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THE ALLIANCE HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 26th, 1921.
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THE CLASSICS AGAIN.
The editorial heart la just now filled
th sympathy for Calvin Coolidge.
,Yow may not recall the name. Calvin
occupies the aujrust position of vice
ftresident of th United States,
tae to the grace of the Almighty and
the republican landslide of November
2, 1920. At that time his name was
a every tongue and with his running
'snate, he occupied the front page of
very (Republican, at least) news
paper in the country.
The lot of a vice president of the.e
United States Is not a pleasant one.
He is chosen, in the first place, be
muse the electoral votes of his home
state may be needed, or because he has
ome personal popularity that may be
f assistance to the party which hopes
to save the nation for four years.
Cnce the ticket is elected, and the vice
president immediately drops off the
front page and out of sight. True, he
is the presiding officer of the senate,
Lut he hus little to do save remark,
from time to time, that the gentleman
from Vireinia has the floor. Of
course, if the president should become
seriously ill, the vice president will
Ct back on the front page, and the
newspapers will dig up his photograph
ud print it when news is shy, but ifin
ehances to one the girl who keeps the
morgue will dig up the wrong picture
fend nobobdy will ever know the dif
ference. If the president should die
tut that happens only once in a cen
tury. The vice president usually be
comes resigned to being a nonentity.
Mr. Coolidge, however, has made a
Tiew vice presidential record. Here it
is fully four months since he assumed
office, and he's back on the front page.
It's only for a brief instant, but how
heavenly it must seem. Mr. Coolidge
delivered an address before the clas
sical league at the University of Penn
sylvania and a reporter happened to
-fce there.
It was a typical vice presidential
address. The vice president is not al
lowed to speak on political problems,
for he isn't supposed to know any
thing about the intentions of the ad-
tniaistration. He has no authority, and
tio vote, so his views are not as im
portant as those of the senator from
the smallest state. Mr. Coolidge, who
once throttled a policemen's strike
in Boston without assistance, spoke on
"Retaining the Classics." He told the
society that: "Education is primarily
fe means of establishing ideals. It is
the ancient classics," he declared,
"that inspire the ideals toward which
fell men and nations are training to
day. The most pressing requirement
of the present hour is not how are we
to foIvh our economic problems, but
vhere are we to find the sustaining
influences for the realities of life?
The progress of the present era gives
Ho new answers to these problems.
There are no examples of heroism
'hich outrival Leonidas at Thermopy
lae, or Horatius ut the bridge."' And
t-Q Mr. Coolidge goes on, probably for
a couple of hours.
If the vice president .really were a
commanding figure in American life,
it might be worth while to tell him a
few incidents of the great war, which
would make the exploits of Horatius
and Leonidas look as inconsequential
as the return of a patrol from an un
eventful trip ia No Man'9 I.and. Mr.
Coolidge felt the urge to say .some
thing that would make a hit with
ome tody, .and probably the members
of the classical society appreciated
4his piffle.
-Ten or fifteen years ago, debating
societies in country school districts
used to thresl out such weighty prob
lems as the value ef the classics, along
with deciding whether the nu'omobile
would supplant the horse. Nowadays,
the divinity which surrounds the clas
sics has largely disappeared. Eminent
professors will urge that Greek and
Latin be studied as un aid to mental
development and a better understand
ing of our own language. But, when
J1 is" said and done, the classics are
only literature in the primitive in
teresting because of their antiquity,
valuable to the student who yearns to
know about word derivations but a
beastly bore to read and a weariness
to the flesh. Mr. Coolidge comes from
iioston. Herealter let there be no
question raised as to the culture if
that sacred city.
of us have taken turns cussing them,
every time someone raided prices on
us 25 per cent when the railroads got
a 10 per cent increase in rates. The
railroad head. have shown that they
have a heart and it is a good fight
for tired and weary eyes.
The roads have authorized low
round trip rates 1 cent a mile, plus
the war tax, of course have been
granted to civil war veterans and
their wives to enable them to attend
the. G. A. R. reunion at Indianapolis
this year. It's a fine thing to do, as
anyone will testify who has ever talked
with a civil war veteran who has at
tended one of these reunions. In fact,
it gives them so much pleasure arj
gratification that we are moved to
wonder why the railroads didn't show
real generosity, instead of a trace of
it, and extend the same low rate priv
ilege to the members of the W. R. C,
the Ladies of the G. A. R. and the
Sons of Veterans. It means so little
to the roads so much to the mem
bers of these societies, who, with little
encouragement, small funds and un
bounded enthusiasm have carried high
the torch of patriotism since the civil
war.
We suppose it isn't legal, and there
is no way that it could be done, but
somehow we wish that the state or
the government could step in and pay
the way of every single one of the
Woman's Relief Corps and the Ladies
of the bt A. R. to that reunion, as
well as of every civil war soldier who
is alive and able to go. Fine people,
every one of them the salt of this
earth. Ten or fifteen years from now
and there'll be mighty few of them
left. The ranks are getting thinner.
There is a pathetic attempt to keep
the women's organiiations going by
getting new and younger blood into
them, but the organizations will, in all
probability, die when the older women
pass on. It would be so little to do
for those who have done so much for
In 1920, the G. A. R. had shrunk in
size from four hundred thousand to
one hundred thousand. They are going
to keep on meeting so long as a single
nember survives. Before it is too late,
some means should be devised to Jet
every one of these veterans who , is
able attend this annual reunion at iio
expense to himself. They aren't ask
ing for anything, which is all the more
reason they should have some recog
nition. Or is that pretty phrase about
the "gratitude of republics" mere
breath ?
THE PUBLIC FORUM
THREE CHEERS.
Three cheers for the railroads! It
does us, good to feel kindly toward
them again, if only for a moment. All
THE ILLINOIS MIXUP.
Illinois is faced with a peculiar
problem. Governor Small has been
indicted on an embezzlement charge,
and refuses to permit himself to- be
arrested. He has called out the state
troops to protect him, and the courts
are due to hand down a decision in the
case today.
Governor Small was at one time the
Illinois state treasurer, and is is
charged that state fund3 were deposit
ed in friendly banks, which paid the
state 2 per cent interest and loaned
the money out at 6 or 7 per cent, the
political machine taking the difference.
The governor claims that his posi
tion renders him immune from arrest,
and holds that he is entitled to serve
out the remainder of his term. He
may be able to get away with it. His
nerve is sublime, in any event. There
have been parallel cases, in one in
stance a mayor of a western city re
fused to resign, even when he was
serving a penitentiary sentence after
conviction on a graft charge.
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WHEN you are tired and
11 worn out a cool, ref resh
ing drink will put new life
and spirit into you.
We have all kinds of soft
drinks and flavors and
pride ourselves on our
prompt and efficient
service.
You'll Enjoy Our Drinks.
Fresh IIome-Made Candies
in Fancy Boxes
Kept in Refrigerator Case.
Alliance Candy Store
Phone 27
210 Box Botte Alliance
The Herald invites short letters
from its readers and others for this
department. letters should be short
and may be written upon any subject
that seems important to the writer.
All communications must be signed,
but names will not be printed if the
writers do not wish. The Herald does
not necessarily endorse the opinions
expressed by contributors to this de
partment. A Significant Meeting.
At the meeting of the Fairview local
of the Farmers' Union last Friday
evening the question of threshing
prices was discussed.
Many believed that the threshing
machine operators had set th
too high and after some discussion,
four cents for oats, six for wheat and
seven lor rye, trie farmer pa vine for
h fn.i ....... a 1. 1 r .
1 uri n.i uciitieu upon as being,
more nearlv fair. thun. th ;v, I
and nine cents fixed by the threshing
macmne operators, we do not propose
tO SaV which i the ricrht nrina K,.f ... .
. r . 1
are nure mai 11 me iarmers stand to
gether and do a little more of the same
kind of work he will make it mighty
uncomioriaDie lor a wnoie Jot of fellows.
It micht be well for mm. tmnA
threshing to look up this community as
there is some mighty good grain here
this year.
Ice cream and cake was served dur
ing the social hour and for once the
frenial fare 'nf ' th Kirrotrv lnr.,A
troubled as he was short on ice cream.
1 he next time he wants a crowd he is
going to let the farmers know that
they are going to set the price of
wheat. Why not?
POINT OF ROCK CREEK
O. F. Hershman was a business
caller in this, vicinity one day last
week, . ,
Mrs. Bernice Nichols is on the sick
list - '
Mr. Beal, engineer for Trine thresh
in goutfit 1 left for Sidney Friday to
work for the Wtyte Truck Co. ;
Mr. Sapp has taken Br. Beat's place
as engineer with the Trine threshing
outfit. .
Ernie Wienell, Elmer Essex, Earl
Essex were callers at the Essex camp
north of Bill Johnson's Thursday.
It was a mistake that we couldn't
get central because some had not paid
their dues, the cause being wires
burned out at the telephone office.
Elmer and Ernie Essex starts the
Burke hay Monday.
Arthur and Richard Denton is down
from Sioux county, taking in the car
nival Saturday. -
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Vaughn v t ted
with Mrs. Langford Sundav.
George Roch and two sons are haul
ing grain for McCorkle with teams
near the Fowling postoffice.
Ira Duskin was over in this vicinity
Sunday hunting for help for threshing.
Merl Byers of Minatare stayed over
Sunday with the Sore boys.
Mr. and Mrs. Mel Colerick of Berea
attended the bill game at Nichol s.
John Schwaderer took dinner with
Arthur Lore Sunday.
Frank Vaur'nan's crop was struck
quite bad with hail; now grasshoppers
are eating his oats.
A. L. Lore called at F. Trines Sun
day morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Abble from Heming
ford was callers at Lore's Sunday af
ternoon and was out sight-seeing at
the same time, looking at the new
threshing machine, which cuts and
threshes at the same time. '
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Worley visited
some friends near Hemingford Sun
day. Iand Agent Ball was out in Point
of Rock vicinity Sunday afternoon.
W. M. Johnson was around collect
ing" last Thursday for telephone fees.
Several trucks are hauling grain
from the McCorkle fields to Alliance.
Misses Nippers and Mike and Joe
Sherlock attended the ball game.
Mrs. Blanche Hoover, Bell Garrett,
Frank Rorndale of South Snake creek
attended the ball game Sunday at
Nichols.
Miss Iva Wilkin called at the Essex
home Sunday afternoon.
' Earl Essex had a break down with
his car, smashing a front wheel of hir
I ford, but he looked around and found!
a cultivator wheel and went on as welF
1 as though it had been a new wheel.
v William Essex stayed over Sunday
. with his daughter, Mrs. Iva Brekkle,.
tin Alliance.
I J. W. Guthrie and his sister and her
husband, Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Kelly of
i Carroll, la., wHb arrived here Satur
I day and Mrs. C. C Calkins and sonr
1 Charles, and Mrs. Pauline Conalson of
i Dubuque, la., left Monday morning-
overland for Cheyenne to attend the
Frontier days celebration. They will
return by the way of Denver.
Miss Avis Joder and Miss Edna
Benedict motored to Berea Saturday
and spent Sunday with Miss Benedict'
sister, Mrs. Harry Loomis.
Don't Dodge the Police
The state automobile lens law went into effect this morning. If your
car isn't equipped with legal lenses, save yourself the unpleasant exper
ience of being called down by the cops, or subjecting yourself to a fine of
from $10 to $50. The police intend to enforce the law strictly the easiest
way is to get legal lenses.
SHALER LENSES
are the best for the purpose. They give real light on the road, as well as
doing away with the glare. Motorists who have used them say they give
more light than plain glass. You want light as well as legality, and the
SHALER gives an intense light far ahead and spreads it the full length of
the road.
Prices For Fords, pair, $2.75
Other makes, $3.50
Rhein Hardware Company
Prompt and Courteous Service
Only 4 Days More of the
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learaece
Sale
This great sale has smashed all records in amount
' of values and in amount of business. We
put new bargains out every day.
Take Full Advantage of the Last 4 Days of this Sale
M1
Ladies White Sport Pumps,
trimmed in brown and white kid,
$7.50 values
$4.98
Ladies White Cloth Pumps, in
Louis and Military Heels, $6.00
values
$4.48
Ladies $5.00 Wash Skirts
$2.98
9-4 Bleached Sheeting, yard 49c
Pleached Muslin, yard 17c
20c Percales, yard 1 12Vtc
Sheets (large size) $1.63
$2.00 Fancy Voiles, yard 79c
75c Cotton Crepe de Chene. yard 49c
Ladies' $4.50 Silk Blouses $2.98
Children's Lisle Hose ' 25c
Ladies' ilk Lisle Hose - 39c
Men's Dress Shoes In Kids and
Calfskin. These shoes sold up
to $10, Clearance Price
$4.98
Men's $4 Dress Pants $1.98
Men's 7")C Lisle Socks 33c
Men's Work Shirts 75c
Men's Leather Gloves 39c
Men's $2.00 Dress Shirts 98c
Men's Overalls $1.19
200 yards BARGAIN BASEMENT I
OUTING FLANNEL MJm vvji OXFORDS
20c Grade 23c GINGHAMS NOTIONS AT Ladies' $12.00 Values
lie yard lvirH reduced prices strap slippers 4 9g
A0C yd $2.69
CRYSTAL WHITE Chndren.s BU"W Cr N'S WORK SHOES
4bars GINGHAM DRESSES A I RONS MARY JANE PUMPS ?2.00 values
25c 79c 89c $2.48 $2.98
Goldem JRiile Store