The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-07-17

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bricklayers are of the same opinion.
The trouble is, viewed from one
side, that I use toothbrush, wear a
clean collar, live with my legal wife,
work for living, save up little mon
ey, keep most of the Ten Command
ments, and generally try to mind my
own business. Which is just plain,
disgustingly common.
The trouble is, viewed from the
other side, l don't care hang about
sassiety and our best people; / don't
want to keep up with the Joneses, it
doesn't interest me to be bowed to by
Mrs. Gotrox, nor be invited to the
Duchess of Dingbat's tea. When i
get through my days work want to
60 home and tend the garden, eat
with my family, play with the child
don't keep the two great command
rem, read book, and 60 to bed.
am sung in the bog Of decency. I
ments Of the emancipated for / don't
hate my neighbor nor love my neigh
boris wife.
/ am not of any elect.
am not misunderstood. On the
contrary, my neighbors have me sized
up about right, and I'm getting about
all earn.
don't believe the country is going
to the dogs. l think the president is
doing his durndest according to his
lights. l believe most men are hon.
est and want to do the square thing,
and most things will get we'll if you
don't pick 'em too much.
am full of the most bourgeois
opinions. I believe prohibitions a
good thing and that we'll all be glad of
it in ten years from now. I don't see
why a woman shouldn't vote if she
wants to. l think the men who are
running the big business of the coun-
try, and who came to their positions
by natural selection, are doing it bet
ter than lot of walking delegates of
the Plumbers union would do it, AL
so that a man is not necessarily
criminal because he's rich, nor a no.
body because he's poor.
1 am in the bourgeois class, along
with Abraham Lincoln, Henry Ford,
J. J. Hill, Ed Howe, Melville Stone,
James Whitcomb Riley, Walt Mason,
John Wanamaker, William Shakes
peare, also the typewriter and tele-
phone girl, the clerk in the shoe store,
the milkman, the doctor, lawyer,
preacher, and saloonkeeper.
don't belong to the We're de Veres,
and my ancestors probably came over
steerage. Neither do belong to the
proletariat, and Upton Sinclair, the
United States Senate, Debs, and Ber-
get get on my nerves with their un-
ending bellyaches.
guess I'm hopeless. I even 60 to
church.
Candidates for the presidency are
already looming up and are being put
forth by their friends. California has
decided to offer Senator Hiram john
son as it's candidate for the office of
chief magistrate and is getting his
qualifications set before the people.
1t was California that settled the
presidency last time. Had that state
remained in line for the republican
party last time Mr.. Hughes would
have been president but the women
of California "who fell fort ne he
kept US out of war" stunt, carried the
state for the democrats and Mr.. Will
son was it. Personally our choice up
to this date lies between Hiram John
son and Major Gen. Leonard Wood.
Either one would make good presi-
dent. The trouble with these early
presidential booms, however, is that
they get frostbitten from being fore
ed too early in the campaign. On the
democratic side Senator Chamberlain,
of Oregon, seems to be the favorite
for the job outside of the present in
cumbent. He is strong man looking
at it from a democratic standpoint.
THINK IN 1NTEREsT-sAVE :"
President Wilson has vetoed the
agricultural bill containing the repeal
of the daylight saving clause. The
president gives as his reason that the
daylight saving is a great economic
measure and should be sustained. We
are of the opinion that the president
is dead wrong in his veto. During war
times this was all right but at this
time there is absolutely no reason to
advance the clocks. We are running
on two schedules here now and it is
inconvenient and unnecessary. In the
country the farmers are maintaining
the old schedule and in the cities we
are going on the new. This creates
confusion. Farmers get up early
enough as it is under the old time
without having to get up an hour ear
lier. The stores close on the new time
consequently many farmers who come
into town on the old time find the
stores closed when they get here.
This makes it bad again. We can get
in all the time we want and all the
daylight we want under the regular
system without having to shove the
clocks ahead. We hope congress will
pass the bill over the presidents
veto.
THINK IN INTEREsr-sAvE-
They say that money will do every
thing in this country; that it will buy
lawmakers as we'll as judge. They say
that the big interests can 60 to con-
gress and buy any kind of laws they
desire. Is it true? Do you know that
the brewers and distillers Of this
country represented some Of the big
gest business we had? Their capital
;zat On ran into ire billions 'rtc:r
incomes rivaled the steel trust. Their
employees were numbered by the hun