The wageworker., 1910-05-06

around and growing rich by the ad-
vance in real estate that they got hold
Of through no business foresight of
their own. Fine lot to make laws and
frame policies for thirty or forty thou
sand workers! Now we are to have
commission of twenty idealists to make
plans under which thousands Of me-
chanics who are jumping sideways to
make living must live-and pay for!
Where n thunder is the bricklayer, the
plumber, the carpenter, the barber, the
printer, the electrical worker, and the
rest Of the greasy mechanics going to
get off att
Really, the more I consider lot Of
this idealistic business the greater
grows the feeling of lassitude in my
lumbar region.
The school board has finally decided
to locate the new high school on the
Davenport tract, provided the park
commission will submit a proposition
to vote $4,000 in bonds to improve. the
park system in and about the high
school grounds Still fiddling away,
the school board is. If it would pay
more attention to it's own business, and
let the park commission attend to it's
business, things would be in more
satisfactory shape. I would suggest
to the school board that it run the
school business, and let other business
be attended to by those who are chos-
en- for that purpose. God knows there
is enough damphoolishness about our
public school system to remove to en-
age the whole attention of the school
board. Just stop and think a minute
the Russian school children in the Hay
ward district are actually compelled to
take the same course of study, under
60 the same examinations and tests,
and abide by the same standards as
the children in the Prescott school, and
the Prescott school is the very center
OF the 'select" in Lincoln. Our public
schools are full of fads, they are engi-
neered by people who don't know a
blooming thing about the social condi-
tions of majority of the school pa
irons, and the curriculum embraces
pretty nearly everything save morality
and commonsense. Now the board is
butting in on the park boards bust
ness
The Good Book says something
about the likelihood Of the man who
digs pit for his neighbor falling into
it himself. The office Bible has been
borrowed by some unregenerate son of
Belial, so l am unable to quote exactly.
But truth Of the old proverb is for
chilly impressed upon my mind by the
position the present managers of the
Traction Co. find themselves in. The
old Citizens Company was formed for
the implied purpose of forcing the old
Traction Co. to give decent service,
and for the purpose Of forcing the old
Traction Co. managers out. The old
Citizens Co. paralleled the tracks of
the old Traction Co., and in sundry
other ways accomplished the purpose.
Now the Lincoln Traction Co., headed
by the men who managed the old Citi-
profitable lines on it's hands, and of
course it wants to let go. Having sue
cceded in their high financing opera
tions they want to abandon the instru-
ments with which they played the
game. 1t remains to be seen whether
the people will stand for ito say
nothing of standing for that million
and half Of water, straight cent
fares and no occupation tax. What l
am afraid of is that we II get so bam-
fooled over this "idealistic Lincoln -
rot that we'll forget to keep tab on
the astute gentlemen who are in con-
troll of our street railway facilities. II
l were one of the Traction Co. manag-
ers I'd be boosting this "ideal Lin.
coin" business to beat the band. II
would distract attention away from
my little traction schemes. Maybe that
is part of the game.