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The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23
OUR SHARE OF RAIN.

It's been dry all over the United
States for two years, but northern Ne
braska and southern South Dakota
have Jared, even at that, mighty pros
perously. This section seems to have
had more than it's share of rain, when
the dry weather that has prevailed
over the balance of the United States
is considered.
In New York City they have quit
sprinkling the streets, because of the
water famine which has taken Croton
dam down sixty-five feet below nor
NAL. Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Wis
consin, Indiana, Ohio, Oklahoma, New
York-all parts of the country have
been dry.
Yet in the territory around Norfolk
west and northwest, crop conditions
at this moment are flattering. Corr
never was better and with reasonable
rain, small grain will be a good yield
The rain man seems to have got
twisted up. In Europe there have
been many heavy floods, but in New
York state, America, there hasn't beer
normal rainfall since 1901.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23
SIGNED EDITORIALS.

Every once in while someone hobs
up with the proposition to require all
newspaper editorials to be signed.
Just at present such proposal is be-
fore the New York legislature, in the
form of bill introduced by Senator
Grady. But it will get no farther there
than elsewhere.
The peculiarly anonymous character
of newspaper writing is both a protec-
ton and a handicap to the newspaper
worker. 1t has been fixed custom
for generations, and hence must be
based on some reason inherent in jour
nalistic work.
1t often seems hardship to some
brilliant writer, that his work must be
buried in the graveyard Of the jour-
nalistic I'VE" where no one knows
whether he or the Office boy did it.
Many a man possessing gifts of de-
scription worthy Of Dickens wears
himself down to a pencil stub in this
blindfolded authorship, his true gifts
as unknown to his townsmen as If he
we're the elevator boy.
But on the other hand, a newspaper
is more than the men who conduct it
at any given time. Its policy is more
than the views Of the man who rattles
the typewriter or yields the blue pen.
Gil. It's course Is the concensus Of a
number of men, often times influenced
by past presidents.
1t is an institution which the COM
munity has helped to make, and which
helps make the community, both act
ing and interacting on each other. A
signed editorial gives an impression
that merely one mans personality is
back Of it, which is all wrong.
So when a man comes along and
asks editorials to be signed, it is very
likely because he wants to limit their
force. In that way the public would
constantly be misjudging the power OF
an editorial opinion. Just as they will
laugh at minister who wears red
stockings or shiny coat, even though
the words of eloquence and truth pro
coded from him, SO they would deny
the wisdom of utterance il they did
not happen to like the manners of the
man who made it.
The newspaper is mighty organ
for the uplift of public opinion. In sc
far as it says true things it will be
effective. It's utterances should be al
lowed to stand or fall by their owl
weight, regardless whether the public
likes or dislikes the man that for the
time being is the mouthpiece of this
institutional force.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

other provided its particular interests
were taken care Of. President Taft
has framed a tariff agreement along
such broad lines as this and II the
American people are sincere in their
cry for reform the only consistent
thing for them to do is to adopt the
present agreement.
With the president on the one hand
declaring that the reciprocity measure
will be of tremendous benefit to the
entire country and with a few special
interests on the other hand declaring
that the measure will be injurious, the
public must necessarily find some con.
fusion in making up its mind as to
the merits or dement's of the proposed
pact with Canada. Under the circum-
stances, however, it is pretty safe
plan to take the word of the president,
who occupies a highly responsible po-
sition in the matter, in preference to
the word of a few special interests
seeking larger profits for themselves.
Another point to be borne in mind is
this: President Taft is taking respon-
sibility for this agreement. He is tell
ing us, the American people, that the
measure will be beneficial to us; he
is practically stalking his chances for
reelection upon this agreement; he
must feel pretty sure that it will work
satisfactorily to the public or he
wouldn't assume such sponsorship.
And indeed If the Canadian reciproc-
ity agreement should prove to be I'M
satisfactory to the people of the Unit
ed States it could easily be terminated
and the present condition restored.
So long as President Taft is willing
to accept the entire responsibility for
this measure and to stand or fall by
its results it would seem that the least
the American people could do is to rat
ify it and give it trial.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23
IN SEARCH OF A JOB.

The first taste of the cold realities
of life comes to many school and COL
lege graduates now. Hereto a provi.
dence known as Dad, who by some
magic has collected money in a mys-
FERROUS fashion in place known as
the office, has attended to tradesmen,
who have habit Of demanding COM
pensation for your clothes and other
necessities at inconvenient moments.
But somehow, Dad, for reasons not
clearly stated, feels that the time has
come for a change.
When our fathers were brought up
on farm, they could do carpentering
and raise potatoes by the time they
quit school. They were about ready
to get mans pay.
The modern youngster, unless he
attended technical school, never did
anything that is Of assistance in an
Office or factory. How then may he
convince the proprietor thereof that he
can do anything that needs to be
done?
| Let him reflect that when he makes
an application for work, his prospec
tive employer is keenly scrutinizing
him for surface indications, as to
whether he, as raw material, can be
developed into anything worth paying
for. To be five minutes late at an
appointment, to wear shoes not well
polished, to appear with his chin or
namented by the downy fringes of an
incipient beard, will hurt him more
than he can be helped by all the ath
letic and scholastic laurels that hui
man being can capture in university
course.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

1t is rumored in European circles
that the venerable Emperor Franz Jo'
sef of Austria-Hungary is about to re-
tire in favor Of the heir apparent, his
nephew, Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
In case of the younger mans success
sion to the throne question arises as
to the status of his son, in the future.
Prince Macmillan Charles should be
the legal successor to the throne after
his father, but his succession is i'm
periled by the prevailing unfair mar.
riage law, which excludes the sons OF
rulers whose wives are not of loyal
blood from succeeding to the throne
The Archduke Franz Ferdinand mar
ried the Duchess of Hohenberg, who
is not of royal birth, so their marriage
is pronounced morganatic.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

While archaeology deals only with
the deadest Of materials, it is one of
the livest of sciences and is constantly
bringing new things to light out of the
dead past. DR.. Peters, at Nippur has
uncovered a civilization going back
5000 years before the Christian era
and DeMorgan at Susa has found a
bronze age az least 10000 years old
Inscriptions as commonplace as our
newspaper advertisements but written
in characters utterly unknown have
been deciphered and translated and
proved. Few records Of scientific
achievement disclose the power OF
mind and trained human intelligence
which these discoveries of the buried
past have employed. They make the
long past seem a living reality Instead
of myth.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

Representative Sulzer of New York
proposes that the wreck Of the Maine
be made up into souvenirs and sold at
a dollar each, instead of towing it out
to sea and sending it to the bottol1
once for all. With proceeds of these
souvenirs Mr.. Sulzer would have a
memorial bridge built across the Pc
tomac from Washington to the nation
al cemetery at Arlington. The me
mortal bridge is all right in itself, but
the means of securing it suggested
are Objectionable. People have Pc
membered the Maine" plenty Ions
enough. 1t better be allowed decen
burial and the oblivion of the grave.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

cleared up and the paving so forward
as originally planned.
The abandonment OF the project to
pave Third street just at this time
would be misfortune. Norfolk is at
a vital point in It's paving history and
upon the successful termination OF
the Third street project largely de-
ponds the success Of future paving eff
forts in Norfolk. The completion OF
the Third street project would be an
inspiration to the balance Of the city
and improvement along this line
would unquestionably be rapid. The
defeat of the present movement, how
ever, can mean only encouragement
to those contemplating paving other
streets and thus any effort to perma
nently block the present Third street
movement would work positive detri
ment to the upbuilding of Norfolk.
There is no portion of the city In
which there is larger percentage OF
home owners than in the south side
and let it be said that no more enter
prising or progressive property own
ers live in Norfolk than the residents
of that portion of the city. They real
lie the need of good street from the
new depot to Norfolk avenue and with
commendable enthusiasm they have
succeeded in getting enough sigma
lures to a paving petition to assure
the paving.
All Norfolk is watching Third street
today and is hoping that there will be
no backward step.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23
WATCHING THIRD STREET

The news that the movement to
pave South Third street has been al
least temporarily abandoned will be
received by Norfolk people win cont
siderable disappointment. The need
of good road to the south side has
never been so pressing as 1t is now
after the Northwestern railway has
begun to build permanent $4,000
station at the foot of Third street
Never was the south side on such &
substantial basis as it is with this per
manent improvement going on and
with other important additions to thai
part of the city already in sight.
The people of the south side have
long realized the great need of a per
manent street to the business part o.
the city and have shown their pro
gressiveness and their enterprise by
giving to the Third street paving pc
tition more signatures than it really
required. Such enterprise as this
should stand as an inspiration to the
balance of the city.
Some slight misunderstanding seems
to have arisen at the last moment ovel
the cost of the proposed paving and il
order to maintain harmony among the
property owners interested in Third
street. the people who had been work
ing for this improvement have temper
arily withdrawn the petition from the
city council in the hope that the mis-
understanding as to cost may b'
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

A large advertising agency had the
following interesting and inspiring ad-
yertisement in recent issue of pop.
ular magazine. 1t shows not only
what kind OF man that firm wants
but the kind of men that the world al.
ways has a place for. The ad reads
I'VE want men whose training, edu-
cation and outlook on life is clean, OPP
timistic, cheerful and courageous
men who believe in work and in them.
selves, but not to the extent that the
experience or ability of others counts
for nothing. We are bringing to a
close the biggest business in our forty.
one years, and we are only beginning
to commence to start. We need good
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

A new evidence that China is really
waking up, is that for the first time
on record in the history of her deal
ings of other nations, she has demand
ed apology and indemnity for her sub.
jects which have been unlawfully
killed, in the late Mexican fracas. To
be sure China chose weak nation
from which to demand her first indem-
nifty, but If she is successful in get
ting her deserts from Mexico it will
encourage her to exact them from
stronger powers. 1t looks as though
the amusement that has been so pop
ular in almost every country of drag
ging Cinnamon around by their queues
and killing them from time to time,
is thing Of the past. The Germans
in Shan-Tung still treat Cinnamon
with less consideration than they
would bestow on dog, but they are
not heaping indignities on the Japan
csc nowadays, nor is any other ma.
ton. International justice is still
largely a prerogative of the nations
with the heaviest battalions, or what
amounts to the same thing, the most
money. If universal peace and inter.
national justice is ever enthroned, the
life and dignity of yellow man will
be just as sacred as those of the sub.
jects of proudest empire.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

A Japanese bellboy in a Boston no.
tel has become a college professor.
This is probably one OF the cases
where hotel employees are able to af-
ford costly Injuries out OF their tips.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23
MAKE THE MORMON COME.

Washington, June 20.-The subpoe.
nae of the house of representatives
today was sent to the United States
marshal at Salt Lake City to be served
on Joseph F. Smith, head of the Nor
mon church, requiring his presence
before the committee which is investi-
eating the so-called sugar trust,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

There is nothing like having a per.
petual reason for your attitude. Last
session Senator Lorimer refused to re.
sign because he had been INDICATED.
This session he refuses to resign be.
cause no man should resign under fire
1t has been pertinently suggested that
the fire be put under him.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23
FAST TRAIN is WRECKED.

Chicago, June 20.-Officials of the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific have
been advised of a wreck of the fast
Denver-St. Louis passenger train that
left Denver last night. So far as they
know now, there were numerous in
juries, but no fatalities. The wreck
occurred between Wabaunsee and Nc
Farland, Kan, shortly before 2 o'clock.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

1t is stated that a shipbuilding com.
pany, capitalized at 100000, has
been organized in Canada. It will not
be their fault If Canada does not have
q navy. y
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

Justice Howard Of New York told
the graduating nurses that high heels
are as heathenish as nose rings or
tattooing. This is what happens when
a man makes speech without getting
his wife to look over the manuscript.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

The government could make money
selling the wreck of the Maine to sou.
venir hunters. 1t could also make
money selling George Washington's
monument to circus side show. But
it won't do either.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

Mr.. Taft attends the July celebra-
ton at Indianapolis, where they will
show him a head on locomotive col.
ision. Why don't they entertain him
with toy rattle and Crandall build.
ing blocks?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

They won't keep Clip Castro out of
Venezuela if he really wants to get
back. He won't stay long watching
the game on the bleachers, after hav-
ing had sole and undisputed tenancy
of the box Office all these years.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

George V will be glad when he has
a right to put his crown on, and not
have to walk out bareheaded in the
chilly days of an English June.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

They are trying to popularize the
Congressional Record by making the
price 81 a year. We should like to
subscribe, but fear that the children
would abandon all serious reading for
this frivolous literature.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

We now have real American navy.
Ninety.five out of every hundred men
are citizens Of the United States. De-
sertions have decreased as the ratio
of Americans in the service has ad.
vanced.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

The Japanese are anxious to enter
Into peace treaty, and to prove their
sincere desire for peace they have just
ordered four battleships and a cruiser
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

The only republican congressman
from Virginia is having his seat con-
tested on the ground of fraud. No re
publican ever got into congress from
Virginia by fraud. 1t must have been
a miracle.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

AS it seems to have cost the govern
ment $2,450 to get an $3.50 portrait of
Secretary Day, it would pay to estab-
fish tintype saloon to retain the
likenesses Of high officials.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

A Texas man has sued for divorce
on the grounds that his wife holds a
poor opinion of Senator Joe Bailey.
Here, at last, is an unanswerable ar.
gument for woman suffrage.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

New York City kicks on the noise at
night of the garbage carts. They
would kick still worse if they invaded
the forenoon hours sacred to sleep in
metropolitan sporting life.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

Gov. Deneen of Illinois has vetoed
the bill to keep the newspapers from
publishing the crime news. He felt
that citizens naturally want to know
what the legislature is doing.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

Mr.. Taft at Yale commencement.
Will he have the self control not to get
out with the old grads, when they &c
round in the night singing How dry
/ amp"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23
AROUND TOWN.

We see by the paper than Hon. Taft
says, in case he should quit his pres
ent job and in case congress doesn't
do anything for the ex-presidents, he'd
have to 60 to work again in Cincin-
natl. Why not pawn some of those
presents?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

Mrs, Taft was unable to receive the
guests at the silver wedding. We
wish Aunt Della would stay on in
Washington and relieve her of the
arduous duty of making the pies.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

Jack Johnson is being cheered in
London streets. over here the sound
of $50 and costs for auto speeding"
was more frequently heard than the
acclaims OF the populace.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

Eighty-three students get diplomas
at West Point, and unlike most other
graduates, they do not have to spend
year sweeping out the Office and
washing windows.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

men to aid us as we never needed
them before. Literary fellows with
no respect for business hours OF bust.
ness standards need not apply"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

There is talk of establishing a sum-
mer capitol for the president, but the
representatives of forty-five out of for
ty-six states will vote against any par
ticular selection that may be made.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

Mr.. Taft declined to perform the
marriage ceremony for New Jersey
man, but no doubt he can get Teddy to
officiate at the christenings if they are
numerous enough.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

The general acceptance of the trust
decisions is a wonderful testimony to
the success of the two past admins
trations in dealing with the most com.
pick problem of modern politics.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

Descendants Of former presidents
were at the Taft silver wedding, but
II they had not been wearing the an
cestral tag, you could not have told
them from Tom, Mrs. Dick and Miss
Harry.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

The senate has been in session only
eighty.two hours, and probably hall
that time was spent in coaching the
new members on senatorial cour
tesy."
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

The hotel men in convention at Bos-
ton sang ITS nearly time to hit the
down" We doubt If any of them ever
admitted that the time had fully come.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

Gospel meetings have been held in
front OF the New York stock exchange,
but we doubt if the gospel was per-
mitted inside the door.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

Since this increase is not due TO I'M
migration, there need be no anxiety
about race suicide In the fatberlaDd.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

Charlie Taft was hurt pole vaulting,
but If he is ever going to climb as
high as his father, he must have a
vaulting ambition.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

Mr.. Taft is now worrying abou,
where he can exchange those dupli-
Gated silver wedding presents without
the givers knowing II.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

An asbestos company in the east
has been burned out. We have heard
Of similar instances where ice com.
panies were frozen out.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

How would it do for us to suggest
today that you cut few weeds around
your property?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

We have always been told that the
mills of the gods grind slowly, but
could they grind any slower than the
mills of the United States senate and
continue to do business at all?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23
THE RECIPROCITY AGREEMENT.

The American people for some time
have been demanding a non-partisan
tariff board which would frame our
tariff schedules without any of the
old.fashioned log rolling practice
which permitted one section of the
country to trade it's support to an
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

The steel trust probe shows ]. p.
Morgan has great power. The Amer
lean people won't do anything about
it il he allows the ball games to go on.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

There's a man in Norfolk entitled
to a Carnegie medal, whether he ever
gets it or not. His wife's away and
he got letter from her telling him to
go home, pick the cherries, pit 'em
and put 'em up And that's just ex-
actly what he did.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

Each party in congress is spending
80 much time trying to put the other
in a hole, that it is almost out Of sight
itself.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23

One never takes his thirty-third de
gree in newspaper reporting until HI
learns to work all day without hi
lunch.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23
$50 do your shopping early)

These are the days when you ought
theoretically speaking, to live on veg.
etables out of your garden, and spring
chicken out Of your own incubator and
without any expense for furnace golf
or Tungsten rays. But If you'll look
closely, you'll probably find your bank
account about as short as it is in the
shorter days of December. These
June suns seem to melt salaries Just
as the icy winds of winter blow em
away. Confound it, what's the use
anyway!