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THE ALLIANCE HERALD, FRTDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1921.
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TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
BURR FR1NTING CO., Owners
Entered at the po.stoffice at Alliance,1. , ,
Neta.. for trflnsnnrtatinn fhrourh th ln mlnuten.
Bails as second class matter. Wr"t actually happened ? Why,
' I within fifteen minutes there were four
CFfonGH 1 nCRR, Jr Editor or five hundred Alliance people on the
EDWIN M. PURR Husiness Mgr. j0b, fighting the fire for all they were
. . ... """'worth. There were a hundred men
Official newspaper of the City of ... n ... , , ,
Alliance; official newspaper of Box ; f,om he B1'" hops, fifty volun-
. . . I I H .... I .1 1 Alt!
Butte County.
Owned and published by The Burr
Printing Company, George I Burr,
Jr, iTCtiident; r,ilwin M. Burr, Vice
IltsiUent.
LOOKING AHEAD.
The suggestion this week by a Her
ald Hubscriber that the county super
visor system be adopted in order to
Inako it possible to build toads and
Conduct the county's business with
more fairness is a timely one. The
regrettable thing -about it is that the
law providing for the system is so
framed that it will be impossible to
put it into effect in less than three
years. And every week's delay in
adopting a road building program
means thai Box Butte county is los
ing out.
So long as the road war keeps on
wo long as the commissioners refuse to
listen to the representatives of a ma
jority of the voters forcing them to
appeal to state authorities for a. voice
in the spending of their own money.
Just so long will it be impossible to
make any progress in road construc
tion. And the entire county will suf
fer. Box Butte county has few enough
roads, either county or ftate aid, right
now, considering the money that has
been expended in building them in the
years that have gone. If there were
co-operation between the commission
ers and the public, ami a constructive
road program could be cgreed upon,
the money that is expended might
build up a fine system of state and
county roads within Box Butte..
As it is, there is no way to break
the deadlock unless one of two things
should happen. Either the business
men of Alliance will have to remain
quiet and give the commissioners a
.free hand in doing what they please
with the money raised by taxes and
from automobile licenses, or else the
commissioners will h:tve to concede
that the public should have a voice in
road construction. Judging from past
discussions and the announced atti
tude of those concerned, this cannot
happen unless the millennium should
roll around.
If the pub'ic wants to look a lcnj;
way ahead, the .upcvvior system of
fers a possible remedy. But by the
time it will be possible to put thu sys
tem into effect, it will be time to re
elect a majority of the present board
of commissioners. However, with the
supervisor plan adopted, the danger in
the future of such deadlocks will be
minimized. It's worth considering.
Another possible remedy lies in the
county manager plan. There is now
ro law in Nebraska that will permit
this being adopted by any county in
the state, but legislatures over the na
t;on have been qu'ck to pass laws au
thorizing this husinoosl&e form of
conducting the affairs of counties. It
is not impossible that the Nebraska
legislature will be willing to make it
legal In this state. . . - -
v O.t thing Is certain there should
oe pome definite road building plan
adopted in Box Butte county, without
further delay. There are tate aid
fund sufficient to maintain seventy
five or more additional miles of road
In this county, and there are aavi'::hle
fund in excess of fifty thousand dol
lars in federal aid. This latter will
be lost if not utilized in 1!22. It is
retrrrtl; Me that there should 1 e even
a piospfct of ihl.i in Box Butte county,
which need roi'ds as much cr more
than any county in the state. If
necessary, of course, a way can be
found to force the county board to act,
.6ro get action without their co-operation,
but this Is the long and hard
way around.. If the supervisor plan
could only be put into effect immedi
ately, it would solve the problem, and
It is worth keeping in mind as an ulti
mate solution of the present difficul
ties. REAL FRIENDSHIP.
What should be done to the fellow
who is continaully saying that the
business men of Alliance are fernint
the farmers, and are interested only
In getting their money? The charge
has been made regularly, and is still
being made by some fellows who
haven't considered the matter very
deeply, but last Wednesday morning
there was an actual illustration of the
way in which the Alliance merchants
regard the fellows who live outside of
the city.
Along about 10 o'clock a fire alarm
rounded. The information went out
that a big prairie five was raging out
south of the city. The blare was far
enough away from Alliance so that it
,WflB no Particular menace to thin city.
if th9 m.rehants were the son of fei-
lows that they have been painted, they
would have shrugged their shoulders
and muttercl a few words of sympa
thy and forgotten all about the alarm
teen firemen, and the rest were Alii-
ance business men and their employes.
(And every business was represented.
There were lawyers, doctors, bankers,
merchants of all descriptions, these
men in some cases closed up their
business houses and put the key in
their pocket. They forgot all about
the profits they might lose, and
dressed in their good clothes, hurried
out to the scene to do all in their
power to help their farmer friends.
It was hard work nnd more or less
dirty work, but the Alliance business
men didn't figure about clothes any
more than they did about lost business.
Some of them, stripped almost to the
waist, worked shoulder to shoulder
with the men from the farms. The
fii?ht against the fire fiend was won.
They they went back to their homes,
cleaned up, nnd in the afternoon it
was business as usual.
Some of these days we won't be
hearing the wails from some of the
farmers that the business men are all
out of sympathy with them, and the
minute they have the money forget
they are on earth. You may write it
chant Is friendly to every farmer, and
n your hat that every Alliance mer-
that he's going to work with him in
everything that is to his advantage
with the same sincerity of purpose
and the same pep and vigor that were
seen when the big fire started. The
next time someone tells you that the
farmer has no real friends in the city,
call him down.
Of course
you know
the reason
why millions
of men like
Lucky Strike
Cigarette
because
it's toasted
which seals
in the real
Burley taste
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IMPERIAL
MATINEE STARTS 2:30
TONIGHT
Harold Goodwin, in
"Hearts of Youth"
USUAL COMEDIES
Adm 9 and. 27c. and W. T.
SAT. OCT. 1
GOUVERNEUR MORRIS'
FAMOUS STORY
"THE PENALTY"
Featuring
LON CUANEY
The weirdest character
ever presented on the
screen.
USUAL COMEDIES
Adm 9 and 36c and W. T.
"SUNDAY, OCT 2
OWEN MOORE, in
"Desperate" Hero"
USUAL COMEDIES
Adm 9 and 27c. and V. T.
MONDAY, OCT 3
- CARMEL MYERS
IN
"CHEATED LOVE"
Adm 9 and 27c, and V. T.
Governor McKclvie has branded as
rank nonsense the claim of Former
State Auditor W. H. Smith that state
appropriations can be reduced ten mil
lion dollars. The governor then pro
ceeds to mention two items that alone
would bring about a reduction of five
millions. It may be true, as Governor
McKelvie suggests, that somebody is
playing politics by talk of such whole
sale reductions, but if it is possible
to bring about a reduction of half that
amount on just two items, perhaps
Mr. Smith is not so nonsensical as the
governor would have us believe. Mr.
Smith proposes to form a non-partisan
league of taxpayers for the purpose
of reducing appropriations and then
frVino f Af ta Aln(tvM a f a I
is not inconceivable that such an or -
iraniVQlmn ..-ill . a . . . . 1 .
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-..v.,,,. nui i'iuvc iuiHr, ana
if enough taxpayers are attracted to
u ranKs, noi many otlicehokJers will
feel free to say that its aim is non
sensical. Some day state officers will
be elected who will find a way to re
duce running expenses, even if some
of their pet departments are forced
to cut down their activities.
Two Omaha youths, aged thirteen
and fifteen, have been apprehended by
La
the police authorities after they had
kept the coppers on edge for three
days by means of their black hand
methods in securing money to build a
home wireless station. The long-suffering
movies will probably be blamed
for their precociousness by the long
haired reformers who try to find a
moral in every case that is a trifle out
of the ordinary. History of the days
before the movies, however, will show
that boys were boys then, just as they
aienow. One doesn't have to go back
any farther than Mark Twain's "Tom
Sawyer' to discover that nnrmol Knva
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entertain a number of ideas of which '
their parents are kept in ignorance.'
Despite the fact that the Omaha police
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wro'e lot of worry was given Gould!
T" " . I a i . ... i
"Mt n VI I iru UIMJUL 1.1 1 HIIHIr DTWI O
win nun oiner men wno received the
letters, someone should see to it that 1
the kids get their wireless instead of
a term in the state reformatory.
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
(Omaha Bee)
Admitting all that has been said in
favor of teaching a foreign language
to the children of the parents who
wish them to learn another besides
the language of the country in which
they live, it yet remains true that in
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proud of the fact that it has been friendly and ever will
ing to aid Union Labor. We appreciate the undoubted
justice and importance of the cause for which Labor to
day is struggling. We realize that the things for which
Labor stands best working conditions at more than a
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THE FASTEST GROWING BANK IN THE WEST.
struction In the Nebraska public
schools should be in English. Judge
Button, in his decision holding the Ne
braska language law unconstitutional,
gave the very best reason for uphold
ing the law when he said: "The soul
of a people is reflected in the language
they speak."
No question will be made of his
further statement that possession of a
working knowledge of a language will
give an insight into the life of the peo
ple who habitually and naturally use
it; nor that acquisition of a foreign
tongue tends to broaden the mind. Yet
the point is that the law that pre
scribes was made necessary by the
fact that in Nebraska children were
and are glowing up in ignorance of
the English language. At this time
the Douglas county authorities are
holding as a witness a girl 19 years
old who was bom and reared in Ne
braska, who is unable to read or write
English, and has only a limited con
versational use of the language. How
can one such as she have any idea of
the soul of America?
The language does not strike at
religion, nor education; it sets no limit
on culture, nor does it interfere with
the privilege of acquiring one or many
other tongues. It merely and properly
requires that a child be given instruc
tion in the English-language that it
will have full ability to take part in
the ordinary affairs of life in the!
United States and will not be forced !
to seek a foreign language in which to
receive the knowledge it should have '
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of what is going on in the land where
it lives. We are waiting to hear
what the supreme court has to say on
the point.
The Wool Dresses for Girl?;
are snappy.
Highland-IIoIloway Co..
BIRTHS
To Mr. and Mrs. Harry Nye, 'Sept
27, a boy.
Those School Dresses are big
values, at $1.29.
Highland-IIoIloway Co.
Wife: "Before we were married you:
said that I would always look the same
to you as the years rolled away."
Husband: "Yes, and I meant it"'
Wife: "O, 1 believe it. I have not had'
a new hat or gown since the ceremony."
New arrival of the bettei
Canton Crepe Dresses.
Highland-IIoIloway Co.
"Who was the modest-looking young
man, Cyrus?" "Modest looking? Sav
what do you think he was?" "I don't
know." "He was a moving picture
maker. All he wanted was to borrow
our church for a mock wedding and
then have a bogus shooting affray oa
the front steps."
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