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THE ALLIANCE HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1921.
U!jr Miaurr Hrralfc
tttTRR miNTING COH Ownni
Vnttrrd at the poatoffic at Alllanra
ptobNeb., for trtmmlMlnn through the
aa arcond rlaaa matter. I'ubliabcd
Irmwday and Friday.
IKOR(lK U IN'KR, JR.,
iUWIN M. KUKK.
....Editor
.Kualnraa Mgr.
Official nrwapaprr of tha Cltr of
Mlltnce; ofTlcial ncwapaprr of Box
fevtta County.
Owned and published by Tha Burr
nttng- Company, Oeorira L Hurr, Jr
Id M. Uurr, Vice ITea-
THK SWIMMING POOL
City Manager Kemmish has accom
plished a considerable number of
things during his first year in Alli
ance, but the conversion of the armory
Into a swimming pool and gymnasium
will be his greatest achievement for
the year, if he is able to enlist public
support to carry it through.
Alliance needs something of this
kind. Our facilities for amusement
for both young and old people are, to
fay the least, somewhat limited. The
opposed the encroachments of women
to contemplate, and they have our
sympathy.
On the other hind, the optimists
will see a ray of hope. A certain
amount of education, they argue, is
the bet thins in the world for a
statesman or a leader, but there arc
tho.-e who feel that the atmosphere
and halo that surround a teacher in
the school room are not of the sort
that develop the best leaders for a
democracy. Of late years, there have
risen prophets Who say that it is not
only possible, but eminently more sat
isfactory, to look in the business field
for administrative ability. Time
alone can tell how it will work out,
but there will undoubtedly be some
who will tremble for the future of
the country. The rest of us have been
trembling long enough, anyway.
RIDING TO A FALL
The international typographical un
ion for years has held the place of
honor among organizations of labor
ing men. It has had the highest type
of leadership, and has won a reputa
ship that dominates the typographical
union today, and we are done. The
union just completed its international
convention. An attempt was made to
reduce the salaries of international
officers. It wasn't much of a reduc
tion, only $50 a year in one case, but
it aroused the ire of the international
officers. J. W. Hays, secretary-treasurer,
who has had a fat job for years
with no opposition, referred to the
"measly $5,000 per annum salary paid
the president and himself." President
McParland said he got ajong all right
and saved money, even if he did have
to press his clothes at home, and re
ferred to "pints of diamonds" worn by
some of the labor leaders.
Talk of this kind, when thousands
of men are living on meager strike
benefits! And some people think that
leaders are made of this kind of stuff.
tion for conservatism that has nlnrpd
Country club, built this year, is a dis- it in high repute with the business con-
tinct forward step, but its advantages
are available to only a sma'l portion
f our citizens, and this will probably
be of greatest usefulness during only
a part of the year.
Such a public improvement as has
cerns with which it has had dealings,
and yet, despite its conservatism, has
managed to win for its members many
advantages that are not enjoyed by
the members of other crafts. The ty
pographical union was the first to es-
rbi-
trikpa.
xning is one of the sports that is en- During the past year or two, how
joyable all the year round. Hardly a ever, this union has fallen from its
been conceived by the city manager tablish the plan of compulsory a
Is almost unlimited in its field. Swim- tration, and to do away with stril
week goes by that a crowd of Alli
ance people cannot be found at the
plunge in Hot Springs. The munici-
high estate. The quality of the lead
ership has lowered perceptibly, for one
thing. Another thing is that the lead
pal pier at Broncho lake was a big ers sought to take advantage of the
lorwaru step, but this will be available war, which took away a good many
only a comparatively small part of the printers. Wage scales were boosted
year. An indoor swimming pool, with high and higher, and sometimes, in
heated water, makes swimming avail-the desire to get money, contracts
able every month In the year. that were in effect were disregarded,
The gymnasium feature, too, is 'the employing printers having to
something that should not be over- stand for the violation, although the
looked. Alliance has no Y. M. C. A., chief boast of this union for years has
ana asuie irom the boys in school and. been that it held its contracts invio-
the Elks club, there are no gymna
tium facilities available. The Elks
have just about room enough to ac
late.
The crowning folly has been the in
troduction of the fortv-four hour wppk.
commodate tneir own members, and ( This was planned during the war pe
the more ambitious of the athletic riod, and was to go into effect in May
programs have to be passed up or of this year. Beginning the first of
staged under adverse circumstances, the year, a business depression ar
The proposed city gymnasium, un.ler rived. In nearly every other line,
the management of a live bunch like workmen were accepting wage reduc
the firemen or the American Legion, tions and were accustoming them
could be made one of the finest things selves to the changed conditions. In
ever thought of for Alliance. the face of unfavorable business con-
Whatever plans for financing the ditions and an unprecedented slump in
project are finally decided upon, Alii- the industry, the leaders of the typo
ance citizens should get behind, and graphical union bulled their way
help to put them over. There is hard- ahead. The agreement, signed by only
ly a city the size of Alliance in the 'a small number of employers, but
state which has not taken up the binding every union shop in the coun
swimming pool idea. Dozens of them try, was declared in effect Strikes
have been constructed this summer, followed. They are still in force all
Sooner or later, the people of this city over the country. Hundreds thou-
wni understand that the youth of the sands of printers are supporting fam-
present day demands clean entertain
ment and that athletic programs are a
part of the entertainment that any
normal boy crave. If his home city
does not furnish them for him, sooner
r later he goes where they can be
found, or accepts a substitute that is
less worthy. Alliance has supported
the Boy Scout movement notably. This
gymnasium project will be of chiefest
benefit to the boys a little farther
along in years, but all the more
worthy of consideration. Here's some
thing that's worth pushing -let's live
up to the city's slogan. Let's go I
A MATTEU OF HISTORY
The histories and "Who's Who" of
the coming generation will have to
lead differently, that's all there is to
it. There'll have to be a new set of
dope sheets, for the youngsters ure
not running true to form. We are re
ferring to the awful revelations that
are made in the publication of the list
of rural school teachers for the com
ing year. Out of thirty who have been
chosen to install the idea into the
growing minds of the young, but two
only two are young men.
There ure lestons in this fact, if we
will look for them. Turn back to your
histories. Nine out of ten of ihe great
men that you have heard about all
your life began their upward careers
by teaching country school. The coun
try school used to be the stepping
stone for statesmen, lawyers, or those
who took a leading part in science, in
vention or the business world. You
have read it a thousand times, the
ttory of the brilliant young man who
taught the backwoods school and af
terward followed the path of glory'
straight to the presidency, or senate,
r congress, or at least the governoi
of his home state.
The pessimist will see in these ap
palling figures an era when women
will rule the country openly, as they
have always done indirectly. The fu
ture senators and congressmen w ill be
women, for without this training as
teachers in a country Echool, it is use
less to hope for leadership from the
mads. Are men, for the sake of a
few more dollars, or a mere univer
sity training, going to allow their
birthright to pass from their hands?
It looks that way. This is an awfu.'
thing for the men who have always
ilies on strike benefits,
The union may win its struggle.
That is neither here nor there, so far
as the purposes of this editorial are
concerned. The typographical union
! is the strongest in the country today.
Over 'JO per cent of the printing estab
lishments in cities of any consequence
have union contracts. If the members
stick and they do stick, as a rule
there is no question but that the forty
four hour week will be in force after
a few more months of industrial war
fare. But if the un'on wins, it loses. It
will lose hundreds of big shops in the
United States which will never go
back to union conditions. It will make
healthy enemies in hundreds of places
where there were firm friends. It will
lose its position as the leader of the
trade un ons. The men who are on
strike will need years of forty-four
hour weeks to gain the money they
have lost in striking their own indus
try when it was in the most emaciated
condition. It is the poorest showing
ne typographical union nas ever
made. The writer, who had his union
i' I avai' aIoi-ah t'O'ti'ii uirn i-oirvnt j r
. sav that for the first time he is not
proud to acknowledge it.
One instance of the kind of leader-
WE WONDER WHY
(Gering Midwest)
Every time a public service corpora
tion in Nebraska wants to charge more
for its service it flies to the state rail
way commission for relief and inva
riably gets it. We wonder why?
And when the people want relief
from extortionate rates, they fly to
that same commission for relief and
seldom get it. We wonder why ?
Recently a telephone company serv
ing Bloomfield, Neb., asked for a high
er rate, and the request was granted.
The patrons refused to pay it, and
took out their phones, and for six
montns tne company nas done no
business and the people have been
without phones. Now the company
wants to make some concessions and
resume business, but the state rail
way commission refused to permit it.
We wonder why?
By offering to furnish service at a
lower price than that established by
the state commission, the phone com-
Sany admits it asked a rate too high,
y refusing to permit the company to
furnish service at the lower rate, the
commission in effect says that the
management of the phone company
does not know its business. And be
cause the commission, made up of men
who never operated a telephone ex
change, will not permit a phone com
pany to make its own rate less than
the rate fixed by the commission, a
whole community must either do with
out phone service or pay a rate higher
than the company wants to charge.
It would be really funny were it not
so disgusting.
The state of Nebraska is paying
more than $100,000 a year for a rail
way commission that doesn't function
worth a whoop. It manages our al
leged "blue sky" department, and sat
around while $125,000,000 worth of
worthless corporation stocks were sold
to Nebraska people. It is helpless to
reduce freight rates fixed by the inter
state commerce commission. But it
can force a community to pay more
for telephone service than, the tele
phone company is willing to accept for
the service. We wonder why?
And we wonder why the taxpayers
of Nebraska so patiently stand for the
farce.
See the School Dresses shown
for $1.29. at !
Ilighland-Iiolloway Co.
Dr. A. L. V. Smith, chiropractor,
has returned from his vacation, and
will resume regular "health service"
adjustments for his patrons. 74-75
GENUINE
DURHAM
tobacco makes 50
good cigarettes for
IUC
Try Your Skill
On a Regulation Size
Table.
If you feel your game is
petting poorer, or if you want
to improve for any reason,
come in and try the 5x1 0-foot
billiard table at Joe Smith's. It's the only one in this part of
the state.
PLENTY OF REFRESHMENTS
Lunches, Soda Fountain, Real Coffee and Sandwiches.
JOE SMITH'S
The mosquito that was found with
a bill two inches long prrbably was
the landlord.
See the School Dresses khown
for $1.29, at
llighland-lloiloway Co.
As finally corrected, that slacker
list should be the "Who's Not Who"
in America.
The world owes you a living, but ex
pects you to develop some skill as a
collector.
For a real drink, try ORANGE
MP, out of the ball at Smith's Soda
Fountain. 7J
What has Decome of th nld.fnuli.
ioned dnnre in which th rlnnron
moved their feet?
It is stated that the daily expense of
the British coal strike is greater than
was the daily expense (to Britain) of
the war. This consideration will prob
tbly not lead the country to start a
war, however.
The little chess player wou'd be
more widely known if his name had
happened to be Jones or Smith. How
can anybody remember how to spell
or figure out how to pronounce Rzes
rewski ?
Box Butte County, Nerraska, will meet,
as the Equalization Board on August.;
18, 1321, for the purpose of making:
the levy for the year 1921. This will'
be the last meeting this year as a.
Board of Equalization. 73-75
AVIS M. JODER,
County Clerk
tn.mi?tttty
In Sweden, we are told, you can
judge a man's wealth by the hat he
wears. In America, you judge by the ;
hat nis wife wears.
NOTICE I
Notice is hereby given that the
Board of County Commissioners of
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you'll say.
I jryiHATS often the expression that
foffin ment which has been sent to our j
establishment. Not once or twice but
hundreds of times. And many is the time
when a Suit, Wrap or Frock was returned
to the owner after it was once destined for
the rag man.
Let's show you how we can save your last
year's clothes, restore them to their pris
tine beauty and make you happy for an:
gther season.
Our Dry Cleaning process is thorough.
It does its work eniciently and best
of all saves you money.
MODEL
Cleaners & Dyers
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Alliance, Nebraska