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The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-05-08
HOPES TO WIN
GREAT VICTORY

Assistant Attorney General F. E.
Packard will leave this evening for
Washington, D. c., to prepare for the
defense in the supreme court May 5
Of the action against Walker D. Hines,
director general to increase interstate
ways, in which Attorney General
Packard won a favorable decision in
the North Dakota supreme court
Attorney General LANCER in behalf
of the state attacked the right of the
director general to increase intrastate
freight, passenger, baggage and ex-
press rates under w. G.. McAdoo's or
der of last June. The attorney gen.
eral contended that this advance,
which is costing North Dakota $10,-
600, 900 per annum, was made without
consulting the North Dakota railway
commission, which has been given su-
pervision of tariffs in this state and
that the action was in direct violation
of North Dakota laws governing the
operation of railways.
Immediately upon the filing of At.
torney General Langer's briefs, the
solicitor general for the railway ad-
ministration, recognizing that the
North Dakota legal adviser had clear
ly stated all the questions involved,
asked the attorney general to join
with him in stipulating the case, no
matter what the decision of the North
Dakota court might be, to the supreme
court of the United States for speedy
adjudication. This Mr.. LANCER agreed
to do, and as result the supreme
court of the United States will hear
and decide this action before the June
adjournment, and, if it's decision is
favorable to North Dakota, farmers
will have hundreds Of thousands of
dollars on grain shipments this sum-
mer and fall which otherwise would
have been paid out under the present
advanced rates.
If the supreme court of the United
States upholds the North Dakota
court, this state will save $10,000,000
during the next IL months in the re-
duction Of freight and passenger rates
to their former level, while the saw
ing the nations over, competent auth
critics have estimated, will be $780,
100000. The advance in passenger
rates under the order of last June was
from two cents to three cents per
mile in this state, and there was a
general flat advance in freight rates
of about 25 per cent.
All of the northwestern common
wealths, the national association of
railway commissioners, important
shipping organizations and other in
terests have joined with Attorney
General LANCER in defense of the
North Dakota supreme courts decis-
ion. -
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-05-08
NORTH DAKOTA
FAR BEHIND
Marion, N. D., May 6.

Marion, N. d., May g..
Times-Record, Valley City, N. D.
We are in serious danger in North
Dakota of not making our allotment
in the Victory Loan. Only % coun-
ties are over this afternoon and we
are three million dollars short. The
banks have only reported eight and a
half million dollars sum total SUBJ
scription cards in their hands. Our
official record depends upon the fed
eral reserve bank at Minneapolis be-
ing notified by Saturday night by the
banks of North Dakota that there
have been left with them eighteen and
half million dollars sum total of
subscription cards for the Victory
Loan. Not a single county can fall
down in North Dakota without endan-
gering the states record. Bad roads
and late seeding have no doubt caus-
gardless of weather conditions this
ed the delay in many counties but re-
Victory Loan must 60 and the people
OF. North Dakota want it to go if we
make our allotment so as to get Off
cial recognition we must complete our
canvass in the next two days. North
Dakota has never fallen down in any
quota that has been assigned to them
during the entire war and in this, the
last loan let each and every one Of
us do our part and finish the job with
Z positively clean record.
WESLEY c. MCDOWELL,
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-05-08
WILL QUIT IF
PROVEN TRAITOR

Offers to resign are hocking in on
Mr.. Townley thick apd fast. The lat
est proposition of this kind comes
from Karl Kositzky, state auditor.
Irked by stereotyped brand of league
petition condemning his independence
and which was circulated and filed by
Senator E. A. Bowman of Kuhn, Mr..
Kositzky writes the league solon
from LaMoure county as follows:
II am in receipt of petition signed
by you and others living in the vicin-
ity Of Kuhn, in which it is charged
that I am a traitor to the farmers, a
tool of big business, etc. Now, a man
in this country is held innocent until
proven guilty, and contend that am
innocent until proven guilty, so I ask
for hearing before Judge Amidon,
one Of the fairest judges in the state,
and hope that the people who signed
that petition will make arrangements
with Judge Amidon to hear our case
and if found guilty l shall resign as
state auditor at once"
Judge Amidon, if he aspires to ref
cree all the disputes between Presi-
dent Townley and the state officials
whom the latter elevated to power
through the medium of the league,
promises to be very busy during the
summer solstice.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-05-08
N0NPARTISAN PRESS
NEW ARTICLESF0R

Bismarck, N. D., May 5.-Joseph
Gilbert, former state manager for the
Nonpartisan League in Minnesota,
appears as chief of the Nonpartisan
League newspapers bureau in North
Dakota in the arcitcles of incorpora-
tion filed with the secretary of state
by the newest of the leagues Farm
er Press" organizations.
The new concern is the Ward
County Farmers Press, corporation
which purposes to establish weekly
newspaper at Minot to be made the Of
fetal state, county and local legal or
gan for Ward county.
A change in the new articles of in
corporation of the Farmers Press"
league controlled weekly newspapers
prapose to give the holders of pre-
ferred stock equal voting strength
with the owners Of the common
Heretofore no holder of preferred
stock has been entitled IA more than,
a single vote, no matter how many
shares he may have possessed. I'm
Under the amended articles of incor-
poration holders of preferred are en-
titled to vote for each share the
same as the owners of common.
Under the original plan all of the
common stock was held by the pro-
moters, and its possession and the
right to vote every share separately
was devised to give them control Of
the corporation. Thus the promoters
in addition to receiving a commits
sion of 10, IS or 20 per cent for tn
sale of preferred stock, which has
run all the way from $40 to $4,000 in
the case of weekly newspapers organ
lied by tn league, and to more that
100000 in the case of one daily news
paper which the league has organized
on this basis, the promoters, without
expense to themselves, have retained
control of the company into which
tn farmers have put their money.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-05-08
CIV|EEY0UR BOOKS
TO our SOLDIERS

"Must Have Another Half Million
Volumes at Once" is now the call.
"Could you send some reading to a
couple Of Yanks in Germany, where
it's impossible to get any reading at
all? If you can't, we are all going
bugs"
Thousands of men are writing just
such appeals and their happiness and
we'll being depend upon our supplying
the books for which they ask. AL
though over two million books have
been sent over most of them have
been worn out and the present supply
falls far short Of the demand. In
March there were 10000 men in the
district around Brest and considerably
less than 1000 books. H. T. Dough-
erty in charge of the work there
writes: "If you could be at camp as
frequently as I am and hear the Oft
repeated call for books-well, you
would probably be able to get some
somewhere"
American soldiers are not staying
in Europe from choice. Life is a
deadly monotony for most of them
The rain and mud and unpleasant con-
ditions of camp life breed discomfort
and homesickness now that the ex-
citement of the fighting is over, and,
as result, the morale of the army is
easily broken down.
When books can help to make life
pleasant and bearable for these men,
ought we not to send them? Already
a member of the faculty has brought
in f0l1rtoon r001 non r. icfion hnokc
and a student, seven copies Of the
type Of fiction for which there is great
demand. The Normal school ought to
collect five hundred books. We can if
you will bring at least one.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-05-08
COLONEL WHITE :
:
COMING HOME

The Times-Record scribe is inform
ed this morning that our popular and
gallant colonel of the Second North
Dakota Regiment, Frank White, is on
his way to the United States and ulti-
mately to Valley City, and will soon
be here. He left France on May and
is we'll on the way. Col. White has
been one of the busiest men over in
France and had tremendous respon-
sibility in looking after the supplies
which is the important part of great
army. His friends will indeed be glad
to welcome him back to the old town.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-05-08
OIL COMPANIES
AVOID TAXATION

Tax Commissioner George E. Wal
lace is hot on the trail of a number of
North Dakota oil companies who are
trying to dodge part of the tax i'm
posed by the last legislature and in
structions have been issued to the
state oil inspector to go back and get
state.
According to Tax Commissioner
Wallace nearly all oil companies,
among which the Standard Oil is the
largest offender, has neglected to re-
port what quantities oil and gasoline
they had on hand March 6, the date
on which the law became effective,
in order that the tax might be as
sessed against it. The law provides
that a tax shall be levied by every
oil company doing business within
the state and engaged in storing,
shipping, consigning, distributing or
selling any petroleum product used
for the generation of light, heat and
power from and after the date the
law became effective.
Thus far the oil companies have
paid taxes only on the oil products
they have received from outside the
state since March 6. In all taxes to
the amount of $9,5306O have been
paid to the state. Of this amount the
Standard Oil paid over $4,000. AL
though the oil companies are reluc-
tant to pay the tax on the oil they had
in stock March it is pointed out that
Immediately upon the laws becoming
effective they raised the price Of gas
oline to the consumer to the amount
of the state tax.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-05-08
ANNUAL CONTEST
AT HIGH SCHOOL

The public are cordially invited to
attend the annual declamatory contest
in the High school auditorium tonight
at 8 p. m. The following program will
be rendered.:
The Substitute. ......... Mary Wells
Harriet Winterer
"The Full Measure Of Devotion" :.
Dana Gatlin
Leanora Boyd
"Midshipman Easy. Sylvia Bates
Lillian Ford
"A Newsboy Patriot" "........
............. Montgomery Rollins
Helen Barnes
"The Spirit Of II" .... Mary Smith
Helen Ulvin
"Their Word of Honor" .........
................. Grace Richmond
Dorothy Selden
"A Child's Dream of Star" ......
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Dickens
Verna Bergan
"The Party" Paul Laurence Dunbar
Marjorie Galley
"Young Fellow My Lad" .........
j.. Robert W. Service
Marie Maier 4
"Angelina Johnson. Paul L. Dunbar
Loretta Simpson
"His Courier" ...... O, Henry
Lois Wolff
"The Whistling Mother" .........
................. Grace Richmond
Florence Larson
"The Gift of the Magi" -. o. Henry
Hazel Erickson
"At the Race" .... Paul L. Dunbar
Adoline Beachem
"Snow Queen" ...... Hans Anderson
Octa Myers
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-05-08
OBITUARY

Mr.. Mike Fiska died April % at
1890 of pneumonia. The funeral was
held Saturday from the house at 1870
o'clock and o'clock from the Ger
man Lutheran church. The remains
were laid to rest in Hillside ceme-
terry. " s.
Mr.. Feska was married to Minnie
Feska in 1865, came to Wisconsin in
1868 and went to Michigan in 1869,
worked in the copper mines eight
years, came to Valley City in 1873 and
settled on his homestead where they
made their home. Seven children
were blessed to their union. Five
have gone to the great beyond. Fif-
teen years ago he moved to town
where he lived until his death. He
leaves his wife, one daughter, Mrs.
Arnold Zaun, one son William Fiska,
besides 10 grand children and five
great grand children and a host Of
friends. We wish to thank one and
all for their kindness and flowers.
The funeral was directed by N. A.
Holberg.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-05-08
COUNTY TAX
SUPERVISOR j

This morning Attorney Fred J.
Fredrickson received his commission
from Bismarck as tax commissioner
for Barnes county, the new Office cre-
ated by the last legislature. In the
appointment of Mr.. Fredrickson we
believe the tax commission has done
well and wisely. He has good judg-
ment and is careful and will do his
level best to fill the position with Gre
dit. The appointee is one of our
Barnes county soldier boys and we are
pleased to see his recognition. Where
ever it is possible to do so we want
these soldier lads looked after. The
confirmation of this appointment is
up to the county commissioners and
we hope they confirm this appoint
ment. ~
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-05-08
$2,oo0,o0OBAN
BONDS ORDERED

Two million dollars worth Of bonds
of the Bank of North Dakota series
have been ordered by the industrial
commission to provide :, the capital
stock of this institution. The COM
mission will issue 1000 $50 bonds;
1000 $100 bonds; 1000 $500 bonds
and 900 81 900 bonds. The $50 and
$1OO bonds will mature in ten years
and those Of the higher denomina-
tions in Is years.
Manager Waters and Director
Cathro of the Bank of North Dakota
announced today that they are not yet
prepared to make public any details
as to the terms under which the
bonds will be sold nor the interest
which they will draw. These matters
have practically been decided, but fin
al action on the part of the industrial
commission is awaited.
The bonds will be of the regular
coupon type.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-05-08
LANCER WANTS T0WNLEY
TO PROVE CHARGES
OR SHUT UP

You and your hirelngs have lied to and deceving
the farmers of North Dakota
any man North Dakota not big enough for the job
You hold your personal interests above the interests
of the farmers who trusted you.
North Dakota.
You, who hold nothing sacred-if the educational sys
tenn lies in your path you ruin the independent press
Greedy for power, hungry for money! self ndugent
in your whms and with mighty hate for all honest men
who dare to counsel moderation you beray the farmers of
dares to tell the TRUTH you wreck it, if honest
ercises his American privilege of opposing certain bs
he is crook, coward, dub and fool
You imported into North Dakota radicals by the
score Who are they. They pay taxes in North Da-
kota They have homesteads in North Dakota. They
are not pioneers of North Dakota They preach nothing
beyond discomfort. What are their characters?
These men Hhave mentioned have interests in North
Dakota To them North Dakota is nothing but inter-
esng experiment. The payment of taxes is to them as it
is to you matter of indifference.
Beyond milking them to the utmost OF your ability
you and these Ove not the farmer and not the
farmers friend.
You and your hirengs have said that am crook,
traitor and that have sold out and betrayed the farmers
of North Dakota. You prove it.
waive jury and ask that you prove it to the satis
faction to the who declared you bankrupt only few
months ago, the who freed Walter Thomas Mills only
few weeks ago. Prove it to the satisfaction of United
States District Judge Charles F. Amidon Of Fargo.
Prove it and l will resign the office to which was
elected Prove to the satisfaction Of this Judge and
will resign Prove that have done crooked act as
attorney general have given one that wrongfuy favor
that out of nearly thousand opinions given by
attarney general have given that wrongfuy favor
ed big Business Prove that have betrayed the farm
er Of North Dakota and the resignation will follow.
And if you with your horde of detectives organizer
spies and associates can't prove then stand convicted
before the farmers of the state of North Dakota the
who trusted you Stand convicted as self confessed liar
and an assassinator Of characer-a despcabe
than the ghou that seaks out under the of darkness
into mo Mans Land' and robs the dead
WILLIAM LANCER.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-05-08
FOR A BOOK!


20 for book and a shady nook!"
You recollect the rhymes,
Written how many years ago
In placid, happier times?
Today no shady hooks are ours
With half the world at strife
And dark ambition laying waste
d. The pleasant things of life;
But still the cry for books is heard
For solace of the magic word.
20 for book" the cry goes forth,
20 for book to read;
TO soothe us in our WEAKNESS,
The laggard hours to speed!"
From countless hospitals it comes,
Where stricken soldiers lie,
Who gave their youth, who gave their
strength,
Lest Liberty should die.
How small a favour to implore;
The books we've finished with-no
more!
A book can have thousand lives,
With each new reader, one;
A book should have thousand lives
Before its course is run.
And we few kinder things can do
Our gratitude to show,
Than give the freedom Of our shelves
To those that need it so,
Nor let them ask without avail
The sweet beguilement of tale.
Published in the interest of the VAL
lex City books for soldiers drive May
s to 10.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-05-08
VALLEY CITY TO
HAVE BALL TEAM

At meeting held at the Club Bill
lard Parlors last evening it was de-
finitely decided to put ball team in
the field this season. The team will
be comprised entirely of local talent
and will carry no salaried players. The
first call for practice will be at 10:30
Sunday morning, weather permitting.
Two games have already been sched-
uled, one with Moorhead, Minn., for
May 18, and one with the All-Ameri-
cans later in the season.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-05-08
NINTH DISTRICT
CHAIRMAN SPEAKS

To County Chairmen:
Splendid service has already been
rendered and we will try not to ask
you for needless effort. In justice
to our government and ourselves, how
ever, we must call your attention to
the actual situation in the Ninth Dis
trict. ~ .'
To date So counties have reported
complete subscriptions. N94 -. -.
The total amount reported by the
counties in which the campaign has
been completed is $68,95O 900. These
are the exact figures. We have a long
way to go.
There are still 235 counties in which
the job is not finished.
The banks have only reported up to
noon of the 30th $4,000, 0,000-$105,-
100000 short of our allotment.
By the time you get this letter there
will only be eight days more for So
licitation~ before the end of the cam
paign. There will not be days ex-
tension Of time given. The cam
paign closes May tenth.
We are naturally anxious about the
results. If your county has not reach
ed it's allotment, will you not give it
one final twist, put behind it your time
vigor, stir up the country workers, put
the enthusiasm and punch into the
final squirt that is necessary?
This is the last campaign. We know
your workers are tired. You are
probably tired yourself. Prior to last
November the eleventh., probably ev-
cry soldier in France was tired, but
they could not leave until their job
was finished and they were discharg-
ed, and as they stayed until they COM
pleted their task regardless of their
feelings, so must we. r.
We realize that the delay in the
farming communities up to the pres
time is due almost wholly to the con-
dition of the roads in the beginning of
the campaign and also to the very late
spring and the desire of the farmers
to get their seed into the ground.
Surely it is vitality important to fin
ish seeding. At the same time, it is
absolutely necessary that the bills
of the government be paid and that
the securities offered be sold.
We find that some of the counties
which have already completed their
.allotments have utilized the men from
the cities and towns as solicitors in
the country rather than to depend
upon the farmers who are busy get
ting in their crops. The telephone has
been used freely and many other
schemes have been adopted which
have proven successful in different
parts of the district. Are you using
any or all of these means to help you
clean up the job? ~
To be perfectly frank with you,
we are uneasy. We have waited until
the very last minute to call it to your
attention. We cannot postpone it
longer and we know that asking is the
equivalent of having it done, conse-
quently we feel very confident that
when we ask you-"Will you clean up
this job and do it now ?"-you will do
it.
We cannot get credit for our sub
scriptions until the banks make a re-
port Of their subscriptions to the Fed
eral Reserve Bank. Rush your cards
forward and urge the banks to make
their postal card reports to the Fed
eral Reserve Bank on the amount of
subscriptions turned in to them.
Yours for the Victory Loan,
A. r. ROGERS,
Chairman
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-05-08
|<DRUNKSARE TOO:
CENER0US"' COURT

When Henry Berg of Valley City,
was arraigned in police court this
morning charged with being drunk,
he complained that the money taken
from his person last night after he
was taken to the police station was
not all returned.
"Men under the influence of liquor
are altogether too generous" replied
Judge Monson-in defense Of the hon
esty of the police. Berg saw his mis-
take and apologized. Before leaving
the court room, he thanked the
court and the police for the seven
hours sleep he had in the station
last night.
He said he intended to 60 to Fer
gus Falls last evening, but met q
party Of friends with liquor. Forum.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-05-08
CHECK RECEIVED
BY A. ]. HENRY

A. J. Henry, treasurer of this school
district, has received a fine big check
from the state, amounting to $91 600,
in payment of the bonds issued to
build the new. high school building in
this city. Now that we have the
money we hope to see things moving
along pretty soon.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-05-08
LUXURY TAXES
GO into EFFECT

New luxury taxes which are to help
pay the country's war bill go into ef-
feet toda. uand peculiar features of
the reven\ Saw were engaging the at
tention Of S,nue officials today. The
tax is 10 8 cent on clothing and
furnishings Eve a certain price, on
toilet articles Sstent medicines and on
soft drinks. y .,.
Ice cream $>daes eaten at the
counter or tabl pyhere they are sold
will bear the tax g cent on each 10
cents or major "A zion over 10 cents,
but revenue men = 4 today that the
tax will not apply ce cream bought
and taken away to @ consumed else
where. ] 'S%\ r." ~.
The man who buys a pint Of ice
cream and takeS@it home in bucket
will not pay the tax, and the. boy who
buys an ice cream cone and takes it
= one on the sidewalk to eat it will make
no, contribution to the cost of the war
The new scale of prices, unless
drink venders add extra pennies and
increase the price of each drink 5
cents, to include the war tax, will run
as follows:
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-08-17
STEPS ON WRONG PEDAL.

When Kit Carson stepped on the
aeeeierator instead of the brake Of
Eis automobile his noon, he had all
the action that he wanted, says the
Reno Gazette. He was bringing his
car TO a stop on Second street before
the Palace Dry Goods store, but when
his foot sought the brake peddle II
found the a~eeelerator instead, and
the a leaped forward, crashing into
the a of Grant Miller, which was
parked along the curbing.
Grant Miller's car in turn bumped
into d. A. Walkers a and all three
cars suffered damage.
The radiator and lamps of the Car
son car smashed up, the gas
tank and real tenders and lights of
Miller's a bent and the tenders and
gas tank of the Whitaker car damag-
ed.
Though no one was hurt and there
was no cutlery a crowd large enough
TO pack a theatre was there in less
than IN minute and blocked all traf-
fic at the corner. Carson told the
other car owners 10 have their ma
chimes repaired and send him tbs
bill.