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THE ALLIANCE HERALD, ALLIANCE, NEBRASKA, NOVEMBER 13, 1919
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The Omaha police department has
vldenlly been awakened to a sense
Of duty by the recent riots and the
subsequent grilling to which It ha
been subjected. Now it is proposed,
According to Tollce Commissioner
Ringer, to eliminate loafers. "Any
man, white or black, who Is not sick,
found out of employment must make
A satisfactory explanation or leave
the city," says the commissioner.
"There Is no excuse for an able-bodied
man to be out of a Job. The de
mand for men Is greater than the
supply and loafing will not be tol
erated." The enforcement of this
rule will make any city a better and
safer placo to live, and Omaha In
particular has considerable room for
Improvement.
By an overwhelming vote of 309
to 1 the lower house of congress
Toted Monday to deny a seat .to Vic
tor L. Berger, socialist congressman
from Milwaukee, because of his open
opposition to the war. After the
Tote was taken, the house declared
the seat vacant and notified the Wis
consin governor to that effect. . Rep
resentative Butler of Pennsylvania
apparently expressed the opinion of
bis colleagues when he said, a'ter ad
journing a meeting of his committee
that all .members might vote on the
question; that It was, "an opportun
ity to turn a mad dog out." It Is for
tunate that the senate did not feel
likewise when it had the LaFollette
case under consideration.
No less than . 87 per cent of the
men who took out war risk Insur
ance have allowed it to lape Blnce
leaving the service. The American
Legion Weekly, official organ of the
American Legion, presented in a re
cent issue the reasons for the wlde-
. spread loss of faith. It wasn't easy
to get figures and data for the arti
cle. Despite the fact that the maga
zine reached the very men whom the
war risk officials have been trying to
reach, and despite the fact that the
purpose was to encourage the lapser
to take up the Insurance, the investi
gators met with a lack of co-opera-
tlon and even opposition from offi
cials who should have been inter
ested. It is pretty well established
that the bureau's affairs have not
been competently Interested In the
past, and R. O. Cholmley-Jones, who
' has been in charge of the bureau
since May, appears not to have had
sufficient confidence in the efficiency
of his administration to produce the
necessary facts and figures to furnish
A demonstration. But war risk in
surance is too valuable to be turned
In with rifles, packs and mess kits,
And the campaign started by the le
gion's official organ should be taken
tip by every newspaper and magazine
in the country, to the end that official
incompetence, indifference and red
tape shall be done away with.
Coursey & Miller
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JLDGH II. II. IllIWITT
Elected delegate to the constitutional
convention from the district com
prising Box Butte and Sheridan
counties by an overwhelming ma
jority at the election November 3.
A congressional committee is now
holding a hearing at Camp Grant,
111., where it is investigating charges
of wanton waste in the construction
of the camp. Incidentally, it is find
ing" all the evidence it desires. Testi
mony has been given indicating that
laborers "laid down" on the Job in
good shape; that grocery clerks and
tailors were hired at high wages to
do construction work and that there
was the wildest extravagance in the
use of all kinds of building material.
One foreman has testified that condi
tions finally got so bad that laborers
would not lift a twelve-foot section
of three-Inch pipe unless there were
six men to do it. We have no defi
nite knowledge of conditions at Camp
Grant, but are prepared to believe al
most anything after what we Baw of
construction work at Camp Dodge.
On a visit there, we saw not less than
eight men gathered around a ditch
less than fifteen feet long, and these
men were getting in each other's way
or resting on the bank while three
sections of small pipe were being
laid. The system employed in this
construction work, by means of which
the supervisor was paid a percentage
of the money spent, not the money
saved, could result in nothing but
this kind of work save in a few cases
where there were really conscien
tious men in charge. Incidentally,
it is interesting to note that the same
plan will be used in the construction
of Nebraska's new capltol. Maybe
it will work out pretty well, if the
cantonment construction abuses get
a sufficient airing.
One hears, every little while, of a
longing for the good old days before
the civil war. If we were to believe
half the things that are Bald and
written of those times, we should be
compelled to believe that the mil
lennium was almost at hand then,
had they but known it. s a matter
of fact, not one person. in a thousand
would really wish to go back to those
days. The Herald editor has been
going through a pile of old maga
zines of tlmt era, and some of the
disclosures are more Or less enlight
ening. It is true that there was
less chasing after the almighty dol
lar, though there was plenty of that
even then; there was a more neigh-
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borly feeling, but even then it didn-t
come up to the brand of hospitality
that is met with in some of these
western states; there was more re
spect shown by younger to older peo
ple, but we doubt whether the old
days were particularly good for the
children. On the other hand, there
were mighty few railroad lines, and
those in existence were poor affairs,
with limited freight and passenger
facilities. A Journey of a few' hun
dred miles on one of them was a big
event. There were no electric lights,
not even kerosene lamps were in
commonn use. Most of the illumina
tion was furnished by dim and smoky
tallow dips. The telegraph was in
use, but the telephone was for the
future to bring forth. Furnace heat
was unknown. Typewriters and type
setting machines, adding machines
and a score or more of indispensa
ble business adjuncts were missing.
There was no banking system as we
know it today. There were a num
ber of privately owned banks, which
had practically no .supervision,
charged ruinously usurious rates and
furnished little or no accommoda
tion. The man who wished to bor
row money to enlarge his business,
buy land or pay his debts got it
from his friends, not the banks. No
automobiles, no wireless, no im
proved machinery in any line of in
dustry. How many of us would wish
to go back to conditions like these,
even If he escaped coal strikes and
steel strikes, the high cost of living
and the profiteers. A friend of ours
once figured out that Methuselah
lived to be over eight hundred years
old, but that measured by the prog
ress of his times and his accomplish
ments, he didn't live for over twenty
five years, at the outside.
And now comes the announcement
of a French inventor that a "flivver"
aeroplane has been invented for fam
ily use. The machine, which weighs
120 pounds and is driven by an elec
tric motor, is capable of a speed of
140 miles an hour carrying two pas
sengers, and it is reported that trial
flights have shown it to be practica
ble. The inventor refuses to make
any profit out of his invention, which
he calls his "gift to humanity," but
we have a hunch that the New York
promoters with whom he is associ
ated will not be troubled with any
such feeling.
OP LOCAL INTEREST
Some People We Know, and We Will
Profit by Hearings About Them
This is a purely local event.
It took place in Alliance.
Not in some faraway place.
You are asked to investigate It.
Asked to believe a citizen's word;
To confirm a citizen's statement.
Any article that is endorsed at
home 1
Is more worthy of confidence
Than one you know nothing about,
Endorsed by unknown people.
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