The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-03-20
" MAKING GOOD. "


There are some recent phrases and
expressions which have really added
to the tone and quality of the English
language. First used as a slang term
to make good" has become a most
significant phrase and will undoubt-
edly endure because it has a potent.
iality seldom found within the limits
of so brief combination.
There never was a time when the
world was so thoroughly testing men
and communities, as it is today, and
1t is doing this we find the answer
to this simple inquiry, Can they make
good?" 1t is true that there is a
need and a growing demand for
larger and more genuine democracy
of opportunity. 1t is not yet a fact
that every child within the limits OF
this republic has the environment to
which a future American citizen is
entitled. There is much to be done
and many problems to be settled be-
fore this larger and truer democracy
of which men are just beginning to
catch a glimpse can be realized.
1t is a glorious thing to think that
this generation, in its more benevo-
lent attitude, in its saner humanitar-
ianism, is awakening to the problems
of social life which result, as sure as
the rising and the setting of the sun,
in some day giving to posterity the
greater and more valued kind of life.
Ultimate America means far more to
the hopes and the struggles submerged
in this country and in the world at
large than it ever did before. Grant
ing that there are limitations in this
age of ours which it will take time
and energy to remove, nevertheless
there is for the young man in spite
of all that is said to the contrary,
marvellous opportunities for advance
ment and success along any one Of
many different avenues of legitimate
industry.
The real question is Can the young
man deliver the goods?" Can he by
his honesty, his aptitude, his tact, his
industry, his endurance, fill the bill?
1t is well known fact that the larger
positions of life are very difficult to
fill Notwithstanding the fact that
there are comparatively few five
thousand dollar jobs, men who have
had experience in seeking men to MI
, them contend that there are still fewer
five thousand dollar men.
1t is not only true in regard to in
dividuals but it is true of communities
1t is much truer than we think. One
of the Twin Cities of Minnesota hal
adopted the slogan Minneapolis
Makes Good" 1t is a great watci
, word but it ought not to be allowed
to be monopolized by any city. i
; ought to be used by every energetic
q town desiring progress and prosperity
6 Every citizen in Norfolk ought t.
, awake to the possibilities of the i'm
-, mediate future and resolve that h
will help by work and deed in seein,
v that Norfolk makes good. Let 1t b.
I known far and wide that the citizen
s OF Norfolk are not spending their tim
a in idle dreaming but are planning
n definitely for larger civic life.
8 Norfolk makes good in her bushes
4 life. She invites men Of enterpris
? and energy who desire to make goo
h to locate their factories, their bushes
e houses, their professional ability Will
IS in her limits and cooperate with tn
0. people already here in building u
and developing the largest and bes
" town in northeastern Nebraska.
is Norfolk makes good in its educi
,f' tional facilities and atmosphere, II
n schools and its churches should col
Ie tinue 70 be as they have been In IN