BURR PRINTING CO., Owners
Entered at th postofTice at Alliance, Neb.rfor
transmission through the mails as second class
natter. Published Tuesdays and Friday.
GEORGE L. BURR, JR..
Editor
EDWIN M. BURR Business Manager
Official newspaper of the City of Alliance;
fficial newspaper of Box Butte County.
Owned and published by The Burr Printing
Company, George L. Burr, Jr., President; Edwin
M. Burr, Vice President.
men could not live, w hite the average is increased by rea
son of the fact that Fome of the poorly p;fid men received
unreasonable advances through freakish classifications un
der the emergency relating. All this will be straightened
out in time. Some groups of railroad workers are grossly
underpaid, and some proportionately overpaid. A balance
between thee must be established.
The greater problem still is open, that of lowering
freight rates to a point where products may again be sent
to market While New York can get supplies from Argen
tine and Chile at a lower cost than from Illinois or Texas,
Americans will not look upon existing conditions as war
lamed or juut1aoie. Relief on the wage schedule touches
the public because the buying power of a considerable
group is lessened to that extent; relief on the freight
rates must come to offset the result of the loss thus en
forced on the purchasers.
GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES
FAVORABLE SIGNS
John 0. Bayne, who is covering the county for .The
Herald and writing what he, discovers, is performing a
real service for the county, as well as for this news
paper. Those who have followed him in his travels have I
learned a number of things about Box Butte county that
aiad heretofore escaped their attention.
A surprisingly large number of farmers in this coun
ty have gone into the purebred game in one form or an
other. There are a number of thoroughbred cattle herds,
several herds of hogs and a large number of pure bred I
chickens. Again, Box Butte county farmers belidve
strongly in mixed farming, something that was compara
tively unknown a few years ago. The potato acreage is
increasing, and this can be said of the acreage of other
crops.
The most favorable indication that has been discovered
is the large number of recent arrivals. A large propor
tion of the farmers in Box Butte county interviewed so far
have come within the last two or three years. All of
them like the country here better than the place from
which they came and many of them came from coun
.ties which rank pretty high in an agricultural way. All
Kf them say they have no intention of going back.
And, last, but by no means least, the farmers are all
putting in big crops. Times may be hard, and prospects
.may be such as to frighten those in business, but the
farmers are going right ahead, not at all worried by con
ditions, and are getting ready to harvest a big crop, All
records for production should be broken in Box Butte
county this year.
A REAL MESSAGE
With so many mediocre speakers from which it might
Slave chosen, the senior class of the high school has shown
srare judgment in selecting Congressman Reavis to make
its commencement address. Mr. Reavis is not only an
orator, in the popular sense of the word, but he has a
Qiappy faculty for saying something, and when he makes
a speech, usually manages to" touch upon an important
topic. As a rule, commencement addresses are somewhat
like the old style commencement orations.
As a rule, the high school graduate is a trifle tired of
learning by precept For four or five years he has heard
little or nothing else. The average commencement ad
dress contains a number of splendid rules for attaining
.huge success in life, which the graduate rarely if ever fol
lows. Congressman Reavis may be expected to follow an
other track. . He has come to be rather a looming figure
in congress, and may confidently be expected to bring a
real message.
REVISING RAILROAD PAY SCHEDULES.
(Omaha Bee.)
The announced determination of the Railroad Labor
fjoard to revise downward the pay of unskilled labor, and
to inquire more closely into all wage schedules is what
might have been expected. It might well have been pre
ceded, we trust that it will be very shortly followed, by
another announcement to the effect that the freight tariffs
also will be subjected to a sharp downward revision.
Unskilled labor naturally feels first the retrograde as
it did last the upward movement in wages. This is be
cause of its position. The man with nothing to sell but
the toil of his hands is at a perpetual disadvantage in the
struggle of life. He must dispose of his only possession
in a market almost always gutted. Only in time of great
emergency, Buch as that of the war, docs he find oppor
tunity to bargain to advantage. Just now, with general
depression aboard, necessity compels the unskilled laborer
to accept a reduced wage, and what is considered fairness
makes the general stand the one to be applied to the rail
road. How much of a reduction is to be made, will finally
decide if justice is being done, or If the workers are to be
victimized, as they have been in the past. .
Classification of the railroad workers into various
groups, in which each will find himself listed under the
heading which includes his service to the lines, may be
looked upon as preliminary to the general scaling of
pay. Inequalities that warrant such complaints as those
made by Julius Kruttschnitt may thus be rempved. Daniel
Villard, dean of the magnates, says that while hours of
labor have increased la )er cent on the railroads since
1915, wages have increased 151 per cent. Nothing in this
statement should be looked upon as astonishing. It would
he surprising if it were not so, because at the 191C scale
(Lincoln Star.)
The United States congress, which is having consider
able trouble finding a way to raise funds to meet the gov
ernment's expenses, might do well to study British
methods and expenditures. The British budget for the
coming year is one billion pounds, which on a dollar basis,
Is but little, if any larger than our own. Great Britain
was in the war four years; we were in for nineteen
months. The British army was double our own in num
bers, and since the armistice she has been obliged to
maintain large forces in different parts of the world. '
But more than this, British has a surplus of 230,
500,000 pounds from last year'.-? budget. The United States
surplus is a deficit. Britain's budget report kIiows that
the British foreign debt has been reduced 117,000,000
pounds, of which 75,000,000 pounds were paid on the debt
of this country. This extraordinary demonstration of
government economy may well serve as a lesson to the
United States government, and especially the fact that
the British government has a budget svstem while the
United States continues to plod along by the unbusiness
like method of voting appropriations.
It is not surprising that the taxpayers of the nation
are protesting against high taxes. The deflation of prices
of farm products puts the farmer in a position not in
frequently of not being able to pay his high taxes cit of
his profits, whereas the business man has fuced the plight
of turning- over to the government as taxes such profits
as would be expected in normal times to go into his busi
ness for further expansion.
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THE WOMEN SNORT
(Nebraska City Press)
Women throughout Nebraska hav evidently indicated
a residence in Missouri after reading the fervent account
in the Omaha Bee of recent date to the effect that the wife
of our governor, although living in a twenty-one room
house and keeping it going without help, is still able to
devote a generous share of her time to the woman's club
and a few other activities in which she is interested.
Women of our acquaintance who have read the story in
The Bee have snorted indignantly, if we may use that
term to denote their hints of disapproval and disbelief.
We are not sufficiently acquainted with the governor's
wife to know just how she manages it, but from our own
personal observation of housewifery as it is conducted in
our immediate vicinity, we. would say that to go through
a twenty-one room house for purposes of cleaning and
arranging constitutes SOME job. Mrs. McKelvie is to be
congratulated for having accomplished a task that fre
quently makes plenty of conversation wherever women are
congregated together.
William J. Bryan says it is an unfriendly act for Eng
land to allow liquor in the Bahamas so close to the Ameri
can shore. It's bone-head policy, too, for in case of war
we feel sure that the Bahamas would soon be captured.
Houston Post.
"The bread-basket of the world," is North Dakota, ac
rord'ng to a North Dakota State-bond ad. Perhans that
is why that state has the political colic. Chicago Evening
Post.
"Big Bill" Haywood prefers Russia to the penitentiary
at Leavenworth. There 4s no accounting for tastes.
Boston Transcript
It is a sweetly solemn thought that no matter how or
when Germany pays you and I will continue to pay the
same for. gasoline.
The high cost of living continues to decline. Radium
has now gone down to $100,000. per gram. Nashville
Southern Lumberman.
With $25,000,000 of real money in the treasury, Co
lombia will be likely to have a revolution. Greenville
(S. C.) Piedmont.
S(eps should be taken to present the army engaged in
the war on rum from fraternizing with the 'enemy. New
York World.
Swords may be beaten into plowshares, but a silk shirt
can't be converted into a pair of overalls. Detroit Journal.
It's getting harder and harder to think un some excuse
for viewing Japan with alarm. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The bandits thaf robbed an umpire were probably try
ing to show him how it felt New York World.
Let'B hope the wave of price-cutting is one of those
"permanent waves." Brooklyn Eagle.
A damp cellar used to be considered unhealthy.
Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont
The tighter the money, the soberer the business world.
Asheville (N. C.) Times.
America's foreign relations seem to be all poor rela
tions. Columbia Record.
RANDOM SHOTS
The president of the united peanut
association has denounced the prof
iteers in most harsh terms. He says
that every time a small boy buys a
bag of them, he pays at the rate of
25 cents a pound, while the growers
get only 5 cents. Along with this
crusade to bring down the price of
peanuts, someone should start a cam
paign to eliminate profiteering in pop
and pink circus lemonade. These are
among the crying evils that remain
with us. . .
The Omaha World-Herald last week
achieved the record for wild-eyed re
porting, heretofore held by Jimmy
Chamberlain, once of the State Jour
nal, who wrote a three-column story
about a fire in a livery barn and de
voted half a column to the description
of an aged Thomas cat leaping for life
from the haymow door. The article in
question was first discovered by the
columnist on the Lincoln Star, who,
aw therein a few rules of etiquette,
and a test for showing when a young
lady may safely conclude that a young
man is getting "fresh" with her. It
follows:
The girl's story to the World-Herald
was of sensational character.
"I went to the De Luxe dance hall
with Mrs. Claude Nelson," bhe said.
'Her husband met her there, and I
started home alone. I walked north
on Eighteenth and was starting to
cross the street at Dodge when a big
black car drew up along side of me.
"I looked .at the machine, and was
starting ahead when the driver jumped
out and lifted me on? my feet. He
dragged me into the car and started
north on Eighteenth street
"As we shot ahead he stuffed some
old gloves into my mouth and pulled
a revolver out from the side door. 'I'll
kill you if you make a noise,' he told
me.
"We turned a lot of corners and soon
were on a country road I felt kind of
dizzy and weak and was starting to
come to, when he stopped the car.
There he choked me and beat me He
had a bottle of whisky and tried to
force it down my mouth.
"Ho then started to get fresh."
One golfer, by a lucky stroke, made
a hole in one, and noted there were
five people to bear witness to the feat.
The next player who approached was
told of the marvelous stroke. "Huh,"
he said, "no wonder you ran make a
record like that. All five of your wit
nesses are employes of yours." A man
can't get away with anything in this
town.
Montana had some freak legislators,
too. Out there they passed a law re
quiring bachelors to pay an annual
tax of $3.00. As Uncle Bill used to
say, "It's cheap at half the price."
A Denver woman is asking for a
divorce on the ground that when she
serves souup for dinner, her husband
inhales it and makes so much noise
that she can hear nothing else. Those
who value their d?mestic happiness
should remember that the green onion
season is with us now, and watch
their step. -
Nebraska City Press': A coun'e of
Nebraska City men were walking
along Central avenue the other day
some distance behind a woman. She
dropped something on the walk and as
the two men approached one said to
the other: "I think that woman
dropped her lace handkerchief, but I
hesitate about picking it up, for it
may be her petticoat." "Neyer mind
about that," said the other man, who
is married, "go ahead and pick it up;
women do not wear petticoats."
Today's Best Story
"Julia," her father called from the
top of the stairs, "did I hear a smack
down there just now?-' 'If you did,
father," the young woman replied,
"you're a wonder, itr 1 ve been hoping
to hear on all evening."
Today's Second Best.
Two neighbors were chatting over
the fence when Mrs. Bailey passed,
smiling, down the street.
"Pretty woman, Mrs. Bailey!" re
marked one. "Who was she?"
"I really have forgotten. Here's her
little boy, I'll ask him. Frank, who
was your mother before she was mar
ried!" Frank regarded his questioner
gravely. "She wasn't my mother be
fore she was married," he severely replied.
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tmneot
SALE
Is proving a boon to the entire community. The clothing:,
hats, shoes, shirts, underwear, socks, etc., all going at a
fraction of their former selling price you owe it to your
self to supply your needs for months. Come Saturday.
MEN'S SUITS
-THE FINEST SUITS YOU EVER LOOKED AT. ,
The Lowest Price since 1914 see for yourself.
$40 Suits
9-95
$50.00 Suits
$n) 7.45
$60-$75 Suits
AA5
$3
AL
Merchandise Carnival
Furnishings
At Pre-War Prices and Less
A fine lot of $2.50 DRESS SHIRTS,
98c
MEN'S UNION SUITS Fine Balbriggan,
well made, reinforced at points of strain;
closed crotch, short sleeves, ankle Q0
length; worth $1.50, now, suit.. JOC
MEN'S B. V. D. style Athletic QQ
Union Suits; worth $1.50, now uC
MEN'S FINE LEATHER BELTS, AQ
worth $1.00 each, now 4jC
MEN'S OVERALLS Full cut, union label;
220 blue denim overalls and jackets the
kind you have paid (1 A
$3.50 for, now tpl.UJ
LEE UNIONALLS Brown; CO QC
sold for $6.00; now .ydJjJ
MEN'S PANTS For work or dress fine
all wool, stripes in hard finished worsteds,,
tweeds, cassimers, etc; all sizes, well made
and worth to $6.50, 09 7
now, per pair y.i D
MEN'S JERSEYS All wool, several de
sirable colors; worth to fl0 OC
$3.00, now $L.0D
FRANK RUSSELL $3.75 Driving frO CA
Gloves, now, per pair , p.JU
Furnishings
At Pre-War Prices and Less
RAILROAD MEN'S SHIRTSU-Indigo blue
dotted shirts, with two detachable stiff
collars to match; Q
$3.00 value, now plf J
MEN'S SILK SHIRTS The prettiest pat
terns you ever looked at; gay, long-wearing
fibre silk shirts that you have CP (JC
paid $10 and $12 for, now yJ.JJ
PURE THREAD SILK SHIRTS Jersey
silk, crepe, broadcloth silk, most beautiful
patterns and colors, worth AC
to$15.00, now i. pO.id
SUIT CASES Fibre suit cases, strong and
durable, worth to Ci AC
$2.50, now pliJ
SUIT CASES-A large assortment of
leather and fibre cases in the wanted sizes;
with straps and good brass (j0 OP
clasps; worth to $8.00, nowY)OJ
ARROW BRAND WHITE 0V
HANDERCHIEFS, 3 for LdC
DRESS HOSE 35c cotton dress -Q
hose; now, per pair : 1 jC
$3.00 HIGH GRADE KIIAKI EO
PANTS, now l.Oj
A large assortment of MEN'S CAPS
newest colors and patterns,
worth to $2.50, now
98c
SHOES
$5.50 Work and Dress Shoes; CO Qr
Black and Brown, now ., T yJ.jJ
$8.50 Work and Dress Shoes; &A rr
Black and Brown, now yi.uJ
$10 and $12 Black and Brown Dress Shoes
English and round toe lasts; QC
Goodyear welt soles, now
HATS
. A fine assortment of soft Felt
Hats, all desirable colors, new
shapes; worth to $8.00; now
$3.95
Pf'r "," 1 'Mi" i n.m MEN'S SUITS We still have a ga-iU, m t-itv,',- l
few of the $30 Suits. They are
Get Your xeryd ones; $16,75 Let Your
Share ":,: lt:u,wja. mu i,i rwm i Own Eyes Be
Before It to- Q Lai The Judge. I
Too Late -Modern clothes for Men-- Investigate
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