The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-05-08

favor of permitting other nations to
dictate to this country as to what we
should or should not do. In the pro-
posed council we would be but one
voice in nine, and while l am hopeful
for world betterment, certainly can
not approve anything that will take
from Americans the control of their
own country. We didn't whip Ger
many to surrender control of our own
country to SOMEBODY else. They told
US that there was nothing to the issue
that was raised in connection with the
Monroe doctrine. The very fact, how
ever, that changes have been made in
the sections referring to the doctrine,
indicates that there was ground for
criticism. As for the extension of
the Monroe doctrine, that is impos-
sible. The doctrine is purely Amer
lean - when it becomes something
else, then we no longer have the
Monroe doctrine"
THINK IN INTEREsT-sAvE-
Walt Mason says in recent SON.
net: "Alas. I fear that Uncle Sam
will be, in future years, kept busy
doing peeler's work in both the
hemispheres; when not suppressing
reds at home, who would o'erthrow
the law, he'll have to chase the red
abroad, and soak him in the jaw;
he'll have to help out ten-cent kings
and jack up sagging thrones, and
every fifteen minutes he must blow a
million bones. The nations all have
come to look on Uncle Sam as one
who works the scales of justice and
looks on the job as fun. should be
proud of this, no doubt, but I'm
mossback jay, and I regret the by
gone times, the old contented way,
when Uncle Sam was satisfied to run
our native land, and MARBLE Hail
Columbia an eagle in each hand"
THINK IN 1NTEREsT-sAvE--
From all over the country come re-
ports that the people are tagging be-
hind in the purchase of the Victory
Bonds and up to this time the govern
ment has less than half the four bill
lion and a half wanted raised. This
looks to US as if the American people
did not realize the necessity of get
ing behind the government in helping
to pay it's legitimate bills and they
should wake to their responsibilities.
If there are any around here who have
not taken any of these bonds and can
afford to do so, it would seem to us
that they should get busy and come to
the help of Uncle Sam. The boys over
there and those who have returned
from over there have done their part,
why not do yours? You are not being
asked to give the government any
money you are being asked to loan
it at fair rate of interest the loan
maturing in four years. The govern
ment is paying better than you can
get on certificate of deposits at banks.
If you are willing to put your money
in the banks at five per cent surely
you can afford to loan it to the gov
eminent at the same rate-and four
and three-quarters per cent with no
taxes to pay is more than five per cent.
Think this over.
THINK IN 1NTEREST-sAvE-
The body of Edith Cavell, the Eng
lish Red Cross nurse, is being trans
ported to England, and after memoir
ial services in Westminster Abbey they
will be laid to rest in the cemetery
near her home, an honor beftting
the sacrifice she made. It is peculiar
ly significant that this heroic woman
should be brought home just at the
time when the Germans are making
their first wild protest against what
they are pleased to call the hardships
of the peace terms imposed upon
them. Right now when everybody is
weary of the haggling and the de-
lays which keeps the world unsettled,
it is we'll to remember the fate of
Edith Cavell and the brutality which
ordered her death in the hope of ter
rorizing the helpless and frightening
away their defenders. It was an ex-
ample of what victorious Prussianism
meant to the world. To have brought
to our minds again should give us pa
thence in waiting for settlement so
final and so secure that it will pre-
vent forever recurrence of like
atrocities.-New Rockford State Gen.
ter.
THINK IN 1NTEREsT-sAvE-
The farmers of North Dakota used
to rave and rant at what was called
McKenzieism in this state, and the
progressives pointed their finger in
disapproval of such shining lights in
the old gang as Tommy Poole, Ed.
1dLLcTSOu duu d 1c" VI Inc I'm wiz
used to do the bidding of the big
Scotch boss. It was McKenzieism
that caused the defeat of the repub-
lican party in this state; it was old
gangism that made the nonpartisan
league possible; nonpartisan league
ism was right when it was started,
but socialism and free boot have now
gained the ascendency in this state
and there is great unrest. Today we
have the laughable spectacle of seeing
the Fargo Courier-News and other
league organs talking about the old
gang and big business while on the
other hand we see Ed Patterson,
Tommy Poole and few of the bright
lights of the old gang the leading men
in the Townley caste and answering
to the beck and call of the big bosses.
Is history going to repeat itself in this
state and are the people going to
/! throttle this new gang that is grip
ping the state for loot and power? We
think so.
THINK IN 1NTEREsT-sAvE-
TRAINING SCHOOL NOTES.