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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
APRIL, 18. 1907.
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. jievod an abuse In some Instances. At
present the heads of state institutions
sell state property, Including live stock
and grain, and buy all sorts of supplies
the funds used being the cash fund ae
rived from the sale of property. Some
times this fund amounts to many thou
sands of dollars, but usually it is only
a few hundred dollars. The cash fund
has often been used for the payment of
expenses that the board of pubii3
lands and buildings refused to allow
to drawn from the regularly appropri
ated funds of the state institutions.
Often expenses have been paid from ihe
cash fund by the heads of state instl
tions and later, when convenient the
claims were presented to the board of
public lands and bujldings and ap
proved, but In such cases the money
was paid out by the head of the insti
tution before the item was approved
by his superiors. The intent of the
legislature is to guard the cash funds
of the state Institutions. Provision is
made for the setting aside of $200 to
each institution for-the purchase of
perishable .supplies and commodities.
One of the most . discussed bill
passed by the legislature is S. F. 76,
by Gibson of Douglas, called the anti
brewers' bill. Ag passed and signed
by the governor it provides that brew
ers or manufacturers of intoxicating
liquor's shall not be interested in saloon
licenses, or in other word'j, engage in
the retail liquor trade, and shall not
rent buildings owned by them to be
used for saloon purposes. That part
of the bill intended to prevent a brew
er or manufacturer from renting a
building: to anothe to be used for
saloon purposes has been challenged
by tho manufacturers of Nebraska, but
attorneys who have looked into the law
believe tyie Mil Is absolutely invulner
able from a legal standpoint. The bill
does not amsnd any section of the
present law but is supplemental to
that law. Attorneys believe that If
the provision relating to the renting
of bulldinjfj to others for saloon pur
poses was for any other purpose, with
tho possible exception of Immoral pur
poses, it might not gtand the test, but
as it relates to the regulations of
saloons, it is believed to be valid and
legal under the decisions of the courts
in cases that bear on the subject of
control of the liquor traffic.
The veto of the Ilarner bill for the
erection of two wings to the Kearney
normal school was taken to heart by
the officers of that institution and by
others interested. The legislature was
unusually liberal with the common
schools of Nebraska and made appro
priations that will be felt in every
corner of the state. A law was passed
raising tlxe entrance requirements to
normal schools and providing for nor
mal training in the high schools. It
was doubtless with all these things in
mind that the veto was written. It
has been said that had Kearney aske.1
for a smaller amount, there would not
have been any question about receiv
ing it. .
Republican newspapers in the dis
trict represented by Senator Gould are
handing that statesman a few pack
ages with the wrappers on for the act
ivity he displayed in v6ting against
measures he promised to support. It
seems to be the consensus of opinion
among the editorial fraternity that the
roster of the next legislature will be
conspicuous for the absence of several
names that -were heard when the roll
was called during the pa.t winter.
Ouii'jitiK in Oaiijulii.
Evidcnty tho people of our near
by country Canada look, with much
favor upon the dairy business and tn
teiid u help hold it -up as nuicn as
possible. Tile department of agri-
The Dairy
eiilnne i er..-iicrs this one of the very
important matters to bo cared ror
and fostered by that department of
thr goenrient. In the r. put rs of
tli premier ami provincial treasurer
of the pr'i.iii.-e "i Alberta we find
this imei- . t;,': bit of information as
to tin- ; tiii i to ef tie- government
toward U:. dairying business:
Hceilon.
t'p'Mi tutny farm the same bunch
of v t kept from j ear to ear
with -tit the owner ever knowing which
Kiu.-i arr !'!. piyinti ones. s lonjj
it the bet.l iikm fairly well ns a
It. r! the .ner ! n farther, lie
it. y ha0 dim Id' a that wmo nf tho
eow me I . tt r than other, but Just
how mil ! b- ileT be di. H led k'KW.
He t:!iy ) Sieve that isom of them
y ild ii U iter than they have been
d.iitK , br.t N.w f.meh lv can itl b II,
Tb- I . i I told alwavn he ivi,trl d
is. is; .. s-f :t-Uv!.h!:tt r-
fu'llii T 1 1 t v i i-e.v iht'dd ',Uld 'H-
tSr.iy i. Ik v e.vit ivn.id; and If
Ibnt Ti l old i ll'd pr ditahte br plum
In f.e b Hi should be n'kd with an
other that will be profitable. The
test and the scales are as necessary
in the farm dairy as the pails "and
churn. They are the business end of
the dairy and tell the "farmer which
cow in the herd pays for her Keep,
and how much profit she yields for
his care. Most of the cows on the
farms are there, not as selected in
dividuals for the purpose of making
the most possible of dairy product,
but for stock purposes. From tnese,
by careful selection, a good dairy berd
may be built up that will pay the
owner many times over for their se
lection, as well as save a large amount
of labor in the care of unprofitable
cows.
Care.
The one thing that should more than
any other be impressed upon tho keep
er of dairy cows is Intelligent care.
The small record made by the cows
of the stall Is due, not so much to
breeding, or even quality as to a lack
of knowledge or else to carelessness
in their keeping. Irregularity wnich
is the rule on the average farms, will
account for much of the loss. The
cows are looked after when there ts
nothing else left to do. They are
milked and fed at irregular times.
This care is regarded entirely as a
chore, and not in any way as a bus
iness, which to be most profitable
must have the very best kind of at
tention. We believe this idea of re
garding fhe cows as a chore, and
rather a disagreeable chore too, will
account for the. dislike many farmers
have Tor the keeping of cows. Treated
in this way the cows are not very
profitable and add materially to the
work about the farm, and so keeping
them becomes very distasteful. Aot
many farmers like to do a full day's
work in the field and then milk cows
for two or three hours after supper.
So long as this method of caring for
cows prevails the dairy business will
never be the most profitable nor sat
isfactory. The care of cows must be
a part of the farmer's business, re
ceiving the most prompt attention at
the right time, and not a chore to ue
attended to at convenience.
The New Pure Food Imyt.
, The new law just passed by our
legislature has for a part of its aim
to regulate the dairy business. The
pure food commissioner created by
this new law has quite a mixture
over which he has been made the
guardian. Our solons did not nave
a very realizing sense of the vast im
portance of the dairy 'business, other
wise they would not have hitched it
on to a pure food law covering such
a- variety-of subjeetf.li"The 'dairy 'bus'
isness is of such volume that it should
be in a department by itselfT..regulated
by laws especially made a ad provided
for it under a dairy commissioner
whose whole time should be given to
this business alone.
When you divide up a pure food
commissioner's time between looking
after vinegar, baking powder, break
fast foods, patent medicines and dairy
products, he has more on his hands
to regulate than should be given the
ordinary mortal. The proper atten
tion to the dairy business itself would
require the whole time of a well or
ganized department.
While we believe the new law Ja
legislation in the right direction, the
time will come when the dairy inter
ests will -so impress their importance
that there will be a dairy commissione"
whose whole time and efforts will be
given to the upbuilding and advance
ment of that business.
If college life did nothing else but
to show the student that there is some
thing better in life than mere money
making, than the pursuit of a sordid
aim and piling up of dollars, it would
justify its existence a thousand times
over.
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SIDELIGHTS
IffjACULTY members at the univer
3 s,ty of Chicago have always await
ed with mingled fear and wrath tho
presvntnt.w of tho student comic opera
by tho lilackrriars, the university
comic opera club, and their extreme
visilanee is often necessary to prevent
tho student "griddlerc" from following
their tent in hatlrlzlmr everything eon
neitej with the university. This year's
production has proved no exception to
the rule, for u getisntlon of tho flnt
quality was Hpruiig, nay the tTuioiueiu.
when the two student playwright.
Harry Hansen and Floyd Klein. pre
dated ji "stunt" fur the chorus which
Su!ved a clever "ro.iHt" tu John I.
l;.ifk fell, r and the "great oiler',"
ready gt ln? to the Midway sehool,
tVich Hartley Cashing, who through
tr tin'ntf the tyro acton at Uu Midwiy
h. rs become jirei dm t l to artiilK "
en.-or oer th ctud'-ttt player". t'-
. . !i"i,lriiH '..! i tin rtvid Ihrt
tit!!- ? ti-e lion- pons; pnm-nletl by the
i. '.i'I-oh fr hi. i cti!)iler.ul", "If Vv
l the NUndtua" lutaluly locked dan-
KetotMi.
The first few lines verified his suspi
cions, for he read:
We've got a great school at Chicago U.;
It's certainly up to the Standard.
The courses of study that they put cu
through .
Are certainly up to the Standard.
Some standards are good as results of
hard toil;
The standard we set Is the good Stan
dard Oil;
Our dear Uncle John took it out of the
soil
We're certainly up to the standard.
The chorus did not improve things,
for It ran:
Oh Standard. Oh, Standard, no matter
what you. do,
Remember that they love you at the old
Chicago U.
The coach had already drawn his blue
pencil through the entire song, but the
second varse would have decided the
rong's fate if the first had not. It ran
like this:
When millions we need at Chicago U.
It's certainly up to the Standard;
We call on John D. and say, "Come
through !"
We're certainly on to the Standard.
Some standards are high and some stan
dards are low;
The standard we set is the standard of
dough;
We noed new buildings, as all people
know . i .
It's certainly up to the Standard.
An attempt was made to "hush" up
the song, but the attempt failed ba
cause a copy of the lines fell into tho
hands of some of the players, who
found it too good to.be kept. Now all
the members of the cast have memor
ized the lines and some of the authori
ties at the Midway fear a coup on the
part of the students, who are said .o
be planning to "ring in" the song Im
promptu when the play is presented
May 10 and 11 in-Mandel hall.
Harry A. Hansen, .'0'J, and Floyd
Klein, '09, are the authors of the com
edy, the lead oi which will be played
by Beck Herdman, '07.
The assessment of personal property
In Chicago is under way a half billion
dollar task. It means hard work for 100
men. It is believed that this will be the
most accurate valuation ever made of
the personalty wealth in the city. Some
weeks ago, in preparation for the as
sessor, the balances carried in Chicago
banks by many persons were reduced,
the cash being sent to other cities fcr
an April 1 joke on the tax collectors.
Chicago's election means something
big in salaried jobs. There are three
that pay $10,000 a year comptroller,
commissioner of public works and cor
poration counsel. Two assistant corpo
and the
H 8 a 4 4 a Wh
A 25-cent package of Loose-Wiles Sodas is so big
the price is lost sight of ttie crackers are so good
all others are forgotten. ,
They are the perfect soda crackers-the kind Uncle
Sam's experts say are the most wholesome and
nourishing form of wheat food known.
There is as much difference between Loose-Wiles
Soda Crackers and some Soda Crackers sold in bulk
as there h between a porterhouse and a rump steak.
Loose-Wiles Sodas are clean-crisp-flaky whole
some and appetizing from first to last-made from
selected soft winter wheat flour, by our exclusive
modern method of baking.
Put up in the distinctive Triple Protection package
to assure you of your money's worth.
That's why your grocer likes to sell them. Ask him.
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CRACKER O CANDY CO. U.O.M.
ration counsels get $5,000 each, three
more $4,000 each; another $6,000 anj tho
attorney for the board of local im
provements, $5,010. The chief of
police and chief of the fire
department, $6,000 each, and the pur
chasing agent goes on the pay roll at
$4,000. The assistants in the department
get salaries of $2,500 to $4,000, and th-3
total s a sum which keeps taxpayers
from growing rich too fast.
"Back to the cigar factory for me, '
soliloquized Commissioner of Public
Works O'Connell, who managed
Dunne's campaign. Colonel J. Hamilton
Lewis is preparing to adorn a law of
fice wjth those pink whiskers which
have doneso much for his fame.
It is all well enough to be elected
mayor of Chicago but Postmaster Busse
has had his troubles. What shall he do,
for instance, with that package bear
ing 54 cents in stamps which lies in
the postoffice here asking delivery sim
ultaneously to a score of the pron inenl
men of the country? Recently a letter
arrived addressed in a foreign hand
under a Croatian postmark, "Entered
as second-class matter at the postofRco
in Chicago, 111." Now that looks hope
less, doesn't it? But one of Busse's
men squinted at it and deduced this:
"Meant for some foreign language
newspaper by sender who knows no
English and copied the only English In
a paper printed in Chicago." .
Sure enough after a try or two the
editor was found whom it was intended
for and who could read it and use the
money enclosed. Simple when you know
how., . ,
Now comes a member of the Chicago
woman's club to the defense of the per
gola, a meritorius bit of home architec
ture. As everyone knows the pergola is
the new-fangled arbor hitched to one's
house. A member of the woman's club
charged that the pergola became "sun
bleached, weather-beaten, rain-spanked,
wind-whipped, paint-deserted, mud
spattered and was rot of much uso
anyway except to the English spar
row," Then another indignantly cried:
"The pergola is a structure which has
been praised by the municipal art
league of Chicago and is in itself essen
tially beautifully." That appeared to je
the last word, s
At least one Chicago church has an
ironclad rule contrary to that reported
of the First. M. E. cnurch of Marion,
Ind. That is Sinai tabernacle, Dr. Em il
J. Hirsch's church. He will not allow
any young children, much less infants.
I in the pews when he preaches.
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