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Tribute to Nebraska

For 35 years the pupils who attended
district school near a small
New England village have been
holding an annual reunion. This
same school building has been
standing there for over a century,
and so strong is the memory of
school days at this old school that
it has drawn to these reunions former
pupils from almost every state
in the union.

It was the writer's privilege and
pleasure to be present this year at
this reunion and to meet her besides
many relative and friends,
her first teacher, now a snowy
haired, dear old lady.

It is the custom of each prodigal
to boast of the state of his
or her adoption and when it came
this member's turn, she paid the
flowing tribute to Nebraska:

"As I stepped from the train at
the little city of K - last evening.
I said to myself, "This is my
own, my native land, and I am
very proud and happy to be a native
of New England, but if I had
not been born here, I had rather
have been born in Nebraska than
in any other state in the union."

As a child I was taught, along
with the catechism, that "Boston
is the hub of the universe," but
as a matter of fact if a great wheel
were drawn upon the map of this
"America, the beautiful" with one
edge of the rim on the Atlantic
and one on the Pacific, and the
spokes drawn in at right angles,
the center or axle, around which
the rest of the world revolves,
would be in the very heart of Nebraska,
the wonderful.

Nebraska with its great fields
of golden grain and purple alfalfa,
and emerald leafed sugar beets;
its flocks of sheep and herds of
swine; its great dairy and poultry
farms and packing houses.

Nebraska that has on its eastern
edge the largest smelting
works in the world and on its
western border the most marvelous
deposits of fossil remains of prehistoric
animals in existence.

Nebraska, whose new state capitol
building is a marvel of modern
architecture and whose stately
tower will soon be kissed by
fleecy clouds and greeted by airplanes
only.

Nebraska, the home of that great
orator and statesman, William
Jennings Bryan: J. Sterling Morton,
the founder of Arbor day; of
General John J. Pershing; of
Colonel Cody (Buffalo Bill); of
John Neihart, poet laureate and
author of"Hugh Glass" and
"Songs of Indian Wars;" of Robert
F. Glider, whose busy brush as
immortalled the landscape of our
state; of Willa Cather and Bess
Streeter Aldrich; of Grace Abbott;
of Dt. Olga Stastny: of Minnie
Freeman Penny, heroine of the
blizzard of 1888, and of Francis
Ford and Elia Peattie, past presidents
and charter members of the
Omaha Women's club.

Nebraska, The state that has
furnished these United States more
near presidents than any other
state in the union, and the only
flying grandmothers; and Nebraska
that defeated the daylight saving
law.

E.W.H.

'Modern' Influence
Govern Literature
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plane of life, the glorification of
view of life it presents is false the
book forfeits its claim to a permanent
place in literature.

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Health
can be Purchased

If you would visit any one of the greater
water works plants in cities the size of
Omaha, Lincoln or Sioux City, you would be
amazed to see all machinery and work done
to make your drinking water safe. In all of
these plants you would find a Chlorinator similar
to the one shown here.

The Chlorinator automatically adds chlorine
to city water. Seventy-five per cent of the
people of North America drink water that has
been sterilized by such a method.

When Americans travel in foreign countries,
they are in constant fear of the drinking
water. In American cities everywhere the price
of safety has been paid. Typhoid fever deaths
are but a fraction of what they were fifteen years
ago.

What does it cost to have chlorinated water?
...about one cent a year for each person.

Milk goes into as many homes as does water.
Pasteurization of milk is just as scientific,
just as necessary as is the sterilization of water.
And though it costs us about fifty cents a
year for each person in the city to pasteurize
our product, the volume of business done permits
us to give you this added protection without its
costing you a single cent.

Dr. Bundesen, Health
Commissioner of
Chicago says--

"Since the institution of
an order in 1916 that
all milk except certified
be pasteurized,
there has not been a
single case of contagion
traced to the
milk supply, a record
which speaks volumes
for the efficiency of
pasteurization as a
public health measure."