The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-12-23

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The nonnartisn league editors at
their meeting at bismarck recently
passed resolutions in which they said
they would try to promote better
feeling between the people of the
towns and those of the country. 1t is
about time that this was done. For
the past four years they have been
sowing the seeds of hate and discord
broadcast all over the country until
the whole social system has been dis
rupted. It has now come to the point
where the farmer needs the coopera-
ton more than at any time in his
life, and he is turning to the business
man who has been reviled for help in
a time Of need. The business men of
the country have always been the
friend of the farmer not only in time.
of need but all the time, and they are
today trying their best to meet the
conditions that confront all classes at
this financial crisis that has come upon
the country, due to the falling prices
of grains. If this state had been
free from agitators and mischief
makers the past few years, there
would not be any need for this trying
to bring together the people OF the
country and the towns. These social
ist agitators, with desire to fill their
own pockets at the expense OF the
masses, have been responsible for all
this bad feeling that has existed. This
is a good time to cut it all out and get
back to a sane and sensible basis.
The Coopersrown chief of police has
resigned following a bad mlX-up on
the LIQUOR question. He was accused
of taking liquor from bootlegger and
keeping it himself instead of turning
it into the county officials. The city
council and mayor have said he was
not guilty and so far as they were
concerned he could hold the job but
the chief resigned just the same. In
his statement he says he knows who
did take the liquor but rather than tell
he would sooner quit the job: ms
is the whole story in nutshell. Here
we have an official sworn to DO his
duty to the people of the city in which
he holds office and to the state. Yet
he refuses to give the evidence in pre-
ference to "betraying friend.' ne
should resign his office and should
have resigned before he commenced:
He knew what would be expected OF
him when he took the job and if it
was contrary to his ideas he should
not have accepted the Office. That IS
one Of the main reasons that the en-
forcen1ent of the liquor law is not
more pronounced. We have too many
officials who go blind as bat about
the time they are expected to have
? clear vision to do their duty. When
we have conscientious officials IN or
fice-men who will do the work they
have sworn to do, then there will be
a better enforcement of the prohlbl-
ton law. If lot of these officials
would display half as much zeal about
enforcing this law as they do in en-
forcing burglary and like crimes, there
would be less whiskey running done
in this country.
We wonder if tne people of Valley
City really knew how much more
efficient water system was needed Tor
the city than we now have. The fact
of the matter is that we are in rather
poor shape for real service in case OF
q real disaster, something we hope
will never happen, but you cannot al
ways tell. Last Saturday night Tor
short time the north end of town was
without water supply and upon inves-
ticatirg the matter we discovered that
it was because the skating rink was
being flooded. That was perfectly all
right and we are mighty glad that the
''kiddies" are being provided for IN
this wav. But the thought that
struck the editor was: "lf fire had
broken out in, say our particular
neighborhood while this rink was be-
ing flooded, with this limited water
supply, it might have occasioned
loss of several minutes in getting the
water back in the mains and thus have
occasioned some one the loss of their
home or some property. We are not
making these observations with any
idea Of criticising anybody, but only
to show that of the water supply of
the city is so limited that water has
to be shut off to flood a small skating
rink, then it is time we as citizens
should try and get together with the
city government to get more ade-
quate supply of water for all purposes.
Some time ago we voted some sixty
thousand dollars worth of bonds for
more water mains through the bust
ness districts to provide more water
and pressure The city has been I'M
able to sell these bonds although the
contract was let for the work. Since
that time the council has been wrest-
ling with the problem of building an
additional tank on the north hill with
added laterels to improve the system:
This will cost in the neighborhood of
twenty-five to thirty thousand dollars
and maybe more. This might relieve
the situation for short time but then
again is it advisable to spend so much
money merely for a temporary per-
iod. When we do anything along these
lines it is far better to do it right and
permanent. We are only making these
rem arks to show the conditions as they
exist at this time. The mayor and
city council have figured on this pro-
position from all angles until they are
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