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WEEK EN0IN6 SAT.
RECRUITING WEEK
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Ing district, whirli comprises all of
Nebraska and the western half of
Iowa, Willi ii population of 2. 405.000.
ii 4.810 Dp to and including .In no
15, 4,116 hnvo hoon enlisted for the
regular army from thin district. The
Alliance recruiting station la In thia
dlatrlrt and supplied between 100
and 200 of (his number The quota
for thia diatrift hut not boon rt-a li
ed, and as a reault ami in pursuant
to the proelaamt Ion of the president
designating this week as a week for
enlistment In the regular army. May
or W. E. Ilotisey nnd the Alliance
Commercial Club have tattled procla
mations along the same line, hopliiK
to ntlmulate recruiting. The total
numhei needed on June 151 was
about 600.
It Is stated that unless the full
quota ia received by the last of the
week, the number lacking will be
added to the total to be drafted in
this district.
Mayor's Proclamation
Mayor Housey has Issued the fol
lowing proclamation:
"Pursuant to the proclamation of
the president culling upon the coun
try to All the ranks of the regular
army to its legal standing and desig
nating the week of June 23 to Juno
390 as a special enliHtment week In
the regular army, and
"Whereas, this is one of the para
mount duties of the country at this
time, I. therefore, call upon and urge
all of the proper age, between 18
and 40. to enlist in the federal army
and fulfill that portion of our pat
riotic program. I likewise urge
that every patriotic citizen and or
ganisation exert their utmost Influ
ence to aid In the raising of the 70,
000 volunteers needed to fill the
ranks of the federal army."'
Club Resolution
The following resolutions were 1b
aued from the office of the Alliance
Commercial Club:
"Whereas, the president of the
United States and the secretary of
war realize the need of filling the
ranks of the regular army to full
war strength, and
"Whereas, that ia one of the first
duties to be carried out In the proper
conduct of war, and
" Whereas, the president has des
ignated the week of June 23 to June
30 as enlistment week In the federal
army, and
"Whereas, 70,000 volunteers are
needed for that particular branch of
service which comes foremost In our
national defense, therefore,
"De It resolved, by the Alliance
Commercial Club that they do heart
ily endorse thiB movement and do
hereby call upon all Individuals from
the ages of 18 to 4 0 to enlist in the
i' .Hi;. i army and likewise urge that
all einplooes of labor accord with
the suggestion of giving preference
after lh war to the men who enlist,
in taking on new help and further
that every loyal citizen do every
thing within his power to further re
cruittiig in the regular arm "
The following statement by the
secretary of war has been reci It fed
at the Alliance recruiting station
"The finally, engineers, coast ar
tillery, signal corps and quartermas
ter corps of (he regular army have
already been brought to war
strength.
"45.000 recruits are needed at
om e It) complete the new regiments
of Infantry and held artllN i
16,000 additional recruits are de
sired at the earliest practicable date
If) till vacancies in order that the war
strength of 300,000 men may be
maintained
"Facilities are In readiness for
placing these 70,000 men under
proper training.
"Any ilelay in obtaining this num
ber will necessarily cause the loss of
invaluable time.
"It is the earnest desire of the War
department that 70,000 single men
between the ages of 18 and 4 0. who
have no dependent s and who are not
engaged In professions, businesses,
or trades vitally necessary to the
proserin ion of the war. to be enlist
ed In the regular army before the
30lh of June. 1917."
REPUBLICANS DIGGING
THEIR PARTY GRAVE
Lending Western Republican News
papei 4'alN Attention to Fate
Which Faces Old Party
The Rocky Mountain News, pub
lished in Denver on June 20, prac
tically sounds the death knell or at
least calla attention to the sleeping
potion which the Republican party Is
giving Itself. The News Is one of the
leading Republican Newspapers of
the west and publishes the following
article In Its editorial column:
The civil war fastened upon the
Democratic party the label of being
against the war and against the Un
ion, and It took it a quarter of a cen
lurp to regain public confidence suf
ficiently to win control of the govern
ment. This label of "copperhead " is be
ing fastened upon the Republican
party so rapidly today that unless the
unhappy progress is retarded the Re
publican seems certain to enter into
a quarter centary of political exile
from the White house like that which
the Democrats suffered from 1860 to
1884.
The pro-German ant-war policy has
been steadily ingrained into Repub
licanism to a degree that ia not real
ized by the thousands of patriotic
men who are still proud to call them
selves Republican. Yet It has been
creeping up, step by step, ever since
the first flinching of the Issue In the
Hughes campaign.
; One year ago this month the Re
publican, traditionally the courage
ous "war party" of the I nion. held
Its national convention without men
tioning the word "Germany." The
'name Lusitania was spoken but once.
n this beginning Mr. Hughes was
led to make a campaign pleasing not
I to Americans but to German-Ameri-cans.
! The Democratic convention (which
was In actuality Woodrow Wilson)
denounced In convention and In plat
form the kllllnkB of Americans by
Germany and the infamous German
plots within the United Slates. The
' Moral principals of the allies the
'rights of small nations were held to
be the American principles, as, indeed
.they were and are today.
In the result the Republican crln-
jglng to the German vote failed to
win. As usual, cowardice did not
bring the political reward figured out
I for it. And the great permanent loss
incurred was the planting of the nation-wide
suspicion that the great
I American party had ceased to be true
to its foundation traditions of aggres
sive Americanism.
i When our entrance into the war
(MM the American public was will
ing to give all Its political leaders
a clean slate and a new deal. The
emergency was so big that by com
mon consent past errors were forgot
ten both in the case of the adminis
tration's failure to prepare for war
and in the opposition partys pro-German.
Republicanism has not taken ad
vantage of this clean slate. On the
eontrary. many of its prominent
members have written upon the fair
surface a devious line that must. If
carried out, lead a once great party
out Into the copperhead wilderness
from which Democracy is just emer
gency after half a century. Repub
licanism has begun anew to take on
the habiliments of antl-warism and
pro-Germanism, both subtly and raw
ly, both east and west.
In the East the clearest proof of
the adoption of these policies lay In
the Naw Hampshire by-election to
fill the vacancy left by the death of
Congressman Sulloway. republican.
Here the democrats issued the chal
lenge unfairly and unwisely (we
think) that he who voted against the
democratic nominee voted for the
kaiser. The republicans, instead of
meeting that. Issue and disproving it,
met it by a campaign of Insinuation
against the president. "See whal
kind of man he is." they said in ef
fect; "he Bald he'd keep you out of
war. but has he?"
The New Hampshire election, as
per normal expectations, was won by
the republicans, but, like the Hughes
campuign. It added one more shade
of doubt as to their war patriotism.
Hard upon this came the choice of
the republican steering committee in
the lower house of congress. The
majority or this powerful body was
made up of three men Mann, Mon
dell and Moore who had been
strongly pro-German in their sympu-1
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LANSING, MICHIGAN
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Established 1888
Incorporated 1916
Manufactures of
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Jobbers of
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Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention
Alliance,
Nebraska
thies before the war, and who have
by their sneers at our allies and hold
back tunics in congress given little
reason to believe that they have
greatly changed their sympathies
since war began. These gentlemen.
however, being more suave and well
mannered, have not been "raw" in
their work.
The "rawness" is left to Illinois,
in the main. Congressman Britten
has been sending out to his constitu
ents, after the declaration of war,
the speech he made opposing the dec
laration of war. This act Colonel
Roosevelt denounced as "treasona
ble." "Billy" Mason has shamed
and affronted his state by his anti
war referendum.
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"IF THE SHOP. PIT8 YOl
THEN WEAK IT"
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By
ADAM I I Ml
i.c.ivc It Alone
If the married mau wno generally
int . is the young lady, who ia not his
wife, at the viaduct In the early ev
ening, is not more careful, it is pos
sible there will be a yellow streak
down his anatomy in the near future.
This tip Is offered free of charge.
Take it for what it Is worth.
lngerxdl Movement
Charley sure gave that bond one a
run for his money at the Hip-Hip-Hooray
show the other night. I'll
say he does It real neat. like.
o
Snake in..
I woke up last night anil discover
ed I had been dreaming Thought I
heard guy out in front of the snake
den yelling: "See Tosco, Homo. Ros
00. Eats 'ein alive. Bites their
heads off. swallows their tails,
throws away the nisil.-s. swallows
the heads And this in a dry town
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llae Hugo
But who wouldn't dream tbinns
after listening to that grind going on
for three dava and nights. It's I
wonder there an- mil more in the
bug house by now
Pill III the Blank T fjs
I have no store of riches,
A hard-up guy I am.
But I'll never miss the
That I loaned to Uncle Sam.
Wedding Hell MsWl lUiig
They came in on the same train.
Friends met them at the depot with
rice, cow bells, etc. It was a grand
celebration and a successful one, on
ly they were not married, after all.
The kind friends had the wrong dope
but the couple enjoyed the event
planned. Time Tuesday night.
Place Burlington depot. Alliance.
It .in-1 Be Done
An Alliance father states that for
five years he has been striving in
vain for mastery of the heir.
Cluck, Cluck, t hick.
He has been going about consid
erable of late and wisely observes
that it Is all right to conserve food
by eating corn, but he says one
should not dine too often with the
chickens.
t'tilckeisH suid (a I ve
il some of the girls who think the
men are admiring their clothes these
days as they go along unpaved Box
Butte, they ought to get wise to
themselves. The chances are the
men are attracted by the absence of
them.
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Mystery of the It lack Hox
A certain well-known Alliance man
states that he wants to change his
luck and offers substantial reward
for anyone that can help nun out. I
know his name and will be pleased
to refer you to him if you can de
liver the goods.
Safety Ftrwt, Always
An Alliance husband is away on a
little trip just now. He wrote his
wife from Omaha that he would die
with ardent longing for her were it
not that he could gaze affectionately
at her picture and cover it with a
thousand kisses every day. Howev
er, friend wife is up in arms. She
says he is very poetical but just to
try him she slipped her mother's
photo into his traveling bag instead
of her own. Ye gods and little fish
es, but he is in bad.
Would Make tiood Soldier
He came down town yesterday
morning with a regulation black eye.
Asked whether he had been sand
bagged or been in a railroad accident
he replied: "Neither. I hid under
the bed last night to scare my wife."
AlHHTlONAi. MEMBERS
ALLIANCE KHI CROSS
Relow is given a list of members
of the Alliance chapter. American
Red Cross, which was not included
in the list published in the Herald
last week. Neither this list nor the
one published last week includes the
names of the new members who
'Joined during the Red Cross cam
paign conducted last week. The new
'members added to the list since the
start of the Red Cross week cam
paign will be published at a later
date
L. H. Highland. J. H Cantlin,
Mrs. Win. I laWOJMM, Mrs. K. Giler
an. Mrs. Chase Feagins. W. G. Eu
banks. Miss tVrginia Eubanks. Rich
ard Eubanks. Mrs. Sadie Safford.
Mrs. R. 1 Harris. Mrs. Grace Grebe,
Mrs. Liisie H. Butler. Mrs. C. Nep
ner. Ethel D Johnson. Mrs. W. H.
Warabaugh. I. Grace Johnson, Mrs.
A. E. Lyon, Mrs. Jas. Feagins, Mrs.
Myrtle Selby. Edward Morrow, Mrs
F. W. Lester. Mrs. C. E. Simpson.
Miss M. O'Keefe. Mrs. Minnie Sward.
Mrs. T. J. O'Keefe. Eunice Burnett,
; Edith Swan-Zediker. Mrs. M. L. Bar
clay. Mrs. O. D. Hobbs. Lyle Coker.
Mrs. Jennie Williams, Mrs. Chas.
Tash, Mrs. L. J. Schill, Mrs. D. E.
Purington. Alta M. aBsye. Mrs. C. L.
Powell, Mrs. Brown Griffith, Mrs. A.
O. Wright, Mary Patterson. Mrs. Nel
lie Moran, Rev. J. B. Cams. C. E
Leishman, Mrs. Howard Reddish.
Mrs. W. S. Acheson. W. S. Acheson.
Mrs. J. B. Miller. A. V. Gavin. Mrs
I A. V. Gavin. Mrs. Nellie Wilson.
Mrs. Charlotte Watkins, Hannah
Keane, Mrs. C. E. Leishman, Ruth
Morris, Helen Schott. Marie Carey.
John G. Lewis. Mrs. C. E. Slagle,
Grace H. Kennedy, F. H. Carlson,
Mrs. W. F. Patterson, Mrs. L. M
Beal. Guy Lockwood. Elizabeth
Bogue. James Bogue, Jane Bogue,
Billie Bogue. Mrs. A. S. Gerdes. J. O.
Walker. Mrs. J. O. Walker. Mrs. A.
W. Walmer.
Easy to Have Running Water.
Water in the house will wa-li away
all aorta of discord and unhnppiucas.
There are many places where the wa
ter from neighboring springs can be
brought to the house. Others will have
to raise It by wind power. At any
rate let It be brought to the house.
HI 2 IE, TOO, BROTHER
NEWSPAPER EDITOR
(From Geneva Signal)
The Signal, and presumably every
other newspaper in the country, has
received so much Liberty bond ad
vertising that nobody in the office
had time to read all of it, to aay
nothing of publishnig all of it. What
the newspapers do for the govern
ment must be done free, also, but
1 what the steel trust and the copper
; trust do for the government is done
at enormously increased prices
I That's a bad feature of being ia the
uplift hustness.
No doubt the hysteria that afflict -ed
many of the departments at Wash
ington and many of the men run
ning iheiu and working in them will
; subside as we get further Into the
war. Efficiency methods will be giv
en some sway and common sense will
more and more be called into play as
a substitute for fervid oratory an 1
the wild blowing of trumpets. Mod
ora warfare is a grim business. Flag
waving is necessary but It isn't the
'whole thing by a long Bhot.
No doubt the government will keep
on till the end of time mailing to all
parts of the country tons upon tona
of printed matter and circulars of
all sorts and charging the expense of
doing it to the newspapers on ac
couut of the second-class mailing
privilege. Only a small per cent of
the government printed matter is ev
er read by anybody. Everybody
, knows this, but the waste goes on
with little check. Now that we are
getting into the war this kind of
waste will multiply, no doubt.
