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THE ALLIANCE HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1921.
Gljr Alliaurr Hrralb
TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
BURR PRINTING CO., Owner
Entered at the potofTice at Alliance,
Neb., tor transportation through the
mails as second class matter.
GEORGE L. BURR, Jr Editor
EDWIN M. BURR Business Mgr.
Official newspaper of the
Alliance; official newspaper
Butte County.
LOWERING MEAT TRICES.
All of us have read the advertise
ment of the packers, which show
among other things, that only a very
small fraction of each dollar handled
goes into their coffers, and that their
facilities for slaughtering animals are
so efficient that the consumers are
saved money when animals are sent to
them, killed and returned, with freight
paid both ways. It begins to look as
City of ! though the railroads and their freight
of Box increases have knocked the props from
Owned and published by The Burr
Printing Company, George L. Burr,
Jr President; Edwin M. Burr, Vice
President,
THE NINETY-DAY WONDERS
Old Man Weekes of the Norfolk
Press occupies a peculiar position
among Nebraska journalists. His wife,
Marie O'Donnell Weekes, edits the
Press and has the political aspira
tions for the family. According to
Bon-partisan league standards, she
makes a good editor, and many
thought she would make a good con
gresswoman.. Unfortunately,, perhaps,
the truth will never be known. But
this article deals with Old Man
Weekes and not with the chief pen
pusher of the establishment..,
Mr. Weekes conducts a column in
the Press, under the heading, "A
Few Thinks by the Old Man." Some
cf them sound more like the thinks
from the other Bide of the house, but
being also a married man, we can un
derstand and sympathize, though not
publicly. Some days this department
is the brightest in the paper nd on
those occasions we wonder who is do
ing the thinking.1 On other days, there
are little "thinks" that read like the
following:
The newspapers tell us that the Fre
mont postfof the American Legion liHfl
elected a buck private us its com
mander and the action is so unusual
that the news is being spread far ami
wide. If other posts would follow
the Fremont post's example and take
the control out of the hands of the
"Sears-Roebuck" officers, the Legion
would have a much better standing,
Somehow or other, that sort of slushy
makes us warm under the collar,
4 he worst feature about it is that it
insinuates that the American Legion
doesn't stand well in Nebraska. Old
Man Weekes knows better. Marie
has had a grudge against Leg-ion of
ficers ever since the days she cam
paigned for congress, when she at
trmpted to make political capital out
oi ne laci inai disturbances were
raised at her meetings by men whom
phe charged were Legion men, but was
unable to show that the Legion had
fponsoved their acts, or thut the dis
turbers were even Legion men, for
that matter. You see, it makes a dif
.f erence whose "thinks" arc being con.
fcidured.
- Jn the second place, tlii. little squib
by the old man is apparently intended
to stir up strife between the buck
privates in the Legion and the officer
members. It was the latter class,
officers of the state legion, who came
bck at Marie, and thereby incurred
her displeasure. It isn't polite to
tjet rough with a lady, even when she
starts the rumpus.
Old Man Weekes wants to get this
straight: There isn't any great strife
between the "ninety-day wonders" ami
Jhe buck privates in the Legion. Dur
ing the war thine were, of course,
some young officers who found it hard
to keep their feet on the ground. But
soldiers don't hold grudges. They like
these officers; they fought under them
and while there were men in the
ranks who knew juct as much, or
' would have made just as good lead
ers, the fellows who were picked were
a fine lot on the average.
In the American Legion posts of
Nebraska, the officers are far in the
minority. There's about one officer to
every ten or twenty men in Alliance.
A..d yet, nine times out of ten, the
men pick the officers for post com
mander. Why? They're not forced
to do it; the tuck privates have the
majority in all the posts of the land
and the buck privates elect officers.
There's a reason.
One of the bervice yarns recites the
story of two colored men who were
discussing their top sergeant. "Mah
goodness," said one of them, "that
suhgint is suah ha'd-boiled. He's the
most ha'd-boiled sahgint in the whole
ahmy." "Niggah," retorted his com
panion, "thut fcahgint aint' ha'd-boiled
he's just ignorant, dat's all, just
ignorant."
Mr. Weekes isn't hard on the ninety
lay wonders, lie may tnink he is,
but if he is sincere in this belief, he's
simply showing his ignorance of the
mental workings of the average buck
pripate the man who cussed his of
ficers, old timers and ninety-day won
ders alike, and then followed them
right into hell itself. After the war's
over, he still respects them. And he
shows it in a way that may displease
Old Man Weekea and bring back hate
ful oemorie tq Marie but the buck
private doe sat worry about that. He'a
ij peaotaa hard-boiUd artici
under the packers. The argument was
perfectly true a few years ago, and
there were very few' meat sellers who
i .
lil their own siaugmenng. ine uign
fre'ght rates are bringing about a
hange. Today in Nebraska local
laughtering is increasing to such an
extent that the state bureau or ioo,
drugs and oils has formulated regula
tions governing the handling of meats
from animals that are killed. in the
various towns for local consumption.
The state bureau is inclined to be-
... . . !
ieve tnat meais can oe piuuuccu m
the smaller, cities and towns more
cheardv than they can be bought from
the packers. Certainly the number of
meat sellers who are going back to tne
old and less efficient methods is a fair
indication. The packers say that their
price sheets show that meats are now
selling at pre-war prices, 'or on a par
with 1914 figures. This means that the
railroads or the retailers are responsi
ble for the high prices. ' .
The federal department of agncul-
u .
hire is now beginning a war on mc
profiteers", and declares that meat
prices are all of 111 per cent higher
than before the war. Unfortunately,
the department of agriculture has no
authority to handle the freight rate
situation. It can force retailers to cut
prices to the bone, but another de
partment has charge of the cutting of
freight rates, If the railway laDor
board and the men who are going after
the meat retailers could only hold a
ioint session, it would be a nappy iay
for the consumer.
The retailers apparently wish to
.
lower pntcs, or tney wouiu never re
turn to the inconvenient, wasteful
methods of local slaughtering. The
packers can prove their prices are
back td normal. The railroads don't
have to ptove anything. If they are
satisfied, the rest of us have to be.
that we ever had dealings with a forty
pound turkey. But recollection cher
ishes the memory of one that weighed
twenty-seven pounds on hoof. It looked
as formidable as an armored tank, as
it stood challenging the axe. In fact
it bluffed out the head of the house
hold and had to be driven to the near
est butcher. Baking the larger share
of two lays made'it possible eating.
Possible, but not desirable. The ten
dona in the drumsticks were as big as
your thumb, and as tender as a piano
wire.
The late Mr. Weber, who knew more
about meat than anybody in Kansas
City, used to insist that the white
house probably disposed of its prize
turkeys secretly and sent out to the
market and bought a couple of tender
ten or twelve pound spring turkeys to
serve on the table. It stood to reason,
he said, that a turkey two years old
could not possibly be as tender as one
hatched the same spring. His theory
sounds reasonable. Can any turkey
successfully dispute it?
FIXING THE RESPONSIBILITY.
(State Journal.)
Now that is has been duly impressed
upon the people that the greater por
tion of their taxes are for educational
purposes the next question is, who is
responsible for the amount of tax lev
ies made for school purposes? The
state !w fixes the general limit of
school taxes at 35 mills on the dollar,
but it makes exceptions. It allows
school boards :n cities of over 1,000 in
habitants to determine the amount of
school taxes or levies. . The law per
mits school electors to levy as high as
100 mills on the dollar valuation in
high school districts having less than
1,000 and over 150 pupils and. in all
school districts less than 150 children
of school age. The vote in such cases
must be GO per cent of the total vote
and the question of exceeding the 3"
mill limit can be voted upon at a spe
cial election or at an annual school
meeting. The city of Lincoln is under
a special law that limits the annual
expenditure to 1,200,000 unless a
greater amount is voted by the people
of the di.-trict.
LIFE IS CHEAP.
(Nebraska City Press.)
Life is the cheapest commodity in
America at the present time. Life U
taken with impunity by cut-throat,
ami murderers who are seldom caught.
A beautiful murderess can slay the
man who has aroused her anger and
inflamed her jealousy and if she has
a smiling face, a good figure and the
right sort of sartorial embellishment
she can "vamp" the jury and get off
scot-free from the movies. A speeding
automobile demon can strike a child
in a crowded street and escape in the
crowd, free to try it again another
day. Men are killed in industrial ac
cidents and those responsible for poor
equipment or criminally built fac
tories fight compensation awards. Life,
we repeat, is the cheapest commodity
in the United States. And our disre
gard for human life and human
rights is the means of laying up heaps
of trouble for U3 in years to come.
Pity that nation which is so inured to
suffering and tragedies of a domestic
sort that it cannot stop its business
affairs long enough to lend assistance
where it is needed.
for the fur house in Indiana that he
is representing.
It is reported that the fur market
is steady to higher and local
are out after the business.
Repair work has been started on the
hotel, the recent change in weather
bringing the mercury up for agreeable
outside working conditions. The re
shing'icg is now well under way.
Mrs. J. R. Kpnnpdv lpft Snturlav for
an extended visit at the home of herj
daughter. Mrs. Ross Schafenberir of
1 Casper, where Mr. Srhafenberg is em
ployed in the Burlington freight de
buyers partment. Edward Kennedy is also
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wurmng in vasper lor an on com
pany. Mike Peterson, forman at the Spade
ranch, recently stopped in Ellsworths
on company business preparing for ant
overland business trip to Eushville.
Herald Want Ads Results.
ELLSWORTH.
.Patrick Reed recently expressed a
shipment of furs which he had bought
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WHAT WEIGHT TURKEY?
(Kansas City Sfar) s
We view with suspicion, not to
say alarm, these monstrous turkeys
that are presented to the white house
every Thansgiving. Thirty pounds,
forty pounds, even forty-five pounds
such, the dispatches always say, is the
weight of the bird to be served on the
president's table. Does the president
or, rather, the Mrs. President really
put those young ostriches before the
family on Thahsksgiving day?
Experience makes us wary. Not
THE SPINAL COLUMN
The
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Way
Appendicitis appendix plus
itis. You have appendicitis? Oh!
You say your appendix is giving
you "trouble". Well, let's see.
You have two things an appen
dix and an "it is". You were
horn ith an appendix were you
not? Did your "trouble" start
co-incidenlly with that big
event? Pardon me, you say you
. never had a bit of "trouble" with
your appendix until long after
your birth just lately in fact
and now you are having an aw
ful time with it. You were all
right and got along nicely until
you acquired this other thing
"it is" and since that time your
troubles have been numerous
the
i?
Now is it the appendix or
"ids' that u troubling you;
You got along fine with your ap
pendix until the "it is" stepped in
and then all your "troubles".
Which will you remove either
way you go you will leave one of
them. Remember other struc
tures are affected in the neigh
borhood of the appendix. Your
Chiropractic will remove, the
"His" and leate the appendix
where nature intended it to be.
Consultation will clear up any
other points on which you may
seek information and is without
obligation.
DRS. JEFFREY & SMITH
Chiropractic Health Service.
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his information. ' .
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long it would take to reduce you to a penniless condi
tion! if your income were suddenly and completely cut
off. It could easily happen. And what would you do?
It May Give You a Cold Chill
And it may induce you to start a savings account. Isn't it good judgment
to lay away a comfortable surplus small sums at a time, regularly deposit
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