TIIE ALLIANCE HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1022.
3be Alltaurr Hrralb
TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
BURR PRINTING CO., Ownere
Entered at the postotTice at Alliance,
Stb., for transportation throuxh tlie
wuJa aj second class matter.
CKOKGH L. BURR, Jr Editor
"EDWIN M. BURR Business Mgr.
Official newspaper of the City of
Alliance; otficial newspaper of Box
Butt County.
The telechrometer, as it name) day, his time is his own. He comes!
Owned and published by The Burr
Printing Company, George L. Burr,
Jr., 'resident; Edwin M. Burr, Vic
President
C LEAN-LI' WEEK.
About every bo often, every city
and town jn the country has a clciin
up week. Not since the days of "Spot
less Town"' has any succeeded in j;et
tinr every alley and vacant lot, every
Imck yard and every front yurd to
shining, but while lack of complete
(success would seem to be di.-couranii'Ki
actually ovry little bit aecomplised
helps stir up enthusiasm. Some day
the averse man will realize that not
only for the sake of civic beauty, but
as a protection to health and an up
buildcr of mnj-al.s and morale, clean
PurroundinK's and fre.-h paint are in
valuable. When the day comes that
the public is thoroughly educated,
clean-up campaigns will last three
hundred and sity-five days out of
every year, and that's the length of
time they ouht to last
As it is now, all of us are willing
to overlook the pile of ashes in our
own back yards, while our eyes seek
the trash pile on our neighbor's lot.
Paint costs money and while we ap
plaud the enterprise of the man who
paints his house and bam, we hesitate
to follow his example, even if we know-
that the paint will more than save its
cost by retarding decay (luring the
next ten years. A lackadaisical raking
of the front yard, and lick and a prom
ise at the back yard and a small bon
fire may be all that we can nerve our
pelves to do, but it all helps. The
next year we may be encouraged to do
a bit more. The value of a clean-up
campaign is largely cumulative. One
address on fire prevention doesn't ac
complish much, but continued urging
wears away the lazy resistance of the
most careless householder.
The chamber of commerce and the
city authorities deserve credit for the
way they are tackling this problem
Even if the end of the week doesn't
show a bright and shining Alliance and
hundreds of yards of fresh paint, every
heap of rubbish that is cleared away
will mean so many million less flies
to fight during the summer. This part
Fay.
implies, measures conversation. Thoe
who talk by the yard will pay by the
yard. Those who.-e conversational
powers are unlimited will have to curb
their natural inrl nations or go into
bankruptcy. Ah, Fuflercrs on party
lines, how beautiiul, how splendid a
future stretches befoie you in pios
ect. Ami how srns'bb; swli n system is.
Long moons i:r, the telephone coin-1
panics adopted this system on long
distance ris. If tliey had ilied to
make a flat charge for long di.-trineo
ervice, they would have b'len bank
rupt. Street car t ystems have adopt
ed zones; o has the post office. Every
other thing is sold by the pound, the
yard, the dozen or some definite meas
ure. Only telephone talk is cheap.
The company didn't yr into the
telechrometer system without investi-
gat'on. Numerous te ts were made,
and all of them showed the same Jiing
that the folks who did the most talk
ing didn't pay for what they got. It
was found th:.t one bu. iness house
having two lines used an average of
ten minutes a day on both of ;hem;
another, with the same equipment,
u.-ed an aggregate of r,"7) minutes
Yet both firms paid the same for phone
service. On one four-party residential
line, one tubscrilrtT u ed less than ten
minutes monthly, while a neighbor
used an aggregate of 2,010 minutes.
I ins iact, l no reort says, was ills
covered by other subscribers to the
party line long lwforc the meter was
installed.
Uh, the telechrometer is a Messing.
It sol vps the problem of what to do
with the telephone pests. Take our
o'd friend, the listener-in. The tele
chrometer begins to work th minute
the receiver is lifted from the hook
Thus, nlthough the party-line listener
cannot be prevented from snooping, at
least those who are listened to can
have the satisfaction of knowing that
the listener will pay for what she
hears ami it will undoubtedly cost
her more than it is worth. The follow
who leaves the receiver down and for
gets it will never do it more than
once. With the company getting paid
so much per word for all talking that
is done, central will have less tempta
tion to insist that the line is busy
The Washington company is trying
out the system for two months. Mean
time, a world is waiting breathlessly
or nearly so for the result of the try
out. If it works but it must work,
that's all there is too it. Such a boon
to telephoning mankind cannot be al
lowed to fall into the discard.
THE REST CURE
W. V. Matthews, former president of
the Pioneer State bank and the Guar
anty Securities company of Omaha
which went to the wall through some-
of the country doesn't have the natural on'8 mismanagement, i now an in
advantages of many others. . There' niate of the state penitentiary. His
are fewer trees the lawns are not so
green the winds now and then bring
in new sand to cover the pavement.
But if it takes ten years t,o awaken
the civic consciousness in favor of
keeping the city clean, painted and
free from eyesores, it will lie worth
all the time it takes.
Stranger still is the fact that clean
ing up sometimes arouses actual re.
sentment. The Alliance Tennis club
recently rented two or three vacant
lots on one of the city's principal busi
ness streets. They tire making it ir.to
a place that will be a credit to the city.
They thought, when they started out,
that the only toes they'd be treading
upon would be those of tent shows and
carnival companies, UrAi-tunat.
?.'e Vacant lots have been used by a
dozen farmers who tied their teams
there on Saturday afternoons, N one
disputes that the lots look better; no
one disputes that there are places just
as convenient to tie horses, but some
people have been crabbing because the
team-owners weren't consulted. In
the o'd days, the same wail went up
when the hitching racks disappeared
from the main streets of dozens of
towns, but two years afterward not a
and goes just like one of the prison of
ficials, receives callers, his wife visits
him once or twice a week, and on sev
eral occasions he has had his steno
grapher come to the penitentiary and
take dictation. He is how organizing
a holding comp-iny for the Uuarant
Trust und is inviting, wkh the ro
operation of Ivs business asociate ,
the two hundred .-tockholdrrs in Ju
concern to join.
Warden Kenton remaiks that Mat
thew is a "very capable fellow aiid
a darned nice fellow, too.'' He must
bo. Aside from ihe fact that he is not
permitted to leave the grounds and
that his golf score must be suffering
omewhat, Mr. Matthews must have
hard v. ork realizing that he is in jail.
I'eihrps a golf four e can be built for
him before long- he has served but
six weeks of a year's senienre.
But what do the other convicts thin';
of these privileges to a man with
money? There's only one way of
looking at it either Mr. Matthews
was guilty of embezzlement or he wa.
innocent. The court took his plea of
guilty and sentenced him. Mr. Mat
thews thinks it a vicarious murtvrdom.
The court nn;l have believed him
guilty or it would not have imposed r
sentence upon him. If guilty of em
bezzlement, the b'?st of intentions
fither lie fore or after his sentence
should not alter the fact that hi
pri. on term is intended as a puni. h
rnent not as a vacation.
. Mr. Matthews had a better chance
in life than ninety-nine out of a hun
dred of his fellow co.nicts. The priv
ileges extended him show that he is
being given that much advantage in
making good. And this is a country
where men are free and eijual. Bunk!
read and decide for yourself whether
the criticism is justified, it beine
under: toed tht Vordsvo:t!i, who has
long since gone to his reward, has no
longer any worries as to the appre
ciation of his gcniu:
In you'h from lock to rock I went,
From hiii to hill fn discontent
Of p'ei sure hi"h and turbulent,
Mo.-t pleased v.hen most uneasy;
Hut new my own delights I make',
My thi t at every rill can slake.
And Nitu.e's loe of thee partake,
Her much beloed daisy 1
The winter in the g"ilar,d wears,
That thinly drvk his lew gray L-Jrs.
Spring parts the clouds, w th so. tost
airs,
That she may sun thee;
Whole summer-fields p. re thine by right
ntl Autumn, melancholy wight!
is a sort of glorified incarceration, ac
cording to the newspaper reporters,
just as his conviction was a sort of a
martyrdom. Mr. Matthews, in a loi g
statement which was pr'nted in full
by the newspapers, claimed that he
was "guilty of no crime or wrong
doing, but had pleaded guilty to an
embezzlement charge as the best
means of holding the business together
and saving most out of it for the bene
fit or those whose money had gone
into it."
The court sentenced Mr. Matthew;,
reluctantly, to a year in jail. The
pri:on authorities reluctantly re
ceived him. But it was plain to be feen
that he could not mix with toe com
mon convicts, and he was immediately
rated as a trusty and given some easy
work in the storehouse. He ate in the
regular prison dining room for a day
or two, and he admits that he is "glad
to have hail that experience," but as
a trusty he is permitted to dine with
a few favored souls in. the warden's
kitchen. He wears a natty business
suit of blue serge, with a blue cap and
hose to match, russet shoes, neat neg
ligee shirt and necktie.
When Mr. Matthews' duties as as
1 & : , i r . - . l.
voice was heard against he move. The. Naiam' " m-'" ti ior uie
tf. l.l :.. it i l.. i
iicinui is in wivor, u need ne, oi con
tributing to a fund to place horses in a
feed barn while their owners ate shop
ping here, but any old time a vacant
lot can be cleaned up, lot's do it.
G E N I I S U N RECOGMZ E D.
All amateur writers have harsh
words to say of the critics who reject
their manuscripts. Whenever you talk
to one of these writers, you'll get an
earful of such words as "favoritism,"
"incompetence, ' and others that are
even worse, but when all is said and
done, the critics, judging by the popu
larity of the magazines, seem to under
stand their jobs fairly well. At least
they gauge the public taste with Fome
accuracy, and while now and then some
great work of art is delayed in reach
ing the public because the publishers'
readers are stupid and stubborn, it'.
seldom that any masterpieces are lost
to the world permanently. At least
great authors all remind us that in the
days before fame marked them for its
own, every mail used to bring back
rejected manuscripts.
Mrs. Bertha Greene, art supervisor
in the ScottsblufT schools, who has con
tributed little bits of verse and life to
the magazines at intervals, became
convinced some time ago that the pub
lishers and critics gave her efforts ony
the most superficial sort of an exam
ination. Anil so she hatched a diaboli
cal plot. She copied Wordsworth's 'To
the Daisy" and sent it to a St. Louis
publishing house as her own. Back it
came, bearing this criticism: "It :rems
to get nowhere, is rambling, lacking
unity of thought."
And now Mrs. Greene is laughing
wickedly, having convinced herself
that her own poems have not been get
ting the attention they deserve. It's a
little difficult to say whether this
failure to recognize a product of un
questioned genius is sufficient evidence
to warrant a conviction. Mrs. Greene
ihwuld do as do all the other struggl
ing writers keep the mails hot with
the manuscript until its worth has been
appreciated. We refuse to condemn
the publishers until we know whether
the author sent this one poem alone,
or with some of her own productions.
Mayhap Wordsworth's "To a Daisy,"
was on the bottom of the pile. The
criticism fits most amateur produc
tions and even poets with a reputation
might consider it as a caution. If the
poor critic waded through half a doren
poems, his mind might be suficently
clouded that he couldiit recognize
genius if he met it face to face.
As to Wordsworth's poem, you may
Doth in thy crimson head delight
When rains are on thee.
HE DOESN'T KNOW
(World-Herald)
'Go.h," sai l K..tty Aibuckle. "I
don't Know what is all about, ior I
ii. ought i was well sU.itel on my
'comeback.' " j
IL' doesn't know that re.-pon. ibility
for tbe death of Virginia lu p? is o dy I
one count in the indictment against him'
ijeioie tlie coins, or pu'iiic op:n on. I
He dresn t know that ac;uttul of1
tae ih.i'rge of manslaughter, largely t
on to. tiiriony that tiie dead girl was no
better than he, doesn't absolve him
from paving the penally for otienses
committed against common decency
and morality.
He doesn't know that the profession
which made him a national figure is
fighting to maintain Its Independence
l'lom legislative meddling ana that to
win that light it must shake oil' the
incutius of those who understand m
little what they owe to it.
He doesn't know that the order of
Will Hays, guardian of the morals of
the movie-, is Wie best stioke of policy
ever made to inspire confidence in the
public that movie managers niu hon
estly trying to develop u high stan
dard lor tl.cir art.
He doesn't know that easy money
isn't a public license to indulge in it
perpetual oibuuch of last cjis, ni.-t.
women, bootleg booze and pajar.ia par
ties. He doesn't know that Fatty nlono
is responsible for the scandalous i.ml
disgraceful exposures which his
iriends saw only as "rotten publicity
i lie poor iKiuui
A TAX ON TALK.
Heaven's choicest bless'ngs upon the
Inventor. Suffering poverty, jeers ami
other unpleasant things, the inventor
works on alone. And from Everett,
Wash., comes the joyful news that will
bring tears of gladness to nine out of
ten people who subscribe to telephot.es,
The tenth man or more probablv,
woman will utter maledictions, but if
these pests should put in the ret of
their lives cursing and bewailing their
just retribution, they would never even
up the score.
The inventor has come to the rescue
of those of us who have suffered from
the talkative voice on the wire. The
Puget Sound Telephone company on
April 1 installed telechrometers all
over its system, and henceforth, unless
the plant is wrecked by irate men and
women drilligators, patrons in that
fortunate city will pay for what they
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We're strong for the
Clean-Up and Paint-Up
Campaign
Starts April 23, 1 922, and
Lasts Forever
And while you are lending your suppoit to this worthy cam
paign, give a moment's thought to cleaning up and straightening
out your finances.
ARE YOU SAVING PART OF YOUR INCOME?
If you are not, you ought to be. We have plans that make it
veasy, if you'll say the word.
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