THE ALLIANCE HERALD
Lloyd C. Thomas, Editor John W. Thomas, Associate Editor
George Edick, City Editor
Published Every Thursday by
THE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY
Incorporated
Lloyd C. Thomas, President J. Carl Thomas, Vice Pres.
John W. Thomas, Secretary
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EflRASKA PKLSS ASSOOAUOf
REQUIREMENTS OF AN EDITOR
lawrence A. Rossman, writing in The American Press, tells of
the " Requirement! of An Kditor." After reading over his article
we have decided that all editors, Including ourselves, don't measure
up to the requirements outlined by Mr. Rossman but that his article
contains some food for thought for the ordinary mortal who believes
that all an editor needs to do is to sit buck in his swevel chair, with
his feet on the mahogany desk and watch. the subscribers and adver
sers crowd in the front door to eagerly deposit their shekels with
the cashier.
Mr. Rossman 's article is as follows:
The other day I took up a newspaper published in one of the
great prisons and reformatories of the Dotted States. The editor
rw no a H lull. in. i riui in n luiiuiirj iutii im ain i n 1 1 lull siri Jl
priBou walls. The printers were men convicted of serious crimes,
and the devil in that print shop was a real devil.
The remarkable thing about this paper was that it was filled
with expressions of the great moral principles which should guide
men's action. Men convicted for the violation of laws and princi
ples governing society were in print extolling those very principles
and uring their adoption by all mankind. Thus is it with many
people.
The newspaper man is essentially a teacher. Every news
item which he prints is for the purpose of information, and the
larger the number of new and interesting facts he may report the
greater becomes his success as a publisher. The editorials are
written not for entertainment, but to nuide some form of action.
The newspaper man confronts all manner of problems. His
pupils are not those of immature age. The newspaper man seeks
to educate the whole community, the old and the jroong, the rich
and the poor, the fool in his IgDOfattee, the wise man with his skep
ticism The newspaper man delves into all manner of problems, the
government of the nation, the politics of the local community ,
the economics of production, the philosophy of humanity. All
serve as subjects for consideration of his fertile brain. All forms
of human activity constitute his held of action. Humanity is his
pupil.
Consequently with these responsibilities the newspaper manV
must have characteristic which will make his work a success. It
it conceded a great teat her must possess ability, and if it is nec
essary for the teucher dealing with the immature minds of child
ren, delving into one form of knowledge, to possess ability how
much more important is it that the newspaper man should poe
tess that ability.
In times past and even at the present day some men have
believed if they could set type-they were tilted by nature or called
by Providence to the duties of the country publisher .but too
many men have been printers only, and too muny men have been
story writers only. The real newspaper man must be something
different. If he is to influence men of big caliber he must pos
sess ability to lead big men. If he is to influence those of less
degree, those of less ability, the leader himself must possess more
power. The newspaper business is no place for those unfitted for
its great duties. The profession is overcrowded with those who
cannot even perceive its possibilities, to say nothing of putting its
great purposes into effect.
It would be astounding to know how much money this state
expends to endow professors of archaeology and to spread the
teachings of impractical illusions. But the newspaper man must
be a practical teacher. The success of his school is judged by its
tangible results. To accomplish reform is a practical problem.
Good intentions alone will not accomplish great results.
But the newspaper man must be practical for another reason.
The state and Boclety does uot contribute to his support. The
newspaper held, and especially th country newspaper field, pre
sents great business problems. The newspaper man is essentially
a manufacturer. A newspaper costs money. The belter educator
the newspaper man must be the more money he must raise. One
cannot help but regret that the great journalistic profession does
not offer the tiuancial inducements which cling to less useful vocations.
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BOX BUTTE HAS DONE HER PART
If the officials in charge of the enforcement of the new draft law
agree with us, Box Butte county will not be required lo furnish re
cruit for the new army on the Brat draft, the drawing for which is
supposed to take place on Saturday, July '21st. .Newspaper announce
ments state that credits are to be allowed counties fo army volun
leers, for members of the National Guard, and for other reasons. As
Herald readers will note by the news article in this issue, the quota for
the first draft under the law for Box Butte countv would be f8 men
If we are granted the exemptions as we understand them, we will
have credits for more than this number. In other words, Box Butte
county has already "done her bit" by furnishing a company of the
National tiuard and by the many volunteers who have joined the ar
my. We hope that the officials will consider this in giving the cred
its allowed under the law. When subsequent drafts are made, if the
war continues, we will of course send many of our registered men,
but it is indeed gratifying to know that the response to the call has
already been more than enough from this county.
than last year; sweet potatoes, eleven million bushels increase over
last year; rye, a record crop of vast increase; rice, the second largest
crop ever produced. The Department's report includes tobacco,
which if not a food is a national comforter, with 84,000,000 pounds
more than last year.
Mtich vast food production should not only go far toward feeding
our allies, thus helping to win the war, but ought to gratify the home
consumer with lower prices.
JUST PUNISHMENT
The convict ion of Kmma Ooldman nnd Alexander Berkman, an
archists, for conspiracy to violate the selective conscription law, is an
impressive warning to those serving (Jermany's cause in our midst
as well as to anarchistic repudiators of governmental authority. Both
Goldman ami Berkman are fined $10,000 and get two years in federal
penitentiaries), ami at the end of their terms both will be deported
from the country upon which they have long been a plague. Their
counsel pleaded the rights of fret- speech, which the defiant Kmma
Goldmen exercised to the extent of being sarcastically abusive of the
court ; but .Fudge Mayer effectively punctured the bubble and gave
the convicted something to think about during their imprisonment.
The judge showed that it was in no sense a trial of free speech,
that the freedom allowed under our institutions in this particular
merely involved the expression of opinion in regard to or criticism of
public policies, ami that such rightful freedom became forbidden li
cense when it reached the limit of seeking to nullify the operation of
law. The judge warned those who "mock and sneer nt the statutes"
nnd interfere with their operation that they could do so only at their
peril. Free speech is guaranteed in this country as no where els.',
he said, "but this is a republic founded on the principle of obedience
to law." The Ooldmans and Rerkmans would not onlv disobev but
destroy the law, snd, what is worse just now, they would limit this
country's power to win the war. For this they have their punish
ment and it is just.
ALIEN LANDHOLDERS
Chancellor von Bethman Hollwcg recently sold a large tract of
land that he owned in Texas, ami this is thought to be perhaps a con
fession that he has given up hope of severing Mexico's "lost prov
inces" from the United States. A more interesting question is wheth
er an American could now sell nnd get the money for land that he
(.wind in (Jcrmany, though it is practically certain that he could not.
The property of an alien enemy is safe in this country, our ideals im
posing obligations in war time which Germany has repudiated. The
difference is highly creditable to our government and people, but the
Merman method though lacking morally would of course be defended
in the kaiser's dominions as merely a practical means tnwanl the end
of successful war.
The sale of the German chancellor's lands in Texas has once more
called attention to the enormous holdings in this country of foreign
individuals and corporations, a great number of foreign investors
.owning tracts of 100,000 acres or much more. A Dutch syndicate is
said to own no less than 4,500,000 acres in New Mexico a tract near
ly as large as Massachusetts and a Merman-American syndicate
owns 780,000 acres in the same state. There is a British syndicate
that owns two million acres in Florida, another owning one million
acres in Mississippi, and two more that own about L300.000 acres
each in Missouri. Secretary Lane wants congress to take this matter
up for consideration, not with a view to dispute their titles but of ob
ligating these foreign landholders to use the tracts more generally for
crops or grazing instead of merely holding them for an increase in
value.
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THE FARMERS WIN
President Wilson's economic appeal to the country in April wa
addressed especially to the farmers upon w hom he declared " rests
the fate of the' war and the fat" of nations." The response of the
farmers, as forecasted in the Department of Agriculture's July crop
report, is of a character to arouse enthusiasm. In spite of the lite
cold spring and other unfavorable conditions, the farmers throughout
the country have risen to the occasion and have produced, or it is rea
sonably certain that they will produce, more than six billion bushels
over last year s production in the principal food crops.
Thr corn crop, with a 14 per cent increase in acreage, shows an
enormous advance over last year and may equal the record yield of
1912. The combined spring and winter wheat crop w ill be some 38,-
(MK),00n bushels greater than last year. Barley will probably be tin
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third lamest eron ever grown. A two-iiumireu-miiiion-bushcl in
crease is promised for oats. White potatoes, with 2"2 per cent in
crease in acreage, promise a record crop 167,000,000 bushels greater
Reproduced from an actual photograph taken near Port Bridger, Wyoming
A Performance That Proved
This is the story of one of the most gruelling tests to which an automobile
was ever subjected.
Remember as you read it that the car was a Series 18 Studebaker taken
from a dealer's stock, that there were no trained service-men at specially estab
lished "controls" to care for it, that the trip itself was not "factory planned,"
that it was just an ordinary tour.
No Special Preparations
On May SOth last, this Studebaker car
left San Francisco as the pilot car for a
caravan of advertising men going to the
St. Louis convention.
No special preparations were made as
far as the car was concerned. The trip
was to be a long one but nothing un
usual was expected.
The first two days were pleasant and
the roads were good.
Seas of 'Dobe Mud
The third day found the party at
Lovelock, Nevada, in a pouring ram.
The harder it rained, the stickier and
more tenacious became the 'dole mud.
In places the pools were hub deep. This
mud was cement-like in its consistency
it took a pick and shovel to remove it
from the wheels. Yet the Studebaker
car pulled sturdily along and showed
ample reserve power for conditions even
more difficult. This lasted for three days
until they reached Salt 1 . ike City.
Over the Rockies in a Blizzard
Leaving Salt Lake City they started
for F.vanston, Wyoming, traveling the
latter half of the distance through one
of the hardest rainstorms imaginable
the road was washed out and the car had
to find its own way over rocks and along
ledges that seemed impassable.
Starting from Kvanston for Fort
Bridger they ran into a blizzard, which
at lower levels turned into rain.
The road was a veritable canal.
At one p.. nit they only made nine
miles in five hours (the picture above
shows why).
More Rain and Mud
All the way through Colorado the rain
continued and kept up as the car
struggled through the gumbo mud of
Western Kansas.
Kven between Topeka and Kansas
City the roads were in awful condition.
Arrived in Perfect Running
Condition
At Kansas City the clouds lifted, the
sun shone and the rest of the run to St.
Louis was made without incident.
Despite its all but unsurraountable diffi
culties the Studebaker car arrived in St.
Louis only t hours behind schedule in
perfect running condition and haviugonly
chauged one tire during the entire trip.
So well had it come through its terrible
exerienee that the car was driven on to
Detroit to the Studebaker factories with
out any overhaubng whatsoever.
This performance is further proof of
the remarkable durability of Studebaker
cars a durability that is due to one
thing only the mechanical perfection
of this splendid automobile.
Any car that will come through a test
like this in perfect running condition
any car that will perform as this one did
is worth your serious consideration- you
owe it to yourself to get a Studebaker
demonstration before you buy any car.
There will be no change in Studebaker models this year,
but the increased cost of materials and labor may force Stude
baker to make an advance in prices at any time without notice.
Four -Cylinder Model
FOUR Roadster t vh ,
FOUR Touring Car . tH.1
FOUR Landau Roadster 1 1
FOUR Kvery-Weather Car I IK..
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Sis-Cylinder Mode.
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