The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-04-29

Some of the states are going to d
lot Of trouble instructing their dele
gates to the national convention just
how and who to vote for. Perhaps il
wouldn't be a bad plan to give these
delegates memory course. 1t Is
pretty easy to forget, you know.
Instead Of buying little Willie {
pair of overalls in order to keep ur
with the present movement, what is
the matter with cutting down that ole
pair of pas trousers to Willie's tit
That would be real conservativeness
and would be taking crack at the
profiteer in the solar plexus region.
We can remember quite strongly the
time during our young life when we
used to get more sugar than you could
carry home for one dollar and also
when we could get hver-while it
lasted-for nothing. Those, however,
were in the days of real sport. Bring
back the old days, the days of long
ago"
A. c. Townley was persuaded by
Gov Frazier recently to take an air
plane flight over Bismarck. 1t is re-
ported to have been of very quiet
nature devoid of all stunts and that
Arthur stood the ordeal we'll. The state
wreckers are all getting accustomed
to going up in the air and are getting
ready for the balloon ascension which
is scheduled to take place the latter
part of June.
The receiver of the late rabbit con-
Germ that did quite fourishing bust
ness around here. has been authorized
by the court to sell off over three hum
dred rabbits to buy feed for the other
three hundred odd Dummies that he has
on hand. Here is an excellent oppor-
tunity for our people to buy some rab-
bits at much less than the regulation
price of ten dollars per head.
Governor Frazier has issued an or
der suspending Mr.. Wehe, of the COM
pensation bureau. But somehow or
other Wehe does not approve of the
governors orders and refuses to va
cate the office. When one Of those
chaps gets his feet into the public
trough with it's rich pickings. they are
hard to pry loose from the job.
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The trouble with the overall epe-
denic that is going through the coun-
try to combat the high cost of clothes
is, that the demand for overalls is
creating shortage along these lines
and the prices are going up so high
that it will cost about as much for a
suit of overalls before long as it
use to cost for an ordinary suit of
clothes, which leads us to ask how
much benefit the public will get in
the end. They say its an i'll wind
that blows nobody any good" so the
overall manufacturer will reap quite
benefit from the latest fad.
The league of nations got another
black eve in Nebraska Tuesday when
Hiram Johnson, who has made his
fight against the treaty in that and
MANY other states, carried Nebraska
against the field. If there is any
democrat in the White House who
thinks his notion on this peace ques-
ton is greater than that Of the people
he bad better stop and listen to the
voice of the people as expressed at the
polls. President Wilson has made a
glorious fzzle of this whole peace
question and still insists that his opin-
ion is the only dyed wool cor
rect one, at that. Hiram johnson is
going into the republican national con-
veution with very strong following
and it would not surprise us bit if he
should sweep that convention by his
attitude on the peace proposition. 1t
depends on the California primaries
that are coming along in few days
If he carries California then look out
for Mister Johnson.
The whirlwind race that Hiram
johnson is making all over the coun-
try is making the real politicians ner-
vous about the outcome of the nation
al republican convention. Hiram is
running like a steer in field of corn
and he knocks down the well laid
fences of the old liners just about like
a bull in a china shop smashes up
things. Political dopesters are now OF
the opinion that Friend Hiram is to
be reckoned with, and they are treat
Ing MIN WIN llCLle more respect tldl
they did awhile ago. He puts us in
mind of the way the late Theodore
Roosevelt ran as an independent few
years ago. He virtually Had a major
ity of the republican convention but
the old gang unseated enough dele
gates to beat him out Of the nomina-
ton. Will the johnson boosters get
the same kind of jackpot. Blythe
way returns from Montana indicate
that Hiram johnson. has carried
Montana in the primaries.
The mails are flooded with letters
and circulars and booklets announcing
this and that candidate for the presi-
dency and state officers and in many
cases books giving the lives and
achievements Of these would be presi-
dents. all to the detrmientyKitd short
age Of the print paper situation. This
morning we received four circular
letters from one candidate who wants