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aecessarll. a reflection ol the policy
tre those ot the writer and oot
of The Voice —Pub
National Bible Week
National Bible Week will be
observed from October 15 to 21
this year. It is sponsored by the
Laymen’s National Committee, a
non-sectarian and non-profit or
ganization whose mission is to en
courage belief and faith in God,
daily reading of the Bible and re
ligious education for all. The work
of the Committee has been en-j
dorsed by the President, gov-,
ernors, members of Congress, and
leaders in industry, labor, and the
professions.
Today, in a world which has
been corrupeted by cynicism and
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; fear, a thorough knowledge of the
teachings of the Bible is more im
; portant than ever before. The
t world’s most terrible problems
■ have resulted from the loss and
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destruction of those spiritual val
ues which our ancestors held to
be preeminent. As Walter H.
Judd, National Chairman for the
Week has said, “Because Ameri-;
can pioneers had a firm belief ini
the spiritual fatherhood of God,
they put first in their scale of
lvalues the freedom and dignity of,
individual man as a spiritual be-!
ing. As a result their political
system released, for the first
time, the creative capacities in
herent in men everywhere . . . We
shall not live victoriously, either
as individuals or as a nation, ex
cept as we come to know God and
His eternal laws and love through
eternal searching of the Scrip
tures.”
The greatest strength of a peo
ple lies in the realm of the spirit. ’
—A Thought—
A man will remain a rag-picker *
as long as he has only the vision
of a rag-picker. We should have
ambition to do our best, and re
-fuse to accept our second best.
Doing easy things does not tax us,
i neither does it challenge us. It is
ja good plan to make it a point to
J tackle one hard job every day. If
•we do this, we will find that we
. have exercised our will power,
iour minds, and our bodies to good
• purpose. One of the rewards of
i learning to do hard things is the
power to do still harder things.
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When J. Sterling Morton came
to Nebraska territory as a young
man still in his twenties, his
father warned him: “Now the
sawmill business is a humbug, let
it alone. If there are any fools
in Nebraska let them build the
saw mills and you sell them the
timber if they want it and will
pay cash for it ... If I had $10,000
not a dollar should go into a saw
mill in Michigan or Nebraska.”
The young man, who was to be
come one of Nebraska’s best
known citizens, followed his fath
er’s advice, but there were enough
people willing to gamble on saw
mills to make lumber manufac
ture the territory’s leading indus
try. The new settlements created
a tremendous demand for lumber,
and while Nebraska was for the
most part treeless, the river val
leys of the southeastern section
provided a considerable quantity
of raw material. The streams
provided the necessary power.
The U.S. census of 1860 re
ported 46 sawmills in Nebraska
territory, representing a total in
vestment of $1^7,800 and giving
employment to 155 men. The an
nual value of lumber turned out
by these mills was $335,340, more
than half of the total value of all
territorial manufactures.
In terms of the number of;
establishments Nemaha was the
leading county, with seven saw
nills. Next came Richardson
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with five. Douglas, Otoe. Sarpy
and Washington followed will'
four each. The remaining coun
ties iiHd from one to three saw
fnills each, und it is interesting to
' note that every county Included
jin the census except Dakota had'
|at least one sawmill. In Cuming.
Dodge, Johnston and Plutte coun
ties sawmills were the only in
dustries reported.
By 1870, the number of saw
mills in Nebraska bod increased
only to 50. The capital invested,
however, represented $152,000, al-;
though the valuft of the product j
had fallen to $278,205. A total of
202 men were employed. The|
census of 18870 reported the type
of power supplied each sawmill, |
and 30 of Nebraska’s were pow
ered by steam-engines, the re
mainder using water-wheels.
Many of the early sawmills
sawed lumber “on the shares.”,
.....~
The putron would cut his own
logs nod haul them to the mill
After they were sawed the mlll
owner and the putron would dl
, vide the lumber ntul the slabs
equally, the former retaining half
1 of the total product as payment
for the milling operations. The
sawmills, like the grist mill, be
came a neighborhood gathering
plied.
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