TAGE TWO
THE ALLIANCE HERALD, ALLIANCE, NEBRASKA, NOVEMBER 20, 1919
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DURR rRINTlNQ CO., Owners
-v flEOROE L. BURR, JR...
.....Editor
JKDWIN M. BURB Business Mgr.
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Entered at the post office at Alli
Mce, Neb., (or transmission through
the mailt aa second class matter.
Published every' Thursday.
There Is now a new way to admin
ister the "third degree." Oakland,
CJ., baa what Is known as an "aerial
patrol," which means, In plain lan
guage, that the police force has at Its
illsposal an aeroplane or two. It
would seem that flying machines
would be of little alue in ordinary
police work at present, although In
daya to come safe-blowers may never
be without a biplane to make their
Cetaway. The Idea In Oakland Is to
take suspected criminals on perilous
flights, and wring confessions from
them by doing all sorts of hair-raising
stunts while In the air. Some
tow, we feel that even a criminal
baa rights, and the new "third de
gree" doesn't differ a whit In prin
ciple from the old one, which was
remarkably successful In getting con
fessions, although as often as not
they were made by innocent men
who had stood about as much torture
a they were capable of enduring.
Torture is torture, and a constitution
'Which prohibits cruel and unusual
punishments ought to mean some
thing. So far as results were con
cerned, the old rack and thumbscrew
left little to be desired.
TIME TO CAUv A HALT
It la time for the sensible labor
unionists to call a halt, or the whole
movement will be tarred with the
ame brush that public optnlon has
Applied to certain unions that have
been especially unreasonable in their
demands since the war. Even In the
typographical union ranks, where
ober judgment has practically al
ways held sway, there, is a bolshe
vistic bunch that Is running amuck.
Our favorite printers' magaiine has
missed two Issues and announces
that It Is In the fight to the finish.
The New York printers, in the face
et opposition from the heads of four
International unions and the Amer
ican federation or labor, have defied
all authority, and the result is that
thousands of men walk the streets
while their families need their week
ly earnings, and hundreds of print
ing offices have closed their doors.
The strike, while confined to New
Trk city, affects 3,600 printers and
t leaat 5,000 presmen and feeders.
There has never been a greater de
mand for printing, but the employ
ers. In this Instance, have been will
ing to suffer real loss rather than
give In to "outlaw unions." It is
Mid that the union offices have al
most unanimously shut down their
plants, only a few week-kneed breth
ren, with eyes open only to big profits
for the present, having given In.
The typographical union has long
been a model. It has been one of
the few great unions which has voted
to accept arbitration of disputes. It
has always rigidly upheld its con
tracts with employers. Because of
this attitude on the part of its mem
bers, the employers have been will
ing to sign closed shop agreements
with the typographical union. Even
now, In New York, the publishers
are waiting, not until they can fill
the vacated positions, but until they
can be filled with union men.
We believe that contracts between
labor unions and employers consti
tute the best basis for Industrial se
curity, but there must be strict ad
herence by both parties to the agree
ment. The closed shop, which ex
cludes those willing to share in the
benefits of organized labor, but are
unwilling to share in the effort to
secure them, is not only justifiable,
but almost essential. Unless the
unions see the handwriting on the
wall and promptly stamp out bolshe
vlsm In all forms sit down on those
who wish to limit and discourage
production the time will come
when the government will take over
the function of setting a limit on
wages. We believe that any set of
employers and employes can better
set the wages In their industry than
the government can, but unless all
unions and employers accept the
principle of arbitration and begin to
take account of the Interest of the
third party the public the entire
matter will, sooner or later, be taken
out of their hands.
ADVERTISING IIOLSIIKYISM
Carrie Nation once made a visit to
our home town, In the days follow
ing her hatchet raids, and promptly
called on the newspapers. She told
us, among other things for she was
fond of spreading her thoughts, was
Carrie that she had to have pub
licity. We didn't have any saloons
n Aurora, and mighty few bar-flies,
but she needed the money, and In
order to collect enough she had to
be advertised. Her words were, as
nearly as we can recall them: "I
want folks to talk about me I want
them to point me out as I go along
the street. I don't care what they
say, so long as they say something.
If I can't attract attention In any
other way, I'll stand on the street
corner and swear. But If my lec
ture Is to be a success, they must
know I'm here."
Carrie didn't do so very much
damage In Aurora, beyond selling a
number of silver and golden hatchets
at outrageous prices to those who
came out to hear her rap the saloons.
A friend of our bought one one of
the gold ones and the gold rubbed
off and turned a sickly green within
the month. Carrie wasn't a hand
some woman, but she was a peach of
a publicity expert. She knew that
more flies can be caught wit honey
than with vinegar. So she didn't
take a handful of those little
hatchets and sell them herself she
turned the job over to a remarkably
pretty girl whom she Introduced as
her niece. The girl sold them and
one melting look from her was good
for a dollar, which was the price of
the gold hatchets. Nearly every man
present fell for It.
Carrie's system of publicity was
baled on the old saw that a knock
is as good as a boost that any kind
of publicity Is beneficial. And
there's a lot to that theory. For in
stance, you will hear dozens of mer
chants say: "I don't care what my
competitors say about my product as
long as they talk." Even The Her
ald will endorse that sentiment.
But newspapers, In their search
for live news to fill their columns,
occasionally aid in ' spreading bad
doctrine. Take the case of bolshe
vism. Before the war no one had
heard of the word. Now, due solely
to the power of advertising and
free advertising at that there isn't
a worker that can read the language
who doesn't know what It means.
Its enemies have spread Its propa
ganda and have actually converted
more workers to It than the men who
are behind the movement. Bolshe
vism originated in Russia, and, prob
ably financed by German money, a
few agents were sent to America.
They couldn't have got very far with
it, but the newspapers took it up.
The word was soon used in every
publicity medium in the country.
And bolshevism has spread faster
than the wildest dreams of its propa
gators could have contemplated. In
Centralia, Wash., today there is open
warfare between the bolshevists and
the authorities, and the bolshevists
are gaining ground.
Here's what one exchange has to
say about it, and it's sound sense:
"Isn't it about time we stopped
giving bolshevism bo much free ad
vertising? We have taken a word
that meant nothing in this country a
few months ago, and. In our news
papers and magazines and speeches
and personal conversation, have done
just what the leaders of the move
ment wanted us to do: We have ad
vertised It Into prominence for theml
"Nothing could pleaBe these lead
ers better than to see the "capital
ist" press spreading their gospel to
thousands of restless workers whom
they could not reach for years with
their slow mouth-to-mouth facilities
for spreading news and ideas. They
believe and work on the theory, 'I
don't care what my competitors say
about my product so long as they
talk.'
"What bolshevism needs more
than anything else is to be absolute
ly ignored. Let's stop talking about
It and writing about it, and devote
our energies to swatting un-Amer-
lcanlsm In any form it may take,
simply as un-Amerlcanism and not
as this or that social theory.
"When these foreign disturbers
start to talk their theories of discon
tent and destruction they should be
told straight from the shoulder that,
while we don't consider our country
perfect, it is the best country in the.
world, and if they don't like it there
Is Just one thing for them to do
GET OUT!
"Meanwhile, let's promptly resign
our lobs as press agents for this
canker sore and stop its spreading,
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Calvin D. Walker, Mgr.
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AT
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Tuesday, Nov. 25
AT 2 P. M.
This farm, the estate of Redmond Hand, Sr., and
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northwest of Hay Springs, Neb., will be sold at
public auction at .the court house, at Rushville,
Neb., on the above date.
Dr. George Hand
Administrator
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