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AI.IJAN K IIKKM.D. THIKMDAY. KI-ST. . 1917 THE ALLIANCE HERALD Lloyd 0. Thomas, Editor John W. Thomas, Associate Editor George Edick, City Editor Published Every Thursday by THE HELD PUBLISHINU 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 ion through the mails as second class rriatter. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $1.60 PKR YKAR IN ADVANCE a If your copy of The Ilerahl docs not rcacli you regularly or sat isfactorily, you should phone 840 or drop a card to the office The beat of service is what we are anxious to five, ho don't hesitate to notify us without delay when you miss your paper. 1 ' THE POTATO COMES BACK The huge pota to crop which the Federal forecast indicates will be produced in the .United Stales this year means that this important food ataple will be cheaper, and makes it possible, says the United states Department of Agriculture, lor American families that had td cut down on potato consumption because of hitfh prices to restore the tuber to a prominent place on their bill of fare. The department forecast, based on reliable estimates from all parts of the country, places the total potato yield at more than 467 million bushels us compared with 2H.r million in 1916 and 1560 million in 1915. Potatoes of the current season are already in the maikot in large quantities and, since the early harvested tubers can not be kept easily, should be eaten more abundantly now if spoilage is to be avoid ed. Noxt to the brcadstuffs potatoes are the most important food crop of the western nations, the department points out. They arc all the more important now that the world 's wheat supplv is short, since they furnish starch, the principal food element contributed by bread, and so may be substituted in part for bread. It is no hardship. to Americans, says the department to eat freely of potatoes, rather, it has been a hardship to them during the past year to forego somewhat the. use of this common food. It is four months nince the Liberty Loan was authorized and morejthc "moral and mental factors of force" are no less important than than two months since the subscription closed. Hanks are being;tli.. physical, meaning that the enemv must be crushed in soul and i. i i... : :.... I :i i .1 .1 ' .1. 1 1.. 1 I hskcu 1 m h 1 it-ii 1 Huimui mem n.v www nm prci hrh minus mm h ,mllli as wrll in lmtv few newspapers havr demanded to know why the government is so alow. One answer is that there, wert- more than three million small Subscribers, Another answer is that when OongresswtiniaiKankin found that the Bureau of Printing and Kngraviug was working its employees more than K hours she loudly protested and had it stopped, much to the disgust of the employees who were ulad of the extra pay. When truth telling once morebeeonies respectable and therefore possible in (Jermany the Cologne GasettC may avoid such mendacious assertions as that " the AVilson export regulations represent an illegil action-unique in the history of the civilized world." Unkfttel One lie b ads to another, and doubtless this (Jerman editor would hold that we were not civilized when President Thomas .lefTersou put in force an embargo uct a hundred years apo, and contend that the other mod ern nations that have done the like were all semi-barbarous. The "international" Socialist conference ought to be held (Jerman city, the movement being entirely 'Teutonic in control aim. in a and A BARREN SCHEME Bernhardt, who, in preparation for the present straggle of tier s in Holly. o doubt this partly explains the inhuman methods of " f rightfulness " deliberately adopted by the German war lords. Perhaps it also explains the "moral or psychological bureau" which, according to report, has been established in Berlin for the pur pose of cataloguing "the precise tsyehologieal status of each of Ger many's enemies" based on the accounts received from spying agents f Presumably this means that public sentiment and its iluctiiations will be carefully sttlied and recorded so that Berlin will perceive the psychological moment most favorable for a crafty announcement or the inauguration of a new policy. fills is-just such scheme as over-confident and self -applauding German "efficiency" would be likely to evolve, but there 'is one con vinoing reckon why its success is more than doubtful. (Jerman spies I of the ordinary information-gathering, bomb plot t inn variety may b I relied on, but a (Jerman agent of this higher " psychological " type is J apt to be misled, for the simple reason that the (Jerman is so oonati ! luted that he sees what he wants to see. Have not such (Jerman oh servers ahead yassurcd Berlin, with a confidence so complete as to carry conviction, that decadent K ranee could not fight, lhat the Brit ish empire was enfeebled and on the point of disintegrating, and that dollar-chasing Americans could not even be insulted, whipped and many against the nations, glorified war and compiest, contended that j dragged into war NATIONAL DISCIPLINE Dean West of Princeton sees a greater seriousness in American life as a result of the war ami believes that this can be turned to good account by educators. In reply to those who object to the old formal discinlines of tried educational methods he is thus quoted: No demo cratic nation can live without self-control; no man or woman can live well without it. There is no self-control without self-restraint. There is no self-restraint in the history of human experience which doCs not denend noon the iedeas of discipline and duty. History has written again and again the truth that in the world's contlict the undisecipWn- ed mind is generally beaten. 'There is no winning the best success without first eonmierinir. ourselves. This is the verdict of the wise - ------- t wr men of all ages." fbuul words, well snoken. ami behttinir the times. I here is no. noval road to learning or easy method likely to bring the desired re suits, hist as there can be no real character building in eitheV the indi- viHnul or tuition without resolute endeavor and stern discipline. Life is a tiirht to turn from soft pleasure to the Hard exercises that mak for high achievement. Korget fulness of this obi truth is no doubt the chief trouble in Russia today. In the joy ot liberation from auto cracy's chains, the Russians are for the time unaware Unit unless they voluntarily put chains upon themselves ami toil on in the right way thev will become the prev of the disciplined and strong who now men ace them from without. A similar lesson has been needed in this easy-going, joy-riding America that has too long and too heedlessly snrreiiei en to soft i ensure, he war. With us. saerinee, us uisci- w pline, must and will strengthen us as a nation. "JUST FOR THE FUN OF IT" Aeeordini? to a corresnonedtn of the New York Sun. "the Kaiser's sentence has already been pronounced by public opinion ; it is St. Helena for life." The Sun editorially adds the suggestion that a eonrt. house in the Belgian capital is "the proper place for the trial and the tentenehftt of the person directly responsible for the costliest and ugliest crime in all the history of the world." (Jrantting that such a sentence would be just in the case of the kaiser, what about the crown prince? Was the kaiser wholly responsible, or was his de cision to take the (rightful plunge in large part due to the persuas ions of his son, the prince who has obstinately piled the German dead so high before verduni This question is rendered the more interesting by ex-Ambassa dor Gerard's report of a conversation between the crown prince and "a beautiful American woman." Early in 1914, before the jfreat struggle began, the urown prince confided to this woman his ardent hope for war during his father's reign and his determination to have it anyhow as soon as he ascended the throne. "He said, whether war was profitable or not, that when he came to the throne there would be war- just for the fun ot it. On a previous occasion he had said that the plan was to attack and eonquer France, then hngland, and, atter that, my country. Russia was also to be conquered, and Germany would DP master of the world." The crown prince admitted an am bition to rival Napoleon and Frederick the Great. The latter con fessedly started the Seven Years' war "in order to be talked about, " and the Crown Prince wanted to conquer France, Russia, England and the United States "just for the fun of it." This inevitably sug gests the question, is even the kaiser in this particular as shamelessly criminal as his sou? BLAMING THE NEWSPAPERS When most people denounce the newspapers as untrustworthy, except where the offense is one of political policy, their criticism is based merely on the publication occasionally of unavoidably inaccur ate news. A knowledge of this is doubtless the basis of the inspira tion of a writer who ventures to declare that "aside from govern ment, the newspaper standi pre-eminently as the most powerful insti tution of civilization," that it is "teacher, preacher, theatre, example and counsellor all in one," and who argues that a newspaper should hf judged by "its policies, its editorial utterances, its attitude toward public questions, and the truthfulness with which it presents the news." It might have been added that it is as unfair to lump several thousand newspapers together as all of a kind or leel as to refuse to admit any variation in character among the inhabitants of a whole city. It one newspaper has been suspected of coloring the news for political effect, why should this be supposed to convict all the rest I But the most common complaint is against mere inaccuracies of news, and this either ignorantly or wilfully overlooks the fact that the newspaper is confronted with the task of printing overnight the his tory of the world for a day, without time to verify the accounts sint in by distant correspondents and w ith nothing to be done but to leave needed corrections for later issues Safe Phone South 750 Sound Call Us Any Time--Day or Night Rosenbaum Bros. & Co. Live Stock Commission Merchants Stock Yards Station, Omaha, Nebraska J Chicago, Illinois - Sioux City, Iowa G. I. 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. 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