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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 29, 1917)
STOCKMEN'S EDITION OF J Leading Newspaper of Western Nebraska The Alliance Herald READ BY EVERY MEMBER NEBRASKA STOCK GROWERS ASSOCIATION ALL THE NEWS OP ALLIANCE AND WESTERN NEBRASKA OFFICIAL ORGAN NEBRASKA VOLUNTEER FIREMEN'S ASSOCIATION IT LEACHES HEADQUARTERS FOR 16.000 FIREMEN 16 Pages 2 i : 1 1 i VOLUME XXIV ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, MARCH 29, 1911 $30,000 FOR THE 73HD. DISTRICT RMinmted Sum- Counties Will Re ceive under Nebm-ska and Fed eral Aid Good ltoad Act PAID OVER PIVB-YRAR Fi.ionn Mate Would Receive During Five Yean f 1,000,000 Must Ap propriate Equal Sum Box Butte county will receive ap proximately 110,000 and Sheridan eounty will receive approximately 920,000 as their respective shares of the apportionment of the state aid road fund and the money apportion ed to the state from the federal gov ernment under the federal aid road act of July 11, 1916, if the bill is passed by the Nebraska legislature. The house passed the bill lust week ey a big majority and Is now in the hands of the senate. Under the federal act Nebraska Is to receive during the coming nve year period the sum of one million six hundred one thousand, five hun dred sixty-two dollars and fifteen cents ($1,601,562.15), upon condi-; tion of appropriatlnr an equal amount for the same kind of work. The federal appropriation Is to lM distributed among the counties, onr third Ifl the ratio which thf urea of each county boars to the total area of the state, one-third in the ratio which the mileage of rural delivery and star routes In SOCfa county bears to the total mileage of rural deliv ery and star routes In the state, and one-third in the ratio. which the pop ulation of each BOUnty bears to the total population of the state. Interest In this subject has been so Intense that C. A. Sorenson of the Nebraska legislature reference bur eau has compiled an approximately correct statement of the amounts coming to each county in the state in case appropriation Is maue by this legislature to comply with the terms of the federal act. This statement was placed upon a large scale map and exhibited in representative hall, where In was a constant object of in terest since its preparation by both advocates and opponents of the bill. No figures were available at Wash ington showing the mileage of rural mail routes and star routes In each county in Nebraska, so Mr. Sorenson made an approximate computation from postal route maps, which is said to be nearly correct, but It was found impossible to secure data on the mileage of star routes, making it necessary to base the tentative dis tribution on the estimated mileage of rural routes. The table of tenta tive distribution under house roll 722 will be approximately as shown below insofar as it concerns the counties listed. Aint. on Amt. on Counties basis of basis of Area Population Arthur $5,625.00 I 810.00 Banner 5,167.50 600.00 Box Butte 6,952.50 2,895.00 Cheyenne 8,325.00 2,667.50 Deuel 3,052.50 1,027.50 Garden . .' 11.505.00 1.625.50 Grant 5,062.60 757.50 Keith 6,915.00 , 1.776.00 Kimball 6.667.50 1.085.00 McPherson 6,007.60 607.60 Morrill 9,862.50 ( 2,600.00 Scotts Bluff 5,025.00 5,430.00 Sheridan 17,235.00 ,350.00 Amt. on basis of Rural Routes $ 489.60 489.60 489.90 4,893.30 Total 16.435.00 5,767.50 0,847.50 11,482.10 4,080.00 13,647.10 C.S20.00 8,690.00 7,762.50 6.615.00 12.952.40 15,348.30 UO.5H5.00 COUNTY ATTORNEYS . GIVEN INCREASE Hox Hun. Official's Salary Roosted frmn MOO to gl.OOO ler Year by Senate Kill The salary of the county attorney f Box Butte county Is to be raised from $800 per- year lo $1,900 per year, under a proposed bill. Senate File 129, by Mattes and Neal, which passed to third reading in the state senate March 23. The bill raises the salary of all county attorneys from counties of 5,000 population to counties of 140, 000. It is not changed from $4,000 in Douglas county. The county at torney of Lancaster county will get $3,000 instead of 12,500. Rather than see the county attor ney of Gage, his district, get an in crease from $1,800 to $2,300, Senat or McMullen had passed an amend' men! limiting the stipend in that county to $2,000. He said the county attorney was allowed to take private practice. These pre the other raises: In counties of 6,000 to 12,000 in population, $800 to $1,000. In counties of 12,000 to 16,000 in population, $"o to 1,500. In counties of 16.000 to 10,000 III Mj population. 1,100 to $1,400. In counties of 11,000 to tO, I in population. $1,200 to $1,600. In counties of 20.000 to 24. into in population, $1,300 to 1.000. In counties of 24.000 to 29,000 in population. $1,400 to $1,000. In counties of 29.000 to tS.000 in population. $1,800 to $2,000. In counties of SS.000 o 10.000 In population. $1,100 to 2.500. In Bounties of M.O00 to ii".,ooo in population. $2,000 io $2,750. In eeuoUea of 16,000 io T6.000 In population. :.".00 to $3,000. In counties ot 100,000 to 140,000 in population, $3,000 to 1,600. Douglas eoontjr, over 140,000. re mains the same. MARTI O'TtHM.E, IHM.pnl T, k.ns OMAHA l OVltai l Marty O'Toole, famous spit ball hurler who once gained nation-wide prominence through nil sale to the Pittsburgh club tor $tl,000, has come to leiun- and after ftolldol ut for some weeks has signed an (una ha contract. . O'Toole s contract is conditional. The terms en rather large for th. Western Hague, but OTool 1 ( pit.h 210 Inning! "and win fifteen games to collect. The reason for IBS ..,litl..ii!il contract is that O'Toole had bad knee lat year which hin dered iii.- pitching. If the knee does not bother him this year it is believed Marty will easily win the required number of games, BuT if he doesn't vin at let at fifteen gsmei Marty would be too expi OSlVl a man for a Western league club to carry Thus the contract. CROP ACREAGE LARGEST IN HISTORY OF STATE Yield Will Depend largely ukii Weather t onditions Exect Heavy Potato Planting The Attitude of Newspapers and Magazines Towards Prohibition Paper Read Before the All-Ray Meeting of the AManes W ". T. I'., Mnrcfa 22, 1I7 After the Rending l the Paper, Publi cation of It Was Requested l tiuinhnoiiN VOia of the t'nion Color printing done by expel printers attracts attention and bring prompt result. Try The Herald job department ,or 'our noxt l() PUone 3 40 Nebraska's crop acreage this year will be the largest In the state's his tory is the statement made by ob servers. Whether Nebraska's 1917 crop yield will be the greatest in its history will depend 011 weather con ditions, but at least an effort will be made by the tillers of the soil to raise a bumper crop. The high cost of living, with the consequent high prices paid for farm produce, is in part responsible for the increased acreage. Only a normal wheal crop is ex pected at best in this state this year. The wheat acreage would have been much larger than in 1916 if it had not been for poor conditions at plant ing time As it is. just about a nor mal wheat acreage, about the same as 111 1016, was planted this season. The weather was dry last fall. The wheal came up, but it was not a strong stand. It entered the winter in poor condition, and the winter proved to be the driest winter in many years. Farmers now say that thf wheat is not strong and will re qtllre the most favorable conditions from now OB to make even a normal crop. The recent "tapioca'' sleet storm, coating the ground like snow, and extending over practically all the Ne break! wheat region, was a bleSSlM to the wheat raisers. It furnished some DlUCh-needed moisture and also served to protect the wheat from what the farmers have greatly feared- a dry March with high winds, which would have ruined the pros pects of the wheat c rop. The corn acreage m the slate this year will be greater than last year When- wheal has been winter-killed th ' farmers will plow it up and plant l lie fields to corn. The high prices brought by garden produce and by such staples as beans will mean an iu reased acreage for these also. Included la this list is very likely to be the potato. The Into pi.ces now paid for potatoes are expected to mean an Increase In the Nebraska yield next fall. One 01 he effects oj the high cost of liv ing which will be seen 111 cities and towns all ov.r the State Will be In creased gardens, II the larger elt i j and towns ever) vacant lot stand a pood c ha nee of being used tor gar den purposes, and many of the back portion! of residence lois which hav heretofore stood idle iil this year be turned into food producers. The Increased yield from this sodret alone, over the enure statt . win amount to coast dersbte OOI I MHI ll'.'A.W PLANS MAM T At II UK MMt lit I H Oolu l1"- Kofcr. Pinal decision to convert the Columbus Brewll Cora pan) into an establishment for the manufacture of "near beer" wac reached when Qeorge- fie labour, sec. rotary of the eompeny, returned from an investigation trip in the east. The attitude of newspapers and magazines toward prohibition Is, as a whole, becoming more favorable as the question Is increasingly being ag itated and prohibition territory en larged. Newspapers and magazines are conducted much on the principle of mercantile establishments, in that they sell their customers what they want. Subscribers are the custom ers upon which periodical publica tions are primarily dependent, be cause they furnish the circulation up on which they depend to secure ad vertising. Temperance people who act con sistently and favor with their sub scriptions the periodicals that are conducted on temperance principles, assist them more than merely the amount of the money paid on sub scription It is probable that the in come derived from advertising pat ronage amounts on an average to more than double that derived from subscriptions. Hence, the dollar paid on subscription to the average paper practically amounts, directly or Indirectly, to several dollars. Magazines, as a rule, have been in advance of the large daily newspa pers in adopting a policy for tem perance and prohibition, due princi pally to having a class of readers who are more favorable to temper ance legislation than are the readers of dallies, as a whole. Very few of the leading magazines now accept liquor advertising, while many of them editorially espouse the cause of prohibition. That temperance sentiment In rur al communities Is usually stronger than In the larger cities is reflected In the fact that not one of the many first-class farm papers published In this country accepts liquor advertis ing, and most of them In editorials plainly and emphatically endorse the annihilation by law of the traffic in ititoxicating beverages. While the large dally papers have adopted a strict temperance policy more slowly than the rural papers, the magazines and the farm papers, It is a noteworthy and encouraging fact (hat recently a number of the leading daily newspapers of the Unit ed States have thrown out all liquor advertisements and have fallen into line, editorially, with the wonderful temperance ami prohibition move ment that is sweeping over the na tion. One-fourth of all the daily newspapers in the United States now refuse to take liquor advertisements Many instances could be cited but a few will 'suffice: Pa ion Morning Journal Here Is a letter Issued by E. G. Hurkham, president of the company publishing the Dayton (Ohio) Morn ing Journal and the Dayton Evening Herald, directing the general man ager of the company to discontinue liquor advertisement! In these pub lications: My dear Mr. McDonald: I have come to the conclusion that liquor advertisements have no place In our publications, standing as we do for the finest public service and progress in all things. This class of adver tising is out of harmony with the modem and fearless newspaper and is continual cause of protest and objection from- thousands of our readers Therefore kindly issue the necessary orders for the discontinu ance ol HquOr advertising to take ef fect today. Sincerely yours, 1: O. BURKHAM Christian Helenas Monitor The Christian Science Monitor, published at Boston, is one of the most up-to-date daily papers any where. It has long espoused the dry cause. In an issue of recent date, that journal gave i splendid answer to the contention of the liquor Inter ests that prohibition does not prohib it ll"M,rters Gel Evidence Toledo, Ohio, newspaper lieu found a soeial club in that city where liquors were being sold on Sunday The reporters joined the club and nave it a write-up, telling the loca tion anil plan of membership. The Toledo authorities with all this in formation say they cannot appre hend similar clubs because the city is too poor to t;et the evidence. It cost the two reporters 80 cents to tfet the evidence. If Toledo would solar up and get rid of her saloons, which are ke p ing tin' city poor, she might have enough money lo spare at least SO , mis to the Prosecuting Attorney With Which lo gain evidence of tins kind. ililable Services h lndlanaMIis Paper Tie- raloahte services rendered by Ike tndlanapoiii Daily Times and The Daily News of that city should not be overlooked in giving credit to Ihe factors which have brought kkoul (he wonderful and rapid Irldas that have bean taken in the . :. of temperance and prohibition mi the Rooster state About two l ago fhe 'limes purged its col- iimns from liquor advertising, and a rear late The News did likewise. Using no longer under financial ob ligation to the liquor interests, both pap 'is Wei'i free to speak out on the Iry aide. The Times vigorously ad vocated the prohibitum issue, and The News turned the light of pub licity on the doings of the liquor lobby. There are still a number of metro politan daily newspapers, published in the large cities where the liquor interests dominate politics and to some extent business, that are yet notoriously subservient to those In terests. The following editorial from a local paper, The Alliance Herald of March 15, gives an illus tration of one: Editorial Wall Availed Nothing Out from Cincinnati boor.o rid den, booze controlled, booze Boaked, booze befuddled came a wall against the enactment of a federal law that would prohibit newspapers containing liquor advertisements from being circulated thru the Unit ed states malls In dry states. The wall was an address by the editor of ihe Cincinnati Enquirer before the annual meeting of the Associated Ohio Dailies It preceded the enact ment of the law but did not prevent It. It takes a long while for some re actionary editors to learn that the world really moves and that they can't prevent It by making a fuas about It. About one more clip and Ohio will go dry, and then poor, old "Sin-sln-naughty" may have to clean up and be decent. And the editors? They may as well organize a Bob squad now and begin conBoling one another without further delay. n. ma I Periodical Society Edgar T. Crlswell, executive man ager of the National Periodical So ciety, representing the magazines of this country, was Been In New York recently by a representative of the American Issue in regard to the Bankhcad bill, which, if it becomes a law, will prohibit the circulation, in wet states as well sb dry, of pa pers containing liquor advertise ments. Mr. Crlswell said the mem bers wanted no liquor advertising and would not lift a finger to defeat such a measure; said, Indeed, that he hoped it would pass. T. M. Gll more, In Honfort's Circular, Febru ary 15, 1917. Mr. Ollmoro tearfully chronicles this Interview with Mr. Crlswell. Hut surely this was not the first in timation the editor of Bonfort's has had that the majority of the reputa ble magazines of the country have barred liquor ads! They didn't wait for federal action. They recognized public sentiment; knew the liquor ads were offensive to the taste of I their readers and cvut them out of t heir own accord. The Anti-Liquor Advertising law recently passed by Congress does not prohibit the" circulation of such pap ers in territory in which the liquor traffic is licensed, but covers a large part of the United States by forbid ding it in dry territory as follows: Senate Amendment No. 34. Sec. 5. That no letter, postcard, circular, newspaper pamphlet or pub lication of any kind containing any advertising of spirituous, vinous, malted, fenmented or other intoxi cating liquors of any kind, or con taining a solicitation of an order or orders for said liquors, or any of hem, shall be deposited In or carried by the mails of the United States, or be delivered by any postmaster or let ter carrier, when addressed or di rected to any persons, firm, corpora tion, or association, or other addres see, at any place or point in any state or ten tory of the United States at whieh I is by the law In force in the state or territory at that time unlaw ful to advertise or solicit ordori for such liquors, or any of them, re spectively. If the publisher o! any newspap er or other publication or the agent jof such publisher, or if any dealer tin such liquors or his agent, shall 'knowingly deposit or cause to be de J posited, or shall knowingly send or cause to be sent, anything to be con ; veyed or delivered by mail in viola :tion of the provision! Ol thll section, or shall knowingly deliver or caUM jto be deliveretl b mail anything hreOin forbidden tO be tarried b.' I mail, shall be fined not more than J 11.000 or imprisoned not more than I mi months or both, ami for any sub sequent offense shall he Imprisoned ! not more than one year. Any per sons violating any provision ol thil j section may be tro d and punished either In the district In which the un lawful matter or publication was i mailed or to which it was carried by I ntatl or delivery, eceovdlni U ih 1; rection thereon, or in which it was canned to be deliv. d by mail to the (person to which it wai lYridoual- I .-.Hid POA II Many mer e Instances could be men tloned ahOWleg the attitude of lead ing periodica I publications Inwards the question of temperance and pro hi bit Ion. Occasionally, a p iiodieai that go( counter to tin pr ent trend of public opinion rec ivea a Calling Iowa that is well de;. rv. t n il lustration of this is found in the fol lowing : Th. Medical Times, a mom: . journal published III New York. In Us January issue contained an attl eS headed, 'The Putillt) of I'lohi- biUen." The article declares that I - V.'bitiun can never be enforced, us it is Impossible for any goreromi at to police all homes anil that the mak- NUMNKtt 17 Ing of Intoxicants Is a simple matter,! requiring no more Intelligence than ' bread making. 'The Medical Times tefers to those who oppose the liquor traffic B "Impatient simpletons and ambitious reformers." The pegs of the Medical Times In which appears the article Is being sent all over IhS country, possibly at the Instigation and expense of the liquor Interests. When Dr Howard Scllnrda, of Ports mouth, Ohio, received 11 copy of the Medical 'Times containing the anti prohibition article, he wrote that journal as followa: Your reprint of a page of the Med ical Times of January, 1917, receiv ed. Your article Is an Insult to the medical profession, unless you take us for a set of blockheads. In which case you might bo excused for Ignor ance. If your editors were actively engaged behind the bar, one could excuse you for trying to put over sue hstuff, but for two men posing as editors of a medical magazine, one with A. B., M. D. behind his name and the other with M. I). tacked on to his, trying to hand physicians such an argument, you must think we are all feeble-minded. Talk about prostituting the profession! 1 wish you gentlemen could see your selves as other physicians who read your article will see you, 1 am tru ly sorry for you both and aorry for the profession to which you claim to belong. Respectfully, HOWARD SELLARDS OUR UNC1E SAMUEL WANTS MORE MEN Uoverninent Needs MeclianicR and llelHT!- No Examination Apply at Post Office The United States Government needs mechanics and helpers. No educational examination Is required, but applicants will be rated upon their experience and physical ability. W. W. Hicks, secretary of the local civil service board, has a number of applications nt tho post office. Applications should at once apply for application to tho Board of Ex aminers at the Ordnance Establish ment or Labor Board at the Navy Yard, at which employment 1b desir ed. Applications may also be made to the Civil Service Commission, Washington. D. C. the secretary of the Civil Service Board, Postofflce, Boston, Mass., Philadelphia, Pa., At lanta, Ga., Cincinnati, Ohio, Chicago, III.. St. Paul. Minn.. Seattle, Wash.. San Francisco, Calif.. Customhouse, New Orleans, La., Old Customhouse, St. Louis, Mo. Appllcatlo.,8 should be properly executed. Including the medical Certificate, and filed with the Board of Examiners at the Ordnance Establishment or Lnbor Board at the Navy Yard at which employment is desired. HELP FARMERS OF NEBRASKA County Agent of Ne?rnslin Are Do. ing a Ills: Work orer Stale Result Now Evident STATE LEADER VISITS ALLIANCK Ten Expert Am Now at Work in as Many Oountie -Other Coun ties Want I v 1 m it-. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCES CHARGES hVrlsfrs to Ocratloii and Mainten ance Charges for North Platte Project In Nebraska Notice has been received from De partment of the Interior at Washing ton, under date of March 16. relative to the operation and maintenance charges for the North Platte Project in Nebraska and Wyoming The no tice is signed by the first assistant secretary, Alexander T. Vogelsang. The notice reads: "in pursuance of Section I :f (he reclamation act of June 17. 19021 SI Stat. 388) and acts nmcnd:uory thereof and supplementary thereto and particularly of the reclamation extension SCt Of August 1... 19H (tl Slat. ii86) announcement is hereby made that the annual operation and maintenance charges for ihe Irriga tion season of 1917 and Iheieaft if until further notice, ag.unv. : II lands of the North Platte Project, Nebraska-Wyoming, under public notice, shall bi as follows A minimum charge of $1 per Irrigable acre wheth 1 water is used thereon or not; "T.c pet aoVe foot tor all Water delivered prior to and including June 30: and 7 rc per acre foot for all wr.ter deliv ered after June ?,; the mi :iiiiuiii harge of 1 to be appli d in payment f the (barges under the ivcr 1 foot rates All operation and mainten ance charges pUI be due and payable n March 1 of each year for the pre ceding irrigation ana SOU." K4II.KOAPS M I fO PKOTHOT RR1DUKM t o operating with tie- government, railroad official! are taking extra incautious to eliminate the possi bility of destruction to their propcr- les. Thio co-operation applies par- leularly to the railroads that are of as trunk lire designation and might , tiled upon quickly to Ireul troop net munitions in the t nt the t trained relations with tjeraauy hould assumi serious proportions All the lines operating to the west .ml moat of those operating to the . asi have placed guards at eith.-r nil of each bridge on the numerou ines. Tin se guards patrol Um nidges night and day and all pei ons except company employes aie pt off the structures. Th- precaution has rone farther han Ike bridges and scattered al! brooch the switch yards in cities pecielly deputlaed men are employ ed guarding switches and crossing WheM there is likely to be consider able congestion County agents gfa making rural Nebraska a better place In which to live: "To Increase tho net Income of the farm without impnrlng tho fer tility of the Boll, and to establish a better rural life through co-operative effort with farmers" that Is the way A. E. Anderson, state lead er of county agricultural agents In Nebraska, summarizes the field that county ageuta of this atate are lock ing to nil. Mr. Anderson waa an Alliance visitor laat week. He was In attendance at the conference of county agents of western Nebraska held here last week and also at the nieetir.es and banquet of the potato growera held here. Making rurnl Nebraska a better place In which to live, economically and Boclally-v-thla ifl the cornerBtone of the Nebraska county agent pro gram. And this program, pushed by county agent and farmer In joint effort, la paying dividends In the coin of better country life and In a widen ing stream of profit for the fanners' pockets. At present Nebraska has ten per sons who are "helping farmers help themselves" ten agricultural agents residing in as many counties, working with and for farmers, by demonstrating better mcthoda of farm practice, by assisting in the organisation of farm und farming community so as to secure maximum profits, and by stimulating better rural life. Bridging the chasm between farm er and experiment station: This form of extension work had its birth in the realisation that ordinary forms of extension work do not bring farmer and experiment station close enough together that available agricultur al Information does not "get across" as fully as it might thru another channel. Printed page of bulletin and of farm paper, short courses and Institutes, etc., desirable as they are, have not gone the whole way. Personal contact thai bridges the chasm between farmer and experi mentalist is furnished by the county agricultural agent, who is at once the employe of the farmers of the county and a representative of the Official sourcea of information In the United Slates department of agricul ture and in the experiment station. This dream of forming a closer re lattonehip between the farm and the . Kperinu nl station took shape in the establishment of the eo operative re lation now existing between the Pulled States department of agricul ture, the agricultural extension SMT ice of the university, and local coun ty farmers' associations, known as farm bureaus Under thil arrange ment, county agent work is support ed by funds fro In the I'nit..! States department of agriculture, by appro priation' from the Smith Lever fund administered by the tfnJverslty of Nobtnaka agricultural extension .ervice. by local contributions of funds from county farm bureaus, and in some cases by fundu voted by county commissioners. Work is su pervised by the county sgeat leader, who it' employed Jointly by the Unit ed States department of agriculture, by the state college of agriculture and by the county farm bureaus hav ing lOCnl charge. In the early days of the work mem bora of the bureaus paid an annual fee of fij members now pay general fees of SO n-nts to 1 annually Six county boards now cotitr'buio to th" IVJiporl of the work and there is prospect that two more win follow i'ir man phi this rear. Ten t OUat) Agents Nebraska now has ten county ag ricultural agents: F. M. Seidell liux Unite county. K. Young. Dakota county: Thomas. Dawes cnuniy; L. B. Hist, Gage county; H. E. Holland, Kimball county: A. O. Ueorgc. Mad ison county C. B. Gunnels. Be ward county: A C. North. Sheridan coun ty; It. 11 Camp. Thurston county, and Fred I.. Taylor, district leader of eeUttty agents Ten other coun ties have made application for funds to assist In employing county agents This number does not include the woman eonnty egent employed by Seward county November 1. Miss Es ther Warner. "Helping farmers help them selves" la the keynote of county agent work In this state. ' The his tOT) nt eonnty agent work In every it shows no county agent project cm be curried on successfully with out the co-op ration of th.- farmers ihemtelves.' 'ays Mr. Anderson. "We place the work In the hands of local persons and try to make them f 1 responsibility Tor it It Is their work -we are seeking only to serve thm "Thret alms govern cou ity agent work (1) To Increase p 'oduction hv the use of better met) ads; (2) to increase financial returi oy assist- (Contluued oil page 5. it scctiou)