The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-05-05

by Il city from the viewpoint OF dollars,
but the world has learned-sadly in
some instances - that It takes some.
thing besides dollars to make a city
that will endure for all time The
dollars will come in any country pos
sessing fertile soil, IL the city is
built upon foundation broadly intel.
ligent and honorably progressive.
That which makes the future city
is not the thing which we see today,
ard very often single city makes,
or breaks, great state Oxford was
founded for the one purpose of de-
yeloping the intelligence OF great
people. The British people owe their
very existence to the work done at
oxford In the development OF the
sciences Of law. government, physics,
philosophy and others III the world
is indebted to oxford.
Boston was built upon corner.
stone Of mental training, and nearly
three.hundred years later we still find
It the dominating force of the city,
and the state as well. Other cities
In great numbers now have good
schools, and colleges, and universities,
but ii was the few pioneers in that
movement which made this possible.
Our own Norfolk is a cause for hap.
py congratulations, because of the
large number of progressive and en-.
terprising men who live here. In no
city is there a larger percentage of
business men who are doing all that
In their power lies to promote the
best interests of their city. There are
business men in Norfolk who are
making sacrifices much greater than
should be expected of them-much
greater than the demands of business
and obligations due their families will
justify. When the size of the city is
taken into consideration, Norfolk has
the best and most effective CONNER
Cial organization in America. Enter
prising men from Ohio TO the Rocky
mountains have their eye on the Nor
folk Commercial club. Every town
in Nebraska is trying to learn the Nor
folk way OF doing business.
There are displays of goods in the
windows Of some of the business hous-
es of Norfolk as well as systems of
artistic decoration that would be a
credit TO a city of hundred times its
population. There are schools than
which no better, or more efficient,
can be found in America. There are
many manly men-men whom it is
a pleasure to know and do business
with. There are many noble women.
There are many children than whom
none are more interesting or lovable.
These are some of the forces that are
making our city one of the best in
Nebraska--these are the true builders
of Norfolk.
Like all other cities Norfolk has at
work few destructive forces-a few
men who are not city builders. | be-
lieve. however, that we have as few
of them as any city in this or any
men can be the cause Of compelling a
city to carry a very heavy burden.
1t is because of the peculiar balance of
the human mind that the knocker and
the pessimist can do so much injury
to the progress Of city. There are
very few positive minds, or minds
that are capable of quick and firm de.
cision. There are many men who
are wholly incapable of firm decision
and such men are very susceptible to
influence, be that influence good or
bad. 1t is with such men that the
knocker gets in his work.
All the knockers OF which we know
belong TO one OF three classes of men
have in mind at this time three
Norfolk knockers belonging to each
Of these three classes, and I will try
and describe them as they are known
in our city
The first man | have in mind be-
longs to class of men who never
create any new wealth, but who al
ways manage to live because OF the
wealth created by others. This man
is very much OF sport, and such
men usually are, for he who lives OF
the labors Of others generally expects
to live with the least possible effort
and eIeItion on their own part. and
this in turn leads them to believe that
they have right to feel sporty. This
man has been in Norfolk about three
years, but the city is the better in
NO way because of his presence here
since he has contributed in no way
TO the progress or prosperity Of the
community, his sole aim being to
gather in easy money for himself. The
town he left when he came to Nor
folk feels that il lost nothing when
| he left there, for he was a knockeI
there as well as here. besides doing
no more for that town than he has
done for Norfolk.
The second man | have in mind be
longs 10 class OF men so brutal in
all their instincts that they are strang
ers 10 the common decencies Of life
men who have no regard for woman
| hood or the home; men who will fight
with their own children upon the pub
| lie street: men who would steal from
their mothers or sisters if they thought
they could do il without being de
| teCted. Such men we would expect
to be knockers, and this man surely
knocks.
The third man belongs to a class
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