THE A..UANCL I IKK ALP, TUESDAY, KKimiJAKY 1. 1021
DANGER OF HIGHER
PRICES CURING 192
Employment, sales, orders, manu
facturing, all the activities of America
were below norma with the beginning
of the new year. They will continue
subnormal for six weeks or two
months. But the long-faced calamity
liowler need not, therefore, fill the
highways and byways with his doleful
din. He ought to be censored; curfew
should ring for him at G a. m. He
should be abolished by ordinance, for
he is the country's most dangerous
pe?t at present.
Keep this in mind when considerine
the year's prospects:
Fundamental conditions are as sound
as a gold dollar.
In housing, in railroad equipment,
in steel products, in electrical devel
opment, in a dozen other basic lines,
the country has not by a long shot
causrht up with the actual present
needs.
Retailers of all kinds have bought
minimum quantities for eight months.
They are now unloading the last of
their hold-over high-priced stocks. In
a month they will be buying heavily
on the new and much lower price level.
The consumer has been waiting for
the retailer's inevitable price reduc
tions. He is beginning to buy now.
He'll buy more and more. By the
nd of March we ought to see active,
normal business in almost every line.
Thereafter a new danger will arise.
That danger consists of a new buying
boom on top of an actual shortage of
poods created by the present manu
facturing stagnation.
Remember conditions two years ago ?
A million civilians were out of work;
the army was being demobilized; mills
and factroies were shut down because
everybody expected a drop in the war
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THIELES
Drugs and Jewelry
prices after the armistice, and hoIkkIj
placed orders. Then the rush began
and the retailers ran out of ink mark-
.... y ' t .res.
It's ju.-t the same now. Raw ma
terials hke wool, rubber, copper, to
bacco, coTee, lead, zinc and cotton are
almo.-t down to 1914 levels, often be
low them, yet nobody buys and more
plants are shutting down. It was just
this way in February, 191i, except
.hat raw materials were excessively
expensive. You know what happened
when the buying started.
The danger in 1921 is not that Drices
J will go out of sight downward, but
that the experience of 1919 will be
repeated, that the shutdown of mills
and factories will create a shortage
which, combined with a sudden de
mand for goods, will again drive the
price level too high.
Normal trade, good wages, decent
profits, stable prices ought to be the
policy of all business men who know
what's good for them, the country and
the world. If they start profiteering,
the next slump will hit them right be
tween the eyes. February Sunset.
CLINTON MAN IS
NOW CONVINCED
,'Crippen Knows Now Tanlac Does All
Claimed for It Regains
Health.
"Since my experience with Tanlac I
have never doubted that it will do
everything that is claimed for it," said
George Crippen, an employee of the
Lafayette Hotel at Clinton, Iowa.
"During the past two years I had a
world of trouble from indigestion.
Everything I ate seemed to lodge right
in the pit of my stomach where it
fermented and formed gas that bloated
me up till it actually hurt to fasten
my belt. Any little exertion in doing
my work around the hotel caused my
heart to palpitate so violently 1 felt
like my breath would be cut off.
"My nerves were in such a state
the least noise would wake me up and
I never got any sound sleep. My back
hurt almost constantly, my appetite
left me, I was falling off in weight
and couldn't find any medicine that
would do me a bit ot good.
"Well. I finally decided to try Tan
lac. and since taking it I feel like a
new man. I have a splendid appetite
and never suffer from indigestion,
nervousness, aches or pains of any
kind. I have already gotten back ten
pounds of my lost weight and am still
gaining. I sleep fine every night and
feel good all the time.
Tanlac is sold in Alliance by F. E
Holsten; in Hemingford by the. Hem
ingford Mercantile Co., and in Hoff
land by the Mallery Grocery Co.
HEAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
VWpA for record for week ending
I Tann-irv 91 1921.
M. F. Donovan and wife to Floyd S
Trine, southwest quarter of section 32
a.A i nn
Nora A. Clark and husband to Frank
G. Wallace, northeast quarter of sec
tion ZU-Z7-OU, $owu.tu.
FrmfonVIr W. Melick and wife to E
L. Garrcans, lots 4 and 5, block 46,
Hemingford, 51.00.
Harry Foley and wife to Samuel
J. Pitman, northwest quarter oi sec
linn 99-SK-d9. $1.00.
Melvin P. Nason, widower to Lula
Bayless, lot 18, block 18, Alliance,
9 hnn
F. M. Knight, unmarried to George
E. Lewis et al, lot 1, block 20, SnecteK
er's Addition, $1.00.
Herald want ads will get buyer.
There's n wholp lot of plensure in
'envnlscvnrr. especially when there nre
p'ensant lhn;rs to call to mind. .1. W.
utline had an uitiuk ot reminiscence
Motility aitemnon, following the re-
ei.it o" h's i'ojv of the Notro Pa me
cholat'e, puMishod lor Notre P.une
university alumni. John Guthrie grad
uated from the 'rdiana school in 'S.",
as a civil eninr.-i , although he hus
not followed his profession for a good
many years.
The last issue of The Scholastic
contain a port 'on of a letter from the
Hon. relix Haca, district judge in the
state of New Mexico, to Rev. Pr.
Burns, who has recently been elected
president of the university. rather
Walsh was living when we were stu
dents there together, and fo was
Father Sorm, l ather Granger and
Father Corbv. Those were the days
of noted athletes and students,
like Ancheta, Dexter, Bertie Gr.oebel,
Mollie' l.aikin. Conway, Guthrie, Ox-
nard and 'Dutch' I.ehr."
COMMENT & IMSCOMMKNT
. may realize, even when reason has
been dethroned. "It is the province
j of an actor." says Mr. Nation, "to
jt:ke the printed word that indicates
action or an idea and give that action I
or idea visu.il body and then breathe
into th:it ho.ly the breath of life. In
other words, he must quit his own
.dent ty and lake on the identity of
the thing or person he wishes to portray.
It mnv romp ns somewhat of a sur-
nrun tn vome Allinnee tteonle. UmiC-
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quainted with No' re Dame student
lore, that J. W. Guthrie was once one
of the prides of Notre Dame because
of his athletic ability. He had a place
on almost every 'earn there was, his
particular pet being the crew. Mr.
Guthrie was commodore of the boat
club, captiin of the crew for three
years of his student career, and found
time to dabble in the Glee club ami
three or four societies.
"The speaker has an idea that he'
was successful in the part he was
I'orirax inir so real, indeed, that many
still believe he is the individual he
wh cut ray ng. As n little miss cs
prcsed it. "I don't like that man. He
is bad. lie wanted to fight everybody,
lie shook his fist at them, called them
devils and told us to go back when
we nil wanted to get up clo -e to see.
If my papa had been here he would
have whipped him.'
"Well, as the object in view was
amusement for those present, it did
not matter whether it was tragic e
comic, so long as it was amusement
Which is certainly a philosophical
way to view the matter.
Stock hogs wanted by the Ne
braska lind Co. lU3-tf
I About the only way we can think, of
to keep up war prices is to Stan an
other war. And that p'an has ita
positive disadvantages. Williamsport
Review-Republican.
He's Got Money
in the Bank
That sentence is pleasant to the ear and
full of meaning. It suggests economy,
thrift and ability.
We interest ourselves in the welfare of
our depositors and promote their inter
ests as we would our own, as our interests
are mutual.
Dollars are good property to own; they
are going up in price or growing in value
fast now as we predicted. Keep your
funds in this strong National Bank where
they are both safe and ready in time of
need.
We offer a broad, safe, accurate and help
.ul, up-to-date banking service.
Perhaps there is some way we may help
you today.
The
First National Bank
ALLIANCE, NEBRASKA
Alliance citizens might suspect the
C'ee club experience from J. W.'r per
formance at the late Elks Minstrel,
but the average man wouldn't think
i v. t lie had a collection of medals lor
athletic prowess. Seven gold anchors
at the boat races is a .record which
probably hasn't been equalled since.
If you catch Mr. Guthrie in this same
roin.nisrent mood, ne may snow you
some of the old photographs of his
college days, and if you are fortunate
enough to see them, we call your par
ticular attention to the bowler hat and
the moustache. Long years ago John
discarded this evidence of youthful
vanity, but at the time he wore it, it
must have been quite a sensation. At
anv" rate, he has the satisfaction of
knowing that many of the old students
remember him. Of the long list of
professors and athletes given in the
letter, there are only a few of them
who are still alive.
Somp of those who attended the
community party given by the cham
ber or commerce at tne rooi garden
last Friday evening have confessed
themselves somewhat puzzled over the
last number on the program, more
cfims tn h.ivp been somewhat of a
misapprehension on the part of the
audience, who couldn't seem to get
the drift of the affair. It was an un
fnrumtta vrwripnee all the wav
through. The speaker, G. W. Nation,
didn't have the siigntest uiea oi oeing
discourteous to either the management
or the audience, no matter what the
opening words of the piece may have
sounded like.
"The Maniac Lover," a monologue,
is said to contain great dramatic pos
sibilities when properly staged. Un
der the circumstances, its presentation
last Friday evening proved quite as
much of a comedy as it did a tragedy,
if nnt tnor so. The act was not
placed on the program until but a few
minutes be r ore it was announceu, unu
then only the name of the actor was
given, leaving the audience in ignor
ance of the nature of what was to
come. When it did come, it came
with the suddenness of an exploding
firecracker.
The theme of "A Maniac Lover,"
according to Mr. Nation, concerns a
vounsr man who loses his reason be
cause of the death of his loved one,
and becomes obsessed with the idea
that a legion of devils have taken her
life and are. seeking to carry off her
body, which he is trying to prevent.
Just as he arrives on the stage, he
eppears fighting with those imaginary
devils, those "fiends of hell." He
throws up his hands as if to strike
them, and exclaims: "Back, ye devils!
Away, ye fiends of hell!" These words
are spoken in order to apprise the au
dience as to the character of the actor
and he reasons for his erratic ac
tions.
In this case, when the speaker gave
the cue words to commence the mono
lomie. he was so completely surround
ed by his audience that he could
touch them. When he uttered 'those
piercing words of defiance to imagin
ary devils, those near him thought the
words were addressed personally to
them. Such words, so sudden and un
expected as they were, dumfounded,
bumfuzzled and flabbergasted them
that only the ridiculous and comical
situation appeared on the surface.
Human nature couldn't resist the hu
mor in the situation, no matter what
troubles the actor was having with his
imaginary devils.
TTnu.ovsi cnenker Vent on. true
to form. He continued to keep busy
as a little bee, cnasing mose enemies
ail nvp, tViA earth, hell, heaven and
the universe, challenging the legions
of hell to mortal ana immortal combat
"Back, ye devils, she was mine ana
vninA nlnne.
Ye have chilled her young life's pulses
Ye have claimea ner ior your own.
At your feet I throw my gauntlet,
In the might of heaven's name,
I will combat with your legions,
. . . . ib n
Though we roll in Dioa ana name.
"I will seek her, I will find her
Where the slimy earthworms creep;
I will kiss her into being
T will wnn Vipr from her sleen.
I will snatch her from death's
clutches
Though the powers of darkness Tave,
Or my bones shall rot beside her
In our common nameless grave."
Mr. Nation has an Idea that per
haps the audience, at those last sad
words, began to catch a little of the
agony and the tragedy and the heart
breaking sorrow that the human mind
A Short Talk
On Advertising
How to Write Ads"
Advertising is the simple process of telling
the buyers what one has to sell. One of the
leading merchants of Alliance recently re
marked that he wished he knew how to write
an effective ad. We told him that all he needed
to do in an ad was to tell the folks just what he
had to sell what he had in special offerings,
and why his goods were worth the money just
the same as if his prospective customer was in
his store and he was talking to him face to face.
Does Advertising Pay?
Here is what one Ida Grove business man
remarked not over two weeks ago : "I am going
to take a course in advertising this year. It
will b worth 1,000 to my business.
Do people read ads? They surely do. YOU are reading
this one NOW.
Burr Printing Company
Publishers of
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