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THE ALLIANCE ItERALlV -fl jArRIL 19. 1S21
She AUtaurr Urrali.
ItUKR ruiN'TlNG CO., Owners
Entered nt the po.-tolTire at Alliance. Nrb., for
transmission through the mail as semntl class
matter. PuMhoil Tue.Mlay and Frid.iy.
UKORCK I HLKK, JR .Klitor
EDWIN M. m ult. ..HuMneM Manager
OlTirial newspaper of the City of Alliance;
fficial newspaix-r of Hox Uutte County.
Owned and puMished by The Burr Printing
Company, George 1- Uarr, Jr., President; talwin
U. Uurr, Vice President.
hurt the fr'!!r.K of the ko people who induced the p
to testify r.Ki inM him.
The t-idncy Tr'erriph roi intents ns follows on
case: ' '
(Nebraska Lax
-Sn Enforcement of the
Auto License Law
automobile license tax.
FiTire Janunry 10, Ir. Johnson ha
had special anent in richly of the
different county seats over the f-tate.
The special nuent? report that many
cars are brim? laid up imd not used
liecou-e the owners of. the automl le
This M.-.rlr, late of Scolt-hlutf fame, n train proves the
vi-lniii of if you iw po'iiL' to to a liar, be a food on.
! 1'hat is not a runsistent liar, hut a eontw'islrd one. if ou
'court and toll n nice plausible storv about, a younp- man ! ',rMll'tmpnl ,T. ul,!ic ',,rks' ,,as ,Mpn 1 ffr .to -wait "P1,'1 t,1P? ,cct ren.ly to u-c
! wn.n.r n her. She nlavs all the changes of emotion. !in,l i 'inK everyth.ntr possible to co-oper- ! their automob.les m the sprmtr before
i ..tk, n,.. : i,,,- ti, ;.......' . i dMTerent parts of the state since the
mobile numbers sold in their counties
than at this time last year and" in1
other counties sales are running very
short. The shortage seems to appear
mo.-tly in the western unit of t Re
state and in the sand hill count rj-. Mr;.
Johnson intends to keep the money in
the hands of the dilTcrent roiintv
(license numbers nnd on account of the
lif oi cre I. Johnson, secretary to tne , shortage or funds at home they pre-j treasurers and has instructed all of
his special agents to file a complaint
against any oitrratintr an automnhilr
they invest in an automobile number. , on a de'inuuent automobile numher
in :ome counties, the county treas
HACK TO NORMALCY
Indications are that the labor situation in the country
will, home of these days, return to normalcy. It is con
ceded to be necessary for some wage reductions to take
place, in line with reductions all along the line in whole
Nile ami retail prices, before business will be again on its
feet as it was in the days before the war, when scarcity
of laborers had not placed u premium on the man not in
the service who still had labor to sell.
Somehow or other, workmen in all lines have beCn
waiting for reductions in the wages of railroaders. There
is no doubt that in some blanches of railroad work, wages
tue none too high, even at present levels, but fair
minded men will concede that other branches should be
reduced. The trouble is, of course, that every class of
workman is perfectly willing for wages in other lines to
be lowered, but firmly believe sthat his own is jut at the
right level. The railroads' hands have been tied, duo to
the Adam.-on law and the practices of IhVrailway labor
hoard, but the latter last week isf-ued some rulings which
indicate that they are now disposed to assi.'t the railroads
in getting on their feet. There is no (iie.-tion but that
something has hit the railroads a terrific wallop. The
vicious circle of rising wages and rising rates for freight
and passenger traffic has resulted in a loss of patronage
that is more porious than most people will realize.
The old doctrine of "Live and Let Live' will have to
be applied to the wage problems in all lines of industry.
..When carpenters and builders keep up wages in their
lines, people simply build no "more than is absolutely nec
essary, and business waits. This wid be true in other
lines. The printers, who two years ago, when conditions
were the best in the history of the industry, secured an
uprcement to establish a forty-four hour week beginning
May 1, 1921. Conditions have altered, and an increase in
working hours is really more indicated than a decrease,
but the typographical union, for the first time in history,
is failirig to listen to reason. There will undoubtedly be
Fome trouble before the matter is successfully adjudi
cated. In the smaller cities, the union members, who have
n closer relation w ith their employers than is possible in
the larger establishments, are taking steps to see that the
new system is inaugurated in such a way as will maintain
present conditions.
The labor outlook, for the nest four or five months,
isn't .the most pleasant in the world, but sooner or later
it will be adjusted,
i ne young man on " , ; ... " . " : , . -
trial gets a little matter of sis years or so in the r" nl ":,r report mat mere tire more auto-
which or course in t much out ot the life or any young
nan. ( Nowadays most any young person mipht benefit by
si years of ouiet rumination in jail, and then when lie
got out thin': how much jazz and fox trot and kelly poo!
nnd hullabaloo he would havp escaped).
Wr!, anyway, Mar e went out and visited a little while,
then she must have got to thinking how pood fresh air is,
and the chance to skip in the sunhine, so she goes back
to Scottsblulf and tells the judge that Guy j n't guilty and
she was jut funning or something to that ell"ect. And the
judge holds up his hands in horror and says in sulx-tance:
"Marie, you are evidently a liar, probably most of the
time; but this time your two stories tire contradictory so
one of them must be the truth. If it is to the court to
decide which time you told the truth, it might as well
be the fjrst tint, and that will save a lot of costs and more
publicity find trouble of which ScottsblulF has too gre;:t a
plenty all ready. We would have to have another trial
ami you would be the only witness. And you are a hell of
a witness. So go your way nnd let Guy stay where he
ran have a job, which are scarce outside."
Therefore we Kay ugain, if one must lie, don't lie to
match, but lie so you may not even be tried for your own
sins but can go scot free for you can't convict yourself.
That Guy may have been the goat is just unlucVv for
Guy.
and to file a complaint against
ooevat'rp' w'thout any number.
any
KKKP MOVING
(Goring Midwest)
It is an old story, but it never was more app'iV; b'e
than right now. A milkman, not oveily honest, started
to town with a big can of cream in his wagon. On Ins
way he stopped at the l iver to water his horses, and by j
sifino strange circumstance a couple of frogs got into the
cream can. une irog was u:csiy discourage ami sann u
the bottom and drowned. The other frog, however, began
kifking and struggling and working, and hoping. Lo,
when the milkman got to town the industrious frog had
churned the cream to butter, and perched proudly upon
the ball of butter was singing, "No, 1 ain't got weary yet."
The trouble with this country right now is that so
durned many of us have iiuit struggling and went ker
plunk to the hottom. 4ot enough ot us are kicking and
struggling anil wriggling and doing our best. Too many
faces are longer than pumphandles, and not enough faces
as wide as barndoors. Too many men are standing
around and whining about the things that used vo
be, nnd not enough men tire working like beavers to
make things what they should be. The circumambient
atmosphere is filled with the sounds of lugubrious wailing,
when tt really ought to be filled with paeans of praises from
the lips of people who have every reason to be proud and
glad that they are alive and permitted to live in a land
of such glorious opportunity.
"Boo-hoo," wailed a little girl as she ran frantically
into the house. "What in the world is the matter, dar
ling?" anxiously inquired the mother. "0, mamma!"
wailed the little one. "As I was playing with my doll 1
happened to think that I might grow up to be a woman
and marry a man and have a little baby and the baby
might fall in the well and be drowned! Boo-hoo'''
There are too all-fired many of us who take long leaps
into the future in order to borrow something to worry
about. The hole in the doughnut is not wasted; the bigger
the hole the more doughnut it takes to go around it.
Suppose we quit moaning about conditions while doing
nothing to improve them, and set to work "making condi-
Get a spading fork and a hoe and a rake
Not without some strife, perhaps, anJ u ,ot of Kanjen see(is ,tnd get to work if you've noth
nnd a deal of unpleasantness, but the average American I intr else to do. Anything to take your mind off present
workman is untainted bv bolshevism and is able to realize 1 trouble. .The sooner we forget this financial depression
that his employer isn'lhaving the easy sledding that he the "f0""' wil! I over. The quicker we make up our
had during the war, when wages began to skyrocket. If
the proper relations lietween employers and employes
rsUted, there wouldn't be any need of ttiikes and lock
outs, and some day, so the theorists te'l us t&s will be
the case. Until then, however, the clumsy machinery
that has been devised will have take take care of a siUu
1 1 - , .... .
ti'on too Je'Icate ?or its ure. , f
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lX- THE VALUK OF Pl'BLICITY
Terhiips the best indication of the value of adver
tising is to be found in the strenuous efforts of the large
manufacturing concerns to secure publicity without paying
for it. The average merchant does not. realize to what
extent the free publicity evil has grown during the past
few years. There have always been those who realized
that the newspapers were u strong factor in building up
reputations and trade, but only in the past five ye.rs has
there grown up a tribe of men who make their living by
prafting from the country publishers. We say country
publishers advisedly, for the large dailies long ago saw
the drift and tok steps to cuib it. The press agents,
however, are a slick bunch if they are not their jobs go
glimmering and those who are better equipped in the
way of wits take their places and every now and then
they put something over on all of us.
Newspapers are, as a rule, anxious to print anything
that will be of interest to their readers. Sometimes news
is mixed up with advertising matter, and in a case where
Vi npuw value is sulficientlv great, the advertising is
allowed to go unchallenged and unrrgretted.
The thing that gets our goats, to speak plainly, is the
Fort of stuff the present day press agents are attempting
to palm off under the guise of news. Aside from the
various government bureaus, the worst offenders are the
big concerns who have ample money to pay for publicity,
but who have been deluded by their advertising manager
into the belief that they can get publicity free. The at
tempts of these press agents to make these advertising
Ftories read like news are the most pathetic in the world
Th International Harvester company is the last one to
try out the free publicity stunt, and as a matter of curl
osity we are going to keep an eye on Nebraska papers
and see how many of the full for it.
minds that we simply can not resume the old-time pace
of extravagance and expanding credit, the quicker we'll
get back to a sensible, safe, sane business basis.
Let's try smiling u while! . .
JUSTICE IN SCOTTS BLUFF
The late developments or lack of developments in
the Guvton case, which aroused considerable of a stir at
Scottsblulf a month or so ago, have caused considerable
comment among the newspapers in western Nebraska, as
well as some speculation as to what should be done.
vMinw an. I rnmplv waitress is persuaded by self-appointed
j v j
public moralists to go upon the stand and tell a story of
an assault alleged to have been committed upon her.
Justice is speedily done the accused, and with nothing
but the testimony of the girl against him, he is sentenced
to mx years in the state penitentiary.
A day or two after sentence is pronounced, the waitress
signs an affidavit saying that she lied on the stand. Ap
parently she proves it to the satisfaction of the trial judge,
as well as the attorney who prosecuted the alleged crim
inal. They talk of a prosecution for perjury for a time,
tut she is finally permitted to leave the city unmolested.
The man is still held, apparently in the fear that it would
-v. JAPANESE AND OTIIEH ALIENS
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X (Lincoln Daily Star)
II. H. 138, which started out in the lower house of the
Nebraska legislature as, a purely anti-Japanese land bill,
has been converted by the state : cnr.t2 into an American
ization, measure, with, every vestige oi tusciiminai.un it
moved. , , ,
Under the new bill, no alien in Nebraska can noui uk-
ricultural property more than five years, the length oi
time sufficient for a well-meaning foreigner to obtain hi?
citizenship and become an American. t
Surely no loyal citizen can oojeci vo sum piuvo.uu,
in the light of the evils that were revealed during me
war, growing out of our leniency toward those who sought
to undermine our national welfare.
The amended bill, furthermore, does everining vnui
the original house bill wanted to do prevents those ori
entals who cannot become citizens Horn colonizing our
furm land. , . .
The federal government withholds nomesieau pi ivi-
nuhlic lands from all aliens, and the new bill
carries the same principle to private land. At the same
time it provides orientals with no excuse xor cnargmg
discrimination.
ANOTJIER IDEAL SHATTERED
(New York Life)
"The cow is the crudest machine in the world." Henry
T..i-.l
..... ... .
It has long been suspected thnt there was something
the matter with the cow. Her system of circulation is a
complex and tedious affair and she moves along on low
gear continuously. She is not equipped with a self-starter
and her chassis leaves much to be desired. She carries no
vaporizer, this process having to be completed outsuie oi
her. Her steering apparatus is always out oi order ami
she is continually lying down on the owner.
But then, what can anybody expect: 1 ne mwr wasn i
evolved in Detroit. She is only a product of nature.
According to a head-line, the government will prose
cute coal-profiteers. Too bad, too bad: All along we
have been hoping that they would De punisne.i. wanun
Star.
Scientists sav that the mountains in California, are
moving slowly north. This undoubtedly is to make room
for eastern tourists. New York Herald.
tk nnlv itmnllel for Mexico we can think of is the
behavior of' a small boy for the two weeks just preceding
Christmas. New lork World.
"Food Prices Break." savs a head-line. The line seems
incomplete without the addition of the word "Father."
Moline Dispatch.
Th roar of the big guns has been succeeded by the
roar of men who think they are big guns Richmond
News-Leader.
The unpardonable sin in a person of a different race or
religion from ours is to be smarter than we are. Ohio
State Journal.
There isn't anything in America worth as little as a
ruble, unless it be a corkscrew. Louisville rost.
We had loose management; now we have tight money
Washington. Post.
It begins to look as if New York's crime had a perman
ent wave in it. Washington Post.
The Hole In
Your Pocket
Are you troubled by having money "burn a hole
in your pocket? That is a common fault of money. If
you have your money in the bank, whether it be much
or little, it will not burn any holes and it will be there
when you need it.
Money carried on the . person is a temptation to
spending. Money in the bank does not offer this tempta
tion. You may hesitate before writing a check where
you would not hesitate to spend if you had the money
with you.
We offer you tie advantage of our banking facili
ties and invite you to open a checking account with us.
Five Per Cent. Interest Paid on All Time Deposits.
w8a First State Bank
OAKLAND
SENSIBLE SIX
Opto Cr U95, Rodtter $1595, Four Door SdQJ0(.5,CnJO.
F.O. B. PontUc. Michiin. Addition! U Wire Whetl Equipment. fSS
Oakland '6' Smashes 4 Records
A strictly stock Oakland Coupe with full equipment sets four new
speed records over the most difficult route in Southern California.
Leaving the Western' Union office in Los Angeles at 6 p. m. Satur
day and checking back in at 7:51iL a. m. Sunday, April 3d.
" L. A. to SAN DIEGO 2 Hrs. 52 Min.
Heating every stock and racing car record ever made over the 132 4-o miles from
the business district of Los Angeles to San Diego excelling the racing speed of
Harney Oldfield in the Thoenix Road race.
L. A. to BRAWLEY 7 Hrs. 25 Min.
Over the tortuous Mountain Springs and Descanso Grades from San Diego, made
as part of the L. A. to San Diego run.
BRAWLEY to L. A. 6 Hrs. 26(4 Min.
Covering 214 miles of desert road and high centers that dragged the axle, via
Mecca and Indio. This beats any time ever made from Brawley proper to Los
Angeles.
L. A. to BRAWLEY to L. A. 13 Hrs. -51 Min.
749.4 miles of every kind of lxulevard, mountain, desert and detour roads. The
hardest test to which a motor car could Imj subjected. Going by way of San
Diego, returning via Mecca.
THE GREATEST STOGK CAR DEMONSTRATION EVER MADE
We always knew the Oakland could out perform uny car in its class, but to excell every
existing record over this course conclusively proven the power, speed and endurance of
the Oakland "6" which is all the more remarkably because it was a COUPE, stock in
every respect.
Sturgeon Garage
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