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THE ALLIANCE IIEIULD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1921
ijpiin 4,Li(i. '
BURR rillNTING CO., Owners
Kntered at the pnstolTice at Alliance, Neb., for
transmission throur.h the mails ns second class
matter. Published Tuesdays and Friday.
GKOIMtK I- MURK, JR. Editor
EDWIN M. BURR ...Business Manager
Official newspaper of the City of Alliance;
official newspaper of Box Butte County.
Owned and published by The Burr 1'rinting
Company, George L. Burr, Jr., President; Edwin
II. Burr, Vice President.
AT THE MOVIES
feel about it, and the forretfulness of other pople's I
right and feeling is intolerance in the real anaylsfc. Too
drastic a measure would therefore really tieieat tnt bene-1 William Farnum in "The Adven
ficial ends desired and for that reason the proposal ordi- 'turer," a romantic drama, is the at
nance should be Riven much careful study and corridera- traction nt the Imperial this evening,
tion by those interested in its provisions before bcihg 1 1.-,, a stirring story wherein a re
presented ior passage, l-ei us neip me niuiiifn in every
way we can, but let us not in so doing be led by enthu
siasm into the error of attempting to rob of its relponsi
cilities that bulwark of this nation the great American
home.
THE RETORT (Ol RTEOIS
hinwti fhrrtrtl VlAffl tt'ins Vi i a u-nv tn
' fame nnl fortune and also to the heart
of his fair lady, because his arm is
strong ami his spirit true. It s a (treat
star in n great feature, and the kind
of a talc that will interest every movie
fan, from the cook in the kitchen to
grandpa.
news
worthy
ALLIANCE READS HER TITLE CLEAR
In last Sunday's issue of one of the Omaha dail
papers there appeared nn advertisement that is
of especial note. The outstanding feature is a couple of
cl;ppings from papers in that same city. One d' these
bears the information that the associated retailer of the
metropolis are roused because outside firms senf repre
sentatives, who took their samples to the Hotel Fonte
nelle, notified man of the society women of the fict, and
living whittling spoons and toys from
soft pine with his jack-knife. Into his
life comes Buddy, a poor little waif,
whom I'eter fathers and mothers at
the same time. Eventually his family
is increased by Booge, a singing tramp.
Their efforts to take care of the
orphan lad and keep him out of the
hands of a society for finding homes
for orphan children, furnishes a story
that is full of quaint humor and
pathos.
The editor of the Bnnot Sun, who is probably a pretty
food man at heart, and kind to his family, is apparently
subject to fits of temper. A week or so ago, Herald lead
ers will recall that wc saw some humor in Editor Hart
ley's remarks concerning fiendish vandals who had been
i crating in the vicinity of his town, doing suih devilish
things as untying horses, throwing tin cans on jorches
unl the crown prince of all these rulfians broke the glass
in the town's only thermometer. These "acts of vandal
ism" seemed to us to be mere childish pranks, and we
gently kidded Mr. Hartley for getting so worked up over
them. He retaliates by the following editorial utterance,
which is nearly as humorous as the first one we com
mented upon. Our pole fear now is that if Mr. Hartley
uses such extravagant language in describing the antics
of m few practical jokers, he is likely to run out of phrases
should anything really important happen, and with an
writable nature such as ne possesses, it might prove
fatal. Read what the Bennett editor thinks of this fair
city;
The editor of the Alliance Herald speaks rather lightly
concerning the "vanlals or tiennett as described in a
recent issue of The Sun, which is not to be wondered at
bv those who have been reading newspaper accounts of
ine activities or that community the lust year or so
Alliance will be remembered as that quiet munuii ality
controlled mostly by the kind of coons that make a white
man s life almost as safe as a bottle of Bill Bryan's liquid
rue my would tie on Jim Dahlman s operating table. It's
open season the year round for the thugs of Alliance. In
fact there has been some agitation of sending convicted
murderers in the first degree to Alliance incognito to
spend the rest of their days as a substitute for the electric
chair, but the more humane of our lawmakers maintain
that it would be more merciful to kill them nutriirht.
Truly the trials of a civilized world must appear trivial
to the dwellers of the Modern Dante's Inferno.
Th Wednesday feature is "Slaves
of Pride," with Alice Joyce in the
stellar ro'e, ns Patricia Leeds, the
beautiful l:'.utrhter of Jason Leeds, a
wealthy Boston yachtsman. Her
mother is a woman of great social
prominence, but possessed of shallow
spirit. When Leeds is driven to suicide
by financial reverses, the mother nuc-1
then proceeded to sell these women wearing ajiarel to'tions off her daughter to the h phestl
the tune of $10,000. The second clipping bears He same " - ,'. , "VI:hv. proud business
sad story, only in this instance it was a wholesale grocery mnn 0f thirtv-five. The husband s ab-
house which fold directly to the consumers, th amount
of the sales being about the same as in the first instance.
There is no uestion, from the tone of the clippings, that
the associated retailers ttie peeved because the iwholcsul
ers are poaching upon their preserves. f
The body of this exceptional advertisement consists
of a straight-from-the-sl culder letter from the president
of an Omaha fire insurance company. He joints out
that the offending women, forty-four in numlrr in the
case of the groceries, are the wives of Omaha blnkers, in- onems. he sfo-y of the p dure
strange
"All life," says one of our contem
poraries solemnly, "is co-operation."
Yes, indeed. The birds lay eggs and
the snakes eat them.
CONTEMPT
'17131 if
"State why you believe the prisoner
is insane," directed the learned judge.
"He always bets heavily on two pair
in a poker game." gtf
"Is a man insane when he bets on,
two pair?"
"In my opinion he is."
The judge's face grew purple. "Ten
dollars," he roared, "for contempt of
court."
The ex-king of Greece has been
l.niro,! frnm It.alv. In the irame of
I state, kings are no longer trumps.
normal pride leads the pair into a j
remarkable climax of semi-tragedy
and romance.
Thursday comes the photoplay done
from Ellis' Parker Butler's "The Jack
Knife Man." Ellis is a thoroughly
qualified author, because, as he says,
Anno unce m e nt
a company
id.
ny man who
THE IMPETUOUS REFORMER
The Herald has, from time to time, had a few words
to say concerning the dangers of moving picture censor
ship, not alone because the bill which is under considera
tion by the legislature is a vicious one, but because cen
sorship is wrong in principle. Among other things, we
pointed out that a film which might pass muster in Ariz
ona would not pass the Colorado censors, or that a pic
ture which seemed highly moral to the Iowa board might
Le deleted when it hit Nebraska.
The most amusing instance of this sort hapjiened right
in our own legislature. Representative Webster under
took to make a hit with the "child welfare" enthusiasts,
i nd sq, at a hearing on the censorship bill, denounced in
unmeasured terms a production now being shown in
Omaha under the title of "Wild Oats". Mr. Webster
.-rew quite oratorical when he criticised the advertising
for the show, which announced separate shows for men
fcnd women. He read a sentence from one of these adver
tisements: "If you are too modest, don't come to this
picture." Mr. Webster shouted: "What do you think of
that?"
Then somebody told him. The entire committee had
n long laugh at Mr. Webster's expense, and the wind was
taken quite out of the reformer's sails. For they told
him that "Wild Oats" was a government film, produced
for the public health service and exhibited under its au
thority, and that the public welfare commission of Oma
li;i had endorsed it.
It's fortunate for all concerned, perhaps, that the state
senate has already taken a test vote on the movie cen
sorship bill, and has gone on record as favoring national
supervision for the film makers. Incidentally, this is an
v her illustration of the value of a bicameral legislature.
If there were only one house to pass upon these questions'
if the senate were not at hand to hang a monkey wrench
on the safety valve there's no telling what idiotic laws
night not be passed. There is enough ill-advised legisla
t on now on the books, placed there by solons who have
fcone oil half-cocked. ..
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RESPONSIBILITY IN THE HOME
emu tja ,tnn trl'iim iln,i!iiu tmil rw tlpb n Arc l,nt llll VII".!"
leclares that not one of these women was tile wife of
a fire insurance man whose home office is locatld in Oma
ha. Then he proceeds to hand a package tj the asso
ciated retailers, nnd these are the facts that l.e presents:
Although the Nebraska company received ver a mil
lion dollars in premiums last year, only one per cent of
this total came from Omaha, although morel money has
been spent for advertising in Omaha than n the other
twelve states in which the company does business. The
retailers who are letting out the big howl aloft money for
groceries and wearing apparel going out of (Omaha per
mit outside men to write their insurance ir
whose home office is in New York or Hartf
There is no double standard to loyalty
buys out of Alliance anything that can be urchased in
the city is helping to cripple his own torn, the place
from which he expects to gain his livelihood. So much
preaching has been done on that subject ti the farmers
i
and townspeople that sometimes the potent) fact is over
looKeu mat me merchants are equally guilty. J he man
who sends out of town for a sign; who buys his printing
out of the city; who fancies that doctors in Omaha must
be superior to Alliance doctors, because they live in
larger place; the woman who thinks that shoes or dresses
are more stylish because they come from a metropolis
eacn ol inese is equally guilty in injuring the city in
which he or she lives. The merchant who howls when
a farmer buys a dress pattern from Montgomery-Ward
has no kick coming if he buys his furnace from the same
sort of a firm. There's only one way to build up a city,
and that is real co-operation. Co-operation doesn't mean
that while others are morally bound to patronize you, you
may spend your money where your fancy dictates. If you
do not know the meaning of loyalty, you'll have a hard
time teaching it to others.
he has written "Pigs is P'gs, nine
teen other classic books, several thou
sand short stories and eirht quarts of
sfo,-y of the
doings of a
colony along the banks of the Missis
sippi river consisting to a great degree
of the owners of dilapidated shanty
boats. The central character is old
Peter, a stri'nrce chap who ekes out a ;
Do you know
you can roll
SO good
cigarettes for
lOcts from
one baA of
I
OENUINE
BULL'DURHAM
TOBACCO
WISH to announce at this time that I
have purchased the interest of my
brother, Bliss Sturgeon, and will conduct m
a general garage business exactly the
same as that done by Sturgeon Brothers.
I want to express my thanks to the
patrons and friends of the past and
assure them that they will receive
the same careful and conscientious
workmanship and fair treatment.
All persons knowing themselves to be indebted to the
firm of Sturgeon brothers will kindly call as soon as
possible and make arrangements for settlement. Money
will be especially acceptable at the present time.
Sturgeon's Garage
LEE STURGEON, Prop.
A CO V NT V FAIR
Box Butte county will, in all probability, have a county
fair this year, provided the farmers at their meeting at
the court house tomorrow decide to go ahead with the
proposition. Enough of them are enthusiastically in
favor of it to insure that it will go through if they de
cide to tackle it
County fairs are not the greatest drawing cards from
the standpoint of amusement, but there is no question
that they are a vital factor in imprcving the quality of
crops and livestock. Box Butte county cannot afford tl
do without an annual competition of this sort any longer,
and if the committee of farmers want assistance and co
operation there isn t a merchant in Alliance who will
withhold his support.
1 . II 1 . 1 m .a.
as originauy planned, ine larniers expected to go
through with it without asking the advice or support of
the business men. There is no doubt that they will be
able to do it, if they so desire. On the other hand, they'll
find just as much interest in a fair on the part of Alli
ance business men as among the farmers. It is a matter
that should appeal to all classes and any man who is
interested should bo allowed to help put it across..
LOOSEN THU BRAKES'
ScottsblutT, during the past summer, was visited by
the Rev. Mr. Theodore Hansen, who organized a welfare
committee very similar to the one in Alliance, which has
Lcen attempting to get the city council to put through a
welfare ordinance. In Scott: bluff, as in this city, opposi
t on to so drastic a measure has steadily grown, until the
the city council there has decided, apparently, to make it
a campaign issue, for the matter will lay over until after
election, when it will go through triumphantly or be de
cently interred. The ScottsblutT ordinance is practically
the same as the one proposed for Alliance, ami therefore
the comment of the Star-Herald is appropriate:
Although there were rumors thai the proposed "wcl-
wire ordinance" was to come before the special meeting
of the city council on Tuesday .evening, it failed to mate
rialize and it is whispered that it may not be presented
until after the April disturbance otherwise known as the
city election. There is no question but that the proposed
o'dinance possesses many excellent features, and on the
other hand there is little doubt that it also possesses cer
tain features that will make it an immediate target for
a referendum vote should the ordinance be passed as it
is now drafted. The chief complaint is that certain of
the clauses tend too much toward a soviet form of gov
ernment in that all the parents would have to do would
be to look after the danger and trouble of bringing a
child into the world and then practically turn him over
to the state for religious, ethical, and medical care. While
it is too true that there are some children to whom such
a fate would prove a blessing, it is also just as true that
there are parents who believe that it is their privilege to
tlse the child themselves, free to decide as to his reli-r-'o
and physical needs. Betterment of the human race
a of living conditions is naturally desired by all who
I ve taken time to g;ve tM subject a troueht. It id the
li'st method by which we may obtain Miese en Is wherein
' problem lies. We wish to benefit the children and
I I ;ke each coming generation stronger and filter, Lut in
ir endeavor to do this let us remember that tco much
f!f-centered zeal sometimes leads to intolerance, because
hi oi r earnestness v.e forget hew "the other fellow" may
(Hamilton County Register)
Just suppose that a section in Nebraska has a big crop
of potatoes. Also suppose that there are some railroad
companies running trains every day at very high prices,
but getting little to do. The potato grower says to the
railroad owner, "we have the produce but there would be
nothing left in it for us to pay your rates. Just drop them
a few notches, and we will both get something out of it.
The railroad manager is willing and sees the point but
first must take it up with the railway commission who is
prone to think that to lower freicht on one class of coods
would be discriminatory, and talks the matter over a long
time before deciding on it. If the debate continues too
long the potatoes rot and that much wealth is perma
nently wasted. It is difficult to set hard and fast rules for
transportation business that will not do more harm than
irood. We are regulated to death, and rates were never as
high nor service as unsatisfactory. Might not the busi
ness wagon travel a little easier if we would take off the
brakes T
CHILDREN AND LAWS
(Nebraska City Press)
A social weitare worker informs us that chastity is
about 50 per cent of what it used to be. Great Scott! Are
we to have the legislature do the things which we parents
are required by the laws of common decency to do at
home? Are we so infernally lazy that we would rather
put the responsibility of parenthood on the members of
the state legislature than on the mothers and fathers of
Nebraska? Children are brought into the world without
their consent, frequently without the full consent of those
who are responsible for their being here. Isn't it rather
shameful to refuse to take care of them after they come
and to expect the "government to look out for them.
Law won't make a child better or worse. It's up to the
mothers and fathers to make or break them.
We refuse to get all worked up over "reforms." There
was a time when we were red-hot for reforms of all kinds
But times have changed. We have reached the age of
conservatism, if not of discretion. We refuse to listen to
the reformers in fact we shall smite them hip and thigh
when they ask us "to fight their battle for them. Our
opinion of reformers can be summed up about like this:
i nev re in tne game or reforming the world at so much
a "reform." They are chasing up and down the country
working for an Ideal as long a:; t1 j J;V-I bs a paying job I
attached to it. FaraDhrasing "Mare" Ht iuy Watterson'.
feent and classical allusion to the Hohenzollerns "To
.leit ,:th the Uc.V.r.-.eiv." i
Are You Saving
Any Money?
A
DOLLAR is a very curious
thing. At one time it appears
to most of us as of not much import
ance oh, well, say, the price of a
short ride in a taxicab, or of a box of
very ordinary cho colates. or a rose or
two, or admission to see a high-class
movie. .
And again it may seem of most vital
importance: Say, the price of a bed
when one is homeless, or a meal or
two at a "hash foundry."
Its value varies as between individu
als; and as to each individual, its
value varies at different times accord
ing to one's necessities
But in another sense, the value of a
dollar varies in different years and in
different periods. It is always, of
course, the equivalent of one hundred
cents; but at one time it will buy
much more than at another time. We
call this its purchasing power.
When prices of the things we need
and buy are high, the purchasing
power of the dollar is low. For ex
ample, the purchasing power of the
dollar was very low in 1918, 1919 and
1920, which is only another way of
saying that the prices of commodities
were high.
Today, the purchasing power of the
dollar is increasing. Or, in other
words, the price of commodities gen
erally is decreasing.
The dollar dollar you put into the sav
ings bank in 1918 has earned you
about 13 cents interest, but it has also
grown amazingly i n purchasing
power. And today you can probably
buy one and a half times as much
with that 1918 saved dollar and its
earnings as you could when you put
it in the savings bank.
One dollar starts a savings account in
our Savings Department. We have a
number of classes for our Savings
Clubs, but you can start with a dollar
deposit and follow it up with deposits
whenever you have some spare
change. It is a good idea to save a
given amount regularly every week,
but if you prefer some other method,
do it that way. The principal thing
is to form the habit of saving some
thing out of your income and not
spending it as fast as you get it or a
little faster.
FIRST
THE
STATE
BANK