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T-IIE ALLIANCE HETtAl,T. TUESPAY, APH1L 26, 1921
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BURR PRINTING CO., Owners
Entered at the postoffice at Alliance, Neb., for
transmission through the mails as second class
tatter. Published Tuesdays and Friday.
GEORGE L. I1URR, JR -Editor
EDWIN M. BURR Business Manager
Official newepaper of the City of Alliance;
fficial newspaper of Box Butte County.
Owned and published by The Burr Printing
Company, George L. Burr, Jr., President; Edwin
M. Burr, Vice President.
THE 101 NT OF VIEW
The editorial writer on the State Journal comments
on the selection of a city manager for Alliance in a style
featured by a rather heavy wit, but a wit that is :iot
fo bad or so humorous. After reading it carefully, the
problem is whether it would be wise to attempt to set
the brother right on the spirit that exist in Alliance,
or whether it would be more pleasant all around if we
were to point out that in reality the city council didn't
en outside of Alliance for a city manager, but simply
brouirht back an old-time citizen.
An. a matter of fact, ulthough there was considerable
opposition to the adoption of the city manager plan, there
has been not a single complaint upon the mn selected.
If there be "some people in Allianrc with the ancient
piide and principle to put thumb in vest," and exclaim
ns the editorial writer pictures, they liuve not done so
in public. The city council chose the city manager with
out outside suirircstions or interference; they decided what
salary they would pay him, and they made it a good,
lii-v. nnd r.nt a citizen has been heard to
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raise his voice in protest.
The truth is that this sort of thing could not rightly
be expected in Lincoln, but Alliance is a more progres
sive city .than Lincoln, and its citizens arc of a totally
different type. The men and women who pay taxes in
Alliance are not the port that have retired and are try
ing to make the interest on their investments suppoi't
them. That class of ptople frown on all public expenses
and vote down public improvements with a regularity
that is little short of marvelous. The spirit of western
Nebraska is so totally different that it is regrettable
that some of the editorial writers on the eastern dailies
ran't take a run out here now and then, and get a differ
ent outlook upon life. If the writer of the following
editorial had ever spent three hours in Alliance, he would
probably have written this differently:
Alliance, the one Nebraska dtv with the city manager
form of government, is a shameless, prideless sort of
nlaee. It has eone two-thirds of the way across the
state to c-et itself a manasrer. In the city of York it
finds N. A. Kemmish, an engineer experienced in the
management of public utilities, and lures him thence witn
nrnmisA of a substantial salary and a chance to do a
trtuul niprn nf.wot'k.
It is a shocking thing to do. Surely there must be
nmo neonlp in Alliance with the ancient pr de and prin
inl tn nut thumb in vest armhole and exclaim: "What!
bu outside of Alliance to get a city manager? Alliance,
the home of the fairest women and the bravest men! Is
there anyone outside of Alliance can do aught better
than anvnnA Inside? 1 wot not. As for me. Alliance
job for Alliance citizens! Down with the importing of
ilen" to rule over us?"
if jViova wAipn't such in Alliance, then Allinnce is
linwont tmm unv other citv that ever was. Here in
Lincoln men still remember with tears in their eyes the
distress good citizens felt when Mayor Winnett went to
Umaha lor a fire chief. Oh, it was sucn an insuii, sum
Tn i hint nt nilmitlinc that Omaha con
tained better material for a fire chief than Lincoln could
boust!
Of course, it is a thing a town can get used to. When
Chief Clement retired after many years of magnificent
service there was no protest when the city went even to
rnur little St. Josenh for his successor. Once a commun
itv et taste of this emulovinir its servants with a
view to their efficiency rather than to their geography,
it finds that it likes it. The schools, with their habit of
going for teachers wherever the most promising teach
ers were to be had. rather paved the way for this kind of
thing. Maybe that is where Alliance got the idea.
And, of course, Alliance may not be as shameless and
prideless as it looks. It may have made up its mind vo
take pride in the way the city is managed, rather than in
. the geographical origin of the manager.
GOUGING THE SHIPPERS.
want tn br robbed. My reason? Well, last week I had a
shipment of rne box of rollers from Kansas City. It waf 1
weighed and billed as 200 pound nt Kansas City and had
it not been for the watchfulness of my drayman who knew
at a glnnce that it didn't weigh any such amount, 1 would
have pud freight on that amount. He insisted that it r
weighed at the Old end of the line and it weighed just 7!
pound. I wns peeved Hn l wrote the shipper, telling them
the name of their employee who delivered the shipment U
the- railroad company and they came back with a lonp
letter explaining that wh'le thrfr man delivered the box
and piirned the bill of lading, he h id nothing to do with
the weighing or fixing the weight, that being done by the
railroad company. . ,
Now either the railroad people duln t weigh the pack
age at all and took care to guess plenty high or else the
deliberately tried to rob me. They can take either horr
of the dilemma that they choose. In writing the shippei
told me they had similar trouble all the time ann men
tioned a shipment thnt came me same nroriiin n.m,
Oklahoma on which the expense bill calling for 32f
pounds while the actual weight was only 12S pounds
ilales on fieigni are sureiy eiiouicn now nuuuuninni,,
mv freVht on more than loubie me actual weigni snip
ped. It is easy to see what a wonderiui gran ine ran
road people have if they are doing this kind of thing on
all the shipments for in many cases the robbery will not
be noticed.
THE MISJUDGED WELFARE WORKERS.
The Independent-Democrat comes to the defense of
the public welfare movement, somewhat ridiculed by thf
Harvard Courier, and mentions the thousands or good
people who work for uplift movements without pay. I(
never occurs to the editor that these people are not tht
movement. Thev do not draw tin any of the laws so mam
of which arc foolish that take up the time of the legisla
ture at five dollars a minute, and provide for expensive
boards to do nothinir of especial value at big pay.
We have been reading proof on the activities or thf
state welfare commission whieh is not nearly so much of
an ornamental folly as the later elforts of the people
plan for, but we really cannot see that anything thesf
officials have done has been any particular benent to any
body. Thev seem to have devoted their time to sendinp
out questionnaires by mail, and getting in replies, r.o one
knows how accurate from about 21 per cent of the people
they write to. From this they compile what they are
pleased to call statistics, but whtt their value, and jus!
what they expeit to do with them when compiled is no:
clear.
To read their litera'ure, one would think that a chili'
that is a little hard of hearing or which has a physical
defect is not safe in the hands of lvs parents: is not safe
n the hands of the neighborhood; will be neglerted by the
ieop!e of his county, and that there must tie a high-priced
toard to prod these people to do their duty, nnd tell them
ow to proceed. Wo are skeptical indeed whether the
are oi" sufficient benefit to justify continuance of what we
have and ere oposed to increase until they have demon
strated some benefit for outlay already, made.
and play in the snow with black balls.
As near as can be ascertained .A. I
Harper and Brail Minor were the onb
wo plf yers last Sunday, and they mit
lfter making one hole.
Oh, well, that was enough to' fettle
he question of who should buy the
linncr.
So far as we are concerned, we can't
ee the advantage of driving four or
"ivc miles in the rain to match nickles.
The millennium is at hand. Three
exceedingly tender steaks already this
eek, and not a single dose of carrots
m the bill.
EVERLASTING LY TOO LATE.
Doctor "Hang that telephone I
was too late."
Wife "What, was the patient dead,
darling?"
Doctor "Dead? No, he was all
right again." London Opinion.
Now let some genious give us a new
song, entitled "I' Didn t Raise My Boy
to Be a Taxpayer." Baltimore Sun.
GIVES WIFE
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A retired merchant whose wife suf
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tomach finnlly gave her simple gyl
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our stomach or gas on stomach.
Often CURES eonstipat-'on. Prevent'
ippendiictis. Harry Thicle, druggist.
Of course the women wear funny
looking things, but a celluloid collar
is not one of them. Dallas News.
. JJ twelves.
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Alliance, Nebraska
WHY IS A LEGISLATURE?
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(Emporia Gazette.)
wiinam Alien wnue, or r.mporia, Kansas, asks: "vvn
is a legislature?" He answers: "Take 170 men out of all
walks of life. Give 75 per cent of them a 7th grade edu
cation and 15 per cent college degrees and let the res'
struggle from the 3rd. grade to the high school. Uoun
them ur in a strange town, under strange influences, al!
of the bunch strangers to each other. Put them in twe
rooms, where one-third never does get acquainted witr
the other two-thirds. Organize them into committees,
and in the backs of their heads of about forty of them in
ject a mean, nasty selfish yet sneaking ambition to hold r.
state job anil move to town. Then bang! Slap down or
them from the outside about 100 questions on statesman
ship, questions the most of them never heard of; things
involving millions of dollars, and the good fortunes of a
million people. Then let the outer circles of the strangf
place in the strange town be filled with greedy wolves
seeking special privileges of various sorts. And on toi
of all this give them l0 days in which to solve these quts-1
tions. What infernal nonsense to expect good results.
What damnable scheme that is to guarantee misgovern-
ment. If the devil himself p'anned it, he could not have
lone hetter. it was designed for another age, and it
worked well in the country thai was fifty, years ago. But
it does pot work now. It only plays hell. The first things
to do with the legislature is to abolish it.
"CHEAP" INSURANCE.
(II. D. Leggett in Old Quiz.)
I am convinced that the railroads are striving to
gouge their customers as much as possible on freight
rates andadvise every shipper to watch closely if he don't
(Nebraska City Press.)
Every time a fraternal insurance company talks of
raising rates there is a storm of protests from a large pro
portion of the membership which had been led to believe
when policies were taken out that the rate then in force,
considerably cheaper than the "old line" scale of prices,
would be indefinitely collected. It would be a "grand and
glorious" thing for the average man anil woman in this
country if life insurance could be sold on the basis of 50
cents a month, but it isn't possible unless the mehibership
increase is kept at the same regular level month after
month. It is for this reason, as we understand it, that
the "old line" rates are fo much higher than the wale
adopted by the fraternal orders, but in the long run and
that is what should interest the buyer of insurance the
"old line" scale is really the cheapest. Aside from its
benefits in the way of fraternity, equality and sociability
lodge insurance has its drawbacks. It has frequently been
called the "poor mans insurance, but is it?
The Allies got money out of us so easily that we are
surprised that they don't have better luck with Germany.
New lork World.
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HASBOM SHOTS
Gene Majors once said of us that we
had tact. "That guy," Gene said,
"has lots of tact. He's just full of it.
In fact, I bel'evehtTs ihe tackiest mun
l ever net. 4
IT A Good Om fr Today.
A woman
and asked the first clerk that hove to
"Where is the lingerie?"
'Vve mean the rest room?" quer
ied the new salesgirl.
to get married.
1 will send you five-thousand more
U-Aiorrow.
Your Kind Father-.
JOHN D. KOCKEFRELLER.
have been made for a fifth of the
money that new gidewi'.lk will cost?
tive to play the wedding march, and
the relative was trying to get out of
entered the Golden Rule1"' "Why," she said. "1 haven't playe,!
ior cur:, umi mc umiv piwe i unuw
real well is 'Every Little Movement'!"
Cof,s Dob Wuxe, Ht the annual meet
ing of the bar association of Arkan-
: sas. responded to the toar.t. "Water."
bride-to-be was urging a rela-Se sa;U;
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And Isn't This Pathetic?
The dusty tramp stood without the
kitchen door making his appeal to the
within.
Tlease, mum," said he in a plain
tive voice, "C-couJd yuh gimme a
drink not much, just a little, I'm
so hungry 1 1 hardly know where
where I'm a-goin' to stay stay
over night."
It rather spoils the story, but if
pressed for a truthful answer, we'll
admit that we gained two pounds dur
ing the last week.
. Strictly Business.
Foresight is authority for this one:
A twelve-year-old Lincoln school
boy submitted the following to his
teacher in English as a sample of a
business letter.
June 21. 1021
5 ave. New York, N. Y.
Dear Reginald:
1 did not relize untile I got your
letter how laze you are. I snt you
out there to work, to work like hoeing
corn and digging potatoes. It may be
very irritateing. You must get up at
8 o'clock insteaed of 10:00. You must
iret to work because you are about
Abe Martin says he'd buy his wife
an electric washing machine "ef he
cud be senin the noise wouldn't
wake him mornings."
Richard Morton, writer of the fam
ous song, "Ta-ra-ra-ra Boom de Aye",
the forerunner of ragtime, jazz and
all other forms of popular music,
died in London. As Mark Twain
would say, "This is old news, but
good."
The republican newspapers concede
regretfully that the amount of appro
priations made by congress this year
will be fully as large as were made by
the extravagant democratic admin
istration last year.
Can you tell us where is this fair
land of Normalcy?
And does anyonever go back to it ?
At any rate, the ecenomy plea got
the votes and votes are always de
sirable. Speaking of governmental economy
and efficiency, will some kind friend
tell us why it was necessary to tear
out several hundred yards of perfectly
good sidewalk around the federal
building when necessary repairs could
"Mr. Toastmaster, Ladies and Gen
tlemen, 1 have been asked to respond
to the toast, 'Water,' the purest and
best of all things ever created. 1 have
seen it glisten in tiny teardrops on the
sleepy eyelids of infancy, 1 have seen
it trickle down the blushing cheeks of
youth, and go in torrents down the
wrinkled cheeks of age; I have seen
it in tiny dewdrops on the blades of
grass and leaves of trees, flashing like
polished diamonds when the morning
sun bursts in resplendent glory over
the eastern hills; I have seen it trickle
down the mountain's side in tiny riv
ulets, with the music of liquid silver
striking on beds of polished diamonds;
I have seen it in the rushing river
rippling over pebbly bottoms, purling
about jutting rocks, roaring over prec
ipitous falls in its mad rush to join
the Father of Waters and, in the
mighty Father of Waters I have teen
it go in slow and majestic sweeps to
join the ocean on whose broad bosom
floats the battle fleets of all nations
and the commerce of the world, but.
ladies and gentlemen, 1 want to say to
you now, that as a beverage, it is a
damn failure."
ine average man will ' undergo a
considerable amount of hardship in
order to hunt the wild duck, but when
it come3 to chasing golf balls over the
prairie, the Alliance golf fan hasn't
developed the same amount of en
thusiasm.
Y'et over in Scotland, thev tell us.
. the golfers wear fur coats to the links
Hart SchafTner
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