The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-01-10
TRUBSHAW WRITES
FROM MILWAUKEE
Milwaukee, Wis, Jan. 3, 1918.


Dear Editor: You asked me to drop
you a line or two from here so l will
try and make my promise good. We
two weeks and are getting acquainted
with the city SO that we do not have
to ask a policeman to point out the
way we should go and have also got
ten over rubbering at the tall build
ings-and there are some real sky
scrapers here, too.
We are enjoying our visit with Mr..
and Mrs. Parsons and of course the
young Miss Parsons, our granddaugh-
ter The Parsons home is just two
blocks from Lake Michigan and it
rather interests me to watch the
boats come and go on the lake. AS
there is nearly always fog here on
the lake you are lulled to sleep nights
by the monotonous boom like sound of
the fog horn. 1t did not bother us
long, however, as we soon got used
to it, and now, not having a newspa-
per to bother with, and clear con-
science-something the average edi-
tor does not have when he gives out
circulation statement or says some
thing about the lovliness of the
homely bride, or some obituary no.
tice wherein he tells what great and
good man the deceased was, when he
knows he was in reality the meanest
man in the city, lie down to sleep
with as much peace and rest as the
little tired out child who has played
all day long and as the evening
shadows fall is ready to go to rest.
Blythe way night comes on here much
earlier than in North Dakota but day
breaks earlier in the morning here.
Milwaukee is a city of about 40, 900
population. AS I am getting more
used to the surroundings l like it
much better and find it to be a we'll
regulated, we'll policed, and we'll gov
erned city. There is much building
being done and the business men,
while naturally largely of German
descent, are very accommodating and
a joval set.
The only thing more than any 9TH
err that inspired me to write to you
today was the outcome Of the special
election that was held in this city on
Wednesday Of this week. Senator Ra-
guse, socialist state senator, was
fired from the state senate for dis
loyal utterances and it was necessary
for a special election to choose his
successor. This district is very
strongly socialistic and it was neces-
sary for those who believed in sup
porting the government and backing
the boys in the trenches to unite
against the socialists and the LaFol-
lette forces, who have been burying
the Ratchet in the back of the gov
eminent and the brave boys who
are fighting democracy's battles, so
the fight was made non-partisan, the
democratic candidate pulled out Of the
fight and he with his supporters pull
ed off their coats to fight the socialist
candidate and the LaFollette slackers,
and it was with considerable pleasure
and a thrill of patriotism for me to
read in the headlines of the morning
paper that right had prevailed at the
polls and that LaFollette and the
anti-American forces had been de-
feated at the polls. It was more
pleasing of course, because Milwaukee
had been heralded to the world as the
hotbed Of sedition and lack of patriot
ism, but Milwaukee on Wednesday Of
this week sent out message Of pat
riotism and l hope the reverberation
Of that message will cause the ears
Of Senator LaFollette to burn so
fiercely that he will need the iceman
to keep packs on them to keep them
from sizzling up.
Milwaukee has just completed a
tremendous drive for the Red Cross
and has gone over the top in great
shape and so it goes the country
over. Everywhere the sentiment is
crystallizing in favor of the righteous
ness Of the country's attitude in this
war and the only sentiment heard in
cities, on trains, in the hotels and
even in the churches, is to stand by
the president until America has
achieved just what it started out to
DOWN the fght-not for aggrand-
izement or gain-but for a worlds
democracy, so that the smaller ma
tons of the earth shall have the