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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 7, 1922)
THE AUlANCE IIE1.AU), 1TJPAY, ArillL 7, 1922. hr Alliance Hrrali " TUESDAY AND FRIDAY BURR 1'RINTING CO., Owners Entered at the postoffice at Alliance, JJeb., for transportation through the uula as wond cla-m matter. GEORGE I BURR, Jr Editor EDWIN 11. BURR Business Mgr. Official newppaper of the City of Alliance; official newspaper of Box Suit County. A THEORY AT STAKE Mo. t of us have always held a chrr bhed iK-tief that so far as Washington is concerned, xlitieal pull is every thing. The general idea is that if a man, or a concern, or a committee, or anything else, has the right amount of political support from congressmen and senators, success is assured. We are about to test this theory, ami see whether it will hold water. Alliance, according to an order from the department of the interior, will lo: e its land office. The action is taken Owned and published by The Burr Printing Company, George L. Burr, Jr President; Edwin M. Burr, Vic President. THE SCHOOL ELECTION. According to the fine old system of, girls until they arc old enough to grow up, they wiil pa.- s thiough Hie d. gortui "flapper" day. hurriedly nnd without regrets. Here's hoping that they do it ami hotter still, that they make it a popular fad for children to le children just as long as possibl. The toy or girl who grows up over night and graduates from childhood directly into manhood or womanhood that to date, they haven't had any pro tection to speak of. The national child la! or committee and the federal thild ic i's bureau have made v. tensive in estimations, and while Nebraska hasn't figured in these investigations prominently, if conditions here are the the number of children he has. .-a me ns they arc in Colorado, Michigan j and other places, and there is no reas on to doubt it, we suggest humbly that Among f;!0 children from nine to six teen years of pge for whom school records wcie obtained over 40 per cent were from one to seven years In-low the normal grade for their age. The number of acres a lal orcr con tracts to care for is based largely on The labor employed in the Colorado beet fields is practically all foreign la bor, Mexican, Japanese and Ru ;sian. The Mexicans and Japanese, however, do not work their children as much as do the Ru-siuns. The Ku c wri. chil dren often begin work as early 3 four or five years of age, I This is Nebraska, and not Russia or Germany. Children in this state, of whatever parentage, are entitled to all the protection the law gives them, and it's little enough. without tal.ing full advantage of ihc in their anxiety to put the no.es of the days of youth is piling un a lot of ie-i Nebraska child welfare officials out of grots, for once skipped, it's impossible to go back. The time will come, all too soon, juint, our friends of the press take care not condone or encourage the evil. In Colorado alone, one of the most under the provisions of a law passed in' when ear puffs and rouge and all that important beet sugar state, the Na iiomii iii!ii iftinJi ommni.t; jiiumi ij.000 children between the ages of six 1H 10, some years ltefore the civil war, ; sort of thing will be indispensable.; which does not fit present-day condi-But kids lielween twelve and eighteen ; tions any more than the road laws of shouldn't have to be banding together j 1H10 would meet present-day require-! to get courage to forego the aids they! ments. There are still loO.OOO acres will need ten or twenty years later J of dry and irrigated land subject to Years ago it was said that "a little homestead entry and patent within the child shall lead them," but there are Newspaper Not Limited to Printing All the News ml fifteen years, practically all of . . . . , . . alien parents, regularly engaged in the I OnSCrVlllff 01 I'CODlC S KlglllS ailU I ldCIlt V tO cultivation of sugar lieets. n ? 4 ; n . ... i ruiiii;ics ui iviucrica s isumuirucy ire oasis of World-Herald Conduct. American politics, the man who gets the most votes is the best fellow. 1 he wan who cherished any sore spots after an election is a chump of the first -water. Aside from the fact that it's Heedless, it's also useless. The labor union men of Alliance, ni-v.i intn n nolitical combine ! fiuence II VJ 71Vi - f- with the farmers of the county, have tried out their strength, and the result must be pleasant. Victory is prover bially sweet. But the attitude oi me laboring men in this election brings up the question as to just how much of their original platform remains intact. First announcements of the farmer labor bloc brought the word that they were out to purify politics in Box liutte county. Their spokestnun, Rev. B. J. Minort, said that the coalition -was not formed with the intent to gobble all of the offices in sight and parcel them out among farmers and union men. A Scottsblulf newspaper carried an editorial telling of the usual trend of such alliances, and the u--ual . . i it ; .1 . 1 f n n.'ii'n winuup or fcucn onensive mm ci;h.-i.v agreement, and Mr. Minort called the J editor down. Thea he took ill and went to bed. While the chief spokesman of the Hoc was confined to his home, the more radical laborers and farmers took the reins into their own hand. They suggested a list of candidates which would be acceptable to them, and left the door oien a little way for others y saying that a committee of twenty-, eight, composed of represe district; there are l,f00 unfinished cases in the files, and the removal of the office would work a serious incon venience on hundreds of ranchers and prospective homesteaders. The department is firm in its inten tion to close the office but there is one ray of hope the political in- Alliance is fortunate, in one sortie kinds of leadership that chil dren shouldn't lie forced to assume. However, they have done it, and pro vided they don't make a lifetime fetich of their crusade, we wish them all the success they can hope for. From the time the beets are in the ground until they ate del'vered at the factory the hardest kind of manual la bor is required. And much of this is done by small children. These children spend long, hard hours on their hards and knees weeding nnd thinning the beet-. Then when the berts are full crown they speml more long, nam BEET FIELD WORKERS. way, for the order to close me iani Most of our C00(1 fn-cn(s wj-0 C(it otricc could not have come at a ueuer . nf.Wspapers over in the valley have, at time. This is a general election year, one time or another, been considerably and the present united Mates senator exercjs0(j 0er what they term the un-, one-fifth were as and the congressman from the Sixth district are both up for re-election. The retention of the land office will please the entire Sixth district. There fore, Senator Hitchcock anil Congress man Kinkaid are on their mettle. Each wants to have the credit of doing Alli ance and western Nebraska a favor. Congressman Kinkaid has entered into the spirit of the competition with with all of the zeal for the homestead ers that has characterized his congres sional career. Senator Hitchcock got off to a late start, but he is also on the job, apparently determined that the credit for saving the land office shall go to the democratic party, with a share of it for, himself, of course. And the fight is on. Mr. Kinkaid has taken the hard course of convincing the department officials that their action is not justi fied by the conditions in the district. Officials are provcibially hard to con vince, but Mr. Kinkaid has not hesi tated to tackle them in other cases, knee nnd with a wide rwoep of a dan geroudy sharp knife cut off the tops. The Federal Children's bureau made an intensive study of the Co'orado sit uation. Of 1,077 included in this study seven-tenths were the children of con tract laborers. Over one-fourth of them were under ten years old, a small percentage under eight. Less than much as lourteen warranted interference and general I years old. Considerably over a half nosiness of officials of the state child! ranged from nine to thirteen. From ... , . . . . i (!'.( to fvo per cent., according to the welfare bureau, who have from time to! pi.lK.c.,s in which the child was en time urged that the child workers in ;.ged. worked nine hours or more a the beet fields receive adequate school- day. From one-seventh to one-third, ing an as other of the opposition was duo to the rr.rn- wa, usually between nine and ten ner in which the officials went to work hours. to accomplish the reforms they desired. ' Postural deformities and malposi- But the fact remains that it's little tun were found in 0 per cent ot me t l a 1 i't i e , rill ( ivn e.ummfu "V tiic uuicau o enough that the children of the beet t,hv!!,iariSi Another 'Ferious PfTett is workers get out of the industry, and tie interference with their education. ntatives of anl nt wavering now. Mr. Hitch- labor and farmers' unions, would pass cock , - ..--wm, - .l- i;r.ui.ir.u f other fiini i liuenui iu su.-.i.i u,c v. i.e., n LUC i uttJii"-""""" - i - , , . . e whose ideas m.it jwim n-.-vv.,.. ' 1- 1 . 1 . U A , 1 , , ", 1 Minort Wasn t nouse anil sc-naiv van mui- wic jnuu- apparently. ,em at tne eml r lne uCiil year, ine oruer is to iukc euect in juuc, uiut--s rescinded. Our cherished convictions about the dates and endorse those unoealed to them. Mr leasd with the action, He declined to make the race for the office for which he was suggested, Che state senate. The second step in the campaign was the school election. Friends of the schools, in the absence of filings for the place, suggested the re-election o; cne menuVr of the board, ami an other candidate, whose fitness was un ,iwutmnA.l. On the morning of the M-- election the labor group their candidates and got busy with u vengeance. They succeeded, by a com fortable margin. The two men who will serve on the school board are undoubtedly good citizens, and will serve to the best of their ability. Some of the people who voted for them have the idea that they will bring about some considerable changes in the spring building pro gram, but it isn't likely. "But there should ba some way for 4 It A Vkll t know exactly what hours lifting the heavy roots to their Americanism and of good government It has fought without swerving for fundamental democracy. It has been the exponent of popu lar rights guaranteed by the consti tution the rights of fiee Fpeech and a free press, of freedom of assembly, of reliifion, and of education and has defended them whenever and by whomever assailed. The World-Herald, under Senator Hitchcock's direction, has devoted it self to teaching understanding and respect for the constitution of the Lnited States, resjiect for the law, the liberties of all citizens under the law, and the duty of the government, un der the constitution, to protect the lives and activities of the people and to respond to the settled popular will. A daily reading of the World-Herald affords a liberal course of study and For more than a third of a century bailments. It takes the form of lec- the Omaha World-Herald, under the tures delivered by a judge to children ownership of Senator G. M. Hitchcock, in the school room. It brings home has been the champion of true to every man and woman, and to everv id be given the same advantage' Pain varying with the process, work r l ti iii ed eleven hours or more a day. The ler youths. Probably a good deal avcraRe wol.kirfr ()ay for all processes child, the great truth Abraham Lin coln had in mind when he said: "Government Liberty Author ity law the man or woman who fails to appreciate the true meaning; of these terms, 1-icks the training necessary to be a good citizen of the it-public."' The World-Herald wants all its read ers to read these lecturer-. Especial ly it wants to interest the children, lor the future of our republic is in their hands. Therefore, the World-Herald is of fering liberal prizes, open to all chil dren in common schools, parochial schools and high schools, for essay based on these lectures, on '.'What the Constitution Means to Me." The study of the lectures, followed bv writing a short essay not to exceed LOO words on the subject, will le an tr m udder flvtt hrr kiddi KtLLOCCS bt ciiiik yea can af grgat big bowia an' thty facta g ood r an thty'n M crltpy n dandy!" influence of senators and congressmen are at stake. We are soon to learn whether there is anything to it. It seems stranire. when millions of dol lars are wasted annually, that it should be necessary to put up this kind of u fight to save an institution that really . lustifies its existence, but this is Doli- announccd , . . . ,. ... tics. II our n until is ruuiii, n n have to do will be to wait to see which I gets credit for reining the land office. And if there's nothing to this theory of political influence, we can cheer ourselves with the thought that we j would have lo.-t the land office, any way. ABANDONING FLAPPERISMS. At last, after years of patient wait ing and wading through columns of ".the best etlus-.ons of the leading re contemplated by the farmer-labor bloc. formcV!l we have come upon a crusade Is the intent, as stated, to see thai tjlat app0;iis to us. We are only fear the best candidates are elected, or Is it simply an eifoi t to get the oil ices all fil'cd with farmers or members of labor unions? This is an important matter. The Herald has no quarrel with the results of the school election the men who get the votes are en titled to serve but if this is an indica- 5&ZZ neve? tasted Com Plaices so joyously fibvoiedf so ciispy-ciuncky as Ksllos That's why big and little folks who know the differ ence insist upon KELLOGG'S! The thing to do is to make comparison Kellogg's against any other kind of corn flakes you ever ate I If it's quality, or all-the-tima crispness or delicious or appetizing flavor you want well, just wait tHl you eat Kellogg's! And, what a de light to know they're never leathery I You'll get so cheerful about Kellogg's that the day's! lest hours will be when it's time to sit down with tha family in front of generous bowls all filled most to burst ing with those big, sunny-brown Corn Flakes t Never was a Better time than tomorrow morning to prove that KELLOGG'S Corn Flakes arc about the "gladdest! of all good things to eat." Insist upon KELLOGG'S the kind in the RED and GREEN pack age if you want to know how won derfully good corn flakes can bcl inir that our paeans of joy may be premature. In these days, above all others, it is unwise to count chickens before they are hatched, and unful filled promises are among the most unreliable things in existence. The Campfirc Girls of the nation, M 2?" TOASTED CORN FLAKES Up to the last sentence, we are with them and for them, with all the poor and feeble power of our pen. In the last of their promises that setting the fashion in sensible dress they may be biting off more than they can j conveniently masticate. It all depends on what they mean by the phrase, jfi they mean that they will attempt toj set the fashion for girls of their own age, well and good. If they hope to bring about u revolutionary change in fashions for all women, they had bet ter take aim again. The Campfire Girls include among their members girls from twelve to( eighteen years of age. The average, age U rather lower than the mean of j those two figures. At the age of the average Campfire Girl, there should be no temptation to use rouge habitu ally, or to wear ear puffs or or too narrow skirts. All boys and prob ably all girls, too, if they will admit it "grow up" too rapidly. The days of childhood and youth and the hours of simple plea.-ures are the finest of treasures for memory later in life. If two hundred thousand Campfire Girls will pledge themselves to be just plain to the number of two hundred thou- inn of the tilan for the fall campaign,' (...-.i ,., nlodired themselves to cve it is up to voters of Box Butte county up lne use of ,.0U(re, ear puffs and to decide whether they want to be .have decided that their skirts shall governed by any class of citizens cx-j measure fifty inches around the hem. ! G dusively. Our own opinion is that no They are attempting to set the fashion one class contains all the goot men, or m FCnt:ible dress, is fitted to hold all the offices. There are some mighty good men within the coalition, but the best material has not ben suggested for office. There isn't any question but that public dissatisfaction is growing. There is a tendency to vote against . . f i . anyone who is up ior re-vitiiuu i any office, simply because of the over--whelming desire for a change. But the clioice of county officials should be dictated by something more than a desire to start something. If the farm labor bloc will honestly try to get the best available men elected -uot the best farmers, or the best union men, but the best lineup of candidates, they will be doing a service to the county If not, they will be working for them selves, selfishly. The public, fixm whom they hope to draw support, should know what the bloc intends to do, and whether they intend to work through existing parties or on their own. They hae a perfect right to utilize their political power in any manner or for any purpose that they tee fit, of course, but the apparent difference between promise and per formance callj for an explanation. CORN PLAICES AUo naWi of KELLOGG'S KRUMBLES and KELLOGG'S BRAN, cooled end LramM-4 K. H. COM! GEDNEY PANY Architects Engineers HASTINGS, NEBRASKA enlightenment in not only the duties influence for good citizenship that will and obligations, but the lights and lust through life. The World-Heridd privileges of American citizenship, luige- lathers and mothers to ivail The World-Herald is a newspaper these lectures themselves and to inter that does not stop with printing the ept their children in them and in the news and commenting upon it. It P"" essay contest, believes that an American newspaper This is only an example of tho vork owes to its readers an educationl duty the World-Herald is doing to promote as to bas'c principles, to help men and the cause of good citizenship ani women fit themselves for the responsi- good government. It is a newspaper bilities of citizenship. Ours is a gov- with ideals and convictions and with emment of the people. It will be such the courage to fight for them. Whi'a as the people make it. And they will in a partisan sense it is democratic, make it such as they are themselves, as Senator Hitchcock is, it is -ome-The stream cannot rise higher than thing more than a partisan newspaper, its source. If greed and privilege en- It is independent and free, and it doe trench upon people's rights, if cunning not hestitate to disagree with the triumphs, if liberties are lost, it will democratic party when it believes the be because the people do not under- party is wrong. . It is the property stand and, because they do not, are un- solely of Senator Hitchcock nnd hi able to help and protect themselves, close asrociates engaged in producing It is more light and less heat that it. No corporations, no outside inter is needed in dealing intelligently with ests of any kind, own a dollar of its our nubiic m-oDiems. Liiirnt mat win sn.. nr umra;. ai n nimnii.Ki) enable the people to know what Americanism really is, the soul and truth of it, what are their powers and opportunities as electors in our gov ernment, what the government actual-' 1; means to them. j There has been published recently n wonderful little book, called "The Miort Constitution," It is the work i of Judf.e Martin J. Wade of the' United Slates federal court and of Dean Will am F. llussell of the col- interested in other enterprises or coi porations. Its soul is its own, and it is free always to speak its own mind, it is a clean newspaper, free from sensationalism or objectionable natter in both its news and advertising; columns. You can safely take in int your home and encourage your chil dren to read it. The World-Herald is by far the largest newspaper in Nebraska an.i bv far the best. Much more money lege cf education of the Iowa State js spent to produce it. Yet the price university. This book translates the js reasonable. It gives you more for guaranties of the constitution into the the money not only than any other language of the ordinary man, women' Nebraska paper, but than anything; anil child. It affords to the ordinary else you can buy. A year's subscrip citizen knowledge of the relation of ; tion for the Daily and Sunday World the constitution to his life and the Herald is ?6.00, or it will be sent you lives of his children. It is a mostly months for ?3.00. You could helpful and inspiring work in the field make no better investment for your of true, not spurious Americanism. fejf and for your family over pOO The World-Herald, beginning April ppges in a year's issue. -Ad vertise 9th, w ill publish this book in daily in-1 i.-ient. Be Ready for spring work Have you taken stock of your machinery this spring? Is it all in working order will it be ready to go when you say the word? Look Over the Machinery See that your Sulky Lister, your Trench Guide Lister and vour plow is ready for ppvinp; work. We have some re pairs and can get the others for you. DO IT IN TIME TO HELP "O. K." and Blatchfords Calf Meals Substitutes for milk that are made from scientific formulas. LET US TELL YOU ABOUT IT PLENTY OF BABY CHICK FEED Farmers' Union R. J. TKABEUT, Mgr. Thone 501 V