The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1910-09-23
CURRENT
COMMENT

and Tobin upon their acquisition OF the
Daily Star, want to congratulate the
community. The change in the owner
ship and the management OF the Star
will be a good thing for Lincoln. AS
long as Mr. Thompson was connected
with the paper it's usefulness was dis
counted. Not because Mr.. Thompson
exercised any particular control over
its policies, but because it was we'll
understood that Mr.. Thompson found
ed the paper to "get even'' with GER
tain people. The time when such
papers cut any figure has gone. and
Mr.. Thompson connection with the
Star was an incubus that it would not
overcome. Mr.. Gooch is keen, Shrewd
levelheaded man of business who is
wise enough to know that the Star
must stand for something constructive
if it would win. He knows that it
must be newspaper and that it must
stand for measures, not for persons
No one reioices more than | to see
Col Tobin LAND Mr.. Tobin is a
unionist of the right calibre. Many
months ago he went out on strike
against the Associated Press, and he
stuck like glue He could have gone
back at good salary after the strike
was lost. but he wouldn't and didn't.
He began practically at the foot of
the telegraph ladder again, and he
showed the stuff he s made of by work
ing right back to the top. l not only
such man alongside him. but l con-
gratulate Tobin on being fortunate
enough to have allied himself with a
man like Gooch.
The Star has a golden opportunity
before it, and l expect to see it take
advantage of it. The Stars editorial
and reportorial staff has always been
crackerjack The trouble with it
was that it was handcuffed and leg
chained 20 very great extent. That
will no longer be true under the new
management In j. w. Outright the
Star has man whose newspaper abil-
ity is 100 plus. AS editorial writer and
gatherer of news Guilty" will meas
ure up with the best of 'em every
where Cline, Mosshart-O, the whole
blooming bunch If the new manage
ment will just let that staff go it's
pace the Star will be wonder. What
Lincoln needs is daily newspaper
that will give the news without bias
and will not undertake to regulate the
sun, moon and stars in their courses,
the personal habits of men and women,
and the business activities of the city
and it's citizens. 1t needs daily news
paper that will not blow hot in the
morning and cold in the evening, but
will stand hitched or go straight
Among the big improvements in Lin
coin during the year 1910, count the
acquisition of the Daily Star by Messrs.
GOoch and Tobin as the equal of any
of them. The benefits of the change
in the Stars management are already
becoming apparent.
The management of the Lincoln Trac-
tion Co. shows deficit of about $2O.-
900 for the last six months, and there
upon announces decrease in the SER
vice. 1t excuses the decreased service
on the ground that compared with
other cities of similar size it gives Lin
coln a greater service per car mile
than any of them. This is doubtless
true, but under the circumstances it
is an unfair comparison. From Ninth
street to Twenty-seventh street is eigh.
teen blocks--a mile and a half, or
three miles for the round trip. Over
the tracks between those streets are
& operated the Cemetery ears, the East
, = street cars, the University Place
N cars. the Havelock cars, the Vine street
cars the State Farm cars and the
Twenty-seventh and Y street cars
& eeyen lines in all. Every time these
& oeyen cars make round trip betweer
q Ninth and Twenty-seventh they mak'
1Wenty-one miles. Yet of what partic
"a 0lar service is all this to the point