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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1921)
TWO TI1E ALLIANCE HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1921. TBI? Alltanrr Hrralb TUESDAY AND FRIDAY BURR PRINTING CO., Owneri Entered t the postofTice at Alliance, Heb for transportation through tlie maili as necond class matter. GEORGE L. BURR, Jr Elitor EDWIN M. BURR Business Mgr. chickens until they are hatched, and that even then there is a danger that the rats may get them. However, according to Governor McKelvie's prospectus, the coming in vestigation shows signs of being in tended to accomplish result!). That the state's executive is in earnest is shown by the fact that the members cf the investigating committee are not all politicians. There will be three code secretaries, who will be noirlieible and Official newspaper of the City of mignt a8 weM rema)n nameless At- t ji ney General Davis will be the fourth member and may be relied upon to attempt to get at the truth. Dean J. E. lyeRossignol of the college of business administration of the Uni versity of Nebraska is th fifth member, and in this man we are jus tified in placing our hope. Professor LeRossignol in the best Alliance; official Butte County. newspaper of Box' Owned and published by The Bun Printing Company, George L. Burr, Jr, President; Edwin M. Burr, Vice President. A SENSIBLE SOLUTION From ScottsblufT comes the news that Secretary J. II. Mack of the cham ber of commerce of that city has handed in his resignation. There was poor patriot indeed who aermit the bolshevik to hold up !ng. It is will pern the holy institutions of the land to scorn and derision without voicing his Jissent and righteous indignation. He is a short-sighted American who fails to see in the bootlegger of today both the spirit of the anarchist and bol shevik. It is time that the citizen upon whom we depend to uphold our Amer icanism awakens to the realism that bootlegging is not a mere pastime but it is a nefarious and traitorous busi ness. The bootlegger, whether he be in the highest or lowest walks? of life. is in the last analysis a law violator, and stripped of his social prestige 01 political influence he is a criminal giv ing assistance and encouragement to those forces of profiteering criminal ity whose business it has been to pros titute salesmanship and debauch cit izenship. This style of argument is some thing like. The bootlegger, whom all of us despise even though he pander man in the state for a job of this kind, He's so eood. in fact, that his appoint- to our appetites, is only half the prob ment seems almost unbelievi ble. If ,lem. The fellows who keep the traffic l.Hnssiirno1 is iriven anvthinir like a goinz, who make enforcement almost no friction, no dissatisfaction, no trou- . hand if his advice carries weight impossible, are the respected citizens ble of any kind. Mack was a live-wire wJth thJ committee there win be re-.who buy the tuff. For the most part, in the best sense of the term. He Ru,u Give a committce headed by j they look on it as a lark, a game of had ideas and he worked hard at car- thig man power to gubpoena witnesses j wits with the authorities. They do not rying out his plans. The cause of am, e)(amine thenv aml if there js any pee the far-reaching consequences. The his resignation was the lack of funds. p,.ofjleerlng g0ng on in Nebraska, it profit in bootlegging would drop below There wasn't money enough to pay wjn discovered.. There isn't a bit of .the point where it paVs for the risks his salary and meet the financial ob ligations of the organization. It is an nounced that the work will be carried on, until the chamber of commerce pees better days, by a woman secretai y at a very nominal salary. ScottsblufT isn't the only city where the chamber of commerce has had to change its plans in this regard. AH over Nebraska all over the west, for that matter the business men's or ganizations are adopting that policy. The day of the high-priced commercial pecretary in cities of less than ten 'to bluff or show about Dean LeRossignol. He will spot flimsy excuses, evasions involved if the respectable citizens were to stop buying. The fellows who mittee might as well stay at home and attend to the baby. and. faked figures as soon as they are (have to have booze couldn't furnish laid before him. If LeRossignol is enough money to make the trame worth iriven a fair show, the rest of the com-1 the candle. Until the average citizen refuses to listen to the man who nas a gallon or a quart or a pint for Mile, and until public sentiment so changes until it is no longer considered humor ous, or stylish, to defeat the prohibi tion law. just so long will we have bootleggers and moonshiners. Ires ent profits are so high that two stills THE REAL PROBLEM For once in his official career, Fed eral Prohibition Commissioner Roy A. Havnes has said something. If he novel" rirtra tViA hpll .1 i ..! i- s.ii.. - inieen uiousanu pupumuun is rapmiy . . , t- ,anirualre passing. '"ntt-pd a mouthful" on this occasion. : m ho is sent to Ja!1- The men w The business men have been slow . .. :. m. . uavn hn furnish the money by buying theio Alt tllO VIIIVI"! Wt".IVJ ' - -J w again, he has, at spring up where one is destroyed, and age of Plutarch, two booze peddlers take the beat of the I retaries, themselves, have fought hard to hold their Iine3 intact But one by one they have dropped from view, un til precious few of them remain. Now uct haven't looked far enough ahead to see the final effects of the funny game of tag being played with the prohibition enforcement officials. The to see the light. The commercial - from time to time issued statements on the work in his department, and these have, for the most part, been of a. sort calculated to cheer ud the W. C. . - - - I !- 4 1 1 -IT . . T TT. nnd th Soc etv of S sters of the' ias ,s l" l,,c and then the organizations, loth to er.sn,Ii if ho has seemed almost the panderers to their appetites will ttop activities and yet dissatisfied with t00 nnxjpWS to rep01.t progress, it may! stop the minute the profit drops to outside men, have tried out home men' thut he U In the position of the Sufficiently low mark. MP pecretanes. in nearly every m- Jiule btt,, ln the wootlrt whiHtk-dj. ptance the men selected were CNccp-', k hi C0V,ruCe - i nr il tionally well fitted, by reason good knewledge of local conditions, as .well as ability, to carry on the work successfully. In nearly every instance the experiment has been a disappoint ment, in a city long enough 'to-be considered for such a place has competitors, en emies anil acquaintances who are jeal ous of the distinction that has come to him. The opposition, small at first, grows. Without harmony there can be no progress. The home secretaries know the feeling, and in most cases have decided the game not worth the candle. t The war against the bootleggers will not be won by poppy talks or by prayer, however much either may ac complish in other causes. The boot- Any local man who has lived t. u-,7 V , MIHU'IN III JlliliS Ui .1 Jin jcoio The old-time moonshiner was a man who manufactured n fairly good prod uct, but rebelled against paying taxes to the government. It was the "rev enooers" that he hated. He sold his stuff for money, of course, but the price was no more than an inferior quality would bring. The illicit dis . tillers of today, in the big cities and . . , ., 'in many or the smaller communities, The real rearon, perhaps, i.s the item ' . , ot expense. If a chamber of com merce is to be supported in the style to which it is accu'tomed, it requires plenty of money. If all of this goes to pay the eecretary's salary, there are VIA fiin1a luff- t MtAr fnnatr a rrf , itt. - .out to them hardly serves as a deter f plentiful as it was three or four . ' plenty of money to pay fines; they can afford to lose automobiles which are occasionally confiscated, for the profits of their traffic are so great that the average punishment meted Years ago. Men who contribute money ring influence. Mr, Haynes. in pne. of his recent k,A ntnrpsfml rViiaflu in results. Tt thty etnnot be shown results, they , WrMW, hits un a new- tack. In s rt nav. With nn fn,l to M. rtead of giVmg the number of the tompHsh anything, how can the results 1 confiscated and listing the convic- be at all commensurate with the cost? tiona. 88 ha8 wont' e tlnec . Atf . i w his appeal to all of us to the people B Tt fT,J w? ot America. He quotes the judiciary ScottsblufT problem months ago. With q American bar asFOcia. a umiiea execuuve swui, low exjn-nbes t. ,... U'V.o fnr 4 ho. o-i-at. .ification of their appetites or the pro- and the members themselves doing a part of the work, just as much prog- ress can be made in times like these. Just now, there isn chamber of commerce to accomplish, motion of their interests, lawyers, ... . . . , 'bankers, great merchants and manu- , with busines at a low ebb, . . , ... f . . , . , , - facturers, and social leaders, scoff at t a whole lot of work for a , . ... For the Children s Christmas this law they are aiding the cause of anarchy and promoting mob violence, .iu .: iiuw "BK'c.-ni.c wic rcvic-, ., , ;!,!. tu, cw tary. For that matter, in the case of . . , . .. . f . , . , . ing dragon 8 teeth, and they need not most chambers of commerce in cities'. . . . ... ....... . . , be surprised when they find that no of this size, there never has been, and . .... v .. the business men are beginning to find it out THE NEXT INVESTIGATION. our country or humanity from reaping the harvest." To which Commissioner Haynes adds: It is a spineless American who will cw Va fla r t Vila la nl Brftem nt hv v,ur...u. ..4wn.CiiC eiuiuuin-riiR-iii, aKitator 0r anarchist without protest that a statewide investigation of high prices will be made comes at just the ' right time to arouse interest. Tax payers have been looking at tax rolls which show unprecedented increases in the cost of government. Money isnt po plentiful as it has been. A tax as sessment that two or three years ago would have occasioned only a bad taste in the mouth now causes pronounced irritation, accompanied by spells of dizziness and deep melancholia. The public is interested in this inquiry into the wherefore of present prices pf commodities, rents, wages, interest rates, freight rates and other things. The public, however, is pessimistic It hopes for the best, but it expects no tangible results. It has learned to expect nothing, largely because there is less chance for disappointment A similar investigation a year or two ago, widely advertised by Secretary of Agricuture Leo. K. Stuhr, accom plished nothing. Neither have dozens of other investigations by stite and federal authorities. The consumer has learned from bitter experience to re alize that it isn't profitable to count No. O BROWNIE It costs twodollars. It makes good pictures. That's the whole story except the happiness of the youngsters when they find it on the tree. Other Brownies, some of them Autographic up to $7'5 Autographic Kodaks $$ up HOLSTEN'S FREE Gasolene WATCH OUR BULLETIN BOARD A Nebraska license number has been selected from a car passing our fillinjr station. This number will le posted on the front of the service station Wednesday morning;. ' If the owner of the car bearing corresponding number, will drive in before Saturday at 6 p. m., we will give him FIVE GALLONS OF GASOLINE FREE This will be a weekly" feature. Watch the bulletin board. You may be the lucky one. Harper-Nieman Oil Co. 4th and Laramie Distributors of Royal Oils. Phone 81 .Bars aim Festival SPECIALS , Ladies9 Coats An exceptional bargain Coat values, $45.00 to $65.00, for this special sale at $25.00 FANCY TOWELS Extra large fancy Turkish Towels, with pink, blue and gold borders, $1.50 values LADIES' SHOES of Black and Brown Kid, also Patent Leather, all-cloth top. $8.50 values at 79c $2.95 LADIES' HOSE Cotton and Lisle, in black and brown a 65c value at MISSES' HOSE A fine ribbed Cotton Hose, in black and brown. A 25c value 35c 15c LADIES' SHOES of Brown and Black, with mil itary and low heels. $8.50 val ues for this sale at BOYS' HOSE An extraordinary bargain in a heavy ribbed hose, in black only, at, pair H 83.95 orace 25c Bogoe Store . ere A Rollicking Musical Comedy in Two Acts "Midnight Belles of Gering" Staged by the Best Home Talent of Gering, Nebraska AT THE Imperial Theatre One Night Only, Friday, Nov. 25 Get your reservations early for this comical, entertaining pro duction. This is a friendly visit from our neighbors over in the. val ley and they have an entertainment fit for the Gods. Buy your tickets NOW. RESERVED SEAT SALE STARTS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21st at Holsten's Drug Store. Well Trained Cast of 60 With 40 Girls. -The Show is in Good Shape With Lots of Good Shapes. There will be clever comedy patter from Black Face Comed ians, Jew Characters, Rubes and a typical Souse. The latest singing and talking hits. You can't go wrong on this'. Dominy's 9-Picce Orchestra Will Play Sponsored by the Alliance Volunteer Fire Department Admission $1.00, 75c, and 50c Plus War Tax