THE ALLIANCE HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1922.
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quer, the poor working girl will have as well as those who always drank, but
to get a permit from hrr boss to ride the occasional reports of horrible
in an automobile or pet the neighbor's deaths from wood alcohol poisoning
baby. Mr. Hamilton's reasoning Roes are more and more driving the ama
teur boozers from the moonshine
mails. Prohibition is far from belnir
a reality, but the last year has seen
tremendous strides toward law en
forcement, and it isn't unreasonable t
hope. However, if any national move-
this way:
A married man or a married woman
must be happy while he is at work or
he will not do hfs work well.
A married man cannot roach his full
efficiency in his work if he comes to
the office after a fiirht with his wife. I
A married woman a woman being mont for light wines and beer, headrn
more temperamental than a man-isn't by'someone aside from the brewers ii n 1
any Fowl all day long if she quarreled listincrp Fnoull, come this way there'll
with her husband at breikfast, i , . ! , . , . . , ,
It is not alone a humanitarian duty,1 b a lot of contributors toward the
it is a service to the gove-nmcnt if, by campaign, and tome of ihem would
patching up troubles at home, I can come from people, a few years nu,
make the four hundred married folks who wouh have FOoner been shot th;m
MORE TYRANNY.
Heaven help the poor working girl,
and the poor workingman, if this goes
much farther. Already labor's condi
tion excites pity but the worst is yet
to come. The man or woman who has
read the magazines and the newspa
pers for the paxt ten years has been
iible to see for himself or herself ihe
gradual encrouchmcnt of employers on
the fo-callod rights of employes. This
has been bad enough when it included
supervision during business hours only,
but the modern employer is more and
' more grasping, lie wants to regulate
the conduit of those who are on his
payroll at all times of the day. It's
nothing short of capitalistic tyranny,
and vc shall epcct Marie Weekes of
the Norfolk Tress to jump all over Jie
government, when we have divulged
the full truth, and Edgar Howard will
fall several notches in our estimation
unless he makes it appear vhat Wall
Ftrcet is, somehow, responsible.
Most of us can remember the good
old days when an employe put in to
many hours a day for his or her boss,
worked faithfully during set hour.', and
maybe some overtime, and then went
home to enjoy the hours of leisure
Some of the young men played in the
band, others sought the white lights,
and still others walked in the evening
tind the park with the lady of their
choice. Girl employes darned father's
hose, heljed mother with the dishes,
played with little brother or sister, or
dolled up and went buggy riding, or
to the opera house, or the dance with
some freckled young man. This was,
ten years ago, considered jerfectly
proper. Maybe the young man em
ploye wouldn't leave the club or the
corner saloon until the lights went out;
maybe the fair stenographer would not
get home until the Final hours of the
morning, but if both of them were on
time at the office the next morning,
and put in a good day's work, or made
a show of it, everything was jake with
the boss.
One day, however, someone put it
into the boss' head that he was paying
for the service of his employe, and
then the trouble started. Probably the
war was responsible for it at any rate
it's popular and usual to attribute un
pleasant things to the war. Then the
employers began to hunt for things to
criticise in those who worked for them.
One by one, the personal liberties of
the workers are disappearing. The
first fierce onslaught was made- to
stop gum chewing by the girls. The
employers argued that the regular
movement of jaws jazzed up things in
the office. The next step was to stop
the young from going out for an oc
casional drink. The employers argued
that the fragrance of breaths and the
muddling of minds resulting from
booze made the services of employes
less valuable. One by one these points
were conceded by employes, because
they seemed reasonable. But the em
ployers weren't satisfied.
From the moment that the employ
ers tasted the first sweet fruits of di
recting the private lives of their em
ployes, they have stayed awake nights
to think of new ideas for regulating
the conduct of those in their employ.
The peek-a-boo waiSts, the thin silk
stockings, bobbed hair, short skirts,
colorful clothing all these are fast
disappearing. Male employes may no
longer, for the most part, smoke or
chew during office hours. Already the
chink outside of office hours has been
banned, and soon it w.H bo A Case of
here all happy. They will work more
efficiently.
There's a limit to all things, good
and bad, and it's time for workers to
rie up in protest against carrying this
thing too far. Hang it all, if a man
half-shot.
"STYLE" IS PARAMOUNT.
(Norfolk Press.)
"NORFOLK, Neb., March 2. Nor
folk Press. Gentlemen: The Jnvifji-
can t drink or smoke or play poker, tion committee of the senior class,
attend a dance or a show, because his Norfolk high school, wish to announce
boss doesn't approve of it, that's bad n" ine nave awarciea tne contract
... v n . .1 v: , u i lor v.rii commencement invitations to
UUK,.. w ....vc .. ..1 i lhe Inter-Collegiate
enou
pleasure of quarreling with his wife
why, it's outrageous. That's the only
inexpensive amusement we have left.
And if this outrage is allowed to pass
unnoticed, where will it end? First
thing you know, the boss will be claim
ing the right to select the phonograph
records for his employes, because some
of them have the wrong effect on his
emolions. The boss will be making
up menus for his workers; he'll pre
crilw their amusements, and ihe places
they are to go. So far as we are con
cerned we are going to fight for the
old system. Let's cut out all this non
sense. If an employe doesn't suit, .'n-
stead of remodeling him nearer to our
heart's desire, let's tell him once just
where we think he errs and if he
doesn't deliver the goods, tie a can to
him. Employers can't be bothered
with forcing their employes to eat
liver for breakfast or seeing to it that
they take Walter Camp's daily dozen
.exercises before they retire. And the
employes should be allowed to decide
such momentous questions as wheth
?r they'll buy a pink or blue hat, or
put the k'tty out at night or leave
him in. This is the last straw. From
now on we may be classed .w.th the
insurgents. Down with paternalistic
tyranny. Down, down, down!
Vive la libertel
tiling an employe when the scent of
tobacco is on his cbjthes. Perfumery,
hair oil, fancy clothes, noisy neckwedr,
purple sox and fashionable haircuts hV
on some of the barod IUU T Utfies
.bWt to their employee Anting, play
in cards tor the rf&w A man work
ing on a VfaWy must conform to the
bb'ssv Meas ftf propriety at till times.
or his pay envelope turns blue. The a money maker, than it was a year
Woman In labor is just as unfortunate, ago. Heavy fines and jail sentences
THE BOOZE COMPLEX.
When authorities differ, the average
man is forced to rely upon his own ob
servation, which is often quite as good
as that of the authorities. In the mat
'er of the enforcement of prohibition,
it's probably better, for the zeal with
which enforcement is pressed differs
o much in various parts of the coun
try that no authority really covers
much more ground than his own baili
wick. Thus, Mayor Zehrung of Lincoln,
who was ever fond of the publicity af
forded by news columns, although not
o much that way as his two immedi
ate predecessors, Brother Charley
Bryan and J. E. Miller, breaks :'nto
print on the subject of hooch. Mr.
Zehrung says that he bePeves that the
number of booze law violators in Lin
coln is less than a year ago. The
reasons, he declares, are two first, the
fact that the penalties are getting to
be more severe, and second, that the
novelty of trying to beat the game is
wearing off. The chronic inebriates
will disappear with this generation, in
his opinion, and the young fellows do
it mostly to be "smart". They don't
really get very much of it, Mr. Zeh
rung thinks, and they lose interest as
soon as the novelty wears off. Only
the old-timers, he opines, will continue
to buy pop bottles full of it in the dark
alleys, and in time these fellows will
die. .
On the other hand, Samuel BIythe,
Washington correspondent, in a recent
magazine article under the title, "The
Booze Complex," has a somewhat dif
ferent idea. He doesn't go so far as to
"view with alarm," but he intimates
that people who in the saloon days
would scorn to be seen in the same
room with liquor are now paying ex
travagant prices for it, and getting it
In Case lots. Women who were once
firm white rihboner are now, accord
ing to Mr. ttlythti, making home brew.
His rmhl&ion apparently is that the
laf I it unpopular, and from the trend
uf his argument light wineg and beer,
at least, are to be expected in the fu
ture.
So far as Alliance is concerned,
there isn't any doubt that bootlegging
is less popular, either as a pastime or
g:ate fre?s of Kansas
City, Mo. The paramount factor in
selecting the invitations was the style,
the price being secondary. Thanking
you, I am, LEO J. SCHULA,
"Chairman
If the elders of these young jieople
were to make their personal desire for
"style paramount and were to sf in
to Kansas City for dresses, suits, coats,
snoes, jewelry, millinery, musical in
struction, medical attention, dentistry,
barbel ing, automobiles, meats, gio
cenes, ei ceiern, mere would no no
Norfolk and no Norfolk schools, heme
no need for commencement invitation
The invitat'on committee of the
senior class of the Norfolk high schoo'
is not as well grounded in the matter
of economies or in loyalty to home m
citutions. as they seem to be in "style'
ideas, which fully explains the award
ing of the l!tJ2 contract to a distant
mail order printing plant, there are
six printing plants in Norfolk nnd pre
sumably each of these plants pays it
share of the school nnd city tax. The
Norfolk Press paid $103..'!; school tax
lust year, the other five printing
, plants paid theirs. How much d'd the
inter-Collegiate Press of Kansas City,
Mo., pay ? And echo answers none. '
'the 1!22 class i;i not abnormal in
its style desires; indeed, we believe it
is and has been the custom for the
various classes to choose to turn -hoi-
faces away from the institnt iona thnt
help make the Norfolk schools possible
uni 10 spenu meir money with mai
onier houses in distant cit'les. We
comment on it, not as news, but as p
marked weakness in our schools, which
are turning out young people with so
small a sense of loyalty to home insti
tutions, so lacking in gratitude for
those who have helped them receive
an education. It does not promise well
for our future citizenship. Young peo
ple trained to buy of distant mail or
der houses will make a poor home
buying clientele as the years go on.
Norfolk has three newspapers. Local
high school students sometimes think
these newspapers lax in their news re
ports of schools affairs. We wonder if
they find their names and affairs more
irequently in the Kansas City newspapers?
us to believe that when fusion is prac-; and they forthwith made a fusion
ticed, it is but a short time until one agreement with the populists in order
faction or the other predominates to beat the republicans, and did it, but
then look out. The first thing that' when the votes were counted it was
will happen is that John Jones, farm-1 found that the wily democrats had cap
er, and Bill Smith, a fireman, both tured all the important offices and that
want to le county clerk. Then there the minor ones had been given to the
is go ng to be something doing that popS. RiRht then things began to
will bid fair to destroy the friendly happen, aid a demo-pop convention be
relations which start out so har- came an event worth going miles to
moniously. fee an(j many times one was lucky
Some thirty years ago, the populist enough to get away from it without
party sprang into existence down in the aid of a doctor.
Custer county, and in a few years The democrats gradually swallowed
spread all over the state and was bid- the pops, however, chin whiskers ind
ding fair to become the ruling clement all, and the pops refused to stay swal-
of politics in Nebraska. But with the lowed, and eventually disorganized,
rising of the populist movement, the There is no class of people who can
democratic minority in the state was run a political party and when labor
threatened with complete annihilation and farmer join to the exclusion of all
others, there will sooner or later be a
division on the ground that one fac
tion or the other is hogging all the
corn.
A POLITICAL STROKE.
(Gering Coun'er.)
Judge W. H. Westover does much to
make himself stronger in the public
estimation when he specifically dis
avows the petitions which were in cir
culation some time back to nominate
him for congress on a wet platform.
Not only that, but he disavows his ap
proval of Fuch a platform. He does
say, however, that he would be gia l
to accept a nomination for the ;a
preme oench this fall.
Herald Want Ada Resulta
The lot of the worker is not a happy
one, these days, unless he happens to
be as pliable as a dishrag, and willing
to think of nothing but his job.
But, as we said, the worst is yet to
come. The government is getting to
the point where it assumes a paternal
attitude toward employes. Presum-
have had this effect. The watchfulness
of the law enforcement officials, who
are ready to make arrest at the first
sniff of mash, has had a whole lot to do
with making hooch-peddling a danger
ous industry. However, the chief evil
seems to be that those w ho want to buy
booze buy it easily. In the old days,
ably, the petty bosses in the govern- the man who patronized a bootlegger
ment service have been exerting theje-r a blind tiger used to have to be
same authority on 'those under them vouched for and know the password,
as other employers. Now, if the ex-but now, in practically every city and
ample of W. B. Hamilton, collector of town in the state, even a stranger can
cii'tnKis at the port of San Francisco, connect with some "moonshine" vender
Is followed, and all employers are con- within half an hour. People are drink
etantly seeking for new worlds to con- ing the stuff who never drank before,
CLASS RULE IN POLITICS.
(Scottrbluff Republican.)
Over at Alliance the railroad men
and the farmers have combined forces
ami will enter the political field at the
coming primaries with the intention of
capturing all the offices at the coming
eicL-nun. mis win worK ail right as
long as both the farmer and the labor
element can agree upon who will be
favored with the offices, and if either
side is well pleased with the number
of places allowed them, everything will
go smooiniy.
But our experience in politics leads
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I What is Your
S Idea About
This ?
The man who spends his income as '
fast as he makes it, is gambling with
his future in every sense of the
word.
He may. win present pleasures but
he loses future independence. The
friends who hail "the good fellow"
now, will slight "the poor beggar"
in days to come.
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every pay day. That is the surest way to win
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