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THE ALLIANCE HEP.ALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1921
utyr Miattre liiralh
BURR PRINTING CO., Owners
Entered at the postoffice at Alliance, Neb., for
transmission through the mail ax second class
matter. Published Tuesday und Friday.
GEORGE L. UURU, JR Editor
EDWIN M. PURR Business Manager
Official newFpaper of the City of Alliance;
official newspaper of Box Butte County.
Owned and published by The Burr Printing
Compuny, George L. Burr, Jr., President; Edwin
II. Burr, Vice President.
emphatic. Mr. Good showed a too common congressional
tendency to quote statistics which he either made up him-1
elf or tot from an irresponsible source. His whole effort
to defend his scheme of cutting down hospital appropria
tions for wounded Yanks would have been, pitiful if it
d d not come in all seriousness from the most powerful
committee chairman in the house of representatives.
While this windy battle was waging, the press was
daily being told how Congress would "provide for the
wounded heroes" through a resolution to "make available"
several million dollars tor the" repair of hispitals. The
fact that the millions referred to had long s4nceheen
allotted to maintenance of men in hospitals already
occupied did not feaze the iiull-peddlers, nor prevent many
reporters from disseminating this cheerful "news." But
in point of fact the congress might just us well have made
next year's crop of split pros "available" for last year's
soup.
No wonder some of us get a bit suspic'ous of the oft-'
repeated assertion that this or that organization, group
or party is ready to do "everything" for the disabled.
THE CHANCE OF A LIFETIME
DO YOUR BIT.
Perhaps the sweetest bit of news that has been pub
iished in the last hundred years is that the disabled sol
diers in the great war have had to organize a league and
establish headquarters in Washington in order to impress
upon congress the fact that they should be eared for ,
properly. How soon the great American public can for- j
get. Two years ago the man who even suggested that
the disabled soldiers might not be' given everything )
Heeded for their comfort, medical treatment or happiness
would have been mobbed in the average city, and the t
very least he would have escaped with would have been I
tribution to the Red Cross.
What is the situation today? The national legislators
who believe there should be adequate hospitals and hos
pital facilities, or other provision made for the disabled
and crippled, are in the minority. Men who went to war
and were injured in serving their country are suffering
some of them are dying because a grateful govern
ment hasn't sufficient time or interest to care for them.
These men, wounded in your behalf and ours, many of
them miserably poor, without enough to eat and no money
to pay for their own medical attendance, are forced to
organize a society of their own, and from their meager
funds contribute money to their own .lobbyists to get
simple justice for themselves.
It Isn't as though this were a charity task for the
government. The wounded and disabled men have al
ready paid, out of their slim salaries as soldiers, for the
tare and treatment they have not received. Every man
who served in the United States army took out war risk
insurance. It wasn't compulsory, of course, but all of
them did it, just as nine out of ten of them bought lib
erty bonds. Private insurance agencies wouldn't dawdle
and delay for months and years before making a settle
ment, and if they did attempt it the courts would pro
tect the policy holder. The government agencies for the
telief of the wounded and disabled apparently want to
k what is right, but the officials are almost inextricably
bound In a mass of red tape that only congress can cut
away.
It's time for some of the four-minute speakers, the
members of the councils of defense and others who did
their bit in the war through needed activities at home, to
remember that for some of the boys who fought the war
is not yet over. These men should get behind the Amer
ican Legion und the national disabled soldiers' league and
demand justice, immediate and complete. Every man
who backed up the soldiers during the war should do it
now, and do it just as promptly and as readily as he an
swered his country's call in the days when men were being
murdered in the Meuse and the Argonne to protect them.
Letters and telegrams do not help much, unfortunately,
but they are the only way that its duty can be impressed
upon a reluctant congress. If the cry goes up from the
ordinary citizens that justice must be given those men
who have been broken upon the altar of patriotism, it
will not take long for congress to see the right, Do
your bit do-it now and put an end to America's shamed
(New York Life)
In the administration that is now closed enormous
things were accomplished and a large proportion of them
by public servants who got to work because the size of the
job compelled them to; and without regard to whether they
were politically of the party of the administration under
which they enlisted or not . So it may happen again.
The cabinet and the rest of the administrative organization
that Mr. Harding starts with is really an experiment. If
it gets along with the job, very well. If it halts on it,
or falls down, or if without fault pf its own the job gets
too big for it, the Test of the resources of the country can
be drawn upon again. Whatever there is in the country
the government can have in accomplishing the discharge
of its duties. Undoubtedly the duties will be heavy, and
failure to discharge them very serious in its conseouences.
Moreover the time for a new administration to accomplish ,
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jiiiui mm wuiiKK is hi us start, ii a president knows
what he wants and has a program, the time to put it
through is while the congress that start s with him is
fresh and before he has distributed h;s favors. Congress
is apt to be obliging to a new president, who is apt to be
of the same party as its majority, and has substantial
means of showing appreciation of support. Let us hope,
therefore, that Mr. Harding knows what he .wants, and is
ready to start right in to get it. Great problems left by
the war have been waitjpg for a president who should
have the backing of congress. At least such a president
has come and opportunity confronts him. j
BOLD AS WELL AS CUNNING
(Edgar Howard in Columbus Telegram)
Americans have the habit of emphasizing thecunning
of the Japanese, but it seems the little fellows can be as
bold as they are cunning. A Japanese newspaper, speak
ing of the enactment of Jap-exclusion laws by various
American states, recently employed the following lan
guage: "The day will come when the real strength of the
Japanese will make a CLEAN SWEEP of all such laws."
But the brassiest boldness ever spoken bv a Jan was said
by George Shima, the Japanese "potato king." In giving
his testimony to the congressional committee at a recent
public hearingvin San Francisco, this potato king brazenly!
saiil that inter-marriage between Japanese men and
American women would "doubtless be a good thing for the
future of the American people." "Illustrating the. mean-!
ing of this statement he talked the potato language, say-'
ing, "When a local strain of potato seed runs out we
restoYe it by introducing a stronger seed from outside
i-vy vt v v ' 1. It 1 I IV ui 'tm VHC lUllt VI tin uJciiitr;c I M I ll I M
king in California, is there in all Nebraska one white man
who wants to throw down the bars to the Japs?
PROFANITY
HOT AIR
(Stars and Stripes)
Congressman Good, of Iowa, the official tight-wad of
the House ami chairman of the appropriations Committee,
has enjoyed a wordy argument this past week about how
many beis are vacant in public health hospitals. The
American Legion told him his estimate of 4.000 vacant
beds, by reason of which he claimed no more hospitaliza
tion was needed, was slightly crazy. Director Cholmeley
Jones, of the war risk bureau, was more polite, but equally
(Nebraska City Press)
A bill designated to prohibit the drivers of conveyances
carrying children to school from swearing in the presence
of the youngsters has beeh recommended for indefinite post
ponement oy me committee, it ts declared by these mem
bers that such a law is not necessary in view of other
statutes now in existence and that it would be unwfre to!
clutter up the books with laws which, in large measure,
are but repetitions of existing regulations. This is as it
should be. The statute books of Nebraska are already
overburdened wth laws, many of them forgotten and
ignored. Prosecutions are lax in many cases because there
are too many rules and regulations of little merit and
because public opinion is not awake. It is already a mis
demeanor to swear in Nebraska or elsewhere; those who
transgress, whether they be drivers of school busses or
not, may be adequately punished if complaints are properly
filed. . '
WASTED SY M PATH Y
(Nebraska City Press)
It seems that a great deal of sympathy is wasted in
this world. Just a clay or two ago we read that the wife
f a man who was recently electrocuted at Lincoln is to be
remarried, after waiting almost three months. Frequently
people join the Sob Squad and then decide never to do it
again. We did the same thing on a never-to-be-forgotten
occasion, "feeling sorry" for the widow of a man who came
to an untimely end in a most atrocious manner and then
had to reverse ourselves within incredibly short time and
extend congratulations to a blushing bride. You never
can tell.
RANDOM SHOTS
Today' Bent Story
The president of the Society of the
Permanently and Voluntarily Unem
ployed had come to the end of his rope
and was violating hi code by seeking
work.
"So you want a job." said the keeper
of the golf links. "What can you do?"
"Well," replied the applicant judi
ciously, "I ws thinkin I might go
around and co!or up the -gone-to-seed
dandelions so they won't look like
golf balls."
Stolen from, B. I. T.: ln the moun
tains of eastern Tennessee 1 lost my
way. In time I came ucross a shack,
with an old lady sitting on the door
step smoking her pipe. I asked the
direction of Tellicoe Plains, seven
miles away. She said: "I can't tell
ye, stranger. I ain't never traveled
much. But if Joe was here he c'd tell
ye. Joe's traveled lots. He's j'ot
shoes."
Here's one the Able Secretary dug
Up. A woman is as old as she looks.
A man isn't old till he stops looking.
The frankest man in the United
States lives at Atchison. He recently
Ynarried his third wife and a reporter
was interviewing him at the station.
"I believe I shall be very happy," said
the candid man, "for my first two
wives were not worth a damn."
Old story from the Nebraska City
Press: A politician in a country dis
trict was being investigated by a com
mittee. A member of the committee
asked a farmer what he thought of the
politician. "I think he is the biggest
liar I ever knew," said the farmer.
They do 6ay down our way that when
he wants to fed his hogs he has to
have home body else call m."
" The "Pelicanaire," official organ of
the American Legion - of Louisiana,
auggests that if the fellow who tried
j to kidnap Bergdoll out of Germany are
tried for anything, it ought to lie on
! a charge of attempted petit larceny.
No, Phyllis,
counted a success, Fays the American
Press, if he can run his typewriter
with one hand while using the other
to correct proof, write ed copy, make
out subscription receipts, keep the
books, order paper stock, welcome vis
itors from Wild Cat towrtship, tAke 3-
line personals over the telephone, open
the mail, pay the freight bill, ward
off brick bats and flag destiny.
A tall, lanky fireman attended the
blaze early this morning, clad only in
his underwear and a raincoat. Un
fortunately he suffered an accident.
and his raincoat was ripped up the
j buck. The streets were almost de
serted and he remained at his post
until the fire was extinguished. Ojrily
one lone waitress discovered the acci
jdent, and she vanished after one
giimpsr.
Carl Rockey says that at the. next
meeting he will move that the tfiame
of the department be changed JYom
A. V. F. D. to the Alliance B. VD.'.
Cottonseed cake for sale.
O'Uannon & Neuswanger. Phone
71. 29tf
A meeting of the committee of busi
ness women appointed at thee last
Thursday luncheon was held th$ eve
ning of March 1st at the chamber of
commerce rooms. The constitution and
by-laws .of the new organization of
business women were drafted and will
be adopted at the meeting of March
14th, to be held in the evening at the
chamber of commerce. A social hour
is planned after the business is dis
posed of.
all editors do not make
home brew. It was' onlv a former
editor of the Review who got caught
in the Volstead web this week, not the
present editor. We have enough trou
bles collecting wafer and light ac
counts, and listening to the woes of the
wronged, to manufacture the stutr that
causes men to see two telephone poles
where there is only one.
We see that there are two other
towns in the state where" there ure
Radiant beauty parlors. What's in a
name?
Y'ou remember the orator who got
his metaphores all balled up and told
of "planting our feet firmly on the
rock while we float proudly into the
harbor of Success." Here's one from a
soap box orator that is evi?n more so,
if you understand what we mean:
"And what do we do?" he cried. "We
pursue the shadow, the bubble bursts,
and leaves but ashes in our empty
hands'"
We suggest to our thirsty friends
that they exercise' due caution and not
purchase Wine of Cardui.
An Old One: What's the difference
between a watermelon and a news
paper? The answer is that one is red
inside and the other is read all vcr.
Some kind friend sends us weekly a
copy of the Daily Nebraskan, the pub
lication put out by the University t f
Nebraska students. Once we saw one
of them that was interesting reading.
We've found the meanest man in the
world and. on the, golf links, of all
places. This man refused a caddie a
ride to town, when there wai plenty
of room in his car.
Hani innl is tm1mtr. t ,v ' j : .
Stock hogs wanted by the Ne
braska Land Company. 103-tf
Labor that will not produce when it
can may find that it cannot produce
when it will. t .
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LEGISLATIVE NOTES
The senate refused to allow rural
mail carries the privilege of driving
their autos without paying the license
fee.
After something of a scrap the
! house decided to make no change in
the present laws governing county
agents.
tion made a strong talk against ther
bill. He said farmers have to submit
to some forms of double taxation right
along, therefore it is all right for
building and loan concerns to be in ther
same position. The point of his argu
ment is that if the tax is taken off of
the stock it will have to be put ore
something elce. I he argument for the
bill is that it prevents a tax on thrift
and will promote building.
The house also approved No. 14r
which provides for the assessment of
real estate this year, again next year
and every two years thereafter. The
obiect of this is to keep assessed valu-
otinn in harmnnv with thi rhflnpnnf!"
According to a bill passed by the values of real estate.
senate, Nebraska folks will no longer
be sent to an insane asylum. They
-m . . j,:4.i t I nouse roil iio iiik-s it iiutrr.ii y
'IVif u It fc ? i trhL ;'for officers of insurance companies to
that is to be the legal name of these - . . ... ,i ..i;. i tu
institutions in the future.
At the time this is written another
attempt is being made to save the su
preme court commission. It is being
done by rewriting another bill.
show that they are qualified for that
line of business before engaging in it.
Countv treasurers m,Vht as well lnls ,,R similar iu inr iu-uvisiuii in iner
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going to have to worry along at their ! ta,n restriction onpromc ion ex pens-
present salaries. All attempts to get."
favorab'e consideration of a bill pro-
' 1- r . - 1 .i 1 e
viumg i or increases nas laneu so iar.
Constitutional lawyers in the legis
lature are having a hard time agreeing
as to whether or not that body has the
power to change the salaries of state
officers who are now in office. Some
interpret the constitution one way,
some another.
Vigorous opposition was manifested
towards house roll 39 1 which gives the
state department of public welfare
control 'and sanitary supervision over
water, ice and sewer system in air
towns and cities of the state except;
Omaha. The bill was finally ordered!
to third reading.
The introducers of the Gifford-By-rum
movie bill have consented to-
changes which make it less drastic.
Sarpy county folks are wearing a
rath to the state house to express
their opinions as to whether or not , No compromise was made on what are
that county should be annexed to j considered tne most essential i-eai-Dounglas
county. Some are for thejures. This bill applies to all classes
bill, others are equally strenuous in of shows and entertainments as well
saying that the bill must not pass.
At the time this is written indica-
as to the movies.
Other house bills passed are one by
tions nre strone that the bill creatine , Snow allowing the mayor to hold the
a child welfare department will be office of city manager, one by Jeary
abandoned. Sentiment is so strong allowing cities of the second class to
against the creation of any more state emnloy special engineers, one by Dy-
Doaras, especially wnen tney carry, ri muiiing an accomplice in a crime
large appropriations, that friends of
the bill are said to have made up their
minds that it is useless to expect its
passage at this session.
i If H. R. 120 becomes a law election
boards will have more to do in the fu-
, ture than they have in the past. The 'The hoard of control heads the list
equally guilty with the principal and
one by Bowman authorizing university
regents to sell or loan text books.
The general claims and deficience
bill has been introduced in the house.
It shows a deficiency of $333,104.31.
present law permits the division of a
precinct when it has more than 300
voters. -The bill makes the limit 900 in
(cities of 2.f00 to 50,000 and 450 in
; other precincts. With a double election
board, as now provided, it is possible
j to handle a larger number of ballots
than could be handled when the pres
ent law was passed.
with a deficiency of $258,000. Miscel
laneous deficiencies amount to $12,
0(i9.05; department deficiencies to $20,
4G2.76 and vocation training to $42,
573.00. The board of control item isv
of necessity, always more or less of an?
estimate.
The doctors were unable to agree on
the course of study for the university
school of medicine. A public hearing
was held by a joint committee on
medical societies.
Cedar county did a pood job of pick
ing when it selected Representatives
Lvnn and O'Gara for the legislature.
Theodore Osterman, brother of our
own Tom, is another live wire.
The house decided that it is not nec
essary to have teachers take the oath
of allegiance before assuming their
duties. The bill included all teachers
from the chancellor of the university
on down.
Appointive state officers and mem
bers of the board of control will get
their salaries increased if the senate
and governor agree with the house.
The increases are not as large, how
ever, as the original bills provided.
A senate committee finally decided
to report favorably on a bill exempting
building and loan stock from taxation.
The committee has been unable to
agree. The house judiciary committee
has been working on the same bill. A
representative of a farmers' organiza-
House roll 70, fixing salaries of"
county judges, was finally passed and
sent to the senate. A lot of oratory
and figuring was necessary before the-
bill could be agreed upon. Reduction
were made all along the line from the
amounts fixed in the original bill. The
bill provides that if the fees of the
office are not sufficient to pay the
salary the judge shall do his own work,
and not practice law.
NOTICE EXTRAORDINARY.
Owner of Hudson Six Touring car
in garage at 704 Toluca. Pleace call
and remove at once. 28-2
There is no explanation as to just
how it happened, but Saturday morn
ing employes at the Alliance hotef
found a young muskrat between the
screen ami the door at the rear of the
establishment. The animal has been
given a suitable home in u box and
the plan is to make a pet of him if
he shows any friendliness at all. His
diet has very largely consisted of raw
potatoes dur'ng the first period of hi
incarceration, but as soon as he warms
up to his new friends, they will try
him out on fried fish and chicken
sandwiches.
Read The Herald's adv. columns.
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end of the mpnth you have a complete record
of your receipts and expenditures and a
statement of your balance.
This is one of the ways in which this bank renders
you an important service. It saves you time; it
saves you inconvenience.
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community. Consult our oiTicers in regard to your
banking needs.
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