THE ALLIANCE HERALD. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1021
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Entered at the pontolTire at Alliance, Neb., for
transmission through the mail. a second class
(natter. Tublished '1 uendays and Friday.
CHOUGH L. HUKK, JU Editor
EDWIN M. BUltlt IJu-ncss Manager
OfTicial newspaper of the City of Alliance;
official newspaper of Ilox Butte County.
Owned and published by The Burr Printing
Company, George 1 Burr, Jr., 1'rehiilcnt; Edwin
M. Burr, Vice President.
THE PRIMARY ELECTION.
business improve., but when they uct on their belief, then
.;a!eH beRin to climb.
Mr. Harper's FiirpesKons are worthy of instant ac
ceptance. If every man in business would f.peak out
boldly amf tell his customers that conditions are pretty
dog-ironed good, that Kales haven't stopped by a darned
sight, and not only cay these things, but follow them up
by doing a little buying himself, it won't be long until
this attitude has an effect. There's no need of Ftretching
the truth, but it's possible to look on the Funny side of
.he fence.
KNOWING THE LEGION
There may have been some dream tulT in the roseate
pictures painted by the advocates of the city manager
plan of government before the question was submitted to
the voters, but the justice of at least one of the claims has
been amply demonstrated. Never before in the history of
the city has there been as long a list of aspirants for
civic honors, anil never before has the list possessed such
uniform excellence. There are a few of the filings which
fall below the high standard of ability, but after eliminat
ing three or four, any five of those remaining will be
likely to give the city of Alliance at least as efficient a
government as it has ever had in the past.
In the last two or three days of the filing period, which
ended Saturday, it became nppurent that unless some
thing were done, it was possible that there would be less
than a dozen filings. Several organizations, with the good
f the community at heart, decided to draft some candi
dates for the council. Just how it was managed is some
what in doubt, but the fact remains that of the list of
twenty-two, there are six or eight men who had previously
announced that nothing would budge them from their de
termination not to make the race. It is usual, of course,
for piospective candidates to hang back and wait to be
coaxed, but in tome of these cases something stronger
than coaxing is indicated.
It hardly seems possible that the voters can go very
.far wrong in making their selection. It would seem to
be easy to get five men out of so good a list, but as a mat
ter of fact, the average voter is going to be bewildered.
He'll find more good candidates than he lias votes to cast.
After marking down a favorite or two, about the only
thing left for him will be to shut his eyes and make a jab
at the paper, or eliminate by the famous eenjMneeny-miny-mo
method, which is comparatively sure,
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"..': BILL HARPER, OPTIMIST
W. R. Harper returned from a buying trip to the east,
chock full of optimism, and like all good optimists, simply
had to spread his message of good cheer. He told the
business men at the chamber of commerce luncheon yes
terday a number of the things he had discovered during
his absence, and chief among them is the fact that busi
ness hasn't gone to the dogs, and won't go there unless
the business men themselves help to send it.
It's perfectly true that more men are out of employ
ment than at this time last year. It is likewise true that
vale have fallen oil", in the west, at least. In the eastern
states, Mr. Harper, to his surprise, found the merchants
talking prosperity, und hot only talking it, but acting it.
The results were ' surprising. Confidence always begets
confidence. When men think and talk "business as usual,"
The business men of Alliance are fortunate in at last
knowing something definite about the American legion.
The ex-soldiers' organization has been chiefly advertised
by its enemies. Radical union laborites have done a good
deal of the advertising. Unfortunately, the legion itself,
in the early days of its existence, got off on the wrong
foot and devoted perhaps too large a proportion of its
strength to attempting to force its bonus plan upon
congress.
Right now, there is no complaint that can be made
against the unions. Both capital ami labor have learned
that there is nothing to fear from the ex-service men,
so long as they behave themselves. The whole country,
however, should bo informed as to what is being done for
the wounded and disabled. The accomplishments along
this line alone are sufficient to justify the existence of
the organization. ,
Now that the leading spirits in the legion have the
inspiration, let's hope that they devote all their energies
to this most worthy cause. An organization with such a
widely scattered membership and so strong in numbers
can do wonders, even with an unwilling congress. So long
as the legion is engaged in this struggle, they'll find co
operation i and support on every hand. The trouble has
been that only a few people in every city knew of the
evils of the system of red-tape that is preventing the
wounded and disabled from getting justice. In this case,
justice is the right word, for every one of these men paid,
out of his $30 a month, for protection.
THE WRONG PRINCIPLE
(Hamilton County Register)
The censor idea of government cannot work out satis
factorily as it is based on a wrong principle. It seeks not
to prohibit crime, but to make people like somebody else,
to make them think as others do by law. If right to
censor newspapers, and make them conform to the ideas
of three men, it is right to censor conversation as well
and punish people who talk of crime, or who smoke; if
the censors are opposed to smoking. How would ministers
relish a proposition to appoint three men to censor ser
mons and say whether they are the letter or worse for
mankind to make the teaching of the clergy conform to
the ideas of three men who might appoint a small com
mittee in every community to decide just what the min
ister shall say or leave unsaid. The province of law is
not to leave to a small fraction of the whole what teachers
shall teach and writers shall write, but to punish what is
clearly wrong (not what somebody believes detrimental
j to the human race), and there should be a considerable
conviction that anything is bad before law undertakes to
regulate it, or the last condition will be worse than the
first. Christ had all power as well as all knowledge, but
I read his life in vain to discover a place where he tried
to run for office and get into a position to force his
loctrines upon anyone.
THE WORST SCALAWAG
(Nebraska City Pre?s)
We still contend that any man who pointed out "pros
pects" to stock promoters and violated confidences which
had been reposed in him is the worst scalawag of the two.
Stock promoters would have been unable to do business
m Nebraska bad their "friend in many a country town
kept his mouth shut and refused to act as'a nunting dog
for him.
COMMENT & D1SCOMMENT
4.
We don't know who William Planks
is, or where he has his being, but ta
, him goes the honor of expressing in
the mo. t fitting terms the despairing
thoughts that seize every editor when
he picks up his newspaper after the
ink is cold, and finds out that the
paragraph in the writing of which he
was most painstaking has been butch
ered beyond belief, or that the make
up man has mixed up the lines therein.
William must have been fairly vexed
when he wrote the following tribute:
the Lord's Day Alliance, have in turn
been victims to the perverted sense of
humor of the men who are paid by the
word. One such man, writing in the
Philadelphia Public Ledger, has inter
view a number of historial characters
in regard to their Sunday habits, and
ihe answers are reproduced herewith,
in order to encourage the new crusad
ers: , ,
OWED TO PRINTERS
Oh printers!
v Oh honorary members of the Amal
gamated Order of Illiterate Black
smiths! Oh pi makers of tbe Cook's lnter
rational Union!
Oh animated scraps bt dross metal!
Oh unjustified columns of human in
efficiency, fastened in the chases of the
job-room of life, why do you persecute
me!
I write my copy with a typewriter,
I K'ncil it and write in a few easily
underwood remarks and hand it to the
head malefactor!
woitSy descendant of Ben
Vranklin, set my copy so that I may
know it when it returns to me!
The linotyper receiveth it, the prowf
VeaiW Tei;deth three lines and passes
it back; the linotyper yawneth at it
und shootcth it to tho forms and it ap
peartth in print
Oh long nights of weeping for fcoor
William Planks! . m r
Oh tears, humiliations, cogitations,
desperations, profane language and
the demons impelling William Tlanks
to kill the maliciously mindless printers!
Oh blacksmiths and general jobbers,
members of the union of Typographi
cal Errors, dreamers of the Funeral
Chapel of Art, battered brass rules of
the make-up of newspaiierdom, mis
taking your thumbs for quads and
your own fingers for the letters of the
alphobet, why do you abide among
leads when you should be setting
bricks!
Oh that I might civa you lI3u,E)
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Oh hell-box!
I.ucrezia Borgia My brothers and I
were never allowed to talk over the
telephone on Sunday.
Emp. Nero I did not permit my
ohautfeurs to take the motor cars out
on the Sabbath; nor did I use them
mysf If on that day.
Bloody Queen Mary Nobody in my
entourage neglected Sunday school in
order to read the Sunday newspaper,
. Kichard III. I never went for a
canoe trip on the first day of the week,
Captain Kidd Maybe I didn't al
ways do right, but no one can say I
ever went for a trolley trip on Sun
day.
Catherine of Russia I never at
tended a Sunday motion picture show
in my life, nor did I ever condone such
a practice.
Guv Fawkes We never had a Sun
day newspaper in the hou.-e.
Attila the Hun It didn't even occur
to myself or my associates to take an
unnecessary railroad trip upon the
Sabbath.
J. Caesar I am not a member of
any gold club which, permits playing
on Sunday.
Every now and then something
really humorous appears in the col
umns of some professional humorist
The Purity Souad, the enforcers of the
Imperial Theater
' TONIGHT, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15
? AL. CHRISTIE'S COMEDY SPECIAL
"SO LONG LETTY"
Taken From OLIVER MOROSCO'S famous Stage Success.
COMEDY MIIS F E A II F U L FINISH"
ADMISSION 18c and 3Gc and War Tax.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16
SAMUEL GOLDWYN and REX BEACH SPECIAL
"OUT OF THE STORM"
From the "TOWER OF IVORY" by Gertrude Atherton
COMEDY 'MR. FATIMA"
MATINEE: 13c and 22c; NIGHT: 18 and 36c and War Tax
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17
mm FnST NATIONAL ATTllACTIOX-ia iW
"THE HEART OF A FOOL'
A Powerful Epic of Everyday Life.
MACK SENNETT COMEDY "WET AND WARMER"
MATINEE: 13c and 22c; NIGHT: 18c and 31 and War Tax.
Harvester Company
.Brands Story False
DURING the past month, reports have come to us that at farmers meetings
charges have been made, sometimes directly and sometimes indirectly, that
this Company has adopted a policy ol refusing to supply repair parts for old machines
in order to compel the purchase of new ones. This statement is absolutely false.
Such a policy has never been considered by this Company nor suggested to it.
Ordinarily we ignore such reports, because we have learned that any large
company, no -matter how fair and high principled, is subject at all times to unjust
criticism. The facts are this Company has always recognized the importance of
repair service and has used every effort to make IHC service the best. We believe
we can truthfully say that the repair service furnished wherever this Company's
goods are sold is equal if not superior to that furnished on any manufactured line.
We call attention to the (act that machinery "Fix-up Weeks," instead ol being
something new and originated by the farmers in 1921, as some seem to think,
were really an outgrowth of the movement started by manufacturers and dealers'
associations in connection with the Council of National Defense as a war con
servation measure. Perhaps no other agency has done so much to promote
"National Repair Weeks" as this Company. '
The farmer needs machines which will be efficient and economical. If his old :
machines can be repaired so as to render efficient and economical service, he
would be foolish to purchase new one3. Whether the farmer utilizes and repairs
his old machines or buys new ones is a question for him to determine. But in 1
making his decision, we give to every farmer who owns any IHC machines the
assurance that a full stock of repair parts will always be provided by this
Company. . "
Today, our repair stocks on the territory available for the farmers are 21 per
cent greater than ever before at this time of the year. An average of a quarter "
million pounds of repairs are shipped from IHC factories for every working J
day ia the year. Thirty million dollars' worth of repair parts are now ready, as
insurance for the farmer when he needs this service.
In every International Harvester Works manufacturing orders call for repair
parts first and even when furnishing them has meant cutting down production
of new machines for which we had orders, repairs have always had preference.
' At every one of our 91 branch houses trained men are on duty to see that all
orders are filled and shipped prompdy. Thousands of dealers scattered every
where with an assortment of repairs in stock are always ready and willing to
render every assistance.
This service which this Company has rendered through the years to those who
have purchased its machines has been a matter of great pride to the Company,
and is the foundation of the cordial good-will existing between it and its customers.
We feel it is due the Company and those who have purchased its machines
that we give the widest publicity to the fact that this service of repairs will be
maintained and improved, and that any charges to the contrary are untrue.
International Harvester Company
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Money is Like a
Stream of Water
DID YOU ever stop to think of a stream
of water how it flows through your
city or past your home day after day and
year after year? But the moment a dam
is built and the water stoppedor even
part of it the stream becomes a constantly
widening and deeping reservoir of power,
with all its significant possibilities of use
fulness. Saving money is like building a dam
across a stream. You can let your money
come and go, as water in a stream, or by
forethought you can stop some of the outgo
and pile up for yourself week by week or
month by month, the savings which in later
years will add to your independence, to
your ability to take advantage of new op
portunities, and to the comfort you can get
out of life.
There never was a time when it was so
well worth your while to save as now. The
dollars put away today will buy just that
much more when prices come down. Come
in and let us work out some plan to take
advantage of today's unusual opportunity
for saving.
5 INTEREST PAID ON ALL TDIE DEPOSITS -
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