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Columbus, Nebraska.
Admitted at the Postofflce at Columbus. Nebraska, as second-class matter.
ALBERT J. MASON. Editor.
MILLARD S. EINNET, Business Manager.
CHESTER J. MASON, Circulation Manager.
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ON THE THRESHOLD.
The boys and girls of tlio class of 1911 stand today on the
threshold of a new life. Behind them are the long years of
preparation for the hattle of life, the mingled joys and sorrows
of childhood, often quickly thrust upon them and as quickly
forgotten, the delving into the intricacies of the sciences and
the stubbornness of mathematics, mingled with the hours of
mental repose when the attention was turned to the play
ground, there to cultivate the pleasant acquaintances of class
mates and school friends.
Through twelve long years has this work of preparation
been going on, and now tiiey stand looking out over a vast,
promising future. During this period these young men and
women have worked, hoped and planned for the great day
when tliev should emerge from their school duties, happy and
radiant, thoughtful of the past, hopeful of the future, ready to
put the knowledge they have gained into practical lies.
Of course they do not dream of such a thing as failure
that is a word that has no place in the vocabulary of young
people who withstand successfully the labors incident to their
position. TJope is a human attribute yes, one of the three
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it beats high in the graduate. And, indeed, why should it not?
They have seen their friends, their neighbors, oiten possessed
of much less ability than themselves, attain heights of success
in their respective" vocations. They know they are going to
succeed; that there is no possible way for them to fail. The
world lias been waiting for them to enter and take their places
on the stage of life. And now, they are here, ready for what the
world has to offer, ready to enter into the stern realities of the
battle for which they have spent the springtime of life in prep
aration. Welcome, Class of 1011! Wherever it may be you cast
your lot, may you ever be permitted to realize the highest
hopes of your ambitious. You are now past the stage of child
hood, entering a new era. Your parents have done well by
you. Your teachers have climbed with you to the summit of
i he hill and pointed to you the way to go. Yon are now on
your own resources, vour own responsibilities. Make the most
of vour opportunities, that at each annual reunion of your
beloved alumni, you may report a substantial progress as the
years pass over your heads.
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BANK GUARANTEES.
n another column we reproduce an article from the
Omaha lee discussing the bank guaranty laws of Oklahoma,
Nebraska and other states.
It seems to be developing that the bank guaranty is not
the panacea for financial troubles that it was hoped that it
would be. Oklahoma has had the law in operation for three
years, and during that time a great many of the state banks
have surrendered their charters and taken out National bank
charters. Not only are the bankers themselves dissatisfied
with the arrangement, but the depositors also, are showing that
they have more confidence in the bonds of the National banks
than they have in the state guaranty by the state banks.
That is the experience of Oklahoma, as revealed by the
bank figures.
Here in Nebraska, wejiave not had the new law in force
long enough to see what it will do. Here at home our state
baiilcs are built on a sofid foundation that requires no guaranty
by the state.
H eomiis lilro mi iiiiDositioii that old and substantial insti
tutions should be compelled to pay an insurance premium for
the benefit of promoters of temporary and wild-cat banking
schemes.
A "aim we refer our readers to the article, which is printed
on this page.
Public sentiment endorses the law prohibiting base ball
and other sports on Memorial Hay and it is enforced. Public
sentiment does not endorse the Sunday laws in some places, and
little attention is paid to them.
TAFT, MORSE AND WALSH..
President Taft last week did one thing that should earn
for him the everlasting gratitude of all true Americans, in re
fusing to grant a pardon to Bankers Walsh and Morse, who
are serving penitentiary sentences for crooked banking. These
men have served bnt a very short time in prison, compara
tively, and there is no reason why the president should issue
the pardon. In his letter refusing to grant clemency the presi
dent says that there has been too much of a tendency to allow
the big criminals to go with a punishment that is not at all
commensurate with their crimes, while the poor man who goes
astray is often made to pay a much more severe jienalty for a
small crime. Mr. Taft goes further and says that the crime of
a rich man is really worse than that of a poor man, because
there is often less reason or excuse for it; that while the poor
man may steal in order to live, there is no such extenuating
circumstance ,in the case of the rich man. As far as President
Taft is concerned, these two old men who have grown rich on
the labor of others will have to spend their old age in misery,
pondering over the misery they have brought to others.
The Fremont Tribune pays the wheat fields of Platte
county a compliment by remarking that the circus elephant
which recently got loose near this city and romped through
the many fields in this community did not cause much excite
ment among the farmers as it looked more like a blue squirrel
than an elephant "in those tall, billowy wheat fields" of Platte
county. Of course they may think in Fremont to mention
tall wheat fields at this time of the year is a joke, but it would
be the easiest thing in the world to give them a real surprise in
regard to the matter if we could take them out over Platte
county on a tour of inspection.
There is no doubt that many of the methods used by the
great corporations are wrong and should not be allowed in a
land which boasts of being the home of the free, never-the-less
men with the ability and energy to build up such organizations
as are generally the most abused, are deserving of more than
a passing reward. Unman life is a conspicuous example of the
survival of the fittest and the strongest are worthy of a greater
compensation than the weaker ones who fall by the way. Now
listen someone will soon have something to say about corpora
tion hirelings.
Elbert Humbert, the Sage of East Aurora, is antagonistic
enough toward modern civilization to say that the world would
be better off without doctors, lawyers and preachers, lie as
serts that there is too much advice and medicine in tlie worm
for anyone to be really healthy. Fra Elbertus evidently forgot
that he earns three square meals each day by the same methods,
giving advice from the lecture platform, vaudeville stage and
editorial sanctum. "
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It might be well for the graduates to remember that the
men who are at the top today did not get to the coveted posi
tion because they had a high school diploma, valuable as such
an acquisition may be. The fellow who hangs on like grim
death is the one who will get there every time.
The Crete Democrat reports that a banker, a preacher, a
councilman, a member of the school board and a real estate
man from that town are figuring on moving to Columbus so as
to get in to a live town. Come on, folks, there's room here for
all of vou and the more the merrier.
Some people have spent their whole life puttering with one
thing, and yet their experience hardly justifies them in giving
advice to others in the same line.
'One way to stop a leak: To hold your job, hold your tongue.
IN TIMES GONE BY
Interesting Happenings of Many
Years Ago, Taken From the
Files of This Paper.
Forty Years Ago This Week.
A procession of emigrants passed
through the city in wagons, with the
sides decorated with the sign, "Mon
tana or Bust." The Journal was re
minded of a few years previous, when
similar processions were headed west
ward with the slogan "Pike's Peak or
Bust", and many of the people re
turned a short time afterward with
the inscription "Busted, By Thunder."
Thirty Years Ago.
Platte county voted bonds to offer
as a bonus to the A. & N. railway to
buUd its line to Columbus.
The first trains on the branch
roads between Columbus and Norfolk
and Columbus and Albion were run.
Twenty Years Ago.
John Curry and Miss Nellie Flem
ing were married at St. Bonaventure's
church.
John Beckwith committed suicide
by hanging, at the farm home of Aug
ust Wahl, near Neboville.
The new populist party was arrang
ing its slate for the county offices for
the fall campaign.
Ten Years Ago.
President and Mrs. jMcKinley
passed through Columbus on their
way east from California. The tour
had been interrupted by the serious
illness of Mrs. McKinley.
W. E. Wells and Miss Verna M. See
ley were married 'at Madison. Mr.
Wells was foreman in the Argus of
fice, and his bride was the daughter of
the editor of the Madison Chronicle.
W. M. Kern accepted the position of
superintendent of the Colaabm city
Heart to Heart
Talks.
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TO AMOTUIL
Dear Madam:
I am a "mere man" and Incapable
of some things advisory, but I wonder
If you realize how grave a mistake it
may be to overindulge your daughter.
Naturally you try to shield your
child, to save her from hardships; you
efface yourself and sacri:ice yourself
for her.
For that are you a mother.
Nevertheless your self Inflicted mar
tyrdom may work a serious harm to
your daughter.
For Instance:
I have in mind a good mother who
slaved and pinched, hardened her
hands and bowed her back shortened
her life, in fact that her daughter
might attend a fashionable "finishing
school."
The daughter graduated and
Returning home discovered that she
was out of touch with the old farm
ways. Her education should have
broadened and sweetened the child,
but it did not It simply unfitted her.
The sequel?
In sheer desperation the fretting, dis
contented girl ran away with a smooth
adventurer and was finally ruined.
An extreme case? Maybe.
But the girl's undoing was the out
come of a wrong maternal policy that
taught the child she ought to have
what she wanted and that all things
must be sacrificed to her "career."
She is a rare child who may be thus
petted and without harm.
The tender solicitude of the doting
mother is noble in its self abnegation,
but it is likely to be carried to the ex
treme of danger to the child.
Let the girl face the realities.
It is not harsh to put burdens upon
her. She must get a sane view of
life by meeting hardships, conquering
difficulties, bearing burdens, facing re
sponsibilities. Else you deceive your
child; else your sacrifices will make
her selfish, ungrateful and miserable.
There is but one way to make char
acter. Ease and luxury will not do it
The fiber of womanliness is developed
only by bearing burdens, meeting
cares, overcoming obstacles.
Do you want your daughter to be
come a strong and noble woman?
Of course you do.
Then put the full share of life's load
on her young shoulders and teach her
to carry that load cheerfullyand gracefully.
schools.
Five Years Ago. -
A committee of nine was appointed
to get in touch with the state officers
of the Y. M. C. A. for the purpose of
arranging for organizing an associa
tion and erecting a building in Colum
bus. Mrs. Anna Blessen recovered dam
ages in the sum of $2,900 for Hansen
& Stone and Albert Mix, Platte Cen
ter saloon keepers, and their bonds
men, for selling liquor to her husband,
who was killed while intoxicated. The
case against Joesph Frevert, another
liquor dealer, was dismissed.
Charlie Baker, a ten year old son of
Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Baker, died as a
result of eating green gooseberries.
Oklahoma Bank Law Fails
After three years of experience with
a compulsory bank guaranty deposit
law, Oklahoma finds itself much con
cerned with its operation. A few
weeks ago the United States supreme
court decided that the state had the
right to adopt such a statute, and, in
effect, authorized the commonwealth
if it saw fit, to force state banks to pay
assessments to make good the losses
in failed institutions. This Oklahoma
has been doing. An investigation by
the State Bankers' association Is re
ported to show that $878,352 has been
needed in the three years for use in
the guaranty fund, and that now, with
another large bank in the receiver's
hands, there must be further assess
ment to supply the need of an empty
treasarjr. So streanOosly do the bank
HN important condition in the industrial development of this
country is the fact that the right of the pecple to FAIR
AND HONEST TREATMENT by the big business in
terests is daily becoming more widely recognized by broad
minded and progressive men.
laws are being passed and enforced for the proper regulation
and control of great corporations, particularly public service com
panies, and the rights of the people are each year being better
guarded and protected.
The public has a right to EXERCISE intelligent control over
corporations which serve it with necessities. No friend of his race
can contemplate without painful emotions HEARTLESS monopo
lists exhibiting a grasping avarice which has dried up every senti
ment of sympathy in the public and created a sordid selfishness
which is deaf to cries of JUSTICE AND FAIR TREATMENT.
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PUBLIC. CONTROL AND REGULATION WILL PREVENT SUCH
CONDITIONS. THE HEALTHY COMBINATION OF HUMAN FORCEB
IN THE ECONOMIC WORLD CAN ACCOMPLISH RESULTS WHICH
COULD NOT BE-EFFECTED BY ANY INDIVIDUAL EFFORTS.
Show Women Crimi
nals No Mercy;
They're as Bad as Men
By Judge NORMAN S. DIKE of Brooklyn.
CHERE is no sex in crime. 4 woman who commits, a felony
should receive no leniency merely because she is a woman.
If women desire EQUAL RIGHTS they must be pre
pared to meet EQUAL OBLIGATIONS.
I am quite willing to believe in fact, I am very well convinced
there should be no sex in POLITICS. But I must say, as a judge,
I am entirely convinced there should be no sex in CRIME.
st it
A CRIME IS A CRIME. A MAN AND A WOMAN COMMITTING
THE SAME FELONY MUST SUFFER EQUAL PUNISHMENT. FROM
THE JUDGE'S POINT OF VIEW THAT IS QUITE CLEAR.
It is ridiculous to plead for a lighter sentence because the crimi
nal involved happens to be a woman. In some cases that very fact
makes the wrong more difficult to understand.
Our Jsil System Is Bad
By Sir EVELYN JOHN RUGGLES-BRISE, Chairman of the
English Prison Commission
as
CHE city and county jails of the United States are so bad that
it is one large drawback upon the progress of such a great
nation.
PROMISCUITY, INSANITARY CONDITIONS, THE AB
SENCE OF SUPERVISION, IDLENESS AND CORRUPTION THESE RE
MAIN FEATURES OF MANY PLACES.
Until the ABUSES of the jail system are REMOVED it is im
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i: A Recipe For Long Life
o By C W. ELIOT. President Emeritus of Harvard University
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Tk T.TY health and capacity for work at seventy-seven years of
ly I age are unusually good. I attribute this result to a good
I i CONSTITUTION, MODERATION in eating and drink-
ing, a habit of taking some EXERCISE and some
FRESH AIR every day and of avoiding all sorts of luxury and ths
constant use of any DRUG, such as alcohol, coffee, tea and tobacco.
WHEN I AM ASKED ABOUT THE HABITS WHICH ARE MOST?
CONDUCIVE TO A LONG, ACTIVE LIFE I GENERALLY ANSWER
-MODERATION IN EATING, A FULL ALLOWANCE OF SLEEP AND!
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era object to this that, though at the
beginning seventy national banks took
state charters, now fifty have applica
tions pending for new charters as na
tional banks. They declare that, ex
cept in sporadic instances, the opera
tion of the new law has not affected
the deposits of the nationals. Indeed
at the latest statement they showed
larger gains than did the state banks.
They point out that with an assess
ment of 1 per cent on the deposits, as
is now proposed, a bank with S10.000
capital and 1100,000 deposits would
pay 10 per cent of its entire invest
ment, wiping out a year's earnings.
The claim that the law has encour
aged reckless banking seems to be
justified in some instances. One fail
ure of 1600,000 revealed bad manage
ment and the manipulation of the
guaranty fund in a way that endan
gered the entire surplus. Other fail
uers have been of banksra which part
of the fund was Invested, thus throw
ing a double burden upon the sound
banks. Ten banks have been reci
pients of the fund, which now has a
balance of 136,292.
Altogether the Oklahoma law ap
pears to have many weaknesses and is
receiving severe criticisms at the
hands of those most interested In it.
In the legislatures of several states
of the northwest and" middlewest the
past winter there have .been proposed
deposit guaranty laws, but none has
been enacted into statute. Nebraska,
Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma are
alone in trying the experiment. Kan
sas's law Is voluntary, and less than
half the state banks have assumed Its
provisions. Texas has two optional
fonts, am their opinions of its work
ing. Nebraska's law was not put in
operation until after the recent su
preme court decision, so that it Is too
early to see its effect in that common
wealth. The principle of the bank guaranty
has never appealed to the financial
judgment of those who believe in in
dividuality in business affairs. With
the human factor' eager to take ad
vantage of opportunity, efforts to trade
upon 'its provisions are inevitable.
This has in more than one instance al
ready meen manifest. Only com
bined with such stringent examina
tions as would make rascality practic
ally unknown, and with powers to as
sist the weak bank when circum
stances justify, could it hope to main
tain permanency. Neither of these
conditions has yet been attained fully
by states that have adopted the plan.
Oklahoma seems to be least success
ful in establishing confidence. Omaha
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