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."
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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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GLEN MILLER
HOUSEFURNISHINGS
Telephone
No. 311
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