The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-05-13

busy days it made it bad for traffic or
would in a much larger city than Far
go. These things will have to come
to pass in due time as machines get
thicker and traffic heavier. 1t may
| make it inconvenient to the owners of
cars but in heavily populated cities it
:,;akes it safer for the public.
Delaware gives promise of being
the thirty sixth state to ratify the
federal amendment giving women the
light Of suffrage. Delaware up to this
time has refused to ratify and the leg
islature adjourned for two weeks
Since that time there has been a
l1ange Of heart among the law max
crs and the state senate of that state
yesterday passed the amendment by a
vote of II to 6. Only two republi-
cans voted against the measure and
one democrat voted for it, yet the
women leaders Of the country are
blaming the republicans for not put
ting through the woman suffrage
amendment Wonder how they do
sheir figuring. 1t is republican states
that have passed the amendment so
far. The resolution will now go to
the Delaware house with good
chance Of being passed, it is said.
With the passage of the Agricul-
tural appropriation Bill this week,
1877 North Dakota farmers will find
themselves released from obligations
totaling $35S,559, according to a state
ment made today by Congressman
George M. Young Of North Dakota.
This relief is brought about through
rider to the annual agricultural bill.
In 1918. $5,000,000 was appropriated
from the Presidents 100000, 900 War
Emergency Fund to be loaned to the
farmers where needed to purchase
seed, in order to speed up production
and to meet war needs. Following
the dry year the department issued
an order releasing the crop lien in
every case where the yield did not
exceed four bushels per acre, but in
no case were the claims against the
borrowers to be cancelled. This action
by congress will cancel all the notes
and release the debts.
The Twin City banks have clapped
the lid on All loans for big construc-
ton jobs, and now only small loans
on private dwelling houses and other
small buildings will be given. The
bankers declare that it would be poor
business methods to lend money while
the price of labor and raw materials
is sky high, and are taking this meth J
Cd Of stabilizing wages, as well as to
attempt to bring down the cost of
building materials. BY so doing these
banks are doing more toward bring
ing the financial condition of the
country back to normal than all the
overall clubs or boycott clubs in the
country could do. They declare that ;
wages must come down, as we'll as the
price of other necessities Of life. Peo-
pie are spending money more lavishly
upon unnecessities than ever before,
and only by these kind of methods can i
conditions be brought back to normal
and a financial crisis avoided.
Sunday is Mothers Day. 1t will be
observed all over our own country and
in various parts of the world Here
are some suggestions for the day.
Live this day as your mother would
have You live it. Make it a day of
pleasure to her through your loving
thought, visit, gift or letter; or by
having her as your guest of honor.
If she is not living, perhaps you can
of love and fidelity, not as morbid
sentiment. but in glad recognition
that she was to you, 1.-The best moth !
er that ever lived.' In her memory,
the sick or unfortunate in
hospital, home or prison. or some one |
else with whom 4 little JOY goes a long
way. It may set the blood tingling in
the veins Of those you think have no
heart, and who may think you have
none. The memory flower affords |!
many opportunities for q message of
sympathy, brotherhood or courtesy.
Minnesota has more gubernator-
ial candidates longing for the honor
Of heading the affairs of the state.
than she knows what to do with
They are going about it in the right !
way, however, by holding an elimina- |
ton convention in St. Paul at which |
time the delegates selected from each
county will unite and select one man
who they believe best qualified to run !
for the Office. This will be all right |
unless some of the present candidates
in the race let their personal ambi-
tions get away with them, and run
regardless of whether the are selected
d not. A. c. Townley's forces are |
going to make one last effort to get
some Of their socialists into Office in
hat state, and if some Of the present
anti-Townley candidates place their
personal ambitions ahead of the in
,erests of the state, it will give the
eague pretty easy shedding.
There must be something radically
wrong with the Courier News editor
VI else he is so afraid that LANCER
will be nominated at Minot-and his
nomination means his election-that
he aforesaid editor is circulating the
eport that Mr.. LANCER was turned
Town in his own county. This is wrong
n every parficI1]ar Tho Marion co,,n