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THE ALLIANCE HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 12. 1C22.
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Entered nt the po.tolTice at Alliance,
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CKORGE L. BURR, Jr Editor
CDWIN M. BURR Business Mgr.
Official newspaper of the City of
Alliance; otlicial newspaper of Box
Butte County.
Owned and publi.shod by The Burr
Printing Company, George L. Burr,
Jr., President; rjdwin M. Burr, Vice
President.
mixing Tin: win n:v.sii.
Tho state highway in -p.- tiKJitin
commission, uppointod at the special
session of the liis-latino in January,
has derided to call its work finished,
und the meiolx'is art; now discussing
the framing of their report to the
state. The commission came into exis
tence to prole- the woik of the state
highway department, anfl to go into
complaint from various counties.
Several heni incfs wecr held, and these
proved intoiesting enough. It is ul
ways interesting when two factions,
both thoroughly mad, get together to
investigate anything. The hearings
were distinguished by the irascibility
of State Kngineer Johnson, who ullow
ed his temper to rise quite frequently,
and the members of various county
board?; rough, rugged men who called
tpades by their right name, although
pome of them, perhaps, were in doubt
a to whether the matter under dis
cussion concerned ppndcs or shovel..
It was feared, from the outset, that
the Investigation would end in a thor
ough whitewash for the department.
The committee was, for ihe most part,
composed of state officials, who were
"jwliticaTly Interested in the outcome.
The first action of the committee was
fine stroke of policy. They asked the
counties for data on road costs, und
discovered what had been suspected
for a long time that county boards,
as a rule, had not kept any too many
records of road work. This gave the
state department a big edge, for its
records are minute and up-to-date and
cover almost every conceivable point
In connection with road building and
road costs.
The report of the committee will be
awaited with interest. The sessions at . tion.
'hich it is being formulated are
secret, and the public will have to
await the findings, although one or
two members are not loth to talk of
what thev think should be include'.
want them to go. It is to be hood
that the investigating committee, in
making its recommendations, will, be
tween (labs with the whitewash brush,
,):iuse to K)int out some of these
things.
conventions of siKech but in politics
at least, the rule doesn't hold good.
"ItLLLW MARIA" lNI)i:i MRK
It is human nature to relinquish il
lusions with regret, and if it trans
pires that Charles G. Dawes, buget
ehief of the federal government, is
nothing more nor less than a foui
Iu her, there will be a lot of genuine
sitfhs mingled with perfunctory ex
pressions 01 regret. Mr. Dawes sprang;
into the prominence of publicity just
after the war, when the republican
party was buy appointing hundred.;
of investigating committees in an ef
fort to "get" something on the demo
crats, und he achieved country-wide
comment because of the picturesque
How of piofane language that came
from his lips. lo didn't hesitate to
ay "damn'' and words that were even
stronger when talking to senators and
congressmen and bureau heads and of
ficial .: who were testifying. In fact,
his nickname is "llell'n Maria," taken
fiom one of his favorite expletives.
As director of the budget bureau
Mr. Dawes a few days ago issued a re
port in which he set forth an itemized
account of saving in government ex
penses totaling $13(1,000,000. It was
un imposing figure. All over the
county there have been businesslike
administrations by city commissions
and city managers which have actually
effected large economies, and consider
ing the opportunity for waste, the
claim of $ 13fi,00),000 savings was
easily credible.
But the democratic congressmen,
realizing that an election is near at
hand and that it is well to be pre
pared, arc following the tactics that
the republicans used prior to that fatal
lay in November, 1920, when the light
was extinguished in thousands of hap
py democratic headquarters. It is
charged, and with good foundatior,
apparently, that Mr. Dawes figures
are "plainly deceptive," and that the
whole itemized account is "pure bunk."
Kven the republican leader, defending
Mr. Dawes, admitted that some of the
economies have resulted quite as much
from the vigilance of congress as from
the activities of Mr. Dawes. It js
charged that of the savings claimed,
less than f 12,000,000 can be really
retributed to the Harding administra-
According to the critics of Mr.
Dawes, the real test of the genuine
ness of economies lies in the matter
of the tax reductions secured. Taxes
have not been reduced, and the de-
Thus, Representative Hoffmeister of ficiency appropriation bills will
Imperial, democrat, furnishes a good amount to $417,000,000, at least three
big hint wnen ne declares mat, in nis times as much as
opinion, the county boards should be claimed will total.
the economies
relieved of all supervision over high
ways. He would have each board cm
play a county highway comimssioner
the latter being empowered in con
junction with the state highway bu
reau, to direct and suervise road and
Mr. Dawes has a difficult task. He
must save money for the country, and
in anything that he tackles, he must
fight every other official, congressmen
and a host of office seekers. It's prob
ably human nature to want to report
bridge work. Under HolTmeister's progress, especially when the republi
plan, the county board's duties would jean administration is so much in need
be confined to auditing and paying 0f something that will make good
bills after tho work is done. "We publicity but when every taxpayer
would never have any such roads as we knows where the shoe pinches, hot air
now have in Nebraska if the state had economies and paper savings won't get
not started its program, Mr. Hoft- bv
meister says. "No such roads would
have been developed under county
board management."
Mr. Hoffmeister's position is prob-
So, it seem, the man who atTects
profanity and the treat-'em-rough at
titude is not necessarily efficient, any
more than the tin-horn gambler of
ably indicative of the report of the in-; the plains who used to call himself
vestigating committee. If this be the "Honest John" or "Honest Joe" was
case, then it is exactly opposite to the what his handle indicated. Shakes-
OLT-GF-DATK DRAMA
(Louisville Courier-Journal)
The manner in which daily news
papers handle di.-pntches from Dur
ango reporting the killing of the city
editor of the Durango Herald by the
editor of the Duranjo Democrat is
indicative of the attitude of the press
and the public toward gunfights Itc
tween editors.
1 he niil.tant editor who made his
columns a channel of personal abuse
and relied upon his shooting iion.
once v.a a dramatic figure in the
eyes of the public. Feuds Ix'tweon
editors were matters of public inter
est. Hie cockpit style of controversy
was entertain ng to the readers o
new papers. The ever-present prob
ability of blood-hid was relished popu
larly. Nowadays the public has no burning
inteiest in what the editor of the
! 'a ley Bugle thinks of the editor o;
the Dailey Clarion. Kach must con
cern him.-elf with puhlbhing the news
. od with other matters which should
concern a publisher. His personal af
fairs aired in his columns detract from
rather than add to the value of those
columns as appraised by the public.
"ne respeets me," said a Texas t 1 i
tor thirty years ago, soaking of the
.inn on the other side of a personal
ont'oversy, "because I can make the
English language crack like a black
snaice whip, and, if ne:ed be, make u
double-barreled shotgun sing: 'Corne
to Christ.' "
That sort of fatuity and blasphemy
passed for the words of a hero. When
the other fellow used the shotgun and
the editor who had proclaimed him: eh
a master of Kngli.-h and double-barreled
shotguns, was killeel the report
of the killing appeared upon the first
age of the majority of the daily news
papers of America.
The day of the strutting editor pas
sed some time ago. If nowadays two
editors cannot discuss a matter of pub
lic interest without abusing each other
und if, as a result of that disqualify
ing inability, the two fall upon each
other with pistols, night editors do not
remake the first page after midnight
as a result of having received reports
of the incident.
Elood-?P',-t..'under journalism is ou'
of date entirely. Street duels betweer
editors have about the same news val
ue as street duels between merchant
or lawyers.
AFTKR TAX-EXEMPT SIX l'RITIEi
(Omaha Daily News)
Large investors who escape paying
tax on a portion of their income b
investments in tax-exempt securitie
will 1)0 forced to pay increased vaxa
tion if a constitutional amendment jus'
.eporteel by the ways and means com
mittee 5s approved by congress and
thirty-six of the states.
The proposed amendment will pro
hibit the issuance of tax-free bonds by
federal and municipal governments,
under the constitution the federal gov
ernment is prohibited from levying
tares on thee securities.
From $10,000,000,000 to $1S,000,000,
000 worth of such securities have been
issueel $1,000,000,000 worth last year.
According to a report to congress as
time goes on the issuance of these ke
curities will increase "until every op
portunity will be offered to the mar
of large income to make his invest
ments solely in tax:exempt securitie?
mil even the small tax-payer will find
it to his profit to invest in them."
The result is the revenues of the
federal government derived from largi
incomes continues to shrink.
In his message to congress last De
cemlier, President Harding recom
mended uction. Secretary of the Treas
ury Mel'on has repeatedly done so
Congressional economists have done
likewise, while organizations like the
Investments Bankers' association, the
American Farm Bureau federation, the
People's Reconstruction league and the
Ohio Tax association have joined ir
the demand.
This does not mean, however, that
the proposed amendment will be passee'
without a fight, unless all signs fai
there will be a considerable contest.
desires of the complaining county
boards. Their complaint was that it
ost too much to build roads under
state supervision; that the state tte-
peare had the dope right when he said
a man might smile and smile and be
a villian. There is a general belief
that the man who swears loudly and
partment had wasted the money of jn nny company, especially if he be a
state and county, and that roads hail
been buik under county supervision
for much less money than where tho
state had charge or control of thj
construction. I
No one will dispute that a system
of state roads would be impossible if
the county boards have the upper hand.
At least, no connected system ever re
sulted when they were in full control,
before there was a state highway bu
reau. Nor is there much doubt that a
county highway commissioner, with
full powers, could handle the road
problems better than the average
county board. It may be that the coun
ty highway commissioner may be the
unlntinn nf tha HfTirillt' hilt not if h
is subject to the dictation of the state'
bureau which has proved so irksome
and so expensive to the counties.
Somewhere there is a middle ground.
It is folly to refuse to accept federal
aid so long as it is a national propo
sition, but if the federal aid can le
dispensed with, and toad building be
made a state and county responsbility,
it is possible that some plan can lie
devised whereby the counties can bu'ld
loads,- where they save money by
being in charge of the construction,
and still have the benefit of state aid
and assistance in planning through
routes. The chief complaint in this
part of the state is that the state de
parment wants to do all of the plan
ning, and that the officials are not
particularly interested in putting roads
where the people who pay the taxes
prominent public official, is more likely
to be man of rugged honesty than the
fellow who observes the niceties and
DEMPSEY CAME TOO LATE.
(Nebraska City Press)
German newspaper eelitors refuseel
to enthuse over Mr. Jack Dempsey,
America s latest tourist contribution to
weary Europe. The Teuton editors
mentioned briefly that a so-called
"world s champion was sojourning in
their midst, but that is about all. It
remained for the Man in the Street to
follow the ship-builder and prize fight
er around and pay to him the adulation curious. Speculation, no doubt was
which, perhaps, he is entitled to from Hie as. to ju-t now .jr. lieinp. ey eval
the (ieiinans, fiom whose immediate e' military service. But German e.li-
vicmity he was conspicuous by his ab- tors should be congratulated for their
senee in 11)1 S. Having been Mr. Demp- refusal to go into hysterics. They are
sey's first visit to Germany, as 'Ihe i" similar taste with some Anier.ciin
Chicago Tribune remarks, why should- editors, for that matter.
n't he be intern ted in what' lie sees,!
and why should one blame the German' It would lie be'.tr if Ireland picked
people as a whole for being mildly the harp more and the quarrel less.
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