The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-09-20

adoption of school year of four term:
OF II weeks has been suggested as I
means of enabling some students Il
complete their educadons more rapid
~ and others to give larger proper
ton OF their time while in school o.
college to productive work. We mus
have more and more technically train
ed men, whether for war or peace
more doctors, more engineers, more
experts in every line
London Post-The presidents repl,
TO the pope's note reveals man ~ht
has his eye fixed on the realities ami
MS mind resolved unfinchingly ON {
conciseness which cannot be too mucl
admired, the president gives the pope!
peace proposals the only answer which
those who are not ready to capitulat.
to Germany could give.
Montgomery Advertiser-Our coun
try has three great eremies. The,
are slackers, pacifsts and anh-pre
parednessers. Each Stacker shoult
get ten years in the penitentiary ami
hard labor to boot. The pacifists an.
and anti-preparednesser should b,
sent Immediately to the war zone, an,
should be put where the fighting i
fercest.
Seattle Times-Reports say Russi;
has 10 million soldiers but they ar,
too busy attending meetings to drill
The situation over there is the newt
able result of any system of govern
ment that, during a war, substitute
debating societies for organized com
munity effort and desultory argumen
for army discipline.
Sa. Louis Post-Dispatch-To Amer
lea, the most peaceful of nations, vii
come the task of ending the creates
war in the history Of the world. Wit
each passing day the United State:
looms up as greater factor in the fin
fsbing touch on the divine right O
kings.
Detroit Free Press-A Californian
has designed A lawn-mower that cal
be substituted for the front wheel o.
a motorcycle and run by power. Imag
inc trying to sleep against a neighbo1
who was using a combination lawn
mower and mofOrcycle
What was the worst money PAM,
you ever saww asked one financier O.
another. 1.-THE worst money panic
ever saw" was the reply, was when {
5G-cent piece rolled under the seat Of
a street car and seven different womer
claimed It,"
- Schenectady Union-Star.-Frankfurt
er Zeitung says America "only entered
the war to deprive Germany of vic
tory" Correct the first time, Kamerad
And if you have any doubt about it
just get in the way of an American
bayonet.
San Diego Union-A subscriber
writes to know what he can do to ait
the country. He can do much. Qui
cussing the government, stop knock
ing the army, preach patriotism anl
optimism and go to work and keel
working. .
Kansas City Times-C Cabinet shake
ups in Germany are only starters fo1
the big shake-ups which will come
when the Hohenzollern swashbuckler,
60 up in the air and come down il
pieces. Wait for the big show.
Louisville Courier-Journal Foot
Administrator Hoover says it is hi!
hope to stabilize prices in the essen
ial staples" Not, it is assumed, tn,
present prices. First pulverize, the1
stabilize them.
Chicago Daily News-The Father
land is enacting the role of the per
sistent small boy with his hand in tn,
sugar-bowl. He can not get his han,
out without releasing the Jumps O
sugar that he has grabbed.
Brooklyn Eagle-Missouri' German
Lutheran synod changes its name an,
gets rid of the German" We imag
inc Luther would approve if he coul'
be heard. He was a Christian first,
Teuton afterward.
Boston Transcript - The American
pacifists are the only persons in tn
history of the world who prefer t
have a war fought on their own terri
tory instead of on the other fellows
New York W0rld-The vote in tn
senate on the prohibition amendmen
to the constitution of the Unite
States shows that the south has defin
itely abandoned the doctrine of stat
rights.
Philadelphia Inquirer - There the,
stand the four of them: The blood
thirsty Hun, his Austrian vassal, tn
plundering Bulgarian and the unspeak
able Turk. What combinations!
Dallas News-Meat and bread hav'
become so scarce in beleaguered Eng
land that a beefsteak and a loaf O
bread cost two-thirds as much as the,
do in this country.
Y Williamsport Grit-Uncle Sam say
to neutrals: THE embargo is not di
rected against what you yourself eat
hit On nis,r h a hox ~