THE ALLIANCE HEKALt), FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1921
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BUWIN M. UUUU Uulna Mgr.
Ofllrlal rn-wapappr of tht City of
Alliume; nClciat lie paper ot Boa
Butt County.
Ownrd and published by The Uurr
FTintintc Company, 0or I Hurr, Jr.,
rrrnldtit; Kuwtn M. Uurr, Vita IT
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It now develops lht the reason pro
hibition hasn t been Ktr.clly enforced
in. because the federal amenta draw
Uch pitifully meager salaries that
Ihey are constantly tempted to forget '
duty if the br.be be large enough, n
it is the aim of the department of
Justice to pay salaries large enough
o that a bribe will be no temptation
to a booze hound, prepare for a big in
crease in taxes. The profits In boot
legging are no enormous that the il
licit dealers can raise the ante to al
most unbelievable umft.
There will be a big fight in the
legislature against, the welfare com
miBBion bill, which carries with it an
appropriation 'of well over $300,000,
half of which will be used to establish
offices and pay dome nice salaries to
number of good people who are ter
ribly concerned about public morals
and children's welfare. Alliance will
have the same sort of a scrap, in
miniature, over its welfare ordinance,
which has been laid on the table tem
porarily. It's difficult enough to select
a city manager who must combine all
aorta of wisdom in one head, but when
it comes to the selection of a public
guardian of morals, excuse us, please,
from doing the selecting.
DO YOU KNOW?
(Business Success)
Do you know that Publicity
rays? Are you thoroughly con
vinced that it does?
Have you ever given your local
newspaper a thorough trial over an
extended period of time using
space sufficient to warrant you in
expecting results?
Whether or rot you have awak
ened to the fact, fact it is that non
. e of adequate advertising in your
ocal news-tonveying medium is a
terrible handicap to your business.
Do you know that the large city
stores ppnnd from 4"r to Cf of
the'r gross sales in newspaper pub
licity? This becomes a powerful '
magnet which draws trade out of
your territory and into the.e live
merchants' stores.
Do you know that the mail order
houses did i business of approxi
mately 223 million dollars during
the first seven month of the past
year? Of this huge sum this county
over-subscribed its quota I
What are you going to do about
it, Mr. Ilusinesg Man? Meekly sub
mit and throw up your hands?
It's a call to printer's ink.
"What's worth having is work
asking for." The major portion of
this business must walk past jour
doors on its way to the city! Why
Unot ask it to call on you? News-
T . !!!;. tT . 1
paper pumicuy eneruveiy carries
your invitation. Therein lies your
hope, . . r : r , X: '
A Chicago newspaper has adopted a
alogan that it intends to advertise
during the coming year, and it's a
good one "1921 Will Reward Fight
ers." Never has a slogan been more
true. Never was there a time when
effort will be better repaid. The la
borer, the merchant, the farmer or
rancher who goes out with the inten
tion of bringing home the bacon' will
bring it homo. There has been a touch
f calamity howling a few have been
pinched In the readjustment from war
time prices but this is no time to sit
down and mope, or grouch about it.
If you want success in 1!)21, you'll
have to fight for it. If you don't put
up a fiirht, your share will go to
, someone who will. ' .
AN OPPORTUNITY .
The people of Alliance have decided
In favor of a city manager by a ma
Jority-vote, and their decision goes,
Unless someth'ng happens to prevent
this city will be the first in the state
to try out this system as laid down in
the state law. It will be an oppor
tunity for the new council and the city
manager to make a record that will be
watched with interest by the entire
state.
The voters need not, however, pro
cecd to forget all about city affairs
stmnlv beciuse they have decided to
leave all the worry to a trained execu
tive. Tl'ere is the i iot important
mMteo se'oct!ng an evecutive. This
the people canrot do. But they can
elect rren in whom they have abso
lute confidence.
If th- city manager plan is to sue
eeed, there mint be no man on the
council who has friends to reward or
enemies to punish. Fach man selecte
should be public-spirited, capable am
Something of a business man himself.
If he is to pass upon the qualifications
cf the new head of the city's affairs
The man who is to be the city man
ager must be selected because of abil
ity solely. He should not be a student
at the game we have had one ex
periment but one well versed to the
problems of city administration. The
new council should not sk'mp on the
matter of salary. When all our eggs
re placed in one basket, it is well to
get a strong basket
It has been pointed out that an out
aide man ordinarily makes the best
city manager. He Is interested only in
making a record for himself, not in
rewarding his friends' friends, and
toming from outside, he has no friends
cf his own to make places for.
Candidates for the city council are
already getting their petitions ready.
The whole city will be able to vote on
every man who seeks a place. If there
Is anything to the theory thaa pri
mary results in the selection of bet
ter men, we will find it out.
The city manager plan was adopted,
sot because people had any great faith
In Its efficiency, but because the wo
men voters wanted Alliance cleaned
Bp. Our record during the past six
months has been anything but en
viab'e. The murder of last month was
the last straw. The new city admin
istration, whether it is the same men
or new ones, will do well to pay heed
to the warning of last Tuesday's elec
tion. There must be an end to gamb
ling, to bootlegging, to other forms of
law breaking. Else there will be aa
illustration of the way the recall
works. 1
GASOLINE LAMP SETS
FIRE TO HARRIS HOME
The home of Walter Harris, living
about forty-five miles out of Alliance,
burned Wednesday night. Mr. Harris
was working on some harness in a
summer kitchen adjoining the house
and as it began to grow dark lighted
a gasoline lamp. When he supposed it
had generated he went to the barn
to get more harness. When he re
turned the house was in flames. The
family succeeded in saving some of
the furniture and clothing. The loss
was covered with about $8p0 insurance.
Miss Sarah O'Keefe returned to
Denver where she is attending school
at Ixrctta Heights, after spending the
holiday, with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John O'Keefe of this city.
RANDOM SHOTS
The king is dead long live the city
manager.
A Chicago man has left f 1,000 to
his barber, whom he had never tipped.
Cut this out and show it to your
baiber.
The conductor of this column has
been feeling mean and owly all week.
No, Genevieve you're wrong. He
didn't attend a New Year's party. It's
simply the tag-end of the grippe.
When the average man talks about
law enforcement, ho means that laws
should be enforced on other people.
That's what is known as a foible of
'uman nature.
We've often wondered about foibles.
That word has such an interesting
round, don't you think ?
Prepare to fight for your pipes, ci
gars, cigarettes and eating tobacco.
This week we receive a questionaire
asking us whether we favor the en
actment of laws prohibiting the per
sonal use of tobacco by adults. Did
you ever hear of any one using tobac
co impersonally, except a novelist or
a A-C-L member?
They inqu're abo whether the use
of tobacco is objectionable to us. We
repl.ed that it was not, so long as the
victim of the habit bought his own.
Evidently our friends in New Y'ork,
who suffered most horribly from the
prohibition of booze, are worring
again.
Today's Best Story.
Hans was speaking about the high
price of cabbage in his town.
"Kebbepes is awful high dis year,"
he said. "Me and mine vife puts up
seven, eight, nine barrels of sauer
kraut efery year, but ve can't dis year.
De kelibegcs cost too much."
"But you put up some sauerkraut,
didn't you, Hans?" questioned a friend.
"Oh, yes, two or free barrels, just to
half in tie house in case of sickness."
ness." .
We are thinking of writing another
scenario, entitled, "The Luckless
Lurch," or "The Stain on the Rug."
But we won't. . '
Once we had bad luck, too.
It doesn't pay to be generous with
drinkables of any kind, not alone be
cause of their scarcity, but becaure
someone may find it our. Hard c!der
is under the same ban as home brew,
at least in Hamilton county, where a
generous farmer who gave away a
couple of glasses paid for it at the
rate of $G1 a glass.
And yet they keep urging us to
"give till it hurts."
About the only person who can do
this is an exasperated parent spank
ing an exasperating son.
' Lost Treasure
Out in the wilds of No Man's Land
the lieutenant on patrol encountered a
dusky private; anxiously searching the.
ground on hands and knees .
"Here you." he demanded gruffly,
"What the devil are you doing out
here?"'
"Suh," replied the darky with tears
in his eyes, "Ah's looking fo' mah bud
dy's hand what got shot off heah."
"Oh, I'm sorry," exclaimed the offi
cer, touched at such a friendship.
"But that's no use, you know. His
hand wil never do him any good
now."
"No, suh, 'taint dat, but when it got
shot off it done bad mah bes' pair oh
dice in it." American Legion Weekly.
On our way to dinner this noon we
passed a couple of women, each with
bundles everywhere in sight. We
heard one of them say, sarcastically:
"Well, you walked all over town.'
"Yes," said the other, "but I saved
eight cents."
The boy scout printers, who have
headquarters in one corner of The
Herald's basement, aren't doing so
badly for a week's experience. The
third day they sent one boy over to conductor. "Whaddya mean?" he the booie was, watched his opportune
Ben's place to borrow a "column asked belligerently, "going up to my and brought up his friends to help-
stretcher", and the next day they room and stealing all my booze." Then kil it.
showed type lice to a printer's devil the facts came out. The liberal trav-1
who has had several months' of exper- eling salesman had been invited up to And there isn't any law that can.
tence.
We don't want to hear any more
from the people who have been com- .
plaining because Alliance doesn't have
any worthwhile amusements. There ,
was some really good music at the
Imperial last night, and there wasn't
over 125 paid admissions.
And half the people who did turn
out came to see the movie and not to
hear the music. We know, because we
heard them crabing because the pic
ture was last on the program.
Oh, well a three hour entertain
ment just about wrecks an evening.
& 1 . ! . i yi . 1 1
j juer is i-'rarwcauy ine i
only form of entertainment that can '
be indulged in for long stretches with
out fatigue.
If it could only be played without
loss.
"Is this the hosiery department?"
said the voice over the phone.
"Yes," replied the weary saleslady.
"Have you any fleh -colored stock
ings in stock?" asked the voice.
"Yes." reDlied the wearv salesladv.
"Whaddy ye want-rpink, yellow or
black?" I
A Denver man, taken before the
police magistrate on a charge of in
toxication, gave as an excuse that he J
had been gassed by a checre sandwich.
The meanest man in the world has
been discovered in the person of a
traveling salesman who occasionally
hits Alliance. This salesman invited
an Alliance conductor and another
friend to come up to h's room for a
lil drink. The conductor didn't drinlv
(of course not), but ho went along
and smoked a few cigars on the trav
eler. A couple of days later another
traveling man jumped all over the
the same room, and knowing where touch him for it. '
Luncheonette Service
You will find our place just the place you've
been looking for, when you want a hot lunch,
while down town shopping or after the show
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New Location Next to First National Bank Building
3ZS8G2EE9S2EZ
Thieves robbed the Palace meat
market of about 19 Wednesday eve
ning, gaining entrance by tearing a
screen from a window. They staged
a picnic lunch before leaving the
building after making the haul The
Alliance bakery was entered the sartfc
sdght, but nothing was reported, missing.
Fools quiic
often loaste
their roll-
Wise men
spend their
cashjorcoal.
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which you have for furnace or heater causes waste,
slackage and extra work, besides losing you money.
For economy's sake order a ton or so of nut
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