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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1917)
ALM AN K ill J: I i TffUMDAY, AIMsT m. 11T THE ALLIANCE HERALD Lloyd 0. Thomas, Editor John W. Thomas, Associate Editor George Edick, City Editor Published Every Thursday by THE HERALD PUHLlSMtNli COMPANY Incorporated Lloyd C. Thomas, President J. Carl Thomas, Vice Preg. John W. Thomas, Secretary raelite of ancient linns would have described as "an astonishment ind a hissing " The caae-hardened war lords of Germany fatuously imagine ti nt llii'ir conntrv lias lost nothing through their monstrous sins. I. ui they win And thai the disgust of an outraged world long af ter the wu i and will extend even into the practical field of Bommeree ind put t;ilion upon articles of Teutonic manufacture Entered at the post office at Alliance, Nebraska, on transmit sion through the mails as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $1.60 lKB YKAK IN ADVANCE If your copy of Tlie Herald does not reach you regularly or sat iafactorily, you should phone 340 or drop a card to the office. The best of service is what wc are anxious to give, so don't hesitate to notify us without delay when you miss your paper. AN EDITOR TOLD THE TRUTH ONE WEEK An editOt often becomes the object of the criticism of certain cit izens because he doesn't run his neWSpapST to suit them. Perhaps he tells something of their part or present private life; or doesn't tell what tiny happen to know about one of their business competitors. Then he "gets his" from the indignant citizen who frequently slops his paper to the delight of the editor in these days of expensive, newsprint. But we admire the editor who runs his newspaper to suit himself as we do the grocer, the butcher, or the banker who is the "boas" of his business. In the long run, if he does not please the general public, he will feel it by loss of patronage and respect. In iheac days the public spirit is more evident than formerly the war has brought out the better feelings in men and in some the baser fecl IttfS, A newspaper trade paper prints the following rather humorous account of the decision of a Texas editor to print the bare, raw truth for one week : Dallas, Tex.- A west Texas editor pot tired of being railed n "liar" bemuse of an ocranlonal typographical error or slight dis arrangement of the facts in publishing a commonplace news item. In his wrath he announced the fact In boldface typp as follows: "A lot of people in this town fall out with the editor and brand him na a liar when the ordinary human mistakes of life show up In a newnpaper. You have a little charity and fellow Ssettn' for every man In town but your editor. You claim that you want the: facta, and d d if I don't give 'em to you. Head the next Issue of this sheet and you'll see some facta with the bark off. I'll admit that I have been a liar, an editorial liar, ever since I have been editing this sheet, but I have never printed a tin in these columns except to save soinehody'a feelings from being hurt. I'm not afraid of any of you, and I'll be dad blamed if I don't print the plain truth from now on, or until you get out of the habit of calling me a liar every time I make some little unavoidable typo graphical error. Watch my smoke." f Here are some paragraphs, culled from the next issue: "John Coyle, our groeeryman. who voted with the Republic ans In 1896 and consumes more mall order whisky than any other member of the Baptist church In thla country, is doing a poor business, ilia store Is dirty and dusty. It is u wonder he has any business at all." "The Rev. Sty preached last Sunday nliUit at the Christian church. His sermon waB punk and uninteresting except MSM stuff he quoted from Boh Ingeraoll, for which he failed to give Bob any credit. He also recited a few passages from one of Wil liam Klbert Munsey's aermona and had the gall to pulm it off as his own." "Pave OharttSff died at his home two miles north of this place last Thursday night. Dock Holderneas, who is an old friend of the family, attended him a few minutes before he died. He gave it out that Dave died of heart failure. That is a lie. Dave died from drinking too much of a very poor grade of mull order licker. This paper prints the truth." "Tom Spadlin married Miss COTdle Meador last trades' day at the county seat. It ain't genenilly known, but the marriage was brought about mainly by a Remington shotgun manipulated by the brlde'B father, Torn concludln' that marrying was the healthiest thing he could do until other arrangements could be made." "Roger Lloyd, cashier of the State bank at Willow Orove, died Wednesduy evening and was hurled Friday by the Odd Fel lows In Pleasant Mound cemetery. He hud been taking this puper seven years and so far hasn't paid us a cept, we thinking that he. being a banker, would pay some time. We will sell the account for two bitB' worth of fresh greens." "Married: MIsb Susie Scruggs und Horace Guffln last Satur day at the MethodlBt parsonage, the Rev. James C. Williams of ficiating. The bride Is a very ordinary town girl, who flirts with all the traveling men she meets and never helped her mother three days all put together in her whole life. She is anything but a beauty, resembling a gravel pit In the face, and walks like a duck. The bridegroom 1b a natural-born loafer and bum. Ho never did a lick of work until his stepdaddy run him off from home last fall. He went to the county seat, and just before starving t odeath ac cepted a job as chambermaid in a livery stable. As soon as his ma found out where he was she went and got him and brought him home. He now resldeB at the home of his wife's father, and says that he has no definite plans for the future. Susie will have a hard row to hoe." Q THE VATICAN'S DIPLOMACY No doubt m;mv AtiHM-w'un rcinlrK hnvo vmlitil svli r'nwlwml Cwsparri COUld not have sent the pope's peace plan direct to the king of Italv. the iiiesident of h'ranee and the hNMUrtAtit of il,. ITmUaH ww m " -v . V!M w - 1 1 1 i v i States, instead of requesting the king of Kngland to forward conies to tnese inree mans nt nations. In the case ot the king of Italv such round-about method seemed especially notable the Vntun on.l f w I v wmv V Mil' t 1 ' ' I uirinal being virtually next door to each other in the sintrle citv of Koine. It is true that the cardinal snoko of the 1 - - - f- tiijiiuiuuiiv 1 V. ations between the Vatican and the three governments named, but hy should there DC such relations with other governments and not III) tlieSCT Presumably diplomatic relations with l-'mno.. bmm tormina..) M . ... . . . , I I I I I 4 I ! 1 after the disestablishment uf the Catholic church, or separation of uaurcn ami state, ny r rench law m UUP. The trouble between the Vatican and the kingdom of Italy is older, dating back to the unifica tion oi me numerous siaies in tnat country m IN5I-1H6U through the instrumentality of the area! statesman r.n Garibaldi, involving the incorporation of the states that had been gov- bitwu ny me popes as temporal rulers and culminating m the annexa tion ill 1870 of Home itself. OVer which the pones hart mlerl flu tMlfMkM. al inonarchs for a thousand rears Pone Pino TV riizc Victor Bmmanucl as king of all Italy, declining to accept the fact m me emi oi nis temporal power, ana his successors to this day have THE TIME TO PREPARE IS NOW There is only one thing certain about the financial and commer cial conditions that peace is going to bring and that is their uncer tatnty. It may be that an era of gtat prosperity may be upon us; it may be an era of stagnation ; it may be an era of the severest com petition wc have ever experienced. It involves a paradox, but in this present time of comparative commercial peace, for the great war has largely stopped for a time the struggle among nations for foreign comeinrce, it is a wise thing to prepare for the economic war that will succeed the present world wide war. It is well for every American citizen to lay aside in some abso lutcly safe security something for that day that is coming. If it be great prosperity one will be able to take advantage of it. If it be stagnation one will he enabled to live through it. 11 it lie a hitter competition one will be better able to withstand it. No better provision could be made for the future than an invest ment in Liberty Loan Bonds. They are absolutely safe and no pos sible condition can destroy their value; exempt from all taxation ex oept estate or inheritance taxes the income from them cannot be less ened; with a market everywhere in the United States and, as compe tent financial authorities assert, a market in every commercial center in the world when peace comes, they will be readily convertible into cash. They possess all of the elements that would attract a sound m vesting mind in times of uncertainty. More than that, an American citizen investing in Liberty Loan Bonds is investing in victory, for the proceeds of the Liberty Loan Bonds are to win the war and bring peace in Europe and peace and afety to the rest of the world. maintained the same policy. Thus the head of the Catholic church of the world remains a temporal ruler in theory, though not in actual fact, ami still preserves the old forms to which some of the world's governments still extend a coiu-teous recognition. Presumably the government of the United States has never of fteially acknowledged the pope as a temporal ruler, or has never sent an ambassador or representative to the Vatican, which would explain the absence of "diplomatic relations." One would naturally suppose that neither had Kngland done so since the time of Henry VIII, when even the pope ns the spiritual or religious head of Christendom was repudiated; but the request that King George transmit Pope Bene diet's peace plan to the Italian, French and American governments reveals the existence of diplomatic relations and indicates that mod ern British diplomacy finds it desirable to send a representative of Kngland 's government to the Vatican. The peace now proposed is not the kind of peace that has been desired at Washington, for in his Flag Day address President Wilson said : " It is easy to unqderstand the eagerness for peace that has been manifested from Berlin ever since the snare was set and sprung. If the military masters under whom Germany is bleeding can secure peace now with the immense advantages still in their hands which they have up to this point apparently gained, they will have justified themselves before the German people; they will have gained by force what they promised, an immense expansion of German power. Their prestige will be secure and with it their power. If they fail, they will be thrust aside and a government accountable to the people them selves will be set up. If they succeed they are safe and Germany and the world are undone; if they fail, Germany is saved and the world w ill be at peace. If they succeed, America will fall within the men ace. ' ' SEVERING THE LAST LINK Mr. Michaelis of Glen Cove, L. I., is having his name changed to Woodbridge, and George V. Ochs, the well-known newspaper editor, has become George W. Oakes. These are examples of many of the same sort reported from all purts of the country, large numbers of loyal citizens of German descent desiring to sever the last link con necting them with a country whose dominating element has wilfully associated therewith the blackest infamy. During the-first months uf the great war these, who now wish to be known by new names, were naturally partisans of Germany as against Kngland and France und proud'of its successes in arms, but as time passed they became in creasingly sensitive, and, whenever they could honestly do so, took great pains to explain that their ancestors came from the southern states of Germany and were not to be confounded with the notorious Prussians. The reason for all this is self-e ident. Though from the outset disapproving of German militarism, autocracy and lust of conquest, .1 J!-l A . : 1 4l........l..Aa . 1 ............. I l.i. tlkAan V'l..t i . . .. 1 1 icy uiu nui coiisuiei iiiemnei vra uiogiaieu i.o. " uai whelmed them and forced them to such an extreme ot repudiation was tin inhuman war oiethods, the soulless callousness, the unparal leled cruelty and wickedness that spared neither youth, age nor sex gad that made Germany throughout the world what the scandalized Safe Phone South 750 Sound Call Us Any Time Day or Night & Rosenbaum Bros. Live Stock Commission Merchants Co Stock Yards Station, Omaha, Nebraska Chicago, Illinois - Sioux City, Iowa G. J. Ingwersen, Manager and Cattle Salesman R. R. Keenan, Cattle Salesman F. L. Crone, Feeder Buyer E. G. Smith, Hog Salesman G. S. Campbell, Sheep Salesman F. E. Randall, Sheep Salesman Jos. Krejci, Hog Salesman E. V. Keagle, Office Orders for Feeding Cattle, Sheep or Lambs Prompt Carefully Pilled Reliable