THE ALLIANCE HERALD. FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1922.
TONIGHT
GEORGE HEBAN, in
"ONE MAN IN A MILLION"
USUAL SHORT SUIHECTS
ADMISSION 10 and 30c
IMPERIAL THEATRE
MONDAY, MARCH 13
MAY McAVOY, in
"EVERYTHING FOR SALE"
ALSO
BAND CONCERT
ADMISSION 13 and 40c.
SATURDAY, MARCH 11
MARIE PREVOST. in
"A PARISIAN SCANDAL"
4 ACTS VAUDEVILLE 4
Usual Comedies ADM. 20 and 50c
SUNDAY, MARCH 12
CONSTANCE TALMADGE
"WOMAN'S PLACE"
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THE PARSON'S C0RNEP
By Rev. P. J. Minnrt. Fanr rf
the First Baptist Church, Alliance
'lore in Alliance. Now, thin in not pay
injr that we favor Sunday picture.", for
we !o not. But it is a Ktatomcnt that
jve do not believe that people who go
here on Sundav would attend church
:f it was close!.
Community Club
at Bingham Still
Working for P-H
i
i'tion fori;" inf rS. H. Willey, president; J. T. Burtonvice
he last is- -r , , v, ,. ". , . l . president; Kaipn t. lxnspeich, isecre-
iur "Perils He nevor akl lili ,''P,"1 tary-treRurr; dirctori.IV. wTlJil-
maeazine rX"ZA .: Z I aurh, C. H. Anderson, J. E. McCarty,
rPIIirmiTR H I t' mull V IIV It'U UIC IIIIIUO- tir:ll: tlf-l-L xinti' a .
Those Percentages and Fool Reforms
May 1 convey my apprec
the editorial rppeannjr in t
me of the Herald concern!
That Aren't" The Outlook
Hlno carnl a sr. ' X? try for one cause and another. Dm
ttHRSSK!" ! Hanson, who spoke so e. o-
.LT ' :V;r1. tw oil wilwiweaUjr at one o tne local cnurcnes
I IVM CI II "T av v iiv v " r
lie men should study and profit there
liv. IU title is, "The Dictatorship of
the Dull." i
Apin, we make the sUternont tlmt Communit club the following officers
cal people could better use their time ; ., ,
There Is one thine I notice aliout
nil of these so-called reformer, and
that is their percentages of jrirls who
go wrontf. Kecently three percentaKea
were friven out by different men who
ore in the frame of reforming the rest
f us. One said that 67 per cent of
the pirls fro wron through picture
nhows, another aaid that 60 per cent
vent wronpr through the dance; still
another said that 67 per cent went
wronfr through the automohlies. These
Ftatements would be real funny if the
makers were not so earnest about
them.
The writer knows the evantrelistic
game from the inside and intends to
tnd his ministerial life in that work
when his children have frrown up, and
we can understand how some of those
fellows make these pArcentafre utate
menta. They are the fruits of a temp
tation to say nomethinfr striking
knowing that the statement of an out
sider is not apt to be looked into as
the local man s statement would be.
Many yield to this wicked trick and if
one will take the trouble to look up the
pource of these "pcrcentafres" he will
likely find that some over-heated pub
lic speaker said that "some one said,"
that "some one else told him," that
'his friend told him," that "he heard
the wife of some evangelist known for
his enthusiasim say," that he "read
from some professor, or "heard a
professor when he wu in collefrc," say
'that steen per cent of the frirls fro
wonfr through the auto," or by eating
irreen pickles after a dish of ice cream,
etc., etc.
1 in a "union service, are both lormer
HantiKt nreachers. The latter at one
time was the pa.tor of the same church
that licensed the writer to preach.
The former used to be pastor of the
East Side Lincoln Baptist church. It
is sifrnificant that most of these lead
ers are ex-preachers. Of course their
salaries in their pre:nt work perhaps
are larger, and perhaps they think that
they can do more frood as reformers
than Christ did aa Regenerator. We
repeat that Christ's preachers were ne
ver called to reform the world. We
would go further and say that we were
iiever asked to "make" people better,
but to persuade them by example and
precept to follow the Master's steps.
People may be educated into better
citizens, but you can not legislate them
into better men and women. But some
one will say, "How about the eight
eenth amendment? Wasn't that legis
lation?" Yes, but where would that
act be today, were it not for the fifty
years of education as to the economic
evils of the traffic? Where would it
be if public sentiment had not been
created in its favor ? I sometimes be
lieve that the country went dry about
twenty years too soon. Public senti
ment is certainly not in its favor yet
Some of the so-called best citizens are
breaking the law daily.
William Welch, William Lotspeich. H
J. Marr.
Plans were discussed and prelimi
nary efforts made to ascertain from
the highest county and state sources
the possibility of completing this year
the gap in the Potash Highway, which
exists entirely within Sheridan county
between the east line and Lakeside.
A committee will be appointed soon
to get in touch with the Omaha of
ficials with the object in view of hav-
ng them extend their long distance
line from Ellsworth, eleven miles west,
to Bingham. This is a great need from
manv an cries, for after 5 d. m. each
day, when the Burlington closes, com
munication with the outside world is
completely cut off.
it was also decided that meetings
in the very near future would be ar
ranged for at Ellsworth, Lakeside and
Antioch in order to combine the ef
fort of all of the south end of the
county toward the issue of better
oads.
Another strange thing about it all
Is that the great American people here
in Alliance, a town that ought to know
tetter, will "fall" for it, and swallow
these statements whole. Last spring
. an evangelist made a serious statement
in a neighboring church about a cer
percentace of our young people in
school afflicted with venereal diseases,
iand when the writer asked for proof,
. ne said that a local man said, etc. The
local man evidently did not have much
proof, for he covered his tracks
promptly. An investigation resulted,
with no proof of the statement.
Another strange thing is, a a young
jrirl speaker said in our pulpit last
Sunday evening. "These men would
lead you to believe that if the girls
kept straight, the boys would remain
trraight. Why all this percentage of
rirlsi v hy not boys? I have known
these men to say that if we save the
jnrls that the bovs will take care of
themselves. Well, that may be so in
the life of these men, but as far as
' we are concerned, we found that as a
boy we were tempted to tempt the
frirls long before the girls ever tempted
us. In fact, we fail to remember one
,!nstimc where the girl took the initia-
i live in any line oi wrong acq on. .
'-iOntt of twe things U sure: If lh
average reformer is right, the girls
lead the boys wrong or they are weak
er and more easily led than the boys.
we believe the opposite is true, that
;a girl will hold to the straight and
pure life much longer than the aver
ge boy. We would like someone to
try to convince us to the contrary,
Next time you hear a reformer, be he
your pastor or an .outsider, make these
"percentage" statements, ask him for
the proof. Thell him that vow don't be
lieve it and won't until he come3
Across with the evidence.
A lawyer friend said to the writer
1he otner day, "I never was so much
disgusted in my life a I was the other
evening when I went to henr that re
former speak." And while he d;d rot
fay what it was that disgusted him
we are not far f-o-n wrong when we
say it was Some "nerrent?""." for Isw
"yers are not in the habit of taking for
granted statements without proof or
tojuuauic luuiiiiauon.
Then. too. the nature of these re-form-
a real laughable. Take that
preacher who recently Ktartv. nut in
5lassachusett8 to put over the lw to
Tomnel people to attend church. When
The mil came un for reading ita soon
vor "took sick." It seems to me that
Tie "was sick before, but didn't know it
There are many more sick folks abroad
4n the land who would eomtiel people
i 'attend church. We laughingly re
Ynemoer the statements of an enthu
siastic reformer during the wet and
lry fight, tht when the saloon would
e out our churches would be full of
people. Well, this preacher preaches
to a weii-nuei house twioe each Sun
lay, and oftentimes people are turned
away, but we do not see any difference
in tne "percentage" of people who at
tend church now and before the saloons
vent out of business.
Now, do not misunderstand me, I
would not for the world approve of its
return, but simply point to this as an
example that the only way to secure
changed economic and social conditions
is by changing the people a ideas and
that is a slow work of education by
precept and example. If we church
members, and preachers in particular,
set the example, we would need to wor
ry less about drinking, dancing, thea
ters, etc.
Tuke another "fool reform" the ef
fort to compel pupils to read the Bible
in the public schools. Now we 'would
like to see it read without comment,
but we would emphatically oppose the
"compelling" part Let us win people
to Christianity and we will soon find
a changed order of things. If we put
forth less time reforming and more
at performing, if we were as preach
ers and churches more practical and
less theoretical we would be worried
less with these so-called "immoral!
ties." Let us make the christian life
more attractive, and the dance and all
these imaginary evils will have less at
traction for the young.
Suppose it were possible to get all
uie young tolks to stop dancing, thea
ter going and joy-riding, suppose all
oi tnese activities would cease im
mediately and these young folks would
all turn to the church to satisfy their
so-caiieu instinct, what would the
churches have to offer them? There
is not a church in Alliance that would
be able to give these young folks what
their restless natures call for. It is
not, therefore, folly to a.sk them to
give up tola or that and not be able
to give, them something in exchange
lor.wna .mey, gave. up.!. . t
Let us talk of reform less and per
form more, so that when any of these
young people that Christ died for
them we will be able to offer them
sometimes in return for the old pleas-
ures.
POINT OF ROCK CREEK
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Essex are
home now after helping feed cattle
this winter at the Wilkinson ranch.
Mr. and Mrs. Hollis Staples mo
tored through from Hershey last Sat
urday and are visiting Mrs. Staples'
parents, Mr. and Mrs. r . Nichols.
brnie Weinell had the misfortune
to have his foot crushed a few days
ago, but is now walking with the aid
of a cane.
Mr. and Mrs. Cu3ick were surprised
last Tuesday evening by a large enwd
of neighbors. Everyone had a fine
time.
Mrs. Crawford motored Mrs. Mar.n
and children to Alliance Friday. They
stopped on their way and took dinner
with Mrs. Dillon. Miss llutcli.'n.:on
also accompanied them.
Mr. and Mrs. Lrrue Lssex drove to
Alliance Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Tabor drove out from
Alliance Thursday and visited with
the Nichols family.
Roy Nichols took a load of corn to
the Bliss farm this week.
Chris Robuck is out in this vicinity
Most of these men who are everlast
ingly crying for reform this and that
are usually men who know little or
nothing of what they talk about In
sieau oi anoiisning these things, we
will find that some of them at least
should be improved and not abolished,
It would be well if these reformers
would leave their study cots and tjilr
a little exercise and look into some of
tnese supposedly evil things. Perhaps
in-y wouiu learn inat uie professional
rerormers nave been making state
ments upon hearsay evidence. A train
we repeat that when the churrh will
perform more, there will be less of
mis retorm talk and noise.
' To heur some talk, you would think
that if Sunday theaters were done
away with that the churches would be
ciowded to rapacity all the time. Now,
ve know better than that, for we were
in towns where there are no Sunday
theaters and the percentage of pennle
attending church was much less than
NONPAREIL
Miss Vera Miller spent the week-end
with home folks.
The Nonpareil club met Thursday
with Mrs. Emory Abley.
Tom Osborn was a caller at George
Young's Thursday.
Mrs. George Young spent Wednes
day afternoon with Mrs. Emory Abley.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hennings visited
with Jake Msea and family Thursday
ir. ana Mrs. tmory Abley were
cullers at Rosenberger's Friday.
Ernest Osborn and family visited at
the Tschacher home Sunday afternoon.
Harold Moranville was a caller at
H. A. Strong s Saturday.
Quite a number from this neighbor
hood attended the farewell dance at
I Roberts place Saturday evening.
Everyone reports a fine time.
Alfred Tschacher was absent from
school Friday on account of sickness.
Osbom's are busy sorting potatoes
this week.
Fred Strong took a load of wheat
to town Tuesday.
Several from this neighborhood at
tended the Mortensen sale Tuesday.
Herald Want Ad3 Results.
this week.
Mrs. Cranford, jr., is on the sick
list this week.
Mr. Mae is up from Bridgeport, vis
iting at the Vaughn home.
Mr. Bum and Hale motored out
after Miss Bums Friday evening.
Now another doctor comes forward
and says handshaking is in no way
injurious to the health and tells every
body to go ahead and shake hands.
But, doc, what over?
1 per cent in white population of na
tive parentage.
The less nations have to fight for,
the more they will have to live for.
In its appeal to women to quit wear
ing summer furs, the American hu
mane society looks to have the ad
vantage of some very favorable weath
er for it
The coroner haa decided that the ex
plosion of the ZR-2 was due to acci
dent This will be a great relief to
the people who -have been thinking
that perhaps the passengers did it on j
purpose.
Russia Is tearing up 700 miles of
railroad in order to use the material
for repairs on other lines. This re
minds one of the hungry snake that
devoured its tail.
Still, we aren't being absolutely
swamped by immigration. Census fig
ures show a loss in ten years of .5 of
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