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THE ALLIANCE HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1921
Iff Mtaurr Hrralft
BURR PRINTING CO., Owners
Entered at the postoffice at Alliance, Neb., for
transmission throueh the mail as necond class
natter. Published Tuesdays and Friday.
GKORC.E L. BURR, JR. Kditor
EDWIN M. HURR Business Manager
Official newspaper of the City of Alliance;
fficial newspaper of Box Butte County.
Owned and published by The Burr Frintinjr
Company, George I Burr, Jr., President; Edwin
If. Burr, Vice President.
many. American soldiers are now in a German prison G82
because they sought to protect the honor of their country.
They would have been released within thirty-fix hours, and
a vigorous demand for Bergdoll'd surrender would have
been made to the German government in less time than
that had this been in the administration of Roosevelt.
SAVINGS UNDER THE BODE BILL
THE POLITICAL POT
From now on, the city campaign should get Interesting.
With just one week before election, friends of the candi
dates, and the candidates themselves", are beginning to
how signs of life. Present prospects are that next Tues
day's vote will be one of the heaviest ever polled in thq
City. --i-
-rS usual, there is conjecture as to where the various
candidates will draw their support. Some of the guesses
are fairly accurate, and others are ludicrous. Certain
organizations in the city, such as the firemen, who have
been known to do a little work on election day in the
past, are credited in some quarters with having a slate
that they will attempt to put through. In fact, one of the
prettiest bits of political deduction that has been in Alli
ance for years has come up in connection with the fire;
men.
It is slyly suggested, that the fire boys are behind their
own candidate, Fred Hayes, the two ex-soldiers, O'Keefe
and Bradbury and John Snyder. Then the suggestion is
thrown out that the firemen succeeded in electing Mayor
Slodgers two years ago. The inference is plain for thoe
who have a mind to see. As a matter of fact, the firemen
aren't nearly as ambitious as this, and about the best way
to learn who the firemen are supporting is to ask one of
them.
The election of It. M. Hampton and S. W. Thompson is
practically conceded. The race will be between the next
five or six men on the primary list There is rather a
pretty problem to be worked out by those who wish to
erve their friends as to just whom to vote for. A com
plimentary vote to some candidate may be just the vote
that will defeat their friends.
The city of Alliance will not lose, no matter which can
didates are elected. The ten men who will make the final
race are all the very best of material for the council.
Some of them aren't as wealthy as others, but all of them
are earnest and energetic, and will serve the city to the
best of their ability in the time they have at their
disposal.
How long has it been since we read the announcement
by Phil Bioss, the state's secretary of. finance, that the
, code bill had already, during the present biennium, saved
Nebraska thousands of dollars. True, at the time, it was
! pointed out that this money had been saved because more
than was needed had been asked for, appropriated and nbt
spent, and it was hinted thHt Mr. Bross was attempting
to make political capital for Governor McKelvie's cam
paign. .
Now, at the close of the biennium, which ends March
31, comes the announcement that a number of the Ftate
departments are close to the end of their resources, and
a deficiency appropriation by the legislature may have
to be made. Perhaps there may be a loophole for escape,
but this is one of the things that it would be interesting
to have explained.
THERE'LL BE A REFERENDUM
A BLUE LAW DRIVE
Shed a tear for Chicago. The Windy City is to be the
scene of a veritable "blue law" drive, to start April 3.
Miss Anna A. Gordon, national president of the woman's
christian temperance union, has made the announcement,
according to Associated Press reports. Next week will be
one of prayer for the success of the campaign, and Sunday,
April 10, has been designated as anti-tobacco Sunday,
when literature to be sent out to W. C. T. U. branches,
churches, schools and colleges will be distributed.
Among violations of Sunday as a day of rest, it is said
that four hundred thousand persons are now working on
Sunday. Restrictions are to be sought on golfing, pleas
ure, automobiling, baseball, moving pictures, theatres and
dancing on the Sabbath.
It has been said that al the "blue law" agitation was a
myth, perpetrated by the newspapers, the moving picture
magnate and others who might in some way profit by the
commercialized Sunday. We have been told that the
1-ord's day alliance has been horribly abused and accused
of something that it had never intended. What worries us
is the question of whether the woman's christian temper
ance union has also been mUquotd. Or is the real truth
that a certain class of citizens are seeking to impose on
the rest of the country their own ideas of proper conduct
on their one day of rest? We hate to be worked up over
the matter if there is nothing to it, but somehow the
announcement has an authentic sound,
(Hamilton County Register)
Ugly rumors reach the Register that the lobbyists who
have visited Lincoln to work for the proposed movie cen
sorship have at least in certain instances been paid from
state funds. If this can be demonstrated, and though
there has been an attempt to conceal the records of the
expenuuures made in the welfare department, there will
be a revelation of the true condition long before any
referendum can be considered; but if it can be clearlv
demonstrated that such methods have been used to push
a bill claimed to be In the interests of a higher morality, it
will create such public sentiment against the promoters
and beneficiaries of the measure that it would certainly
be defeated before the people.
The promoters of the bill fought desperately against
reference to the voters for determination, rfnd in this,
doubtless injured their cause, as it shows that they dis
trust the judgment of the people. It takes 40,000 voters
or one-tenth of the total number to hold up the measure
pending its submission, and if this large number is ob
tained it will show such dissatisfaction with the law as to
incline a good many more people to regard it unfavorably
than would have done so, had those who favored the bill
not shown so much reluctance to having the people decide
their own business, and evidently been so afraid of their
decision.
With the advantages that the movies have for circulat
ing petitions among their patrons there is no question
regarding the fact that there will be a referendum. We
think there is no question that enough petitioners will be
secui-ed to hold up the law until it can be submitted, which
will be approximately two years. If neither the senate
nor the governor come to the relief of the people against
the principle of government by censors, there is little
doubt that thy will eventually come to their own relief,
the more specifically if it is demonstrated that monpv
from the public treasury has been spent to bring pressure
u Dear on me legislature to pass the measure.
it moral laws cannot be made without recourse to
larceny of public funds, it were better to-leave them un
passed, and we cannot imagine a much worse condition
than to be under despotic dominion of those who in the
name or tne interests of children resort to this form of
undue pressure to secure laws giving them lucrative
positions. For the sake of everybody concerned we hop
that this accusation will turn out to be unfounded though
the extreme reluctance to show up what the money has
been expended for and the strenuous denials of the amount
of money that has been expended has aroused strong
suspicion.
HIGH SCHOOL MORALS
ONE POPULAR DRIVE;
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In a land that has Ueen sore beset by financia ldrives
for every conceivable sort of a purpose, there are some
who say emphatically that the citizens have risen in revolt
and that no more can a drive for fund be successful. This
may be true of some drives, but a financial campaign is
scheduled for early April in Alliance that will go over
with a rush. The city will rally to the support of the
Boy Scouts and will cheerfully come across with the
money needed to erect a permanent camp at Belmont
for them.
No one will dispute that the boys are among the most
.valuable assets of the city. No one will dispute that the
Boy Scout organization is one of the finest influences for
right thinking and right living among boys that exists
today. When the boys, backed by a number of business
men, ask for a most reasonable sum of money to build a
camp for themselves and all the boys that are to follow
after them for the next ten years, there isn't a man in the
city who will feel like refusing to contribute something.
The Boy Scouts are apostles of the outdoor life. They
build up their members, mentally ami physically. Their
associations are the best possible. The Scout movement
is one of the biggest things in the lives of Young America,
and Alliance is going to give a free-hearted endorsement
to their work
THE BERG DOLL CASE
Would that Theodore Roosevelt were alive and in the
president's chair for just three days. That would be
about the length of time required to settle the Bergdoll
matter for good and all by that most vigorous of execu
tives. And if there is any matter that requires prompt
and energetic action, the Bergdoll case is it.
This millionaire slacker, after evading the draft am
. being permitted to escape two or three times, has finally
escaped to Germany. Two American soldiers, both of
them with German names, proceeded to capture him.
Bergdoll was released, the two soldiers were given six
months' jail sentences by a German court martial and
the American government has taken its own sweet time
and plenty of red tape in regard to the incident.
The United States is still technically at war with Ger
(Philadelphia Public Ledger)
Educators in session at Atlantic City profess varving
degrees of concern and alarm over the laxity of coniluct
and the low standard of ethics observable among high
school pupils. Late hours, joyriding, sensational movies,
powder, paint and rouge, scanty raiment, zoological dances,
precocious sentimental attachments, scorn for the insipidi
ties of home, a growing flippancy toward parents, a care
less ami cheapening demeanor with young men all these
things and many more come in for their share of the
blame for what the teachers rightly regard as a condition
justifying their concern.
If children were cherubim and seraphim, teachers and
parents would not have to educate them. The children are
the fallible offspring of mortals far from perfect. Saddled
with the heredity and the constitution parentally bestowed,
they learn not merely from books and from the precept of
pedagogues, but from the environment of life at school
and in the hours after school. There are parents who send
their children to school in sheer thankfulness to be rid of
the care of them gladly shifting to the teacher the bur
den of parental responsibility. When the children of such
parents are at home, a weak indulgence often undoes much
of the good that the simple routine and the firm discipline
of school have accomplished. There is nothing new in these
plaints as to the graceless and mannerless children of the
century. Each age bemoans a decadence from the genera
tion left behind. A sure sign of growing old is the readi
ness to impress on anyone who will listen the fact that
the world is very evil, the times are waxing late. Grand
sire is eager to drag aspiring youth aside and croak his
pessimisms as to the coming days and his fond eulogies
Of the olden, golden age, and the giants there used, to be.
HiirH schools are better than thetf over were. So are
the high school children. If the rwt Of the country in the
war had done as well as the high school children did, there
would be nothing m our record to bring the blush of shame
to the cheek of a patriotic American. Most high school
pupils are shrewd enough to see that if they fail to im
prove their chance at school, they lose out in life s race,
because of the fierce competition. That fact is enough to
keep most of them straight and at work. 'Io come in occa
sional contact with any group of children of the American
school today is to be thrilled with a sense or the latent
power for the future and race. The paramount misfortune
of our imperfect educational system is that we usually
crowd our school looms with such mobs of undisciplined
little people for our underpaid and overworked teachers to
train that the thrill comes too rarely, because or the pies
sure and fatigue that sap the teacher's vitality and make
it all she can do to keep going.
Girls may shut their eyes while being kis,sed, as
scientist avers, but you betcha they don't when it comes
to selecting the engagement ring. Richmond (Ind.) Item.
Panama has sent out sixty troops under a general. At
that rate a corporal's guard would be a problem in decimal
fractions. Muneie (1ml.) Mar.
If any woman had all the clothes she wanted, the rest
of the women would have to go around in barrels. Sugar
City (Colo.) Gazette.
Sartorial art finds many forms of expression. Some
men's idea of dressing for a party is to button the ve.-t.
Providence Tribune.
Every man has days when his suspenders insist on
getting twisted and his socks keep coming down. Howard
(Kans.) Courant.
While the savage red man lived in a wigwam he paid
no rent. Why, then, was he savage? Chicago Daily
News.
The lure of the hose in the city drives men from the
hoes in the country. Gilmer (Tex.) Mirror.
There is one thing about being pro-American there
are no regrets. Culdesac (Ida.) Enterprise.
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It Was a Profitable Joke
For Both of Them
Two girls were working in the same shop several years ago. The
question of saving money came up one day, but these girls said they
could not spare anything from their small earnings. .
But just as a joke one of the girls said: "I dare you to start a sav
ings account with. me and see who can save the most" so they
started.
A few years later one of these girls quit working at the shop to
get married. She was surprised to find more than $600 in the bank
to her credit a very welcome sum at such a time.
The other girl is still working and she continues her visits to the bank
each week. Her account is well above $2,000 now, and it is growing fast.
Her interest money each year is more than her first year's savings
amounted to.
Perhaps this story will suggest a plan that 'will work as well for you.
FIVE PER CENT. PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS
FIRST STATE BANK
ALLIANCE,
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