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FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1913
at the portoffice in Brack. Golden Valley
North Dakota, Mcond clan mail matter.
J. W. BRINTON. Editor
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"Some men succeed if en
Couraged, but me for the man
who will in pite of hell.
SIDEWALKS BADLY NEED
ED.
Again the crying need of side
walks in Beach is being impress
ed upon our citizens. Why have
sidewalks not been constructed
in Beach?
Ask your mayor, the president
of your city council or your city
attorney.
Sidewalk ordinances were pass
ed long, ago but no effort has
been made to enforce them, and
now many of our people are ask
ing the question: Why?
The Chronicle believes there is
no other town of its size in North
Dakota that Has poorer sidewalks
than Beach.
Does Beach need the commis
sion form of government, under
which its citizens could, by peti
tion and vote, pass a sidewalk or
dinance and see that it was en
forced—or recall the officials who
neglected to enforce it and put
others in their place. For under
the new law, cuy commissioners
are subject to recall.
But back to sidewalks. What
are we going to do about it?
The most prominent business
block in Beach is not encircled
with a sidewalk in spite of the
fact that an ordinance was pass
ed long ago calling for it.
One of Beach's banks occupy
ing a prominent corner in the city,
in the main business block, has
only a cheaply constructed narrow
board walk. And the ordinance
long ago said it should be of ce
ment and of regulation width
Surely a bank can afford to build
sidewalks.
Another prominent corner in
thesame block, which the owner
hold* at $5,000.00 or more is
without a walk of any kind and
our citizens must wade in mud up
to-their ankles in passing this val
uable corner located in the city's
most prominent business section
Surely the owner of this valuable
property can afford to put in a
cement sidewalk. She, for it is
owned by a wealthy woman,
should be forced to obey the
sidewalk ordinance. She should
have been forced to long ago.
And these are not the only of
fenders. Two other valuable
corners, one opposite the Golden
Valley State bank and the other
opposite the First National bank
are^ practically without sidewalks
and- if you were to attempt to
purchase either site you would be
asked about $5,000.00. Surely
the owners of these properties can
afford to build sidewalks. They
should have been forced to long
ago*^
And this is not all. Our hand
somer $35,000 school building is
without sidewalks and instructors
and children must wade in the
mud to gain entrance to the
building. Surely our school dis
trict'can afford to build sidewalks.
It should have been done long
ago*.
Tfxere is not a block in the en
tirer city that is completely sur
rounded with a sidewalk, while
the.-residence portion is practically
without walks of any kind.
During the recent thaw the lack
of-sidewalks practically keep the
women at home for days and pre
vented. them from coming down
towwto do their usual shopping.
But what are we going to do
about it? Has not the citizen
ship of our little city pride enough
The Editorial Page (BoldCfl
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The Chronicle believes the com
mission form of government
would be a good thing in Beach
and we shall have something to
say in regard to it next week—
and how Beach may adopt it.
In the meantime let's hope our
able city council will exert itself
on the sidewalk proposition.
THE FARMER AND THE
BANK.
In a recent address Asa E. Ram
say of the First National bank of
Muskogee, Oklahoma, made the
following statement:
"1 want to see the time that
when a farmer applies for a loan,
the banker will not have to bet
on the ability of the farmer and
the favor of the season to meet
the obligation of his bank, I want
to see the banker ask how many
silos the farmer has how many
head of good hogs, good cattle,
and other livestock and what con
dition they are in, and how much
attention the farmer pays to dairy
products and feed crops. The
banks would rather lend money
at 8 per cent, knowing you have
the stuff to meet the obligation,
than at present rates of interest
charged. By simply changing
agricultural methods and diver
sifying crops, you can change
your standing with the banks.
Nothing in the world will keep
you from paying high prices for
foodstuffs unless you cultivate the
soil.
"Bankers are always looking
for safe places to invest money.
In North Dakota, especially in the
western part of the state and in
other of the newer sections, in
terest rates on farm loans are
high. Why? Because as this
Oklahoma banker has pointed
out, the investment is not abso
lutely safe. It is a bet, a specu
lation. If the crop turns out
well, there is a big return—but if
there is a poor crop, the bank
stands to lose.
"Itisbecauseofthis fact that the
bankers are among the most ar-
BEACH OPERA HOUSE
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to assert itself and demand side
walks?
Is our boasted city council
asleep at the switch? Is the pres
ident of our city council too busy
with his duties as president of the
city's official newspaper to attend
to the city's needs? Is the city
attorney too busy editing the said
newspaper to enforce the city or
dinances?
We put these questions square
ly up to the citizens of Beach.
Must Beach demand a change
in the city government in order
to get what it needs? Must the
city change to a commission form
of government? It can easily be
done by petition. An election
can be forced, the commission
form of city government adopt
ed and then any official can be
re-called who neglects to enforce
the city laws.
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dent supporters of the diversity
farming movement in North Da
kota- They are backing up corn
contests with liberal cash prizes,
to get farmers interested in these
things, purely from a business
basis. They know that when the
farmers are thoroughly awake to
the possibilities of diversified
farming that the North Dakota
farm will be a safer place in
which to invest money.
"There have been criticisms
from some farmers about the bu
siness man trying to tell the
farmer how to run his business.
If the business man does offer the
farmer advice, it is because he
has learned from hard, cold ex
perience that the farmer is mak
ing a mistake, and because of that
mistake the entire community is
the loser."
WORRYING SOME.
Who's going to be the next
postmaster at Beach seems to be
worrying some of the prominent
democrats in and about this city.
Some say the fight is all over and
the lucky man is as good as named
while others contend that the
scrap has just started and will be
fought out to a finish. The pres
ent postmaster, being a republi
can and not in on the Democratic
pie cutting, is looking on in amuse
ment, knowing that his salary of
$1 75-00 per, will continue as long
as the scrap lasts- It took 18
months to make the appointment
four years ago—but that was
some fight, in which blackmail of
the worst sort was indulged in
reely by certain parties in the
hopes of preventing the appoint
ment of the present holder of the
office. Whoever gets the appoint
ment and whatever the outcome
may be the Chronicle hopes that
the opposing candidates will use
only honorable methods in the
fight. Those who resort to dirty
tactics are generally bested—as
vas proven four years ago. Give
each other a square deal boys,
'et the fight go on and in the
meantime we will accept the $ 1 75
per month and act as referee.
SHOW US.
The Mandan News criticizes
Governor Hanna for vetoing the
tax commission appropriation of
$40,000, but it fails to state what
benefit the taxpayers of North
Dakota would receive if Mr.
Hanna allowed the expenditure
Of course we know that cer
tain "Progressive" friends of the
Mandan News editor was inter
ested in that tax commission ap
propriation to the extent of a
good fat salary and then some.
When Governor Hanna vetoed
that tax commission appropria
tion he was looking after the in
terests of the taxpayers and not
the politicians. When Editor Con
rad can show us or anybody else
what benefit the farmers of North
Dakota would receive by expend
ing $40,000 on a tax commission
we might have a different opin
ion on the matter. For the pres
ent however, we will continue to
believe that the expenditure of
that amount on three politicians,
parading as tax commissioners,
would be useless extravagance.
We are of the same opinion as
the Marmarth farmer who wrote
an open letter to the governor in
last week's Chronicle in which he
said: "It is true that commissions
make places for broken-down pol
iticians, but these do not help us
poor farmers."
APRIL FOOL.
Who can count up the gener
ations of youngsters that on this
ancient festival have travelled far
in search of strap oil or have bit
ten into wool doughnuts? Some
people say the custom goes back
as far as Noah, commemorating
the blunder he made in sending
out the dove before the waters
were dried up from the face of
the earth.
Youth acquires some valuable
information on April I and gets
it very cheap. The time that is
spent in going to |he neighbor for
th& round square is not very cost'
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At the time of the San Francis
co fire, in hundreds of towns in
the distant East business men gave
up Work to go from house to
house begging for silver coins.
Many .families who gave were not
ones Square meal ahead of the
daily game. In loss of life these
floods are a much more tragic
happening, and the generous of
fering so sorely needed will not
be. lacking.
Probably., people have little
conception gf what generous gifts
are being made all the time to
single cases of misfortune that
never get ifito the newspapers.
The people who are giving to
Dayton and Omaho are no doubt
giving all the time to suffering as
claims attention in their own
neighborhoods. Real misfortune
still finds the helping hand.
Los Angeles for' a long time
was the only city in America to
have a municipal newspaper, but
Beach now shares that honor with
the big California city. The presi­
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ly. But the fruitless trip was well
worth while if it stamped the fact
clearly on the boy's mind that
there are a great many jokers in
the world.
Many people do not cease be
ing April fools when they attain
the stature of manhood. They
are ready to pick up bricks done
up in neat packages 365 days in
the year. During their life time
they acquire an interesting and ex
tensive collection of left-handed
screw drivers, for which they
have paid down large amounts of
money.
HUMAN SYMPATHY AND
THE FLOOD SUFFERERS.
It is a common feeling that the
hum&h heart is a pretty well dried
up and desiccated affair nowa
days- The quick response offer
ed to the flood and tornado suf
fers suggests that there is more
kindliness abroad than one re
alizes.
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dent of the city council in Beach
is also president of the corpora
tion which operates the opposi
tion newspaper and the city at
torney is also a large stockholder
and is said to be the editor. Other
city officials are heavy stockhold
ers in Beach's second paper
which boasts of being the "of
ficial city paper of Beach." Like
the Los Angeles municipal en
terprise, it is owned, operated and
controlled by city and county of
ficials. But municipal newspapers
as a rule are not paying proposi
tions and the one in Beach is no
exception to the rule.
The Mandan News is not satis
fied with Burke's appointment as
U. S. treasurer. It thinks Burke
should have been on the cabinet.
To quote in part:
"To the News it seems that if
the Wilson administration can be
criticised it can in the case of the
Burke appointment. There is not
one out of 50 who knows "off
hand" who was the treasurer be
fore Burke. To think that admir
ers of our favorite son, who is
presidential timber, can be satis
fied with a mere subordinate job
is absurd. Burke is drawing $8,
000 a year and that is all there is
to it—except that politically he
is nil."
The supreme court in North
Dakota held that the state or
county could purchase its print
ing within or without the state,
wherever it could get the best
price. Notwithstanding this de
cision, the Montana supreme court
has just held reversely, holding
that county commissioners must
purchase their supplies within the
state.
One out of every 47 who vot
ed for Wilson is a candidate for
office. Under existing circum
stances, it looks like Mr. Wilson
stood to lose about a forty-sev
enth of his vote at the next elec
tion.
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GETTING WET,
Did someone ask who are the
candidates for postmaster at
Beach? We would like to publish
their names, but, like the kitchen
utensils at an auction sale, they
are too numerous to mention.
When the pot has boiled down
a little and a few have passed off
in thin vapor we will mention the
few that stick for the big show.
The Dickinson Post-Recorder
is promoting a railroad from the
Gulf of Mexico to Canada via
Dickinson. Rather a large un
dertaking but all great things
have a small beginning.
The government's attitude on
the flood question is about like
the man who never mended his
roof, becaues when it leaked it
was too rainy, and when it didn't
rain, the roof didn't need it*
It is announced that the public
building bill for the new congress
will amount to" $870,769,520,
673,579,729.43, but it is not sup
posed that the members will con
sent to so moderate an outlay.
The Dickinson Press hasn't
much faith in locally promoted
railroads—especially those pro
moted by C. F. Merry, that fam
ous railroad financier.
The Bulgarian colors are very
popular among the women this
spring. It gives you some idea
of why the Turks have run so fast.
An appropriate present to a
friend living in the Ohio valley
is a pair of rubber boots with legs
reaching as high as the head.
Fjowers for your friends just
won't look nearly so beautiful as
ham sandwiches to the flood suf
ferers.
The Ohio valley isn't looking
so much for a Moses as for a
Noah.
Humor and Comment
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PRESS COMMENT
KRAABEL'S EXPLANATION.
Every man is entitled to his
day in court and The Forum is
glad to make public, Lieutenant
Governor Kraabel's explanation
of his reason for deciding that tie
vote on the initiative and refer
endum clincher motion as he did.
Mr. Kraabel has been criticised
severely by the state papers and
the statement that appears in this
issue of The Forum under his
signature, is the first public state
ment that has been made by Mr.
Kraabel.
The explanation is somewhat
lengthy but the meat of it is that,
first, he believed that as presiding
officer he should consider any mo
tion that does not carry, as lost
second, that he believed that the
Ployhar-Blakemore bill would
have let down the bars to the
liquor business and allowed local
option.
Mr. Kraabel also .contends that
the bill was weak in providing
only the maximum number of vot
ers required to sign petitions un
der its provisions, but this would
have undoubtedly been regulated
by legislation before the bill be
came operative.
Mr. Kraabel's vital criticism,
and undoubtedly the one which
had the most weight with him, is
regarding that clause which he
quotes. He says:
"This bill also extends the pow
er® of the initiative and referen
dum, to the electors of each mun
icipality and district, 'as to all lo
cal, special, and municipal legis
lation of every character. Now
supposing that some municipality
or district would vote to grant
license for the selling of intoxi
cating liquors, what would pre
vent them from doing so?"
The people of the state do not
Wan*.
®ny*hing 'slipped over on
them' in the way of a nulification
of the prohibition clause of the
constitution. If Mr. Kraabel's
contention is right and this clause
would have opened the state to
local option, it would have proved
a very harmful measure.—Fargo
Forum.
Governor Hanna has come ?n
for considerable criticism over the
pruning or cutting down of the
appropriation bills for the sever
al state institutions and other
measures which required money.
The howl, almost invariably,
however, comes from the towns
in which the institutions benefited
are located, the general taxpayers
not uttering a single word of pro
test. It is plainly evident that if
all the appropriations as recom
mended by the legislature were
allowed in full that the state treas
ury would te in a woefully de
picted condition—hence the ac
tion of Governor Hanna. He
may be criticised by a few, but
the taxpayer at large sides in with
the action of the executive.—Mil
ion Globe.
The Rhame Review gives Hu
mane Officer Blake credit for
cleaning up a bad nest of law
breakers in that vicinity and states
that the results accomplished by
Mr. Blake aire satisfactory to the
community. Then in another par
agraph, he roasts the same man
for being under the influence of
liquor and gives the people to un
derstand that he should be re
moved from office. It may be so,
or possibly it would be a good
idea to find out what brand Mr.
Blake uses and try a few doses on
some of our sheriffs and states
attorneys.—New England Her-
Pat Burn, late secretary to
Governor Burke, has been called
to Washington to help count the
money that must be turned over
to the new United States treas
urer- It must be that Governor
Burke overlooked Bickford.—
Minot Democrat.
These tall plumes on the wom
en's Hats are compared to exel*"
mation points. The principal e*
dam^tion comes when the bill is
presented to Hubby.