The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-02-26

the post are drumming up tradeand
there are not few attending the
school whose sons are post members:
The post is fighting the red menace OF
radical socialism, is fighting this de-
structive fire with the best and only
extinguisher-e
Bismarck, N. D., Feb. 24.-Preach-
ers and others opposed to the initia-
tive of the laws repeating the blue
Sunday statutes are flooding the mails
with literature of an unfair variety.
F. L. Watkins, secretary of the North
Dakota Law Enforcement League IS
the author of several pamphlets e4
pecially directed at the proposed re-
peal Of the anti-cigarette law and
which would substitute a license OF
500 per year with severe penalty
for sale of cigarettes to minors. W. at
kins in his literature fails to mention
the license paid and gives the impress
sion that there is no bar to prevent
children from getting the cigarettes.
Statement is made that wartime dis
tribution of cigarettes by the govern.
ment and Red Cross has ceased. This
is deliberate mis-statement. Pro-
paganda is also being circulated by
these agencies that the American Lee
gion is backing the campaign. This
is lie, says Legion officers. They
point out to the vote taken by the
posts which stood 5000 to 172 for re-
peal Of the anti-cigarette law as the
attitude of members, but positively
state that the organization is not, and
has not been active or interested in
the campaign other than seeing that
the people Of the state secured vote
on the matter The Legion is not, nor
are it's officers personally interested
in the campaign for the passage of
the four bills initiated. That men who
are Legion members are active is selz;
ed upon by the preachers and others
as evidence Of the activity of the le-
gion as an organization. The whole
for passage is being man.
aged by the Young Mems Independent
League, but the expressed personal
Legionaire sentiment of 60 to for
passage is seized upon by the oppo-
sition as an opportunity to knock the
legion as an organization.
Scranton, N. D., Feb. 24.--Adnit-
ting that he had been deceived; con-
Tossing that he had been dictated to
in the matter of voting for Bolshevik
apologizing for damage
which he had done which he could not
repair in twenty five years, but prom
ising to spend the rest Of his life try
ing to make amends, was the sensa-
tional and startling action Of D. 3.
Arnold, state representative, Mineral
Springs, at political meeting before
-hree or four hundred of his district
at Scanton last Thurs
lay afternoon.
Attorney General LANCER for three
!ours had been burning up the socl-
alistic regime which has esta blished :
is own little autocratic government in
North Dakota. 1t was a mixed aud
ence including many staunch leaguers.
Finally LANCER announced that he
lad a Few things to say about the rep> !
'esentative from the district.
Arnold rose to his feet and asked to
De allowed to make a statement. :
He then made his way to the plat
form and declared that his suspicious
the management OF the
league had been confirmed. He public
y apologized for official acts and
pledged himself to fight the Townley
brand of Bolshevism until his dying
lay.
The crowd went mad. (Arnold's de-
lection is considered the most serious
that the league has suffered in a year.
He was more or less of lieutenant
floor leader Of the recent regular and |!
special sessions Of the legislature. I
That others, innerved by his ac-
ton, will refuse to longer be made po-
litical tools and catspaws was evident
when almost the same scenes were re, !
peated Thursday evening at Reeder
when II. O. Brotsborg representative
from that district, also denounced
and swore to fight the So
cialistic communication menace which
has throttled North Dakota.
SHEYENNE VALLEY