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WEEKLY TIMES-RECORD
VALLEY CITY, NORTH DAKOTA
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THE AMERICAN PRESS
ASSOCIATION
Some of the rabid leaguers are al
ready writing into the Courier-News
to have recall petitions started re
calling Nestos, Johnson and Kitchen,
who have not up to this time even
taken their jobs at Bismarck. It is
planned to have the newly elected of
ficials take their positions on the
twenty-third of this month. The peo
ple of the state have elected these
three men to office and it is up to the
minority to let them go ahead and at
least make an effort to do something
worth while. Some of the silly league
papers are saying that the election is
over and that they can see no more
money coming into the state as prom
ised by the I. V. A. These same silly
editors know very well that the pres
ent Frazier administration is still do
ing business at Bismarck and that the
new officials have not gone in yet.
Why don't they cut out this foolish
ness and wait until the other fellow
gets a chance.
One of the greatest conferences
ever held in the world is now on in
Washington—the disarmament con
ference. Secretary Chas. Hughes has
been made permanent chairman of
this conference and he is showing
very much statesmanship so far in
his work. The United States through
Mr. Hughes has offered a very liberal
program to this conference in the way
of disarmament and points the way
to the other nations of the world very
unselfishly. There is absolutely no
reason why the nations of the earth
cannot disarm very materially and
keep disarming year by year. There
should never be another world war
and there should never be a war be
tween nations. If the nations of the
earth want to live in peace they can.
do so if they are willing to leave greed
and conquest otf their bill of fare. It
is going to take some real statesman-1
ship to bring this about in the Wash-|
ington conference but it is pleasing to
see that England at least is willing!
to join with this country—or at least,
surface indications point that way.
The other nations may be whipped,
into line and the result of this con-1
ference may see general disarmament.!
We hope so.
Capper's Weekly, owned by Sena-j
tor Arthur Capper of Kansas, has,
made a powerful appeal to its half
million subscribers, mostly midwest,
farmers, to give their low priced corn
to the starving women and children of,
Armenia and the Bible lands, rather!
than burn it as fuel this winter. That'
the appeal has had a telling effect is
shown by the fact that not a bushel
of corn has yet been burned by west
ern farmers and that many inquiries
are coming in daily to the Near East
Relief as to how the corn can be ship
ped. Here is the heart throb appeal
put out by Capper's Weekly: "While
thousands of children in Armenia and
the Near East are starving, farmers in
the United States are talking of burn-:
ing corn as fuel this winter, rather
than sell it at the present low prices.:
It is a world tragedy that in Europe1
children, innocent of any wrong, must:
pay the supreme penalty while in
America food is being destroyed by
flames. Only the exceptional farmer
would be unwilling to shiver a little
this winter to save the life of some
starving boy or girl. A wagon load
of corn will defeat starvation. And
every bushel contributed to the mercy
grain pool being raised by the Near
East Relief, will take that much corn
off the market, tending to prevent
further price reductions and perhaps
eventually working toward an in
crease. Warmth from burning corn
will not give much comfort if obtained
at the cost of a child's life."
While some of the more radical
league papers are still continuing the
fight on the new state officials, others
are adopting a more conciliatory tone
and advising the people to let Nestos
and his fellow officials elected at the
recall go ahead and try out their pro-'
gram. The Courier-News said edi-l
torially the other day that Nestos had
great opportunities to do things,
which perhaps is right. He can try
to do something but the way the state
is in now and the initiated laws de-,
feated, his chances of doing very
much are slim. Anyway that is a
mighty good way to look at the mat
ter and if some of the other fellows
would adopt the same attitude it
might help some. A majority of the
people voted for a change and now •,
that the time is about come for that,
change to be made., it would not be a
bad blan to let the new bunch try it
out. This rank stuff about crooked
ness in the election being thrown out
by a few radicals is mighty poor stuff
—they know that there is nothing to'
it, so why engender any more bitter
feeling by keeping it up. If there was
my crookedness in the election we are
serfectly sure that those who are
naking these bold assertions are taint
ed themselves. It gets North Dakota
lowhere to keep this feeling up. Let
is abide by the result of the majority
md give Nestos and his co-workers a
hance to make good. If they fail
hen the voters will have a chance
ext June to vote them out and nom
nate others. That seems fair, doesn't
The Independents in North Dakota
•on a splendid fight, but wood as were
le candidates, the result is largely
je to the vigorous and intelligent
ork of a group of anti-League news
ipers, such as the Fargo Forum, the
rand Forks Herald, the Valley City
imes-Record, the Grafton Record,
Jamestown Alert, the Wahpeton
•obe and the Devils Lake Journal,
lere were several others, but early
and late, day after day, they all kept
up an aggressive and consistent fight
against Townleyism and impractical
and expensive experiments in govern
ment. That they won the election is
evident when it is noted that the
home counties of each of them return
ed substantial majorities for Gover
nor Nestos.—The Duluth Herald.
OBEY THE LAW
For many months the people of
Valley City have demanded the publi
cation of the proceedings of the city
council. They feel that they have a
right to know what is done by a law
governing body and how the money
has been spent and for what. There
was no law to compel the council to
publish its proceedings so the council
felt too poQr to do that. At the last
session of the legislature a bill was
passed compelling the council to pub
lish a complete report of its proceed
ings in an official paper duly appointed
by the council, and in accordance with
that law the Times-Record was duly
appointed, but for several months no
proceedings were published and only
the last two or three months has the
city published any of its doings and
what they do publish is what you read
in yesterday's paper and is about as
intelligent to the average citizen as
it would be to a chimpanzee—the
skeleton of proceedings contains noth
ing of where our money goes or is
paid for.
Senate Bill No. 103 passed by the
last session and approved by the gov
ernor March 8, 1821, reads as follows:
Section 1. Publication of Proceed
ings. Hereafter it shall be the duty of
City Councils to cause to be published
in an official £aper, designated by
them, a complete record of all pro
ceedings of said council."
Webster's dictionary defines the
word complete as mentioned in the
law as meaning "to fill up, with no
parts, items or elements lacking, en
tire etc. etc.
There 'can 'be no side stepping on
this law—it means just what it says
that the council shall publish a com
plete record of its meetings including
bills paid., etc.—that part the tax
payer wants to know about. In the
proceedings published yesterday—the
camouflaged proceedings—the council
spent over ten thousand dollars for
various things, but so far as the pub
ic knows it might be for
a trip to China, for an
other scarifier that won't scarify
or for a bust of Will Lemke, nobody
knows. The law is plain enough anS
it is mandatory on the council to pub
lish a complete record, but they refuse
to do it upon the ground that it costs
too much. It doesn't cost too much
smctimes when they want to buy a
piece of machinery to have several
take a junket to St. Paul or Chicago
at the expense of the tax payers when
they could just as well buy it right in
the council chambers and save that
expense. It doesn't seem to matter if
they spend $750 for a scarifier which
is now lying- in the back end of the
city hall yard in majestic splendor—
junk. It does not matter if hundreds
of dollars are spent in waste for fool
ishness from time to time—but they
haven't got money enough to spend
for letting the tax payer know what
they are doing. Awhile ago the park
board passed a budget for $10,900 for
next year—what we need with that
much money for parks the Lord only
knows—but we can guess. We will
pas?, this up now and take that up
about spring time when it will come
in very seasonable. We are told that
the city council is willing to publish
these proceedings if the official paper
will be the goat and publish them for
practically nothing or at a great deal
less than the law allows. The Times
Record is usually the goat—but we
don't notice anybody else drawing a
salary offering to give up part of
theirs. If the city is anxious to serve
the people why not start a genuine
reform by getting a cut of ten per
cent in salaries. We are still paying
war time salaries with living much
lower which makes the salaries high
er than war time as a result. The
aldermen have had a raise to five
dollars per meeting. Why not throw
off part of that and let the people get
the facts. We are willing to meet
them half way and contribute to the
poor box if the city is so hard up.
Every once in awhile we read that the
electric light and water plant has
saved the city twenty thousand dol
lars a year, but we see no evidence of
it in reduced rates on the contrary
we are paying more and the city is
so darned hard up that it cannot af
ford to publish its proceedings. This
is small stuff and would do for a little
country village but it is not the dope
for a city that pretends to be a live
city.
Anyway the point is that the law
says the records shall be published
complete and it is up to the council
to obey the law—or does it consider
itself greater than the_ law The
people demand it and it is up to the
servants of the people to give them
what they ask within the law.
This attitude on the part of the
council puts us in mind of the fellow
lost in the desert who saw a mirage
of lakes and springs all around him
and when he could not slake his thirst
exclaimed "water, water, everywhere,
but not a drop to drink." We have
money for everything else but not for
publicity for the tax payer. It was
this attitude on the part of ti\e non
partisan league who refused to let
the tax payers know what they were
spending money for tTiat has been the
undoing of the le^ue.
EVERY CHILD'S BIRTHRIGHT
John J. Tigert, the new Federal
Commissioner of Education, says:
"An opportunity to enjoy the ad
vantages and happy experiences of
the kindergarten is the birthright of
every child, but there are still, four
million of our little ones for whom no
kindergartens have been provided.
"The kindergarten not only recog
nizes the educational value of the
early years of childhood—but is an
ideal preparation for the grades to
follow, and for a higher, finer type of
citizenship, for it expresses the spirit
of America and its institutions.
"I strongly urge the parents of lit
tle children residing in communities in
which there are no kindergartens to
request their school boards to estab
lish them."
TEACHERS SPEAK
ON GOOD ENGLISH
This being "Better Speech Week,"
Tuesday's chapel exercises were given
over to talks on "Good English."
Miss L. Elizabeth Evans gave an
interesting talk on "The Object of
Better Speech Week." She first told
us how "Better Speech Week" had
been brought about. Europe accused
America of having no national lan
guage. Whether their accusation was
true or not, it had proved serious
enough to bring about the establish
ment of "Better Speech Week." The
hope of this agitation is first of all to
create pride in our language.
As an illustration of true pride in
a language, Miss Evans pictured an
old English peasant's reverence for
his language as he recited, "Grey's
Elegy Written in a Country Church
yard." If America will arouse a pride
and reverence for her language like
that of the old English peasant one of
America's big problems will be solved.
Miss Evans went further to state
that no person is a hundred per cent
American until he has pride in his own
language.
Another object of "Better Speech
Week" is to make us see that good
language is a social necessity. Note
how essential it is to be able to join
with ease in a conversation with other
people. No one wants to stand in
dread of social engagements. How
ever, since man is a slave to habit, he
will feel the pressure of guarding his
English on such occasions if he uses
poor slovenly speech in his daily con
versations. Opportunities are at
hand for every person to improve his
habits of speech and further develop
his conversational powers. Since
these factors are to figure so largely
in our lives care should be taken to
cultivate them upon every opportun
ity.
The third item of "Better Speech
Week" is. now that the business world
has recognized the importance of good
English, that we must not handicap
our business efficiency by using poor
English. The promotions of many
young men and women in the busi
ness world have been hindered simply
because they had not learned effective
speaking and writing.
Miss Evans concluded her talk by
saying, that as teachers one of the
great missions we have is to arouse
great pride in the American language
and in American literature. For in
doing this we shall help to relieve the
social and business handicap of the
inability to use the English language
correctly and effectively.
Following the talk by Miss Evans,
Miss Paula Kittel, another member
of the faculty, gave an interesting
and beneficial exercise on the correc
tion of common errors in words which
we use daily.
Miss Kittel made her drill effective
by having the student body pronounce
the words after her, articulating and
accenting them properly. This
was as she said, "to fix them in the
toneue as well as in the ear."
The first grout) of words repeated
in unison was those beginning with
"un" as "unable," "under." etc. Spe
cial attention was called to the "un"
sound of these words. Our common
en-or is to pronounce "un' as "on."
The next two words that were pre
sented as being freouently mispro
nnnnr-pd because wp in«»rt an extra
••vllahle in them are "mischievous"
and 'Extraordinary."
After these two words there fol
lowed a list of words commonly ac
cented on the wrong syllable, such
words as "advertisement," "accli
mate," etc.
The words next dwelt
UDon
are
words used in connection with school
activities. Some of the words are:
library, history, laboratory, geog
raphy, and zoology.
Some time was spent on words that
have the wrong syllable stressed as
"address" and "romance." Words
with and without the "h" sound were
repeated. Some of these words were:
Watt, what were, where: wine, whine.
Words were pronounced containing
the "th" syllable. We were reminded
that there are two kinds of "th's" in
our language. One we voice, while
the other is voiceless. Examples of
these arp found in the following
words: thin, then theme, these
through, throw breath, breathe.
Theh came an effective drill in cor
recting the "s" and "z" sound in words
such as "hiss," "his," etc. Special at
tention was given to the pronuncia
tion of the verb "is" and "was." Also,
our attention was called to the fact
that "yes" is the English affirmative
—never "yah."
The last group of words drilled
upon for pronunciation was French
words that originated during the re
cent war. Some of these words so
often mispronounced are: aeroplane,
garage, hangar, chauffeur, and allies.
All who were present appreciated
and felt the benefit of this exercise
that Miss Killet presented so pleas
ingly.
K. B.
FACULTY MEMBERS
ARE ON PROGRAMS
We have seen "The Associated
Teacher" the first number of a booklet
magazine just off the press this week
in Valley City. It is to be published
monthly by the North Dakota Educa
tion Association and will circulate as
the official organ of the Association.
The first number contains two ar
ticles by Superintendent G. W. Hanna
of Valley City on "What Is the State
Teachers Association" and "Profes
sionalization of Teaching." R. L.
Brown is to be editor and manager.
He is the Field Secretary of the N.
D. E. A.
A large part of the magazine is
given over to the three-day program
of the N. D. E. A. which meets in its
twenty-fourth Annual Convention at
Fargo, November 21. 22, and 23. Sup
erintendent G. W. Hanna is the pres
ident.
The State Teachers College will be
represented on the various programs
as follows: President C. E. Allen will
give an address before the department
of Higher and Professional Education
on the subject of "The Natural Sci
ences and the Intellectual Sciences in
Education and in Current Thinking."
Before the department of English
Miss Beulah Brunner, head of the
Junior High School, will speak on
"Some Problems in Grade School Eng
lish." Miss Susan McCoy, head of the
Department of Languages, is the sec
retary of this section. In the Music
section Miss Fanny C. Amidon will
present the subject of "Music Prob
lems of the Rural Teacher." She will
also have charge of a round table dis
cussion of points growing out of the
discussions and demonstrations of the
programs in music.
The State Teachers College will join
with the University, the Agricultural
College, and the public schools of
Grand Forks and Fargo in organizing
an art exhibit.
Tuesday evening, November 22.
from 5:30 to 8:30 o'clock has been set
aside as a time for reunion banquets
for different colleges.
POSTERSATTRACT
STUDENTS'NOTICE
"Better Speech" has been more or
less vividly impressed upon the minds
of the students of the State Teachers
College during the week set aside for
its observance. A most effective
means by which to direct our atten
tion toward the usage of correct Eng
lish was the exhibition of posters in
our main corridors.
Each one who observed these post
ers has fixed in his mind the impres
sion of several of them. However, we
might well call attention to a few of
the posters which were made last
year and had not been seen before by
many of this year's students.
One poster on which a ladder is
drawn is representative of the things
we should observe in our speech.
Each rung of the ladder is named
from the bottom up in the following
order: correct grammar, choice of
words, pure speech, enunciation, tone
equality, inflection, articulation, and
pronounciation. This represented the
progress a child should make in his
climb toward "better speech" during
his school career. Another poster has
upon it. this statement, "Give your
vocabulary a good cleaning," and the
rather significant picture of a boy and
a tooth-brush. Make that statement
a l-ule and you will find yourself
pleased to note the improvement in
your conversation, if the suggestion
be faithfully observed. This calls to
mind another poster upon which the
Eastern and Western hemispheres are
shown and upon which this statement
appeared: "Speak the language that
will take
you
The call to service in the National
Education Association has never been
clearer than now. There are impor
tant tasks ahead—big. challenging
tasks that call for the be§t .effort of
the organized teachers of the nation.
The call is to educators of all classes
and ranks. Adequate elementary edu
cation must be provided for every
American child, which means that
there must be enormous improvement,
particularly in rural education. Sec
ondary education must eventually be
made a vital, universal opportunity
for every boy and girl. Higher edu
cation—general, professional, and
technical—whether under pujblic or
private auspices must be helped to
grow both in quantity and quality
until it is able to meet full and ready
handed the problem of training the
leadership of our democracy. Li
braries for rural communities as well
as urban must be built up to keep
alive the high purpose and the spirit
of intelligence which schools exist to
create. The ideals of educated men
and women must more and more be
made the ideals of our whole people.
All this will require leadership. Our
Association must help to provide that
leadership. It will require profes
sional unity—in locality, State and
Nation. Our Association must enlist
the profession and help obtain that
unity. The right development of edu
cation in America will require far
reaching changes in the methods and
ideals of revenue raising. It is for
the National Education Association
through study and publicity to light
the way. Public sentiment must be
quickened to see education in the per
spective of its true importance. Our
program of service includes all of
these things. Let us join hands to
make this year the greatest in the his
tory of professional organization
among teachers. Let us work should
er to shoulder for the growth of the
National Education Association and
the realization of its program of ser
vice.
SENTINEL BUTTE
Sentinel Butte is situated just out
side of the western edge of the bad
lands on the main line of the North
ern Pacific. It overlooks the ground
fought over by General Alfred Sully
and the' Sioux on August 8, 1864.
Twelve years later General Geo. A.
Custer passed the base of the Butte
on his way to his final resting place on
the Little Big Horn. The Northern
Pacific reached this point in its con
traction in 1880, where work ceaged
fo" the winter.
Until recently Sentinel Butte was
considered the highest point in the
state but Black Butte, about forty
miles to the southeast is found to be
of somewhat greater elevation.
The summit of Sentinel Butte is 650
THK WEEKLY TIMES-RECORD. VALLEY CITY. NORTH PAKQTft THURSDAY, NOVEMBER IT, 1921.
around the world." We
are reminded by this poster of the
value of speaking correctly because
of the universal use of the English
language.
The old slogan, "A stitch in time
saves time," is one which we should
keep in mind as it can very profitably
be applied to the use of correct gram
mar. Does your speech need mend
ing? If so, begin now! There are
many other posters which, in. the
rnindof the writer deserves particular
mention, but the newspaper space al
lotted to the topic above will not per
mit individual mention.
E. J.
THE CALL TO SERVICE
Charl Ormond Williams, President of
the National Education Association,
Superintendent of the Shelby County
Schools, Memphis, Tennessee.
feet above the 'village of the same
name which nestles in a valley about
two and a half miles to the north.
The butte is three miles long from
east to west and about a half mile
wide on the average and flat on top.
To the westward the land is level or
gently rolling.
The oligocene geologic period has
a small outcropping on the west end
of the Butte—revealing fossil fish
and a twenty-seven foot vein of lig
nite runs underneath the whole Butte,
although much of the coal in near-by
land is burned out.
The east end of the Butte is a fine
point from which to' view the bad
lands. From there one sees the riot
of clay and tousled scoria represent
ing all the pigment of bellicose pas
sion. The opulent glare of the fore
ground fades imperceptibly into the
gray incertitude and shadowy dimness
of the distance. The best time to
view the badlands is in the soft hours
of late afternoon in June or July when
they surrender all the wealth and
wonder of their beauty—sometimes
sweetly frightful, sometimes terrible,
sometimes pathetic always irresist
ible. Involuntarily one uncovers be
fore this unscarred sanctuary, this
soul-accreting solitude the BAD
LANDS, the static achievement of the
Infinite.
—Lewis F. Crawford.
OFFICIALS' EFFORTS
ARE PRAISEWORTHY
We want to render commendation
where it is due. Specifically .we refer
to "The Associated Teacher" which is
a forty-page booklet magazine gotten
put by Mr. R. L. Brown, field secre
tory of the North Dakota Education
Association. The November number
is the first issue and was printed in
Valley City. A large part of this
number is necessarily taken up with
the programs of the general and de
partmental sections of the Association
which meets week after next in Far
go.
The magazine is to be the official
organ of the N. D. E. A. and is to be
devoted to the interests of education
in North Dakota. It is to be issued
every month except July and August
and will be mailed to every member
of the North Dakota State Teachers'
Association upon payment of the an
nual membership fee of $1.50. It is to
be sent also to all life members. It
is to carry advertising of a character
that should be of interest to teachers.
Mr. Brown will be its editor and
general manager and the headquart
ers will be in Valley City. If future
numbers of this new publication are
to attain to a standard of which the
first number is a hint, then the jour-
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