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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 28, 1917)
the ALLIANCE HERALD Lloyd C. Thomas, Editor John W. Thomas, Associate Editor Oeorge Edick, City Editor Published Every Thursday by TUB HHRALU PUBLISHING COMPANY incorporated Lloyd C. Thomas, President J. Carl Thomas, Vice Pres. John W. Thomas, Secretary Entered at the post office at Alliance, Nebraska, ofr transmis sion through the mails as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, 11.60 PKK YEAR IN ADVANCE If your copy of The Herald does not reach you regularly or sat isfactorily, you should phone .'-lit or drop a card to the office. The best of service is what we are anxious to give, so don't hesitate to notify us without delay when you miss your paper. A DISEASE THAT SHOULD BE CURED Alliance is again this week afflicted with that disease from which we have suffered for the past three years chronic strcctshowitis. The Herald was "accommodated" this year wilh the usual free pass to ihe "attractions" which now line our main and side business streets and which are to continue with us until the end of the week. We haven't had time to look over the aggregation ourselves hut some of the force have. To he frank about It, If they hadn't been admitted free of charge we would have asked for their nioniy back. In our minion, and in the spoken opinion of many of our business nu n to whom We have talked this week, the earnival outfit which now adorns the town is taking money out which has not been earned. The personnel of the Wortham Shows is excellent and the crowd of camp-followers usually found with a circus is absent. The show management and the employees are as a rule likeable, M cll-manncrul and courteous people. But that does not make up for the lack of at traction famished by the shows. Omaha and other cities have learn ed their lesson. It is time for Alliance to do the same and hereafter eliminate this feature of the yearly entertainment which takes out of the city from $6,0(10 to if 10,000 each year and leaves nothing substan tial in return. The Commercial Club ami those in charge of the week's enter tainment are devoting their attention to the furnishing of clean, xvholesome and desirable entertainment at the fair grounds in the afternoons. They have arranged a program that is well worth at- ending. Alliance people and visitors are urged to take the after l oon off and attend the entertainment being offered at the fair grounds. You don't want to miss it. In our opinion the investment oi the admission price at the fair grOUilds will be worth more to the spender than to help the carnival outfit by paying to see or take part in the "cabaret " dance tent with the "Hip, Hip, Hooray Girls", or gazing on the "three-legged girl" or listening to the sound of the husky gent who hour after hour pulls on the rosined rope at the snake tent. "(Josh," said an Alliance bus iness man whose place of business is near to the snake tent, "I wish that rope would break or that man's arm would get tired. That ros ined rope sounds like the final wail of a sick cow." This year should be the last one for things of this kind. Rather take the thousands of dollars paid to the carnival company and spend them in putting on the genuine, old-time wild west performances that we used to have before the disease which now afflicts us was forced upon us chronic streetshow 'it is. Larger and more contented crowds an be secured with a big annual entertainment at the fair grounds in which all have a chance to participate and enjoy themselves. I the start to finish of the program. Tears came to the eyes of hun- deeds when Captain .lack Miller, for the boys, with a voice filled with emotion, endeavored to thank the assembled hundreds for their inter est and feeling of friendship. And did you notice the feeling of pride which pervaded the assemblage when the fife and drum corps, com posed of veterans, struck up a martial air? The train carrying the boys east didn't leave until nearly two o'clock in the morning but that didn't prevent several hundred peo ple staying to sec them off. And it was nt the depot that the feeling of parting and the realization of what.it meant became apparent. Around the cars were hundreds of young people comrades of the boys giving fond farewells. And in the background stood the sil ent, sobbing groups of fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, watching the short minutes pass until the cry of "all aboard" rang out from the lips of the conductor. One father and mother saw four hoys leave with Company O, truly a family parting. One member of the company from our neiKhboring city of Hemingford, which has done its share nobly in the formation of the company, hobbled about on crutches and was helped aboard w hen the time came to leave. An injured foot didn't prevent this courageous lad from going with the rest. To the women of Alliance, the ladies of the Red Cross who have worked early and late in providing comforts for the boys, and who, in a thoughtful manner, provided each one with an "emergency kit", should be given much credit. These noble women have taken on their shoulders a big task that of seeing that the boys are remem bered often and well, and to the women should be given every assist ance by the citizens of western Nebraska. "Our boys" will not be forgotten, now that they have left for service. Week after week and month after month, we will hear from them. And we will watch with pride their accomplishments as a small but efficient unit of the great army which the United States is raising to help rid the world of the German militar y power which seeks to control the world with a mailed fist ami with the bayonet and gun. TALK IS CHEAP AND SOMETIMES HORRIBLE About the most interesting (?) kind of entertainment, in our i. pin ion. is to sit around a barber shop or similar place where men congregate (wc have no saloons now in Nebraska) and listen to a group of men discuss the problems of the day or tell the latest inde cent story. You are at first interested in wondering how long it will continue; then you begin to grow tired; then disgusted; ami finally you begin to wish that the conscription act was stretched to cover this class of almost worthless citizens who seemingly have nothing else on their mind but mild cuss words and talk, talk, talk. Thank goodness, this class of parasites is becoming scarcer year after year. We enjoy a good story, we enjoy a visit with the boys, but we at times get rather disgusted with the person who enjoys this kind of thing during his entire day. We often wonder if he talks and cusses in his sleep. It is pleasing to know that all barber shops and other public places are not conducted on that plan. We certainly have high regard for the proprietor or manager of a public, place who real izes that his place of business is there for some other purpose than that of entertaining his customers (or letting them entertain him' with loud and boisterous talking. RED CROSS OVERRAN THE MARK To say that the campaign was strenuous is to put it mildlv. To say that it was short" and fast is Correct, For the Red Cross campaign lasl week was a success. The Alliance district, of which the sum ol $7600 had been asked as a contribution towards tin- one-hundrcd-mil- liou-dollar fund, overran the mark ami subscribed not only tin amount allotted but several hundred dollars more, running up !c 500. It took work on the part of the committees, ot whom there were th e. It look generalship on the part of the leaders. It took a keen live wire Use rraiiK was at the head ot things to push the campaign through to success. But all of these qualifications were tlier ami wt made it. And las', but not least, it took the co-operation of the pco pie in this. part of Nebraska to make a success of.the campaign. To Harry Highland, president of the Alliance chapter of tin American Bed (. ross, belongs much credit tor his wisdom and fore sight in selecting the right men to place at the head of the campaign Without proper organization the magnificent showing made eouk not have been accomplished. Speaking for the newspapers, we thank the leaders for their ae 1 1 J A. M . 1. ii . . . a Kiiowieugemeiu oi ine vaiuanie assistance rendered in the campaign hy the papers I his campaign lias show n those interested that news t . . . . ... paper puniieiiy is a necessary pari ot anv campaign lie it l(ed l ross or be it a business campaign. "OUR BOYS" ARE NOW IN TRAINING Did you for a moment imagine that Alliance was "not patriotic Mkt t 1- .1 a I 1 1 1 I IMUl you mine tnai we woumi auow our noys wno have voluuteem ; a I . - l I -1 . i . , . i i or service in uie army to ieae wiiiioiu snowing itiem that we art with them in every way? If so, and if you attended the farewell r ception tor them Sunday evening at the city hall you were quickly disillusioned. More than two thousand Alliance, llemingtord am Box Butte countv citizens gathered there Suudav evening to sav Mod bye to our boys and to wish them God-speed on their journey to the training camp ami thence to service in "sunny France. Never before in the history of Alliance has there been a gather ing just like this one. Rich and poor, young and old, all gathered to show our soldier boys that they have a place in our hearts and that our purse strings are ready to be opened to them when necessary. It wasn't the ordinary crowd of citizens out for a good time on a holiday or there out of curiosity. No, no. Every man, woman and child within sound of the voiees of the speakers listened intently from REFERRING TO THE SUFFRAGE REFERENDUM PETITION The Herald in its news columns last week referred to the peti tions which are being circulated for the purpose of securing enough signatures to invoke the referendum against the limited woman suff rage bill passed by the last Nebraska legislature. We stated in the article that we had been advised of the intention of the W. C. T. C. to publish the names of the voters who signed such petitions in Box Butte county and offered the free use of our columns for this purpose. Keterring to the circulation of these petitions the Nebraska Wo man s v hristian lemnerance l nion bv its itrMtirfoni Mm Mm.,;,, i". l - mm... g - . i...vi- Hf mvm m vi a' a i hi it M J . laflin, and its secretary, .Mrs. Lela C. Dyar. issued the follow Inn statement : " You are no doubt aware that the anti-suffrage forces are ircuiating petitions to invoke the referendum unon the limited :d suffrage bill recently passed by the legislature. This attentat is be ing made mainly to prevent women from votbie for eountv mid mun icipal officers whose duty it is to enforce the prohibitory law. and to cprive them of a right given by the legislature. "The following letter, issued on the eve of the 1914 eamnaimi. is significant. The organization here represented is one of the hittei-est foes of emial suffraire. Mnn vntora ttavn -.lioorW- ilnuJ i,. ,.,..... ndiiiii petition through gross misrepresentation. 'The enlightenment which can come only through the state press is greatly desired." The letter quoted, issued during the 1014 campaign, read as tol- ows: (It appears to nave hern issued at f'nlnmlniK Wln-nvL-o Appeal to Ihe Members of (fee IahhI Allinnftt of Columbus and Surroundings Dear Sir: The officers of the local alliance deem it their duty to direct the attention of their countrymen to certain questions which will he decided tit the eomiiiK election. We consider the proposed amendment to the constitution Krantinp the ripht of suffrage to women as the most important of fhne. Our state alliance took a most decided stand against wo man siiffraKP at its annual convention held in Columbus on Aur ust 25. Our German women do not want the right to vote, and since our opponents desire the right of suffrage mainly for the purpose of saddling the yoke of prohibition on our necks we should oppose it with all our might. In these times, when on account of the Kuropean war the EafUah-Atnerlcan press has stirred unpopular sentiment against Germany and Germanism, it behooves us to Btand together and to demonstrate to our many envious enemies our political power by Hiving to those candidates who are German descent our full sup port, in so far as they are capable of tilling the others to which they aspire. (Here follows an appeal for Ihe election of various officers.) In conclusion we most earnestly urge our friends of German speech and German descent not to permit business or other consid erations to prevent them from going to the polls and casting their ballots as above directed. W ith true German greeting, THE COMMITTEE of tiik local alliance. The editor of The Herald, believing that majority of the motile 4- N.V. I 1 1 .1.. -. J .. ..." oi cimh.shh hihi ii i uie (,ra representative district were in tavor oi woman suffrage, and being a firm believer in the principle of euual suffrage, voted and worked tor the bill, known as House RaN R5R nt the last session of the Nebraska legislature. We earnestly hope that those who are endeavoring to defeat the bill and to denv the women of Nebraska the right to use the ballot by invoking the referendum on this lull, will be unsuccessful in their efforts to get a sufficient num ber of signatures to the petition. It is our firm oninion that the vol. ers of Nebraska, if the proposition is placed on the ballot at the next general election, will vote in favor of unlimited equal suffrage there fore why should are allow those who oppose equal suffrage to delay the use and benefit of the privilege granted to the women at the HH7 sessign of the legislature. CHADRON CASE COMES TO ALLIANCE Alhanee is about to be put on the map in a new manner In the past she has received many and varied forms of advertising by con ventions, by immense crops and shipments of stock, by rapid building achievements, by prominent political leaders, and in other ways, but never before have we been selected as the point for th trial of such a prominent criminal case as that to be Iwed here in October the Chad rotl blackmail case. It is true that the scene of the plot was at Chadron and that the central figures in the ease will come from Chadron ami Omaha. And we are glad of it. We haw no desire to have our fair city implicated in the Dennison-l.ynch fight in Omaha or in the difficulties of an aged millionaire miller and his young wife The defendants in the blackmail case asked for a change at ven ue, arguing that the people of Dawes county were too prejudiced to give the matter a fair and impartial hearing. Judge Grimes of North Platte, who will hear the case, in granting the petition for change of venue, stated that the case would be held in Alliance on account of the "superior hotel and court house facilities." We thank the judge tor the compliment and although we presume that our facilities will be taxed to the utmost by the immense crowd of interested parties who will attend, we will endeavor to see that they are granted every opportunity for a fair trial of the cane. The date of the trial is set for October 15. All expenses will be borne by Dawes county. The GREATEST Phonograph OFFER Made By The Greatest Piano House The Schmoller & Mueller Piano Co., of Omaha i Anybody can own a Columbia Grafonola the worlds oldest and best phonograph and start the New Year with music in the home if they will take advantage of our unprecedented offer of no money down 30 days free trial 2 to 3 years to pay. 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