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THE ALLIANCE HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1922.
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TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
BURR PRINTING CO., Owners
Entered at the poxtoflTice at Alliance,
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GEORGE I BURR, Jr. Editor
EDWIN M. BURR Business Mgr.
"Official newspaper of the City of
Alliance: official newspaper of Box
Butt County.
Owned and published by The. Burr
Printing Company, George - L. Burr,
Jr., President; Edwin M. Burr, Vice
Fresfdent.
' THE ETHICS OF SWAT
Newspaper men have their faults,
heaven knows, and perhaps they are
burdoned with fully as many as other
mortals, but they are gifted in one
particular. As our preacher friends
would have it, they are blessed with
one saving grace. There is something
About the newspaper game call it a
Having sen- of humor, a magnificent
fault of memory, or what you like
that makes a newspaper quarrel dis
tinctive from all other disagreements.
Newspaper men that is, those who
are worthy of the name never allow
their public quarrels to dominate their
private life. They never let a business
scrap, however severe, control their
words or actions, outside of the col
umns of their newspaper.
For
adopt newspaper ethics. Why not let
the warrins; parsons make their at
tacks in their own churches, and an
swer them in the same place T And,
after the morning or evening sermon,
let the combatants stroll, arm in arm,
or side by side, to their home. As in
newspaper circles, the attack may be
renewed with ferocity in the next ser
mon. But the preachers will discover,
as do newspaepr men, that while now
and then wars may interest parishion
ers just as they do subscribers, that,
iftcr all, these wars never settle any
thing. All they do is leave a bad
taste in the mouth. No man was ever
persuaded to drop an idea, good or bad,
because his competitor disliked it.
Of course, if the preachers feel there
is some vital principle involved, then,
for heaven's sake, have at one en
other, remembering always the tragic
end to the struggle between the Kil
kenny cats, who ate each other entirely
up, finally choking to death on the
tails.
an editor's newspaper life is
disassociated from his life as an in
dividual. When the door closes at
quitting time, just as when the forms
close for any particular edition, the
fclate is wiped clean. If necessary,
there's time enough tomorrow to scrib
ble on both sides of it.
Yet newspaper men quarrel fiercely,
and, like lesser mortals, sometimes
make a great deal of to-do about
something of very little importance.
A mere matter like comparative cir
culation, a difference in politics, busi
ness methods, a poor breakfast or a
punk cigar these nre ofttimes suffi
cient to cau.se a mighty battle to wage.
The newspaper may carry a column
attack on the sheet across the street,
fairly bristling with cutting remarks.
The vile contemporary may, on the
same day, say dozens of mean things,
and possibly may stretch the truth in
order to make a good case. No mat
ter. Half an hour after the twd news
papers are on the street, the two pen
pushers may be observed playing golf
together and eating tobacco from the1
same plug.
.This attitude on the part of breth
ren of the press is, seemingly, a rare
gift , For no other class of men pos
sesses it. Laborers have their dis
agreements, end fight it out with fis ts,
bricks, or sliillulehs. Gals in their
'teens develop violent quarrels, and for
four days remain apart, weeping copi
ously, between dabs at tho nose with
a powder puff. Dentists probably
throw plates at one another. Physi
cians preserve their ethics ct any cost,
but pass one another by without a
glance. Newspaper men alone. ' are
bl to fight whole-heartedly, end
then Mnind i. . . I
. " . :H l Mao iame way, why charge h'n with mur
wu.t., ciiumiik iu muiier now much
FIRST AID TO PROHIBITION
Federal prohibition enforcement
agents at Omaha are considerably
stirred up over tho serious illness of
a dozen Council Bluffs citizens who
took to their beds after celebrating
the coming of the New Year with a
mixture of wood alcohol and shellac.
An investigation has becn'announced,
and every effort will be made to bring
the guilty bootleggers to justice. But
it's a waste of time and effort, and, if
the truth were realized, the federal
agents are simply defeating their owii
end by attempting to capture the
men who sold the death-dealing
hootch.
Now, if a man tired of life were
to hang himself to the old apple tree
in the back garden, there wouldn't be
any idea of prosecuting the man who
sold him the rope. It would make no
difference whether the suicide were a
man known to be engaged in an occu
pation and living in a place where
he simply couldn't have any use Tor
rope. If another man chooses to
shuffle off this mortal coil, and fol
lows the poison route, there wouldn't
be any thought of arresting the drug
gist or hunting for the manufacturer.
The kind of home-made booze that
is being peddled in Nebraska these
days, is, for the most part, the rort
that means certain death within a few
years. Eminent chemists have said
soi, and so far as we are concerned,
we're willing to accept their word for
it and drop the argument.' Therefore,
it stands to reason that the man who
buys this sort of liquor knows that
he's taking his life in his hands, just
as surely as does the man who knots
a rope around his neck, or the fellow
who tosses off a drink compor-ed prin
cipally of cyanide of potassium.
If any man, then, buys hootch, it
ought to bo understood that he takes
his chances of death, just the same
as he runs the risk of arrest, publicity,
disgvace, or other undesirable eventu
alities. There is really very little dif
ference between selling a slow poiron
and one that works rapidly. If a
bootlegger accidentally gets hold of a
can of shellac inrtd ci rome other j
'ngredient that smells and tastes the
to enforce the law, should there be!
any special effort to see that the con
sumerwithout whom the bootlegger
would not be in business gets a fair
ly decent product! It's a pretty safe
bet that the more people who get to
death's door, or pass through it, due to
poisoned hooch, the less there will be
sold. That's what the - prohibition
agents want There are plenty ' of
worthy objects of sympathy, without
wasting it on the fellow who chooses
to risk his life in drinking the tort
of hooch that is being manufactured
these days.
something underneath the hide is
'iinrivUflj?, . -. "
Not that We wish to cast any bou
quets at but profession, but it's re
grettable that other people can't learn
lo tdi ti:J 2i:s3 atiXuia.
lust now Alliance bids fair to have
a public disagreement among preach
rs. This is something so out of the
Ordinary that those of us on tha aide
lines are unable to say what rules
should govern. It may be that thr
are no rules applicable to such dis
lmtes. If that's the case, Ve art prof
fering the suggestion that in thh
tasft, newspaper ethics be observed
The trouble seem to be that one or
more preachers in Alliance d not like
the methods tf tabthelv' Instead of
wrestling- in private Avor. with the
brother, the public been invited to
View the struggle, vhich. it must bo
to&fessed, start tut well and bids fair
to be interesting. Other preachers ure
said to b taking sides. It follows that
their parishioners will also take sides.
The attack concerns itself chiefly with
the charge that the Treacher !s seek
rag to foster class consciousness, by
making an especial attempt to interest
the members of labor unions, such,
in his church. Be this as it may. there
Is no question that the discussion re
sulting from the charge is ha ring that
very effect. Those who take ides are
making it clear that they consider the
attack on the preacher who has cham
pioned their cause an attack on the
v unions. Friends of this preacher
have said they believed the whole mat
ter to have been instigated by the
chamber of commerce. This charge is
ridiculous, of course, but it is being
made. Unless something is done soon
to correct these wrong impressions,
that which has been feared will come
Upon us. Alliance will have a class
war all its own. It will be a needless
war, a senseless war, and if we are
wise, we will us every means to bring
about an early peace, ' ' '
Suppose, then, that the preachers
der when his partner, who urci: a mix
ture of rats and offal, and whose
product differs only in the degree of
dcadliness, and the distance at which
it will kill, gets off with a fine of a
few hundred dollars and a month or
soinjailt . .
Pew people believe in coddling boot
leggers any more. The Judges who
& few months ago were handing out
fines that were almost as severe pun
ishment as pelting the hootch ped
dlers with rose leaves, are now real-
iting that jails are a much more po
tent force for reform if they are used.
Why, then, if we are going to attempt
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DANGEROUS FUN
It's a pretty mean man who will ?n
terfere with children at play, especially
in Alliance, where there are so few
opportunities piovided for amusement
of the younger generation. That mnv
explain why nothing has been done.
the pnst week or two, to put a stop to
the kids and their own sport of "hook
ing on" behind au'omobifcs. Buys
will be boys, end girls will be frills,
tqp, for there is a goodly representa
tion of pigtails among those who have
leen crowding the streets after school
and on days when the teach.:is haven't
a word to say.
But and it's hard to say it some
one in authority ought to put a foot
lown, and put it down hard. In the
good old days, when there were horse?
and sleighs on the streets almost ex
clusively after the snows, ."catching
a ride" was a good way to have fun,
with very little danger attached to it.
Even new, with autocodes in the.
game, It wouldnt be so bad if the
drivers of the cars who are furnish
ing the free rides would watch their
step, instead of entering into the
spirit of the thing with as little
thought as though they were ten to
fourteen years old and the children
were the grownup.. '
Hardly a man saw the hundreds of
children out with their sleds Sunday
but had a sneaking notion that he'd
like to get a sled and try it him-elf. I
The drivers 'of the cars were just as
carefree and as careless a3 the chil
dren themselves. One driver of a
touring car spent an hour or more go
ing up and down Box Butte avenue,
with as many as fifteen or twenty
sleds hitched on behind. A good time
was undoubtedly had by all. But
passersby couldn't help but r.otice the
recklessness with which the driver
speeded up and down the city's prin
cipal street, dodging from side to side
in an endeavor to throw the sleds'
occupants it to the snow. There were
no serious accidents; at leart r.onc
were reported. That wasn't the fault
of the drivers, though it was due to
the kind providence that watches out
for children and for chumps. If there
had been but one car on the street,
it would have been comparatively safe;
but there were dozens of cars out It's
just a plain miracle that some of those
children weren't run over by automo
biles. It's a nice, friendly trick to help
show the boys a good time. It's ell
right even to try to dump them out
THE SPINAL COLUMN
THE SAFE. SANE AND
SURE WAY
WOULD YOU ENJOY
EATING?
Is there food that you erare
and dare not eat? Are you thin
and dyspeptic? Have you been
told by one doctor that you hare
gastritis? By another ulcera
tion of the stomach? By an
other nervous dyspepsia? And
so on until you are quite at a
loss as to what is wrong?
The truth is thst what is ap
parently wrong is only the ef
fect 'of a cause, and the names
the doctors have given it are of
no consequence. Don't worry
along with effects and tslk
about symptoms. Get st the
root of all your trouble. Find
the CAUSE and have it re
moved. The Science of Chiropractic
owes its phenomenal growth to
results obtained in locating and
removing the CAUSE of disease,
and untold thousands of people
who once suffered from various
forms of stomach trouble are
today in perfect, normal health.
They owe their health to the
discovery of the fact that dis
ease is due to impingement of
the nerves that emit from the
spinal column and carry the vi
tal force or mental impulses of
Nature to all parts of the body,
and to Chiropractic adjustments
by which such impingements are
permanently removed - snd Na
ture given s chance to cure.
See your Chiropractor.
Consultation' without obliga
tion. DRS..JEFFREY & SMITH
Chiropractic Health Service.
Over Harper's Dept. Store.
into the snow. Boys are hardy little
rascals, and a fall of half a foot into
a snowpile won't do them any lasting
injury. But, if there isn't to be a
tragedy, the drivers who set out to
entertain a group of boys will do well
to take them out to the country
roads, where there won't be danger
from other automobilists.
Here in Alliance, where there are
not any provisions for amusement of
boys, either in summer or winter, the
youngsters probably figure that life is
Just one "don't after another. Some
of these days, when the pinch of re
adjustment is over, there'll be enough
public-spirited men and women to put
over a community building and other
projects which will keep the boys off
the streets. Until then, parents
should do their best to convince the
little fellows that it's better to take
! fewer chances in their play, and be?
a Die to come home whole. It's so easy
for accidents to happen, and cripples
live such a long time to regret Do
your admonishing early, mothers and
fathers.
Diamonds bought during the peric-1
of high wages are fast getting back
into the market, but it isn't so easy
to get rid of silk shirts and silk
hosiery.
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Profit by his experience. Start the New Year with
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start you on the right road.
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. MAKE IT WORK FOR YOU.
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