THE ALLIANCE, HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1922.
TWO
Eht Alltanrr Hrralfc
" TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
BURR PRINTING CO., Ownera
Entered at the postoffice at Alliance,
Kb for transportation through the
nails a. second class matter.
GEORGK L. BURR, Jr Editor
K)WIN M. BURR Business Mgr.
ther excuse to laugh -with or at the
tribe who wear them:
Squirrel Verb, meaning to hide or
to conceal; to cache.
Button shining Close dancing or
achieving the same effect without the
music.
Mugging match A petting engage
ment; to spark; to spoon.
Necking party See mugging match.
I'ash stuff Kmotional torridity.
Monogs Taken from the old Eng-
. ..... i ... i . . tf IMI lIKIIlOKcllIlini. ICiVlllilK W
contained "worus we uugm vo tiavc, j ma)e or fema)e who p,ayg with but one
ganization's history. Business men
who have an interest In the welfare of
the chamber of commerce will not
overlook the primary ballot, and will,
as it suggests, select the very be;t
material available.
FLAPPER A NTO.
Not since Gellctt Burgess published
his famous humorous dictionary, which;
..... nt 4 Via PI to tit
UUKIU Urwnjr.i:i ... , , . , . f ,.... . '- 1 i
Alliance; official newspaper oi Vox . nas any comppniuum ui numun Mur person ol the opposite sex.
Butte County. edge sought to enlarge the world's ( Seraph Girl who likes to be kis?ed
' knowledge of slang, past, present ana but not violently,
The nearest thing to it, how-
Owned and published by The Burr j f uturc
iMCT Buw Vice' er, is a list of college girl expres
Jr, President; tdwin M. Burr, Vic t . vw. . .
President vu,""fc
Chicago universities, ine compiler,
who is quite down on flappers, at least
the female variety, is apparently quite
worried about it, for he does not treat
the subject with the royal dignity that
it deserves. Further, he calls the dia-
EFFICIENCY ASSURED.
With the re-election of Superinten
dent W. R. Pate for a term of three
vears. and a decision to adhere to the
wesent salary schedule for teachers in .-r-. -
picacui. ""; "- I o1vnnjiri tn tnke. of crirls who have
board nasi, ,
uone mm no narm. .
the Alliance schools, the
taken a course that will be popular
with everyone who desires to see the
city schools progress.
All over the state there are instances
where public sentiment, which is veer
ing toward unreasonable economies,
lias caused considerable trouble when
boards have arbitrarily slashed salar
ies and permitted good teachers and
superintendents to leave for want of
an adequate wage. The Alliance
school board deserves commendation
for its decision that this is no time for
false economy.
Alliance will spend some two hund
red thousand dollars this year in addi
tional Bchool buildings. It is impor
tant that the best instructors be se
cured for the students these buildings
and others are to house. Teachers'
wageq were among the last to come
up, and even now they are plenty low
enough. In the real to reduce all pub
lic expenditures, some cities have macle
th mistake of bidling for inferior
teachers, for this is the kind of an in
citation that a salary cut means.
. This city has a right to be proud of
its school system. The board of di
rectors deserve a vote of thanks for
their efforts to make it more efficient,
instead of loss. There may be a few
who will be dissatisfied, but the bulk
of the property owners and all of the
parents of school children will be glad
to pay the price.
SECOND THE NOMINATION
The Alliance chamber of commerce
has adopted a new plan, which de
nerves success, no matter what fate
befalls it. In the Friday Herald there
will appear for the second time
nominating blank, upon which mem
bers of the organization are asked to
suggest the names of four members
whom they deem worthy to sit on the
board of directors. The board of di
Tectors of the city's commercial organ
Ization are not quite so responsible as
the they were in former days, before
the members, at the weekly luncheon,
were given a voice in the work of the
chamber of commerce, but they are
important officials for all that, arid it
Is a good idea, in selecting them, to
cdlow plenty of time for deliberation,
All of us know how the average elee
lion of officers in an organization of
this kind is conducted. There isn't any
competition for the various places, for
each of them means a whole lot of
work, without any compensation save
the satisfaction of doing one's duty,
unless the privilege of being rapped
by enemies is counted a blessing. The
habit has been heretofore, for the most
part, to continue officers just so long
as they would accept their posts. This
was a natural course, for it is a re
grettable fact that of the entire mem
beirhip, only a comparatively small
number take any great amount of in
terest in seeing that the work of the
organization is done, beyond buying an
occasional meal at the luncheons or
paying the quarterly assessments.
During the past year or two, the
Alliance chamber of commerce has
done more to interest its membership
than at any time in the history of its
organization. Funds have been lacking
to accomplish any great amount of
work, but the enthusiasm generated by
the weekly luncheons and conferences
has, to a great extent, taken the place
of work formerly done largely by the
trained secretaries.
r- With an increased interest in the
work of the chamber, the further op
portunity is now presented to impress
into service some new men. Not that
the men who have been on the direc
torate haven't been hard-working, con
ecientious and able. Not at all. But
the old wheel horses will still be
available when they are needed to
null or to give good advice. The more
new blood there is in the leadership
of the organization, the better should
be the results, for every director be
comes a hard worker upon election,
even if he has Been only a paper mem
ber before.
The coming year should be one of
accomplishment for the chamber of
commerce, and the organization will,
need all of its man-power. Thw is a(
chance to do away with some of the(
opposition, and get squared away for
the most constructive year in the or-J
Seriously, we are greatly indebted
to the modern flappers, not alone for
number of good laughs which their
flopping galoshes and other eccentric
ities of dress have given us, but be
cause their foolish little fads and fan
cies have paved the way for a frank
isregard of some old habit and cus
toms that were W to live forever un
til they were laughed out of existence.
If, in addition to encouraging us in
the breaking away from tradition as
foolish as some of their fads, they are
now to enrich our language, they de
serve our blessing, just as they have
always had our admiration, even
though it has not always been voiced.
Slang has always been frowned
down by the dictionary makers, pos
sibly because it is the chief reason that
dictionaries get out of date. It has its
uses, however, and those who cry it
down the hardest come in time to ac
cept it The so-called flappers are,
as a rule, not the empty-headed little
tools whose only desire is to nave a
good time in life at the expense of any
body and everybody but themselves,
but an aggregation of wise sisters who
want life, love and laughter and do not
intend either to be ruined by it or to
let their ardor and enthusiasm be at
all dampened by those who cannot re
member the glorious joy in being
young and carefree.
As to flapperanto, it's nothing more
than typical slang. All of us have our
own collection of slang, and it always
seems proper to us. It's the other fel
low's slang which sounds wrong and
should be suppressed. Some of the def
initions are worthy to stand with Mr,
Burgers' "drilligate," expressed even
more forcibly in the flapperanto as
"punching the bag." We have never
seen a word to equal Mr. Burgess
Mwog," but give the flappers time and
they will out-Burgess Gellett
Following are some examples of the
new slang, which is, like all slang, c
eeedingly expressive and dynamic. One
not included in the list is "mad mon
and has reference to one or more
Owl Flapper who cuts classes and
Is only seen at night at dances and
parties; usually wise enough to get
liigh grades in academic work.
Swift's Premium Clumsy flapper;
wall flower; a ham.
Feature to see; e. g. "I can't fea
ture him for the darkness."
Punching the bag Act of a man
who chats with a girl and keeps on
chatting: gymnasium term perhaps re
ferring to the 6ocial finesse of a dumb
bell.
Holiholy Happer who wont in
dulge in mugging match.
Holaholy Male of a holiholy.
Dudd Profound student of books
not flappers.
Ground gripper Female form of a
dudd.
Baby grand Comfed coed.
Pocket twister Girl who eats,
dances and drinks up all of a man s
spare change.
Struggle A dance.
Pill Professor.
G. G. Refers to a man; coded form
of the English expression, "gullible
goof," which speaks for itself but he
doesn t. i
ey,
dollar bills which are "squirreled" or
hid away for emergency use. And now
increase your vocabulary to fit your
flopping galoshes, or have a fur
viewed tolerantly, with an eye to their
amusing appeal, they are easy enough
to live with. Now that the militant
branch, of the Carrie Nation or Lucy
Page Gaston type, are either. dead or
crippled, we don't really have to fight
with them. The best method, when
they no longer add to the joy of living,
is to cea.se to worry about them and
begin wondering how the new knicker-
bockcr golf togs will suit our particu
lar figure. This will cause them to be
come a trine overheated, but they d
soon be overheated anyway.
We do not hold with Brother Hunter,
a school superintendent who spoke last
week before the national education as
sociation, that the reformer, and not
the flapper, is the peril of public
schools or any other kind of a peril.
For neither flappers nor reformers are
perils, if taken with a saving grain of
salt. We have entirely too many peo
ple on the lookout to spot national
perils, and too few of them looking for
national blessings. We usually find
what we are seeking. It's infinitely
more cheerful to look for pleasant
things in this life, and reformers and
all others who view with alarm to the
contrary, there are plenty of them to
be found. If we gaze 4ti these so
called perils with a smile and a pleas
ant taste in our mouths, most of them
will made away.
PERILS THAT ARENT.
All classes of men, praise be to
providence, do not think alike, and this
adds variety and interest to life, as
well as preserves us from intellectual
stagnation and utter boredom. The
thought comes into our mind once in a
while that reformers are a little too
prone to lay too much stress on non
essentials, but even this is a blessing,
by the way, for it prevents too great
concentration on the things that are
really worth while. So long as the
would-be reformers are out hunting
flies, they are not pestering the gen
eral public.
Undue emphasis on subjects that
aren't worth it has one advantage.
When one is blessed with a calm, un
emotional temperament, there is a cer
tain pleasure in watching others get
wrought up to the highest pitch over
problems that, after all, count for lit
tle. Thus, there is the tag-end of an
age-old war raging against dancing;
there are wordy and theoretical argu
ments over socialism; there are con
troversies on such important topics as
the need for third parties, the single
tax, and dozens of others.
None of these things are of such
tremendous importance In a lifetime,
unless ox i happens to be making his
living by carrying on a ceaseless war
fare against straw men, who never
strike back. The danger lies in get
ting sidetracked from subjects that do
count into worrying about them. Life
is too busy, too full of genuine oppor
tunities, to battle with the winds.
So long as the race of reformers is
HEALTH FADDISTS.
(Aurora Register.)
The Clay county nurse, kindly sup
plied them by the Red Cross system of
matching their own dollars, and so
setting apart and consecrating them
that they can have nothing to do with
expending their own dough, has jut
made for the people there, an alarm
ing, discovery. They have but 22
healthy children in the Clay Center
schools. Most of them are suffering
from under nourishment, fatigue, en
nui or ingrowing toe nails. A large
majority have tonsils in their throats,
vomers in their noses, and are on the
blink generally.
She offers some hope, however, and
by drenching them with sweet milk,
giving attention to their diet, running
n an occasional extra meal, having
them sleep itr pure fresh laundered air,
and removing from them the awful
pectre of overwork, it is trusted that
these little country Nebraska children
will be brought back to normal and a
great peril of some kind be pveited.
It sounds to us a whole lot like bosh,
but we come from the old days when
children did not know a calory from a
carbohydrate, and were glad to iret po
tatoes and gravy whether or not they
could secure proteins enough fur a
mess. Isn t it time that a lot of thee
health faddists pull a few feathers
from the wings of their imagination,
stick them in the tails of their j ulg
ments, and balance up a bit ?
??!
Melvin Markets
No. 1 Phone 263
No. 2 Phone 222
Tender Steak 18c; lb. 2 for 35c
Every Day Prices
Fresh Hamburger 15c
Pure Pork Sausage 20c
Pure Link Pork Sausage 25c
Braunswager Liver Sausage. .18c
Bologna 18c
Wieners 18c
Frankfurters 18c
Head Chccrc 20c
Pressed Chicken 35c
Minced Ham 20c
Cooked Corn Beef , lb 35c
Cooked Pressed Pork, lb 35c
Home Made Sausage
''mlx DOUDLE eat
fc!N, Jacket over Pep-
10 for 5c
then you' get the deleo w
table gum center. x5
And with WrigWs three old wiK
standby also affording friendly OCTl
aid to teeth, throat, breath, ap V
petite and digestion. y&nwywt I
Soothing, thirst-quenching. yKvwWsW V. I
Making the next cigar jMXy
taste better.
mm L'figi
HERALD WANT ADS BRING BEST RESULTS
:::::;
fWff f 1 WW 9 W
:::::::;::rf
1 1
1J . -tr-jwB .1.. I Ism
I What is Your
This?
The man who spends his income as
fast as he makes it, is gambling with
his future in every sense of the
word.
He may win present pleasures but
he loses future independence. The
friends who hail "the good fellow"
now, will slight "the poor beggar"
in days to come.
It is up to you, young man. Your
Dependence or Independence is de
termined by what you save.
Start a Savings Account today and add to it
every pay dny. That is the surest way to win
success and independence.
We Pay 5 Interest on Time
Deposits.
Bring your Liberty Bonds in for safekeeping;
no charges. j
FIRST STATE BANK