnitude of the dairy indus
try in Nebraska. It is really about the
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1912
MEN AND
Being inclined to prophecy at this
time, we drop into a soothsaying vein,
and venture a few guesses on national
polities. There is one delightful thing
about guessing on national politics
if you miss it you may let people for
get how badly you blundered, but if
you hit it you can always come across
with the "I told you so" dope.
It does not require the gift of pro-
biggest single industry in the state.
Aside from grain, live stock and hay it
is our biggest money maker, and no
single article of manufactured product
eomes anywhere near reaching the
value of our butter output. Nebraska
is one of the five largest butter produc
ing states in the Union, and pushing
rapidly for first place. We made up
wards of 50,000,000 pounds of it last
year, and we sold more than $10,000,
pheey, nor the power of divinity, to
tell what Theodore Roosevelt is work
ing at. Theodore, than whom a more
audacious politician, nor a more clever
or unscrupulous one, has come upon
the scene of action, is a sure-enough
candidate for the republican nomina
tion. Every pose, every attitude,
every move, made by the sage of Oys
ter Bay is figured on most carefully
with that end in view. There is noth
ing Theodore will not do to gain his
ends, from calling his best friend
liar to sneaking behind the cover of
a great public service to hand a few
bouquets to a big combine against the
public good. Theodore Roosevelt is
today a candidate for the nomination,
and he will get it. too, unless Taft
handles his federal brigade to the ut
most advantage. LaFollette is not in
the running. The republican nomina
tion lies between Taft and Roosevelt
and this political prophet is backing
Roosevelt to win.
The democratic situation is rapidly
clearing. Harmon and Wilson are so
nearly balanced in point of strength
A MERRY HEART
DOETH GOOD
LIKE
MEDICINE
But a broken spirit drieth the
bones. That's what the Good
Book says, and well bank on it,
sure. Will Maupth's Weekly
works to make cheerful the hearts
of its readers, and thus do medi
cal duty. Fifty-two consecutive
weekly doses for a dollar.
GUARANTEED
NUMBER 44
MATTERS
that neither will be able to get the
necessary two-thirds vote in the Balti
more convention, and as a result
Champ Clark of Missouri is going to
take a spurt at the home streteh and
land under the wire a winner. We
are backing Clark to win because he
ought to win.
Champ Clark is known to every
democrat in America because of his
life-long and devoted services to the
party.. There is nothing of the new
convert about Clark. He hasn't had
to change his views in order to get
into the democratic line-up. He hasn't
had to apologize for this man's op
position or that man's support. He
hasn't any long since written letters
to explain away or apologize for. He
was fighting for progressive demo
cratic principles when some other can
didates were looking on the world
through ponderous tomes and aca
demic spectacles. He was a member
of the militant democracy when other
members of the party were seeking
cover. He knows pnblie questions be
cause he has been mixed up in them
personally, not through theoretical
thesis prepared in the light of a lib
rary gas jet. He knows men beeaose
he has mingled with them. He knows
the militant democrats of Ameriea
what the country needs because he
knows the eountry. And by the time
have wearied of all their new eon-,
verts and their old knots, they are go
ing to spit a few volleys of terbaeker
juice against the backlog and say:
"Well, I guess ol Champ Clark of
Mizzoury is about the best feller we
kin select."
Put this in your political pipe and
puff it: Champ Clark of Missouri is
going to set the pace just as soon as
the results of the Missouri primaries
are made known, and that win be on
the morning of February 21. Oner
young friend, Joseph W. Folk, will
not be in the running. He will show
up in the primary totals among the
"and others" or "scattering." A lot
of would-be party leaders may think
they are making convention selec
tions now, but when June 25 arrives,
and the delegates meet at Baltimore,
it is going to be almighty evident that
the wool-hatted and terbaeker c ha win"
democrats from the rural sections are
in the saddle. And that means Champ i
Clark for president.
We have never been able to take
LaFollette seriously as a possible
didate in 1912. We doubt if Pomr
dour Bob, whom we look upon as
of the country 's great men. imaging
that he stands a ghost of a show tl
beat Taft or Roosevelt for the non
ination. Robert is merely playing foa
position. He is a comparatively yon
man yet. and 1916 is only four
awav.
If the republicans nominate
and the democrats don't make
usual asinine blunders, the demoer
nominee will win in a canter.
we given to monetary wagers wecl
a bunch of kale that the demo
however, will do as usual shoi
pie reason why the ass was
as the democratic party embl
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