THE ALLIANCE ItEhALD. FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1021
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BURR PRINTING CO., Owners
Entered at the postofTice at Alliance, Nob., for
transmission through the muils n reconcl class
natter. I'ul'l i--hol Tuesdays ami Friday.
GEORC.K I HtRR, JR. Fditor
EDWIN M. HL'RK Business Manager
OiTiciul newspaK-r of the City of Alliance;
official newspuer of Box Uulte County.
Owned nnl pultlished by The Uurr Trintinj?
Company, George l Hurr, Jr., 1'iesiilcnt; Edwin
M. Uurr, Vice l'lesidet.
WHY KIW ourselves:
. A number of very worthy people have found cause for
congratulation in the fact that Nebraska has fo few con
vict., as compared with other ntates. Thin feeling of
satisfaction received only a slight jolt through the an
nouncement by prison official that the penitentiary was
overcrowded, and the eo,uM that heritr. keep the pris
oner in the county jails until accommodations can be
made for them. "We Htill have Ich prisoner than most
tate," is the jubilant cry.
Nebraska has been operating under a parole law m
long that previous legislatures can hardly be blamed for
rot making the penitentiary larger. The prison reform
ers have had their way almost undisputed until the past
year, when public sentiment began to demand that pris
oners remain in the state institution at least long enough
to be able to give the food a good recommendation when
they got out Naturally, when the number of paroles are
cut down, the number of prisoners will increase. If the
change of heart on the part of the parole board bids fair
to be permanent, and indications are that this is the case,
the legislature should take steps to provide plenty of
room for all comers. Only a few months ago the people
of Nebraska wereprivileged to" witness a sublime spec
tacle the granting of several paroles because the peni
tentiary was overcrowded.
In our navy days, we had the pleasure of being in the
only rest camp in the United States where there was not
a single case of influenza. Our skipper, bless his heart,
possessed only a stripe ami a half, and he wanted very
much to be ranked a couple notches higher. He persuaded
Admiral Oman, in charge of the district, to let him take a
thousand men to camp during the epidemic, and started
out to make a name for himself. The first night, as we
recall, six men out of eight in our tent were taken ill with
the influenza, but as fast as any of them took sick, they
were sent by automobile to the base hospital at Newport.
By the end of a month, the thousand men had dwindled
to five hvndred, but the records showed, and probably still
read that way, that there was never a single case of the
disease at Camp Oman.
across railroad tracks last year. In hundreds of cases,
Irivers had fiom two to six people in their cars with
them.
The report also shows that in about 10 per cent of
ibe. c aceii lents, th folks running the cars inlead of
getting on tbe crossing and l'ing h t by ne vnine, had
Lumped into the side of the train. Ju.t foi" onco, may we
not be permitted to use the slang phrase, "Ami what do
you know abotit thi.t?" In a great many cases, tfie parties
in the automobiles were farmers. Many people 'who used
o find life in the country a little dull and monotonous,
have hiid a lot of pep and p)ewnr wHHed to eyiitne by
the mir-TrrnffTWTilei n motor car. It is feared IJuii
tuW: a number of them have lost their perspective and
no inger ?ee things from a proper angle. If life is now
rnv worth living, why not resolve to make, it last as
lonjs as w e can 7 v 1
'She railroad crossing Is something different from any
otltfr spot. The engineer of a fast train exjrt himself
to tt through on time. Among the passengers on that
trnai are people going to all soils of places', bent upon
all ifrids of errands. And some of thm are 'going great
distitx'es. To them' a little saving of time is a matter of
continence. On the other hand, the business fpf the aver
age Motorist Is not very pressing. Many a driver rushes
h el tn skelter to beat his way over a crossing perhaps
just leaking it by "the skin of his teeth" as tl! saying is.
Afritrtd at the other side, the hurry is all ovtr, and Mr.
Riskjnian just stops to watch the engine ana cars whiz
past m. I '
Tlre are many thoughtful men anil woirijrn running
motorcars. When he or she gets near the grae crossing,
h shows a
' the time,
CAPERS NEW AM) UNIQUE
(Sioux City Record)
This eighteenth amendment thing has certainly leen
furnishing some interesting parades for the fellow who is
.lis posed tn stand on the curb and watch the antics of this
-cion of the original yap, Mr. Adam. One rather hates
to admit it, of his fellow yap, out in the middle of n
raekless, treeless, sun-baked desert, but never were such
papers observed in the movements of our men of affairs.
A camel doesn't get mysterious when he mns out of
water he just toddles stolidly alonrr, anil if he don't
"Aiun tn fin riuic in timf hi fm-na tiinlf trw lin tri
the stars that twingle over the desert, the hot sand piles
ip around his mortal remains and in time he becomes a
wt rifled camel. What does man do, out here in this
"ighteenth-amendment desert? Well, we ain't following
lirn around to see what he does, but it don't take such
an almighty sleuth to surmise what this fellow going down
nto a dark corner of a garage, or gumshoeing into n
-hicken coop, or inspecting an alley, is going down there
for. Of course, under our benign government juri
prudence, you have got to haul the man to a police station
ind have a magistrate find him guilty of being soused to
he gills vou have got to catch him w ith the goods either
un him or' in him, and it would certainly start a scandal"
lifp if our eighteenth-amendment sleuths actually
and truly sleuthed.
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there If an instant coming to attention. - Th
correci (estimate of the value of life. Most
there no train near enough to hinder prompt passage
across fiie tracks. But all the same, close attention' is
given and no chances taken.
Theiity is that not all drivers are careful and that
the nadessons of the result of too much hasjte and too
little caution are written upon thousands of graves every
year.
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The associated Press seems disturbed because ten
thousand 'Chicagoans are following a life of (crime. If
it's permissible to count bootleggers, the western Nebraska
crime wirvp is nearly that extensive. 1
PUT UP THE BARS
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. (TAirnr Howard, in Columbiii' TVIerrmfwl
Often Jnile visiting Lincoln last week I hqard legis-
this Jananese
question, if do not claim to understand the question fully,
nut I umutttantt t far enough to convince me'.
.that it is
DO YOU VALUE YOUR LIFE?
It is a disturbing, yes, a horrifying fact, that 5,000
men, women and children were either killed or injured
lators ea' 'that they did not understand
Mtm. if fa 1
nigh time qr America to build some bars so nigh that no
Jap acrobhti could leap over them. I surges t to those
Nebraska l?rlslators who do not understand the! Japanese
problem tlmt they might profit by calling a ;Columbus
man Mr. dwin Chambers, down to Lincoln fbr a little
talk on thH Jap problem. Mr. Chambers reBtly,- re
turned from yapan. His testimony is that there is now
in Japan an atmosphere of hatred toward Americans. Also
he says the;)aps are very friendly toward tho English
visitors. : Quite naturally. There has been formel between
England amtlJapan an offensive and defensive alliance.
If the Ameiilan government should foolishly cUncel the
ten-billion-d3kir debt which England owes us, vei-y likely
England woull tjuickly loan half the amount to Japan to
be used in buikling a navy with which- to fight the United
States as .sooit as England shall give permission. The
man who sa.".4 he can see no menace in the Japanese
problem neel rye treatment. v '-
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