The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-01-15

l who have magnified the ills of the
/ world, until he had aroused the
passions of his hearers, and they went
away disconnected and with griev-
ance against all the rest of mankind.
| We all recognize of course that the
millennium is long ways from being
here, but those of us yho have lived
half century can look back and
| measure the past with the present,
| with a general balance on the side of
the present. The man who works and
works hard as rule gets his reward.
He is too busy to listen to the rawlings
of the agitator, and has too much
common sense to believe all that this
class tell him.
The average mechanic belongs to
a source of strength and that
through organization he has been
better enabled to get recognition for
the things he asks, whether it is
wages or working conditions, but
ninety per cent of the union men are
not taken in by the fol-de-ral of the
agitator even in his own union.
1t is tribute to the level headed
ness of the American workingman
that he has refused to be herded
into political movements that prom
Use to reform the world and end
ignominy. 1t is also a tribute to his
common sense that those who have at
times been lured into the audiences
of the radicals, have kept clear head
and have refused to be stamped into
act sof violence.
But it is true that we have with us
in this country at present scattered IN
all the large centers especially, those
who are neither emissaries of the So
called revolution, or are unapprecla-
tive of what we mean by liberty, who
are ready to commit any act that they
believe will hasten the overthrow of
the government which they have been
fired up to believe stands in the way
of the worlds progress. 1t is this
class that is a menace, and that the
department of justice is at last moving
rapidly in experimenting the commun-
lists and keeping under surveillance
the less dangerous of the type. There
is a mighty small line of demarkatlon
between inhammatory speech and ac-
tual violence, and we don't believe in
extending the privilege of free speech
to every Bolshevik that lands on our
shores.-Mandan Pioneer.
-RrvW s.---
The Tower City Topics came out
last week with what it claimed was in
side dope on the candidate for COVER
nor to be put up by the l. V. A. 1t
claimed that G. A. Fraser was to be
the choice Of this organization. Then
the Courier-News this morning de-
MES that Fraser is to be candidate.
The fact of the matter is that all this
candidate business, rumors, etc., are
nothing but guess work. The great
duty Of the convention to be held at
Grand Forks next month is to select
the strongest and best available can
didate for governor and at the present
time the only man that is looming
up on the political horizon as the
strong man is Attorney General Lam
ger. There seems to be a growing
sentiment for that gentleman and
many petitions have been signed ask
ng him to become candidate for that
office. Mr.. LANCER has made no per-
sonal statement as to his intentions in
this direction but he is keeping up his
vigorous campaign in carrying the
truth to the people and is making
friends everywhere he goes.
-BUY W. S. S.
National Thrift Week starts next
Saturday and of course everybody
wants to get into this thrift week
game. Thrift can become habit just
like anything else-only this will be
a habit that is worth while, while some
of the habits people attach to them
selves occasionally are not. Thrift
as a habit leads one to have uncon-
scionsly or automatically without
thought, right attitude toward
money which will control the actions
in earning, spending, saving, invest
ing, and giving In other words, thrift
as habit enables one to master his
money matters" instead of being mas
tered by them. National Thrift Week
is a good time to start getting con-
troll of your money habits and develop
ing them throughout the year 1920 by
making economy rule of iron in life.
There are many thousands OF men
who are now hopeless failures whose
life might be summed up in the words,
"He was a good fellow when he had
it," But you will always notice that
the past tense is used-"when he had
it," There are other men who are
enjoying the comforts of life about
whom might be said, "He was good
fellow and he has it." Men are pretty
much alike, stripped of the unessen-
tials. Few of US can boast of inner
tied character-that is one thing we
must build for ourselves. One way to
build it is to get the thrift habit-the
habit of putting aside a few dollars
from the pay envelope every week or
month Save in the form YOU like