AIJ.IANCE H BRA IO. THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 191 A.
THE ALLIANCE HERALD
MiOYP C. THOMAS,
Editor
JOHN W. THOMAS, FRANK R. HARTMAJf,
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THRIFT TO WIN.
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JANUARY 8, 1018.
I
UK is A
LEADER OF MEN
While the news columns wore re
porting a great rush of volunteers
ager to enlist prior to the beginning
t the new draft the New York Sun
published a remarkable tcommunica
tlon from John Burroughs attribut
ing to President Wilson, a treuien
dous stimulation of the war spirit.
Speaking out of the ripe experience
and progressive culture of eighty
year. John Burroughs, the natura
list, a republican in politics, con
tends that the burning words of the
president, the spokesman of a great
people and a great caBe, are more
than mere deeds of his could not."
Mr. Burroughs finds paragraphs in
the president's last address to con
gress "that are to the Allies worth
whole armies," that "hearten and
finite all lovers of liberty and just
dealing," that "brand the foe as
with a red hot iron," that "stir and
swell the hearts of patriots through
oat the land," and that "no doubt
"Will simulate enlistment like an
army with banners." Mr. Bur
roughs says he has known and. read
the messages of all the presidents
from Lincoln down and "not one of
them approaches Woodrow Wilson in
the power of utterance," or in the
power "to unite the peophvand make
them forget their political differ
ences, ' 'or in the power "to focus
their thoughts and asplrationa upon
the highest national Interests." In
consequence the people, needing
guidance through the maze of bewil
dering world problems, have waited
for the president's words, "as they
never before waited for utterances
from the White House;" they "look
to him for leadership and they get
It," not merely political leadership.
lut leadership "in great ethico in
ternational issues."
Pointing out, by way of illustra
tion, that the fiery words of Patrick
Henry and the closely-reasoned argu
ments of Tom Paine did more to help
the cause of the Revolution than
these mejg could possibly have done
with muskets in their hands. Mr.
Burroughs goes on to say: "Wood
row Wilson is a rhetorician only In
the best and noblest sense, as St.
Paul was, as Napoleon was. as Lin
coln was. There ia nothing of mere
sound and fury in his sentences; his
words areblows; they are bayonets
and swords, they are branding irons.
They have made the tough-hided
and thick-meated Hun writhe and
ifoam at the mouth In Impotent rage.
Mis sentence about the 'Intolerable
Thing) (which must be crushed) is
worth a whole army corpa." Mr.
Burroughs Is right. A president
whose' words are "a trumpet call to
battle" 1b not only a leader of men.
but a captain of the captains of war.
A WORLD
OF ACTION
This is a world of action.' Neither
men nor businesses can stand still.
When a plant quits growing It begins
Co decay. The decay may not show
at first and it may take a long time
to reach the more hardy purls. But
It Is gradually decaying nevertheless.
Growth and decay are the represen
tatives of two contending forces in
the world. The fight Is always on.
You can see It in your corn field any
day during the early summer and you
can see the results of It In the aut
umn. Growth Is fighting to gather
together the elements of earth and
air and water, and build them into a
stalk that 'shall stand Btralght and
strong and green throughout the
summer, and carry a big. rich, full
grained ear In the autumn.
Decay rejoices in a serleB of cold
wet days arter planting time to
kill the life germs and make his work
easy. The cut worm is his allv.
When one scorching hot day follows
another without rain, decay is glee
ful In the thought that growth will
die of thirst. When the eiir In
formed he sends the black birds to
ear the husk and expose the corn in
the milk, so that the rain and the
sun may undo the work they Lave
been accomplishing all through the
summer. f
It is the same in business in the
city, or on th efarm. Progress Is the
key to life, If jou are not a better
farmer than you were ten years ugo,
or five years ago, or last year, you
have leas chance to succeed than you
had then. Others have progressed.
That has made keener competition
for those who have not.
Your ability to live nt all depends
on your ability to live well to de
velop efficiency to keep i abreast of
the times. The man with the hoe
can't compete with the man with the
gang plow. The man with the walking
plow can't tear up ecd like the man
with the tractor. Tho man with the
flail can't compoto with the man
with tho steam thresher. The man
who hauls to market over a bad
road can't compete with the man who
has access to a good one. The man
who doesn't make a comfortable
farm or ranch home can't hold his
children against the conveniences
and pleasures of the city.
This principle is Just as true of a
newspaper as a farmer. The reason
that The Alliance Herald has do
veioped in less than ten years to
leadership in western Nebraska
among all Influences for better farm
and ranch conditions and develoD
ment of this section of the state lies
in the fact that an effort has been
made to make every copy better than
the one before it and better than any
other Nebraska "country paper."
Men week the editorial columns
have been filled with good and heln
ful suggestions, and each issue the
advertising columns have renre
sented merchants and firms who de
sire your trade and who will give
you value received for your money
lheir advertisements in this paper
are an announcement to you that
they desire your trade and think
enough of your business to ask von
for It through the columns of this
paper. The Herald has lost advertis
ing oy criticising merchants who
make untruthful statements in thir
advertising one Alliance merchant
Bald he wouldn't advertise in this
paper because "the paper printed
nomethlng about him that he didn't
'ike we consider this a compli
ment to the independence of the
paper.
It Is intended that the editorial
and news columns shall give you
not all the news in a readable wma
tr
out they shall give you thoughts and
suggest lines of action that will help
you make more money and enable
you and your family to live better
and more comfortably. Both the
editorial and advertising- denart-
ments of The Alliance Herald are
anxious to be of real service to you
WAR'S
DELAYS
rifles and artillery, and that such co
operation will continue as long as
necessary. The delay 'is to be de
plored, and It may be hoped that the
ventilation of the subject will lead to
a more determined speeding up, bin
accusation and denunciation are
more harmful than helpful, and
pessimism is worse than useless.
Secretary Baker is quoted as saying
that the business of the war bureaus
has increased 3,000 per cent. Diffi
culties and delay all along the line
have been Inevitable.
This was much more true of Eng
land and was true even of France,
although that country's Tear of Ger
many had Induced a large amount of
war preparation during many years.
In August, 1914, England had
neither army nor equipment; a year
later there was an army without
equipment. Even in 1916 England's
army was only fairly well equipped
and not until this past summer could
its equipment be called complete.
Even long-awakened France was
similarly embarrassed, though in less
degree, until of late. The German
tiger, on the other hand, was armed
to the teeth in advance of its plunge
upon unprepared Europe. All of
which explains many things. It is
idle to say that we should have be
gun preparations on a huge scale
to which neither congress nor peo
ple would have consented before
we went to war. It is still more
absurd to expect to train and .prop
erly equip two million soldiers in a
short time. All we can do is to face
the Inevitable difficulties and master
them 'as fast as we can.
. - 'W T
sldered, we are very lucky not to be
obliged to pay any more.
We are also lucky to be granted a
maximum allowance of three pounds
per person a month. It Is true thai
his cuts the ordinary years' consump
tion In two, but it is ample fr.r
all leal needs and merely requires
a'oidance of extravagant waste.
Many thousands of Americans never
have used as mu;h, or thought they
needed as much, ri, three pounds of
sugar per person a month. With
shipments to our uliies imperative,
and with the obstinate hoarders and
greedy profiteers to contend with, it
is simply marvelous that the food
administration has been able to han
dle the problem so successfully.
Soft Drinks and Beverages
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sociatlon is going to be of great value
to these citizens and of great value
to the nation in making them more
personally interested in their gov
ernment and more active and alert in
the exercise of their duties and rights
as citizens. Every Liberty Bond
holder is going to be an active cham
pion of wise and economic legislation
and administration.
The Liberty Loan is not only a
great financial transaction; It is a
great national forco, a great na
tional bond between the bondholders
and their country, a great influence
for better government 'and better
citizenship.
HORSE
SENSE"
A contributor to Baily's 'Magazine,
discussing the "brain power of the
horse," asks if it is reason that
makes a horse do everything in his
power to avoid treading upon a rider
who has fallen from its back, and if
it is reason or some mesmeric power
which makes a horse a runaway
brute with one man and a lamb with
another? The writer thinks there
must be "some working of the brain"
to account for equine intelligence
displayed in this and many other
ways. The deductions of the ar
ticle are: that there is a better
psychological understanding between
some men and horses than others;
that the horse 1b capable of real af
fection and sorrow; that it has brain
power sufficient to have mesmerlcally
or otherwise imparted to it courage,
Joy, sorrow, and to appreciate these
emotions to some degree; and that
while it has to a limited extent the
power of reason, which is more high
ly developed in some than in others,
much of what is described as intel
ligence, is attributable to instinct.
A reviewed of this article wonders
as to theorigin of the expression,
"horse sense," which, he says. Is cen
turies old. Perhaps the expression
or its ancestral equivalent dates back
to an early time when men in their
symbolical writings employed the
horse, the most intelligent of beasts,
as a representative of human reason
or intellect. That this was done has
been asserted, a philosophical writer
of the eighteenth century contend
ing, for example, that by the
'Trojan Horse" the Greeks of the
Homeric age did not -mean literally
a wooden horse In which armed men
were concealed but merely a con
trivance or stratagem whereby the
Greeks gained an advantage over
their Trojan enemies.
A GREAT
FISH YIELD
The shortage and costliness of
some foods are in a measure offset
by the plentifulness and relative
cheapness of fish. The year 1917
was a good one for the I fishermen.
For example, the canned salmon of
Alaska has been valued at $40,000,
000, which is twice the record pro
duction of 1916 'and more than the
yield of the Alaskan gold fields. A
heavy salmon production is also re
ported from the northern Pacific
states, the grand total being far
above domestic needs and furnishing
a substantial supply for our Euro
pean allies. During the past year the
Bureau of Fisheries has done a great
deal to develop the wealth of our
coast and interior waters, the out
put of the hatcheries for the first
time passing the 5,000,000,000 mark
and all the states being furnished in
abundance.
We read that many formerly ne
glected fish arc now being utilized
in one way or 'another, these in
cluding the sable fish of the north
west coast, the burgot of the great
lakes, the bow fin of the interior riv
ers, the grayflsh, the talefish, etc.
Even the shark has become a profit
able commodity, leather of a very
good grade for certain uses being
made of Its skin. Perhaps there is
an even greater yield from the catch
ing of the shark through the in
crease in food fish resulting from the
reduction in the number of one of
their most destructive enemies.
Shark meat is now also used as food.
,A further gain Is reported as a re
sult of efforts to reduce wasteful and
destructive methods among fishermen.
THE SIMPLE
LIFE THE REST
Tha city man, bound by the ties
of routine work, store and office
hours, realizes the freedom of the
dweller in the country until tie has
an opportunity to partake of it him
self. It was our privilege to spend
most of last woek at the home of
"Farmer Dick" Kenner, northwest of
Hemingford. It took us back to boy
hood days and we found much en
joyment in helping "do the chores"
and assisting in the hundred and
one fthings which a farmer finds to
do, even in the winter time.
To the man who wearies of the
eternal grind at desk or counter, we
recommend a week in the country.
It will make you feel like new and
also perhaps alter your views of the
life of the farmer or ranchman.
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General C roller's testimony before
tne senate committee on military af
fairs, showed that there has been
lamentable delay In testing rifles, de
ciding on the best make, and in
manufacturing the chosen type rap
idly enough to supply the National
Army. The same testimony showed
that through ararngeinent with
Great Britain and France our troops
abroad nave been amply provided
with machine guns, ammunition,
SUGAR
FOR ALL
Nobody has paid much attention to
Claud Spreckels' attack on the food
administration. Sugar barons and
other large dealers In foodstuffs have
been, angry before when their gen
erous profits were cut down for the
public good. Our suffering Euro
pean Allies, who are fighting our bat
tle as well as their own, had to be
given a share of the product. Yet
no serious sugar famine has re
sulted and tho government-controlled
price remains reasonably moderate.
Sugar is not selling at $1 a pound,
as It did during the Napoleonic wars.
It sells from 15 to 20 cents a pound
In Europe and at about 10 cents a
pound in America. All things con-
WILSON'8
DEFINITION
Hundreds of articles land many
books have been written to define
"Germanism" and show to the world
what it means. In his message to
congress on December 4th, President
Wilson defines It as follows:
"This intolerable Thing of which
the masters of Germany have shown
us the ugly face, this menace of
combined intrigue and force which
we now sec so clearly as the German
power, a Thing withcut conscience of
honor or capacity for covenanted
peace."
This Thing must be crushed, and
if not truly brought to an end, at
least sUut out from the friendly in
tercourse of the nations, Bays the
president, and it la only when this
Thing and its power are Indeed de
feated that the time can come when
we can discuss peace with the Ger
man people.
FIRST
INTEREST PAYMENT
On December 15th the first install
ment of interest on the two billion
dollars of the first Issue of Liberty
Loan Bonds became due. The
amount approximated $35,000,000
being xi.75 Interest on every one
hundred dollars of bonds.
Holders of coupon bonds obtain
their interest money from any bank
or poet office in the country by sim
ply presenting their coupons. Hold
ers of registered bonds are sent
checks for their interest by the treas
ury.
Hereafter every six months ten to
fifteen million American citizens are
to receive interest money on their
Liberty Loan Bonds from the United
States Government. This is going to
create a closer and more direct a
sociatlon of theae citizens with lheir
government, and the effect of this as
The loyal American who is tem
peramentally a pessimist there are
many such should weigh his worcs
and watch his tongue. Otherwise, h i
may hinder while desiring to help,
harm while hoping to aid the cause.
If he be not careful, he will play the
ame of the pro-German propagan
dist without knowing It. As in life.
so also in war, there are inevitable
ups and downs. To face the latter
with the cheerfulness of a continuing
hope and an unweakenlng resolution
is of incalculable value. Pessimism
gets nowhere. Optimism, joined with
good sense and unfailing effort, wins
where foreboding and Irresolution
lamentably fail.
being employed for all she Is worth
which can't be much, fc the Ger
mans themselves shoot splea and oc
casionally even Impale Belgian or
French children on bayonets and
hold then RlOf! as th-y pitifully take
leav3 of a fcell-cur.-.ed world.
It is eaoy to convince the German
masses that England is fighting to
crush German commerce and that
France is fighting for territory at
Germany's expense, though neither
is true; but it Is not so easy io
manufacture the conviction through
out Germany that the United States
also has gone Into the war with sel
fish alma. The desperation of the
German moulders of public opinion is
shown by the fact that they can
think more convincing than that the
United States desires to annex
Switzerland." This country's rec
ord and the president's utterances
have brought the kaiser's editorial
writers to their wit's end.
It is known that President Wilson
and Colonel House talked about the
inter-allied conference at Paris until
they burned the midnight oil, but in
spite of published speculiilous baaed
on "unimpeachable authority," few
of us know much about what was
said and done at the French capital
further than that those taking part
in the conference repsrd It as highly
successful and that they came away
enthusiastic.
Lenine and Trotzky are trying
hard to er.rn the kai3er'e money, but
they will never be able to cover up
! . t.rrlv f .t that Duaaln i a tha
til' ut 1 ' ' . i n u.'.i.i " n S3 i ...
in -t to take steps to resist German
aggression and that that country as
now misled has dellberacly broken
faith with the allies It eagerly
sought in a common cause. This dis
grace, If not removed, will endure as
long as history is written.
As Soirey '.Gamp lmaglnad "Mrs.
Harrlo" whenever the tos .mony of
the fabulous lady was need .d, so the
Germans have ccncocted an "Anna
Huitems" and had hir shot in the
United Strtes as a spy. No doubt the
mythical Frau or Fraulein Anna
The reply of Emperor Charles to
America's declaration of war is that
the Austrians are going to remain
masters of their own house. Pre
sumably his ' overlord, the kaiser
thought it might be good policy to let
him Bay it.
A teacher of German in Now
York's public schools boosts: "Yei,
I am German; I am unnaturalized
and pro-German." From which It
would appear that there is quite "too
much German" both in and out of the
schools of New York.
Let the
Buyer
Beware!
If you put your money into a farm that
turns out to be a poor one you Have
lost part of your savings.
How to Buy
a Farm
By Harry R. O'Brien, points out tKe pit
falls and tells what to looK for. In this
weeK's issue of
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