The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-10-16

EXtraVagant expense Dill SpellS
downfall of Public Ownership, declares
venerable jurist, who sees reason IN
Kositzky's fight to save something out
of taxpayers dollar-used Frad Cath
ro's latest Room and Board Bill as
subject for Saturday Evening Sermon.
Eyes. I'm glad we are soon to have
an extra session to make laws regu-
lating the state funds, state industries,
the appropriations and taxes, says
Associate Justice James E. Robinson,
the octogenarian league member of
the North Dakota Supreme Court, IN
today's Saturday Evening Letter..
ITO a great extent he continues,
''Mr. Kositzky, the state auditor, is
right in trying to show that taxation
and state expense have been running
wild. In time purpose to write that
up and to give the exact figures that
no man can dispute, and do it especial
ly for the good of the League, because
1.-THE League cannot live and prosper
without reducing taxes and expense.
"The state expense account-look
how it climb up: -"
"F. w. Cathro, director general, sal
airy, $4,000 year.
"August % to September %, room
and board at the - Hotel, S157.OO.
yearly salary Of employees appoint
ed under the new regime; S1S5, 100000.
"Appraisement Of Drake mill, s5O3.96.
1T must be that the Director Gener-
al is an awfully wise man, with sal
airy twice as much as the governor
and the judges of the supreme court.
He knows enough to charge the state
| for his room and board at the Grand
- Hotel, while la jurist of
fame and fortune-go arounr looking
for crusts to rebuke the high cost OF
living. But in future I may profit by
| his example. Then think of $4,000,
for an appraisal of Hinky Dinky Drake
Mill! Would ever any private pur-
caser pay so much for an appraisal
To make public ownership success
the session must arrange to put a
strict limit to salaries and expenses
If public service cannot be made as
cheap and as efficient as private ser
vice, then we must look for the wreck
and ruin of public ownership"
! Judge Robinson refers particularly
to the last expense account Of F. W
| Catro, director general of The Bank
| of North Dakota, who draws an an.
nal salary of $4,000 as compared
with $4,000 for J. R. Waters, Manager
of the Bank, and who at the same time
asks the state to pay S157.00 pei
month for his living expenses at the
local league hotel-$70.50 for his room
and the remainder for meals costing
from 70 to IS cents per each. Judge
Robinson pays less for room and
meals and he pays it out of his salary
as associate justice of the supreme
court. w. H. Mcintosh Of Bottineau
a partner in the real estate business
with Mr.. Cathro, also appears in the
bill at $4,000, for ten days Appraisal
of farm loans at $4,000, for expenses
Judge Robinson's Saturday Evening
Letter follows:
| October 1919. Glad am that We
are soon to have an extra session OF
1.-THE Legislature to correct and undo
several meas ures passed at the last
! general session; also to fix schedule
of the maximum and minimum prices
| to end or give check to profiteering
and the high cost of living. A good
statute to repeal is the one which in
vites picketing and striking, loafing
and idleness. Any party is free to
quit a job, unless when he is bound by
contract, or when he has no regard for
his contract, but he is not legally
free, and the law cannot make him
free, to conspire with others to carry
On a kind of civil war against his en-
ployers and their workmen. And if
| picketing and striking is to merit the
approval Of the law makers why
should not the law give to pickets and
strikers their daily bread and butter,
| with a fair compensation for their
time. Then there would be less reason
| for resor. to lawlessness. And, OF
course, the farmers should be treated
in the same manner, in case they de-
tefm:nc to strike and grow only such
food as they need for themselves. For
a short time the state may give TO ey-
cry man a pension or permit the gen.