ALLIANCE HERALD, THURSDAY, NOV. h. ioit
the ALLIANCE HERALD
Lloyd C. Thomas, Editor and Business Manager
Ooerge Edick, City Editor
John W. Thomas, Associate and Live Stock Editor
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START THE REFORM YOURSELF
Save the wheat. ( inlet a "stack of corn cakes" instead of the
"stack of wheats." By substituting corn cakes for the millions of
wheat cakes eaten every morning thousands of sacks of flour can bfl
saved, (tet the habit. Korcgo the present desire ami learn to oat corn
cakes which are evei v bit as palatable as wheat cakes. Carry this
thought with you : that when the opportunity presents itself you will
eat a substitute for wheat instead of that commodity itself. This is no
sr ; It is but a part of our war plans ami comparable with
buyltig i f Liberty Bond! and Increased food production.
Are v sening that wheat less day and that meatless day each
weekl i'oppy-cock one man says. No one else is doing it, why
should I? As a matter of fact many others are already doing it and
more soon will. Further, the fact that others are not acting in accord
ance with America's best interests does not absolve my remissions.
The situation is this: We are short of both wheat and meat. It is
essential to the winning of the war that we increase the supply of
lioth. Only by individual responsibility can this lu done. The gov
ernment has laitl the matter before us as a moral responsibility as
merely the act of abstaining from a thing that we are legally entitled
to do. How different and how much more in accordance with our
principles than was the Prussian edict upon the declaration of war
that every individual in the empire should be limited to a certain
weight of meat each week. Such a course may be necessary if indi
vidual inclinations continue to rule in the full bloom of their short
sightedness. At the bottom of the problem lies not so much disloyalty
as lack of appreciation of certain fundamental considerations short
sightedness in an understanding of that thing known as the common
weal. From the Nebraska State Board of Agriculture Bulletin.
A TIMELY WARNING
From the outset there has been a remarkable absence of hate for
Germans among Americans and it seems to have been unconsciously
assnmed, especially by pacifists and citizens of Teutonic extraction,
that there is a similarly mild feeling in Germany toward the people
of the United Slates. The vastness of this mistake is pointed out in
a published article by A. Curtis Both, a German-American who, until
recently w as one of our consuls in Germany. According to this author
ity, the average German now hates the United States "with n hatred
far more venomous, far more implacable, than the hatred that has
been visiled upon any other belligerent." The upper classes in Ger
many have looked with a very unfriendly eye upon America ever
gince Bismark predicted an inevitable struggle for supremacy between
Germany and the United States, and for more than two years past
leaders and people alike have hated America with an ever-increasing
hatred.
The German people have been systematically taught that from the
OQtaet the Finted States was a secret ally of Great Britain and that it
was for this reason that our government insisted on our right to ship
munitions to the belligerents, the fact that Germany exercised the
same right during previous wars being ignored. The failure of the
original German plans of rapid conquest and all the suffering brought
upon the German people were attributed to this action of the United
States, and "a day of reckoning," w ith huge iudcmnil ies to be exacted
from a defeated America, was continually promised. This country's
defeat was considered a very easy accomplishment, America being
held up to scorn as a "cowardly and effeminate race" whose "god is
gold." As early as the first months of 1915 war with the United
States was regarded as inescapable and every means was employed to
itir up German hostility toward this country. The toast to "Der Tag"
(the day) when the Kaiser's armies would be let loose upon Europe
became a toast to the day of war with America, and "a great part of
the German people prayed fervently "for the coming of such an hour
of reckoning," although the German government still craftily wore
its mask of friendship. By the end of 1916 "Gott strafe Kngland"
had become "God destroy arrogant Britain and treacherous Amer
ica." Mr. Both warns the easy-going people of this country that there is
a "blood feud" between Ul and Germany and that the German leaders
have "long since determined that the world is not large enough for
both Germany and the United States." All the force of "an unmerci
ful and unyielding hatred" has been let loose upon us by the Ger
mans who "despise and loathe Americans and are resolved, cost what
it may, to make our country drink to the dregs of the bitter cup of
humiliation and self-abasement." This writer ought to know, and
evidently does know whereof he speaks. His warning to "easy-going
Americans" comes in good time. It is well to know that we have
got to win this war or suffer inconceivably disastrous consequences.
"We are solemnly assured that the Germans alone of all people are
"unabashed and cooly frank" in their war savagery, and that for this
reason the world can wot feel that "life and liberty are secure with
Germany rampant."
ELIMINATE DOUBLE TRANSPORTATION
There is perhaps no phase of our economic system so much abused
as the matter of transportation and one of the largest abuses of trans
portation is double transportation. Why should wheat grown in
Nebraska be shipped, let us say, to Minneapolis to be milled and then
back to Nebraska to be sold. The only gain in so doing is in increased
profitR for the Minneapolis miller. Transportation facilities would
Btill carry a maximum load were double transportation abolished.
Congestion would .however, be minimized and we can appreciate the
importance of this matter when we realize that lack of transporta
tion facilities is the biggest handicap of the economic system today.
One solution of the.pt oblcm lies in the "Buy It At Home" move
ment which is attracting no little attention throughout ihe country.
Here in Nebraska there is positively no excuse for double transporta
tion on practically all of the commodities we use Nebraska milled
flour is the equal of any foreign milled flour. Extensive advertising
of the foreign milled flours is the only thing that has even given
them a foot hold in Nebraska and on through the list of a thousand
and one things manufactured in Nebraska we might say the same
thing.
But were our products not quite the equal of foreign competitive
goods there would still be an obligation to consume only locally man
ufactured goods. Never was there a greater need of a normal trans
portation system. There are some things that must of necessity be
shipped out and shipped in and, of even greater moment, there is an
enormous demand being made ami to yet be made, by the govern
ment in our preparation for war. We tieed to release every available
ear. Do what we can in this matter there will still be a heavy con
gestion in our traffic system. It is, therefore, a moral obligation upon
our part to do what we can toward releasing transportation facilities
not absolutely needed. It is due to us that we "Buy It At Home"
and that the commodities bought at home be locally manufactured
in so far as this is possible. Further, towns and cities should estab
lish community markets for the disposition of surplus products and
each town should provide adequate cold storage facilities for the
preservation of perishable commodities that would otherwise be
forced upon the market. These things are, it is true, largely a matter
of growth yet we have found that the war is putting America on a
new footing where a given amount of "talk" carried with it more
action than hitherto. We must have these remedies for the ills in
our transportation system and we may look for them at no far distant
date. From the Nebraska State Board of Agriculture Bulletin.
It is good to kno wthat Americans have at last gone "over the
top" (for the sooner the beginning the nearer the ending), but it is
better to know that after doing their work they came back without a
scratch.
THE WORLDS IN SPACE
An American astronomer is quoted as saying that if any other
planet in our solar system is inhabited it is Venus, rather than Mars,
the atmosphere of the latter being only one-seventh as dense as that
of our earth, while the former "has an atmosphere as dense now as
was that of the earth in prehistoric times, when life in all forms was
richest." The average astronomer seems reluctant to admit the pos
sibility of life in any planet except the earth. Doubtless there are
planets in our own and the myriads of other solar systems not yet
ripened into the conditions necessary to support human life, but it is
only reasonable to suppose that the ultimate destiny of every planet
is an abode for men, just as an egg barring accident or interference
is destined to become a bird, it is nlso reasonable to suppose that
vast numbers of the countless planets in the universe are already
Inhabited by men. For what other reason do planets and solar sys
tems exist, and what conceivable explanation could there be other
wise for such a stupendous waste of energy and material?
Some idea of the extent of such a waste of energy and material
may be obtained by reflection upon the distance between us and the
sun Sirius, the most beautiful star of the heavens within our view.
Astronomers tell us that it is 1,375,000 times as far from us as the
sun of our own planetary system, ami that for its light to reach us
requires 22 years, travelling at the rate of 186,000 miles a second!
That is, what we sec is not the Sirius of today but of 1895, the ray of
light that reaches our eyes having been sent forth from the vast orb
in that year. The imagination is literally staggered by the picture,
but the reasoning mind is forced to the conclusion that so many
myriads of worlds have not been brought into being merely to remain
Useless.
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WAR PRICES OF OUR PAST
Manv are complaining of the present prices as unheard of, little
dreaming that they are very moderate indeed compared with prices
during our war of 1861-65. There has been brought to light an
invoice of goods sold by a wholesale grocer of Keokuk, Iowa, in June,
ls6'2, show ing sugar at a barrel, rice $38, and tea at $101 for a
25-pOUnd chest, coffee being just four times the present price. The
bill as a whole called for nearly three times as much as it would today.
Our grand-parents were in far worse plight than we are or are likely
1o be, particularly those of our grand-parents who resided within the
blockaded Southern States.
The records show that during the latter part of the war in the
shut-in South shoes sold (in Confederate currency) at $100 a pair;
calico at $10 and finally at $25 a yard; quinine at $100 an ounce;
Hour (in Richmond) at $36, $70, $700, and finally at $1500 a barrel.
In Richmond in 1864 bacon sold at $20 a pound and meal at $140 a
bushel. Restaurants charged $2 for a boiled egg, $3 for a cup of
coffee, and so on. Physicians had to charge $30 a visit in order to
exist. Board cost members of the Confederate Congress $30 a day,
and fuel, light and extras raised their daily outlay about $30 more.
Toward the end even soldiers were more than half starved and poor
people suffered greatly for the want of food. No wonder Richmond
was the scene of bread riots. With food plentiful and prices rela
tively moderate, we need to look back into this country's history to
order to get an idea of what real privation is.
HELP FOR ITALY
Italian admissions, as well as German boasts, have shown only
too clearly the disastrous extent of the defeat suffered by Cadorna's
army. The Austrians, heavily reinforced from Germany, have at last
turned the tde of Italian victory into overwhelming defeat, for the
time at b ast. According to dispatches from Vienna, Italy will now
go the wav of Servia and Rumania, paving "a terrible price" for the some and bp. or write, if interested,
'guilt" of opposing this Teutonic war of conquest if it suffer defeat, i ' ? J J Keenen, owner Alliance
The question has been raised as to whether Italy received the support ZZZZZ ?V
it ought to have had and some critics have been quick to charge the j for sale Scholarship for com
froverument at Washington with neglect of its duty to respond to plete .business course in the Nebras
Italian need lka SrDo1 Business. Lincoln, Ne-
The Italians had plenty of men, but have been in great need of Jft&ftfJSl&.
coal ami iron. They themselves have mildly complained ot our eager- t The scholarship will be sold at a
ness to do much more for France than for them. Of course the answer good discount, on reasonable terms.
is that the needs of France, after bearing the brunt of battle for three
years, appeared to be far greater. Moreover, the government at
Washington, with armies and supplies to transport ami with a short
age of ships, has had its hands more than full. Kngland helped Italy
with munitions, and we should have been glad to send the needed
coal and iron, but it was too much to expect the Washington govern
ment to care for all our allies as well as solve our own problems dur
ing the crowded months since last April. But now it is manifestly
incumbent on both the United States and Kngland to render aid,
thfl fate of Italy which faces its time of real test being of the great
est importance to the common cause.
CONVERTED PACIFISTS
The current Saturday Evening Post contains an interesting un
signed confession of a converted pacifist "From Conscience to
Khaki " The story of the conversion of another, Prof. Vernon Kel
logg, is told under his name, in the Atlantic Monthly. These are
examples out of many of which most of us have heard or read. Prof.
Kellogg went into the relief work in Belgium with pleasant recollec
tions of the Germany where he studied biology, but along with other
idealistic Americans of open mind he was soon converted from paci
fism to belligerency, for the sight of Belgium's "mangling and suffer
ing" brought "curses to the lips" as well as tears to the eyes f the
neutral relief workers.
Of the effect of the deportations, for example, Prof. Kellogg says i
When the wrecks began to be brought back the starved and beaten
men who would not sign the statements that they had voluntarily
gone to Germany to work, and the starved and beaten ones who would
not work at all, and the ones who could not work even, when, driven
by the fear of punishment, they tried to, on the acorn soup and saw
dust bread of the torture camps" . . . they furnished "the final and
fully sufficient exhibit, prepared by the great German machine, to
convince ahsnlutelv anv one of us who might still have been clinging
to his originally desperately-maintained attitude of neutrality that iH
was high tune we were somewhere else on me outer ms ol uh
m uch line by preference."
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HIGH GRADE second-hand auto. p7TiTftryv7nT
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-Mill. 37-tf 48-8760-5t.
FJRSLl2Hlgh WANTED TO RENT Three fur-
-r carbon paper. The kind that gives inished room for housekeeping. Must
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Herald. Phone 340. SSSldi SffS?
OUR CrTAlnKoeTTrt". WANTED 200 ROOMS for the
class, high-grade automobile for sale ; Potato Growers' Convention, Novem
rheap. Used but iu excellent condi-! ber 15.16. These men consist of the
'JilJL 3l;tf j best class of farmers in our state and
FOR SALE Five-room residence J the committee hopes the people of
at 509 Sweetwater avenue. Electric ' Alliance will strain a poim to help
lights city water, bath Barn Ideal , k f h pu Com.
iown-town location. A bargain and .
can be purchased on easy terms. Call j mnity Club, No. 4, stating how
at The Herald office for further in- many you can take care of and glre
formation, price and terms. I rates. 4 7-tf-8774
FOR SALE Typewriter ribbons j ""1joy"?)RVoT
for all makes o ftypewriters. Type-no learn the printing business. Good
writer and pencil carbon papers opportunity for one who can devote
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FOR SALE 1916 model slx-cylln-j RAGS WANTED Clean cotton
der "Reo" Roadster. In perfect con- rn,a are wanted at The Herald
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5 00. 44-II-SO9 .
ww for clean cotton rags on delivery.
FARM FOR SALE On account of We can U9e 500 pounds at once,
being alone, I will offer for sale for
a short time only my farm of 582
acres, ten miles south and east of j , anrj (Tniinrl
Alliance price. $4,000. Will take S-rtJ&l txllU I UUIIU
in trade a small bunch of horses or
cattle as part payment. All fenced, .. . .
50 acres In cultivation, other Im- Bu,'d a """T"' yo"r own'
provements. Five acres of this land Molrin. Agent for Ne-
has produced $4,000 worth of pota- ??f? ,,d Loan Co-
Itoes the last two years. 200 bushels 4 1 b6i
are now being dug from one acre of
some of the best ground. If you are I 4 icr! I'J n fOI 1 C
, from Missouri and must be shown, iVJ. laVC I ln.1 J CVJ U 3
If interested call at The Herald office
or address Box 863 5, care Alliance
Herald. 42-tf-8635
FOR SALE One of the best quar
ters in Box Butte county for $10.00
per acre. Look it up. It is the
NW4 of section 32. township 25,
range 50. Geo. aGUup, Big Timber,
Montana. 45-8683-tf
BARGAIN HUNTERS TAKE NOTICE
We have for gale:
A 10 room modern house.
One 0 room modern house.
One B room modern house, except
heat.
One 9 room modern house, except
heat.
One 5 room modern house, except
heat.
SEE SNODDY M MOLLRING.
42-tf-8636
For Rent
FOR RENT Nce farm home un
til March 1st; no charge. Near Alli
ance. Apply at Herald offlco for In
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MOEFllRNm
We have equipped our dray wag
ons and auto truck with the latest
appliances for moving furniture
without marring or scratching or do
ing damage. Up-to-date wagon pads
will be used by us on all moving
Jobs. JOHN R. SNYDElt, Phone 16.
37-tf-5950
VTiuNlafl
011 Farms and Ranch I. am).
SNODDY & MOLLRING.
42-tf-8636
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Wanted
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