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VOLUME 9
MEN AND
The awful marine disaster in which
the Titanic went down, carrying with
her more than twelve hundred human
beings, easily ranks first among the
ocean disasters of modern times. It
emphasizes again the fundamental fact
that puny man has not yet mastered
the elements nor built against the
forces of the Almighty. It also re
calls the fact that we rush to the
inevitable when we rush to extremes.
The Titanic was the greatest vessel
ever built. Like another built years
ago to minister to man's pride, it
meets an untimely fate. The Great
Eastern bankrupted the men who
planned and built it merely to gratify
their vanity. The Titanic goes down
on her initial trip, carrying to a
grave in the ocean more than half a
thousand people.
We need a return to sanity along
more than political lines. "We have
run mad on speed, on size, on a score
,of things, and as a result we are mak
ing a mockery of human life. Hun
dreds of the passengers on the Titanic
were there because they wanted to
"revel in its -vulgar luxury ; beeause
they wanted to boast of having trav
eled in the world's greatest steamship;
because they wanted to advertise their
wealth. And in a moment all their
vanity and all their boasting is as
nothing. It is terrible to think of so
many human lives being snuffed out,
but if that awful disaster shall have
the effect of curbing our pride and
our craze for speed and luxury, then
thousands of lives will be spared for
the future, and the dead upon the
Titanic will not have died in vain.
If by chance this issue reaches the
hands of any republican voters in Lan
caster county before the polls close
Friday evening, we want him to care
fully consider the candidacy of P.
F. Zimmer for the legislature. Mr.
Zimmer stands for the new order of
things. He is thoroughly progressive,
has no axes to grind, desires to serve
only the people, and has the ability
and the earnestness to make a good
job of it. It is always a pleasure to
recommend a gentleman like Mr. Zim
mer for any public office.
If there are in Lincoln any parents
of high school pupils who are insulted
at the report of that investigating
committee, then all we have to say
is that such parents would do well
to be a little slower to take offense
and a bit quicker to keep a watch
over the children. The parents who
know where their children are after
dark are not insulted at the report.
General Frederick Dent Grant, who
died last week, was the oldest son of
Ulysses S. Grant. Doubtless the son
was helped by this fact, but it is
only simple justice to say that he
won a place for himself. "While it may
be true that he added no new lustre
to the name of Grant, at least he left
it unsullied, and left as a heritage to
his family a record for honesty, loyalty
and devotion to high ideals.
Apart from the aid received by rea
son of the fact that he was his fath
er's son, General Fred Grant made his
own way. "Will Maupin's "Weekly
would do him greater honor than it
MATTERS
would the son of another ex-president
whose only claim upon fame is that
he married into a rich family and thus
became the head of a heartless mon
opoly. "Will Maupin's "Weekly holds that
the Nebraskan most to be honored is
the one who improves his farm, in
creases the productivity of the soil,
helps to develop his community, rears
a family of home-loving and God
fearing children, exerts his influence
foi good no matter how narrow the
radius of that influence, pays his taxes
and loves his neighbor. We have grown
tired of whooping it up for the po
litical spellbinder and the hot air
artist. Time was when we believed
that it was good advertising for a
state to furnish a president or a presi
dential candidate. Now we believe
that a state's best advertisement is her
industry, her progressiveness, her pro
ductivity and her enterprise. The men
who are making Nebraska are not the
men who are hot-airing; they are the
men who are building, improving, de
veloping, producing.
It doesn't take a very close student
of political affairs to note the fact that
the candidacy of one William Jen
nings Bryan of Nebraska for the presi
dency, and for the fourth time, is not
at all unlikely. Just start out into
the average community and interview
democrats. You'll hear Wilson men
say: "I'm for Wilson but I'd rather
vote for Bryan." You'll hear Clark
men say: "Clark's all right but why
not nominate Bryan?" Tliere are at
least four avowed candidates for the
democratic nomination Wilson, Clark,
Harmon, Underwood. Give the usual
racing odds it wouldn't be a bad bet
to take Bryan against the field.
Omaha and Lincoln are the two
largest cities in Nebraska, and each
bf them has a record of which they
may be proud. Lincoln has the larg
est creamery in the world, but Omaha
makes more butter than any other city
in the world. Between the two of them
they practically dominate the butter
market. And be it said to their credit
that to date these butter-makers have
never even been charged with being in
a trust. There is one big creamery in
Lincoln, and seven big creameries in
Omaha. There are upwards of forty
creameries in Nebraska. And if you
Nebraska and
Met Resources
He History and
Possibilties
Chalk Talk Lecture
BY
Will M. Maupin
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, APRIL. 19,
do not believe there is competition be
tween the buttermakers of Lincoln and
the buttermakers of Omaha, you show
any one of them how he can save one
tenth of a cent a pound more than a
competitor in the expense of market
inf his product, without cutting the
price of cream, and see what a fat
check he will hand youl i
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DIDN'T SAVE MUCH, BECAUSE
Will Maupin, in announcing his can
didacy for railway commissioner, had
a card printed frankly'stating that no
body asked him to run and none pre
pared a petition for him. He might
have added that he saved money by
tooting his own bazoo. Omaha Exam-
STANDING IP fOR NEBRASKA
Jones was a good provider, in a rather careless way, -
Giving little heed or caution to the brand of goods he bought.
He imagined all his duty was accomplished for the day
If he merely got a plenty for his family as he ought.
But his wife was truly loyal to Nebraska, and had sense,
So when Jonesy brought some flour home she at once gazed on
the sack;
Then she said:' "Now, hubby darling, I am meaning no offense,
But 'twas not; made in Nebraska, . so you'll have . to take it
back!"
You will have to take it back;
Got the wrong name on the sack.
Must be made here in Nebraska or you 11 have to take it back.
William Peter Andrew Wilkins bought a box of candy fine,
Paying for a fancy label and a big Chicago brand.
Then he spruced up and departed for a call on Angeline,
. Meaning on that very evening to demand her heart and hand.
Angeline was quite a booster and stood up for her home state,
So when William P. A. Wilkins, thinking thus to earn a smack,
Handed her the foreign candy she remarked with air sedate:
"This was not made in Nebraska, so you'll have to take it
back!"
Tou will have to take it back;
Of the right brand there's a lack.
Offer me Nebraska candy or you'll have to take it back!
Billy Blivens of Nebraska left the state by death's dark route,
Full of years and full of honors. And Old Peter swung his
gates
To admit good Billy Blivens, who, without a bit of doubt,
Was entitled to admission to the heavenly estates.
Billy paused beside the portals and he gazed upon the sight
Stretching out before his vision not a smile did Billy crack
Then he said to Old St. Peter: "Well, this place may be all right,
But I much prefer Nebraska, so I guess I'll travel back!"
Billy now is coming back
To the state where there's no lack
Of the good and true and beautiful so Billy's coming back!
1912
NEBRASKA
If money is "tight" then it ought to
be because there is so much of it in
the vaults of Nebraska banks that it
is all squeezed up together. On April
15 there was deposited with the banks
of Nebraska, state and national, the
tidy sum of $208,255,034.94. A whole
lot of us can claim the distinction
of making it almost even dollars.
Now two hundred and eight million
dollars is some money. It means an
average of $200 for each man, woman
A lecture that will inspire love
of the state. Peculiarly adapted
for school and college meetings.
Should be delivered under the
auspices of commercial clubs every
where in the state. Full of facts
and figures about Nebraska, pre
sented in an interesting and novel
way. For terms and dates address
Will M. Maupin, Room 436
Bankers Life Building
Lincoln, Nebraska
NTJMBER5Y5C
WELL FIXED
and child in Nebraska. If converted
into silver dollars and the dollars laid
edge to edge in a straight line they
would reach 4,875 miles. You couldn't
get them all in a straight line on
United States soil. Piled up on top of
each other in a single column they
would make a pile of silver dollars
more than 500 miles high. They would
weigh nearly a million and a half
pounds. It would require a freight
train of thirty standard freight cars
to haul them. Placed in a circle the
.diameter would be more than .1,470
miles. With them we could lay a -silver
ribbon four dollars wide com
pletely around the whole state 'of Ne '
braska. With them we cod build a
silver dollar sidewalk a bit more than
fifteen inches wide across Nebraska
east and west. ,
Yes,, indeed! $208,255,000 is some '
money.
There isn't one room in Nebraska big
enough to store it in if i were all in
silver. If converted into dollar bills
and the bills laid end to end they
would reach almost four-fifths of the
way around the globe 19,700 miles.
Used for wall paper purposes they
would cover a space of 30,370,524
square feet, or 3,374,500 square yards.
With them we could cover a billboard
a half-mile high and two miles long,
and have more than 275,000 dollar bills
left over for patches.
Better believe $208,255,000 is some
money.
The interest thereon at 5 per cent
would support 2,800 families comfort
ably for a year, thus providing for
14,000 people, giving the head of each
family more than $100 a year above
the average income of the wage earn
ing head of a family in these United
States. ' . ' ' ''
And all this money saved up,- mind
you, in a state that has less than one
half of its fertile soil under cultiva
tionand that cultivated half not
yielding as much as it should by
from one-third to one-half. All this
saved up by the people of a state that
is less than a half -century old, and
practically all of it made and saved ,
during the last fifteen or twenty years.
That's going some!
It means that the people of Nebraska
have been putting into the banks of
the state more money per capita than
the people of any other state during
the last twenty years. And all this,
mind you, despite the fact that we
haven't yet learned the wisdom of
keeping our money at home by foster
ing our home institutions, such as
home insurance companies, home manu
facturers, home business men, and so
on. We'd have had about twice as
much deposited in the banks of our
state if we hadn't sent out an average
of ten million dollars a year in the
shape of premiums to fire and life and
accident insurance companies doing
business in other states, and shipping
our raw products east to be manufac
tured into the finished product, then
.buying them back, leaving all the
wages in other states. , Well learn ,
better some day maybe ! When we -do
our bank deposit record will show
up a lot better than it does now, and
even now it makes all the rest of the
states go some to equal it.
