The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-02-05

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BOOST For VALLEY CITY
I The mayor and others made visit
to the pool halls of the city last night
to see if school children were fire.
quenting these places, and discovered
that little boys in knee breeches were
loafing in these places and several OF
them setting up pins in the bowling
alley. This is contrary to the state
law to start with and secondly the pool
hall keepers know that it is breaking
the law when they allow these things
to be done. The fault is no worse on
the part of the pool hall keepers in a
way than it is for the parents them
selves to allow their boys to do these
things. If the parents themselves do
not take enough interest in their own
sons to keep them out of the pool halls
the pool hall keepers are not going to
break their necks firing them out of
their places of business apparently.
However, this neglect on the part of
the parents in no way releases the pool
hall men from any obligation to keep
the law--if they are breaking any
/ state laws they should be hauled up
into court and prosecuted that is all
there is to it. A little better censor
of these places by the police depart
ment of the city might help matters
some. We have patrolmen making
| regular beats around the city or at
! least we suppose they are doing this,
why not have them drop in and look
over these places and if they find
these boys frequenting them get busy
and pull the proprietors and at the
same time take the boys out Of these
places. If somebody commits bur-
gIary the police Immediately get busy
to get the theft this pool hall law
is being fractured why not use the
same kind of energy in prosecuting
this violation. There should be no
distinction when it comes to ques-
ton of breaking the law and to be
candid with you if we have an Elf
cient police force these matters should
be taken care of by this department.
The. remedy to our mind is very SIM
pie. The frequenting Of pool halls
by students of the public schools is
creating more trouble for the teachers
than any other thing that we know OF.
BOOST FOR VALLEY CITY
SOUTH DAkOTA'S EXAMPLE
Without making much fuss about it,
and without organizing a state bank
or throwing the state into political
turmoil, South Dakota is going about
the business Of extending rural ere
dts in a business-like and effective
way.
The rural credits board of the state
has undertaken to float bond issue
of S5,OOO,O0O, the bonds being in de-
nominations of $25, $50, 500 and
$500 They extend over a period of
20 years and draw interest at per
cent.
The plan outlined by the state law
is much similar to the federal plan:
The money derived from the sale OF
the bonds goes to create rural Gre
dts fund to be loaned to the farmers.
The state becomes guarantor OF the
fund. The loans are handled by a.
board of five members, of whom the
governor is the chairman
It is a simple, workable, effective
plan to provide cheap money Tor the
real farmers of South Dakota. South
Dakota hasn't been obliged to set up
any expensive machinery to handle 1t.
The work undoubtedly could be taken
over by some department of the pres
ent state government, and would re-
ouire very little overhead expense.
North Dakota would profit about
5000 900 a year if she could swap her
state bank for rural credits law SIM
liar to South Dakota 's.-Fargo Forum.
LOTS OF PEP LEFT
81 regret very much to learn OF
your loss by fire, but know that The
Tribune has always had lots OF Pep,
which has been stored up way back to
the time when my old friend Jewell
was editor and the Old Gang was in
power, and when everyone carried a
gun, but never thought of taking one
dishonest cent from the state writes
a Dunn county friend in enclosing a
cneck advancing his suDoCllPCIOAl eAii
other year.
If we had few old-time senator's
like Jud LaMoure, John Haggart,
Bailey Fuller, C. B. Little, Frank Tai
colt, Cox, Simpson and Cashell, and
many others of that day who were
just as good, things would be differ
emit. We would at least know whom
we could bank on, and a mans word
in those days was better than post
dated check"
Yes, as we look over our present
day members of the upper house
our Cahills and Leiderbachs and In
gersons and Bowmans-and as
we listen to their declarations of
principles we are forced to confess
that the old days, the days of the OLD
GANG, if you will, were not SO bad
The Old Gang no doubt had its fail
ings as have all Of us humans since
the days of Father Adam, but their
faults were not Of little and des-
nicable type. They were at least
Men.