TWO
THE ALLIANCE HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1920.
as they were passing tbera out free, street complaint that we are "pick-
how comes It they missed the forty
lng on
It" when we' gently remon-
two
strate.
Random Shots
Maybe some of the newsboys were
sick.
It's a good thing we have a sense
of humor.
We have direct evidence that there
, Jm gambling going on. We are not
prattling of any mythical House of
' Mystery, either.
We were wandering up to the
boarding house about, dinner time,
nd pwed two little girls. They
vera talking high and fast, as el
elted little girls do, and they were
"panning" a third little girl. "And
be shoots pennies with the boys,
too!" one of them said.
Or got tired. They weren't used
to carrying so many papers, perhaps.
1 llore work for the police depart
ment. 1 " i
Or the preachers. , ! J "
1 the wild wavesarr agitated Jrici
more. t f
This time the semi-weekly up the
.treet is to Issue a city circulation
map.
And It Is going to show, with little
dots how, on March 12, its newspa
wa. "sold OR DISTRIBUTED
to all but forty-two houses In the city
of Alliance.
Let-, Bee March 12 was the Issue
that 2,176 papers were printed.
That was the Issue they put out
ereral hundred sample copies.
Of course, if the advertiser Is
chump enough to believe that this
circulation Is bona-flde, It is his look
out. Just the same as it was his
lookout if he added the figures In the
"circulation audit" some months
ago.
Or the detailed circulation statement.
Or maybe they didn't print enough
to go around.' They have been claim
ing "nine out of ten" for so long
they may have grown to believe it,
It must have; been a great Jolt to
Bonnie to discover that there were
so many houses in town where bis
semi-weekly Is a stranger.
Wonder what kind of a map the
circulation o( Marc,h, would show?
We mean a "sworn" map.
' As we said before, the wild waves
seem to be agitated. There's a
reason.
Funny. thing about wild wares:
there are usually breakers ahead.
Tou can't get away with that stuff
Indefinitely.
That's what makes 'em so wild.
Consider the fish, who never gets
caught so long as he keeps his mouth
shut.
Question: Can a map be "sworn"?
Now. on March 6, The Herald was
put in every house in town. We did
n't miss forty-two. Not us.
That's where they got the Inspira
tion for the ram pie copies.
But not the map.
That great Idea is their own work.
(So far as we know. .Rufus never
Issued a map.)
Once before our competitor put
a map. That was before the days
of "circulation audits,", or detailed
statements, or statements by towns,
and such. 7"
Or the statement by towns.
Or the other statements.
Some of them were sworn to, and
.others weren't. With their peculiar
method of figuring, It didn't make
much difference.
A sort of equal unreliability In all
stl them, as Vwere.
What puzzles us is this: So long
When the first map was checked
up, a bunch of vacant lots were
found to be subscribers to the semi
weekly up thje street.
When you haven't got 'em and
you know the other fellow is getting
'em you gotta do the next best
thing.
They tell us the map will be "interesting."
We'll say so.
It reminds us of those little puzzle
pictures for children. Draw a line
from dot No. 1 to dot No. 2, and so
on. When you have connected all
the dots, you'll be rewarded by see
ing a splendid likeness of a donkey.
We heard some more kid talk that
is Interesting. This time it was two
little boys little ones, about so
high. "You don't have to mind Chief
Taylor after 9 o'clock," one of them
said. "Chief Reed is chief after 9
o'clock."
And yet, when The Herald has to
meet this sort of competition every
day or so, the semi-weekly up the
Special for Saturday
Gingham Dresses for the little tots, All sizes from
2 to 14.
Checks in blue, tan and green, and plain shades in
pink, blue and white.
WHITE POPLIN
Machine embroidered Dresses with embroidered
scallop in pink and blue.
Bock Furnishing House
120 West Third Alliance, Nebr.
THE DARK PAGE OP T1IH A. E. V.
The following is an extract from
the testimony of one of the enlisted
men who appeared before the com
mittee investigating conditions that
prevailed in the A. E. F. prison at
raris during the war:
"And everything they took out of
my pocket they threw away, even my
mother's picture, and they called hor
an awful, vile name when I asked for
It, and told me that I could buy an
other picture of a girl Just as good
for a couple of francs. Thero
were two colored men in there and
when one of the guards wanted n
have some fun, he would go over
and knock a colored fellow down
with a club. I saw them bring
a fellow upstairs one night at Rue
Ste. Anne about 5 o'clock; two
guards were dragging him up and
one had hold of each leg. They
dragged him up four fllgh's with tho
blood streaming from his head. Ho
was unconscious. They made
one fellow scrub the steps with a
toothbrush. They, made sn
other empty a tub with a teaspoon.
JI saw them club men into u.-
rnnsplniinnoRn. '
One cannot read such testimony
without being overcome with horror.
Did such things really happen in the
A. E. F.T Were the fighters of the
j great democracy of the west subject
ed to cruelties that almost equal the
tortures of the dark ages? Did
1 American soldiers devise methods ot
punishment that even put the bar
barous Turks to shame?
From the testimony given at this
Investigation .one is led to believe
. the charges werd true. . It would
seem that certain German officers
i were not the only ones who were
guilty of "atrocities.", I
i Conereas should InvestlcntA thin
matter without stint or fear. If even
a part of the charges are true, no
effort should be spared to bring the
t guilty to Justice. This is no matter
l in which to punish only the little fel
t lows. If the charges are true, there
Is one man more guilty than all,' the
rest. That Is the commanding gen
eral of the district of Paris who al
lowed such practices to exist. This
is no matter in which to "pass: the
buck." Nebraska Legion News.'
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.England's hangmen want more
pay, and to account lu part for their
present state of need they point out
that they no longer receive the rope
used in executions as a perquisite.
The hangman's rope, having per
formed Its legal office, once found a
ready market. Pieces of it were
sought by curio collectors of a nior
bld turn, but other persons bought
it for practical reasons. One super
stition was that a hit of the noose
rubbed on the affected part would
cure certain ailments. The hang
man always had a market for '. his
used rope, and his Income from its
sale was regarded as a legitimate
part of his pay. This cut otr mil
me cost of living advancing, he nat
urauy seeks a higher wage. Record
One forgets that hardly a quarter
or a century ago people gathered In
curious little groups-to look at the
pioneer motorcars, when the en
terprising owners left them stand
ing in the street, and is not partic
ularly surprised to read that the lat
est automobile registrations returns
show an average of one car for every
sixteen persons in the United States.
One wonders if, twenty-five or thirty
years hence, the aircraft will show
the United States anything- lika as
well provided with airplanes, and if
the casual newspaper reader will ac
cept the condition as a matter of
i ". says Christian Science Mon
iu J is not impossible that avia
tion, E3 it Is being proved practic
able, answers in the negative because
ot the special requirements demand
ed of the aviator. An army test for
aviators, one hears, requires that the
candidate must be able to walk a
straight line with his eyes closed.
and one wonders if one person in six
teen throughout the United States
could do It -Without wabbling.
A wise v&unz man nausea tin the
pretty girl and marries a homely one
who can cook.
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Flowers of Easter
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would make glad -a sweetheart Jo whom you would send a .
message of love a wife you would tell of faithful devotion t
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RIB ROAST,
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SHOULDER POT ROAST,
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BOIL BEEF,
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22c
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