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PAGE FOUR WEEKLY TIMES-RECORD i/ALLEY CITY, NORTH DAKOTA P- R- TRUBSHAW Subscription, |2.00 a Year, in Advene* Entered at the Postofflce In Valley City. North Dakota, as second class mall matter. Foreign Advertising Representative 1 THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION Senator Ladd has gotten both feet into the McKenzie-McCumber crowd, and is now vociferously howling loud and long for the confirmation of An drew Miller for federal judge. Sena tor Ladd is evidently working hard for the farmers by trying to get a corporation judge on the bench so that the farmers of the state will be look ed after—nit. What with Ladd's ad vice on D5 wheat and his advice on the appointment of the judge we should judge that the farmers are holding the sack to get Ladd into the senate and the old McKenzie crowd back in saddle in this state. Within a year and a half the Treas ury will be called upon to retire about $6,500,000,000 of the public debt. The sum is made up of Victory Notes amounting to $3,500,000,000 Treasury certificates totaling $2,200, 000,000, and $700,000,000 worth of war savings certificates. It will be the biggest operation ever undertak en in time of peace but already plans are being worked out by Treasury of ficials that will bring the least possi ble disturbance to the country's fin ances. Victory Notes are being re tired as fast as the sinking fund will permit, and new issues of Treasury certificates will spread some of the maturities over a longer period. The Fargo Courier-News yesterday came out with considerable elation to say that if people wanted to read the news of the Gummer trial up-to date, they must subscribe for the Courier-News. This is a mighty good stunt of advertising for that paper but it does not hold true. The fact of the matter is that in the Times Record of Saturday afternoon going to press at four o'clock we carried the full account of the Gummer trial and this same dope was given in the Courier-News of the next morning sixteen hours afterward. The Fargo Forum also had the full account of the trial the afternoon previous. William Lemke and H. B. Dunbar have gone to New Mexico to make an extended visit and to look over a half million acres of land they have control of down there. It is possible that they will not be back for some time. After the abject backdown of the Courier-News day before yester day in which the paper acknowledges that it had lied about everything and everybody during the last two pri mary campaigns we can hardly ex pect Messrs. Lemke and Dunbar to remain here for awhile. By-the-way: what has become of that twenty-four thousand acres of sisal land the state should own down in Florida? Gov. Nestos, in a speech before the county commissioners at Jamestown yesterday, emphasized very strongly the need of retrenchment in expendi tures of the state and urged the coun ty dads to use every effort to keep expenses down in order to reduce tax ation. The governor pointed out that in the last five years taxes have in creased from fifty-six and a quarter per cent to one hundred and seventeen and six-tenths per cent. This is an enormous raise in taxation and with the state now at the end of its cash resources on this account the state adminstration wants the corporation of the various counties of the state to help reduce this taxation. The farm ers of the state can not carry such a load with the low price of farm prod ucts and the merchants cannot carry such a load with business conditions as they are. Farmers who desire to take a cash discount of three per cent on their hail warrants can send them to W. F. Reko, care of the farm loan depart ment of the Bank of North Dakota it is stated in the Bismarck Tribune of yesterday. Under the agreement by which a prominent financier in the state agreed to buy $200,000 of warrants, at 97 per cent of their face value it was agreed that Mr. Reko would have the privilege of office space in the farm loan department of the bank through which to handle the business. Money was placed in Bis marck yesterday and Mr. Reko will pay for warrants he purchases upon receipt of them. This seems to us to be a very fair price at this time for these warrants and if any of our far mers are in need of money they can get some by standing just a small dis count which is no more than reason able. Barnes county farmers who want to cash in their hail warrants should send them in to Mr. Reko. Gov. Nestos at a meeting of the county commissioners held in James town last week, made a splendid speech so we are informed along the line of retrenchment for the purpose of bringing down taxes. His spMeb was the keynote for economy in state affairs and he held that it was no time to go wild over spending mil lions of dollars at this time particu larly for road purposes. While Gov. Nestos is a good roads advocate he is firmly of the opinion that this is no time to ask the people of this state to vote millions of dlolars for the pur pose of building roads—we should go along careful in these matters. It means many added dollars of taxa tion to every person in the state and at this time when the tax payers are carrying more than they are able the warning of the governor to go slow on these matters is pertinent at 1 this time. There is no one more anxious for good roads than the ed itor of this paper but we feel now is the time to go slow. We are go ing somewhat wild on these matters. J. J. Hastings, notorious North Da kota financier, seems to be imitating "off again, on again, gone again, Fin negan". Press dispatches detail the difficulties the Seattle police are hav ing in keeping track of Hastings and attempting to serve a warrant which they hold for his arrest in connection with the looting of the Scandinavian American Bank of Fargo. It seems that they took his word that he would appear when they wanted him. There are a number of people in this state who have intimate knowledge of the value of the word of Hastings. How ever, it is to be hoped that they will succeed in their efforts to take him into custody and bring him before the court to answer to the charge against him. It is also hoped that the authorities will make every effort to see that every person having a hand in the looting of this bank be brought to trial, regardless of their social or business standing. A great many people, who could ill afford a loss at this time, have lost considerable sums in the failure of the bank and the parties responsible should be made to answer for their prostitution of the trust imposed in them. President Harding has gone on rec ord as being in favor of the Great Lakes St. Lawrence waterway pro ject which is now before congress. The president in taking this step is likely to incur the displeasure of the easterners, particularly the New York bunch who are fighting the project for all they are worth. New York of course realize that if this Great Lakes project is put through—and it is go ing through without any question, that the port of New York is going to lose a lot of business that they are now getting, but those who have giv en this project consideration and have the welfare of the country at heart, are in favor of it. This water way project would mean the saving of millions of dollars to the farmers of the west and middle west in freight rates, it being estimated that it will save from eight to twelve cents per bushel in grain freight to get the produce of the farm to the Liverpool markets. Hasten the day when this project shall become a reality. Mr. Harding may secure the displeasure of New York and other eastern re publicans but his advocacy of this measure will also secure for him a great deal higher admiration of the farmers to the pi-oposition and while the New York millionaires may try to head this legislation off we do not think they will succeed. The senior class of the High School held a class party at the K. of P. hall on Monday evening. Just why should it be necessary for the mem bers of the various classes of the high school to go to the expense of renting a public hall for their parties when the high school gym could be used for the purpose At the time the new high school was built there was considerable agitation as to wheth er the students were to be allowed to use the gym for dances and other school activities. Questionaires were sent out to the parents of the students attending high school asking for their opinion as to whether the gym should be used for that purpose and we are advised that the majority of the par ents were opposed to the proposition Consequently students are denied that privilege. However, we can see no consistency in refusing the gym to the students and allowing them to hold their parties in a hired hall. The gymnasium has been used by people outside of the school for basket ball games, public dances and political speeches while the gym is barred to the students for school activities,— and class parties and dances are as much a part of the school activities as the course of study provided. The parents opposing the proposition can have no serious objection 'to their children attending these functions as all members of a class are pesent whenever any such party or dance is given, and their attitude in opposing the use of the gym is merely adding expense to the students whenever they want to have a party. Of coursr there is the expense of heating and cleaning the gym after a party, which is covered by a charge to outsiders for the use of it, but surely this added cost would not be a burden to the tax payers if the students were allowed the same privileges as outsiders. We, as taxpayers, think the students should not be denied the privileges that are accorded persons having no connection with the school. All this discussion concerning the rewriting of American school histo ries should be productive of desirable results. For one thing, it will make selectors of school histories more careful. It will also make parents, and American citizens generally, take a personal interest in the character of the text books placed in the hands of children. We have among us one class of people who are opposed to all governments, the United States among the rest. We have others who profess an internationalistic spirit which usually manifests itself by the placing of America last in their inter more thoughts. We have still others who reside among us but still retain their loyalty to some other country— they are not internationalist, but are nationalists with a very definite and permanent affection for some other nation than our own. With all these un-American inhabitants, we must cope. The open and avowed an archist may, in fact, be the least dan gerous of our enemies, for the anar chist works in such a way as to make himself directly responsible for his acts. The internationalist, who claims equal concern for the welfare of all nations but is least active in the in terest of our own, is a sort of man without a country—he wouldn't be welcome in any other country and ought not to be welcome here. The hyphenated American, not as numer ous as formerly, is perhaps less dan gerous than the professed interna tionalist, for we learn to guard our selves against him, as we do against the anarchist. The internationalist and the hyphenated American are the classes who would corrupt the minds of our youth by cratfily smuggling in to our school histories a distortion of facts calculated to weaken the spirit of patriotism and destroy pride in the achievements of the founders and de fenders of the nation. It will be well if loyal American citizens take the trouble to examine school histories with care and see that there is dis continuance of any text books that fail to convey to the student a fair conception of the- circumstances and difficulties under which this nation was founded, the principles upon which it was established, and the her oism of those who have given to it the "last, full measure of devotion." We are mighty pleased that the jury now trying the Gummer case is composed wholly of men, no women having as yet had their names put in the jury box of Barnes county. We talk very much of equal rights and a lot of women loudly proclaim that they should be allowed to do jury du ty, but those of finer feelings and cul ture do not want anything of this na ture. Take, the case in court for in stance, it cannot help but be nause ating to hardened men. whose feelings and sense of modesty are not so fine as that of womankind. The disgust ing details that must come out in a trial of this kind must be a source of embarassment and annoyance to many men whose feelings are built upon finer lines than those who are the principals of a case of this nature. Equal rights may be what most wo men want but we cannot see where any woman would want to be mixed up in the average jury duty. We know very well we would not want our wife or daughter dragged intc the jury box to listen to what they would have to at times. The Arbuc kle case is another dirty mess that some women have to listen to as members of the jury. The argument may be brought out that what is all right for the men is also all right for women, but it does not hold true. Men are built of rougher material than are women and can put up with a lot of this stuff that modest women would shun. At the trial now on in our Barnes county courthouse women are striving to get in to listen to the rotten mess that will be presented to the jury and court and there is going to be some rotten testimony brought out that should bring a blush to the cheeks of those who are sitting there listening to it. The editor is not claim ing to be an angel or anything of that sort in writing thus, he is just simply telling what he feels about this jury system and the connection that women will have with it in the future. Per sonally we are not going to listen to this case or any similar one, although as a newspaper man whose mission is life is to give that sort of news that will appeal to people we perhaps would have a license to go up there and report the same did we So desire, but we have no inclination to do so. The public demands the news and we are going to give it to them under cer tain restrictions—all testimony that THE WEEKLY TIMES-RECORD, VALLEY CITY, NORTH DAKOTA THURSDAY. JANUARY 26, 1922. is not fit to print will be left out of our reports. This editorial is inspired to show what a lot of morbid curiosity there is in a criminal case of this na ture and we read time and time again where women get so "daffy" over a man who is awaiting trial for similar offenses as this defendant is, by send ing flowers and candy up to the jail as a token of appreciation to him for the diabolical work and crime he is supposed to have committed. When people get to such a state of mind as that there is something wrong with them. Prisoners charged with hein ous offenses should be given every opportunity to prove their innocence but this sending candy and flowers to them is rather sickening and decided ly silly. GREAT WATERWAY A POSSI BILITY The approval by the International Joint Commission of the project for connecting the great lakes with the ocean by a waterway through the St. Lawrence river and a ship canal, means, of the United States and Ca nadian governments also approve of the project and make appropriations therefor, that the ocean will be brot within 650 miles of Beach and the Golden Valley, for the project con templates a waterway that will per mit seagoing ships and steamei'S to dock at Duluth and Superior. Everybody knows that water rates are much less than rail tariffs, and the completion of such a waterway will mean Mirectly millions of dollars in the farmers pockets and better times for everybody. But there are powerful influences at work against this project, notably the congressmen and senators from the eastern states and the people of New York to man. The newer route would greatly lessen the business and importance of the Erie canal, and remove from New York a large part of the terminal bus iness that city now enjoys in the grain trade. None of us want to do any thing to injure that great city or the good people of New York state, but charity begins at hom, and we must ever strive for those things that will build up our part of the country and spread prosperity more generally ov er the land. This project is one of the most es sential things to northwestern wel fare and we are for it with all our might, and there ought not to be a dissenting voice in the west.—The Beach Advance. THE COME-BACK OF MIXED JURIES There are no social gains that do not carry with them some social loss es. Women now serve on juries, for example, as a part of their duties and privileges as citizens. Late reports indicate, however, that many women find jury duty very unpleasant, if not forbidding. They are not only called upon to handle and deal with the seamy side of life, but they are com pelled to do this in mixed company. The possibility of loss in the sit uation may be gathered from one or two illustrations. If a man or woman, at a dinner party or in a polite soci ety, should bend the conversation un duly to the Arbuckle case, such a one would be regarded a little off color. The host would have the right to feel aggrieved. Yet men and women, un known to each other, are today ex pected to consider together loathsome details of any case. Much the same thing is true of the Stokes case, or of many others that might be mentioned. In all these in stances, matters which would be shunned in the thought and conver sation of polite society, are given to mixed juries, these days, without the slightest reserve or compunction. Such a procedure surely carries certain dangers and losses, with what ever gains it brings. Native reserves are necessarily cast aside, and there are not honorable points of ignorance left or allowed. One of the finest elements in his tory and in human life has been a certain deference and reserve that men have instinctively borne toward women. This native chivalry prompts a man to doff his hat, when meeting a woman, or to show other courtesies that mark the gentleman. This chivalric attitude toward wo men has been one of the strongest factors in keeping men up to high level. The rudest kind of a man is hardly without some sense of this idealization. What will happen to what is left of this chivalry, when men and women, totally unacquainted with each other, follow and discuss together incidents and details that would be barred out of any decent family circle? Not all of the new things in the new social order are of unmitigated gqod. Some of them have yet to prove just how 'good they are. The problem of gaining freedom, while retaining the values of chivalry, has not yet been solved in modern so ciety. In some instances the losses may eventually prove to out-weigh the gains. At least there already ap pears to be some come-back from mixed jurors.—Minneapolis Journal. THE GUMMER TRIAL (Continued from Page 3) call which she was expecting. The witness left the hotel at 11 o'clock and returned to his duties at the store When he left the defendant was be hind the desk in the office. He re turned to the hotel between 5 and 6 o'clock in the morning and stated that Gummer was in a chair behind the of the hotel to phone regarding a sick desk when he came in. The witness further stated that several days later he made a test of certain sounds al leged to have been heard by Mrs. Van Vorst. He made this test in company with Captain Welch and an other man whom he did not know. Sounds Demonstrated The tests consisted of Mr. Van Vorst walking on the roof of the annex while Mrs. Van Vorst, Captain Welch and the other man stayed in the apart ment and listened to the sounds pro duced. The witness stated that there was a window in the apartment on the ground floor which was open. This was used by Mr. Van Vorst and the children in leaving the apartment at times owing to the fact that the out side door had been padlocked by Mrs. Lawrence. Under cross examination the witness stated that this door had been locked for at least two weeks prior to thfe night in question. The witness also stated under cross exam ination that when he had returned to the hotel between 5 and 6 o'clock of the morning following the tragedy the defendant Gummer had been seat ed in a chair behind the desk and was apparently dozing. Under re-direct examination the witness stated that when making the experiment on the roof of the annex he found that the roof was of graveled construction and that he had seen no sign of any tin. Mrs. Van Vorst was next called to the stand and substantiated her hus band's testimony as to his movements that night as far as her knowledge went. She stated that on the night in question she had expected a call to the home of a sick friend and had arranged for Jack SmitTi, a taxi driv er, to call for her and take her to this friend. When she returned to the hotel with her husband about 10:25 she had asked Gummer if anyone had inquired for her and had left word that she be notified if anyone did call. She returned to the lobby from her apartments within a few minutes to try and phone but the line was busy and she waited for a few minutes. While waiting Arnold Rasmussen and Marie Wick came in and Miss Wick registered. Mrs. Van Vorst returned to her apartments and had lunch with her husband and returned to the lob by about 11:40. She stated that Gum mer was at the switchboard at thif time but that she paid no attentioi to his conversation on the phone. Sh was in the lobby about ten minutes and while she was there Fred Law rence came in and spoke to Gummer She then returned to her apartment and waited downstairs until 12 o' clock when she took her baby upstair: and put her. to bed, retiring herself a' 12:30. Noises Awakened Her The witness stated that sht was asleep within a few minutes bu1 was awakened shortly after going tc sleep by some noise that sounded like a base ball being thrown against the wall intervening between her room and room 30. She stated that the floor of her apartment was consider ably lower than the floor in room 30. Lfter being awakened she heard a .ioise which sounded to her as though someone was walking on tin and led her to believe that there was some one on the roof. She then heard a sudden noise which sounded like some one jumping and resembled a heavy thud. She stated that she had taken part in the experiments conducted by Captain Welch and a detective with Mr. Van Vorst walking on the roof and that the noises made by Mr. Van Vorst did not resemble the noises she had heard on the night in question. She further stated that certain ex periments made with Deputy Sheriff Milligan in room 30 sounded similar to the noises she had heard resemb ling walking on tin, throwing a ball against the wall and jumping. Under cross examination the wit ness stated that she had never been advised that Jack Smth had been at the hotel that night. The witness stated that she told her husband the morning folowing the tragedy that she had thought some one was on the roof but that her husband had told her that she was mistaken as there was no tin on the roof. She believed it, however, until the experiments by her husband and police ofifcers had changed her belief. J. T. "Jack" Smith, taxi driver of Fargo, stated that he was at the Prescott Hotel between 10:40 an^ 10:50 on the night in question, bein* called there to get Mrs. Van Vorst but stated that he did not go into th' hotel but waited outside about fiv minutes, and as no one showed up he left. He stated that while he was there he saw a young man and young lady come to the hotel and stated that, he later Identified the young lady at the morgue as being the same person, he had seen. However under cross examination he admitted that the' slight glance he had given her when she came to the hotel was not suffic ient to enable him,, to identify her af ter death. Captain William Welch under ex amination, stated that he in company with McDonald, another police offi cer, conducted the experiment on the roof of the annex and stated that Mr Van Vorst had walked on the roof but that he himself had not been on the roof. Objection was made to Captain Welch testifying as to th6 statei made by Mrs. Van Vorst and the ob jection was sustained. After a few minor questions by counsel for de fense, the witness was excused. At this point Attorney Wattanr asked for adjournment until 10 o' clock tomorrow morning and his re quest was granted, adjournment tak ing place at 11:45. BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB WORK PAYS While the financial benefits of boys and girls club work is one of the least important of its advantages, the work rewards the club members financially, it is indicated by the re port of the property owned, made by the boys and girls attending the an nual state boys and girls achieve ment institute at the Agricultural' college late in December. The sum mary of the reports was made public today by Harry E. Rilling, state club leader. Sixty seven of the boys and girls own an average of $203 each in prop erty of various kinds, the report show. The property consists of liberty and other bonds and war savings stamps, bank accounts, livestock including poultry, implements, furnitujre and miscellaneous articles. The youths own 31 bonds, mostly libety bonds, having a par value of $1,002, and 288 war savings stamps with a value of $911. The total value of the bank discounts is $4,791. The livestock includes heep, pigs, cows and calves, and poultry, and to tals $4,317. The total value of the farm crops grown by the boys and girls is $1,031. The boys own im plements and other property valued at $192. while the girls own furniture and other property valued at $480. This average of property does not include the value of the canned vege tables and fruits, baking and sewing done by the members who reported. The total value of the canned prod ucts was $1,681. The total value of the baking done was $671, and of sewing $767. Sixty seven of the 94 delegates made the report. Of these, 20 were in club work for the first year, and the same number for their second year 14 were doing their third year of club work, seven their fourth year, four the fifth year, and two their sixth. Of the 67, nearly three fourths or 51, were attending the institute for their first time 12 for the sec ond time three for the third time, and one for the sixth. GETCHLL PRAIRIE ITEMS Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bonde and Cor nell Cresap enjoyed Friday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Martin. Mr. and Mrs. Varlyn Ayres re turned to their home Tuesday from Marmon, N. D. Mahlon Ronzheimer spent the week end at home, returning to Fargo Sun day evening, where he is attending the A. C. Mrs. J. H. Deskin of Rosfelt, Minn., mother of Mrs. Jay Rogers, spent the week end visiting at the Rogers home Mrs. Deskins left Monday morning to visit two other daughters at Yelva, N. D. Mrs. Chas. Whitche spent Friday afternoon with Mrs. W. W. Harper of Valley City. Herman Hoffman and Lester Cre sap were visitors at Wm. Hill's Ijpme. ROGERS NOTES Torkel Umden, Andrew Walen, Will Martin and Levi Etzell motored down to Valley City last week and spent the week in attendance at the Gum mer trial that is now under way there Levi Etzell reports a very good time at the Odd Fellows hall in Rog ers on Monday night. There was an old time dance, the music being fur nished by a voluntary orchestra, and was an enjoyable affair. Dick Bezley was called on for a couple of songs and to dance for the crowd and he responded promptly. Mr. Bezley is a real dancer for a man of 80 years. E. McGarry and Miss Alice Farrel ren dered a very nice duet. The hall was well filled in spite of the inclement weather and the party did not break up until 4:30 a. m.