Omaha daily bee., 1918-07-10
NEBRASkA'S BIG
FINANCIAL YEAR
MAUPIN'S VIEW
Publicity Representative Re-
ports Crops Looking Fine,
Corn Clean and Growing,
After Long Trip.
From a Staff Correspondent.

Lincoln, July 9.-(Special.)- )-"After
completing a l,s0O-mile automobile
tour of western and northwestern
Nebraska, ! am convinced that this is
to be Nebraska's greatest year hnan-
cially," remarked Will Maupin of the
publicity bureau. The work OF I'M
ishiag up the series of motion pic
lures for the bureaus Nebraska at
Work series carried me through CEN
trail western and northwestern Ne
braska. The crops were looking
fine. Corn never looked better nor
cleaner at this time of year, and
despite untoward conditions the wheat
crop is turning out much better than
expected two or three weeks ago.
The wheat increase in western Ne
braska will go long way towards
making good whatever shortage there
may be in the east end.
II drove several hundred miles
through the 'sandhilP sections, and
never have I seen them in better
shape. They have had more rain than
usual and as a result the range is
excellent and the cattle in prime con-
dition. An unusual amount Of hay is
being put up, too.
Nebraska's Greatest Year.
There is every indication that from
a monetary standpoint this is Ne
braska's grea. year. And it is Won
derful the way Nebraskans are COM
ing across for war activities. The
day before the Fourth we drove by
Ewing school house, half way be-
tween Long Pine and Burwell, and
found a little army of people pre-
pairing for a celebration, under the
auspices of the Red Cross. With the
exception of the school house there
wasn't building in sight for miles
nothing but the grass-clad sand hills.
But the people there told us that they
expected not less than 1900 people
at the celebration. Well put two
or three thousand dollars into our
Red Cross fund, too,' they assured
us. We rode from Burwell to St.
Paul in a sea of mud, for heavy
rainstorm preceded US, doing I'M
smense good to wide area.
'As our motion picture party had
to work on the Fourth we celebrated
Monday by spending the day at
Dewey lake. Cherry county. If Ne
braskans knew what fine fishing that
lake affords they would not bother
with Minnesota and Wisconsin for
sport. Lincoln people can drive to
the lake easily in two days, stopping
over night at Burwell. The shortest
and best road is to Grand Island,
thence north through Ord, Burwell
and Long Pine, thence to Wood lake
and from there to Dewey lake. The
worst feature of the journey will be
opening the gates, for most of the
roads leads through cattle ranches.
Considerable sand will be encounter
ed, but any good car can make it
easily. Omaha tourists should go
by the way of O'Neill and Norfolk.
Prairie Chickens Plentiful.
"I know nothing about the game
laws as applied to birds, but I do
know that we scared up hundreds of
prairie chickens coming through the
sandhills, if that will give any COM
fort to those who love the gun and
dog.
One hears little of politics and
much of war in travelling about Ne
braska today. Service flags are to
be seen everywhere, and in every lit
tie city and village the first thing
one hears is the activity of the wo-
men in Red Cross work The one
thing that impressed. me most on the
whole journey was the abounding
prosperity of Nebraska and the mag
aificent part this good state is play
ing in the war game. In addition to
furnishing more than her quota of
soldiers and sailors, Nebraska is
furnishing more than her quota of
money and foodstuffs-and food will
win the WAR;"