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PAGE TWO WEEKLY TIMES-RtlORD VALLEY CITY, NORTH DAKOTA P. R. TRUBSHAW Subscription, $2.00 a Year, in Advance i-.Ktured ut the Fostotlice in Valley Oj. North Dakota, as second class nth*! matter. Fore, AclvertisinR Representative THE AM ERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION ~1 21 barbers went out on strike at Fargo day before yesterday be cause the proprietors wanted to cut their commissions from 65 to 60 per cent. After being out two days and noticing that their meal tickets were getting shaved down to zero and noth ing coming back, they decided to call the strike off. It is time some of these birds took a little reduction and came to their senses. There are too many men looking for work for them to think they can hold up everybody now. Some person or persons broke into the Sentinel-Courier office at Coop erstown last Friday morning, broke into, the safe and purloined all the records of the printing company, and then smeared printing ink on the ma chinery and fixtures, including the adding machine, etc., making a sad mess of the shop. The city of Coop erstown together with the publishing company, are offering a reward of $500 to anyone who will give informa tion that will lead to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrators of this job. The outcome of this case will be watched with interest. We do not be lieve that they can "hang it onto" one of Editor Nye's hated I. V. A.'s. Postmaster General Will Hayes is to quit the president's cabinet with its twelve thousand a year salary to take up the job of being at the head of a moving picture corporation at a salary of one hundred and fifty thou sand dollars a year. We don't like to see Mr. Hayes quit because he is^ making good but if he wants to quit' the cabinet we serve notice on the president that if the postmaster gen eralship is a stepping stone to on(p hundred and fifty thousand a year we are willing to try it out for awhile if he can't get anyone else. It will be some time before we strike even twelve thousand running a newspaper The farm loan department of the Bank of North Dakota has made a ruling that eight thousand dollars is the limit that any«farmer can secure as a loan on his farm. Mr. DeNault has made the statement that no more brothers-in-law will pull off any more twenty-five thousand dollar loans on worthless securities while he is at the head of that department. Congress man Baer, that great advocate of the people's rights, pulled off that stunt and now the state has nothing of any value to show for the loan. Many oth er loans were made by the recalled administration without regard to se curity or anything else but politics. The bank department will make no loans only to real farmers living on and operating their farms. There is more truth than poetry in the following from an exchange: The thing that will go further than the activities of the prohibition agents in the elimination of bootlegging is the daily list of deaths from poison mas querading as whisky. And it must be remembered that the number of deaths from wood alcohol and other substitutes is small in comparison with the number of persons blinded or otherwise terribly injured by the stuff Any man who drinks the liquid that is sold nowadays—no matter how assur ing the label or the story told by the glib bootlegger—is taking chances with his life. He is gambling with death. All he stands to win is a drink. What he stands to lose is all the earthly happiness which it is ev ery man's privilege to pursue. Is that a good bet? The nonpartisan league is now form ing an organization in California. This will be encouraging news to the many who have had such rich pickings in North Dakota the past five years and who have recently been separated from their meal tickets as a result of the recall election. All we can say for California if that bunch gets con trol of that state is "God Tielp you." You will need this help before that bunch gets through with you. We can hardly imagine, however) that California, knowing what the socialis tic regime has done for North Dako ta, will let the bunch get control of the state.. But California must look good to the bunch as being ripe for fat pickings—and Liederbach is al ready out there on his fruit ranch ready to lend assistance. California had better guard her state treasury Well. The Gummer trial opens up in this city tomorrow and will probably last for some time. There are about a hundred witnesses to be called in the case. It is the intention of the Times Record to try and give a synopsis of Mi the proceedings of this trial from day to day in the columns of this paper, but it is also our intention to leave out any testimony that in our judg ment is unfit for publication. We do not believe in giving publicity to this kind of testimony anyway, but the other daily papers of the state com ing into this city will have full re ports of the case and it is only reas onable that our own subscribers will want something in the home paper. We had some time ago decided not to give any testimony in this case in our columns but under the circumstances we cannot very well refuse to do so —but it will be censored rigidly so that nothing will be published of an unfit nature. Secretary of State Tom Hall is be ing urged to run for congress in the event that Mr. Young should with draw from the field. Mr. Hall yester day made the following statement in the Bismarck Tribune: "I have under stood that Congressman Young was slated for a judgeship on the U. S. Court of Claims", said Mr. Hall. "The progressive forces in the district should have their candidate in the field, and as I have been asked by a number of my friends to throw my hat in the ring it is very likely that I may chance the throw. If I decide to make the run you may be sure that I shall do my best to win." Mr. Hall has about as many friends in this dis trict and in the state as any man we know of and if Mr. Young should de cide to withdraw—which is doubtful —Tom would certainly make them all go some. John Knauf, of Jamestown, is also mentioned as a possible candi date for the position. The coming primary election gives promise of be ing a lively one. The Bank of North Dakota recently loaned the state government money to pay the salaries of the state insti tutions to which a correspondent, of the Courier-News very chestily says: "Supporters of the Frazier adminis tration regime see in this move an ac tual demonstration at the hands of their friends, the enemy, of the use ful part which the state bank is tak ing in financing the state's affairs, a claim which was always maintained by members of the league." The C. N. correspondent should have gone a lit tle further in its explanation and told its readers that had it not been for the mismangement of the state affairs by the Frazier administration it would not have been necessary to borrow from the Bank of North Da kota to pay these salaries. The C. N. correspondent goes still further and.wants to know why other credi- 1 lors are left out in the cold. The •same answer applies -a "busted" treasury brought about by misman agement on the part of the Frazier administration. The Bank of North Dakota is going to be made efficient for good to the people of the state under a real business management. Just stick a pin in here. Down at Fargo they have just com pleted a trial of one Heaton, teller of the notorious Scandinavian American Bank of much note on account of its checkered career financially and which was closed by Attorney Gener al Langer as being insolvent, after wards reopened by Attorney General Lemke and taken under the sheltering wing of the supreme court and which financially went under owing the people of this state nearly half a mil lion dollars which are now frozen up and lots of it have eveaporated. Heat on was accused of embezzleing seven ty-eight thousand dollars, and while he alone is not the only one guilty he was the one on trial and the jury de cided that he was guilty of a misde meanor for stealing less than twenty dollars. This seems to be the rankest sort of nonsense and a travesty on justice. Either Heaton was guilty of getting away with more than twenty dollars or else he was innocent and should have been acquitted. The ver dict of the jury is a farce. That jury might have been influenced by the fact that he was probably made the goat and that some higher ups were being unmolested, yet the fact re mains that he was a party to the deal and therefore guilty if the verdict of the jury means anything. There has been a lot of money lifted from that institution by others outside of Heaton and it is up to the states attorney of Cass county to get real busy and bring those who are guilty to the bar of justice. The committee looking after the state mill and elevator projects at Grand Forks are doing good work and making progress. According to all reports the mill and elevator has cost up to date about one million two hun dred thousand dollars. The engineers estimate that it will cost one mil lion three hundred thousand dollars to complete the project or a total of something like two and one-half mil lion dollars. That will not be so bad if the project turns out well and is handled in a businesslike manner. The farmers of the state want to try this experiment and see if such a pro ject can be made not only to pay fo$ itself but to provide a market for their grain. It certainly can find no reasonable objection in the mind of any one who wants to be fair. A bigger share of the taxes occasioned by putting ujf this mill and elevator will have to be borne by the farmers themselves and if they are willing to pay the piper we surely are. That mill and elevator project has been the big dream of the farmers of this state for many years and now the wish is about to be realized. It will require much money to operate the concern after it is complete but if it is rightly managed it should take care of itself in due time. This and the bank are main props of the farmers program and the present state administration is going to give them a fair tryout, which will meet with the approval of all reasonable minded citizens. There has never been any opposition to the real program of the farmers by the independents—the opposition has come against the leaders of the league who tried to put a system of complete socialism in vogue in the state and as a consequence we are now facing a serious financial stringency in state affairs as a result. We hope before the year 1922 closes that the Grand Forks project will be completed and in running order and that it can be given a fair and honest trial. Nothing has been said lately about our commercial club proposition and it is going by default unless we gin ger it up once in awhile. It is a fact that no city can get any place unless it has a live commercial club that will and can look after things and" keep the town on the map. The coming summer we are to have the largest convention of them all at Valley City -—the United Commercial Travellers. The boys will need all the help that they can get from the people of Val ley City to properly look after this convention. Already word has been sent here that St. Paul and Minneap olis and Stillwater, Minn., U. T. C.'s have made arrangements for a spec ial train to bring their delegates to the city next June. Other Minnesota cities will do the same thing and we shall have at that convention probably two or three thousand travelling men. It is highly important that wc have a real live commercial club to act in conjunction with the boys at the head of the coming convention so we are just bringing out these facts and reminders to keep you alive to the fact that on the third Tuesday in February the annual meeting of the commercial club will be held at which time you are requested to be on hand and state your views regarding the continuance of the club or not. There is more hot air expelled from the sidewalks about this proposition than there is action in the club rooms where the criticisms if you have them should be made and where sugges tions for the upbuilding of the city instead of the tearing of it down, should be made. Bear this meeting in mind and go. The United States senate settled the fight on Senator Truman Netv berry by Henry Ford by seating New berry, the vote being 46 for and 41 against. Looking at the matter from a matter of expenditure we would say that the managers of Newberry spent altogether too much money in that campaign and that leaves the mind open to suspicion that this mon ey was not spent in the best interests of the public good. On the other hand it was clearly shown that Mr. New berry at the time this election was go ing on was attending to his duties in the navy yard out of the state and he personally had nothing to do with the spending of this large amount. Then there was such a fight made by the democratic side of the senate chamber to oust a republican to give the job to a democrat that there can be very lit tle sincerity about the noise they made—it is just a rank case of poli tics, nothing more or less. Yet there were senators no doubt who stood up in the senate and fought against New berry that if the truth were known spent just as much money to get elect ed as he did and probably many of them have gotten money in their ca pacity as senators that might possi bly be tainted. Many of them are tarred with the same stick. But that does not make the matter right. There was no charge that Newberry by fraud or otherwise spent this large sum of money illegally to obtain his election, but the fact remains that where so much money is spent it gives the public a right to believe that mon ey spent so freely might have been used in a corrupt manner. It would have been a good precedent to estab lish had the senate declared Newber ry's seat vacant and ordered a new election. The lesson thus given, "had the senate done this, would have ser ved notice to other politicians that a seat in the highest governing body in the world cannot be obtained by the use of money but by the votes of the people who chose to pick what they regard as the proper person to repre sent them in that body. "I AM THE RED CROSS" "I am the Red Cross. I was born in the hearts of men. I am sustained by millions of souls. My mission is of mercy, kindness and charity. I am my brother's keeper. I know neither. color, race, nor religion. My creed is of service. My goal is the goal of a higher humanity. My record is the gratitude of the widow and the or phan, of the strong and the sick, of the happy and thfe bereaved. "I go forth into the darkness of the night, into the uncertainties of the day. I defy the peril of shell and bul let. I lighten the horrors of the bat tle. I encourage and inspire the sol dier. I give him a thousand com-, forts. I minister to those he has left at home. I claim the. wounded from the battlefield. I bind their wounds and ease their sufferings. I mark the graves of the dead. I assist in restoring the veterans of war to health and the normal relations of life. "I go into the hospital and homes and hovel. I scorn contagion. I am the guardian of infant life, the apos tle of health and cleanliness, and the conserver of old age. I visit the sick. I help the lame. I cheer the sorrow ful. I lead the blind into paths of light. I teach the crippled new ways I of life. "I am the foe of plagues and pesti lences. I mitigate the horrors of floods and fires and wrecks." I am the arch-enemy of calamities. I tri umph over poverty, want and woe. I house the homeless, feed the hungry, and clothe the naked. I protect the widow and the orphans. "I am the frienir and helper of all nations. My hand and heart encom pass the globe. My legionaires I send to the uttermost parts of the earth— across the threatening ocean, through war-swept territories, over infested lands. My ympathy and succor are boundless. I instill in children ideals of service and an attitude of mutual friendliness throughout the world. My purse is great enough for all. A doz en nations return me homage, a dozen potentates pay me tribute. The races of the earth support me with their prayers. "My emblem is the cross, symbol of supreme charity an'd of the Sav iour of men. I challenge and triumph it 1 THE WEEKLY TIMES-UECOltD, VALLEY CITY, NORTH DAKOTA THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1922. over death. My strength and strug gles are for the living, my prayers and compassion for the dead. "I am the saviour of life, the as su-rr,' oi tieatu. J. amy my brother's keeper. "I am the Red Cross." —JAMES A. MILLS. Walter Thomas Mills has broken out again in California this time. He is manager of the nonpartisan league organization and is trying to collect a membership fee from one hundred California suckers at $10 per head. He is planning to organize the state in nine groups composed of house keepers, farmers, persons engaged in transportation, factory workers, com mercial workers, professional men and women, members of the building trades craft, miners and a miscella neous group and all other suckers who want to drop in their ten dollars to the big promotion scheme which is built on radical lines headed for state socialism. If the Californians fall for the bait Walter Thomas Mills, Aaron Liederbach, Coates, and all the other workers for the cause of indus trial freedom at go much per head, are going to find mighty nice pick ings. There isn't one in the whole bunch that will do a day's work to earn a living—they just simply prey upon the unsophiscated and get their money easy. North Dakotans are now paying the piper for having too much confidence in this same bunch, and it will take us many years to straighten up from the heavy bur dens of taxation that have been im posed on us by this so called industrial freedom idea. If the people of Cali fornia are wise they will pay the ex penses of a committee of real farmers and business men to come back here and look into the matter before they dig up a million dollars to fatten the bank accounts of these socialistic pro motels whose only interest in the far mer is to see how much cash they can shake him down for. Right here now that the pickings are poor you will notice they have desertejd the old state just like rats desert a sinking I ship. Mrs. Neal Tracy left for Washburn last night where she will visit with I her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nels Har red. Announcing New SERVICE LABOR CHARGES To keep our repair department going we offer ord owners these prices for labor for the present time. Get the work done now at less eexpence than ever before. Overhauling Motor & Transmission including boring in bearings and running in motor $20.00 Overhauling motor only 17.50 Grinding valves and cleaning carbon 2.50 Replace Trans, bands (reg. type) Install 1 piston or connecting rod Install 2 or all or connecting rods Tighten 1 connecting rod bearing Reboring cylinder block Reboring and rebabbiting block Overhauling rear axle Overhauling storage battery Overhauling front axle Top deck and back curtain, Labor and material EMBERTSON & WEST Valley City, North Dakota Professional Cards Phone: Office 206-J. Res. 206-L J. yAN HOUTEN, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Offices In Gray Block VALLE7Y CITY N. D. Res. Fifth Ave. N. Phone 36 E. A. PRAY, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Graduate Univ. of Pennsylvania Office in Poqtofflce Block WINTERER A. RITCHIE LAWYERS VALLEY CITY N. O. THEODORE 8. LINDLAND Attorney and Counsellor at Law Office in Farmers' and Merchants' Bank Building VALLEY CITY N. D. T? AT SALTED MlJ-VI PEANUTS -KEEP HEALTHY- 0EUCI0UB-N0URISHN8- FRESH DAILY KEPT FRESH INMOST PROOF SANMRTCUNIAINERS BU AT WHOLESALE 5 POUNDS FOB $1.50 POSTPAID WHITE'S PEANUTS *°NgwVii!«SE^rYr06 DR. F. L. WICKS. OCULIST Special attention given to the fit ting of glasses. Wicks Block. Phone No. 493. E.A.PRAY.M.P Physician and Surgeon Offi. Phone 175 Res. Phone ?V5 Office in Pray Block WE SPECIALIZE in EXCHNGES What have you to trade for MIN NESOTA LANDS? Large or small deals considered. Box 1172 Thief River Falls, Minn. New Price Old Price $25.00 20.00 3.00 2.75 5.00 7.00 2.50 5.00 10.00 6.00 8.00 5.00 2.50 4.00 6.00 2.00 3.50 7.50 5.00 5.00 4.00 13.50 16.50 0 hr,&: