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The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-12-18

The Times-R Record job department
is now turning out the large annual
calendars for the North, Dakota Mu-
tual Fire Insurance Company, Of
which our toWnsman, d. w. Clark, is
the efficient manager. This popular
and substantial company has been III
business for many years meeting with
unprecedented success. Every year
the company sends out this two-color
calendar as reminder Of the coming
of the new year and of the fact that if
you want real service the North Da-
kota Mutual can give. it to you at. the
lowest figure backed by dependability
and square deal.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-12-18

N. J. Nelson is down from Dazey
today and is looking after business
matters in the city.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-12-18

George Gray Of Sanborn arrived in
the city this morning and is visiting
with his sister Mrs. Salem Crandell.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-12-18

Mr.. and Mrs. A. C. Jackson, OF Far
go, N D., was a Valley City visitor
today and is guest at the Hotel Kin
dred.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-12-18

On account Of the coal strike and
shortage Of fuel, the mail service has
been, and will be greatly curtailed,
for lack Of trains to carry the busi-
ness, and it is therefor impressed up
on the public the necessity of mailing
Christmas packages as early as pos
ssible before Christmas in order that.
same will reach destination, and re-
lieve, and prevent congestion which
will arise through the delay in mailing
packages until week or a few days
before Christmas. The cooperation
Of the public and the patrons OF this
Office is reuested, and it is hoped that
YOU will do all you can to assist the
postal service by complying with this
request. Your attention is also called
.;np your packages, seeing that they
are securely packed and wrapped, and
that the return address, the proper
postage is placed thereon, ali Of which
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-12-18
FOR SALE Good dry popple wood
in carload lots. Write or phone
Detroit Produce Co, Detroit, MINI
Special Attention to Trapnars q

Ship your furs to Benson Hide s,
Fur Co., Benson, Mimi, for highest
prices and prompt returns, Write
and ask for prices and tags. 2O-4twp
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-12-18
RURAL CARRIER EXAMINATION

The United States Civil Service
Commission has annouced an examin-
alton for the county Of Barnes, North
Dakota to be held at Valley City Jam
nary 10, 1920, to fill the position Of
rural carrier at Valley City and va
cancies that may later occur on rural
routes from other post Offices in the
aforementioned county. She exam.
ination will open only to citizens
who are actually domiciled in the ter
ritory of postoffice in the county and
who meet the other requirements set
forth in Form No. 1877. This form
and application blanks may be obtain
ed from the Offices mentioned above
or from the United States Civil Ser
vice Commission at Washington, D. Q.
Applications should be forwarded to
the commission at Washington at the
earliest practicable date.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-12-18

Some time ago the Times-Record
suggested that the city flood the
basement of the old arnlory to make
a skating ring for the "kiddies" of
the city exclusively. The proposition
seems ,tolmeet with much favor by the
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-12-18

Last Friday evening the close
friends of Colonel and Mrs. Frank
White assisted in celebrating the
Co!onels birthday anniversary.
Eighteen guests assembled about the
famed round table, which was beautl-
fully set with white damask and ciuny
lace, hand painted china and exquisite
silver. The center piece was noun
tain of fruit, surrounded with candles
casting lovely glow about the table.
A most delectable dinner thoroughly
enjoyed by all was graciously served
bv Miss Hazel Nelson and Miss Mabel
Morley. After dinner a most inter
esting letter of congratulations was
read from Mr.. and Mrs. George A. !;
Mcfarland who were unable to attend
this annual social affair. The eve,
ming was enjoyed with music, general
topics of conversation past and pres
ent and dancing, when at late hour
the guests expressed sincere wishes TO
Colonel and Mrs. White for many
happy returns of the day. Those pres
ent being: Colonel and Mrs. Frank
White, Richard White, Mrs. George a !;
Fridd. Mrs. Wylie Nelson, Miss Hazel e
Nelson. Miss Mabel Morley. Mrs.
Emma Peake, Mr.. and Mrs. Herman
W;nterer. Colonel and Mrs. G. =.
MIDGET. Mr.. and Mrs. w. w: smith, !,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Beecher Cox, MI. ana
and Mrs John Tracy, DR.. and MIS-. = =
A. Pray
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-12-18

FOR SALE OR TRADE FOR LAND
Our residence on North Fifth
avenue. Also Granger's flats opposite
the Lincoln school, Inquire PIG Sec
ond Avenue. S. Granger. 5-24-tf
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-12-18

Are YOU seeking better position
Then Write the Mankato Commercial
College. Mankato, MINI. Send fol
catalogue.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-12-18
|. GOING OUT or BITsINEss

GOINH OUT OF BUSINESS
Between now and Jan. 1 all my
goods will be sold at reduced prices
especially trunks, suit cases and hand
bags in fact every thing in my line of
business will be sold at reduction. B.
Bonde, Fifth Avenue. Il l3-4td-2tw
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-12-18

DR.. u. II. WlCKS. OCULIsT G.
Special attention given to the fit
ting Of glasses. Wicls Block. Phone
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-12-18
From Thursdays Daily

Mrs. Oscar Dahler, Of Kindred. ~
D.. is looking after some shopping
matters in the city today.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-12-18

N. P. Nelson and wife, of Darcy, n.
D., are Valley City visitors today, ar
irving in the city last night on NO 9.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-12-18

H. A. Presler, Of Fargo, N. D., IS
here today looking after some lnsur-
ance matters.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-02-08
MORE HEARST CAMOUFLAGE

The Hearst papers are now making out, or trying to, that
thew were not really pro-German, but that they were simply
anti English, and during the war that always amounted to the
same thing, for the Germans themselves knew Una Ii "es
could sidetrack England they could march to victory. IL was
the contemplate British who stood in their way. They knew
thai. everyone knew that, and those in this country who sought
to serve the kaiser and his gang, if they were not ou'spohen
enough. always did it by attacking the British. They would
go through the formula of saying that they were not or
Germany, that they were for America and for the allied ma
tions-but d-n England.
YET that was only camOuflage then and it is only an ex-
cuse now nothing more. No man of sense need be In dOuDI
about that. Those who attacked England during the war at
tackled also America and all the allied nations, o Ensiaho
was moi olv a vital part of the allied campaigns. but 1T was
the very keynote to the work of success and victory. WIN
out what England contributed the war against German!
would not be over yet, unless by a complete German triumph
OF course the Hearst papers and all their Xix were against
England. and that is one general lesson that they learned
from their German masters. 1t was through that course that
they served the end and purposes of those German masters
The world is not at all deceived in this matter.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-02-08
GERMANY'S RETURNING ARROGANCE

The proud and imperialistic spirit seems to be returning
to the Germans. Since Won Winterfeldt resigned as a mem
Der of the armistice commission because he said the dignity
of his office and of his country had been insulted by the al
lied representatives, the German papers have been comment
ing upon this approvingly. The establishment of what ap-
pears to be a stable government has put some of the old
time pride and even arrogance back into the Junkers. 1t is
even reported that they do not intend for Germany to par
ticipate in the peace conference as a conquered nation, but
as a veritable power still in existence. Naturally these ac-
tions and utterances have thrown the note of alarm into
France and such countries as Belgium. 1t is beginning to
dawn upon them that the German is still some one who has
to be reckoned with.
But are not the allied nations themselves to blame to a
large extent? They have been dabbling in peace talk instead
of concluding peace terms. They would have Jared better,
we continue to believe, had they laid down the terms shortly
after the aImistice was signed, when Germany was in a
humble mood and expected a settlement to correspond with
its crimes and atrocities. Since that time they have been re-
covering their composure and they are beginning to doubt
that they ought to be punished at all, and they are even be-
lieving that they are not conquered at all.
And instead of talking common sense the allied nations
are debating theoretical questions galore. Wrapped up In
dreams of the millennium. they are going farther and farther
away from the essential facts. and they may yet involve
themselves in endless differences as well as in bitterness.
The Germans have not been slow in bringing about such con
ditions. They flatter themselves that America is going to
stand forth something of a friend. at variance with England
over such subjects as the freedom of the seas and with France
over boundaries and leagues of nations. One of the Berlin
papers has boosted that eventually they will have a friend in
America: all that they have to do is to cultivate that friend
ship-and the way to cultivate it is to encourage American
idealism in contrast with French and British notions OF
European politics.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-02-08
THE ii. C.. L.

The food administration has passed the decree that hogs
for February will be maintained at the legal price of $3.50,
and we take it this was done to keep faith with those who
We're urged to raise more hogs on the theory that they would
be needed to feed the world during the war.
This regulation means that the packers, big and little,
will continue to pay those prices and to pack the meats and
hold them until the government finds a place for them and
that at prices for the meats based on the $3.50 for hogs, with
"a profit added. The packers, as a matter of fact, take no
chances whatsoever under this arrangement. They are the
mere servants of the food administration, and whatever
chances are taken are shifted to the taxpayers and the bond
buyers who have to back up the food administration, which
is part of the government machinery.
In the meantime, are the packers going to be able to find
storage room for the meats they are cutting out of those high
priced hogs? 1t is a question of storage capacity now. In
New York, we are told, every warehouse is chOck full and the
same seems to be true in Chicago and in all the packing CEN
ters of the country. Since the armistice was signed very lit
tile has been exported. What they are waiting for over there,
where they are supposed to be without food, is more than the
operators in this country can figure out. We saw one news
item the other day which spoke of large quantities of animal
products going to Switzerland, but these are probably intend
ed for reshipment into Germany. The Italians also have
been doing some buying, but few or no orders have come from
England, where, it is said, they had five months provided
for when the war came to an end and, presumably, they
have been living on that hoping for lower prices after a
while.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-02-08
PREACHING FORGETFULNESS

A German-language paper in New York printed the
statement the other dy that the American soldiers now re-
turning from the front admit that the Germans were not so
bad after all. That was, of course, a printed lie. American
soldiers who came into contact with the German armies, or
with the remains of German invasiOns, all tell one and the
some story. and that is the story of atrocities.
1t is too early to begin to rewrite history, before the IN
IDENTITIES have been fixed and the penalties imposed on those
responsible. Those who are asking for mercy now Woulo
themselves have shown none had they been the vlctors In TINS
war. and those who are asking for food themselves mocked
the women and children of Belgium and northern France
when they were starving; nay, more, IL was a procldimeu
and practiced precept that the more OF them died the easier
it would be to repopulate those regions with Germans.
The world is willing enough to forget and forgive; TOO
easily if often does both things, but the crimes of the atroclty-
makers and the war-makers will not be forgotten-not yet.
For a while at least we will draw distinctions between those
who fought to make the world free and those who fought 10
enslave it.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-02-08
MEAT AND OTHER PRICES

The meat packers do not have to make very much per
pound when they make it on such vast quantities. "A irac-
ton of a cent soon mounts into millions, SO vast has become
the meat industry of the country and so closely is 1t held
by a few large concerns. But the meat business is being
somewhat dispersed. There are now several strong plants
throughout the country. Nearly every state has one or
more.
The meat packing business is one that the people watch
closely, for they are jealous of their rights to low-priced
foods. And it is possible to keep fairly good tab on it. It's
like the railroad business, semi public business, at least it is
so treated. But there are many things in which the profits
are really much larger without them attracting the attention
of consumers. Take cotton goods-raw cotton at twenty
odd cents a pound and finished cotton at a hundred cents a
yard when it takes only a few ounces of cotton to make a
yard. And so ordinary an article as linen collars and linen
everything else. If meats went up between the farmers
prices for hogs and the consumers prices of meats. even
fractiOnally as much, where would we be?
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-02-08
KEEP THEM OUT FOR A WHILE

A man named Lincoln writing against the bill limiting
immigration during the next two years says:
A crying need for the resumption of normal indus
tries in this country, and for the production of supplies
which the entire world must have, is common labor,
and the most available source of that labor is renewed
immigration. This is an absolute necessity to American
industries as supplementary to the work which most of
the soldiers and sailors, after their experience overseas
and their training in encampments and a large
share of the "war-made mechanics"-can now do.
But is there such a crying need for men? Is it not true,
on the contrary, that Just now we are looking around for plac-
es to put what men we have in this country? We have esi-
mates of thousands to be out of jobs. And even if we were in
need of more laborers, are we sure that we want to bring them
to this country from the diseased and degenerated parts of
Europe? What would one of the fanatics of the Bolshevikian
kind be worth to us as a laboring man? Would he not be
more apt to become a mere agitator, and a dangerous one, for
there is nothing so poisonous and so deadly as a Russian
fanatic. unless it is a German fanatic.
No, it behoOves us to be more particular in the future,
and we should not open the gates wide enough to let the whole
European jam into the United States. Let us wait at least
the European nerves reach a state of rest, enabling Us
to Judge how many are to be considered permanently de-
mented. 1t is better to run a little short of labor than to run
the risk of getting more undesirables.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-02-08
SIX MONTHS FOR TRAINING

General Wood believes in the RoosevelGan doctrine of
universal training. but he believes also that six months will
be enough to make good soldiers out of American boys. He
says the famous Tenth division was trained in four months.
The general would have a standing army of only 100000, as
Droposed by Secretary Baker, and then he would train the
fitest young men for six months and let it go at that. Of the
two propositions we believe that of General Wood is the bet
ter. Six months training for American boys would benefit
them in manv WAYS. It would be both a school and a disci-
pline. They would be taught to take care of themselves. Nor
vou]d six months taken out of their young lives for such
purDoses mar their lives or their careers; on the contrary, 1t
miobt helm 70 make them. Heretofore it was only the son Of
the rich man or the well-to-do who could receive the advalN
tages of a course in military training. This should be
broadened and the government should do it,
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-02-08

here should not seek to drag into our politics the troubles of
the countries they left behind.
1t does not require the keenest observation to see that
these things are coming gradually back into our national no.
rizon. When we had our trouble with Germany we vowed
solemnlv that thereafter we would have nothing more to do
with any kind of hyphenism. But with proverbial short
memories we are drifting right back into the same old things.
And when it comes to the test an Italian or JugO-Slavlc
or Greek or Irish or British or any other kind of propaganda
carried on i'm this country is no better than was the old Ger
man propaganda, even if these other propagandists may not
stand for things as dire as that of the Germans.
The whole theory is wrong and its practice or tolerance
will continually lead us into big troubles that are not right
fully ours. Those who come to this country must become
Americans and not remain something else. If they dent like
America they shouldn't ask to be admitted, ana their raclal
troubles are not for this nation to settle.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-02-08
REViVlNG

The Italians in this country want us to help Italy and the
JuSo-Slays want us to help their contentious in the new
Europe. while certain Irish radicals want us to divorce Ire
land from Great Britain. And so it goes, until every national
and racial element in the United States has some special axe
to grind i'm Europe. But if we permit ourselves to be dragged
into such controversies, how many kinds of hyphenism will we
have in the good old L. S. A.? There will be no end of them.
The United States should deal fairly with all such Euro
pean propositions, when we have to deal with them at all,
but it should not specialize in any one of them simply be-
cause there are men from such countries living in the United
States, or their descendants. Every racial element in the
United States can not in its turn demand of us to help out
their old folks in Europe. The United States cannot look
through all these racial eyes. 1t must look through straight
United States optics and no others. Those who have come
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-02-08
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1910

well as morals. Intelligence must not be shown by anyone
for intelligence is bourgeoise and the bOurgeoise are me peo-
pe who are apt to have some property as well as some sense.
# is the rabble that sits enthroned. Vulgarity is their god ana
ignorance is the badge of responsibility.
y And then they talk of such a movement being able 10 MAKE
Roadway even in the United States, "if it should get started.
We do not believe it, although we have a few of the ignorant,
and the vulgar even in this century of schools and decency ansJ
common sense. No, bolshevism is not indigenous ere
would be foreign and it could flourish only among those Tor
whom we have in the past considered our country with Its PRIV
ileges and opportunities as a sort of an insane asylum.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-02-08
A PROPHECY

1t is now recalled that DR.. James Buckley, then, as long
afterward. editor of the Christian Advocate, organ of the
Methodist church, in 1888, when William II assembled the
throne, printed the following baleful warnings, all of which
have been fulfilled:
"The succession of William II, his son and sue
cessor, is regarded not without anxiety by lovers of
peace. He is a restless, war-lOving, ambitious young
man, who avowedly hates France and England, has
treated his mother with public disrespect, applauded
the recent persecution of the Jews, and is an earnest
partisan of Prince Bismarck. He, too, is afflicted with
an incurable disease. He is unquestionably able, and,
like most of his ancestors for two centuries, will prob
ably somehow change the course of history"
But fortunately the change that the man on the throne
brought about put him and his family out of the running
for good.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-02-08
THE HONORABLE BADGE OF IGNORANCE

In Russia one of the newspapers warned its correspond
ents that manuscripts with correct spelling would not and
could not be printed, for they would point the finger of sus-
picion at the writer and also at the publisher, because only
write in accordance with the rules of syntax." One
must murder the spelling and the grammar to be safe under
the new regime in that land of contradictions.
In this slight incident one can read the whole spirit OF the
revolution. 1t puts the stamp on Bolshevism. 1t is the per-
sonisication of ignorance and the deificaton of bad manners as
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-02-08

Some of the liquor men are placing some hopes in the
supreme court, but that is misplaced hope. The supreme
court is not apt to declare unconstitutional what forty
states or more voted into the constitution. Courts are hui
man. after all. very human, and they have been known to
register the views of the people, for the people make the
laws and the constitutions. We would hate to invest in
brewery or distillery stocks on the theory that the supreme
court will rehabiitate their business.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-02-08

In one sense the league of nations has been in existence
since the war began and it is composed of those nations that
saw fit to enter the lists to fight for the freedom of the world.
fl is in that form that it will continue to exist, and the nations
that stood on the side of internationa wrong and injustice will
take their places in such a league as they become fitted to take
the higher moral conceptions that should belong to nations.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-02-08

The Germans are willing to kill and to vote to save
themselves from the things that they forced on Russia. And
then after all the evil they have done they have the nerve to
ask those whom they wronged to feed them. A German in
Germany is certainly the worlds greatest contradiction, I'M
less it is a Russian in Russia.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-02-08

February is some month. when we have Lincoln and
Washington celebrations, and this year We are to have Il
Roosevelt day added. Why not set aside the whole month
for celebrations?