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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (May 11, 1916)
4 itmiv , y d Fifty Years Ago The man who took out an Insurance Policy for the bene fit of his family had to "beat it" home by the back door to avoid superstitious neighbors who accused him of trying to fly in the face of Providence. To-Day The man who isn't insured somewhere for the protection of those dependent upon him is regarded as an improvident Citizen. " The World Do Move ' ' Are you abreast with the times? How much Life Insurance do YOU carry? John G. Lewis ALLIANCE, NEBRASKA Manager for Western Nebraska Security Mutual Life Ins. Co., of Lincoln, Nebr. KiiiiittiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHnitiiiiismtninnnmmtntmuj Men and Women Wanted-Government Positions Forest assistant, industrial teacher, Junior engineer, land law clerk, teacher, telegraph operator. Examination March 15. Stenograph er and typewriter February 26. Quick preparation is necessary You Can Learn by Mall at Home, Study at Nlgbt. Wouldn't you like a Job for life with a steady income of 75 to $100 or more every month with a good chance for promotion? Then why not get it? We guarantee to prepare you for any civil service position, city, state or federal coach you free until you get the pos ition. Send for particulars. CIVIL SERVICE SCHOOL Kittredge Bldg., Denver I FLOUR ! made in western Nebraska from wheat grown in western Nebraska. Housewives should use GOLD LEAF HIGH PATENT Sold in Ilemingford by: C. A. Burlew, C. Lockwood, D. W. Butler, N. Frohnapfel and B. E. Johnson. 5old jn Alliance by: A. D. Rodgers, Wm. Hamilton and Mal lery 's. FOREST ROSE HIGH PATENT Sold in Ilemingford by : C. A. Burlew, C. Lockwood, I). W. Butler, N. Frohnapfel and B. E. Johnson. SNOWDRIFT HIGH PATENT Sold by L. II. Highland, Alliance. We stand behind these high class brands of good flour. If you are not a regular user give them a trial. HEMINGFORD ROLLER MILLS A. M. MILLER, Proprietor m u m rr. & Machine JjL Tv V . L . , -k . - Right on Your Own Farm The OilPull Tractor will cut the drudgery of farm work and reduce farm costs, for the simple reason that the OilPull is a year 'round proposition. It saves money plowing, harvesting, threshing, hauling, drilling and at other power jobs. 15-30 and 30-60 Horsepower The OilPull burns cheap kerosene or distillate at all loads, at any kind of work, It is throttle governed there 8 no fuel waste, the power is steady and uniform. The OilPull is oilncooled no danger of radiator freezing. It is easy to. operateany intelligent person can run it after a littla ; instruction. The 15-30 has two speeds for road work. Advance-Rumely Garr-Scott Line,- FULL LINK OP THRESHES REPAIRS AND SUPPLIES F. A. CLARK, Representative ALLIANCE PHONE BLACK 711 RAILROAD MEN'S STATEM'NT Claim That Cnrnlm niul lubllr Voiill 11 lloiM'flttori hy Cnn pllanre with mniiuU The St. Louis I'ost-Dlspatch a few days ago contained a communication from a railroad worker which was reprinted in the Lincoln State Jour nal, explaining the position of the wape earners In the controversy now In progress between them and the corporations over compensation and working hours. A number of Alli ance railroad men have said that the article correctly sets out the facts, and have asked that it be reproduced. It reads as follows: In reference to your editcrlal en titled "Kailroad Crisis," it is true the unit of wage payment is based on the moving of rolling stock 100 miles for ten hours or ten miles per hour. The new demand is for eight hours, or twelve and one-half miles per hour or 100 miles in eight hours, and time and one-half for overtime after eight hours. In other words, eight hours' work and the same com pensation they now receive for ten hours. Now, I beg to submit examples to show you that not only "the railroad companies but the public at large would be benefitted by the change. You, no doubt, understand that all trunk lines centering in St. Louis terminals have so-called manifest freight, leaving these terminals each night, hauling from 1,000 to 1,200 tons of freight that are called fast freight service. These trains travel over divisions from 140 to 240 miles on an average time of eight and elev en hour basis. Now, in many cases the so-called drag or dead freight train leaving same terminal probably three hours ahead of these manifest or fast freight are passed on the road and fast freight goes to destination in eight or nine hours, while the dead freight is often caught by the feder al sixteen-hour law and has to tie up for eight hours' rest before getting Into division or terminal point. Now, if one train can be sent over a division of, say, 140 or 150 miles in eisnt hours, there is tip just rea son why the same class engine with another train should put in fourteen or sixteen hours over the same course. Take, for instance, the crews on dead freight service or what Is commonly called "slow freight," and of the twenty-four hours he is fourteen hours on the road. He spends one hour after he gets in washing up and looking over the en gine and then he Is ready to go home to wife and family, tired and sleepy. He sleeps eight hours and Is then given a two-hour call at the end of his rest period to go on another four teen or fifteen hour trip. That man spends one and one-half hours with his family, which is not enough time to get acquainted with them. If he wants to get acquainted with his family he would have to write a let ter to them, as he has practically no time with them at home. These men know no day or night, have no Sundays, but simply a straight grind .until they are worn out and have to lay off, and In many cases this boon is refused. Now, if this man was working eight hours he would be a more competent worker on account of having regular rest, would be a better citizen on account of having more time to. brighten his mind, more time to study the econ omic questions that are of vital im portance to his welfare, and would, therefore, be a more intelligent vot er. On the same basis, the company would be the gainer by always hav ing a fresh man going on duty at working periods and less bother of men trying to lay off for the purpose of a rest. Also, the public would have quicker service, on dead or "slow freight." For example, take a car of banan as shlped, say, from Newp Orleans to St. Louis, which comes through in about thirty-six or thirty-eight hours, while a car of dead freight would oc cupy almost three weeks coming the same distance, or in other words, dead freight today is moving in the United States about one mile per hour when it should move just as expeditiously as any other commod ity. I canont see where you get your proof that the men do not want eight hours, but Just the increase of mon ey. You certainly have not got this from any of the four organizations now asking for eight hours. The fact is ,we do not want the overtime and the only way we can stop it Is to make it so high tht the railroad companies cannot afford It and then It woulJ b i" -ut. The pay for v fo nai ber (s b'oo l money as this money is made after the man Is worn, out for sleep and ret dies at his vp-v vitals and makes him old before his time. Give us the eight hours' work, eight hours' sleep and eight hours to pass with our family at home and we ask for no overtime or none of your so-called exorbitant pay. As you no doubt know, there is a car shortage all over the United States. Thia is largely brought about by slow transportation of so called dead freight. Now, does it not seem reasonable that If these cars were handled more rapidly to destination, unloaded and returned to service, the company would earn a greater revenue on each car, and this increase alone would offset any additional expense the company would be to in making the change? They have put forward the excuses that trains have to lay on sidings four. or five hours on a trip over the division and this cannot bt helped. Ncfw, it seems to me the best way to use. an. engine is in pulling trains and not by rusting ' but 6u the Biding. where ltla burning fuel and piling up additional expense',' when with prop er handling it could be over the div ision and In the shop In very little ad ditional. time. Keep them moving by giving them the. amount bf tonnage they can handle over the division and you will make it In eight hours O.K. i There seems no good, reason wh we should-not come to an eight-hour basis on railroads. . Before the fed eral Bixteen-hour law was passed the companies worked the jnen twenty o rthirty hours, but after it was pain ed they could get them In In about fourteen or fifteen hours and this could just as easily be cut to eight hour as it was cut from twenty to sixteen hours. It only needs the co operation of the company with the men, and we will make eight hours on railroads a blessing In pltcn of a curse and at the sare time knock the shackles off of 309,174 railroad men In the United States now calling for relief. This cause Is right and should prevail, and If It does a prayer of thankfulness would go up from the fireside of thousands of railroad homes for the blessings derived from It. And now, out of all due respect to the public and all due respect to the great railroad systems of the United States, we ask simply for eight hours' work, eight hours' rest and eight hours to be spent at our fireside. A R. It. MAN. LADIES! LOOK YOUNG, DARKEN GRAY HAIR Use the Old-time Sage Tea and Sulphur and Nobody will Know. f!rsv nsir, however handsome, denotes advancing age. We all know the advan tages of a youthful appearance. Your hair is your charm. It makes or mars the faoe. When it fades, turns gray and looks streaked, just a few applications of Sage Tea and .Sulphur enhances its ap pearance a hundred-fold. Don't stay gray I Look young! Either prepare the recipe at homo or get from any drug store a 50-cent bottle of "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound," which is merely the old-time recipe im proved hy the addition of other Ingredi ents. Thousands of folks recommend this ready-to-use preparation, because it darkens the hair beautifully, besides no one can possibly tell, as it darkens so naturally and evenly. Yon moisten a snonge or soft brush with it, draw inn this through the hair, taking one small strand at a time. Hy morning the gray hair disappears; after another application or two, its natural color is restored and it becomes thick, glossy and lustrous, and ou appear rears younger. Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound U aSiclightful toilet requisite. It is not intended for the cure, mitigation or pre vention of disease. DAMAGE SUITS SCARCE (rent Improvement in Methods of Se curing Damage for Ijoss of Live Stork In Transit One doesn't hear as much about claims 'of shippers against railroad companies for loss of stock in transit as in former years. The reason - is not hard to find, but it seems strange that the solution of the troublesome problem was not thought ef sooner. At an expense merely nominal com pared with the benefits derived in case of loss, shippers now insure their stock, and in case of death or the breaking of a leg of an animal in transit, no matter what the cause, the owner immediately receives a check from the insurance company, leaving the mto collect from the raH road company, if they can. Many live stock shippers, realizing the ben efit and convenience of this kind of insurance, are now using Jt. Live stock transit Insurance is fur nistfed by the Live Stock Department of the Hartford Fire Insurance Com pany. W. B. Cheek, former railroad man and well known to many live stock shippers of Nebraska and ad joining states, is manager for this part of the west, with office in the Live Stock Exchange Building, Oma ha. We call attention of shippers to his advertisement, giving the names of local representatives in western Nebraska. ' Kheiunatisin If you are troubled with chronic or muscular rheumatism give Cham berlain's Liniment a trial. The re lief from pain which it affords is alone worth many times Its cost. Ob tainable everywhere. Adv May Contributed Fair Hay for llallroal Men Alliance, Nebr., May 3, 1916. To the. Editor of ihe Alliance Herald: Dear Sir: Kecently I subscribed for your paper on the recommenda tion of a friend that you endeavored to be fair in giving publicity to both sides of public questions. I am also a subscriber to another Alliance pa per which boasts that it "is not afraid to print all the news". I am a railroad employee and am vitally interested in the present con troversy between the railroads and employees over the eight-hour prop osition. It has been very gratifying to me to learn on reading your paper that you have given the employees an opportunity to present through your columns their side of the ques tion, while the other paper mention ed has, through lack of backbone and stamnla, repeatedly neglected to give the boys a fair show. Your fairness in this matter is ap preciated by myself and I feel sure that others as well as myself appreci ate your action in the matter. A man to be an editor of a newspaper these days needs-moral courage as well as physical bigness. Continue your pol icy of fairness to all and The Alli ance Herald will continue to be "the leading newspaper of western Nebr aska". The fact that you hare giv en us a fair show and taken the lead In this matter and that It Is appreci ated . should encourage you to con tinue your (air policy in all questions of a public nature. ' Yours respectfully, A RAILROAD MAN. "Jlvt Cartful Hlavv WvS ttuit i4it - 1 IB I' in I J WFM V UVI tWIUi fiif f ima arm ajcu waSt agamic You see this picture t This is no fancy, it's a fact. You can't grow a tree with out a root; you can't build a house without a foundation; you can't build a fortune without putting money into the bank to grow. And it is mighty comfortable to have a fortune when yon are old. . ' Start one now. Bank some of your earnings. BANK WITH US We pay 4 per cent interest on time deposits. FIRST STATE BANK Paper YourRpoms Now MAKE IT A PART OF YOUR CLEAN-UP AND PAINT-UP CAMPAIGN ON YOUR OWN PREMISES ?rg r c?,. sflrTiffiTjTrfibil YOUR HOME There is nothing that con tributes so much to the home at this season as clean, sweet, inviting rooms. 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