The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1919-06-06

the legislature, or 1t may be spent on
his education, if he, prefers.
"Your homecoming will be an &C.
casion for rejoicing and thanksgiving,
as it rightly should. Then when this
is over you will want to enter the
fields of usefulness in the industrial
world, and l want you to know that
the great state of North Dakota ap-
preciates what you have done and
stands ready to cooperate with you
to the fullest extent when you return
to US.
"LYNN j. FRAZIER, Governor"
The governors cooperation and
good will has not gone to the extent
of reserving for any of North Dako-
ta's overseas men any of the many
fat berths created by the Sixteenth
assembly, and which have been filled
almost without exception by Townley
men from other states, or by the APP
pointment of professional politicians
from league ranks within the state.
Probably Is such appointments have
been made by the governor or by
boards which he controlled since the
return of North Dakota's overseas
men began, and in not one Of them
has there been placed a mar with a
gold stripe on his sleeve.
Kositzky's Suggestion.
81 would suggest as an appropriate
cover page for the Nonpartisan Lead
err" said State Auditor Kositzky, COM
menting upon this fact a few days ago,
"a cartoon showing an army of over
seas men in front of the capitol being
waved back by the governor, while an
army of red card socialists, with their
red banner floating at their head, goes
marching in the front entrance"
Seeks to Show Friendship.
The Townley press, which is now
operating a large propaganda bureau
at the capitol, has scented the soldier
hostility which may result in a radical
change in the administration of this
state when all of North Dakota's 3d.
900 fighting men have returned from
overseas and from environments at
home. 1t is seeking to overcome this
attitude by p%icturing the governor as
a friend of the soldier. The soldiers
bounty act has been made much of,
in spite Of the opinion from Attorney
General LANCER showing that if each
of the states 10000 enlisted men
seeks to take advantage of this act
the levy provided will not suffice to
pay each man more than $40 a year,
and that the final payment cannot be
made inside of Is to 20 years.
This bureau has recently sent out
a number of stories telling Of the
governors activities in finding jobs
for returned soldiers. Such activities
to date have consisted in the COVER
nor's writing at the request of Col.
E. G. Hecket, commanding a regiment
in the American army of occupation, to
the employers of two North Dakota
soldiers mustered out of his COM
mand and who had signified their
desire to return to their former po-
sitions. Col. Heckel furnished the gov
ernor with the names of four North
Dakota Yanks who were receiving
their discharges from his regiment,
advising that two of them desired to
return to their former positions, and
that two others sought other employ
ment in North Dakota. Col. Heckel
asked that the governor get in touch
with the employers of these men and
see what could be done for them.
No Soldier Need Apply.
And there has never been explain
ed away the fact that while the gov
ernor and boards under his control
have doled out since January l a doz-
en- or more good jobs, carrying sal
aries of $4,000, $4,000, $4,000, $4,000 and
$4,000, not a single overseas mar has
found his way into n of these
berths.