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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 1921)
TWO Ell? AUiattrr Hcnttt TUESDAY AND FRIDAY BURR PRINTING CO., Owners Entered at the postafficc at Alliance, Ueb., for transportation through the inaila as second class matter. GEORGE L. nCJRR, Jr E.Iitor EDWIN M. BURR Business Mgr. Official newspaper of the City of Alliance; official newspaper of Box Butte County. Owned and published by The Burr Printing Company, George I Burr, Jrv Iresident; Edwin M. Burr, Vice rresidcnt UEMINGFORD HOSPITALITY. It seems a little difficult to believe that the exhibition of hospitality on the part of Hemingford to the big delegation of Alliance business men ho went there to talk road compro mises last Friday evening was a fair indication of that city's feeling toward the county neat. And yet there is no f I,. .ll I - n jKuuiiy mi ui-iievmg oinerwise. iry as we will, there can be but one con clusion on the part of any man who attended that memorable session and that Is that the Hemingford citizens were not only deliberately unfriendly, lut' did their best to make It ap parent Such efforts naturally were miccessful. Alliance, it seems, Is blamed for about everything that has ever gone wrong in the neighboring town, with the possible exception of the weather and the republican landslide of 1920. Explanations were hooted at, concil-j iatory talk was received with jeers. Insult was piled upon insult. It was beautiful spectacle of petty jealousy and mean personalities. The end was whut might have been expected an uncompromising, rule or ruin spirit could be mot but with one answer. It is probably true that the city of Hemingford itself was not fairly rep resented. Unquestionably there are many Hemingford business men, most f whom were unfortunately absent fiom the meeting, who would endorse neither the sentiments expressed at the meeting or the method of con ducting it, which, whether by design or otherwise, brought it to so unpleas ant an end. But of those present, fev took occasion to give even the slight est encouragement to their guests. Alliance unquestionably hold.s the whip hand in the present disagree ment with the neighboring city. There Isn't a chance to slip anything over. There is even less chance to get a road approved against Alliance's will. The utate authorities will not override the wishes of a majority of the voters of the county to please any coterie of men. Alliance went to Hemingford bear ing an olive branch. This citv had held up approval of a load. There I was ample excuse for their action. Itj was not a case of tampering with I Hate officials, for when the Alliance1 delegation waited upon the ttate offi-j cials, it carried with it petitions signed ' "r hmidreds of men three hundred' V tnem living in llemingfori! Hclf. I Those petitions asked for the road Al-j liance has always favored the route along the track. If influence was' brought to bear at that time, it- was 1 Hemingford influence as well as Alii-) ance influence. The Alliance delegation was not Insistent upon its favorite route. It came to talk compromise, and found ' an entirely different spirit. The Al-; liance road boosters have always been , willing to compromise. A year ago,' favoring the road up the track, they' appeared before the commissioners and were willing to accept a longer rOUte if fl 5?lVht I'b.imrA llA tn:n?. in Ihe Alliance end of it. They offered to submit the question to the rtate r-vn-rs then. Th'y offered the fame at the Hemingford meeting. They suggested two or three other compromises. Every offer mada was spurned. And so Hemingford has gained a reputation that is likely to stick for A time. Ju.-t as no amount of fine talking can elfare the effect of Com missioner Carrell's remarks the tima he opened his mouth to reporters and put Iwth feet in it, so will it take a ' long time for Alliance to look toward Hemingford for co-operation. It's a most regrettable situation, but it has to be faced. Alliance wouldn't have had such a meetirg in this city for good bit of money and some of these days Hemingford will realize her mistake. - In the meantime, the county will suffer. Roads are needed. With the board of commissioners split up, and the two ends of the county pulling against each other, road building be comes impossible. In the past ten years, seventy-five thousand dol lars has been expended in Box Butte county, and today there is not twenty five miles of first rate county road in all Box Butte. Four years ago there wa3 about $90,000 of federal aid money apportioned to the county. One contract for six miles, at a cost of $22,000, has bee a let. Today there ls but $o 1,000 remaining in this fund, and the rest has gone for administra tive expends or been diverted to other counties. The five-year federal road building period ends in 1922, and all this money reverts to the state If not used. Auto licenses bring in about $11,000 a year, which must be used on iftate aid roads. It will maintain practically 110 miles a year, but to day there are only thirty-two miles of state aid road to receive it. Something ought to be done, and Hemingford ought to work with Alli ance in seeing to It But co-operation wasn't in sight Friday evening. That city needs roads now as never before and will suffer most from a road war at this time. Alliance, however, will make no more overture.. Turning the other cheek Isn't a policy generally adopted by big brothers. A NEW SATURDAY NIGHT. One by one the old landmarks of civilization are disappearing. One by one the old institutions, honored by custom, are passing away. It Is im possible for the onlooker to say where the axe will strike next Cherished habits are banned by the march of progress. Sincere beliefs are attacked. The spirit of- progress Is change. Prohibition comes in the wake of saloon evils, and a new curse, the pro hibition law enforcement agent, typi fied by Gus Hyers, Is upon the land. The grape juice highball has supplant ed the issue of rum in the navy. Strong coffee is raging instead of strong drink. The deadly coca-cola is getting in its work. And now, they tell us, the Saturday night bath tub must go. How many millions of people have placed their faith in the Saturday night bath in the enameled bathtub. How many millions of dollars have plumbers and the manufacturers that helD them keep up their been made (not neces sarily earned) by the nefarious trade. The bathtub is doomed. Soon it will be in the same category as the despis ed public drinking cup with which we were wont to slake our thirst on the varnished passenger cars. For the spirit of reform Is strong within us. And the bathtub has been condemned. Once we fondly thought that when we climbed into the tub and scrubbed briskly with soap and water we were getting clean. This was but an error of the imagination. The bath tub, they tell us after all these years, is not an institution to promote health or cleanliness. The word comes to us straight from the scientists at North western university, and they t-hoiild know. The bathtub, we are informed, is an exceedingly dirty and dangerous piece of household furniture"" All it does, the scientists say, is to dissolve some eighteen million germs from the body, mix them, warm them, wa.di them, in vigorate them and send them b.ick into the open pores, there to do greater damage than ever before. At last those who have joked about the Saturday n'ght bath are ro'ited. A bath once a week, in the light cf these recent theories, is much to be pre ferred over a bath twice a week. ItV less dangerous. The woman who plimbs into a tub daily is timyly tak Ing her lifo in her hands. If all of her germs are washed and invigorated daily, it's a wonder that she can live longer than a week with mch a health-wrecking habit mi . . ine scientists nave not lert us wholly withdut hope. If the tub is dangerous, that does not mean that we cannot have our baths. The shower is safe; it is sane; it may wet the hair disagreeably, but these germs will all be va.-hed down the drain pipe and disappear from our lives forever. The b ithtnb is dead! Hail to the shower! GENUINE DURHAM tobacco makes 50 flood cigarettes for 10c We want you to have the beet paper lor "BULL." So now you can reooivo with each package a book ol 24 leaves ol 15H1V. the very lineal cigarette paper In the world. burr THE ALLIANCE 1IEHALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1921. The report comes from "Stars and Stripes", a newspaper for ex-soldiers and a rival of the American Legion Weekly, official organ of the greatest organization of ex-soldiers, of a threatened split In the Legion ranks. month or so ago, the national com mander of the legion and several other national officers pneinrertwl a trip through the battlefields of France. fiome two hundred legionnaires and their wives were in the party. The men were honored and entei-tninod during their entire trip, and outward ly, for the benefit of their hosts, the French government, an attempt was made to act as though nothing was wroner. but inside the lecHnnnniroa were seething with resentment The report which comes via the New York Tribune, charges Col. John G. Emery, national commander, and other leaders with exceedingly un-legionlike con duct. It appears that he made all ar rangements for the trip with a high handedness that Is characteristic of colonels. The people taking the trip were separated into companies, and into one of them, called the "heao quarters" troop, he placed himself and all the notables on the trio. On o. cursions the so-called "headquarters." -! B troop traveled in a special car, away from the o'hers, and at no time mingled with them. The leaders made all arrangements, did all the dedicat ing there was to do and appropriated for themselves all the medals handed out by the French government The members of the party rebelled, and after a series of meetings, at which the national commander was not al lowed to preside, it was agreed to turn the medals over to the organization, to be retained at national headquar ters. While nothing was said of the disagreement while the party was in France, there are a couple of hundred legion men, scattered all over the country, who are organizing to depose the present leaders at the coming na tional convention in Kansas City, and if they can make their accusations stick, it should not be a difficult task. This sort of stuff was all right during the war, with the military regulations to enforce the authority of the officers, but in peace times the fellow who tries to step on the ex-soldiera is running right up against a buzz-saw. The state American Legion, at its convention this week at Fremont, will undoubtedly have something to. say Lafoorim Your Patronage Is Appreciated The First State Bank of Alliance has always been proud of the fact that it has been friendly and ever will ing to aid Union Labor. We appreciate the undoubted , justice and importance of the cause for which Labor to day is struggling. We realize that the things for which Labor stands best working conditions at more than a living wage tend toward the elevation of civilization , . . . as a whole, and We Pledge Our Support to Aid Your Efforts The best means of helping you is to prevail upon v you to begin now to strengthen your finances. Lay away a portion of your earnings each pay day against any emergency that may arise. We feel sure you will thank us for the advice when the time comes that you need the money. Take our advice. Begin Nozv to Save Your Extra Dollars You will find this bank willing to cooperate with you and appreciate your patronage, large or small. Open a Savings Account TODAY! 5 Interest Paid on Time Deposits The First State Bank THE FASTEST GROWING j on the Fubject of the Reed-Not val lan guage law, the enforcement of which has just been perpetually enjoined by District Judge Button In the very city where the convention is to be held. The law prohibited the use of the Ger man or other foreign language in pri vate, parochial or denominational schools. The measure was sponsored by the legion at the last session of the legislature and was passed largely through the influence of the world war veterans, who argued that exclu sive use of the English language was necessary to assist in the Americani zation of the foreign elements in the state. The Lutheran Evangelical sy nod of Missouri filed the suit for the injunction, which was granted tempo rarily and later made permanent after extensive argument Judge Button based his decision on an alleged vio lation of the federal constitution. The cape will be appealed, of course, to the federal supreme court if neces sary. The argument for the state has been carried on by Mason Wheeler and Charles S. Reed, assistant attor neys general and members of the le gion. Mr. Wheeler, especially, han dled the opposition roughly and open ly charged that the suit was a pre- Mem BANK IN THE WEST. text to promote the German language- under the guise of religious teaching.. ! Similar statutes are in effect in twen ty-one state and this is the first tiro such a law has been found unconsti tutional. More power to the Legion's, elbow. Those who are willing to livo in this country should accept its lj guage or get out SEEING THINGS. (Chadron Chronicle.) An Alliance paper quotes one of it . citizens as having seen several drunk en men on the streets nt rt,-. j week and he went an to say that ho Saw five drunks in n rnr anrl V,. were all eating green corn on a cob,, the only peculiar circumstance being that it had not been cooked. Four of the men cot' nut nf th .. u.n. ed into a hotel and the fifth was too drunk to make the grade and re mained in the car. The reporter for the Alliance paper does not mention the name of the party giving them the information. The only drunkenness that we ob served in Chadron last week was that; of a certain Alliance attorney whom it took four of his friends to help--into a waiting automobile on a down, town street It is not unlikely thai this desciple of Blackstone was in a. proper condition to imagine that about everyone in Chadron was under -the influence of "bootch" bat him.