THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE
Consolidations Palls City Tribune.
Humboldt Enterprise, Kulo Record,
Crockers Educational Journal and
Dawson Outlook.
Entered as second-class matter at
Falls City. Nebraska, post otbee, Janu
ary 12, 1904, under the Act of Congress
on March 3, 1879.
Published every Friday .it 1- alls t ity
Nebraska, by
The Tribune Publishing Company
W. H. WYLER,
Editor and Manager.
One year *:
Six months '•>
Three months 1,1
TELEPHONE 226.
The weatherman deserves our Imr
ly congratulations. \ better crop ot
fine fall days we could not turn out
ourselves. The man who kicks
1810 weather should lie osterlzed at
•ace Great is Nebraska, and Neb
raska is at her best In the fall
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The Mexican Revolution has quiet
ly petered out just as most things
Mexican do except the iron admin
istration of President Diaz. The half
breeds and greasers of Mexico are no
equal to the advantages of a free gov
ernment, much as they need It. This
is only too true of all the Latin Ainer
leans. They are not able to appre
ciate American ideals.
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Arnold Scheutz, one of the more in
telligent of the west end’s unusually
large number of successful farmers
was in Falls City Wednesday attend
ing to the usual fall business, lie
called to pay his compliments to
his old time friend, E. P. Sharis.
Ho wus not a little surprised at the
changes that had taken place since
ho had last been In town. Especially
at the news of Mr. Shafts having
turned to the farm.
Thanksgiving Day is past and gone
but the thankless and ungracious mor
tal is still with us. Why could ho no
go loo. i’ass with the day that was
meant for his reforming. That such
a great number of people have re
nounced wliat is really true and beau
tiful ill life and have set themselves
to a grievous task is dear from the
remarkable lack ot gratitude as seen
in the talk and walk of it very large
number of them.
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The English Ptirllmetit has boon
dissolved by order of King George V
and a general ejection is called for In
December. A social revolution is on
in Merry England that threatens to
demolish much of the old that is still
dear to the hearts of many of Un
English people. The day of better
things has arrived for the oppressed
in Great llrlttan and Ireland May
the fondest expectations of the Lib
eral Party now in power be realized
in the coming election.
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The Round I louse has been lot-mall
opened by the running In of a num
ber of locomotives tills week. A mini
ber of families of the workmen also
arrived. More will follow as the need
demands and circumstances p> rmlt.
A number of new buildings arc under
way and others being contracted for.
The new company jttst organized is s
liclting funds to push tin- work oi
home building. All in nil Falls t’itv
will present a busy spectacle be
tween now and spring.
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Mr. Sellout/, understands the art ol
humoring the soil to get bumper crop
Ills wheat yielded him 30 bushels t<
the acre. Ills corn averaged 50 am
some 75. He is a firm believer in in
tensive as opposed to extensive farm
ing. It is men of Mr. Scheutz's typt
who are laying the foundations for ;
great advance in farm methods it
Richardson County, which when gen
erally adopted will easily treble tin
productiveness of the county. He
mixes brains with his muscles am
soil.
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Deccember is the month for east
ing up of accounts. The end of the
year is rapidly approaching and ever
yone is eager to know on which side
of the ledger his margins are located
Then everybody is desirous of get
ting his bills paid up and starting the
new year with a clean record and a
clear conscience. Its a good prac
tice at least once a year to hold our
selves strictly to account and make
a full settlement. We can begin the
[ Now Year in better form and will
find our sleep all the sweeter.
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The class of those who believe that
the world owes them u living and
have set themselves ho rthankless
task of seeing that they get ft. is
daily increasing. They have a stand
ing quarrel with ail that is. They
feel themselves to be till' victims of
an outrageous fortune. Gratitude is
utterly foreign to their nature. They
owe no one anything. Tile balance is
according to their way of calculating
wholly In their favor. As a conse
quence they are unhappy and gener
ally miserable. Life is a succession
of disappointments to them. They
help no one and no oimean help them.
They are dirolects on the sea of life.
They come from nowhere and are go
ing nowhere. Ungracious and thank
less mortals.
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For a number of years the Misses
Florence and Nellie Cleaver have con
ducted a Sunday School for the South
Side located at the southern ext remit,
of Huiland Street. The property was
originally owned by the 1st. Presbyter
Inn Church, but recently their inter
est was acquired and now the plan
Is to enlarge the building and make
it tlie Sunday School and church
home of the South Side.
While Kails City is busily engaged
in providing home comforts for the
south side let us 'not overlook the
nticd of a Sunday School and Church
training for the growing young people
and children. During the year 165
enrolled in the school. Nov. 20, when
tlii- writer was present 85 boys and
girls with their teachers were jam
med in the little 16 by 20, room. It
was a sight to stir ones blood. The
room is woefully Inadequate. An ex
tension should be begun at once and
completed by the first of the year.
Cleaver sisters have done an heroic
service for Kails City and especially
for the south side. Their efforts de
serve to be recognized and their self
sacrificing labor of love should be en
couraged. There is not another place
in Kalla City where a few hundred (Id
lars invested now will bring as great
returns in time and eternity as in tbi
| little Sunday School. \ fund is t>“
ing started for the building of an ad
dition. You can give the south side
no better Xmas gift than by helping
to give this growing school more root
in which to meet and grow.
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As a pastor coming from the active
ministry to the newspaper work. 1
| have been interested and amused to
i note the similarity between my ex
j periences with the people as 1 have
I dealt with them in the two widely
' different lines of work. In my churc
work I had long ago learned to divide
the church people into four classes.
[There were the workers, willing hel
pers, dependnbles, upon whom you
j could always rely, the positive force
iti the church making for results and
1 there were the sitters, brethern and
j sisters who held down their jobs se
curely hut made no pri tenet; of work
ing them. The third class were the
kickers, objecting t<> every thing and
improving nothing. And lust of all
wore tin' backsliders, the grafters of
the church body.
Iii going over the register of the
Tribune subscribers as turned over
to me by Mr. Sharts, last spring, l
find that with regard to their prompt
j ness in paying up, the subscribers al
so divide readily in to four classes.
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There are first of course those who
pay regularly and promptly in
advance. Then there are a goodly
number who just ns regularly and
promptly pay at the end of the year.
The third class pay only when solicit
ed or compelled and the fourth and
last never.
Evidently human nature is about
the same under whatever garb dis
covered. And the person who leaves
one calling for an other in the hope
of thereby escaping the unpleasant
side of humanity is certain to meet
with disappointments whether it
takes all kinds of people to make the
world or not, this much is certain
that all the classes are pretty
well represented every where
If you want to reach the people wh
j buy advertise In The Tribune.
“The Climax’’ will be the attraction
at the Gehling Monday night.
FARMING THE ROAD.
The present, governor of Iowa pro
poses to add eight and one half mil
lion bushels of corn to the annual
crop of tile state He hopes to
accomplish this gigantic thing by
simply recommending that tlie farm
ora, by law, b<> allowed lo fence in
and use ten feet on each side1 of ev
ery country road for sowing corn. Six
ty :,ix feet is the Iowa road width,
and the governor advises that this
lie reduced twenty teet. si ill leaving
a wide enough country road. Eight
hundred thousand acres of tilable
land would thus be gained and at
tlie usual corn average, this would
;c< an four million dollars' worth of
COl n.
It takes a successful man to think
ui a thing like that. To most farm
ers, the ten feet on eachside of a
country road would never suggest it
self as a place to raise corn. They
would look at the weeds and th.e ruts,
and never dream of anything so dif
ferent. The state of mind that
makes a man amount to anything is
just, this seeing of possibilities along
the road. The tiling that can be
changed, and changed for the better
—to see that, and keep working for
it, is the secret of a valuable life,
no matter where it is lived, in Iowa
or out.
Most of the roadways of life need
improvement and cultivation. To lev
el the ruts, to clear the weeds, to
sow corn instead, is what many of
us need to do along our daily ways,
if we would add value to our lives. I
requires no extra opportunities,
either; we can do it just where we
are so why not begin.—Forward.
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GOOD ROADS.
The wise farmer will welcome tlie
advent of the automobile whether he
is able to own one or not. As an
agitator for better highways the auto
mobile lias no equal. Owners of
machines are enthusiastic advocates
of "good roads." There are no ex
ceptions. And what is still more to
tin* point, they are all willing to con
tribute their share towards road im
provement.
A road that is good for an auto is
no less good for a carriage or a load.
The farmer who domurres on the
ground that lie lias no machine is
foolish in the extreme. If everyone
will catch up with the spirit of road
building and help tin' good work
along it will not require many years
to construct n network of compara
lively good roads over Richardson
county.
What remarkable results are pos
sible along tills line may be learned
by examining a section of road now
being looked after with more or less
cure. Especially a section that is
kept well graded and that gets an
application of King’s drag whenever
necessary. We have a few such
roads. And they- are a standing tes
timony to the judgment and good
sense of the farmers who have been
caring for them. Let. us have more.
HOBLE FOR THE PRESS.
It is announced from Washington
that It is the purpose of Postmaster
General Hitchcock and the President
to recommend to congress an in
crease in the postage rate on ‘•mag
azines and other periodicals,” the
higher rate to apply to advertise
ments only, the reading matter to re
main at the present rate. Mr. Hitch
cock believes that such increase will
eliminate future postal deficits, and
the reforms will enable eongreess to
estimate one cent letter postage.
We will briefly consider this re
markable proposal.
In 1 !>(>!> the total weight of paid
second class matter was 72:1.000,000
pounds, the forthcoming annual re
port will show that for 1010 the total
will be about 77>0,000,000 pounds.
Since from official figures, we learn
that magazines constitute 20 per
cent of this, there would be 150,000
000 pounds affected by the proposed
change of rate. But this new rate
would only apply directly to the adv
u-Uaing pages, say 40 per cent of
the whole, or a total of 60,000,000 lbs.
Moreover, this is probably too large
an allowance for the present time,
because since 1909 many magazine
publishers have withdrawn part of
their editions from the mails sad
are using the express service instead,
this being cheaper on short hauls.
It is fair then to conclude that the
new' rate would apply to only about,
40,000,000 pounds of second-class mat
ter, if only magazines are meant.
Now suppose tlie new rate were
fixed at five cents per pouted—four
tints more than at present—the in
crease of revenue therefrom would
be in round figures $1,600,000.
The deficit for 1010 is stated to
be $6,100,000, so tin1 proposed reform
would not by any means solve the
problem of getting rid of the deficit.
This is a better showing titan is
likely to be got out of the proposi
tion, for rather than pay the higher
rate, publishers would send still
more of their magazines by express,
it is doubtful if the entire annual
profits of so-called "popular maga
zines" combined would be, tinder
the proposed increased rate, as much
as $1,600,000.
But why charge advertising pages a
higher rate than reading matter?
They do not weigh any more, page
for page, and it costs no more for
their distribution thru the mails. Be
sides, the advertisements are produc
ers of profitable letter mail, to a
much larger extent than literary mat
ter; no one doubts this; it is obvious
therefore, that it would be more reas
onable to increase the rate on the
reading matter, rather than on the
advertising pages.
But what about other publications;
what is meant by the term “other
periodicals"? Is it intended to in
clude every description of public
prints except the daily press? And
what about the magazines published
by the daily press, of which there are
many whose number and weight con
stantly increase?
And is it intended to apply to all
''magazines and other periodicals” no
matter what the advertising rate is?
There are some periodicals which
charge $5.00 an agate line; then there
are some that charge 50 cents; are
! all to pay the same postal rate per
1 pound for those parts of their public
' lions consisting f advertisements?
One would suppose the square deal
would require that publishers getting
$5,00 a line should be taxed a rate
just ten times greater than one re
i eeiving only 50 cents a line.
If the proposed law is intended to
apply strictly to what is classed its
( magazines, the increased revenue a
bove the inert used cost of clerk hire
at Washington would be but trifling;
if to apply to all publications except
daily papers there would be such an
inequality of tax, the injustice would
I be so manifest, that the scheme could
have no standing in the minds of fair
, minded then.
I The President and Postmaster-Gen
j oral are shown to execute the laws,
Therefore let them put in force sec
tion lsi of the new Penal Code en
acted by 1 lie* present Congress as fol
lows :
I
"Whoever shall establish any pri
I vate express for the conveyance of
letters or packets, or in any manner
{cause or provide for the same hv reg*
| ular trips or at stated periods over
| any post route which is or may be es
tftblishcd by law, or from any city,
town or place to any other city town
or place, between which the mail is
|
regularly carried, or whoever shall
■ aid or assist therein shall be fined
' not more than five hundred dollars,
or imprisonment not more than six
1 months, or both.
Were this law enforced as it should
In-, there would be no postal deficit
whatever; and it is to be greatly re
gretted that it seems easier and mofe
agreeable for the Postoffice Depart
' ment to harass publishers with such
| propositions as the one wo are con
’ sidering, than to enforce the law a
I gainst the express companies.
! The rural delivery system cost s$I15,
!
1000,000 a year; rural carrier’s daily
load is absurdly small—a pitiful 25
poutu',_; it. could be increased to 500
pounds without adding materially to
the cost of the service.
What is there about express com
• nds, that renders them immune from
obedience to the law?
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A SHOW OF THE WEST.
The spectacle of the business men
of Nebraska projecting and promot
ing an agricultural exposition for the
benefit of the. states of the West
may be an odd one to the initiate,
especially when il is fair to suppose
that a large number of successful
fanners may he drawn from the fertil
fields of states east of the Missouri
Valley to the more fertile fields west
of it.
But back of it there is a gnat and
underlying prineiplee, the operation
of which constitutes the best of all
reasons.
No city can become a great city
except, by the development of the
surrounding territoy. Minneapolis
and St. Paul were towns for years
before they became cities, and it was
not until the state of Minnesota be
gun to come into the limelight as a
wheat and agricultural section that
the famous Twin Cities began to grow
Other examples of the same tiling are
plentiful, and it is the operation of
the same principle which has led to
the efforts of Nebraska to help de
velop the great West to the end that
Nebraska may reap the benefit.
Nebraska people take a very matter
of fact view of the situation. While
Nebraska is today a thickly populated
state as the middle western states go,
the people want an opportunity for a
still greater edvelopemcnt thru the
development of those states lying far
I
tlier west, the products of which will
pass thru Nebraska and the people of
which will buy what Nebraska has to
sell in the way of manufactured pro
ducts at least.
It is a broad and liberal and fair
minded view and carries with it the
direct evidence that Nebraska is mad
uit of a class of citizenship which the
people of the western states would
do well to emulate. Idaho, of course,
wins with Nebraska, and the least
that can be done in the way of re
turning the compliment would be for
the residents of Boise and Idaho gen
erally to get together as strong an ex
hibit as possible and send it to the
Western Land Products Exhibit in
Omaha, January 18-28.
Sunday School Week
A CHANCE TO HELP YOUR SUNDAY
SCHOOL NEXT WEEK.
Next week will be “Sunday School
Week” at the Morsman Pharmacy
and you can get first choice from
the holiday goods on display and
help your favorite Sunday School
one tenth of what your purchase is.
This is the way it works. Cards
like the copy below will be given to
anyone who wishes them. You select
the goods you want and pay for them
*
as usual. Then fill out the card and
at the end of the week ten per cent
of your cash purchase AND THE
CARD will be sent to the Sunday
School you name on the card.
i
Moismart Drug i 'o.
Please pay to.
Supt. of.Sunday
School ten percent of my purchase
of Holiday floods during Sunday
School Week, as per your adver
tisement.
Amount of Sale.
Ten Per Cent..
We do this to encourage early buy
ing. Early buying is advantageous to
you also because you get the best se
lection. Prices are the same. Would
n't it be well for ycJp to buy during
Sunday School week and know that a
part of the money you paid out went
to the Sunday School you selected.
Our stock is varied, well selected,
and you will find our prices right.
Try it and see if it doesn't work
well.
Remember—next week, from Dec
:mber 5th to December 10th inclusive
Morsman Drug Co.:
Morsman Drug
Co.
Pivlls City - ^hr&skft.