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THE ALLIANCE HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1921.
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PASS THE WORD ALONG.
A iKiuadron of officials from the
ewly created veterans' bureau, which
takes the place of the war risk bureau,
the federal board for vocational educa
tion, and that part of the public health
service which has been dealing with
veterans will be in Alliance Septem
ber 5, 6 and 7, to clean up claims of
disabled soldiers.
The passage by congress of the
Sweet bill, which consolidated these
three agencies for relief of the dis
bled veterans, is the signal for this
clean-up campaign, which has been
planned for some months and has only
awaited the passage of the law. Under
the old system, with three seperate
Agencies facing him, the disabled man
lias been tumbled about from pillar to
port and thousands of men have been
dissatisfied with the treatment they
received.
It will be the aim of the officials
jrbo arc coming to Alliance to settle
all eases fairly and conclusively. It is
real drive, and results will be ac
tomplished. The government officials
will be assisted by the two great
agencies, the Red Cross and the Am
erican Legion.
There is but one danger, and that is
that all of the men who are entitled
to a hearing may not receive word
of the hearings in time to arrange to
be present Less than a month's
notice was given in Nebraska. The
American Legion posts in Omaha and
Lincoln are entering objections, and it
may be that their protests, and the
protests of other legion posts in the
Ktate, will have some effect. The saf
est thing, however, is for every soldier
in this part of the state who expects
to put in a claim to be in Alliance at
Rome time during the three days.
Headers of The Herald will confer a
lavor on the ex-soldiers if they will
pass the word along. A surprisingly
large number of men have not made
their claims, and unless some change
is made in the present plans, the day
tsf grace is short.
1 ROAD PROSPECTS
It is beginning to look as though
Bridgeport and Broadwater, and the
division of the Morrill county com
missioners, has already delayed mat
ters considerably. The Box Butte
county commissioners are ready to
meet any road that will be put
through. Alliance will support one
route, or five routes, so long as there
is the least opportunity of securing
them.
Road prospects are looking up. The
new Gulf-Flains-Canadian highway Is
going to go through. A delegation
of Alliance men are attending the or
ganization meeting for the state at
Sidney tonight. Some route will be
selected, and it is only reasonable to
suppose that the Morrill commission
ers will finally get around to approve
a road.
The Potash highway prospects are
getting considerably brighter. Some
of these days the towns along the
route will wake up, and whenever
matter of but two or three years un-
there is concerted action it will be a
til there is a good state aid thor
oughfare clear to Grand Inland. The
Potash highway, when completed, will
be one of the biggest assets this city
can have. Some of these days we're
going to be connected with the out
side world.
THE NEWEST FAD.
Mr. Edison's questionnaire for col
lege graduates is still causing com
ment. Nothing that the famous in
ventor has done, in a lifetime of ex
ceptional activity, has aroused as
much discussion as the list of a hun
dred questions which he handed to ap
plicants for positions. The Edison
test has even made some people for
get that he invented the phonograph,
which keeps more people awake than
any other one thing in creation.'
The great American public, always
searching for something new, swarm
ed on the questions. All of them
were finally answered. Mr. Edison,
who wanted them for his own use, ap
parently got very wroth over the fact
that they got into the newspapers,
and said harsh things of the man who
gave them away. He remarked that
he would prepare another Bet, have
them copyrighted, and prosecute the
newspaper that dared to publish them.
t was only three weeks ago that the
second list was published.
Mr. Edison could no more stop the
publication of this than he could com
mand the east wind to stand still.
When the public falls for an idea, it
falls hard. For two months, the
humorous columns of the dailies have
been filled with burlesque questions.
rom New York comes the word that
enterprising cigar store gamblers have
made a gambling device of the ques
tions, and that clerks and stenograph
ers have forsaken "put and take" for
Alliance will some day have at least the more intellectual game of betting
one decent road that will connect us they can answer any question that
There's no great danger, however,
The questionnaire fad, like the jigsaw
puzzle, the ouija board and the "pigs
in clover" brand of puzzles, will give
way to something else. If it doesn't
there is nothing left to do but turn
hermit or start asking questions our
selves.
Maxim is said to have answered all
but six of the 145 Edison questions,
and this is considered remarkable by
some because he could neither read
nor write at the age of nine. He made
up for this neglect later, undoubtedly
for some of his queries are puzzlers.
Where on the surface of the earth
would a hunter be standing, who
seeing a deer to the east of him, would
point his gun north to shoot the deer?
The answer is given to relieve ouf
selves for liability for any case a
brain fever: A short distance from
the north pole, and he would fire over
the pole.
What is the correct answer to the
following arithmetical problem: 2x2
plus 8x8 2. The correct answer is
said by The Bee to be 34. For the
life of us we can't get any result other
than C6. You have our blessing if you
want to puzzle over it. The "34" de
feats us.
Would it take any more pickets to
build a fence a mile and a quarter
long over a hill than it would to build
it a mile long on the level in a tun
nel through the hill? The man who
asks the questions says it would not
So far as we are concerned, we con
fess ourself baffled, flabbergasted and
downright weary.
We call to mind the famous ques
tion by O. Henry, concerning the
jackass and the hay. There's one that
has no answer and needs none. In
the midst of this intellectual orgy, it
comes like a breath of fresh air.
Copies furnished on request.
We may as well admit now and em
phatically, that the questionnaire
habit is beginning to wear on our
a
nerves. wnen nuason maxim, an
other Inventor, starts in with a list
it's time to call a halt The world
needs the minds of these inventors for
something else. We have no objection
if they want to read the World Al
manac for recreation, but it isn't fair
to keep on pulling these questions on
a helpless world. Nevertheless, we
aim to please and those who have
taken up the new fad are invited to
look these over. They have our per
mission to swear if it will help any.
with a trans-continental highway and
furnish a thoroughfare that will at
tract and not repel the tourist traffic
This tourist business is one of the
tnost profitable sources of income for
cities along the route to vacation
(pots, and Alliance has the opportunity
to become a stopping place. All that
is necessary is to get the road through
the tourists will use it. Railroad
passenger rates will have to drop
around a hundred per cent before the
family will forsake the flivver as a
means of giving the whole family an
outing at a price they can afTord to
If a road connecting this city with
the Lincoln Highway is ever con
structed, this city will come into its
own. When the Chadron road is com
pleted, there will be an ideal route to
Hot Springs and the Black Hills, and
thence the tourists can travel on to
Yellowstone and other places.
The Alliance chamber of cvommerce
has for two or three years been
working for a road that will strike
the Lincoln highway. Now, as usual,
the only trouble is that too many
cities want the road to pass through
their territory. The scrap between
turns up. An Omaha daily has framed
a subscription contest out of a list of
questions of its own. The worst feat
ure is that the habit is growing.
Every man whose press agent is hav
ing a hard time to put anything over
can make at least the second page If
he gets together an interesting set of
questions. The encyclopedia and the
almanac will soon have the place of
honor on the library table if this keeps
up.
EDUCATE THE TAXPAYER.
(Lincoln Star.)
Extravagance in government is the
sole result of the public's disinterest in
the spending of money collected- as
taxes. Because taxes are paid indi
rectly, we are apt to think of the
money as coming from somebody else's
pocket and not our own. In J he fetar
recently was an item telling of $5,000
worth of printed matter which is being
junked by the state. Two big van loads
of pamphlets, booklets and reports,
which had been ordered printed by
various state departments and which
were never utilized, or even sent out of
the building, were hauled away.
It is impossible to say who was to
blame. Probably no one individual can
be held responsible for this waste; it
is all a part of the system. But if
each taxpayer in Nebraska knew just
what portion of his earnings went for
such foolish extravagance, it is certain
that he would put a stop to it
If every citizen when he buys a suit
or ten dollars worth of groceries or a
pair of shoes, or when he rents a
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R. J. TRABERT, Manager.
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house, knew that that which he buys
would be 15 to 20 per cent cheaper if
the national and state taxes were re
duced fiO per cent, he would make such
a howl that congress and legislatures
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money as recklessly as they do. If
every taxpayer knew that his taxes
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spent every year for war and arma
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The sooner the American people
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to cheaper living expense, and prosper
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the nation.
NOTICEI
Notice is hereby given that the
Board of County Commissioners of
Box Butte County, Nebraska, will meet
as the Equalization Board on August
18, 1921, for the purpose of making
the levy for the year 1921. This will
be the last meeting this year as a
Board of Equalization. 73-75
AVIS M. JODER,
County Clerk
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