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jfl TOE ALLIANCE (NEBRASKA) HERALD Thursday, April 3, 1919 THE ALLIANCE HERALD IXA TD O. TIIOMAR, Editor JOHN W. THOMAS, K. n. SMITH Aworlate Ddltor litre Stock fill for THE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Owners , (Incorporate) N Entered at tha poat offlcs at Alliance, Nebraska, for transmission through th malls a aacond-claaa matter. . IHiMlehtd every Thursday. rr-DLisiiKD K V b n Y THURSDAY Subscription Price, $2.00 Per Tear, Payable in Advance -L. Krerr subscription la regarded as, aa open account. The "hamea of sub scriber will be Instantly removed from our mailing list at expiration of tlma vatd for, If publishers ahall be notified; otherwise the aubscriptlon will remain in force at the designated aubscriptlon price. Krery subscriber must under stand that three conditions ara made a part of the contract between publisher and subecrlber. err.r. . " Mil. WILSON'S TIUUMPIf (From the New York" Times) Americans who regretted the pres ident's decision to absent himself ' from the country In these days of domestic need and urgency, and the Times was one of those- which re gretted it, will not only cheerfully B'lmlt the greatness of his achieve ments at the Tarls conference, but v 111 rejoice in their recognition of hiii now amply demonstrated fitness for tin work he undertook. Mr. Wilson's presence at the conference hns not been a cause of discord or of jealousy: It has not been resented. It was seen from the beginning that Iwwfi ' there not to dominate, as his critics said, but to unite the na tions. He has been rotrvelously suc cessful tn bringing lto agreement men who represented interests that seemed to be conflicting. His influ ence in this work has prevailed be cause all the other nations repre sented looked upon him as a wise and impartial friend, Interested only ' in making Justice and the welfare of peoples the basis of the decisions rntehvd. His triumph in securing unanimous approval of the league of n.'lons constitution is one in which every America may take pride. Mr. Wilson has a, dreadful way with his critics. He does not reply to them, he des worse. They rail R' him as an Idealist, a visionary, a man without'practlcal objectives, or if he have them, that they are Im possible of acceptance; and they ob'tKlnRly point out the things he ou&ht to do. Mr. Wilson calmly continues his great labors, and pres ently lays his crKlos flat and leaves them helpless cither by doing the very aihlngs they had proposed, and doing in a manner better than they ever dreamed of, or elpe by attain ing his ends In a way that robs their objections of every point. We are confident that Mr. Deck, for instance, must regret the violence of the lan guage he used In his Lincoln Day address when he said that Mr." Wil son's foreign policy throughout "has been a black stain of dishonor upon the American people"; that "his principles have been a crazy patch work of contradictions," consistent only, in one Idea, that the war "must end in a peace without victory." If this be Just criticism, then' Mr. Wil son has as his accomplices In dishon oring the American people, in con structing "his crazy patchwork of contradictions," and in bringing the war to an end without victory, some fourteen nations of the earth, in cluding the greatest civilized na tions. Such criticism recoils disas trously upon him who utters it. Not even the natural desire, of a great poUtlcal party to find or create "Is sues" for the coming presidential election can give lodgment in the minds and hearts of the people to this estimate of Mr. Wilson's distin guished service. The day when the project of the covenant of peace was approved un animously In Paris was one . of the greatest in the world's history. The people of all the nations understand that; the people of America, with their horror of war, cannot be fooled about It, they cannot be misled into any small and narrowlew of Its mo mentous promise. In bringing the plan of the league into form and ac ceptance, Mr. Wilson has played a master role, every American feels that in his heart, evety American un- IMPERIAL 1 , THEATRE MATINEE 4:15 NIGHT 7:30 The Great Sublime NA&MOVA IN Metro's Super-production i "REVELATION" 7 ACTS OF POWERFUL DRAMA 7 The soul of a Paris griiette, laid bare to all the world. ADMISSION Matinee, 10c and 30c; Night, 30c straight Saturday Matinee and Night N EVELYN INESBIT x and her son RUSSELL THAW -IN- "THE WOMAN . ' y HO GAVE" An intense and powerful photoplay of a woman's at rug fries to keep her life clean for the sake of her son. I IATINEE 2 :30 NIGHT-7:30 derstands that he brought great abil ities, extraordinary qualities of tact and persuasion, and a profound un derstanding of the need of all the peoples to performance of his task. The American people will be Impatient of any petty or partisan obstruction put in the way of the ac ceptance of this covenant of the na tions as their public system of law and Justice. PKOHI'KltOfH AMKIUCA In the year 1909, when nobody had a thought of this country ever being involved In a world: war, our exports to foreign countries amount ed In value to $252,000,000. In 1918 the big year of the war, the total value of our exports had grown to $3,150,000,000. In 1914 the United States govern ment owed foreign- countries $4,000, 000,000. At the beginning of 1919. all this foreign debt had been wiped out and 'foreign countries were ow ing the United States $10,000,000, 000. In 1913-while we were at peace with the world, we pointed v. with pride to our deposits in banks, then aggregating $6, 05 1,0 00.0 00. Today after having gone through the great war, our people purchasing 18 billion dollars' of Liberty Bonds, be sides contributing billions to other war activities, and paying the high cost of living the total deposits la the united States amount to $15,- U5i,uuo,ouo, Having Increased $9, 000.000,000 during the war. These are staggering figures, and' we might go on telling how America and Americans have prospered as no other nation or people ever prosper ed before. Ours .was a righteous cause and we were not in the war for gain, yet through It all our oeo- ple piled Op and are still piling up weaKh beyond the dreams of the wildest optimist. And now that the government is about to launch Its Victory Liberty Loan to finish the war Job, the 6,000,000,000 or $6,- vuu.uoo.ooo the people are to he asked to lend at interest as an in vestment will not be a "drop in the bucket" as compared with what Am erica could do if necessity arose. DKSTUl'CTIVH CJ. O. P. FILIBU8- . v TKR, By a filibuster conceived 'in hos tility to President Wilson, Republi can senators defeated bills appropri ating some $3,000,000,000 for the operation of the government and the demobilization of the army. Presi dent Wilson suffers nothing In pres tige or in the public's confidence by reason of this show of petty parti sanship, although, like every other citizen, he must have been pained for the sake of those who inspired it. In the list of bills which this Re publican Obstruction prevented from enactment were several that are vital to a quick and thorough reconstruc tion of, the nation's commerce and Industry; to the employment of la bor and to a fitting provision for re turning soldiers and sailors. Some of these measures, sufh as that con templating homesteads for soldiers, and that authorizing the formation of a regular army to relieve the men overseas, were of the utmost import ance to millions of citizens who had deserved the best, not the worst, of congress. Those Republican leaders who concocted and conducted the fil mus ter against, legislation which the whole country has been expecting and urging have assumed grave re sponsibility. The bills were before them; there was a majority in their favor; there was the admission, even of the Republicans themselves by their voice' and votes that they were indispensable to the govern ment and private enterprise. Yet, to gratify a spite against the chief executive they failed in their duty as legislators and worked harm to ev ery Interest, public and private. POLITICAL CHICANKKY IN THE DISCARD Some men, who take a more or less active part in politics, due to their position, their business or their inclination, appear to believe that the old political methods of double crossing and underhanded work at elections will still win success. Men who practice these methods and who still favor them can learn lessons by recent elections. The people take more interest- In elections than they did in past years and they. Cote ac cording to their convictions. Once in a while they may be fooled by the statements of unscrupulous men but they speedily find this out when men who do not "make good" are elect ed. . v The voting by women was a new thing for Nebraska and politicians were deeply Interested. At the Al liance election they walked to the polls, took their ballots and voted them as their Judgment dictated. We predict that the women will make excellent use of their new voting power at all elections and trust that the day is not far off when they will have unlimited suffrage. In Nebras ka this will undoubtedly follow the amending of the constitution. - NKUHASKA WILL IIBCKIVW PART OF WAIt KQC1PMKXT . The federal aid law Las been further amended to permit all surplus war equipment and ma- terlals that could be used for road building purposes to be distributed among the states on the same basis as the federal funds are distributed. As grav- 1 el will be used in surfacing the greater part of Nebraska roads .the army trucks obtained under this amendment can be used to advantage in hauling materials. All of the roads will be of a uniform grade.' In order to do 'this it will be necessary to use machinery on a large scale. Tractors received from the War Department will be of , great benefit In carrying on this con- structlon. FKDKRAL AID filVttfl tJOLDKN OPPORTUNITY Under the federal road act of 1916 Nebraska received $640,- 000 for road Improvement dur lug 1917 and 1918. The con- ditlon under which this 'federal aid was given was that the state should, raise a like amount for this purpose. This require- ment was met by an appropria- tion made by the legislature two years ago. Under the amended federal roau act over $3,000,000 will be available June 30, 1919, and $2,000,000 will be available June 30, 1920, ' from federal, funds for road building In this state. This amendment, 'Just as the original act, stipulates that an equal amount must be pro- vlded by the state for road im- provement. The appropriation must be used within two years from the time It Is available or It will be lost. How shall the state raise $3,000,000 In order to take ad- vantage of this proffer of fed- eral funds, is the all-important question. - It has been suggest- ed that the various counties of the state be asked to raise the money to meet the federal ap- propriatlon. But this plan is not practicable. About .75 per cent of the counties are'already making the maximum levies al- lowed under the state constitu- tion according to reports which have been filed with the Feder- al department. If additional funds were raised it would have to be by bond issues and this would Involve more expense than would a direct state levy. It is proposed that the funds to meet the federal appropria- tion be raised by a levy. This matter needs the at-tentton of our present legislature because, in order to make the funds available under the year limit, the projects would have to be laid out, surveyed, and approv- ed by tfce government Immedi- ately. .- Horse Still a Going Concern Horses are hardly maintaining their number on farms in this coun try, in consequence of the autotruck, the automobile, and the needs of the war, and yet there are nearly as many In the country now as a year ago, according to the. Bureau of Crop Estimates Of the United States De partmentof Agriculture. Further more, there are now one-third of a million more than at the beginning of the waf. It was expected that the war would stampede the horse market In this country an dwould send prices high enough to rob the farms of a lare number of much needed work animals, but there was no such shock as was expected. From 1910 to 1915 horses on farms In creased a little each year, usually ov er 1 per cent, And since 1915 the In crease of four years has apparency been over 300,000. The present to tal, according to the estimate, Is 21,534,000 horses. The exports of horses during the war to December 31, 1918, have been slightly more than 1,000,000; at the prewar rate the normal exports would have been about a.w.OOO. As far as covered by domestic exports, the war made an extra demand on farmers for al most 900,000 horses. To this must be added the extra demand of the United States Government. By Jan uary 11, 1919. the War Department had shipped overseas nearly 39,000 horses, and -on Nqvember 2, 1918, that department had in this counts' nearly 165,000 horses. The appar ent figures of extra demand on the farmers of .the United States by this country and the allies for horses on account of the war make a total of about 1,100,000 horses In exports and In the service of the War De partment. The actual number Is greater by tlfe normal exports, and hence about 1,200,000 horses are In dicated as the horse contribution of the farms to the war, not including private purchases and the United States Government outside of the War Department. FARMER GOES MILES TO TELL OF RELIEF "I have come twenty-elz miles to tell you what Tanlac has doae for me," said Joe M. Vinson, a well known farmer of Love, Miss., while in Memphis recently. , ' . ' "Three years. ago," he' continued, "my stomach got all out of order, I couldn't digest a thing and for eight months lived on buttermilk: and the white of eggs. I was too nervous to sleep well, gas on my stomach made me miserable. ' I had spells .of dull ness, would almost faint and could hardly get my breath. I had split ting headaches and was so billons that I would often vomit. "Since taking Tanlac my health Is as good as anybody's and I feel like a new man. I eat anything I want, sleep like a rock, all the misery and swelling has gone from my stomach. I have gained fifteen pounds and can do a hard day's work. I wouldn't be in the same fix I was before tak ing Tanlac for my farm and the stock thrown In." N Tanlac is sold in Alliance by F. E. Holsten, in Hemlngford by Hemlng ford Merc. Co., and in Hoffland by Mallery Grocery Co. Drs. Jeffrey and States, Chiroprac tors. 1 7859tf w Cheaper and Better : Bread and Cakes Produced under the most stringent rules of sanita tion, by skilled bakers and with the aid of modern equip ment our products are absolutely wholesome; are cheap er than you ;an produce, them for and are of a quality that will satisfy completely the most particular. ' You 11 find us prepared to fill your wants with any thing in the pastry line. All goods are fresh and clean. Buy None but Alliance-Made ' Bread and Pastry ALLIANCE BAKERY 111 st See Yourself ie These New Models ALL WE ASK IS THAT YOU COME IN; AND SEE YOURSELF IN OME OF OUR NEW WAISTLINE AND FIVE PIECE BACK MODELS. We promise not to urge you to buy. We just want to. show you the difference. -, We want to show you how we can meet your individuality1 with-one of these models. We want to show you the modish atmosphere, the snappy effects, the rare distinctiveness to be found in our selection of spring models at the very reasonable price of $35.00, , The New Florsheims Are Here You know Florshdm quality we think everybody knows it. More of you men who are raying as much for ordinary shoes as Flor- sheims would cost, ought to know The Florsheim Shoe by actual wear as well as by reputation in order that you might enjoy the extra satisfaction arid serv ice you would get and thus become convinced that it pays te buy Florsheim Always, i ' Try a pair, you cannot make a better selection. y Prices $10 and $121 W. R. HARPER DEPARTMENT ST"ORE- 4 ir n