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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 24, 1922)
FOUR THE ALLIANCE HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1922. The Railroad Column 'average number employed as fierier on the middle of June, Octo'"1, Janiz ary and April for a liv;.-or .inl iiowe tin averare earning or nrenvn i-t 1 - hnp? one-third greater than the lit;' nverrge. During recent year, lcau-e of these gioss errors as to average earn ing of railroad employes, the railronds have leon instructed to count their em- From the viewpoint of the employer ployes four times each month, on this the cost of labor is the sim regard- may eliminate pome of the errors, but )s of to whom paid. If in the per- w II not eliminate a great portion of tormance of a certain class of work them, lecause, as already stated, the the employer is required to pay a fixed men who are firing the locomotives In sum per hour, the fact that the wrv-.the middle of October may be entirely ie may have been performed at dif-! out of employment in the middle of the frnt iimt Tiv tlifforpnt emulove.n does following Anril. lwt concern him in estimating his la-j There is no rule or law now in ef LABOR COSTS ABE NOT LABOR EARNINGS Uy W. S. CARTER, Pres. B. I F. & E. I) or costs. On the other hand, employes pro test that any statement concerning he labor costs, prepared by or at the in etigation of the employer, should Le Vsed aa evidence of an employe's earn ings. Without questioning the accu racy of. a statement of labor costs, cm- feet that requires a railroad to report the total number of any class of em ployes during a year, which should be used as a divisor when estimating the average compensation of such em ployes. It has been by these artificial "tvtr age earnings" of railroad employes ings. Nebraska News Notes ployes question the justice of using, that the public is prejudiced and wage rack statements in arbitration before ! tribunals influenced, for thus labor Wage tribunals or for the information costs have masqueraded as labor earn- M the public to set up tne ciuim mai labor costs and labor earnings are the eame thing. It has been because the innocent Eublic and members of wage tribunals av not been able to analyze the statements laid before them that they have been convinced that the "average earnings" of railroad employes are as much or more than they deserve. Not only have railroad employers fallen into this error, but govern mental agencies, created by congres sional acts, have apparently not yet discovered the trap into which they have been led by not distinguishing between labor costs and labor earn ings. As evidence of this fact public documents emanating from such gov ernmental agencies have classed as "average earnings" what, in fact, have been "average labor costs." . Employes protest that "average earnings" should ever be used as m dicative of their real earnings, UNCLE PETE STARR OBJECTS TO PUBLICITY BROKEN BOW Uncle Tete Starr, aged 103, was in Broken Bow several days last week and most of his time was taken up having his eyes fitted for glasses and also preparing to break in a full set of teeth. He was afraid the glasses would make him look old, but he thought it was time to get a pair anyway. The Broken Bow Chief gives the de tails thus: "Uncle Pete Starr, Dunning's 103 vear old resident, was in the citv the Some , inst nnrt of thn week and. while here. years ago a most esumame genuemun, bethought him that his eyes needed ft very high railroad olncial, in ili.cuss- a pa,-r 0f glasses. He accordingly ing the errors of averages, said: "As-1 visited the Carothers store and was sutmng that John V. Kocketellcr is. .riven Personal attention of the mo worth one hundred million dollars, ,iictor himself. After Uncle Pete men ine average worm or air. uocKe- had chosen a pair of lenses to his lik feller and myself would be fifty mil- jnfir h0 nskC( Mr. Carothers if any lion dollars." It does not take a math- ( reduction in price would be made to ematician. in developing the foregoing ,., io:i vpnrs old. Thr formula, to determine that the railroad ,,lj0 that he felt honored in serving ouiciai wno mane me remain was u FUca a patriarch and sliced off a gen very poor man, but the unsuspecting erous profit on the glasses. Uncle rote then hapjiened to think 01 some thing: "Say, this ain't going in the papers, is it? he demanded. Mr. Carothers gravely replied that if such nn important piece of news was suppressed it would cost the centenar ian one dollar more on his purchase. The aged man wavered for a moment, then answered: "Oh, well, let it go in. I guess it ain t worth a dollar to keep it out. public may assume that the .'rentlu- man quoted was a very rich man. Locomotive firemen and other rail road employes in pat wage arbitra tions have puttered greatly from this erroneous theory, because, per.iaps, TiO other class of employes find their em ployment so precarious as firemen and brakemen. The "average earnings" Icr hour, per day, per month or per year for locomotive firemen that have been compiled from data furnished by the railroads in their reports to the interstate commerce commission have been grossly erroneous. For instance, all of the persons cm- ployed as firemen on all of the locomo tives on a given railroad earn an ag- NEAR 8.000 CATTLE BRANDS REGISTERED LINCOLN Renewal of cattle brands registered with the secretary I THE PARSON'S C0RNEP By Rev. B. J. Minort, Fastor of the First. Baptist Church, Alliance WHY .THERE ARE INFIDELS. ought to ray, Christ is misrepresented by his friends, inconsistencies to such an etent that it is a wonder that He has any fo'lowers at all. If the life of the christian with nil of his boasts about what religion will do for him (liTor. nothing from his non christian t.eighbor, he is an obstacle to the prog ress of Christ and His kingdom. We I may sound our faithfulness in high sounding words but unless our life shows the genuineness of the Chris thing in the world, and afTects every HISTORY OF WATER home in America. Every bawdy house , . , PROJECTS PLANNED is an clequent testimony to the power i of sin. Sin baffles the church, the; , LINCOLN A history of all the; courts, the schools and the govern- water-power projects in Nebraska, ments. Sin is the serpent that cannot those abandoned as well as those now le kept out of the family. Sin creates under operation or in construction, i the family closet and opens it when- expected to be completed in about a even it gets ready, hin is the chief month, Dr. George E. Condra, director The Good Book says that "Whoso ever believtth in Him both eternal life. Did you ever ask yourself, why tianity we are a stumbling block to nre there infidels, and is there any ; those who would otherwise accept Him. real cause lor in ridels 7 We make the statement that there are certain rea- Another source of infidelity is an sons Why SO much infidelity exist to- I itrnnrnm-o nf th Tlihlo tflnfhirnr ler- day. Now let me say that the in- nnranrA nf htcfnrv. lwith in iht u-Vinlp fidelity spoken by John is not the in-! and the minute, in and out of the Bible, fidelity that the world speaks of ro M.mv nr inflow tmv vhn wmibl not today. The infidel of John believed in ' be so if they investigated the claims a God in the prophecies of old. Yet he of the Bible. They take it for granted was un iniHie . onn saici mai me jews . it is not true without looking at it. mai crucmeu jesus wre innneis. in John's way of looking at it. any man that denies the Divinity of Christ was Still another reason or source of ! unbelief, is self-conceit The man who an mnciei. isow ne might believe In refuses to believe what he "cannot the Sermon on the Mount, he might see." Now of all the reasons for re- oeueve in me unusuany gooa moral fusing Christ, this is the most foolish life of Christ, he might believe in the 1 n1 illotrirnl. That an ma f oil aut urill uplifting influence of the church, and llieve in electricity and Mars, and a mat me BiDie IS a gOOO DOOK. he thousand nthor thino- nf whirh jailor of man. Sin is hell. might be a good moral man. benevol ent and kind; but if he disbelieved the divinity of Chnst he vas an infidel. Now please note that I am savimr that John, or God through John, said this. This is not my internretation of the matter. We must take it aa it is. But what Im a interested in is what causes so many good people to not accept Christ, and to disbelieve in Christ as Divine? First I might mention the fact that Christ is often misrepresented to the world. Oh, no, I am not talking of doctrines now although there is too much of that The misrepresentation of Christ by his professed followers will go much farther to create in fidelity than all the Robert Ingersolls in the world. The real enemies of the church are not on the outside, but cn the inside of the church. A man who claims that Christ will enable a man to overcome his hitherto bad habits, and yet yields to them repeatedly i.s a man who belies his religion ami Christianity suffers for it. know little or nothing, but when it comes to Christianity he "will not be lieve what he cannot understand." Of course if he will not accept what he cannot understand, he would ac County Engineer Develops Plan for Heading Off Ravines It has been the style in too many Nebraska counties to build big bridges over draws and ravines, according to the engineering specialists of the Ne braska Agricultural college. There are rough sections of the state where the county bridge fund is putting the taxpayer m a sad plight but they still build bridges. They have not investi gated to find out if each big ravine really needs a 60 or 70 loot Dridge. They have failed to take into consid eration how much land drains under said bridge. Mr. Relf, the county engineer of R'chardson county, did take into con sideration some of the things which have been mentioned here and was able to save some money for the of the commission, nnnonnces. Tabulation of all the power projects,, as far back as there is record, the time the plant was installed, its power and vicinity of service, date abandoned, if so, those now in operation, their serv ice, and those under construction or contemplation, as well as a short sketch of each project, is the aim of the survey. Dr. Condra is obtaining much of his information in co-operation with pioneers in the various sec tions of the state in which the plants: were located. In the Blue river valley betweenr Maryville, Kan., and as far north as? Seward, more than 20 power plants now are in operation, Dr. Condra states, many of them serving a large radius with litrht and nower. A Droieet at Grand Island at the present time Dr. Condra says, is serving power to a territory comprising 5,000 Bquarer miles. cept but little, either in this world's ! c,ounty' A ravine twenty-one feet deep, goods or the spiritual. However, the,dra,nm only forty acres, had .cutits real reason that most folks refuse lway across the road and had been Christ Is, of might be put in one word, ' Panne' with a sixty-two foot wooden sin. Sin in some form or other is the bru,e was t instant 'ource of reai reason in most cases. r?V " . 71 , II 17':' Jir17 1ZZ. cn hir that T nn-J f hi,, o cnom 1 10 De anueu irom lime vo lime aa ine b - -. ...... . vc... 'washing continued. Soon the young ck to get them out of the ground."' pessimistic lookin gman sadly. "Start- A CROP FAILURE. The suburbanites were boasting proudly about their respective crops? of parsnips, although why one shouldf boast about a parsnip is beyond hu man imagaining. "Last summer," observed the opti mistic looking man, "I grew parsnips? VIUIOUHIIIVJ iCI JIVSIr VIII V CAOVbi lllib i i a . . exacting. It demands a clean, pure life, canyon wouui nave oeen eaung us way and we bock here, because of some across the farm above the road. Mr. sin we fancy we cannot do without R,eIf f6,.1 old .bnd8. a"1.": Sin b'inds men's eyes to the truth of Placed A. cu,vert fur feet the Bible and makes its religion ap- lual v,th th,e uPPer e,nd 'T1 fas pear foolish. Sin breeds sin, and the to make ,a soil-saving dam out of the longer we refuse, the deeper we drift oad grade. Thus he eliminated a con in sin, until we find ourselves miser- $tent sourcte expense to the county, able slaves to some unclean and harm- f,or concrete does not rot away nor ful habit. Sin is at the bottom of all n,ave. I"nu. ne prt' eiitcii luiuici tuning vi tne ravine. This is good common sense of anarchism, engineering. Sin fills the suffering of the world. ed off like world beaters, but sickenedl and died. All of a sudden, too." "What was the matter?" "We didn't find out for a long time.. It was because the ends of the roots; had been eaten off by rabbits in Australia." Sin is the creator Sin fills the suicide graves. , ' , the asylums, the jails and penitentiar j nt: mu.fc uiiaiinriauir, nuiv mi 1 1 1 t ;es. oin was x.ne real A woman's ability as a debater is not to be judged by her powers as a. j logician, but by the results of the I controversy. She never loses. There are said to be 23,000,000 sur-i What has hwomA of tliP nl.l.f.nslw t.nO YOn CitllKf nf 1 nlns u'AWaii in T'tirrtiw nnl nntmno1 : 1 e -l .- it.i l i argument in favor of Christianity is a j world wars and will be the creator of talk of aggression leads us to suspect ZZ VrZ i I?J Z tn . fV. J. one percent life. The church is, or I j wber wars. Sin is the most costly that there are also a few surplus men. bers read aloud from a good novel? rregate amount during a given period. 1 0f state for a new five-year period If thin aggregate amount so earned has ben completed. Between 7,000 ts divided by the dumber of hours, or g000 individual brands are now days, or months, or years in which all i registered, according to Secretary of of these locomotives have been in State Amsberry, who declared that this figure does not represent all the brands in Nebraska. The registration is conducted and maintained by the cattle owners' as sociation, working in conjunction with the stockyards at Omaha. An inspect or is stationed at the yards to inspect the brands of all cattle received at the market for sale. This inspector visits the secretary of state's office twice a year to check registered brands and obtain copies of new ones. The purpose of the registration is to provide against sale of cattle at the yards with brands which do not coincide with the owner's selling the cattle. Unless the shipiier can show a bill of sale for the cattle bearing different brands, payment is sent to the person who has the brand registered. service, the so-called "average earn tngs" are determined regardless of the vrell-known fact that the same firemen re not employed on these locomotives during the period of time for which the compilations are made. But by this process the public may be con vinced that all of the firemen employ ed on these locomotives have "aver ge earnings" greatly in excess of the true average. There may have been cne hundred locomotives upon which one hundred and fifty different firemen have been employed during the period covered by the compilation, resulting in a true average earnings of 33 1-3 per cent, less than the alleged average. Some have adopted another method, resulting in conclusions no less errone ous as to the average earnings of locomotive firemen, which conclusions are based upon the reports filed by the railroads with the interstate commerce commission. Previous to June 30, 1914. "Annual Report Form A" show ed the numlier of employes in each lass was determined from the pay 'Votls of the railroads "at the end of the vear for which this report is made," although the number of fire men thus obtained may not represent more than r,0 per cent of the actual number of firemen in the service dur inr that year. Those who have prepar ed "evidence" against locomotive fire men have assumed to take this num ber of firemen who were in service "at th end of the vear" and divide it into the aggregate labor costs of all fire men for the same year and thus pro duce an erroneous average earnings for the year. Had the raidroads been re quired by the interstate commerce commission to report the total num ber of firemen employed on that rail road throughout the year, the average earnings by this process would prob ably be 30 per cent less than those Usually presented for the truth. Prohahlv rMlizinir the gross errors arising out of taking the number of employes on the pay-rolls on the last day of June each year, the interstate Commerce commission ' revised its re port form and required the railroads to give the number of employes, by classes, on the middle of each of the months of July. October. January end April of each year. But this did not rfeatly decrease the errors for it may be that firemen who were employed in the middle of the following April, or had not been employed in the middle of the precetung April. If, during a twelve-month period, fluctuation uf a railroad's traffic have been as great, as Often occur, of the persons counted as locomotive firemen in the middle of October during heavy traffic probanly one-half are entirely out of employ ment in the middle of the following April, when a majority of the locomo tives are fired by other ' persons v.ho Were engineers in the middle of the ? 'receding October. Thus the railroads, n their compilation of "average earn g of locomotive firemen," took all cf the earnings of the firemen and all f the earnings of demoted engineers during, a year for a dividend and the ARMED GUARDS ON MAIL TRAINS ARE WITHDRAWN LINCOLN Fifteen ex-service men, special armed guards on the mail trains of the Burlington system on the division under the charge of chief clerk J. M. Butler, of the railway chief service, and -who maintained their headquarters in Lincoln, were noti field that their sen-ices were no longer needed, in compliance with an order received from the postal department at Washington. Burlington railway employes also heard rumors that the marines now on mail trains would also be recalled in a few days. It is believed that the action is taken in line with the new program of economy to which the postal department has pledged itself. The fact that mail robberies have de creased almost to a minimum since the arming of the postal employes, may also have been the cause for the action. Shotguns and revolvers have been furnished every' man in the railway mail service, according to Mr. Butler WANTS GORVERNOR TO SUSPEND ROAD PROGRAM GENEVA Represenative George A Williams of Fillmore county, has sent a letter to Governor McKelvie asking the governor to suspend the road building program in Nebraska. Mr. Williams has been out among the tax payers and realties the burden they are now carrying. Mr. Williams says, "it is true that the county and muni cipal taxes constitute the greater part of the burden but the people aore look ing to the state to set the example in reduction of taxes where the least harm will result and the counties must follow." rr In Comfort eep JUL At Least One-third of Your Time is Spent in Your Bed Room You Will Be Amply Repaid For Whatever Time, Money and Ef fort you expend on the sleeping Room COMFORTABLE COTTON MATTRESSES AS LOW AS $7.50 Japan wants an open door in China, but thinks it no more than right that she should stand at the door and take tickets. It ia all right to go back to the farm. but don't make the trip unless you are prepared for hard work at the end of it. Extra-Value Cotton Mattresses We have at this time a heavy stock of the moderate ly priced mattresses, which were purchased when wholesale quotations were at the lowest, that is, just be fore the recent upward jump of the cotton market. The cheaper grades of mattresses hav already ad vanced 75c wholesale since we bought, but this has made no difference in our price to you. We can furnish you with any grade you desire, up to the "Sealy", or intermediate grades. We invite your early inspection. Bed Room Furniture Shows Material Reduction Every wholesale downward quotation on furniture has been met in this store with a corresponding reduction. We have taken the loss and our patrons get the benefit. For instance: Iron Beds and Springs we now are selling, at 20 REDUCTION. See also our lower prices on Dressers, Bed Room Suites, etc, in fact every item in our siore is now quoted ior less money. 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