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FOR GOVERNOR. He Will Win. for governor who at is generally looked upon as is S. R. McKelvie, pub Farmer. He is BM clean and honorable, a lifetime spent in the needs of the state are, record as a success man. has a splendid rec and lieutenant gov he has made a clean, high which should command of all thoughtful voters. of the reasons why he referred to as The Popu STER K. ALDRICH (Former Governor) ublican Primary Candidate for Nominaticn f«r its J States Senator The Logical Candidate “Nebraska republicans look to the (-cord of Governor Aldrich with some degree of pride when they remember that he has been a man v.bo has ac sompiished something for the people of this state by way of legislation. It would require almost a column to fully enumerate the reforms and many points which he has accomplished in this direction. Suffice to say, that al most everything looking to a lower passenger, freight or express rate bears the imprint of the efficient work of Governor Aldrich.”—Friend Tele graph. “Governor Aldrich possesses many qualities to make him a popular can didate. He never fails to state defi nitely where he stands on all public questions. He has the courage of his convictions and stands ready at all times to defend his position.”—Albion News. Governor Aldrich is the logical can didate to nominate because of his strength with the common people, and the fact that the large majority of the voters in Nebraska are familiar with his record and know just where he stands. Republicans who have no axes to grind know that Mr. Aldrich is no experiment as an effiective and efficient public servant. WILL HE LEAD AT CHICAGO? SENATOR WEEKS Senator John W. Weeks, of Massa chusetts, is pointed to by many po litical observers as the man who will lead the field on the first ballot at the forthcoming Republican national convention at Chicago. He has dis played substantial strength in Okla homa, Missouri, Kansas. North Caro lina and Florida, and it is predicted that " his first-ballot vote will come plose to the 200 mark. FACE THE FACTS! Weeks Talks About Our Navy and National Defense. Insists on Military, Commercial, Fin ancial and Industrial Preparedness —Let Us Be Ready for Peace as Weil as War. By JAMES B. MORROW, In the Philadelphia Record. NONE of the Weekses, save John Wingate, the senator and the Massachusetts candidate for president—toiling as they all did among the granite humps of New Hampshire—was ever noted for his ac cumulation of cash or property. They were farmers mostly, begin ning with Leonard Weeks, who, emi grating from England in 1656, became the head and source of the family. Agriculture sternly practiced among the embedded rocks and irremovable bowlders taught them to be resource ful and to keep at least one eye opeD to opportunity. So William D., the father of the sen ator. was a probate judge, aud once essayed to be a manufacturer. With the co-operation of neighbors, likewise alert and adventurous, he started a factory at Lancaster for making starch from potatoes. “I will never forget the look on my father's face." Captain Week3 told me, “when, on a Sunday morning, Just as we were leaving church, we saw men and boys running down the street and j heard them crying: ‘The starch fac- ! tory is burning.’ Captain John Wingate Weeks. “There was no insurance—the pol icy had lapsed—and the fire swept away all of my father's means and put a burdensome mortgage on his farm, two and a half miles in the country.” If there had been a navy of a re spectable size in 1881 John Wingate Weeks would now be a captain in stead of a senator. Nor would ho ever have become a banker and thus have set at naught all the traditions of the Weeks family for self-respecting, I capable and wholesome poverty. And yet a psychological analysis of | inherited traits might show that the j senator comes naturally by his talents for public afTairs and finance. Any inquiry into his personality must in clude the Wingates, the chief of whom, John, an Englishman, emigrated to New Hampshire in 1660. The Weekses and the Wingates In termarried during the second Ameri can generation—the Weekses to con tinue as farmers, with an excursion into potato starch, as has been re corded, but the Wingates to become soldiers, preachers and statesmen. Paine Wingate, for example, the great grandson of John, was a member of the Continental congress and later a senator from New Hampshire. A Big Man Physically. John Wingate Weeks of Massachu setts, in his name, therefore, goes back to the middle of the seventeenth cen [ tury. Perhaps his gifts are equally as ancient. Wherever they originated, he has made good use of them. He is well-to-do—but has less money, per haps, than is often represented—and Republicans in Massachusetts have no tified the country' iliat he is their can didate for president. If he is nomi nated at Chicago in June, the main reason will have been that he is a business man His candidacy, then, will be something entirely new in na tional politics. In his measurements. Captain Weeks is a large man. A reasonable guess at his weight would be 250 pounds. His stature, perhaps, is five feet and eleven inches. His eyes are gray and his manner is frank and hearty. While at the naval academy he could slowly raise a 112-pound dumbbell above his head with his right hand. Then, kneel ing with one leg. he could slowly raise an S7-pound dumbbell with his left band. More than that he could lower bis hands to his shoulders and slowly and simultaneously put both dumb bells above his head the second time A muscular youth, he was recom mended by bis principal to the “pm dential committee" that called at the academy in Lancaster on a hunt of a teacher for their district school. The school was then closed—a group of the large boys having carried the teacher into the road, slammed him down in the dirt and warned him never to return. ' Lick 'em .and lick ’em good," the j-Jeutial committee said. “We’ll hack you up if you do." “Tuc third day, Captain Weeks told me. “a bit, .ed faced boy took his per. in har d and laborious!, be 411 to write . iter that is. Le waB seemingly engaged in writing a let ter: as a malfc-i O: fact-, he was show ing off before the s hool and experi m-nting with the teacher When ordered to put his pen and paper "way, he smiled around the room at the pupils, who had stopped work ing, and then resumed his writing. “I took him by the collar, dragged him out of his seat and gave him a thorough whipping. He turned out to be the son of the chairman of the prudential committee. The old man never spoke to me again, not even when I met him in the road, be rid ing in a buggy and I walking to or from my work." Went to Sea for Two Years. On his graduation at the Annapolis Klav.l iMdunv coucff Tfttin W in gate Weeks went to sea for a cruise of two years. Seventy men were in his class, but there was room for only 10 of them In the navy. The navy itself consisted of but five steam ves sels classed as first-rates, and they were obsolete and unfit for active duty. George Barnett, bis room-mate, went into the Marine Corps and is now a major general and the com mandant of that branch of the naval service. In Florida, where he had been en gaged as a surveyor on a railroad, the late Midshipman Weeks learned that an old firm in Boston was going out of business. One of the partners had died and another had become blind. Henry Homblower, a son of one of the partners, and the youthful Mr. Weeks bought the business, the lat ter borrowing the money with which to begin his career as a banker and broker. Hornblower acted for the firm cn the floor of the Boston Stock Ex change. Weeks kept the books and waited on the customers as they ap peared. In a few years the two young men had offices all over New England and in cities as far away as Chicago. “I got my first valuable business idea from a famous New ''ngland dressmaker,” Captain Weeks said to the writer of this articl “A friend who came to spend the night at our house was talking to Mrs. Weeks while I was reading a newspaper. I heard her say that she had bought a dress in Boston, and that soon after, on returning to the store, the pro prietor, noticing her at the counter, asked if she had purchased the dress she was wearing at his establishment. On learning that she had, he said: “ It is not right. Please give your name and address to the clerk and we shall correct the matter at once.’ m story oi treat aiue. ■' ‘But,’ the —oman replied, 'the dre3s Is satisfactory to me. Whatever is wrong is so small that it is not worth mentioning.' ' Small to you, nadam,' the man answered, 'but very large to us.' •' 'And do you know,' the woman told Mrs. Weeks, the dress was not only taken back, but it was kept and I was given a new one. "I repeated the story to my partner next day," Captain Weeks said, “and from that time onward we tried to please our customers before we thought of ourselves and the probable profits we could make in our trans actions.” Three years ago, following at once his election to the upper House of Congress, Captain Weeks sold out to his partners and disposed of every in terest that might be thought, even in directly, to influence his judgment as a lawmaker. It it said in New Eng land that he has always been very careful about his reputation as a busi ness man. An anecdote told of him in State street, the Wall street of Bos ton. shews how his sensitiveness to public opinion on one occasion proved highly profitable to his partner and himself. A run on a bank in which Captain Weeks was a director, though he owned but $900 of the stock, threat ened. so he feared, to injure his stand ing in the community. He spent a day and a night at the bank, pledged two-thirds of all the property he and his partner owned for the payment of tne bank’s debts and put through a re habilitating plan under which the shareholders were assessed 50 per cent on their holdings. The bank was saved, but some of the fright ened shareholders sold out. Their in terests were promptly bought by Captain Weeks. The bank prospered and later was eombin with other large banks. Boston financiers say that Mr. Homblower and Mr. Weeks ultimately made $250,000 on the stock which they purchased when the bank seemed to be on the verge of ruin. When I asked Captain Weeks about the matter, he said: “I was a young man and couldn’t afford to be a di rector in a bank that had closed its doors in the faces of its depositors many of whom were poor and most of whom were small merchants and wage-earners."' “How,” 1 asked him, inasmuch as he was a sailor himself once, and is now on terms of intimacy with many high officers, “would you describe the navy of the United States?” l'At the outbreak of the- war in Eu rope,” he answered, "our navy, in my opinion, was the second best in exis tence. Authorities for whom I have great respect did not agree with me They ranked our navy third or fourth —some giving France second place and some believing Germany was stronger at sea than ourselves. “1 still think that in ships alone we were the equal of Prance or Germany and much the superior of Japan. Our officers are the ablest in the world: our crews are the most intelligent. No nation gives its officers the training that is given to the naval officers of the United States. And the men in our ships, coming from farms and vil lages. in large part, are the finest morally and physically afloat. "In my days, back in 1880, let us say, the sailor on :hore leave wtm returned to his ship sober was keelhauled or otherwise punished by his mates. All that has changed. Intoxicated sailors are see no more on the streets. Our men are sober, serious and capable. When an estimate of any navy is made, the personnel, as well as the ships, must be considered. Lessons ot tne war. "So 1 had thought that only Great •Britain excelled us as a naval power at the outbreak of the war in Europe Since the war started. Franco and Germany have geen building ships Our rank just now, therefore, is un certain. But we have a good navy. Still, it should be much larger.” "Has the war taught the worid any naval lessons?" , "A great many. It has shown the value 01 aeroplanes, which are now known as the eyes of the fleet. They are very necessary as scouts. Leav ing the deck of a vessel, they can easily locate the enemy and are there fore of the greatest possible use in the events that occur before a battle. "The submarines, too, it has been learned, arc of a real and practical service. All officers think they have become a permanent -addition to every navy, but there is some dis agreement as to their general utility. Can a swarm of submarines, for in stance, go to sea, meet a fleet and de stroy it? The question cannot be answered until such an attempt has been made and either failed or suc ceeded. “1 asked one of the highest military authorities m the country if 1,000 sub marines. along with mines, could safe guard the United States against in vasion—the mines to blow up the ene mies' ships off Bhore, if any hap pened to get that near, the submarines having met the rest and destroyed them before they came within striking distance of our coasts. The answer was that such a measure of pro »«mi •*» 1n«aLAu.s AX . iniresQ States would, to say the least, be made very difficult. "You see, no one can tell as yet what part the submarines will take In the wars of the future. Their uses are slowly being developed, and we cannot know what they are capable of doing until the French or British fleet meets the fleet of Emperor William. "Also, it has been learned that bat tle cruisers are required to bring a navy up to its highest efficiency. Cruisers formerly were used as scouts and to hunt down and destroy the merchant ships of an enemy. They were swift, but not heavy enough to take a place in the battle line when large vessels were engaged,, A Sea Battle First. "The modern cruiser, however, can fi-lit, being covered with armor and armed with large guns. Steaming 30 knots an hoi#, it can run all around a fleet of dreadnaughts and pump shells into them from a long distance and from any angle. Our navy must have battle cruisers, besides a great many submarines and aeroplanes, il we mean to be in a position where we can protect ourselves against in jury, insult or dishonor. ^ "It should be always remembered,” Captain Weeks went on to say, “that our navy will be our first line of de fense. American ships will meet for eign ships before there is a battle on shore. If the United States goes to war with any nation in Euorpe or Asia, the fleets of the two countries will fight for the supremacy of the sea. "No invading army will set out for America until it is safe from attack by our fleet. So long as our fleet is afloat no army will venture to start for our shores. Moving troops from one coun try to another is an immense under taking. even when it is safe to do so. "Four hundred large ships, for ex ample, would be required to trans port an army of 250,000 men from Japan to the United States. Armies traveling by water have to carry their own artillery, ammunition and horses Japan would not send 400 large troop ships out into the Pacific unless its fleet had fought and defeated our fleet. Nor would Germany or any other country in Europe attempt an invasion of the United States so long as our fleet, decks cleared, was wait ing in the Atlantic. ' Looking to the East, 1 can see no probable dang.r that is likely to occur in the near future, unless the allies are thoroughly beaten by Germany, or unless Germany is thoroughly beaten by the allies. If the war is practi cally a draw at the end, the efforts of all the great nations to maintain an equilibrium of power will keep them entirely engaged for sope time with their own affairs." "Do you believe that a trade war against this country will follow the restoration of peace in Europe?" "Such a war will come—there is nc doubt of it. Loaded with debt, bur dened with taxation. Europe will turn with energy and ferocity to the works of peace. The factories in Europe, ex cept in Belgium, Poland and Northern France, have not been shut down not burned. Indeed, new ones have been built. Industrially, save in the places I have named, Europe is better situ ated now than when the war began Facts to Be Faced. "Things have been speeded up in Great Britain, Germany and France. The factories, old ones and new ones, are running They will be running after the armies at the front have been sent home, but instead of mak ing cannon and ammunition, as at present, they will be operated night and day in the production of goods for the American markets. All Americans, no matter whether they call themselves Democrats or Republi cans, ought to have courage enough and wisdom enough to face the facts. Europe is going to take pessession of the markets in this country if we do not defend our selves. Tou spoke of an invasion by sol diers. There can also be an invasion witl products. i favor all Kinds of defenses—military, commercial, financial and industrial. And right here at home I think some of ua need defense against fallacious ideas. Foi instance: This is a great business nation and yet we hear many suggestions that business be taken out of the ownership and management which have developed It and made it wonderfully successful, so that it may he turned over to the national government. Business ought to be regulated, but we have regulated the railroads so vigorously that no more are being built, although they are surely needed in some parts of the country. Furthermore, the time has come when the railroads cannot borrow money for short periods on as advantage ous terms as can other lines of big busi ness. And yet transportation, next to agriculture. Is our most important indus try. Would government ownership and oper ation improve the situation? No; the situation would be made worse State ownership and operation has failed in France, Canada and other countries Wherever it has been tried, expenses are increased and deficits created. On the Western Railroad of France the operating charges went up 50 per cent in three years. More than 6,200 new men wer# em ployed—no workers on the tracks, engi neers. conductors or brakemen. but clerks porters and other little politicians, places for whom were found around the general 'offices and at the stations. Government ownersnip in the United States would add 1.700,000 men to our of fice-holding class, and congress would fix their salaries. Freight rates. I am sure, would be higher than at present and the consumers—the men who work—would be losers and not gainers. MAYOR CHARLES W. BRYAN. Mayor Bryan favors a reduction of the telephone rates in Nebraska to a reasonable basis. He favors a uni form system of scientific good roads building under the direction of state and county engineers and the use of all public labor possible on said con struction. He favors municipal own ership of all public utilities to protect towns and cities against exorbitant rates. He favors state hail insurance. He favors the development of the water yower of the state by munici pal, county, and state development, so that cheap electric current can be furnished to light the homes and oper ate the machinery in the towns and on the farms, to furnish heat in place of high priced coal, and to operate f interurban railways throughout tne state. He favors permitting the farm ers to vote at primary and general elections by mail to save time and for convenience. Mayor Bryan was permanent chair man of the Nebraska State Dry Feder ation mass meeting and assisted in drafting the dry constitutional amend ment. The reforms he advocates are non-partisan and in the interest of the people of the entire state. If elec ted Governor, he will urge the pass age of legislation to enforce the dry constitutional amendment if adopted and will take the lead ia securing )ther progressive legislation needed o protect Nebraska people and de relop the state, the same as he ha lone as Mayor of Lincoln. Insure he nomination o:' a dry progressive •andidate by voting for Charles W Bryan, primaries April 18. Home Work for Students. Following is a letter which Fred arick Leighton, principal of the Os wean, N. Y.. high school, addressed o the parents and published in “The Baladium," of that city, on February 7. We reproduce it by request. During the past year or two many parents have expressed themselves as being -greatly surprised when I have said that the average high school student needed to study from wo or three hours a day at home. “The amount of work to be ac complished in each subject in the high school is determined by state and not by local authorities. Con sequently about all the local teach ers can do, so far as the amount of work to he assigned is concerned, is to divide the whole into about as many lessons as there are school days in the term and attempt to get the students to prepare it. “To complete a high ^school course in four years, it is necessary for a student to recite eighteen times a week exclusive of laboratory periods. The average student recites about twenty times a week, or an average if four times a day. The scnooi time j of each day is divided into seven periods of about forty minutes each, if a student recites four periods a day. he has about three forty-min ute periods a day, or about two hours :eft for study in school. The average high school lesson requires from an hour to an hour and a half for its preparation. Assuming then, that a student has but four lessons to pre pare each day and that each averages one and one-fourth hours, it would require five hours a day to prepare them. If the student has but two hours a day when he can study in school he must study three hours a day outside of school or he must neg lect his work and take the conse quences. which is usually failure. This of course refers to the average student. Some can prepare four les sons in less than five hours. Others require more than five hours for pre parations of four lessons. "Of the hundreds of cases of poor work which have been referred to me fully ninety-five per cent of them have been due to thte lack of home study. In nearly every case both the student and the parent have ac knowledged that there was little or 30 regular studying at home. Many of the students have acknowledged being out from two to seven nights a ceek without pretending to do any studying at home. In some cases the students have acknowledged tha hey have spent an hour or so over lieir books at home but haven’t studied. If parents whose children are not studying regularly at home from two to three hours a day will ake the trouble to inquire at the chool, almost without exception they .ill find that their children are fail ng in one or more subjects and that hey cannot complete the high school course in four years. High school students, like adults, are quite ready lo explain their failures by laying the blame on someone else and calling the attention of their parents to the fact that “nearly everybody failed.” A wise parent can hardly afford to accept such explanations without in quiring at the school for the school’s side of it. One boy explained his failure to his father by telling him that everybody in his_ class, except one girl, failed, and that girl was a "sissy, who studied all the time.” Investigation revealed the fact that twenty-one out of the twenty-four passed above seventy per cent, and that this boy was the only one in the class who stood below fifty per cent. “In September, 1910, one hundred and thirty-one new students entered the high school. Of these only twenty six kept up their work, remained four years, and graduated in 1914. n September, 1913, one hundred and forty-nine new students entered the aign school. Of these only eighty nine are now in school and only thirty-nine have kept up their work No doubt some of them left school be ause the school failed to offer such instruction as they neded. Others left because of financial conditions. However, the strange fact remains that scarcely any left who kept up their work while in school. Is it not reasonable to suppose that if these students who left had begun at once, on entering the high school, to study regularly and persistently at home and had stayed home evenings.that they might have kept up their work and remained in school and gradu ated? Many students enter the high school whose parents seem to pay no attention to their failures until they have gotten so far behind that 'here is little hope of their ever mak ing up their work. The time for parents to take an interest in the home study of their children in high school is the day they enter school and not a month or a year after they have been failing. “Home is a very good place for a high school boy or girl between six o’clock p. m. and seven a. m., espe cially on Monday, Tuesday, Wednes day and Thursday, when school is in session. If more of our boys and girls were in their homes at these times and had regular hours for study, we would have fewer failures in school, larger graduating classes, fewer parents with heartaches over the wrongdoings of their children, and a better community in which to live. “The work in the high school is very different from that in the grades. FOR PRfcbiucna ALBERT B. CUMMINS U. S. Senator From Iowa i ■ 1 ii■ 1 11 " - ... i ■■ * THE MAN WHO CAN WIN.” Some of the reasons why Senator Cummins is entitled to the support of Nebraska Republicans: He is a statesman of the highest and best type. He is not an EXPERIMENT. He is one of the strong men of the U. S. Senate and one of the great men of the day. He is the one announced candidate who can unite all fac tions and lead a united Party to victory in November. He is not being urged on mere Faith—his views on the great questions of the day are known to all and are approved by Republicans everywhere. He is a true friend of the Farmer and Laborer. He is the only candidate from the West and for the first time in the history of the Party the West has a real chance to nominate a western man. He is strongly opposed to War. He is just and fair to all Nations and all people. His many years of faithful and superior public sendee and his masterful achievements entitle him to the hearty support of Nebraska Republicans. His name will be on the ballot. wmmmmmmmsmmmaimamr; -•;?a...v; .gj?;.:J■gmmmmm;gsa«. | The "SILENT SMITH” 1. 1 —Model 8 shows what should now be expected of a typewriter. Ball Bearing£ Long IVearing « The success of the L. C. Smith &C Bros. Typewriters has been due to the fact that the wants of the user have | dictated its construction. The user has decided in favor I of certain improvements now incorporated in Model 8. I Among them are: Silence of Operation—The most silent running efficient typewriter ever placed on the market. 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TYPEWRITER COMPANY Factory and Home Office, SYRACUSE, N. Y., U. S. A 1 1819 Farnam St., Omaha, Neb. H , | .-.-.rw, The fact that a child has gone ! through the grades and has had standings of ninety per cent or over without studying at home is no evi dence that he can do high school work without home study, nor is it evi dence that- he can do good high school work by studying at home. A grade child studies arithmetic from five to eight years. A high school student is expected to master as much in quan tity of algebra, all of which is new, in from thirty-six to thirty-eight weeks, if the high school student is to do high school work successfully, it is abso lutely necessary that he change his manner of living and devote more .ime to study. Since there are not hours enough in the school day to do all of the studying necessary, the high school student must study at home and study regularly and per sistently or he must fail. There is no other way for the average student. Parents may be reasonably certain that if their children are not study ing regularly from two to three hours a day at home, at least five days a week, that they are not keeping up all their school work and that sooner or later the parents will find it out.” TEAM FOR SALE. Young team, coming five years old this spring, weight about 2,700. Call at C. J. Larson’s farm, three and one half miles southeast of Loup City. 14-3 BAZAAR AND SUPPER. The ladies' of Cleora church will hold their bazaar and sale at the O. G. Hunt home Thursday evening, on April 13. Supper will be served from 5 till 9. Everybody invited. Car Pure Seed Oats. I will have a car of pure seed oats on track Thursday, April 6th. These oats are grown north of here and all raised by one farmer.—E. G. Taylor. Eggs for Hatching. Rhode Island Red eggs, 25 cents a dozen. Phone 9012.—Mrs. C. C. Christensen. 13-5 Eggs For Hatching. Pure Barred Rock eggs.—R. L. Arthur. Eggs For Hatching. Single comb mottled Anconas. $1 per setting of 13.—I. L. Conger. 16-3