The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-12-30

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The state supreme court has denied
the motion of the state auditing board
to have the industrial commission turn
over the records of the Drake mill.
Certainly, we expected just such de-
cision from the court.
The democrats are trying to clean
up their campaign debts. 1t is a
mighty hard job to get democrats to
come across just before most OF their
Office holders are to step down and
out. On the other hand it is easy for
the republicans to get the coin because
great many of them are looking for
ward to getting nice fat appointment
of some kind.
A Milwaukee brewer has asked per-
mission to make beer for medicinal
purposes, and the request has been re-
fused tentatively, so says Prohibition
Officer Nelson A. White, of Wisconsin.
If this sort of thing should be allowed
we can see where beer is going to be
the principal prescription and the doc
tors of Wisconsin are going to become
millionaires writing these prescrlp-
tons.
L. J. Wehe, who was removed from
the state workmen's compensation
board last April by Governor Frazier,
has been ordered restored to his po-
sition by Judge Nuessle in district
court. L. j. has hit out home run,
we will now wait and see II GOV.
Frazier puts him out at the home
plate by the aid Of the supreme court.
McGovern says in the daily papers
TODAY that he is not hiding any records
of the Drake mill from the state audit
ing board. But we notice they are
shooting the records to other places"
every time the auditing board asks
for them-just like the state bank was
Shooting the worthless paper from
the Fargo bank to other state banks
when the Scandinavian American
bank was Investigated by Mr.. LANCER
some time ago. Oh, no, they are not
hiding anything.
The editor and Hugh Mcdonald
were discussing the need OF COM
munity hall here and how the money
could be raised, to finance the same.
We agreed that our state Legislature
should pass law taxing all bach.
elors and widowers over the age OF
twenty-five 500 per year the money
to be placed in the public service tund.
It was also decided that inasmuch as
women had now reached the same
loftv estate as the men, that all
spinsters over that age should also be
taxed $500 per year. This would be
verv simple method of raising quite a
fund each year in Valley City for pub
lie building purposes and we rather
think that those whom we have put
in this taxable class would be perfect
~ willing to pay this tax.
A delegate convention has been
called to meet at Bismarck on Janu-
ary IA for the purpose OF reorganl-
ing the nonpartisan league, and put
ting that organization into what the
leaders say is the hands of the rank
and file. Delegates will be elected to
this meeting on Tuesday, January IL.
There has been a growing feeling for
some time that the nonpartisan league
should be put into other hands than
Mr.. Townley, but whether the meeting
at Bismarck will result to any advan-
tage to the rank and file of this or
ganization remains to be seen. II mr..
Lemke is made king OF the order IL
will be just like jumping out OF the
frying pan into the tire-or worse:
That meeting is going to be one OF
interest to everybody in the state and
it's deliberations will be keenly watch
ed by those on the outside.
An effort will be made this winter
to revive the death penalty IN Mime
sofa. The claim is made that the fear
of the death penalty will put stop
to many murders that are now COM
mitted because if anyone is caught and
convicted it means life sentence and
sooner or later the pardoning out OF
the penitentiary of the murderers.
Personally we are in favor Of the
death penalty. A deliberate criminal
who commits murder Intentionally and
wickedly has no more right to live
than a poisonous reptile. There are
cases where murder is committed in
a fit of temporary insanity where the
death penalty might be unjust but in
most cases it is not too severe for the
criminal. Take the Layer case in our
own state for instance. He killed about
eight people and was sentenced Tor
life. Now they are already working
to get him pardon.
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Arthur LeSueur, one of the leading
socialists of the country and one OF
the fellows who helped put this dawn
of a new day upon US, is now doing
his best to undo the work that ne
helped to do. Arthur says the laws
were badly framed and that this in
dustrial program should be taken out
of politics. He is not telling the peo-