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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 11, 1921)
POUR iti ALLIANCE 11EKALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1921 Oljc Alltmtrr Hcralb BUKR miNTlNa CO.. Owners fCntrtd at thf potofric at Alliance SehNeb., for (raiiMinlsnlon through the nLil rronl ('Inn matter. Fubllahed Teiar and Friday. OKnH'ilC U ItliKK, Jit Editor ItUYVlN M. UUK II Uunineea lgr. OfUclal npwippr of the City of Alliance; oillolal newapaper or Bo Butte County. - Owned and publlahed by The Uurr prlntlntr CompHtiy, JrRe I Uurr, Jr., rrenidenti Udwln M. Uurr. Vice I'rea Menu X For the firnt ten days of the new year, not a single pardon, furlough or jrprieve was el ly iiovetnor ilcKelvie. Not a man was released on parole. This good record is not due to any sudden virtue on the part of the governor, or to the clamoring of the prews and public for a reform in this direction. The new constitution went into effect January 1, and took this power away from the governor And placed it in the hands of a board . composed of the governor, secretary f state and attorney general. The ! new pardon board hasn't had opror-! tunity to meet. Presumably, after they get organized for work, conditions ! will improve. If not, there's hope that j the legislature will take a hand. It now appears that Eugene V. Debs, who made the race for the presidency on the socialist ticket from a cell in the Atlanta penitentiary, will be re leased some of these' days, along with other political prisoners. This is some thing that should have been done long ago. ImpriFOnment has simply made martyr out of Debs, who, in reality, isn't made out of the same mud that martyrs are usually made. Outside of the penitentiary, he is only an old man with the habit of ranting fastened on him for life, and as such his influence will dimmish year by year. The longer be stays in the penitentiary, the more followers he'll have. Compared with the I. W. W. and the bolshevik reds, the worst socialist is getting to be a pretty good sort of a citizen. NOT (H I LTV Half a dozen AlTance business men have slyly sujrge tod that The Herald editor might b the author uf the anonymous communication ublished in this newspaper on the eve of the special city manager election. It Is with regret because t was a well written letter that ve disclaim authorishp. The edior of this newspaper was Hiite free in speaking his mind on V disadvantages of the city man ager plan, white admitting the ad ntaKes, What would be his ob ject in openly arguing against its loption, and later arguing anony ou'ly in he same direction? These be the facts: We worked vith that In-other, and prayed with vm, to sign his name to his com munication. When he argued back t us that one or two councilmen l id been granted the privilege of monymous interviews by the news paper supporting the plan, we had no adequate comeback. We sug TCted that a signed communica tion was bound to have more weight than one not signed, but he expressed himself as satisfied and we, perforce had to be. If we hear any more of this sort of thing .we're going to plead with the author to come out of the cellar, and let his light fo shine that everyone may see it. Unless the newspaper reporters are running wild and very few of them have ever been guilty of such a thing -President Harding is already begin ning to trim his political sales to ap peal e both the wet and dry element of the country. The president-elect is ataid to have given out the word that the minute he assumes otrice, the lid will be clamped down exceedingly tight. Then, if public sentiment does not approve of such a course, recom mendations that the prohibitory laws be amended w:l) be made. Of course, if the president-elect said anything of this sort, it will be taken simply an invitation to the wets to raise a row, which they will be glad to do. Such ft stand isn't a' stand at all it's a sidestep a sop to both elements of the voters. v John F. Kramer, national prohibi tion commissioner, after a year or two of trying to keep the wets from buy ing and making booze, seems to be somewhat discouraged. Me admits that the country isn't dry now, that it won't be dry for at least a generat'on, and thct the only hope of making it dry lies in a cyrstallization of public senti ment, wlvch oocas'onally happens. (Look at the result of the last presi dential election.) The illicit liquor tratf.c is characterized as the largest unrecognized" business in the coun try, w th millions of capital and thou sands of men engaged in it. Mr. Kramer, however, is not as one with out hope. So long as congress makes ftppropriat o.is, ntid his salary con tinues to be paid, he and the men under him will continue trying to do what they adnvt is impossible. What earthly chance is there of enforcing prohibition if the enforcement otTicers talk this way? teen in the legislative hopper by Sat urday night, but the pockets of every representative and senator are bulg ing with bills. The first day's crop is very similar to that of other years. One bill provides for a joint resolu tion memorializing congress for an amendment to the federal constitution requiring a referendum vote before a declaration of war. The introducer of this humane measure bears a German name. Another bill is ' a war-time measure making it unlawful to hold foodstuffs until spoiled, to destroy them, or to purchase crops and hold them until spoiled to control the prices. There's a bill requiring county clerks to keep a separate book in which sol diers' discharge papers will be re corded free of charge, and another dealing with packing houses. Probably not more than one of the entire four teen will stand a show to become a law, and ten to one it will die a pain less death in some committee room, along with hundreds of others. Each year someone suggests that legisla tors eliminate the unnecessary bills and get down to passing needed legis lation, but no proposition is so foolish that it can't find some legislator to sponsor it. About nine-tenths of the session will be wasted in weeding out the wildest of the bills, and there will be such a rush during the closing days that those passed will get only partial consideration. baby and a 3-year-old hopeful. "May I take the baby "home with mot" she asked the young hopeful. "I should say not," replied the y. h. "Your dress buttons up the back." i Of course, our knowledge of such things is limited, but we fail to see how a three-year-old would be the least bit interested in the cut of any body's jib. According to the Sidney Telegraph, the Shrine club in that city is noted for its "simple, kindly courtesy," which has quite won the hearts of everybody there. . Somehow, those words don't jibe with our ideas of Shrine initiations. Breathless girl at the movies dur ing the exhibition wrestling match: "Look at 'im stand that fellow on his dome. I'd think those wrestlers would be bald-headed." A whole lot of people heard of Stratton, Neb., for the first time the other day, when B. L. T. included in the "Line" a section from one of the village ordinances, reading as fol lows: "Provided however, this ordi nance shall not apply to dogs follow ing their masters from the country, or temporarily in the village on business, or traveling through the village." Ah Alliance man has admitted that all his life he has been laboring un der a mistake. He has believed there is no hell. He has now come to a realization of the truth. "If there is no hell," he asks, "where has business gone?" The Daily Nebraskan speaks of the present legislative session as "a bien nial event, or, . rather, ' a sers of events." Maybe so, but we havent much faith in legislatures. Two gentlemen riding on a train were both very much intoxicated. First Gent: "What time is it?" FjQrond Gent: (after extracting a mawhbox from his pocket with much exertion and gazing at it intently) "Thursday." First Gent: "My God! I'.ve got to get off here." Far be il from us to desire to appear critical, but the following "humorous" paragraph from the Lincoln Star reads rather peculiarly, to say the least: "One almost forgotten mortal de serving of pity after Christmas is the recipient of a dozen handkerchiefs who happens to have a bad cold and a sore nose." Why should any mortal be pitied simply because a dozen handkerchiefs RANDOM SHOTS Gug Hyers has a new otTicial title. The boss of all the booze hounds is now known as state sheriff. A rose by any other name- Another bubble hus been pricked. We learn that the speediest method of transporting mail between New York and Chicago is not by air. Chairman Madden of the house appropriations subcommittee has compiled some in teresting figures on the expense of) Aeroplane mail delivery. He is author ity for the statement that delivering mail in the new way costs $5 a ton .mile, as compared with a cost of 7 cents per ton mile where the mail is carried by railroads. If all mail were carried by air, the cost would .reach ten billion dollars a year, and the total receipts would be lesa than one-twentieth of that amount He denies that there is any time eaved by the air route. If this is true, why shouldn't the postal department see to it that Airplane mail routes are discontinued. It takes weeks of work and consider Able red tape to secure a rural mail route to take care of sixty families at A cost slightly in excess of a thousand dollars a year, but there is no move to do away with a fad like aero mail de livery. At the rate it is costing the government, it would be profitable to require those who are in such a fear ful hurry to have their letters de livered to patronize the telephone and telegraph companies, and boost re ceipts of those concerns enough to caue a reduction in rates in tixty or sixty years. Congrebs ought to put a stop to this foolishness before many of the smaller cities have built land ing stations. After that, it will be impossible to end it. With fine restraint, the new legis lators struggled on for four days with out introducing a single bill. Satur day looming the dam gave way, and th flood began. There were only four It's no harder luck to be arrested by a sheriil' than by any other booze hound it's only more unusual. Bill Marpin: "The Alliance Herald came to us one day last week with four pages blank. If it happens again we are going to be just mean enough to say that the blank pages are the most interesting ones of the lot." Yeah, and if it happens again we're going to chew an ear off the press feeder and the gink' that s hoves 'em through the folder. We cursed under our breath this morning, when the expressman col lected $2.20 for carriage charges on a box of metal from Lincoln. Thereby we exhausted our profanity, and when we looked over the month's phone bill and found a charge of $2.15 (plus war tax) for a three-minute call to Aurora, we didn't have a word to say. The express company la still in the primer class in profiteering. In this case they sent a wagon twenty-five blocks to get a 100-pound box of metal; carried it to the train; brought it to Alliance and delivered it all for $2.20. The phone call was put through in ten minutes by the watch, and yet the two services cost within five cents of the same amount. Thank heaven the telephone com pany isn't classed as an infant in dustry. There's no tariff on telephone poles. Nome, Alaska, which had, 15,000 population by the 1910 census, shows op In the last count with only 200. In the language of Jim Bludsoe: "Have a care, ScottsblunT, have a carel" Two little boys were very wakeful in bed on Christmas eve. "Do you see anything I " Jimmy whispered to Johnny. "Yes, old Santa Claus has arrived and is fooling around the fire place,'' Johnny whispered back. A few minutes later Jimmy, who was scared and kept bis bead under the covers nudged Johnny and asked, "Is be gone?" "Nawbs crept into bed with mamma, whispered Johnny. Ordinarily, we can ttt the point to Bill Maupin's jokes without A diagram, but banged if this one isn't too much for us: A Gering young lady recently vis ited at a borne where there is a new have a bad cold and a sore nose? Miss Lucy Page Gaston, the anti cigarette fiend and incidentally the homeliest old girl in the world, has written to President Harding to ask him to cease smoking the beastly hings, and thereby set a noble ex ample to the youth of the land. It is now time for the vegetarians to request the president-elect to lay off of meat in any form. There are compensations to not be ing a president, Miss Lucy being a persistent devil. Their skirts are very, very short But don't condemn the dears Whatever else they may expose They'll cover up their ears. Recalling our statements from time to time concerning amateur poetry, it is probably unnecessary to remark that we're not guilty of this one. After scoffing at grownup men chas ing a little white ball over a cow pasture, True Miller has, after only two afternoons at it, become a regular golfiend. Darn it all whnt hurts is that an old wreck like' True made a better score than an expert like the con ductor of this column. We hone we're out when he has his first "off" day. Revenge comma -is sweet period. HIGH GRADE PIANO AT SACRIFICE PRICE For quick sale will give big cut in price. This is one of our best pianos left on our hands in public storehouse in Alliance. Examine it. Easy pay ments to responsible party. Write to day for full information to The Den ver Music company, Denver, Colorado. F12-22 RECEIPTS OF FREIGHT CONTINUE TO DECLINE Freight business on western lines continues to decline. It is said to be showing up most on less than carload business. Freight men say "there is nothing coming in." That means the receipts of freight in less than car load lots from the east has just about disappeared; that the merchants have quit buying and that the mail order houses are not doing their o'd time business; that the epidemic of no buy ing has extended to every class of people, says the State Journal. There has been a slight increase in the grain movement during the past week but it is tiot ensugh to make business good. Railroad men say that if the price oT grain would show a decided bulge that business would get better right away. Burlington officials say that the prospect for a better business soon is not bright. They look for a rather protracted season of light tonnage. Superintendents of roads in Ne braska are said to be going over their payrolls carefully to see if further re ductions in expenses can be made without interfering with service. Th;s is taken to mean that a number of reductions are? yet to follow.' Fassenger traffic during the helidajr season was excellent but it is an ticipated that this will fall eft in the near future. NOTICE Members of the Modem Brother hood of America will stand in sus pension if dues are nt paid before the last clay of the menta. By order of the Supreme Lodge. F. E. SANDERS, Pre,, E. L. LAWRENCE, Sec. VMS NOTICE j Regular teachers' examination will be given at the court house January 22 1921. j ' ' OPAL RUSSELL, !Jan7-18 County Superintendent ! Silk and Wool and All Wool lM-.inj- Wear, $3.89. Highland HoIIoway Comnanr. 15 Stock hogs wanted by the Ne braska Land Co. 103-tf McVicker's Beauty Parlor now open for business, with Mrs. Kays in charge. 1$ Only a few days left get in before the sale closes. Highland-1 HoIIoway Company. 'l3i DEATHS AND FUNERALS Anton Klusicnski of Whitman, Neb., aged about seventy years, died at St. Joseph's .hospital January 6. The cause of death was cancer of the stomach. The remains were taken to Whitman for interment. Mr. Klusi enski was bom in Poland. Wednesday is Apron Day an other bir lot at $1.29. Come early. Highland-Holloway Com pany. 131 Announce An Extensive Showing of New Designs in .EXQUISITE "EXCLUSIVE" VALUES in HAT at McVickers ' STYLE PLUS QUALITY STORE 216 Box Butte Imperial Theater By permission of the ' .United States Government the Official War Pictures "FLASHES OF ACTION" will be shown at tonight's show for the benefit of those who did not see them at yesterday's showing. Tonight Tuesday, January 11 a: O i jg t. WILLIAM FOX presents tlLUAM FARNUM in the drama of a brother's sacrifice for his little sister HEART STRINGS By Henry Albert Phlllipf Directed by IGotdantdvu&i Regular Admission Wednesday, January 12 J. Parker Read, Jr., Presents Hobart Bosworth -m- His Own Law By Frank Brownlee Personally supervised by -J. PARKER READ, Jr. Matinee & NightRegular Admission Coming Saturday MADAME X