Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 2, 1920)
TWO THE ALLIANCE HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27." 1920. Comment-and Discomment We hate Just been looking orer a 'ample copy of The Home Sector, a weekly magatlne published by the came bunch that made The Stars and trlpea the Joy of the A. E. F. We'll (hare to confeea that we find It read Able enough cleve In apota but Ibe magatlne graveyard has been crowded for years, and among the departed are a number that have The Home Sector backed off the map. In those stirring days when the Jboys wore tin hats and engaged In ootle hunts. The Stars and Stripes erred to take their mind off their troubles for an hour or so. When the Y. M. C. A. was In dutch for fair, and getting In deeper erery lurar, the Jokes and cartoons served jm an antidote against higher prices tot cigarettes for an hour or so. JBut the war, so we hare been rell .ably Informed, Is orer now. The Home Sector does not seem to fully realise this Important point. Its editors fail to discern that what might Interest the cootie-chasing. joldler will not hold any particular appeal for the man who Is out of the service and fighting other battles. The all Important point that clril life changes the tastes of the mil itary man hasn't penetrated. Tou can realize how It is: John Jones sober won't laugh at the Jokes that amuse John Jones when he Is slight ly Intoxicated; Mary Anne In lore Isn't Interested in the things that once claimed her entire attention. might, with proper training, hare de veloped into pugilists or hostlers and a number of estimable young ladles, who might, If left alone, evolve Into cheerful housewives If not stirred by ambition have been ruined for life because some editor, hard-up for "something to fill" has rrlnted their "stuff." Once let a man or woman behold In print some thing they have written, and to damage Is done. If you don't be lieve this, read the "Public Forum" columns of your dally newspaper. You'll find that the same people do nine-tenths of the contributing. lara as the man who operates the typesetting machine. Now and then you hear of a genius who forges ahead by sheer force of ability, but there aren't nearly so many as the movies may cause you to think. The lure of the movies Isn't In It with the lure of the printed page. You notice it particularly in univer sity towns. There never was a news paper In a school town that paid big salaries to Us reporters. There are too many brilliant geniuses who'll do the work for the experience and pay their own expenses. A reporter has to be mighty good before he gets money enough to both eat and pay his laundry bills. If he goes to the movie unless he has a pass, which seldom happens he goes without pie for dinner for four days to make up for It And, falling to realize that the A. E. F. men are now busy with some thing else, and that only once in a while say, when beans are serred for breakfast does their mind turn to army experiences, The Home Sec tor continues to dish up for them regulation army literary grub. The Home Sector Is The Stars and Stripes, and not so good as It was, for the editors are actuated now by the desire to make money out of it, whereas they once were actuated by a far nobler aim. Why do so many of them stay with it? Well, there's a certain fascina tion to It Just as there is In any kind of work In which you may be really interested. And the dear pub lie looks on a reporter as an impor tant personage, no matter whether he's erer had an assignment that amounted to anything. The public especially in the cities Isn't to blame. They see a fire, and a re porter calmly shows his badge and pushes his way through the line where they cannot pass. A murder, a suicide, an accident of any kind, and the reporter goes right in. There are prlrileges a reporter en Joys lots of them and this makes up for the smallness of his salary. Why is It that a mere taste of the newspaper game is so poisonous? Hundreds of good, steady men, who The really brilliant reporter don't make any "grandstand" plays. You nerer see them displaying their badge ostentatiously they don't hare to. And the staff of the dally newspaper contains usually about two good men, and a half dozen or more amateurs of rarious degrees of efficiency. Usually the "stars" are men who hare been with the paper 'a number of years, men who know ereryone In the city. They draw big wages. But the average reporter doesn't draw as much money by several perfectly good dol- G ood'Health means a body in perfect condition, mind alert, and nerves steady. Chiropractic relieves impingement on the delicate nerves that emanate from the verte brae of the spinal column and cor rects abnormal conditions. Annie G. Jeffery CHIROPRACTOR Graduate Palmer School Wilson Block Alliance, Nebr. The mories, erery now and then, will show stirring scenes of the way cub reporters, after the "star" has fatted, go 'out and bring home the bacon. Th final closeup shows the managing editor weeping on 4he cub's nck, and the proprietor's daughter waiting Just outside the railing. Act ually, the arerage amateur reporter shudders erery time he enters the editorial room, hoping that he won't be bawled out too hard, and fearii g that he will be decorated with tht Royal Order of the Tin Can or made a Recipient of the Blue Enrelope. And wbenerer he sees the managing editor, he doesn't slap him on the back no. Indeed he Is more apt to bat his forehead on the floor in a wide salaam. The M. E. Is some person more powerful than a nary skipper and more awe-inspiring than an army colonel. (Continued from Page 2.) 200 HEREFORD AT AUCTION CHADRON, NEBRASKA Tues. and Wed. March 16 and 17 m w 1 : ' ; I -i I-'" - " v. Aii n Ill . tori 0 165 BULLS Fifteen real herd bulls of superior quality and breeding; all strong in blood of Anxiety 4th; Beau Mischief, Domino and Bright Stanway. The same blood lines that made Mausel Bros, record sale. If you need a herd bull, look these -over, for they are good. One hundred fifty head of excellent range and farm bulls of the very best blood lines and indi viduality. Sired by such noted bulls as Beau Elect, Elect 41st, Beau Mischief 6th, Doctor Dom ino, Gay Lad 2d, Jupiter 405th, Repeater 78th, Beau Militant, North Picture, Beau ' Doncastor, Beau Casper, Lord Dudley, and others. This is an extra good bunch of bulls with good bone and plenty of size. . ; i k Chadron breeders have bought the best and highest priced sires of the breed and these bulls are their descendants. They are all outdoor raised, and acclimated, more rugged and better adapted to conditions in the west than eastern raised bulls. Chadron is the best place in America for ranchmen and farmers to buy their bulls. If you are short of feed, the Chadron Hereford Bull Farm will keep the bull you purchase in this sale until May 1st at actual cost of keeping, so don't wait until late spring to buy when bulls are higher and the best sold. 35 Good Cows and Heifers From some of Nebraska's leading herds. These cows and heifers are all bred to our best herd bulls. A good place for the beginner to get good individuals with the best blood lines, bred to noted sires, at yqur own price. CONSIGNORS FRITZ LAUE MIKE CHRISTENSEN C. S. HAWK H. T. BRADDOCK AUCTIONEERS GARTIN & Cruise J. 0. M'NARE CHAS. FALHAUBER L. E. DENTON 0. H. LUNDY and Others SALES MANAGER C. H. LUNDY, Chadron, Neb. DON'T FORGET Swinbank & Bufflnrton Sale, Crawford, Monday, March 15. Northwest Nebraska Breeders Sale, Valentine, March 19. swinDon , ouiungwn o ARRANGE TO ATTEND THE WHOLE CIRCUIT - 1. ro FOWLER LUMBER GO. FLOYD LUCAS, Manager 7 NEBRASKA ALLIANCE, 'nM " fill "