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T1IE ALLIANCE HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1921
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BURR PRINTING CO., Owners
Entered at the postoflTice at Alliance, Neb., for
transmission through the mails as second clans
natter. Published Tuesdays and Friday.
CKORGE L. BURR, JR. Editor
BDW1N M. BURR Business Manager
Official newspaper of the City of Alliance;
official newspaper of Box Butte County.
Owned and published by The Burr Printing
Company, George L. Burr, Jr., President; Ldwin
M. Burr, Vice President.
IT DOIISNT MATTER MUCH
LESS STOCK AND LOWER PRICES
Stockmen who attended the annual convention of the
ttate stock growers association in Alliance last week were
Intensely interested in the discussions which took place
u to the why and wherefore of the present low prices
Iteing paid to the producer and the reasons for the high
priced charged consumers of meats. Resolutions were
passed urging that action be taken to save the stock in
dustry from the financial ruin which is impending, es
pecially if growers are forced to sell their herds this fall
to pay off loans which are coming due.
Herbert Myrick, a farm expert at Chicago, has coin
piled figures from the federal census reports. He de
clares that there is no economic excuse for price condi
tions and says that the number of cattle for each hundred
persons is one-third less than in the year 1900, the sheep
Supply is reduced two-thirds, while the number of hogs
Is 41 per cent smaller.
Myrick declares that the present meat supply will
furnish only about one-half as much for each person as
formerly and said that "the decline in prices to producers
la so utterly unjustified as to constitute the gravest
economic crime ever perpetrated upon the farmers."
The expert gave figures to show that 20 per cent less
tieat was exported during the present fiscal year than
during the previous year and that imports totalled 175,
000,000 pounds of fresh meats, or nearly four times as
much as two or three years ago. He charges that the
United States department of agriculture has over-estimated
the number of sheep and hogs and states that the
department's estimate for January, 1920, was 28 per cent
in error, and said that the census found 34,900,000 sheep
fcs compared to the department's estimate of 48,600,000.
Myrick also said that the census shows 14,000,000 fewer
kogB than department estimates, having found only 59,
000,000 pigs on forms, or 19 per cent less than the de
partment's estimate of 72,000,000. The steady decline in
the number of cattle since the census is emphasized by the
decrease of nearly 18 per cent in the number slaughtered
n the last eleven and one-half months.
The farmer today takes his hogs to market and re
teives from five to five and one-half cents pe rpound. He
goes to the market and pays somewhere around thirty
cents per pound for a slab of bacon. A Box Butte county
farmer remarked this week that he didn't see why the
enormous difference and that in the future it was up to
him to do his own butchering. He does not blnme the
retailer, who usually sells on a smnll margin of profit,
but believes that the high freight rates and the margin
made by the packer is entirely out of proportion to the
price paid the grower.
(Hay Springs News.)
We took a ride out to the ranch Saturday evening and
remained over Sunday. Crops along the line were fine.
Iits of winter wheat and rye is all headed out and it
stands high. South of the river everything is O. K. While
them we met a number of our old time friends and en
gaged in conversation, and if all that they said was to be
put in print it would make our merchants sit up and take
notice. But since it is regarded by some of our merchants
that it docs not pay to advertise, why not put it in print?
It may be proper first to note that the tleople of that
neighborhood are located several miles farther from Alli
ance than they are from Hay Springs, yet this is the kind
of talk they are putting up: We go to Alliance whenever
we can because we can buy cheaper. One fellow said: "I
took my cream to Hay Springs last week and got 18 cents
for it and took It to Alliance this week and got 25 cents."
It may bo noted also that these people read the Alliance
papers as well as the Hay Springs News. That the Alli
ance nnners are teeming with discount ads, and in conse
quence another fellow remarked: "We know what we have
to nav for things when we go to Alliance and never know
what we must pay when we go to Hay Springs or what
we are iroing to get for our stuff until we get there.
There were other remarks but th cnature and time and
snare forbids.
The uoshot of it all is. that these people bring their
hogs and other heavy stuff to Hay Springs because of
better roads and shorter haul ana take the money pain
for them mv our local buyers and with the lighter stmt
thev have for market go to Alliance ana lo their trading.
The same thing is being done to a large extent by people
livinir between here and Chadron, ana people from our
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town re going to naoron uany ior snopfiing.
This condition of things ought not to De. it is a known
fact that all Fmall towns, and larger ones, too. for that
matter, have a very considerable amount of shelf-worn
(roods that should be worked off as nuickiy as possiDie
and new and up-to-date good De suDsmutea.
Our merchants ought to De able to see tne point.
ON HIS HONEYMOON?
JorVinP. ho had hppn crirnilincr tiia
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vacation hi a iasnioname summer
hotel, discovered whn on the point of
leaving that his pockettiook had disap
peared. Accordingly he interviewed
the manager who asked him to de
scribe it.
'Well,'' replied Jot kin, "it was Rus
sia leather, red anil had a claVpl
And the shape 7 asked the man
ager.
"Hat, of course, snapped Joikins.
"Haven't I been here a month ."'
American legion Weekly.
IN BEHALF OF TAXPAYERS
(Omaha Bee)
TU mA f tV-i1ont 1fai1ina miftincr the
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budget system of government expenditures into effect, is
on art inn Imnnrtnnt to the taxnavinir Dublic to be passed
by without comment and consideration. For years the
haphazard way in which congress has voted appropria
tions without inquiry as to where the money was to be
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sponse to this growing objection, a budget and audit bill
was passed a year ago, oniy 10 oe ve-oeu Dy rresititmi
Wilson on account of a rider which he interpreted as in-
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altered, has been put through unde the new administra
null, la icasnuiuiH mviiii.tmiii.iivi
r.nvummpnt vnfnilitnrpR must be pruned vigorously
if prompt recovery of prosperity is to be aided. Taxes
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that were possiDie during me ueparieu penuu ui immwun
now present a mreaiening onsiacie io recuveiy oi nm
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propriations such as in the transportation act of 1920 have
contused tne government s accounts unm it i impussiuic
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fob the treasury to give an exact, siaiement ui me muuu
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Under the budget plan no appropriations can be asked
or estimates suomiuea wunoui exummuium mi i-yiMv
as to ways and means by the secretary of the treasury
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public expenditures are made it must be ascertained if
the money to meet tnem is on nana, or wnere it is coming
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ters, no slipping through of appropriation bills under the
cover ot some greater or more popular issue me umwu
States now for the first time will have a complete pro
gram on which all demands for public funds will be listed
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liminary to a policy of governmental economy which was
pieugeu in tne ium cuiiipaiKii.
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Mr. Ellison can ask questions that college men cant
answer. So, for that matter, can little Willie. Providence
Journal.
It may be due to the fact that women are now the
equals of men, when once they were the superiors, but the
old marks of courtesy are one by one passing away. The
insurance underwriters are responsible for the latest
breach in the guide to male conduct. It is no longer the
proper thing to remove the hat when entering an elevator
Vrhere there are women passengers.
A head-line reads: "Dempsey Did Not Forget His
Mother". Maybe not. But it was a sin the way he treat
ed his Uncle Sam. Marion Star. (
If Lenine has "gone crazy," the mystery is how they
found it out Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont.
Mrs. Bergdoll says Grover is worth half a million dol
lars. She means he has that much. Arkansas Gazette.
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A few of the many low prices
you get at our store
Very Best Cocoa Full Pound 22
Special Blend Coffee 45 value, per pound 30
Best Crackers, per pound 17
Uncolored Japan Tea (Green) V pound package,
35 value, 7 201
Large Box Matches, 3 boxes for 15,
We Pay the Highest Price for Fresh Eggs.
FERTILE GROUND
The seedy-looking individual's shirt
was far from spotless and his coat
and vest were covered with irrime an !
grease, but in his buttonhole he sport
ed a red, red rose.
"Where do you suopoi I got 'hi?
he asked an rrquain.auce.
"I don t know, admitted the other.
"Maybe it grew there."
Having spent $50,000,000 for fucc
powder last year, American women
may fairly claim to have done their
bit.
Pronounced dead, a minister camc
to life after 14 hours. Just 'vhen yout
think a minister is all throjgh, he
it-n't.
Miss Maybelle Pilkington and Dan
iel Hogan of Oregon City, Ore., were
married Tuesday.
Officejmisne 558 i Residence Phone 617
It Will Pay You to See4
E. T. Kibble & Co.
REAL ESTATE
INSURANCE AND RANCHES
Several jrood bargains close to town.
Will sell on Reasonable Terms.
Iet us Show How Box Butte County Land
Will Pay Big Returns on Money Invested.
ALLIANCE ... :- -:- NEBRASKA
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Pity the Blind Man
SOME days you'll see him, slowly, hesitatingly, feeling
his way. At other times he has a guide who quickly
leads him where he wants to go.
When you shop without advance knowledge of
where to go to get the best, you are feeling your way.
The advertisements in The Herald are guides. They
tell you where to go to get the best quickly.
And they are a guarantee of satisf action. The
consistent advertiser pays money to tell you about his
goods. He knows they are good he backs them up with
his money because he believes they'll satisfy. Only
merchandise which is consistently good can be consist
ently advertised.
Read the advertisements and buy the advertised
products. Don't spend your money blindly. Get dollar's
worth for a dollar by buying products that have proved
their worth under the glare of publicity. ,
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The Alliance Herald
Twice a Week Tuesdays and Fridays
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