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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 15, 1921)
EIGHT THE ALLIANCE HERALD. TUESDAY, MAIICII IS, 1D21 As Good As the Best and Better than the Rest Telephone 133 KEEP - U - NEA T We Call and Deliver LEGION ENLISTING AID IN ITS CAMPAIGN TO ASSIST THE DISABLED ROTARY (M il 1.KNHS ITS Sl'P PORT TO PROGRAM Alliance Club Appoints Committee to Help Legion Post Ascertain ' I.oral Conditions. Member of the American Legion, in Nebraska and tbo nation at large, tire much encouraged at recent report. of assistance they nie duo to receive in their campaign for ju.-tice for the wounded and disabled. During the past few months, the public has awak ened to the fart that the situation is losporate and rails for immediate ac tion. Kvldcnce of this is found in the announcement that the International Rotary clubs with a membership of home seventy thousand leading busi ness men in cities all over the coun try, have voluteeied their assistance in the fight. The Alliance Rotary club, at its meeting last Wednesday evening, voted unanimously to appoint a com mittee to work in conjunrt'on with Alliance post of the American Legion incollccting information concerning local cases that need attnlion. The Midwest Veteran, a Nebraska Legion newspaper, gives the following detail of one case which has come to the attention of the soldiers' organiza tion: Ruddy, this is not a story of the bar harinus treatment handed out to slaves in the time of Nero, but a true tale of what h Nebraska world war veteran has had to go' through in an effort to Ret surgical treatment. His home is at Fairbury, Nebraska, and his name is Frank P. Morris. Morris came to the state headquar ters of the Nebraska American Legion for the first time some fourteen months ago. He was unable to work after getting out of the army and since ho had dependents he found it neces sary to apply to the government for aid. He wanted to gef an operation for bladder trouble. A claim was duly filled nut and sent to .Washington. Morris thought he would get action in n week or two. Then came long weeks of waiting with now and then a form letter from Washington, asking a question on this jnd n question on that Finally he was advised to report to the U. S. Pub lic Health service at Lincoln. This morris did in the early part of Febru nrv, 1920. The doctor rated him at fifty per cent disability and this he re ceived late in the spring. Impossible lo Live on $40. The summer of 1120 wer.t and ' Morris did not improve in health. He found it impossible to support himself and dependents on $40 a month. To "make matter worse, he was advised by the government that his compensa tion would be reduced. Thereupon Mftrris decided to try vocation train ing. Ho would receive $100 while in school, and carry on his studies while he could not work at his trade. He came to state headquarters of the Legion again, and was sent to the vocational board to make application for training. His application was fav orably acted upon and he was advised that he could enter school. However before he had an opportunity to do this, the public health service people advised him that he was in too poor health to take training, and that he would have to be hospitalized. In the meantime his compensation, granted by the bureau of war risk, had stopped and he was to be put on the federal board payroll. Receives No Compensation. To make a long story short, Morris received neither compensation or fed eral board pay at the time he reported again to the public health service of fice. Of course, this stoppage of com pensation was temporary, but unfort unately Moi lis and his dependents had not been able to stop living tempor arily. By this time Father Time had pushed the calendar around to Janu nry, 1921. Morris again came to stale headquarters of the legion and again he was sent to the United States pub lic health service. Several doctors of Lincoln examined him, but unfortun ately they could not agree as to just what ailed him. One thought it was tuberculosis; the other believed it to be bladder trouble. At any rate, Morris was sent to M, Elizabeth s hospital snd bright and early on a February morning was placed on the operating TaDie. Anout theime the surgean was read to beirin "an oneration for call bladder trouble, a telegram from St, Louis bobbed up. It advised the local rsurgeon not to operate but to send the atient to St. Louis. JFrom Operating Table to T. B. Ward. A week later Morris set out for the city of St. Louis. He was feeling in high spirits for he felt that at last he "would get relief and become at least the semblance of the man he was when Uncle Sam sent him out to fight for democracy. On February 11, 1021, rtate headquarters of the legion re ceived a letter from him. "I arrived here (St. Louis) O. K.," the letter said. "I was placed in the T. B. ward for observation. It will take a week or ten days to learn any thing. There rre 700 men here." No more was heard of Morris until March 1, 1021. Then the following letter came to state headquarters of the legion: MU. S. Public Health Service Hos pital No. CO, Oteen, N. C., March 1, v1021. Comrades: It looks as if I am sd)out out of luck. I entered the .It. Louis hospital on February 11, as a tuberculosis suspect, After various examination the doctors told me I was suTeiing from lung trouble. Thereupon I was transferred to an other hospital V. S. Marine and was shipnod buck here to North Carolina marked 'T. H.' "Sinre coming here have been re examined and no indications of tuber culosis found. The doctors here were surprsrd to think that I was marked 'T. R.' They claim heie that I have chronic bronchitis ami gall bladder trouble. Nothing has been sa;d about fn operation. My gall bladder, is still bo'.herin" me, and I would like to have that old T .11. ghost buried as deep as the bottom of the sea. Why in the name of common sense should they keep me here if I don't have tuberculosis? "I have been p'aced in dTiwt con tact in the same ward w it li chronic tuberculosis cases for the last three weeks. It got on my nerves to be in a place like th's. I am to be kept here lor thirty days lor observation. Now, if at the end of thirty day I am O. K. and no effort is made to send me home well, I'll get home some way. "For the last year I have been ask ing for an operation and they keep springing this T. B. scare. Here's hoping that other men do not have a deal like this handed them. "Won't you do something to get this thing settled now and for all time to come- I'm tired of it all. One doctor claims one thing and someone else claims another. If I am to be branded j 'T. B.' that will end my chances fori getting vocational training. I am no kicker, but my patience is about gone." Only One I ase or Many. What do you think of this case. Mr. American Citizen? Do you call this iustxe? Po you think the American Legion is selfish when it asks that something be done for these sick and hsablcd men who are bein kicked from pillar to post? Morris is only one case of many. Pon t you think it is ABOUT TIME we do something for these lads ? Alliance Lions Go to ScottsbiufF and Gering to Help Organize Clubs A number of members of the Alli ance Lions club, including W. R. Harper, True Miller, W. L. O'Keefe, (ieorge M. Carey and others, are in SeottsblufT today. The Scottsbluff club held its organization mect'ng at the Lincoln hotel this noon, and it is prob able thi t most of the Alliance men contributed speeches to help the good work along. The Kco'.tsbluffclub has already secured thirty-five members, and it was expected that the chuter membership would be filled at Ihe met ting today. The Gering club was organized yesterday. Avery Haggard, a prominent attor ney of Cheyenne, Wyo., president of the Cheyenne L'ons club, and a direc tor of Lions International, will be present to welcome the new club into the international associat;on. A dele gation from the Kimball Lions club also attended the first meeting. . Coloiite Hat Dyeall shades! Alliance Drug Co., Scotten & Hershman, 214 Kox Rutteave. (JLYCERINE MIXTURE FOR ;as ON STOMACH Simple glycerine, buckthorn bark. etc., as mixed in Adler-i-ka relieves ANY CASK gas on stomach or sour stomach. It ucts'on both upper and lower bowel and, removes all foul mat ter which .poisoned stomach. Often CURLS constipation. Prevents appen dicitis. The INSTANT pleasant action of Adler-i-ka surprises both doctors and patients. One mai who suffered five years from indigestion and consti pation was Jielpcd by ONE dose. Harry Thiele, druggist. Stock hoirs wanted bv the Ne- braska Land Company. 103-tf Hemingford Woman Will Be Cared For By Her Relatives Relatives of Miss Clara Nagel schneider of near Hemingford have been summoned to Alliance by the police authorities to care for her. The woman has been in Alliance for sev eral days past and while she has not been disturbing anyone, has been act ing rather (ueerly. Relatives say that she loft Hemingford some time ago and has since been seen in Thermopo lis, Wyo., and elsewhere. It is prob able that guardianship proceedings will be instituted, inasmuch as she is the owner of some property. In Alli ance she has been walking in front of certain stores for hours at a time. It's time to use them. Flower, gar den and lawn seed. Alliance Florists, 10(5 West Third St. ' 31-34 About the worst place a man can keep his valuables these days is where a robber can get them. Wanted to buy both your fat and stock hogs. O'Bannon and Neuswanger. Phone 71. 18tf Don't forget the kiddies Easter Candies THEY LIKE THEM AND THEY OUGHT TO HAVE THEM COME IN. ' All Kinds We have Easter Candies Eggs, Rabbits and other novelties that will delight the hearts of children. Make it a point to drop in before Easter and buy what you need. t BOX CANDIES FOR EASTER Several fancy packages suitable for gifts. They will please your sweetheart. Try it once. f OUR SODA FOUNTAIN is daily dispensing delicious combina tions of ice cream and fruits.' Anything you want. ji Orders Taken For Special BRICK ICE CREAM FOR EASTER SUNDAY Many Combinations will be available, or you can order whatver you want. Don't wait till the last minute, but plan now. Alliance Candy Store LLOYD THOMAS TELLS OF AUTOMOBILE TRIP TO TEXAS OIL FIELDS (Continued from Page 1) Wagoner Is the county seat of this thickly populated county and is only a few miles north of the metropolis of eastern Oklahoma the town of Mus kogee, made famous by the onlv eon gresswoman at Washington todav Miss Alice Robertson. Mrs. Thomas rnd I autoed down to Muskogee a few flays ago and took lunch at her cafe teria called the "Sowakla." It was crowded and seems to be doing a big business. One of the chief items on the b;ll of fare in these southern towns is of course "biscuits." Some of the people seem odd tots of course, and 1 presume that to come of them we seem just as odd. The land here is uito similar (in price) to that. in Uox Hutte county, ranging from $."0 to $100 per acre,' but there are1 many streams, big irnd little, nrd a lot of timber in the valleys. And it can raj n here to beat the band. One thing thataof couive seems very familiar to us is 'the large number of "Henry Fords" that pack the streets. Driving the big Chandler down a long hill the other day, I saw a Ford com ing down the opposite hilt, driven by a man by whose side was a woman holding a baby. The Ford was tuite n d:stance farther from- the small and narrow bridge over the stream at the bottom of the hills and I naturally took it for granted that he would ex pect us to pass over the bridge first. But he apparently had a different iden for just as I approached the bridge from my ido, he gave his "Henry" all the gas it would stand and came on at full speed. 1 pnticinat.ed a smash up, especially if we met in the center of the bridge, with the odds in favor of the big Chandler, hut although 1 didn't care for the man, I felt that th? woman and baby with him deserved some consideration, so put on by brakes ami headed into the bridge abutment, getting stopped within only a few inches of it, as the fool driver, his Ford, wife and baby, dashed over the bridge ami past us, the man throw ing one arm in the air and shout. ng, "Hooray, I beat yer." Mrs. Thomas and I looked at each other and! lauehed. ! We found our 'first toll bridges in this part of the country. Between Wagoner and Muskogee there are two of them and the toll for an auto is thirty-five cents each tr'p each wry The bridges are owned by railroads, who have simply put planks over the ties and "sidebowards" on the sides. Trains have the right-of-way over the bridges and the trembling autoist dashes over between times, while a big, hu-ky gent stops you at the end of the bridge and collects the fee. murmuring hoarsely about the incon venience of mak'r.g change, or telling you that it is "a nice day," which is of course r.n evident fact. We expect to drive through Ard more,. Oklahoma, early nex tweek. This is where the famous Clara Smith Hamon murder trial starts tomorrow. U is eetting most of the spare even now in the southern dailies. We un derstand th?t there are to be twenty accredited newspaper correspondents there and that the Associated Press, United Tress and Universal Service news agencies arc to have direct tele graph news wires Icadinir into the court room. It may be possible for the writer, by the use of our Nebraska newspaper credentials, to gr.in admit tance for an hour or two 'to the court room. If so. I may get something of interest to Herald readers. LLOYD C. THOMAS. The health of your hair de pends upon the care you give it. Have a Hot Oil shampoo at McVicker's Beauty Pallor. 31 Read The Herald's adv. columns. New-Fanglcd Pledge is Causing Trouble Over at Hay Springs A pledge which has been circulated among the boys and girls, but not 'ery exfersive'v s'rned, pledging the boys not to give invitations to any girl who wears dieses shorter than at lenst thrp inches below the knees or collars below collar bone, etc., etc., and pledging the girls not to give in vitations to bovs who smoke, play cards, use intoxicants, etc., etc., seems to be a subject Tor much talk and criticism, not onlv amone the younger ones, but with the parents and older people in generaT. It is said that the nledge is having its effect among the Sunday school classes and bids fair to do damaging work along that line if something more agreeable is not sub st tuted. There is only one way to overcome its effect, and that is to burn the document un and forget about it. Hay Springs News. Easter flowers, all kinds. Alliance Florists. 100 West Third St. 31-34 j50Nl Vj funny 9 William Woofus went to Congress as the common people' choice, ancl against the corporations he was wont to raise his voice, so the people all acclaimed him as the hero of the hour; one who'd fight the trusts with vigor; irake them tremble, crawl and cower. And they watched the press, de lighted at the bills he introduced, "and they praised his speeches loudly when his eloquence was loosed. When his lerm of office ended, he was met with glad acclaim, for the laws that he'd supported left the corporations lame. William Woofus, while in Congress, hadn't hoarded any pile, for he'd all the time been working for the humble rank and file. I lost sight of William Woofus for 'a score or more of years, and my' inquiry about him brought a multitude of jeers: "William Woofus? .He's now acting as the corporations tool; he's a corporation lawyer no exception lo the rule. All those laws he made in Congress were a fizzle and a joke, and he's paid a hundred thousand just to show how laws are broke." ATfcoyr LAWYER. NOW? V DON'T ftY ! LADIES' Wool Skirts Plaids I Box and Side-pleated Models in very pretty shades of Tan and Br6wn, Navy and Tan, Navy and Grey. A very fine quality of material and well tailored. Horace Bogue Store