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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 6, 1922)
TWO THE ALLIANCE HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 11)22. ehc Alliance Urntlit TUESDAY AND FRIDAY BURR PRINTING CO., Owners;. Entered at the postofficc at Alliance, Keb., for transportation through the mails as second class mutter. GLORGK L. IIUKIJ, Jr. Editor EDWIN M. BUKK Business Mgr. Official newspaper of the City of Alliance; official newspaper of Box Butte County. Owned and published by The Burr Printing Company, George L. Burr, Jr., President; Tvlwin M. Uurr, vice lYesident. DAYLIGHT SAVING the (li.ti'ict telling of hi. roup, he in-, the j.ractue, y.Ikio other nn'.-tuncs in scrtcd the hour of hi filing. But it'earrying out marriage Iaw wore malo diiln't frii;h'.cn out many other candi- to consider the marriage legal from dates. Two or three booms sprang up j the .-landroint of public morality anyway, and nunc of them gave prom- Simply lec;.u-e the principals happen i.-c of becoming formidable, to he diameters in the puhlic eye is Mr. Amsberry, if the truth were no reason for discovering all of a Fud- . lllOil 11.113 (Grand Island Indepenc'ent ) Sooner or later, the congressmen End senator, the mayors ami boards of trade and other officials are going to learn that it doesn't pay to monkey with the hands of the clock, either in spirit or otherwise. Kver since the discovery was made, during the war, that by the simple expedient of get ting up an hour earlier, going to work Mxty minutes ahead of time and quit ting an hour earlier than usual, a whole hour might be added on to the end of the day, some of the people who don't work regular hours have been busy trying to cram that idea down the throats of those that do. And they haven't got by with it, not by a jugful. The trouble was that even though the idea wasn't so bail, as ideas go, and was a godsend to home gardens jnrovided people used the hour 'n them, the mistake was made in trying to juggle the hands of the clock. And the result was the worst infernal mess since the days when every town had two or three telephone systems. In Kime towns, the railroads went by one time and the business houses another; and the poor traveler wouldn't know when he hit a place, whether he was to be bound by God's time or Wilson V time, as they used to call it. Now, we have always thought that the people of the cities really like the daylight paving plan. We often said, while under the impression, that it might become popular if the effect were achieved by letting the clock alone. Jiist get up an hour earlier,! we used to say, and the effect will be the name. But alas, it has been tried just that way in Washington. Congress, hav ing: an eye to what the farmer consti tuents would say, decided to adopt daylight saving for Washington by the process of getting up early, and re--ports indicate that it doesn't go. Clerks like to stay out late at night, maybe, or they may hate to get up in the mornings, but the daylight saving plan Is discarded. ' litt'a rest in peace. We've tried it with the rest of them, and while it las its advantages, the fact is that people just simply don't like the idea, under any name. Ferhaps, if some fellow will think up a plan that will accomplish the result, and make every body do it, millionaire, stenographer and farmer alike, it can be put over. Until then, it is the part of wisdom to conclude that the sooner this most unpopular idea is forgotten, the bet ter. known, is not congressional timber. He has been elected to various offices, usually without much opposition, and has been pulled through by the head of the ticket . His own health is none too good, ami his ability is said by tho-e who know him, to be no better than his health. It is hinted that a host of little boomlets sprang up largely to scare Darius, and it may le that the prospects were so dark that he himself appealed to Uncle Mose to stay in another two years and let him get his breath. Robert G. Simmons of Scott sbluff, a fine upstanding young fellow, was a prominent western Nebraska candi date. His entrance into the race would have made the first real test of ex soldier solidarity. As past president of the state legion, he would naturally be expected to receive the ex-soldier support. So far, in other places over the state, the ex-soldiers haven't voted together worth mentioning, and Mr. Simmon would have furnished an in dication of what might be expected. In a sense, it's regrettable that he won't get a chance to definitely put the ex-soldiers to a test. Uncle Mose, however, has saved the republican party of the Big Sixth dis trict one of the greatest wrangles in its history. The support was so divid ed among the various aspirants that the only thing on earth that would re store complete harmony was the re- leit that the law is sacred and must be obeyed. If Nevada is wise, its citizens will retire its small bore at- orney general, and this course should !e followed whenever a public prose cutor puts forth efforts commensurate with the publicity he receives. dismissed this servant after twenty- seven years of faithful service, and fourteen others with her. So far, the story isn't new. Schools outgrow certain teachers, sometime, and other occasions, school boards out grow schools, urn of Uncle Mose to the lists. Let's hope that his health will return to him with the victory. There'll be some sore spots, undoubtedly. Two or three the aspirants to fill Uncle Mose's shoes have rather stepped upon the toes of party leaders, and there may be life long grudges result, but the party will be saved for the time leing, at least, ind in another two years, when Uncle Mose will really resign and mean it, mayle everything can be patched up. However, the next time Uncle Mose withdraws, the other aspirants in his district ought to make him swear to it before a notary and on a stack of Bibles a foot high. PEOPLE ARE FUNNY Feople are funny folks, for a fact. Just common, ordinary citizens, most of whom go along in their individual ruts until something happens to jar them out of their self-complacency. The jars that come are good for ihem the only trouble being that they don't get enough of them to keeep them thoroughly awake. Thus we read a lengthy dispatch from Elgin, 111., telling of the suicide of a teacher. Mary E. Long was her name. She was a spinster who had erved in the Elfcin schools for twenty- seven long years. , J hen the school The explanation of the Nebraska delegation in congress of its vote ag-in.-t the federal roads appropria tion on the much discussed litty-fifty plan, will go far with any reasonable Ntl'ia-ka tax-payer. The fifty-fifty plan a somewhat coercive one is in general disrepute leeause national propaganda has found in it a way to iai-e stBte taxation regardless of lo- j cal conditions. Thus the federal road I impropriation as a government activi ty, conumoneo on ine siaie raising an equal fund, has already been followed by a doubtful "maternity aid" act, on the same fifty-fifty basis; and this is an activity decidedly less justifiable in this state than it is for the crowded conditions of eastern cities. But, Ne braska must, by means of a national revenue system, pay its portion even though it does not need this additional bureau or commission and should de cline to produce its "fifty" (per cent). For that reason the fifty-fifty plan has become unpopular as a general principle. In addition to this Congress manAndrews was rot far off the track of the most important issue of the day when he declares he voted against the additional road appropriation for this year because more money is st'Il available from last year's appropria tion than many of the states and counties can exhaust throughout the current year. People want good raods; that they mign eveit themselves to brightening. "We'll be thcie." the utmost. A delegation was sent "Oh, lovely!" ejaculated the ladv, to some of the smnller towns to ;.et , "and ju.-t how are you going al out them in line and enlist their co-opera- it?" tion. "Well," replied Hizzoner. removing; In one of the most isolated, a woman! ms fpet irom the ti.ble. "We reckon member of the committee located the10 drink all the red-eye there is left mayor peacefully engaged in playing; 'n this burg and then go out and shoot soiitare in the back room of the vil- 11 UP ,MM an proper. American tr iage seak-easy. "You have heard about our state clean-up week?'' she asked as an ap proach. "Sure," said the mayor, his eye gion Weekly. At times we wi.-h the construction of Eve had taken some of the boner out of man's head instead of a rib. fn:n-,lvfhool bnrd do h.ivp a lot oflbut they want a little more to say 1 . i I ...U . ' II (H I I IIM II ill u irii. power, don t thev, when you come to : . : : , . ,..'.,, , , , legislature wants to tnitiK 01 it; tooK a nanu. ine oouru siii'h funds let without strings. it If the national appropriate for do so, hereafter, SAFETY SLOGANS (Spokane Spokesman-Review) One good result of the safety cam paigns that are constantly under way to reduce the casuality Pst in trans it isn't plain just which portation and industry is tnat their ex- was the case at r,igin Miss Long was fired. At any rate, And being no hovtions, compressed into short easilv remembered sloeans, are LOOK LIKE NEW! and re- in many eae get in ;wise discouraged and dis- the habit of obeying them. "Stop 'ook , the Elgin teacher simply ""' ten," the oldest of them nil. is nut l in ine n;uion;ti vnrw i irv. luvitpd until Tnnnla tt-tinlf i. i ! : - --, onger so young as sne once was, and habitually and lis UNCLE MOSE AGAIN And so Uncle Mose hus reconsidered again, and will make the race for congress. There were a few days there when the veteran congressman from the Big Sixth had even his best friends believing he meant it, but the demand from party managers, who fear the worst this year anyway, would have won submission from a rock. Mr. KWwid hag never turned a deaf ear to the call of his party, and after twenty years in congress is not like ly to begin now. Uncle More is needed thfe year. The prospects for a republican victory are none too bright in Nebraska or in the nation. Ami Uncle Mose is a sure thing candidate. In all his campaigns, he has continued to roll up big majori ties when other republican candidates went down to defeat or came through by the thickness of the cuticle on their molars. The administration needs what comfort it will get when the re turns from the congressioaal election come in, and although a Nebraska victory as the election of one from cne of the pivotal states would be, still it's a great comfort. Although Broken in health, .Mr. Kinkaul can- Hot refuse to make, if need be, the last sacrifice. In his case the sac mice win oe accepting again an office that has grown to be a bur den. What's more, think of the strife that he will tave the party. The minute his first announcement of with drawa! came out, there was a sound of murmurs of candidates in the brashes, beating the tomtoms and rallying their supporters. Secretary of State A ins berry was the first to file. He was the first to know of the withdrawal and he got in under the wire several hours ahead of any other candidate. Darius seemd to thinlc this an im portant point, for in his wires over lieing likewi heartened decided that her life was a failure and that it was time to end it all. So she lid it, and the manner of her going isn't mentioned. But heavens, what a furore it creat ed. News of the suicide spread like wildfire. A lot of her old pupils got together and the first thing they knew, others had joined them. The entire city whs up in arms at the ihought. And so they organized into a mob and went to call on the school board. The board was meeting in secret session. What right has a school board, trans acting public business at public ex pense, to hold secret sessions. The mob stormed outside and there was talk of tar and feathers and other language such as mobs use. Finally, someone pushed his way into the secret session just in time to see the last member of the board making his getaway. . And so, to quiet the mob, the order firing the other fourteen teachers was rescinded. And the Elgin public will forget all about it in a few w-eks. It may be once in a while someone will bring up the subject, and every mem ber of that mob will feel self-righteous and have a ciuiet little glow of pride as he recalls his part in breaking up the school ring. But the biggest lesson of the whole thing will be lost. And that is, that not one citizen out of ten thinks of the teachers unless something out of the ordinary happens. A teacher has charge of a child more hours a day than its own parents; the teacher is the greatest force in making or break ing youth of either sex, but the parents aren't interested. Not one in a dozen ever thinks of inviting a teacher into his home, to make her life pleasant or to discover what sort of a trainer his child has. Not one citizen in fifty ever wonders whether the teachers in his children's schools ere getting enough salary to live decently, to say nothing of enjoying simple pleasures. If the Elgin public, which now feels so self-righteous, had interested it self in the school five or ten years ago, mnvbe Miss Lore might have received salary r.oug.h ?o ti.at to be without a job wouldn't have discour aged her to the point of suicide. May be, if some of her old pupils had taken an interest in her after she had fin ished her work with them, she might not have felt that her life was a fail ure. Who knows? And who, in a month from now, will care ? Of course, there are teachers who have been outgrown, and who have failed to keep pace with the times. Some school boards know that it is; next to impossible to get rid of them. Some day there will be a pension sys tem for teachers, with a provision for retirement when a teacher is unable to smile and has lost all her dreams, her youth, her ambitions and her ideals the things that gauge her value as an instructor for growing youth. School boards are not always to blame. But the public is, unless it insists on fair treatment for its teachers, and not spend all its anxiety worrying about expenses. ' LEGAL HORSEPLAY After considerably more than a year of legal horseplay, the supreme court of Nevada has handed down a decision that puts the finishing touches to the attempt of Attorney General Fowler of that state to achieve the limelight by attacking the legality of the mar riage of Mary Pickford to Douglas Fairbanks. Motion picture fans have long since forgotten about the affair if, indeed, it ever worried them, and now the lawyers for the defendants will collect a fat fee and the Nevada attorney general will go back to hi books. Originally, it will be remembered our Mary was granted a divorce from Owen Moore at Minden, Nevada, on March 20, 1920. Two weeks later she married Douglas Fairbanks. Both of them were screen idols, and both were very much in love and despite the general belief that marriage in the studios is a passing fad, seem to give every indication that they intend to remain in love. Attorney General Fowler promptly hopped onto the front page of all the newspapers by asking for the dissolution of the de cree on the ground that Mary had not lived in the state a iufTicient length of time. The district court granting the decree was asked to review its decision and reverse itself, but held that the action had been regular in every way and that the decree should stand. The attorney general then ap pealed to the state supreme court, charging that the divorce waS obtained through fraud and collusion. Mr. Fowler did his best to carry his point, but was overruled. And it's a good thing. In Nevada, of all states, there are hundreds of cases similar to the Pickford-Fair-banks affair, ami had it not been for the prominence of the parties, the at torney general would have continued to tiecorate his office chair in silence. He saw an opportunity to become na tionally known, and without thought of the effect of his action on the par ties concerned, and with an eye only to the main chance, did his best to play hades generally. He succeeded only in making a monumental donkey of himself. So, also, will be the result in Cali fornia, which is making things hot for Rudolph Valentino, another movie star, Had Rudolph been a section hand, like so many of his compatriots, the le gal talent that is now being freely given in an effort to cause him trouble couldn't have been induced to turn a wheel to convict him. As a matter of fact, with the right or wrong of liberal divorce laws out of the question, there is no real reason why couples who have taken the step separating should be held from achiev ing happiness for six months. There is not a state in the count rv where the six months provision is not evaded. !t t1ie ?1 klnt,1,.0f people to make c. ii n,JL u w .I. vJ :orld. thl is certainly well o is Vatety lust. I he slogans are re membered long after the campaigns are forgotten. This spring brings it safety cam paigns, (lirected lartrely against the growing list of deaths and injuries in riitomobile accidents. Two classes i must he reached the auto oriver and the pedestrian. Eternal vigilance on the part of both classes is here the price of safety. N we have tor the pedestrian these mottos: "Cross the street at the corner, iook heiore you cross, don t be a jaywalker, and for the driver, "drive carefully," "always give the hand signals, test your brakes.' "give the pedestrian a chance," "watch the car ahead, "slow down at cross ings" and "obey the law." SPOTLESS TOWN The state of Arizona was planning a clean-up week and the board of health was anxious that all communi ties should be apprised of the fact so CLEANED BLOCKED Retrimmed Straw Hats will soon be ripe and ready to pick. Is Yours Ready? We make the old ones look like new. KEEP-U-NEAT CLEANERS Phone 133 207 Box Butte :nH,tmiiinn!i;:: Still, these visiting celebrities must feel a liHle surprised when they get to America and learn how great they are. Scatter-wits don't need a course in memory training to keep track of the dates when the team will play at home. tflr So They May Live Happily MAN, truly, is careless, almost selfish, if he fails to provide for the future happiness of his loved ones in the event sickness, accident, unemployment or death overtakes him. The devoted, indulgent father and husband takes pride in seeing his family contented during his lifetime and makes provisions for their future should exigencies in tervene. Just a small allotment of one's regular income will make things safe and secure for those whom he supports. Don't neglect it don't put it off until tomorrow for to morrow may be too late. We believe you will be inter ested in our plan. 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