The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-04-01

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Holland still insists on hanging on
TO the former kaiser and it begins to
look as thought the old reprobate Will
die of old age before he is brought up
for trial.
Too many cooks are apt to spoil the
broth, That appears to be the status
of the fight for the governorshlp OF
this state at the present time. The
itch for office seems to have become an
epidemic.
Are the republicans going to permit
Newberry to retain his seat in the SEN
ate. If so, what becomes of the al
legged reason for denying Berger his
seat ?--Courier-News.
Counter question-Why are not
Townley and Berger serving their
terms in the pen? They were convict
ed, were they not?
Ii a man is really and truly honest
ne does not have to get up before
crowd of people every few days to an
nounce that fact from a public plat
form. The people in the community in
which he lives know how honest that
man is without him telling about it.
We have always been suspicious of
that man who gets up on the house
tor and yells out to the world that he
is honest.
4 timely suggestion has been made
to the editor to the effect that we in
vite the fellow who took the census at
Jamestown to come down to Valley
City and take ours over again.
Jamestown is credited with being half
as large again as Valley City and we
are inclined to think that we either
have not half been counted or else
jamestown has been we'll padded.
Delaware is one OF the smallest
states in the union but at this time it
looks bigger than any place in the
world to the woman sufraglsts and
4ts decidedly Of more Importance than
any place. Delaware has an area of
1865 square miles while North Dakota
has an area of 70,1S3 square miles
but in importance to the women of the
United States that little spot of
ground called Delaware is more i'm
portant than the whole Of this vast
country for few days.
John Steen is another good man who
is being groomed for the governorship
Mr.. Steen mas had his chance at the
turn of the wheel and had better but
bo lo
any in this direction. North Dakota
needs from those who claim to be men
Of bigness in this political game a
little sacrifice for the good Of all. If
every man who thinks he is capable Of
filing the governors chair sticks to
that idea there will not be room on the
primary ballot to hold all of their
names. Cut out this Office hysteria and
settle down to real craftsmanship by
getting behind that man who stands
the best show to win-you know who
that man is-Bi]l LANCER.
Bismarck is protesting its census
count and demands a new deal. Bis
,narck claims to have at least 5000
population instead of not quite 1000
as the returns from the last census
We are rather inclined to the belief
that it is a just kick because on ac-
count of so many new fat jobs having
been created by the last Legislature
we feel sure Bismarck's population
must have increased at least several
hundred. And perhaps that might &C
count for Valley City falling down.
number of our former citizens are
on the pay roll at Bismarck. Let's
have recount at both ends of the line
A. F. Bowen, the noted socialist
agitator, who has made North Dakota
his home for great many years, and
who is in large measure responsible
for this wave of socialism that has
swept over North Dakota, has been
nominated by the Minnesota nonpar-
tisan convention for congressman
from one of the Gopher state districts
Mr.. Bowen very conveniently changes
his residence in few months so that
ne can sacrifice himself on the altar
of public service for the people and at
the same time help strengthen the So
cialists in Minnesota. Our nelghbor-
ing state has no time now to sympa-
thize with us-it has troubles enough
of it's own to fight the pest that has
gotten a big start in Minnesota.
In recent statements published on
The worlds fire loss per capita we find
that the United States ranks second,
Canada heading the list. 1t costs Can
ada $273 per capita annually for fire
losses and the United States comes
next with 1925 per capita. Spain,
Belgium, Russia, France and England
come next while it costs Germany only
Csc per capita for her losses. The
United States could have just as low
a figure if more pains were taken to
prevent the starting of fires, such as
cleaning up old rubbish, seeing that
chimneys are kept in working order
and seeing that match is out when
it is thrown away. If everyone took
this responsibility upon him or her.
self we would greatly reduce this fig
urc aid not only save this amount in
real cash but would doubtless save
hundreds Of human lives every year