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T1IE ALLIANCE HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1922. TBI
Eht Ailianrr lirralb
TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
BURR PRINTING CO., Owner
Entered at the postotTice at Allianre,
VtK, for transportation throush the
nails aj second class matter.
GFOIMW-: L. nUKR, Jr Editor
EDWIN M. BURR BurfineKS Mgr.
Official tewpaper of the City of
Allianre; official newspaper of Dox
Butt County.
men are kinder hearted where the fair
ex is concerned. G in nd mothers and
grandfathers, or ppoj!o of the age to
(ualify in this class, are less complain-i
ing than the younger men and women.
Alliance in part of the renl west.
Wyoming is not far off. The people
on the Ftrcet do not appear to le
a. veil dressed as in some of the rural
communities to the eastward. Thev
are not ashamed of patched clothlni'
Misn Mary Idc flentloy of Berkeley, pop wa. anyone goon trying to imitate
Cal., former Ferretary of the San Fran
cisco Y. W. C. A., in a talk to the girl
nt the University of California, told
them the truth or what nhe thought
was the truth about themselves. She
the latest modes. Railroad men who
have been la d off for fome time, of
course, have the r reasons for thrift
antl to have the farmer?.
DIRTY WORK IN THE CABIN.
paid there were fully two thousand
flapper? on the campus. She defined
a flapier a? a "girl who believes per
sonality is physical, who considers all distent, and of serving his class well
Owned and published by The Burr advice as abstract, who loves continued Mr. Mellon is an exceedingly wealthy
Printing Company, George L. Burr, change, who converses in generalities." gentleman, who has been and presum-
To Secretary of the Treasury Mel
lon must go the credit of being con-
Jr- President: Edwin M. Burr, Vice
President.
ENTERTAINING OUR FRIENDS.
and Fome of it, we are tempted to be
lieved, is favorable if the language
were only unraveled and made to say
what it means. But of the indictment
Columbus business men are consid-'-. (IU0tel. what boots it? How many
ering a new plan in regard to the grown men and women converse in
cummer chautaqua, the winter Jyceuml generalities? How many .grownups
course, and special winter concerts by believe that personality is largely
the band of that city. It's an idea physical? Believe us, Penelope, only
that may be worth looking into with those who have mind instead of more
a view to trying it out in Alliance physically attractive attributes, lay so
The secretary of the Columbus cham- very much stress on it Since the war,
ber of commerce has suggested, in his how many grownups desire continued
program for next year, that all of change? And who among us, if we
these entertainments be contracted and consider advice at all, do not consider
paid for by the city'B commercial or-J ft j the abstract? Miss Bentley has
jranization, and that all of them be not been so very harsh,
free to every man, woman and child! Another woman, Miss Alice Robert
in the city's trade territory. fon of Oklahoma, the only congreps-
There are two or three beneficial ( woman, criticises the flapper a bit, but
results of such a procedure. In the jay8 n an 0n mother. Mother's shoul
first place, it would do away with the 'dors are broad maybe too broad and
everlasting grief of guaranteeing a Kfo WOn't complain. Miss Robertson
ehautauqua, which makes the unfar-Jy,, that while mother is flapping at
tunate man who is stuck for chairman !an afternoon tea, daughter is Tapping
by the men on the guarantee at least jn an auto. If mother would stay at
ten years older for every such experi- home and wa.di dishes or do some oth
ence. It would do away with the ever-1 er distasteful labor, daughter would
lasting selling of season and single J FOon take the . ' the Oklahoma lady
admission ncnris, nmi uie jiicwluuiv believes.
Miss Bentley savs considerable more,' ably is still opposed to a toldier
war which follows an accounting,
which always results in unpleasant
ness. There are usually from forty
to fifty men on a guarantee; part of
these fluke out, and the rest feel
owly. The man who is enthusiastic
over chautauquas makes life miserable
for his brother merchant who is luke
warm, or who happens to be opposed
to guarantees. This feature of a ehau
tauqua or a lyceuin course is always
a mess, and the city that can get away
from it will find that it is worth sev
eral hundred dollars in added harmony
within the city limits. Besides, think
of the ineffable bliss of attending a
nix-day chautaqua without once hear
ing the suave platform manager make
a nightly twenty-minute speech upon
signing the guarantee.
All these are incidental blessings.
The chief advantage would lie in the
cementing of the "friendly relations be
tween the city and its trade territory.
Let your mind wander back to the big
fall festival of last year one of the
biggest things of its kind ever put
over in the city. Not a merchant who
contributed will say that it wasn't
good thing. The six-clay ehautauqua
in the summer and the lyceum course
And band concerts in the winter would
be infinitely better.
The cost? Of course, it will cost
money, but when the totals are fig
ured up, it will be found that the mer
chants will have spent but little more
than for the fall festival, and a whole
lot less than the average race meet
sets us back. The entertainment will,
to speak frankly, be better. It may
not please or profit the owners of the
race horses, but if the right committee
gets on the job and the right talent is
secured, it will mean more for the city
than half a doien race meets. The
fact is, that the race -meet game is be
ginning to be a bit overcrowded. Too
many ambitious small towns are dis
covering that it will draw the tour
. ists, and it's got to the point where
a race meet don't go unless about two
dollars in purses is hung up for every
dollar taken in at the gate.
At any rate, the Columbus secre
tary has had a good hunch. The idea
Isnt copyrighted, and there's nothing
to prevent the live wires in Alliance
from trying out the same stunt At'
any rate, it's got a race meet cheated ,
to death. In this game, one knows I
There are other views, and all of
them are interesting, it must be ad
mitted. Business men crab about
bobbed hair, and galoshes, and rolled
hosiery, as a few years ago they
complained that the flappers' mothers
wore peek-a-boo waists, rats and
bloomers, and chewed gum. The
younger generation is always headed
right straight to perdition, and yet,
when the flapper stage is over they
make pretty good men and women,
and in turn worry about their off
spring. If you are worried about the future
of the race, endangered by the flap
pers of both sexes, let your memory
stray back to the days when there
were such things as horsehair bustles,
hoop skirts, charm strings, love po
tions, rats and ruffs, to say nothing of
long ruffled pantaloons for the
women and knee breeches for the
men. Then you may heave an
other sigh, but it will be one of re
lief because the youth of today is sat
isfied with flopping galoshes and
bobbed hair. These, bad as they
seem, are infinitely to be preferred to
any of the earlier manifestations of
precocious youth.
bonus. Shortly after his appointment
by President Harding, he declared that
adjusted compensation would be too
great a financial blow for the coun
try, in its weakened condition. Later,
when President Harding came out of
the brush and declared openly for the
measure urged by the cx-roldiers, Mr.
Mellon seemed to soften, but it was
only on the surface. His heart is not
with the president or with the ex-soldiers
who fought to keep his bonds
and stocks at par.
Mr. Mellon's true attitude toward
the bonus is best seen in his sugges
tions as to the means of raising the
money to finance the plan. It has
been suggested that a sales tax be
imposed, or that the money owing by
the allied nations be utilized for this
purpose. Mr. Mellon says the latter
is "impracticable," although it is a
trifle difficult to follow his line of
reasoning.
Instead, Mr. Mellon has suggested
a number of special taxes, and he has
taken good care to suggest only those
which are most annoying and most
likely to arouse public sentiment
against the measure that makes them
necessary. He has also suggested im
posing more of these nuisances than
are really necessary. Thus, he says
there should be a one-cent increase in
first-class postage; as well as an in
crease in second class postage. Ther
two items will especially antagonize
business men and publishers. He then
suggests an increased cigarette tax,
higher taxes on other tobaccos, more
documcntary-tamp taxes, and a tax
of 2 cents on each bank check. Hi.-
last brilliant idea is a license tax of
50 cents a horsepower on automobiles.
If Mr. Mellon's suggestions are even
considered seriously, there is going te
be a big wail from the populace and
Mr. Mellon know3 it. If he is sat upon
as he deserves, and friends of the ex-
soldiers allowed to figure out a plan
to pay the bill, there will be little
cause for complaint. But Mr. Mellon
is quite shrewd, and if he isn't pretty
closely watched, hell queer the deal
the minute he gets his hands on the
deck.
AS OTHERS SEE US.
In these days, when everyone is
worrying more or less over how long
he will be compelled to hold the sack
before conditions get back to normal
and he can run the jitney for a ten
mile pleasure trip without feeling ex
travagant, there is more or less satis
faction in contemplating the fact that
Alliance and Box Butte county are in
a favored portion of the state. Both
an Omaha and a Lincoln daily are
devoting a column to writing up va
rious portions of Nebraska, The Bee,
in a recent issue, counts some of our
blessings for us. Will you listen to
this? After reading how good this
country looks to others, it may be that
some who are feeling just a trifle
down in the mouth will feel more
like grinning. This is only a small
part of it:
Three waves of settlers swept into
Box Butte county before the secret of
mastering the dry and sandy, but fer
tile, soil was learned. Two genera
tions drove away, disheartened, but the
third is here to stay.
No one who has ever read one of the
ittle magazines would think of passing
it on to a child, or of admitting to any
but the most intimate friend that he
or she was in possession of a copy.
A Denver preacher from the pulpit has
discussed these rotten little publica
tions in plain language, and for the
morally indolent the following excerpts
from his address are given:
I want to raise my voice in earnest
j rot-est and in indignant condemnation
of the publication-and sale of such al
leged magazines. Magazines they are,
lut magazines of deadly iniquity,
magazines of high explosives, maga
zines dangerous to handle, especially
by the youth.
One needs a thoroutrh moral disin
fection after a perusal of these pages.
The language is so coarse, the sugges
tions are so raw, the quips are so
nasty, the whole proposition is so ut
terly vile and indecent that only the
prurient mind would find satisfaction
in the reading of the pages.
However, curiosity is very marked
in youthful minds and poison is prob
able from the reading of these sheets
to those who are more curious than
corrupt, more daring than dangerous.
Of. course it is unthinkable that
these publications could find defense
on any moral grounds, by upright cit
izens. They stand condemned before
the bar of a community's ethical con
science. That they could be published
at ail, that they could be sold upon the
street, that they could see the light of
day, is the wonder.
The Herald has never been in sym
pathy with censorship. It is against
r.ny coterie of men or women, howevei
well educated or well intentioned, seek
ing to impose their own moral stand
ards upon others. Art and literature
should never be placed in a position
where anyone's prudish or narrow-
minded ideas should constrain them.
But these filthy magazines are beyond
the pale. The ordinary rules of civ
ilized warfare should not apply tc
skunks. This newspaper is'not particu
larly advocating a local crusade, but it
does believe that if there are any of
the right kind of reformers out of
i job right now, they couMn't begin
on a better task than to organize pub
ic sentiment against these outrageous
.nd indecent publications.
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Back of this certainty is the fact
how much he's in the hole before the'that f 1.000.000 worth of potatoes was
of . . , ,. . . , raised last year on the table land about
fun starts, and there Isnt any agonized . Alliance d Hemingford. About a
quarter of this crop is still unshipped.
worrying about the weather. Neither
is there any general impression on
the part of the city's guests that they
have been held up in the name of be
ing entertained. It's worth a careful
consideration.
THE FLAPPER.
Purely in a spirit of scientific in
quiry, let us tum our attention to the
flapper. It is best to pursue our
studies in this calm spirit, for the
flapper, despite her faults and her
vices is nevertheless, so we are told, a
very fascinating creature, and to be
forewarned is to be forearmed.
It seems to be the popular fad
among the grownups, just now, to say
all manner of mean things about the
flapper. The women who are past the
age where there is any hope for them
in the romantic field are perhaps the
most severe critics, although tired and
yea, let's say it, tiresome business
men and stern employers have also
wielded the hammer. But the women
are the worst critics, largely because
Prices for the table varieties are low,
but the seed potatoes known as Red
Triumphs are being sold as high as
11.40 a bushel, lhe potato industry
has been on a large scale out here
only five years.
Far eastward from Alliance is the
great cattle range known as the sand
hills. There are now 100,000 head in
the territory lying five miles in a
half-circle about Alliance. That
sounds big, but as a matter of fact
it is just about a third less than
normal. This is the aftermath of the
oenaiion by wrucn ranchmen were
compelled to ship a great deal of im
mature stock in order to liquidate
their debts. The war finance corpo
ration got under way too late to pre
vent this shortage. Even so, the sit
uation is considered promising.
There will be an enormous calf crop
this spring, and in three years the
usual beef supply will be on hand.
"Give us three years without a fall
in cattle priecs, even if they stay at
the present level, and the ranchman
will be satisfied," said Dr. H. A. Cop
fey. "By diversifying our agriculture
we have the whole state skinned this
year. Any district that raises only
wheat or corn will find that one bad
year can almost break t
A COMING CRUSADE.
Frm time to time, this newspaper
has taken a swat or two at the re
formers. The majority of them need
it Even when their object is praise
worthy, their methods are ordinarily
of a sort that give the sober man a
deep-seated pain. Of course, it is
understood that our objection to re
formers includes only the professionals
the men and women uh. make a
good living out of passing the bat, and
by influencing good people to take up
the cudgels in t'wir behalf a.i wel'. ui
to drop some spare change into their
palms.
The best brand of reformers, in our
opinion, are fair-minded and open
minded, honest and industrious citizens
average folks who bear something
quietly for months and months, and
then, when the stench becomes too of
fensive to their nostrils, arise and
clean house. These people take up the
business of reforming in earnest; they
seek neither compensation nor glory;
they have convictions, and they mean
business. This class of citizens cleans
up politics, cities, counties and states
it gets somewhere.
The fine. work of recent real re
formers is the attack against half a
dozen twenty-five cent magazines,
pocket size you know the ones we
mean. In Denver and in Cheyenne
these people have started a campaign
to do away with them. They are male
ing it, in each case, a purely local af
fair, and are directing their fight
against the news dealers. So far, they
are wrong. The news dealer sells only
magazines for which there is a de
mand. It's unfair to hold them respon
sible for a perverted public taste.
Even were the news stands prohibited
from selling this filthy reading mat
ter, news dealers in other towns would
not desist. It's likewise futile to at
tempt to reform the public taste. Such
magazines, in the hands of growing
boys and girls, caa poison minds
faster than decent influences can
overcome the harm that is being done.
The handling of this situation is
something that should be put up to the
federal government without delay. The
state laws on the subject vary greatly
and punishment is uncertain. The
Denver reformers have found this out.
Should the feIeral government start
out to stamp out this nuisance, there
would be no question as to the result
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