National Affairs: Nebraska's 75th

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Agriculturally prolific, Nebraska today ranks third in corn production, second in winter wheat. It is developing a lusty sugar beet industry, is a leader in the nurture of cattle and hogs. Famed it is too for its unique and sightly "skyscraper" Capitol building at Lincoln, designed by the late, great Bertram Grosvernor Goodhue.

Famed Nebraskans past, present and sometime: the Bryan Brothers (William Jennings, Charles Wayland), U. S. Senator George William Norris, Union Pacific R. R. President Carl Raymond Gray, U. S. Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl, Author Bess Streeter Aldrich (American Magazine, Ladies Home Journal), General John Joseph Pershing (LL.B. and onetime military instructor, University of Nebraska), Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes (lawyer in Lincoln, 1887-94). Sculptor-Painter-Author-Politician John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (went through the public schools). Author Willa Sibert Gather (B.A., U. of Neb.), Baseball Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander, Cinemactor Harold Clayton Lloyd (born in Burchard, Neb.). The State has yet to nominate its two most famed sons for the Nebraska niches in National Statuary Hall at Washington.