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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-04-17

boys. Almost without exception, the
men who are at the head Of these
great departments commanding
princely salaries have known what II
Is to be poor in the genuine exper.
is to be poor in the genuine experience
of the boy who struggles without
pull and without any special favor.
They enter the departments with an
eye to business, with a willingness
to work, with a patient persistence,
and under the direction of able, alert,
come the masters of the situation. And
yet these men are so few In numbers
compared to the real needs for the
carrying on Of this business and 9TH
ers similar to it, that Andrew Car
negie has established in Pittsburg the
largest technical institute in the world
with the soul aim of supplying train
ed men for these different positions.
In this institute the poor boy has all
the chances of the son of the wealth
lest man in the country. Similar in
situations are springing up all over
the land and there is going out an
urgent demand that young men train
their hands, their eyes and their
brains in such a manner as to deal
with the practical affairs of CONNER.
cial and industrial life. The Steel
company is not alone. Regardless of
the fact that public criticism has ex.
hausted itself on much that the Stand.
ard Oil company has done, here is
another great corporation, whatever
it's other sins may be, that has been
CONSPICUOUS in giving splendid re-
wards TO the young men who bdve
done their work we'll. Perhaps nc
other corporation in the country values
| its salaried men more highly and
gives them more substantial recogni
| ton than Mr.. Rockefeller's company
1t is in the larger corporations where
favoritism counts for less than ii
| does anywhere else. 1t is here that
the strictest business principles pre-
vail. Men are not hired by these
great business institutions because
they belong to the family
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-04-17

full would have exceeded In disaster
the haymarket square tragedy In
Chicago years ago, further intensifies
the apprehension Of the people and
calls attention to the awful POSSIBLE.
tiles of an anarchistic crusade.
While there is little to be gained in
the contemplation of its terrors, there
is strenuous demand that the Amer.
lean people look this question square
In the face and meet 1t in the best
possible practical way. And that way
is very clear one. The thrower
must be dealt with. How? Along
two distinct and widely divergent
lines, both of which have in view only
the good of society and the welfare
of government itself
There are two lines to be followed
because there are two classes of dis
turbers to be reached. The first ele-
ment is made up of those who are
too stupid, brutal or vicious to be
within the pale of reason. They must
be dealt with as any other maniacs
and the laws against crime, conspir.
acy and abuse of free speech must be
strictly enforced.
There is as well even among people
who hold these strangely untenable
and undemocratic ideas, those who
are not bad at heart. They have
come from countries where they have
known nothing but the darkness OF
despotism and bondage and the very
thoughts Of freedom-its light and its
privileges-is too strong for them to
use rightly. These people are teach
able and they need the strongest
sanest and best agencies set afoot tc
guide and help them. In the big
cities, the kindly social settlements
the many philanthropic agencies, the
newspapers printed in foreign lang
uages-these and multifarous organ
izations, churches, lodges and unions
can here find a mighty work. Some
must be punished The many must
be redeemed. 1t Is a vast problem
needing great people with noblest
impulses and a willingness to serve
to solve 1t.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-04-17
ONE THING OR TWENTY.

There are a great many factors
which enter into the problem Of sue
cess, and men are constantly trying to
find them all so that they may reach
the Eldorado of their hopes. But in
this, as in so many other things, we
become confused and so make life I'M
necessarily complicated and miss the
goal of our dream because we fail
to see that the road to it is very
simple and direct one.
Our civilization is so full of varied
ergies in so many directions that
there is need of a great deal more
purpose and directness of life than
there has ever been before. 1t is a
question of doing one thing or twenty
and the most of us really have the
idea that in doing the twenty we are
achieving the most. There never was
time when there was such a multi
tude of organizations for the further
ing of so many schemes, each of them
good in themselves, as there is now.
The fact of it is we are organized to
death. 1t is as true now, if success
is TO be attained, as it was in the
| days of the great apostle, that there
must be a singleness of aim. This
one thing | do" said Paul. That one
thing was to preach the gospel and
| he was so absorbed and possessed by
his mission that he made one of the
greatest successes of any man who
ever lived. There are a good many
good things in the world, but it is
given to most men to know only q
few, and there must be choice OF
paths. 1t is nice thing to know q
great deal about the world, but this
should be incidental to the pursuit Of
some one vocation which should be
assiduously cultivated. In the many
attractions of the hour, in the things
and ideas which fascinate in so many
directions, if success is to be attain
ed, the great secret is to learn how
to turn a deaf ear to the most of then
and pay our attention only to a few
The man who succeeds must be the
man who not only believes in himself
but is fascinated by some one line o.
activity and is willing to be wooed ant
won by it.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-04-17

j. d. Sturgeon, mayor-elect of Nor
folk, will on the seventh of next Aug
ust have been a resident of this city
for twenty years. As the new mayor
is fifty-four years old the most active
part of his life has been spent in Nor
folk.
This year Mr.. Sturgeon was elected
mayor by the largest majority ever
given a candidate for that Office in
Norfolk. A year ago he ran for the
same Office against the same man and
was defeated in every ward in town.
Surgeons life has been marked by
many of these ups and downs but up
or down it can be said for him that he
has always had smile and a boost.
The way he accepted defeat last year
and then took off his coat and worked
the harder in the public movements in
which he was interested explains not
only the mans character and disposi-
ton but also what success he may
have achieved at any time.
Mr.. Sturgeon started in life with
no capital but his energy Norfolk
has before this found opportunities to
utilize that energy. Sturgeon is a
hard worker. When he has met re-
NrS,. hA IpE 1a1
on working.
The mayor-elect is a hoosier. He
was born on December 81, 1858, on a
farm four miles from Logansport, Ind.
When he was four years old his pa
rents moved by wagon to Polk county,
Iowa.
He never had a look-in for college
education. He went to a country
school when a boy and he went bare
footed to school most of the time. SO
did the other kids over in Polk county.
In this fashion he got a common coun-
try school education.
Sturgeon has virtually supported
himself since he was eleven years old.
His first work was of course on his
fathers farm. The first money he
ever earned came when he was eleven
years old. He herded cattle for a
farmer for forty cents day. Later
he worked out on farm for $13 a
month.
Sturgeon grew to manhood in Polk
county near Vandalia not far from
Des Moines. He married when he was
twenty-one and stuck to farming until
he was Twenty-Five years old.
BY an accident he was thrown in
company with a man selling sewing
machines about this time. AS re
suit in 1882 he went to Grinnell Iowa
and arranged to work by the month
for J. W. Hulzinger. For three and
half years he worked out of Monte
yuma selling sewing machines and
organs.
Mr.. Hulzinger is a frequent visitor
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-04-17

The Philadelphia city council auth
orizes the floating of $4,000, 900
loan and Mayor Rayburn has adver-
tised for bids. This will give funds
to carry on improvements which will
furnish employment to several thous-
and unemployed men in the city OF
Brotherly Love-" No wiser thing can
be done by any municipality than to
furnish work on public improvements
in times when laborers are compelled
to lie idle.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-04-17
REMEDIES FOR VIOLENCE.

The last sixty days have witnessed
a sudden and notable flaming up of
that spirit of anarchism in this coun-
try which threatens not only indiv-
idual lives but if allowed to gather
Roadway might defy the very power
of the government itself.
The killing of the innocent priest
at Denver was an atrocity that amaz-
ed and Mortified the whole nation; the
attack on Chief Shippey at Chicago
was even more startling and now the
still more recent bomb outrage In
New York, which had 1t been success
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-04-17

1t Is becoming more and more APP
parent that no scheme of general edu-
cation will develop individual students
according to the special talents or
gifts they may possess. After the
foundation of their education has
been gained in the grades there should
be such course Of study adopted as
will best fit the pupil for the vocation
in life which he or she has most apti
tude for.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-04-17

1t has been suggested that The
News is more strongly in favor of
paving than it would be If it owned
real estate on Norfolk avenue within
the proposed paving district. The
News never intends to urge upon some
one else anything that it will not do
itself, and if the city will make its
paving district to extend from the
river to Seventh street on Norfolk
avenue including North Fourth street
from Norfolk avenue to Braasch av-
euue, The News will voluntarily
stand an assessment of just double
the cost of paving in front of The
News building and the Auditorium, a
street frontage of eighty-two feet, and
will consider it a privilege to be al
lowed to do this. We are satisfied
that besides benefiting the town as
a whole, the investment in paving will
more than add its cost to the value of
the property. The city may take the
additional money and put it into paw
ing intersections or do what it pleases
with it. We are sincere in believing
that paving is the most important
measure before the people of Norfolk
at this time and we in no wise desire
to shirk any of the responsibility or
taxes incident to promoting the best
interests of the town.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-04-17

The thief who recently stole one
fourth of a grain of radium from a
Glasgow laboratory is worse off than
before. He cannot sell it because any
one who knew the value of it would
at once suspect his right TO its pos.
session since the whereabouts of the
worlds infinitesimal amount of radium
is we'll known. He can not put the bit
of metal in his pocket as it would
promptly burn through clothing and
flesh. He cannot gaze upon the speck
unless elaborate precautions are taken
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-04-17
is OPPORTUNITY WANTING?

One of the stock arguments which
Mr.. Bryan includes in almost every
speech he makes is that young men
have no longer any opportunity to
succeed in life because the present
conditions of our industrial and social
system prohibit it. To use phrase
of his, monopoly is closing the door
of opportunity to your boy and my
boy"
Plausible as this may seem, the facts
do not sustain Mr.. Bryan's condition.
In this matter, as in many others, Mr..
Bryan has a wonderful capacity for
making assertions. He is as long on
theories and fancies as he is short
on facts. Notwithstanding the chang
ed conditions which every one must
recognize do prevail today in the
business world, there never was a
time in the history of the nation with
such great opportunities for men with
brains to succeed as there is at the
tunity which existed a generation ago
for every man to go into business for
himself on a small capital and to plod
| in a small way, has passed. But
strongly as those days appeal to our
imagination, in reality did the great
majority of men make any large sue
cess under that system of doing bus
mess? The capital of the country has
admittedly found it's way into great
channels of industry and everything
is now done, if it is to be made a
success, in great way. But while
it is easy to rail at corporations and
combinations they offer to hundreds
of men most magnificent opportunities
in business directions which the world
affords.
1t is true that there are thousands
of unemployed men, but it is because
they are either unskilled or shiftless
1t is true that the high places are not
to be permanently filled by men OF
ordinary attachments. This the young
man should understand, but he should
also understand that the world is
waiting as never before for men Of
great ability to do things in thous
and different lines and along many
avenues of life there is an increasing
demand for men Of capacity. More
over, this is the era of young men
Never before was the young man sc
eagerly sought and was such prem
ium put upon his services. Neither Is
he sought because of his wealth Of
social position. This cuts no ice
whatever What the great business
interests of the country want are re
suits and the one question they ash
of any man who offers his services il
Can he deliver the goods?" The
great positions are open to the poo
boys of the country and they are b!
the thousands making good, but the
supply is no where near equal to the
demand. The great agencies like
Hapgood's which make business o
employing men for others, will tel
you that they have numerous 5000
jobs. The great problem is to ge
$1,000 men to fill them.
Much as we may deplore corporation
in some aspects, it must be admitted
: by every candid observer that the!
: have given as a result Of their gigan
tic and tremendous output of business
t employment TO hundreds of skillet
laborers at salaries that would no
! to investigate the problem more def
, initely. Take the United States Stee
: Corporation for example. 1t is a vel
!, known fact that its executive fore
; is almost exclusively made UP OF poo
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-04-17

weeks at time. II they had any
potato they thought themselves lucky
We do not pity these pioneers OF the
plains, we admire them. In spite of
their privations, they lived healthy
and happy lives and founded churches,
schools and colleges"
Nebraska offers today just as great
opportunities for other thousands OF
families as 1t has in the past. Farm
ing has become, not the dreary exist
ence of former days, but in its stead
one of the most attractive occupa.
lions on the face OF the earth. In this
splendid Elkhorn valley, in which Nor.
folk is situated, and the lands stretch.
ing far to the westward, Is an area
fertile and full of possibilities in
which there are thousands of acres
still waiting for the husbandman' S
care. The men who occupying the
ilourishing farms in this region are
no longer shut off from their neigh.
bors. Better roads good railroad com
munication, telephones, rural free de.
livery, the daily newspaper-all these
bring the farmer in close contact with
the world every hour of the day. He
is the real king of -..>erica. His
number should be multiplied many
20,
eagerly sought for at high prices as
they are at the present time. II is a
mistake and a most serious one for
thousands of people to cling to city
life withall its privations when there
are such possibilities for health and
comfort and independence on the farm
The people not only in the slum dis
tricts, but thousands of them who are
struggling for mere existence under
the shadow of the great sky scrapers
of some metropolis, need something
of the initiative and energy possessed
by the men who have made these
great western states bud and blossom
as the rose by their earnest endeavors
and by their willingness to suffer some
of the privations of life that they
might become strong. Those pri-
vations no longer exist Nebraska cor
daily invites thousands of these peo
pie to share in the splendid prosperity
of its citizens and here obtain for
themselves an Independent foot hold
on a soil as fertile as any out of
doors where they can live and breathe
the spirit of independence under Gods
sunshine amongst the best possible
conditions. Here are homes amongst a
free, intelligent thrifty people await
ing men if they will only take them
There are prizes here to be had for
the asking. They are not for the in
different; they are not for the lazy;
they are not for the uninitiative, but
for the men who are willing to work,
who have pluck and brain and Drawn.
The chances on the splendid farm
lands of Nebraska are Incompatible
to any which the over crowded dis
tricts of the great cities have to offer.
1t would be well for the country's
future if this could be realized by
thousands. Fortunately more and
more are realizing it and Nebraska
ands its sister states are receiving
more of the young vigorous of the
country week by week, who by their
endeavors will gain homes for them
selves and help to maintain the most
prosperous common wealth of the
nation.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-04-17

Judging by the expressions of Euro.
peans in regard to the successful jour.
ney of the battleships they expected
boilers to burst, engines to break
down, other machinery to collapse
some ships to be left by the wayside
and others to be towed into Magdalena
bay in crippled condition. That isn't
the kind Of ships Uncle Sam invests
his millions in.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-04-17

The balloonists promise that this
will be a good year for flying, the pol
iticians are sure that it will be a great
year for running, the immigration bu-
reau thinks it will be a great year for
moving, while the auto owners expect
TO go some.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-04-17

Much evil has been done by permit
ting the railroads to ride rough shod
over legislatures and courts and peo-
pie, but it will only make bad mat
ter worse to turn the tables and try to
run rough shod over the railroads.
What is needed is an administration
of sane justice which shall not run to
either extreme.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-04-17

The fiction that a man must not
seek the presidency is still maintain
ed. There Is not a candidate In the
field. Messrs. Taft, Bryan, Johnson
and the rest are merely standing
round with their hands in their peck
cts to show their willingness to serve
their country If the demand should be
pressing.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-04-17

James Benton Connolly, who made
the cruise from Hampton Roads with
Admiral Evans fleet as far as Mag
delena Bay as the special representa-
tive OF President Roosevelt, rather
sustains the criticism Of Reuterdahl
concerning the battleships, He says
that our navy can be greatly improved
in construction. He inclines to the
opinion that our naval architects lack
creative genius, and says swivel chair
artists in the navy department are
hardly any different from politicians
in any other department"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-04-17

California from Mexico. It's attraction
is the fine natural harbor of Mag
delena Bay which would be of great
value to the United States for a naval
station
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-04-17

With 175 military and semi.military
schools in the United States in which
10000 cadet soldiers are training,
there seems every reason to believe
that the military spirit will be kept
up to high standard and the eff
cheney of the army maintained.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-04-17

Governor Wilson of Kentucky thinks
OF calling an extra session of the leg
islature. The troubles of some states,
like those of some people, never
cease
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-04-17

There are a good many in this old
world who like to hear Henry Waiter
son preach against hate, then pour
Walls of wrath and condemnation on
anyone who fails to agree with him,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-04-17

The statement that the emperor of
Germany is courageous man can no
longer be doubted While he was In
London recently he bought some new
hats for his wife without consulting
her,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-04-17

Hearst and Watson are mentioned
as very likely populist ticket. Why
not put the brains at the head Of the
ticket and the money at the tail in
stead OF reversing It.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-04-17

Many of the towns and cities Of the
United States boast of fine streets, but
the best of them make poor educa-
tional institutions for the boys of the
country.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-04-17

The presidential candidates this year
will all be subjected to a new and
trying ordeal, that of being featured
in moving pictures by the amusement
men who deal in this class Of attrac-
tions.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-04-17

The Goulds and Vanderbilts are of
fering their floating ocean palaces for
sale at small part of their original
cost. This is very good evidence that
they were hard hit by the panic.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-04-17

And now Wizard Burbank has done
so well in making seedless apples,
some one is hoping that he will be
able to turn out rainiess Sundays.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-04-17

There is not a man in Norfolk who
would not be benefited by Y. NJ. c..
A. building, with all it's accessories.
The gymnasium alone, where Norfolk
men could go for daily exercise, would
keep up every mans form" and
would make for health and muscles
and long life. The plunge bath in
connection, which would afford swim
ming the year round, would be a fea-
ture that every man and every boy
| could enjoy and profit by. Norfolk
needs just such an institution. It
would make Norfolk better place to
live in, and anything that makes the
city better place to live in is worth
while. 1t would act as a magnet in
inducing many retired business men
to permanently locate in Norfolk 1t
would make for clean athletics and
lots of them. It would mean baseball
and football and tennis and field day
| sports-features in manipulating that
most other cities this size in the state
already possess, and of which Norfolk
is sadly lacking Half the money has
been raised. 1t is important that the
other half be raised.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-04-17

which he claims was the fault of the
secretary of the republican city con-
vention. Nice story that, and a nice
place to lay the blame for his own
mistake, but unfortunately for the
truthfulness of the fabrication the
name of Mr. Fuesler was not certified
to the city clerk by the secretary of
the city convention, for the reason
that the name of Mr.. Fuesler, as NOM
inee for councilman from the Third
ward, could only be certified by the
secretary of the Third ward caucus.
The secretary Of the city convention
not only was not secretary Of the
Third ward caucus but he does not
even live in the Third ward. Watch
the details little closer, julius, the
next time you resort to falsehood.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-04-17

There is nothing brave in taking
ones medicine like a man" The say
ing should be changed to taking it
like a woman. 1t is the women who
can take medicine without making a
face.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-04-17

Under present conditions Hayti
would be an ideal place to send the
anarchists. Why not?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-04-17

The great reformer Thomas w. Law
son Is no more. He Is just an ordi-
nary stock gambler again.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-04-17

without binding himself. II is very
evident that the last estate Of that
thief Is worse than the FIRST.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-04-17

Every man imagines that fortunes
may be easily made in some other
part of the world. Every field looks
green in the distance; it is not until
he reaches it that a man sees that
stumps and bad places are as numer-
GUS as in the field he left.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-04-17

No eclipse of the sun this year.
Nevertheless several "favorlte sons"
are quite sure to be eclipsed.