THE ALLIANCE (NEBRASKA) HERALD
Thursday, Angus, l'th, 1919
THE ALLIANCE HERALD
LLOYD a THOMAS, Editor
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We're Going
Over
Iy "Scott"
llah the truth bey op d question, and
this the government ougut to be able
to do.
TUB NEW riTUTANISM.
A short time ago two respectable
'and well-behaved young women were
arrested In New York and locked up . 1
tor several days merely because they TUB TRUE REMEDY,
paused on the street and spoke with ' What Is to be gained by adrances
two men, one of whom was am old, in wages If It Is , Impossible to ad-
acquaintance. The New York papers vance wages fast enough to keep
now report a similar case, that of an
estimable young lady who had gone
to that city to be married and, who
was Jailed for several days merely
because she rented a room while
doing her shopping Instead of- re
maining in a high-priced hotel. Of
course, like the other two unfortun
ate girls, she was triumphantly ac
' quitted after formal examination, and
the much too pure-minded vice
Squad listened to another tongue-1
lashing from the court. Similar
outrages have been reported from
Washington and other cltiee, the
frequency of these crary performan
ces being attributed to the insistent
demand of reformers that supposed
ly helpless doughboys be protected
from vampires.
, In""former times a policeman ex
ercised ordinary discretion, his prac
tised eye as a rule quite readily dis
tinguishing between an Innocent
young woman and a street vampire.
But now he is nervous and precipi
tate because be knows he Is being
watched by the agents of people who
are so eager to take charge of their
neighbors' morals that they eontrn
ually occupy thel rminds wit evil
and therefore see It where it is not.
cicerone in roLiTios.
In the reminiscences - of Col.
Henry Witterson, now being pub
lished serially, there is an account of
his quarrel with President Cleveland,
with related correspondence between
the two, showing that It was not a
personal matter and" was concerned
only with the tariff question. But as
both .were ardent tariff reformers, a
mere matter of detail taken by Itself
seems an Insufficient cause for a
lasting disturbance There Is some
indication between the lines that Col.
Watterson, who had been longer a
student and representative of this
reform, exhibited or was thought to
have exhibited, a disposition to Im
pose his will upon a man who, above
all else, had a will of his own. This
may or may not be the real explana
tion of a surprising rupture and the
failure to reach an amicable adjust
ment.
In no great while Col. Watterson's
memoirs will doubtless reach the
date of his quarrel with Wood row
WilBon before the latter was elected'
President, and this will, make more
Interesting reading still. But in
matters of this kind the historian,
like the Judge, wishes to hear both
parties to a quarrel before he finally
teaches what he can regard as a Just
decision. The quarrels of the old
war horse of Kentucky with younget
Democrats coming Into prominence,
suggest if they do not actually reveal
: a tendency to coach and direct, the
consequences of which In some in
stances can be as readily understood
as one might expect them to be for
een.
pace with the rise In prices? There
is less profit even for the laboring
man In wage advance than la price
reduction. Therefore the thing to
be desired .the thing to battle for,
Is the bringing down of living costs
to a mere normal level. This seems ,
to be the conclusion, the logical
conclusion, of the Brotherhood of 1
Locomotive Engineers, who. In their!
appeal to the President, though they
complain In the familiar way of the
Inadequacy of present wages to meet
the high cost of living, clearly recog
nise tuat a boosting of wage which
Is no more than a nere chase after
soaring prices cau accomplish, ucth
iug. on this poia; the pronouice
ment of the Brotherhood uaOs:
"The true remedy for the situ
ation, and one that will result In
lifting the burden with which the
whole people are struggling, Is for
the Government to take some ade
quate measures to reduce the cost
of the necessities of life to a figure
that the present wages and Income
of the people will meet."
Such Is the true remedy, or at
least the only means toward the end
sought that is now in sight. This
seems to be recognized In practically
every quarter. Organised labor,
economists, industrial arbitration
boards, and government officials, all
appear to be turning their eyes to
ward remedial legislation. More
legislation is easy; legislation pro
viding a real remedy Is the difficulty.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En
gineers may well ask for "adequate"
measures. Anti-trust- laws, were
enacted and under them no end of
trust-busting followed. At times the
achievement of a genuine solution
seemed at hand. Yet now the public
Is startled to find , that the biggest
and most powerful of all the trusts,
the five-packer combine, through its
vast expansion and control of nearly
eight hundred companies, dominates
very nearly the whole food supply of j Well, we dldnt
A NEEDED INQUIRY,
Those native Americans whe are
going about lecturing in faver of
the Russian Bolshevists speak very
persuasively. They report having
spent a tew months in Russia, refer
to the "tales" about the barbarities
of the Bolshevik!, describe 'Just
what they saw' with their own eyes
and this altogether repudiates the
reports of American consuls or ether
government officials condemning the
Bolshevists and their tyrannical
methods. Some of these are likely
to be searchlngly questioned now
that Governor Smith of New York
has authorized a special seasioa. of
the Supreme Court grand Jury of the
State to Investigate Bolshevist acti
vities in New York. Including the
Rand School of Social Science and
the behavior of the so-called Soviet
Ambassador.
Such an official inquiry seems te
be highly desirable, for the people
are being disturbed by the twe at
terly different and antagonists ac
count of Bolshevism that are offer
ed them. It appears to be a ques
tion of veracity between smooth
speaking propagandists and the gov
ernment's representatives. The aver
age citizen is of course dtsneeed to
trust the latter, but after listening
to a persuasive propagandist ho be
comes disturbed In mind. The In
quiry should be strictly fair, how
ever, and It la well to remember that
revolutionary doctrine thrives on
suppression. There is more danger
to be feared from the denial of free
speech than- there is menace to Am
erica in the extension of Bolshevist
opinion, the- propaganda of which in
peace times would not come enter
the head of punishable crime. The
thief seed is to lay bare and 1ab-
the country. Obviously the old antl
trust laws are in need of strengthen
ing and more effectual trust-busting
is demanded.
There is need not only of chalking
a line for all profiteers to walk out
of curbing the greed of all producers
of the necessaries of life. How is
this to be done? Who is ready with
a plan sure to succeed? The answer
is not easy, and there may be more
blundering and time-wasting experi
ment before the real solution Is
forthcoming. But there is promise
in the fact that the people are arous
ed and determined. Room for hope
is provided by the announcement
that all government forces are at
work on the problem of bringing
down prices, that the President,
Cabinet and Congress are uniting in
the effort to rush measures intended
to bring the profiteers, especially the
food profiteers, to a strict account
ing. Female Executioner.
According to Ihe London Sunday
"lines of February IS, 1820. the hang
man who executed Burke had a wife
whom he had instructed in the art and
mystery of hanging. Dressed In man's
attire, while he was executing crim
inals in oue part of the country, his
lady was giving effect to the lnw In
another. Burke, it may be recalled,
was an Irishman, who was In the hnb
lt of suffocating his victims and selling
their bodies to the anatomists, lit
was hanged at Edinburgh on Junuarj
28. v
I am unable to express myself with
any degree of force or fluency but by
putting down, as I have seen them,
facta In the form of a series of con
densed statements I may interest
you In the happenings of the past
eighteen months as they affected me
personally and aa they appeared to
my "buddies" and fellow soldiers.
I realize that the "halt haa never
yet been told" and probably never
will be. There are a great many
things that thousands of those who
went across never saw, consequently (
cannot tell about, ana tnose wno did
see and experience these things will
never so much as open their mouths
about them. So, putting my ham
mer in Its coffin and hailing the ltd
down tight with a flatlron, I will en
deavor to write these articles omit
ting all reference to hardships, par
ticularly on the subjects of food,
shelter, clothing and treatment.
A few subjects I intend to Include
are: "We're Going Over", "Knotty
Ash", "England", "Southampton to
Le Havre", "France", "St. Dialer to
Meti", "The Battle of Vin Rouge",
"The German Defeat", "Luxem
burg", "Germany", "Coblena", "The
Rhine", "Children of Europe", "St.
Agony", "Buddies", "Homeward
Bound", "The - League of Nations",
"Military Training in Schools", "The
American Legion", and "Nebraska
versus the . Whole of Europe", de
pending, of course, upon how the ar
ticles "take". However, these are a
few of what I have outlined.
The trip across, New York to
Liverpool, was interesting in many
ways, and this interest was intensi
fied by the constant suspense in
which we all found ourselves. We
never exactly worried, but some of
the fellows slept very little for the
first few nights. Our convoy con
aisted of thirteen cleverly camouflag
ed transports and several cruisers.
sub-chasers, etc.
Most of us seemed to realise for
the first time Just what liberty meant
as we steamed out past "Miss Lib
erty" and viewed her for the first
time in her coat of ocean green (I
nad expected ner to be clothed in a
beautiful suit of white paint). Tears
came to the eyes' of many, as we
knew some of us would never return,
and our thoughts were all. for the
folks at home. We had no idea of
the fun we would have in a few
months "kidding the trrcps" of the
77th Division. These N'Yawlers
wear the emblem of the Statue of
Liberty on their left sleeve, and
nothing is more fun than asking a
77th Division man why that girl on
his sleeve is holding the candle above
her head and If she is looking for
the "lost battalion".
There was little excitement for a
few days, until -after we had passed
along the coast of Newfoundland and
Greenland and had left till land far
behind. The sea was unusually
rough, hardly a day passing that the
waves did not come up on the main
deck and sometimes clear over the
ship. The English crew were a
happy-go-lucky set and seemed to
think that canned rabbit (fur and
all) was about the finest thing they
could give American soldiers to eat.
waste any slum.
jand the smoke had cleared away
that we bad won our case and a few
eastern converts to boot. Men who
had never been west of Philadelphia
learned that Indians and buffaloes
do not run wild in Nebraska, that
Nebraska has a city of 200,000 pop
ulatlon, that a single county in Ne
braska is larger than the state of
Connecticut, that ' three-fourths of
the potash of the United States
comes from Nebraska, that a few of
the things that make Nebraska rank
among the first are corn, cattle,
small grain, potatoes, schools, auto
mobiles, bank clearings, etc., etc.
And what did we learn In return?
That New York is the largest city in
the world, contains the tallest build
ing in the world, has a fine harbor,
and that Albany Is the capital of the
state. The moral of which Is: Learn
the facts concerning your own state;
you never know when you'll need
them
HAROLD S. THOMAS.
Diseases Spixad by Wars.
In the nineteenth century, during
the Rosso-Turkish wars, typhus Ppread
from Turkey up through Wallachls
Into Austria. The French suffered
from it during the Crimean conflict.
In the Franco-Prussian war, the
French, being poorly clothed and fed,
again suffered. The Balkan war seem
to have been notable more for cholera,
a summer disease, thnn typhus, wfctch
flourishes best In winter.
' seemed In Distress.
One Saturday morning Kermlt'sf
mother was baking pies. She ashed
Kermlt to go open the oven door and
see If the pies were getting too brown.
As It happened, the oven was quite hat
and the Juice was bubbling out of th
top of the pies while the crust was
hearing up and down. Kermlt opened,
the oven door and said : "No, they're
not too browu, but they're breathlnV
awful hard."
"President Maker."
Thurlow Weed, nn old-time polities'
leader of New York, was called "tlu
president maker." He was .lroiulneir
In procuring the nomination of (len
erst V. II. Harrison In 1S40. of Gen
eral Taylor In 1848 and of Genera
Scott in 1S52, though the last naniei
was not elected. In 1SG0 he supportei
Lincoln, though he had favored tin
nomination of William II. Seward oi
New York. He never held any pnblh
office. , . '
Not to Be Thought Of.
Jamie was asking his mother a tot of
Illy questions, such as, "Why are your
eyes Mue? . Ills mother said. "Why
do yon ask such silly questions when
I am trying to read?" "WeH." re
sponded Jamie, "do yon want your
little boy to grow up without a vocab
ulary in his mind?"
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White Ribbon
Wurtzenburger
Wm. King Company
Wholesale and Retail
Beverages and Cigars
Bravo
MEALS AND LUNCHES AT ALL HOURS
Mail Orders Filled Promptly
Fret. City Delivery Phone 136
Alliance, Nebraska Non-Toxo
ATLAS REDWOOD TANKS
Will outlast several steel tanks
or several tanks made from
other material, and cost lest,
money. These tanks will keep
the water cooler In summer
and warmer in winter. 1
Send fur price list today.
Atlas Tank Mfg. Co.
LOUIS N. BOISEN, Manager
1103 W. O. W. Building:, Omahi, Nebraska
8alt 8uperstltlona.
ftaperstitlons concerning salt are
among the earliest known to mankind.
There is much evidence in holy writ
for the ceremonlul uses of It, and the
old Mosaic law commands that every
eacvflce of a meat offering shall be
seasoned with It Homer calls it di
vine, and many of the old Teuton
races looked on salt springs as holy
and worshiped at thcra. The origin
of this superstltlou seems to be that
since salt cannot corrupt lt should be
regarded as a symbol of immortality.
Packing a Trunk.
When packing an old trunk or box.
list each article, package or roll on a
sheet of paper and fateu to the to
of the box or trunk, or us a memor
andum book for " designating each
receptacle. Then li.-n wanting an
article to use refer it the list, thereby
caving time and troi '-id.
goiansn or mon Key-meat wnen we
finally hH our "rest" camp at Knotty
Ash, Liverpool.
, Somewhere between Greenland
and Iceland we entered, a dense fog.
A collision with a boat on the star
board bow was narrowly averted by
reversing our engines, and we were
so badly scared, crew and all, that
it didn't take us long to get entirely
lost from our convoy. We had been
left far behind. By going full speed
straight ahead we caught up 'with
them in a few hours, however, as
they had continued their tig-sagging.
We were unable to use our wireless.
It was too dangerous. Some U-boat
might pick up our message and learn
where we were. It was hardly pos
sible that a sub could come that far
north where the water was so in
tensely cold,v but we were taking no
chances. Why, even wrist wafches
were forbidden to be worn on deck
after sunset because of their lumin
ous dials. And smoking after dark !
was a court-martial offense.
We saw but one submarine, and
that was as we entered the Irish Sea
from the north. It was at high noon
and we saw a "chaser" set out after
her. Then a depth bomb "and she
was ours".
One of the most amusing and not
Infrequent occurrences during the
long days on the way over was to
see a company lined up at "atten
tion" on the deck for roll call or in
spection and to have a huge wave
about tha ttlme come over the top
and knock them off their feet. It
was a fine recipe for removing dig
nity from an officer. And profanity!
American soldiers could make a vet
eran In the British uavy look like a
new-born babe, it was always fun
to watch someone else "feed the
fish", but personally I didn't get
much fun out of it as I was busy for
eleven days donating all I could to
the sharks and then trying to give
them the lining of my stomach.
Frequently at night, and until
early in the morning, a bunch of fel
lows would gather in the cabin used
as ship headquarters, sitting there
on the floor in the dark, recite poetry
and talk of girls 'neverythlng back
home. Kipling and Service were our
favorites in poetry, and when it
came to girls each fellow was certain
that the rest were all mistaken.
And I guess they were. Because for
every fellow there is a "finest girl in
the world".
As my battalion was. composed of
men from more than half the states
in the Union we had some lively dis
cussions at these and other gather
ings on the merits of the different
states. There were in the entire bat
talion but two of us from Nebraska,
and I think after all had been a&ld
"REAL STUPH"
Gentlemen and Friends: stock Yards Station. Omaha, Nebr.. Aug. 12, 1919
With the strike situation clearing all around and tinuatlon of this good demand for nm.tim. m,
the Railroads getting in a position where they can bargo placed I by the ChS 5 wL?a6;
handle the shipments of live stock, our market here Is Wabash railroad on recelvina .hhS.?' .Kd
25 to 60c higher than last weeks close on all kinds of threatened railroad strike has ttlV
grass cattle; corn feds about the same. somewhat, but when this ,il V"9 d,emand
fc We believe we will have reasonably light receipt, look for a sUU gTeater call fo? feeder.8 Temdlel
the balance of the week, and no doubt, a very active Lambs . 1 ...
market, but the prospects are for heavy receipts from Lambs, Culls '!;,: J 'J J'76
the first of next week on, and we no doubt, will see a Lambs, Feeders
lower market than we have at the present time, al- Yearlings . I 'l ; J4-6"
though these cattle should bring good prices right Wethers H ; 101-25
lo-. . a v, . v . Ee. Good to choiVe fSS
We have received no good choice western beef Ewes, Fair to Good ..& u 8.75
steers, or stockers and feeders this week, and with the Ewes, Culls and CanneVa 'In i H2
demand that there is for all classes of cattle we can- Ewes, Breeders sn vv
not see where they are going to be able to break our. 8-B0 t0 13.01
market very much. Reverse English.
We quote: General Gershing was astonished to recelv lut
Choice to Prime Grass Beef Steers $14.00 to $15.50 month from a New York vaudeville manaeer a
Good to Choice Grass Beef Steers . . 12.00 to 14.00 figure offer to deliver short daily war-talks In ?h
Fair to Good Grass Beef Steers ... . 8.50 to 12.00 vaudeville houses throughout America
Common to Fair Grass Beef Steers . 8.60 to 9.50 The general did not reply to this telegram and a.
Mexican Steers : 7.60 to 9.00 'fortnight passed. Then the vaudeville man wired
Choice to Prime Grass Beef Cows . . 10.60 to 11.60 again: mn tirea
Good to Choice Grass Beef Cows . . . 9.50 to 10.50 "Have you entertained my proposition?"
Medium Grades Grass Beef Cows . . 8.00 to 9.00 "No," General Pershing wired back "Yonr nrnrw.
Common to Fair Grass Beef Cows . . 7.00 to 8.00 sitlon has entertained me." "r propo-
Canners . 6.50 to 6.50 ...
Cutters 7.00 to 8.00 Thft . . Not 1IU Boss.
Bologna Bulls 7.25 to 8.60 tvJeiuase, ldenUy getting a bit fed up with
Beef Bulls 8.60 to 9.25 ,.TJu,7'.and 'f8 be announced:
Corn Fed Bulla 8.50 to 12.00 I discharge this Jury!"
Veal Calves 8.00 to 1S.50 etaU lean member ' the twelve then arose.
Choice to Prime Feeder Steers .... 18.00 to 14.60 Judge, you can't discharge me!"
Good to Choice 12.00 to 18.00 . ,Cont Charge you?. Why not?" thundered the
Medium to Fair 9.00 to 11.00 u0.ff; . ,
Choice Stockers 10.50 to 11.60 . . reP'Jed the Juryman, pointing to the eoun-
Good to Choice 9.60 to 10.00 f1 for the defense, "I was hired by that guy over
Medium to Fair 8.50 to 9.50 inee- t a ,
Commoii to Fair Grades 7.50 to 8.60 . ,Beg to advise that after the Fifteenth of August, all
Stock Heifer C.50 to 9.50 "uppers from Nebraska who accompany their stock to
Stock Cows 6.60 to 8.60 market must have two cars of stock in order to re
Stock Calves .'. 7.00 to 10.00 eeive return transportation. This haa been in effect
Choice to Prime Corn Fed Steers , . 17.50 to 18.50 n.Inte-Bta.t,e shipments, but on and after that date.
Good to Choice 16.60 to 17.60 Nebraska shippers must have two cars in order to re
All Other Grades 12.00 to 16.50 ceive return transportation.
Choice to Prime Yearlings , 16.00 to 18.00 Messrs. Callan & Felstea. from Preston, Idaho, who
Good to Choice Yearlings 15 00 to 16.00 are big operators in the live Btock game, had a load of
Fair to Good Yearlings 13.00 to 14.60 cattle here this week.
Common to Fair Yearlings 11.00 to 13.00 r. Ivan Johnson, of Sutherland, Nebraska, arrlv-
Sharp Advance in Hogs; 25 to 50c Higher. swhColiTo X enfe!
. The supply of hogs at Omaha has been very light . faction. ur 8aUa
this week, and our market has been considerable high- Mr. Jos. Rauch, of North Platte another eonrt
er, in fact our market Is about 75c to $1.00 higher booster for the Inter-State was down this week with
than quoted last week. We look for fair receipts of a two car shipment of cattle Monday o this week
hogs the balance of the week, and also for lower mar- Mr. W. W. Hunter of North Platte "had a load f
ket. It is our opinion that if these hogs get to coming cattle on the market this week which the int.(!ta?I
very freely they will break this market considerable. sold. uier-biate
Omaha ....4.400; Bulk $21.00021.50; Top $22.00 Mr. Ira Nagle of Morrll, Nebraska camedown tna..
Chicago ...20,000; Bulk $20.6023.25; Top. $23.40 with a two car shipment of mixed cattle whirh ?I
Kansas City 4.000; Bulk $22.8523.00; Top $23.10 Inter-State sold. hiCh 016
St. Joe .... 7.000; Bulk $21.25022.85; Top $23.00 Messrs Jordan and nmit .
Sioux City . 3.000; Bulk $20.50 0 21.50: Top $22.25 H u!Stsn i ol Morrill NJhru!-119' and
Omaha Take. Led in Sheep Itecelpta-Good ' S Cafflne,lh,!l UoKS ' ?
Grades Sell Freely at Higher rrlces tlemen all went home well satisfied both with the
Lively Call for Feeders. prices, and the way their stock was handled.
Receipts of Sheep and Lambs continue heavy, with D?n,t forget the Inter-State when you ship. We
the percentage of feeders growing larger each week. nkere ear,T and late to look after your interests.
The bulk of the feeders consist of lamba. feeder ewes. na, nc;w yu wm he well pleased with the net re
and yearlings are not over plentiful. The demand for BUlu- Beat wishes, we beg to remain
all classes is very good, and prospects point to a con- Yours respectfully
Inter-State Live Stock Commission Go
"We Strive to Pleasi"
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