THE ALLIANCE HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1922.
"1Tt & fftttii 74f flliS !t,thcr More mnY wil' Pur into Bo P8Went8 of chambers of commerce
AMI? 2lltuUrr XirrUlU i Uatle county, and more of it will stay, have said about the same thing, and
TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
BURR PRINTING CO, Owner
- Entered at the portoffice at Alliance,
Feb., for transportation through the
tails as second clan matter.
GEORGE L. BURR, Jr Editor
IDWIN M. BURR Business Mgr.
Official newspaper of the City of
Alliance; official newspaper of Box
Butte County.
Owned and published by The Burr
Printing Company, George L. Burr,
Jr., President; Kdwin M. Burr, Vice
President.
right here. It will mean prosperity contributed thin sentiment free.
Just ax surely as the discovery of oil The horrible fear seizes us that Wil
of Cue revival of the potash industry. rnay t rn&tt good in his new job
And it's a lot more sure. . I and that President Harding will have
Opportunity, they say, knocks but to take him back into the cabinet. But,
once. This Is Box Butte's best op
portunity. Already growers are find
ing fault with the seed spuds from
other localities. They are finding thi t
climate, soil and other condition are
most faorable here. If the business
men of this city and a representative
body of growers will get together, Ad
vertise nnd m.lke plans to deliver what
they advertise, the ball of prosperity
will start rolling again, and never sto;
There is but one chief trouble
OUR GREATEST OPPORTUNITY
Opportunity is knocking at the door
of Box Butte county and Alliance, and
it's knocking hard. During the past
week, two visitors to this city have
pointed out the way to get this county
known all over the United States. Both
of the agents of opportunity were men
from the college of agricuture at Lin
coln. The first was II. O. Werner,
horticulturist, who 'spoke before the
Alliance Rotary club last Wednesday
night. The second was Leo Stuhr,
state secretary for agriculture. Both
of them had the same vision. Both
of them knew their facts. Both men
presented them succinctly. They have
done their duty. The opportunity is
presented, and it's now strictly up to
to us.
And this opportunity has been with
tu for the past three or four years. It
isnt oil, although half the citizens of
the county are hoping that the Lake
side well will turn out to be a gusher
and, in some inconceivable way, bring
prosperity to all of us bring it In
huge gobs on platters of silver and
gold. But this opportunity isn't oil,
or a revival of potash, or anything
else, but it'a in the earth. The answer
is Spuds. Plain, everyday potatoes.
All of us have known, in a general
way, that Box Butte county dry land
spuds are pretty good. Once in a
-while we have told someone that was
the cam But it takes the men from
the state agricutural college to tell us
the facts about them. Whether we
knew it or not, and whether we like H
or not, potatoes are our biggest crop
and our greatest opportunity. We
make every part of the United States
Know Box Butte potatoes, and clamor
for them for table use and for use as
seed. It can be done, if we make the
most of our opportunity. Bu thinking
wont do it, nor wishing even if
wish real hard. Wishing will have no
more effect than it will on the Lake
aide oil well. It means hard work,
Borne faith and some money. It means
co-operation between Alliance and its
business men and the farmers of the
county.
ueres tne situation; For years
Minnesota, Wisconsin and a few other
eta tee have gained a reputation for
growing the best potatoes for seed and
table use. They're having trouble in
upholding that reputation. The mo
saic disease is playing hob with them.
Certain region of the south, which
have heretofore depended on Minnesota
and Wisconsin for seed, have discov
ered, in the past year, that dry land
seed potatoes from Box Butte county
will yield as much as 150 bushels per
acre more than seed from these here
tofore favored states. In these por
tions of the south, the demand for Box
Butte spuds is growing. There is
market for all the seed potatoes we
can raise. It has even been demon
stratea mat our dry land seed pro
duces better crops in the irrigated
North Platte district than their own
seed.
You will say that this may be true,
but where does it concern the business
man where is his opportunity ? The
answer comes easily. Box Butte grow
era sold their spuds last fall, when
they needed money, for 90 cents
hundred. Had they kept them a few
months more, they would have received
as much as $2.50 to $3. This much
money, the difference between the two,
goes out of the county, and it's gone
to stay. The remedy lies in buildinir
lin enormous municipal polato cellar,
open to the whole county, managed co
operatively or otherwise. Then farm
ers could rent storage space, could se
cure loans on their crops from the
banks and be able to hold for the win
ter rates. Box Butte county would get
the profit instead of the commission
men in the big cities.
The farmers are Just beginning to
see the magnitude of the seed potato
industry. Only a few of them have
gone to the trouble to have seed cer
tified. A still smaller number have
made any attempt to use all precau
tions to keep spuds from injury by
rough handling. If there is only some
way to convince the growers of the
results that can be obtained by har
vesting potatoes for seed with the
same care that the apple growers har
vest their crop; if business men will
only start an organisation to build a
community potato storage warehouse;
if there is real co-operation in adver
tising, Box Butte spuds can be known
from one end of the country to the
Box P.utte spuds dry rot. This can
be prevented by proper care in har
vesting and storage. This is the chance
of a lifetime to enlarge the biggest in-
lustry in the country and make a na
tional institution of it Spuds aren't
nearly so romantic as oil, but they are
an even more substantial .source of
wealth. Box Butte county can become
another .Red River valley.
Tonight "The Dark Lantern." ti.r.
as the suspicious ones think, maybe he ri.npf versatile Alice Brady, will be the
isn't expected to do anything.
LOSING OUR "KICK"
What's happened to usT Where's
the old western spirit that used to do
things simply because someone said
it couldn't be done? It begins to look
as though a vital something had gone
out of uj with the passing of the pot-
with! ash and the death of the packing com- her
WILLIE GOES TO WORK.
Will H. Hays, who resigned a $12,-
000 a year job as postmaster general
and left President Harding's cabine
to become chief of the motion picture
Industry of this country, has now
been on the job for a month. Wil
isn't so much to look at he isn't near
ly so handsome as Doug Fairbanks
and not so popular as Mary Pickford
but his salary in his task as director
of the movie industry is $150,000 a
year. This figures out something like
$3,000 a week, or around $500 a day
for each working day, assuming that
Will take Sunday off for golf at the
Country club.
The new chief, at the close of the
first month and with. $3,000 in his
jeans, has very little to show on the
movie side of the ledger. The mana
ger of the movies has posed for mos
of the news reels. He is shown smil
ing any of us would smile under the
same circumstances or singing a
$150,000 contract with an ordinary
fountai npen, when, somehow or other,
we would expect it to be studded with
diamonds.
There has been considerable specula
tion as to just what Will would do to
the movies to earn his aalry. The
impression has gone abroad that he
will be able to quiet all opposition to
this form of entertainment, and con
found lh reformer and thone who
want censorship, or fewer kisses, or' opportunity to get on
pnny hope?;. Time was when there
wasn't anything too big for Alliance to
tackle, provided it was for the upbuild
ing of the community. The boosters
in this rity used to hunt for a chance
to simply "eat up" difTicuties.
From all outward appearances, Al-
au.ract.on at the Imperial. It's the
story of a fun-loving English girl who,
while visiting in Argovina, is pre
sented to a prince, who is a bit o( a
heart-breaker. She falls for him, but
lefore he finds it out, the is called
home by the illness of her father, a
dope fiend. Here she first morts Dr.
Garth Vincent. The doctor has his
own system he is indiilcrcnt to the
pretty girl. It's a new thing to the
Fil l to be ignored, and it interests her.
Then the prince proposes, but oilers
oniy a morganatic marriage.
which she refuses, heart-broken that
ne should suggest it. The doctor's
system wins out in the end, although
it is necessary for the girl to do the
proposing.
less exposure of bathing girls. Will
was the man who managed President
Harding's campaign and elected the
first republican president in eight
years, and it was evidently believed
that no wonder was too great to ex
pect of him.
But the ordinary man and his wife
and children who attend movies and
part with the admission fee at the door
are wondering how Will can possibly
earn his salary unless he gets busy.
There has been a lot of speculation
about it. Some have hinted that a na
tional censorship bill may come up, and
that Will Hays, through his influence
over the president, may put the kibosh
on it Others have hinted at other pos
sible developments by means of which
Will can earn his money. The aver
age movie theater patron has a right
to be interested, because, in the long
run, he pays the salary of Mr. Hays,
every last nickle of it
Mr. Hays has done nothing to solve
the doubts or dissolve fears. But he
has at last broken into print He hasn't
been on the front page since he re
signed and began drawing real money
.,.Th.e first cnaPter of the new serial,
"With Stanley in Africa," will be
Rnnu n Tuooli nlAMrt ...:t l. t a
liance is just the same as it always epode of "Winners of the West"
has been. Its leading business men I
are just as public-spirited. There are C?nnne Griffith in "The Broadway
plenty who will hooray and cheer till l8.the a"ractio" for Wednes-
fu j u day. The star plays a dual role that
the rafters ring when someone sug- or twin gistersf Adl.ienn' JjJ' J
gests going ahead with a comprehen-1 man of wealth and positon, was dis
sive program of civic and community satisfied because she wanted to becom
development, but when the tumult and ? ucce58ful ac,tres". thing which her
shouting die, there isn't anyone to be noTampT DrinCeaTningVliv'g
found who is willing to make a start, as a stenographer in the office of a
It's been a fairly hard year that churlish lawyer in a small New Eng
we've gone through. It's taken a bit ,and jY",1.1?. was dissatisfied because
of bumptiousness out of us. We're not & ZplXS
so ready to tackle new propositions as Drina to impersonate her in the
we were in the days when it seemed Landreth home, Adrienne believed she
easy to hang up eight or ten thousand na mde it easy by maintaining a
dollars in purses at the race meet, or FJW0,f co,dness- She her hus
. . , ,. . . , ' band seldom saw and spoke to each
bet a couple thousand plunks on an other. It required more n a caaua,
ordinary baseball game. And that's glance to perceive any outward differ
probably a pretty good thing. Maybe, nc in the twin sisters. In character
in our western enthusiasm, we went ndtmperament, however, the sisters
. kif . i were quite different, and Geoffrey
a bit too far. Landreth soon began to feel that his
But it's an excess of caution and a' "wife" had changed. Complications
lack of, initiative that is troubling us followed.
now. There's plenty of things to be' , , , ,
many of them, such as road building from the famous book and play by J
programs. Not a man heard Harold M. Barrie. It's a delightful story of
Cook talk about the Agate Springs high-spirited girl of the nobility who
fossil quarries and the possibilities of ?!Lmfid K'
r. . . volved in a strong love romance. 1 1
drawing tourists through here to see town was all upset till the gipsy gi
them but was enthusiastic over the came and upset ' it some more!
plan, but after loud applause with our Bedevilled the bigwigs, minister and
palms, everybody waited patiently for fnd STwhSen?
someone else to start it right Maude Adams' greatest state
Have we lost our "kick," or are we success, made into a greater photoplay,
waiting for spring to thaw us out? With hundreds in the cast and a star
It's Important that we discover what's Xh?MWM born for n PP8
wrong with our foutain head of en-. . .
thusiasm, for there is going to be lots; Modern dress may be the fault of
of need for it this summer. This city husbands who have impressed upon
th weir wives tne necessity of going
wiurout.
tourist map this year that may never,
be presented again, for even though '
we re letting roads take care ox tnenv
selves, other communities are getting J
busy. Unless we get some route
through Alliance, and advertise it, and
use every means at our command to
draw tourists here, we're going to
wake up some fine morning and dis
cover that we've been left out in the
cold.
There ought to be some way for a
community to get its pep back, but
unless we want to get well, there's no
need in discussing treatments and diets.
Raw meat is a poor diet for a sleepy
stomach, although it puts a good deal
of scrap into some animals that eat it
regularly. Alliance has learned its
lesson in economy and caution. But
we're carrying a good thing too far.
Let's start something and put it over
maybe well get back into our old
stride.
"I have sold over 2,000 bottles of
Tanlac and never had a dissatisfied
customer," writes Sim'ser's Drug
Store, Columbia, Tcnn. F. E. Holsten.
From coast to coast Tanlac is known
and honored and millions have taken
it and pronounced it the greatest
medicine of all times. F. E. Hosten.
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Juicy Fruit, Peppermint i
and Spearmint are certainly i
three delightful flavors to j
choose from. .
And VntlQLEY'S P-K-the
new sugar-coated pepper
mint gum, is also a great
treat for your sweet tooth
All are from the Wrigley
factories where perfection. j(
is the rule
Save the
wrapper
Good for
valuable
prettrfusns
C31
ANNOUNCEMENT.
Commissioner, Third District
I hereby announce my candidacy for
the office of county commissioner in
but some of the daily newspapers last the Third district of Box Butte county,
Friday carried, hidden away on inside SJSSS ? JJTCiL
pages, the information from Will that july 18, 1922.
the movie industry has accepted the' I am a good roads enthusiast, and I
challenge made by the public. That's' cnow conditions in the county thor
what Will said in a meeting last ghI, I J'ieve in being guidel by
T. ... ... ... . . the will of the majority in all matters
Thursday night which was attended by of roatl location. I pledge my best ef
some thousand persins, including more forts for a business-like administration
screen stars than were ever assembled ' county affairs, and have but one I
in any one place at the same time, un-! tner plan in my platform equality
less you count the studios or the bars
at Paris. Figuring the audience at &
' and justice for all.
J. R. LAWRENCE.
thousand, and charging Will up with BllringtOIl PlftllS
a day's salary, he earned 50 cents! m t t.
io increase us
Maintenance Force
cents ftpeice for accepting the chal
lenge in behalf of them.
This was sort of an "inaugural ad-
uresa lor u .e. m wn.cn ne lormauy within iyfQ or three weA b
accepted the duties or his new job: ably about April 1, the Burlington
the one he's been at work on for a' will begin to add to its maintenance
month. And below is the gist of his' ,f wy forces in Nebraska, General
remarks which must be valuable, be-j 1 ? J
cause they cost the movie patrons so men win be put on at first but the
much money: I force will be built up gradually until
The industry accepts the challenge the maximum is reached late in May
in the demands of the Amer- r early in June, Mr. Hynn said,
ican youth that its pictures shall I I impossible to say yet how
Ya vrht lrin Af MiUrtKiTiMiit many men will be employed. Mr.
and instruction. It accepts the chal- Fl aed each division superln
lenge in the righteous demand of Am- tendent to report on mainentance of
erican mothers that the entertainment
and amusement of the youth be worthy
of their value as the most potent fac
tor in the company's future. The op
portunity is great, and so in like meas
ure is the responsibility. That re
sponbility is accepted.
There you have it right in a nut
shell. Will probably said a lot more,
but this is what it amounted to.
Seventy-five words contains it all
w.n UfA.lr n ViA Inn. ... Via li.nitM
during the summer months and make
recomendations as to the number of
additional men that will probably be
needed. He expects to have this in
formation complete within two weeks.
The great modern study is scientific
economy. It is perhaps the more in
teresting because it cannot be clas
sified as a fad or a theory.
and the movie patron, art paying. -. tf u" B
$6.66 apiece for them,
sounding speech but
It is a nice jn the Darn. go just for a horse
hundreds of on her ho ran away.
What is Your
r
Idea About
This?
The man wKo 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 day. 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.
IS-
FIRST STATE BANK