The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-04-26
Officer
Of Dry Forces

Fargo, April 19.-The twenty second
| annual convention of the North Dakota
Enforcement league closed last eve.
ming with the reelection of Rev. F. L..
Watkins for superintendent for the en-
suing year and of Rev. C. w. Finwall
as his assistant Officers of the league
for the year were elected as follows:
President - R. B. Griffith, Grand
Forks.
Vice President-F. W. Heidel, Val.
ley City,
Secretary - Rev. C. A. Mcnamara,
Sheldon :.
Treasurer-R. NJ. Pollock, Fargo.
T: E. Tufte of NorthwOod, j. o. Sc
verson of Churches Ferry, Fred Mann
of Devils Lake, Rev. w. Luckow of
Fargo, Peter Myrvold of Grand Forks,
Frank Lynch of Casselton and George
Wallace of Bismarck, were chosen on
the executive committee. '
The meeting place for next years
convention was not decided upon,
though Valley City was prominently
mentioned. The treasurer's report
showed that $11,664.16 had been dis
bursed during the past two years by
the league. The war on blindpigs will
be carried on with renewed energy
this year, according to the outline Of
plans submitted by Superintendent F.
L. Watkins in his annual report.
A big feature of yesterday after
Moons program was the address by
Attorney General William LANCER on
law enforcement The attorney gen
eral praised the work of the Enforce
ment league and paid high compli-
ment to United States District Attor-
ney M. A. Hildreth, saying that he is
one of the most efficient district at
torneys in the United States, being a
splendid official to cooperate with;
that he is eternally and everlastingly
on the job and that he was using
splendid discretion and wise judgment
in dealing with the cosmopolitan cit
izenship of the state in the present
crisis. .
Mr.. LANCER paid a splendid tribute
to the Teutonic people of North Da-
kota. He said of them:
Rare indeed is the German who Is
not loyal to the United States. Some
of our neighbors and citizens have
brothers and other relatives fighting
in the German army and it is some
thing like asking man to chose be-
tween his mother and his sweetheart
to have these men enlist. It rends
their hearts with grief and so1n etimes
they say something on the spur of the
moment which they regret afterwards.
They should be helped rather than
prosecuted because at heart they are
absolutely loyal"
On law enforcement Mr.. LANCER
said:
"Speaking of law enforcement, be-
lieve that the Enforcement League Of
this state, if it has not already, soon
will put an end forever to the PROPOSE
ton that the wealthy man can escape
where the poor man has to suffer the
penalty for his, crimes. You know
! that when the average man dies nova
days, the first question we have been
accustomed to ask is "How much was
he worth?" We scarcely think of how
much he has done for his state or for
the common people. It is my opinion
that we from now on shall see lesser
| amount of this and on the contrary
the man who goes in and does a lot
| for the common good is going to re-.
ceive greater amount of praise than
he has heretofore received while liv-
ing.
only few years ago great many
drug stores were doing a fourishing
business selling whiskey. The report
OF Superintendent Watkins shows that
when he took Office there were over a
thousand permits in force and yet in
this short space of time we find them
| today practically eliminated Every
one who has been living in this state
knows that today it is practically i'm
| possible for any drug store to be max
ing thousand or two thousand dollars
month by selling whiskey and the
season is the State Enforcement
League. We have here body of men
| and women, having funds of not more
than five or six thousand dollars and
never more than six thousand dollars
| year, who have enforced the law and
done it thoroughly"
REWARD OFFERED FOR TWO