THE ALLIANCE HERALD, AUGUST 22, 1918
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Railroad Notes
f ATHMKltT TO THK I't'HIJt'
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t otnplaints have reached me from
tini' to tUns of overcrowded trains
and unsatisfactory conditions pr -Viiilinp
in some sections of the cnrni
iry in paSMBgsr train service. 1
tat (citain that there are grounds
for sonic 01 these complaints, hut I
am pure the puhlic Will lie Interested
to know that the reasona are two
fold :
First, the ureal number of irops
now being handled over the various
railroads between the homes tim the
cantonments, between the different
cantonments and then to tbfl sea
board, is making extraordinary de
mands upon the passenger c;ir and
sleeping car equipment of the coun
try. This has caused a scarcity of
day coaches and sleeping cars Which
It is impossible to remedy mime !i
ately. Secondly, the increased deyiands
upon track and terminal facilities
for the transportation of (' e tremen
dous amounts of coal, food supplies,
raw materials, and otlvr things re
quired for military and naval opera
tions, as well as for the suppert of
the civil population of the country,
force the largest possible curtail
ment of pajsenger train rervice. The
movements of troops and war ma
terials are, of course, of paramount
importance and must be given at all
. imes tin1 nuni or WIT.
It was hoped that the increyse in
passenger rates recently made would
have thi wholesome effect of reduc
ing unnecessary passenger traffic
thruout the country. The smaller the
number of passengers who travel, the
greater the numbe'r of locomotives
and cars and the larger the amount
of track and terminal facilities that
will be freed for essential troop and
war material movements. Engineers,
tin men. and other skilled laborer
will also be released for service
troop and necessary freight trains
Among the many patriotic duties
of the American public at this time
is the duty to refrain from traveling,
unnecessarily. Every man, woman
and child who can avoid using pas
senger trains at this time should do
so. I earnestly hope that they will
do so Not only will they liberate
i essential transportation facilities
which are necessary for war .pur
poses, but they will sav emoney
which they can invest In liberty
t(nds and thereby help themselves
as well as their country; and the
fewer who travel, the more ample the
passenger train service will be.
. I may add tint consistently with
the paramount demands of the war,
ry possible effort Is being made
of tin railroad administration to
supply the largest possible amount of
comfortable and prompt passenger
train service.
(Sinned) W. (; MeAlNtO.
Director (ieneral of Ha'lroads
rjmnoRAL order n. to.
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: To All Employees In the Railroad
Service of the United States:
i Complaints have reached me from
time to time that employees nre not
treating the public with as much con
sideration and courtesy under gov
ernment control of the railroads as
; under private control. I do not
: know how much courtesy was accord
I ed the public under private control,
and I have no basis, therefore, for
accurate comparison. 1 hope, how-
I ever, that the reports of discourtesy
I under government administration of
i hie railroads are incorrect, or that
I they are at least confined to a rela
tively few cases. Whatever may be
the merits of these complaints, they
duaw attention to a question which
I is of the utmost importance in the
I management of the railrocds.
For many years it was popularly-
believed that "the public be damned"
policy was the policy of the railroads
under private control. Such a policy
is indefensible either under privnte
control or government control. It
would be particularly indefensible
under public control when railroad
employees nre the direct servants of
he public. "The public be damned"
,,olicy will in no circumstances be
tolerated on the railroads under gov
ernment control. Every employe of
the railroad should take pride la
serving the public courteously and
efficiently. Courtesy costs nothing
and when it is dispensed. It makes
the self -n sped ofthe einplovi
My attention has also been called
to the fact that employes have some
times offered as an excuse for their
own shortcomings, or us a Justifica
tion for delayed trains or other diffi
culties the statement that "Uncle
Sain Is running the railroads how"
or " These are McAdoo's orders,"
etc. Nothing could be more repre
hensible than statements of this
charai ,er. ami nothing could le BMTt
hurtful to the success of the railroad
administration or to the welfare of
railroad employes thetnr.elves. No
doubt, those who have made tin in
have done so thoughtlessly in most
instances, but the harm is just as
meat if a thing of this soil Is done
thoughtlessly as if it is done deliber
ately. There are many people who for
partisan or selfish purpose w!4h
government operation of the rai-
i(i, ids to be a failure. Kvery em
ploye who is discourteous to the pub
lic or makes excuses or statements
of the kind I have described, is help
ing these partisan or selfish inter
ests to discredit government control
of railroads.
Recently the wages of railroad em
ployes were largely Increased, In
volving an addition to railroad oper
ating expenses of more than $475,
000,000 per annum. In order to meet
this increase, the public has been
cnlled upon to pay largely increased
passenger and freight rates. The
people have accepted thiB new bur
den cheerfully and patriotically. The
least that every employe can do In re
turn is to serve the public courte
ously, faithfully and efficiently.
A great responsibility and duty
rest upon the railroad employes of
the United States. Upon tnetr loyal
ty, efficiency and patriotism depends
in large part America's success and
the overthrow of the Kaiser and all
that he represents. Let us not fail
to measure up to our dutj), and to
the just demand of the public that
railroad cervlce shall not only be ef
ficient, but that It shall always be
courteously administrted.
(Signed W. O. McADOO. '
Director General of Railroads.
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HAYING MACHINERY
Including the famous
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and the' celebrated
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Bain Wagons
De Laval Cream Separators Farm Trucks
Gas Engines Dayton Airless Tires
Lubricating Auto Oils and Greases
The Farmers' Union
Alliance, Nebraska
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ave money on rami
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Gates
It won't cost you a penny more to put up genuine CAN'T SAG gates on
your ranch or farm than to build the clumsy, short-lived all-wood Rates vou
have used for years. That's why the farmers are putting up thousands' of
these gates every year. They have found that here is the first practical farm
gate-one that will really stand the hardest knocks, outlast the all-wood or
wire and gas-pipe gates three to one, and yet actually costs them no more than
the cheapest home-made gates they can build.
4i m CANT-SAG gates are not only stronger and cheaper, but thev are also
the hnest looking gates you can own. They swing both ways easily, and are
guaranteed never to sag or drag.
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Buy them complete or build them just as you prefer. We furnish the
gate steels which include, angle steeples, hinges; braces, lag Her'ZVry.
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The sample gate now onolemonstration at our yard will show vou just
how they ar made and how they look when hung. The price is low
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ASK TO SEE THEM.
FOREST LUMBER COMPANY
GEORGE A. HEILMAN, Manager
Alliance, Nebraska
OUR SAVED FOOD
FED THE ALLIES
Food Administrator Writes Presi
dent America Conserved 141,
000,000 Bushels Wheat.
CREDIT DUE TO WOMEN.
French 5un;llfo Deslrgvdft
Meat and Pat Shipments Increased by
S44.6C0.000 Pounds.
Conservntlon measures applied by
the American people enabled the rnit-
ed States o ship 10 the Allied people
anil to our own forces mat eeei HI,
800,000 bushel of wheat ami 844,000,
"00 potted of meat during the past
j ear, valued In nil at 11,400, 000,000.
This was arcompltehed in the tece of a
serious food shortage In this country,
bespeaking the wholebtnrtedneet nnd
patriotism with which the American
people have met the food crisis nbroad.
FVjod administrator Hoover, in 6 lat
ter to President Wlleon, explains how
the situation was met. The voluntary
conservation program fostered by the
Food Administration enabled the piling
up Of the millions of bushels of wheat
during PUT IS and the shipment of
meat daring 1017-18.
The tntnl vslde of nit food ship
ments to Allied destinations amounted
to IMOo.non.ooo, all this food being
bought through or In collaboration
with the Pood Administration. These
figures are all based on ofOrial reports
nnd represent food exports for the
harvest year that closed June 80, 1018.
The shipments of meats nnd fats
(Including meat products, dairy prod
ucts, vegetable oils, etc.,) to Allied des
tinations were as follows:
Fiscal year 1016-17... .2,180,500.000 lbs.
Fiscal year 1017-18. . ..3,011,100,000 lbs.
Increase 844.600,000 lbs.
Our sluRhtcrableanlniats at the be
ginning of the last fiscal year were not
appreciably larger than the year be
fore and particularly in hogs; they
were probably less. The Increase lo
shipments la due to conservation nnd
the extra weight of animals added by
our farmers.
The full effect of these efforts began
to bear their best results In the Inst
half of the fiscal year, when the ex
ports to the Allies were 2,138,100,000
pounds, ns against 1 ,280,.r00,000 poundi
In the same period of the year before.
This compares with nn average ol
801,000.000 pounds of total exports fot
the same half years In the three-yea'
pre-war period.
In cereals und cereal products re
duced to terms of cereal bushels out
shipments to Allied destinations huv
been :
Fiscal year 1010-17. .2.r.0.000,000 busheli
Fiscal year 1017-18. ,a 10,800,000 bushel
France must Import sugnr todny.
most of It from this side of the ocean,
because the largest portion of French
sugar beet land la In German hands.
As a result, the French people have
been plared on a sugar ration of about
18 pounds a year for domestic, use ;
a- pound and a half a month. This
photograph hows how the German
troops destroyed French sugar mills
Thanks to the French rationing sy
tern the annual consumption haa been
cut to JOO.OOO tons, according to re
ports reaching the United States Food
Administration. Before the war Francs
had an average sugar crop of about
700,000 tons of sugar and had some
left over for export
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Increase 80,000,000 husheli
Of those cereals our shipments ol
the prime breadst tiffs In the tlscal yeni
1017-18 to Allied destinations were:
Wheat 131,000,XH) bushels and of ry
13,000,000 bushels, a totul of 114,000.
000 bushels.
The exports to Allied destluntloni
during the fiscal year 1916-17 were
Wheat 186,100,000 bushels and ryi
2,300.000 bushels, a total of 117,400401
bushels. In addition some 10,0O0,OO(
bush-Is of 191? wheat are now In port
for Allied destinations or en routi
thereto. The total shipments to Allied
countries from our Inst harvest ol
wheat will be therefore, about 141.000,
000 bushels, or a total of 154,900,00c
bushels of prime brendstuffs. , In ad
dltlon to this we have shipped soon
10,000.000 bushels to neutrals depend
ent upon us, nnd we have received
some Imports from other quarters.
This accomplishment of our penplt
In this matter stands out even nion
clearly if we bear In mind that we hat!
available In the fiscal year 1916-11
from net carry-over and as surplui
over our normal consumption uboul
200,000,000 bushels of wheat which Wt
were able to export that year without
trenching on our home loaf," Mr
Hoover said. "This last year, however
owing lo the large failure of tlte ion
wheat crop, we had avullable from net
carry-over and production and Importi
oply Just about our normal consump
fion. Therefore our wheat shlpmenti
to Allied destinations represent ap
proximately savings frou our owi
wheat brend.
"These figures, however, do not full)
convey the volume of the effort anc
sacrifice made during the past yeai
by the whole American people. I),
spite the magnificent effort of our agri
cultural population in pluming a mini
Increased acreage In 1017, not only erai
there a very large fuilure In wheat
but also the corn failed to mature prop
erly, und our corn is our dominant crop
"I am suro." Mr. Hoover wrote la
oonclmling his report, "that ull th
millions of our people, agricultural at
well as urban, who have contributej
to these results should feel a very
definite satisfaction that In a year of
universal food shortages In the north
ern hemisphere all of those peopl
Joined together agninst Germuny huv
come through Into sight of the comiri
harvest not only with wealth und
strength fully maintained, but with
only temporary periods of hardship.
"It is difficult to distinguish between
various sections of our people the
homes, public eating places, food
trades, urban or agricultural popula
tionsIn assessing credit for these re
sults, but no one will deny the dotal
uuut part of the American women.
A boarder Is a man who is mora la
terestcd In getting big bite than la gist
ta; hie biu
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PASTURE
WANTED 400 Head of Cattle to
Pasture in the Sand Hills.
Inquire Herald Office, Box No, 9826
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BEVERAGES ON DRAUGHT
AT ALL TIMES
Order a case of 36 pints
sent to your home. De
livery made anywhere in
v Alliance. Rebate for re-
t turn of cases.
Cigars, Tobaccos,
Candies, Lunches.
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Order Your
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Coal Supply Early
It is the wise thing to do
You'll say so this winter, too.
If we could make plain tu 70a the situation, we know
that you would put tn your winter's coal supply now.
We are not trying to scare yon, but we are trying to teU
ou. The car shortage exists. It may 100s to yon like
everything Is moving, but you'U appreciate what we tail
you when winter oumes and It may be neat to impossible
to get coal.
We've got coal to sell you today. We've got coal today
to put Into your bin. We can't promise more. It's good
coal and It's a fair price. We urge you to get busy
hint? act. It will prove to your advantage.
Dierks Lumber & Coal Co.
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