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THE ALLIANCE 1 1 Eli A LI), FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1022.
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THE SECOND INDEPENDENCE
At last the prohibition mlvocatos
liave something in the line of "opposi
tion that is worthy of their attention.
The forces that achieved prohibition by
legislation hnve been o busy lighten
ing up loose screws in the administra
tion of the various laws and chinking
vp the holes, that they have not given
lue consideration to the dozens of
movements, great and small, which
are looking toward a return of the
days when glasses can le clinked op
enly. The victory is won, after a fash
ion, but the ground must be held.
The dry advocates have assumed, all
along, that their efforts are opposed
only by the scum of the earth. They
have refused to le warned by the fact
that the best customers of the boot
leggers are the members of the best
nociety everywhere. It is true, per
haps, that the brewers and distillers
f the old days were, for a time, ex
tremely interested in overthrowing
prohibition, but there must be some
one to profit from the huge sales of
contraband wet goods, und it stands
lo reason that the men who are doing
the bulk of the handling thc.-e days
are men of experience. This must be
true, else why are so few of them
aught?
The leaders in the fight against pro
hibition are not the bootleggers do
luxe, for these people do not care to
be publicly interested in the question
that means money to them. The peo
ple who are now waging the fight
are men who are not pleased with the
cost and methods of enforcing the pro
hibition law,
A numler of good men
are disgusted with the Gus Hyers type
of law enforcement. The evil of boot- He is able to live on very low wages,
legging is just beginning to bo under-'and when he comes into competition
stood, as well as the enormous profits' with white workers there is no doubt
tnat are derived from it. I as to the result. The Jap wins. He
A significant meeting was held at will work for wages and will live under
JJw York city on May 9, when the conditions that would be unbearable
aviation against the prohibition for Americans or those who have once
amendment was formally organized, adopted the American standard of liv-
The members call themselves the ing. '
figtiters. for th second indepen- In the United States the problem is
dence." There is already an enroll- more complex than in Brazil. For in
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ment of thirty thousand members, and the latter country there are no racial
it is expected that by the time the next
election primaries are held, the os-
fcociation will be half a million strong.
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The most significant aspect of the
new association is i no quality or the
men and women who are nfTiliatpH
with it. The New York committee in-
eludes such names ns General Dan'el
Appleton, Muyvesant r ish, Hermit
Jjoosevelt. P. Tecumseh Sherman. Hor-
ace W. Co re v. Edirar M. Cullen. Dr.
Richard Dei by, George L. Forrest,
Colonel Ransome H. Gillett, James P.
Holland, R. Henry Lacombo, John-
ston Livingstone, Irwin S. Cobb and
others. One of the members is Miss'
Elizabeth Marbury, chairman of the
omen of New York state.
Here is an association that the dry
forces will do well to watch. These
people are, for the most part, widely ' director of the judicial police of Paris,
known. Some of them have world who proceeds to swat the great tie
reputations. They represent money 'tectivea of literature a body blow.
and none of it made from breweries
tr 1icti'llofA3. V.. ,i ..i
authors, financiers and leaders of
inougni. it is ume, ir prohibition is
to be made a success, to organize for
the fight that is coming, and one of
the best safeguards will be to improve
$ho methods of law enforcement. There
mohihition
amendment is growing steadily less
popular, and
when men and women of
this caliber will go on record as op-
posed to it, it's time to sit up and take
aoUce. If there are evils in law en- f
forcement, it's up to friends of en-
t orcement to get rid of them. With !
some national leWs Hirni no-ninst 1
the law, this isn't a case for prayer,
tut it's a call to battle.
JOYK1LLER ON THE JOB
The professional joykiller is always
on the warpath, seeking illusions that
he may smash. Our pet illusions are
being destroyed so rapidly that 'ere
long we hhall see regular departments
of 'Vanished Illusions' in the daily
press. We have often given prui.-e
that newspaper editors aie not the
"worst offenders they seldom destroy
illusion.; for the mete love of destruc
tion but the late.-t cruel blow has
been struck by an editor, D. W. Stevick
of Champaign, III. It is possible that
he is not a bom editor und that, like
so many of the brethren, has just
drifted into the profession through
lack of oposition.
Mr. Stevick has Just returned from
a trip around the world. The act
;hat he has the money to take one
ohnws that he is made of different clay
than most editors. In an address be
fore some press association in his own
.tate, the Illinois man has taken all the
romance and a good share of the fun
out of Hawaii. He would have us be
lieve that most of the things that have
apenled to us in that country are
mere fabrications and delusions, in
tended to lake in the gullible tourist.
The grass huts, grass skirts and even
.he sacred hula hula, he declares, are
.is artificial and phony .as the scenes
the average "rubberneck" tourist opens
his mouth at in Chinatown.
Read him and weep:
"Ukeleles, hula hula girls and grass
skirts are purely mythical. The im
portance of Honolulu us a great com
mercial center is little realized by the
American public. The average Ameri
can picture of Honolulu as a place
of romance -a great tropical island
with native Hawaiian girls gracefully
doing the hula hula, grass huts, grass
skirts and ukeleles.
"Many of the dreams are realized
expressly for the profit of the tour
ists. The typical primitive dance of
the llawaiians is little like Belle Fsiti
ma's startling muscle dance. The
grass huts? They don't exist except
in the museums. The modern cottage
is much more sanitary.
"The grass skirts? They are made
mostly in Connecticut and shipped to
Hawaii for the benefit of the tourist.
Waikiki beach is merely a nice dream
place for a tired business man.
"Honolulu is really a great busi
ness city a seaport."
Aw, hell!
THE JAPS IN BRAZIL
Brazil is troubled with a problem
that has vexed the United States ex
ceedingly during the pust ten years
the problem of Japanese immigration.
The little brown men have managed
to find their way into California in
...w.-umg .. 'c,oll enough to be their fathers, and
colonies ot them in otner states, in
every part of the United States where
tliev are present in any considerable
quantity, the question of whether they
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are a benefit or a menace bobs up
sooner or later.
And it's some problem. It is ad-1
mitted that the Jap, as a worker, is'
perfect. He makes a remarkably in-
telligent farmer and has no cual as
a domestic servant.
The Jap is a
jjsjaceful man, an ucti
Live Worker sober
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himself readil ,
mfhded and adapts
to conditions. But his wants are few.
difficulties. Here it is discovered that
the Japanese desire to intermarry with
American stock und not only that, but
, m r mi-
they are doing it. The Brazilians ..o
not care about tnat. mere is aireaoy
a certain mixture of bloods, and a little
more doesn't fret them.
The significant thing is that Brazil
is interested chiefly because of the
labor competition. The solution fa-
vored in that countrv is small . olonies
of them, in the sparsely settled re-
gions. The Unitel States might iirul
this a very satisfactory settlement of
:he problem.
THE MASTER MIND FALALCY
Somebody is always taking the joy
out of life. Now comes M. Faralicq,
Sherlock Holmes wasn't much of a
detect i vp. nrrni-dinc to the detective'
l real life, who really ought to know .
"":iimK om.
borne or us may have had our doubts Of course, the president will, when
about Sherlock, and may feel even a the time comes, sign any bill the house
bit pleased that he has finally received senate ndg him; he will ac
. . v, ,. , icept any suggestion of method upon
his comeuppance, but M. Faralicq s' ch ' ress may arrP-
further revelations destroy the very,
fundation8 of our private science of,
criminalogy The French detective;
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8a' mat tne greatest oi an crime .
solvers is named Chance just plain,
ordinary, everyday luck. And clues
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those wonderful things that we have
supposed detectives didn't do nothing
else but seek and unravel clues are
;he bunk.
M. Faralicq is credited with the solu
tion of some of the most baffling de
tective problems of the last ien years.
He is an authority greater than Sher
lock Holmes. And this is what he
says:
"Sherlock Holmes isn't in the run
ning with Chance. It is easy for a
noveli.-t gifted with a certain amount
of imag. nation and knowledge of
criminality to solve a criminal prob
lem which he has invented himself.
"Writers of detective fiction make
the mi.-take of devoting too much at
tention to material signs or clues.
The examination of footprints, cigar
ette ashes and so on and the logical
deductions to be made therefrom are
the A. U. C. of the ordinary police
detective. But nothing is more likely
to lerd to false conclusions. Twenty
or thirty persons may have walked
over the ground trodden by the crim
inal or have smoked cigarettes on the
icene of the crime. Score of ex-
(raucous circumstances may have to be
taken into account.
"No, after all, Chance is the wizard
of crime detectors, present, past, and
future. His divinity is named Luck!
The real art of crime defection con
sists of grabbing the opportunity
which the Goddess Luck presents and
utilizing it with intelligence. There
fore, the ideal detective must have his
eyes on everything and be able to
make a prompt decision. That's his
system. Could Sherlock Holmes do
better?"
THE CITY MANAGER
(Scottsbluff Star-Herald.)
Judging by Alliance reports, that
city is distinctly satisfied with the city
manager plan of government, the fig
ures showing that under that system
of regulation of expenses, the city
showed a profit of $K,840.2( for the
past municipal year, or in other words
with total receipts of $20,221.31 and
total disbursements of $20,381.05, the
city spent 70 cents for each dollar re
ceived. In 1921 the city was $1,397.83
in the red, but this was nothing as
compared with the deficit in 1919 of
$21,544.14, where the city spent $2.04
for every dollar of income received.
In 1919 the total cost of admisterin?
the affairs of Alliance was $42,20(5.45,
as compared to expenses of $18,810.41
it the past year.
Then.' has at different times been
talk of the city manager plan for
Scottsbluff, and the plan even went
so far as to be seriously discussetl by
the council. The rather sad experience
which fome cities had Chadron, for
instance when attempting the mana
ger plan, caused the local officials to
hesitate. Then Alliance voted to try
the scheme and the experiment has
been watched with much interest.
Paralleling Chadron and Alliance, it
appears that a city manager is very
satisfactory where the right man is
secured and where he is allowed really
to manage. Otherwise, the plan is a
failure.
BRING ON YOUR HELL.
(Emporia News-Gazette.)
The other night at a public dance in
Emporia seven little girls of 16 came
without escorts. They spent the even
ing uancing cneen 10 cneeK wun men
(iance,i dances which could not help
arousing passions which should rise
not as mere casual emanations of a
P?sinf evening, but as the emotions
ot a lite. They were short-dressed
ilK am, innocent enoujrh. And are
not to blame.
But where were their mothers?
Where were their fathers? Out of
what kind of homes did they come?
Don't these nnrents know that trirls
who go alone to public dances are
rot rerpected. and don t they know
tnat w'hen a girl is not respected, she
is wolf-fodder?
what are tnpce mot,.,, thinking of,
w no et their daughters chase around
town alone nights, , parading the
streets, window shopping and picking
scAUffi
the end costs the town monev. These
children will sooner or later be on the
town, or some other town, spreading
jatel. these girls will mother other girls
,and other boys as big fools as them-
selves.-V "
And all because their parents haVe
sense all because the homes in
.njch thev crow un are not Drooerlv
guarded. At bottom it is laz.ness on
the part of the parents that makes
ne?e cf!"tren theV a,e- Laziness
is the sin for which society pays, tor
nlul,lo,. (lone in pa.Shjon, mcn expiate
& their lives, anil sometimes, perhaps
crenerally. find neace and reiicntance
'or stealing done in want, God has
H
one- n,i that one is this laziness of
parents who slough off their tlut io am
the souls given to them to
guard und keep, and thereby release
the springs of lust and shame und
want and ignorance and misery
For parents like that hell was
builded. For laziness that risks the
happiness and usefulness of children,
nothinc but hell will suince not hell
for the children, though life brings
that hell as they grow older, but Jiell
for the slovenly doless parents who
let the children walk into life's hell
fire without thought or warning.
WHY THE EXCEPTION?
(Des Moines Register)
The president maintains his position
?h
raising the funds it will require.
But, wiili tnat understood, why is
there is so much insistence on pro-
'S naT wh VeW r
Trillin
nueg are not demanded for the $4,000,
000,000 and more that the government
Why is paying boys who fought the
war made different as a government
obligation from providing money for
the new navy or the new army, or for
subsidizing a merchant marine?
The president is urging congress to
I appropriate for army and navy twice
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as mucn as we ever tnougnv oi sh-ihhhk
before the war, and far more than any
people ever spent in times of peace,
but nothing is said about tacking to
the army and navy bills a special way
of raising funds.
The president is making a virtue of
emphasizing payment of the boys as
a special burden upon the public
pocketbook. Why?
FIGHTING CRIME
(Arkansas Gazette)
After suffering for months under
the well known crime wave, Phila
dephia has learned how to put down
crime. The method adopted there is
novel, almost revolutionary, but it
works. Crime is put down in Phila
delphia now by enforcing the law.
After the crime wave had brought
reveral murders and several bold day
light holdups, the board of judges
which is composed of fifteen judges
of the common pleas courts, met and
doubled the number of criminal courts.
For five weeks the judges wonted
steadily and assistant district attor
neys were kept in a heavy perspira
tion. County detectives and members
of the city detective force showed un
usual energy. They worked with the
assistant district attorneys, giving
them desired information, serving sub
poenas, bringing in Witnesses, check
ing up on juries and doing everything
posnble to aid in putting down the
crime wave. After Jive weeks of thir
lie criminal dockets were clear. Phila
delphia had gone through the biggest
list of criminal cases ever recorded in
any term of its criminal courts.
The undei world was dazed. Never
had there been trials so speedy and
sentences so heavy. Never was the
outiioK so gloomy for hard working
crooks. The police reported a great
decrease in crime.
In order to make the fight against
crime effective, judges broke rome
long-established precendents. The pre
cendents were broken in order io pre
ent delays. Since these delays, so
usual in criminal court practice have
v ?n mo t f olent in defeating justice,
their prevention would seem to ue one
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