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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
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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."
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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
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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-
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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.
