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The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-02-19
Lee C0WELL IS
ELECTED PRESIDENT

An association comprising automo-
bile and truck dealers of North Da-
kota and western Minnesota was or
ganized at a banquet and get-to-
gether meeting of nearly 300 dealers
in the Waldorf Hotel Wednesday
night, the gathering being the closing
event on the Dealers day program for
the Fargo -Moorhead Auto show. i
Lee Cowell, former mayor of Val
ley City and an automobile dealer
there, was elected president of the
new association. George N. Keniston
Of Bismarck was elected vice-presi-
dent, and Harry Miller Of jamestown
was named secretary-treasurer.
The object Of the new association,
as outlined by Mr.. Keniston, who
delivered the chief address at the
banquet, is to inspire further CO.
operation among the automobile and
truck dealers Of the territory en-
bracing Fargo and Moorhead, and
to work comparatively for the bet
terment of roads in the Northwest.
Officers of the new organization were
charged with the duty of organizing
the association before the next Far
go -Moorhead Auto show, when deal
ers will meet here again.
The banquet Wednesday night,
which started at 10 o'clock with the
close Of the Auto show and continued
until o'clock the following morning,
was given by the Fargo Maorhead Au-
tomotive Trade association to visiting
dealers from North Dakota and west
ern Minnesota and to automobile fac
tory representatives, who are in the
city this week for the show.
Entertainment features of the pro-
gram, which had been arranged for
by w. A. Mcmillan of Fargo, were of
exceptional merit. Numerous humor-
Gus stunts were injected into a pro-
gram given by quartet comprised
Of Will Magill, Arthur Paulsrud, Wal
ter Wright and Alfred Hauser. They
sang several selections, and were lib
orally applauded by the dealers. One
vaudeville number from the Grand
proved valuable addition to the en-
tertainment program.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-02-19
PLAYASTR0NC
DRAMATIC PIECE

Eugene O'Brien has established a
tradition for romance, and in his new
est Selznick Picture, "The Broken
Melody" which opens tonight at the
Grand Theater, he more than lives up
to it.. In this new play he is seen as
struggling young artist who finally
wins the girl he loves and lasting
fame as painter.
Throughout his characterization is
marked by that charm, virility and all
around "humanness" which has served
to place him foremost among the
screen stars of today. Lucy Cotton
heads an unusually capable supporting
cast in a play that has been prepared
with all the care and artistic precision
that is so important part Of any
Selznick production.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-02-19

sion mortgages is brokerage, and not
income from real property within the
meaning of the statute and is not ex-
empt from the operation of the income
tax law. If the brokerage is paid in
cash and the transaction closed, then
l am of the opinion that he income
tax rate should be applied to the en-
tire amount, but if it is in the nature
of an installment mortgage, then the
income should be applied when the in
stallments are paid. I am aware that
the Federal Income tax administration
applies the tax rate to the entire
amount Of the brokerage at the time
of the transaction, regardless Of
whether it is in the nature of an in
stallment mortgage or not. hist ap-
pears to me to be bad upon principal
since an installment mortgage repre-
sents little value until paid and it
doubtless frequently happens that
some Of the installments are never
paid. This would necessitate same
sort of reductian at later date and
would cucumber administration.
Yours very truly,
F. E. PACKARD,
Asst. Atty. General.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-02-19
NEVER AGAIN" SAYS
FORMER Lacquer

Martin Selberg of Towner, N. d.,
solicited by A. C. Townley to renew
his membership in the nonpartisan
league, has penned few lines to
that dignitary, concluding his in
teresting survey of the situation cre-
atned by the Socialist leader of the
league with the declaration, "Never
Again"
His letter tells the story:
Towner, N. Oak, Feb. 9, 1920.
A. c. Townley,
Pres Nonpartisan League,
St Paul, MINI.
Dear Sir:-I received today your
letter asking me to renew my mem
bership in the Nonpartisan league by
sending you my check for $18. In re-
ply to this l wish to inform you that
l am through with your league.
DO you want to know why? Well,
| will tell you. Your platform, when
first joined the league was one of
economy. You were to save us taxes.
Instead our taxes have been doubled
for state purposes. Last year this
county contributed $4,000 to run the
state; this year we will contribute
$4,000. Where does this increase go?
Most of it to pay your long-haired
socialistic friends, the greater part
OF them not even taxpayers in North
Dakota, that you have added on to
the state payroll at fat salaries, not
because they were needed but be-
cuse they were socialists like your
self.
Then you have caused to be filed.
through your puppet, the governor:
every appointive office in the state
with men of the Stangeland- Totem
Macdonald type, nauseating to every
citizen of the state who loves his
country and fair play. You have
throttled the freedom of the press by
your unfair newspaper law which
puts one of your own papers with it's
canned" and often times false ar
tlcies into every county and kills off
THE little country newspaper whose
owner will not bow to your orders.
You have spent thousands upon
thousands of dollars gotten from our
hard earned earnings in the state to
stir up class prejudice and class ha-
tired and we can no longer live in
peace and friendship with our neigh
bors, as before.
In my opinion, you have sold to
me and others in the state who fell
for your spellbinders, a bigger gold
brick offer than the greediest cor
poration ever dared to even offer for
sale; you have corrupted more hon
est people to become your toe;'ss; ~
T+,;;Nlng and by promising them jobs,
than any other political boss that
ever tried to corrupt the state; and
you are steering our state into bank
ruptcy by your wild sucialistic ideas
of .state-owned everything-ideas
that have been tried and discarded a
hundred times as impracticable the
world over, yet even in New Zealand.
Is this not enough to make an hon
est man hang his head in shame
when he stops to think that he helped
to bind such a rule as yours on his
fair state? I say it is. Therefore,
NEVER AGAIN.
Martin Salberg.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-02-19
URt\yDY' :! FAC
T0k{EGR0WINC

The editor I = ped into the Stern
Candy Factory Serday without any
warning to see ct kind of a place
it was. We had'ss.ever been into the
manufacturing department and imag-
ined if we went when they did not
know we were coming we would find
things topsy turvy-but we got fooled.
Abe Stern was up there looking after
the business and we told him we had
come to inspect the place-some Of the
boys had been looking over the Times
Record and we thought it no more
than fair that we should do the same
Tor the candy, factory. That suited Abe
and he said "you are the guy we are
looking for" or anybody else in Valley
City or elsewhere. We are always
pleased to have anybody look us over
at any time. Well, to shorten this
story we were mighty we'll pleased to
find such neat and clean place.
everything being spotless so far as we
could see and handled in the most SAN
itary manner. We went from the top
clear down to the basement rooms
where we found conditions very good
and everything in order. We also
learned that this concern was much
larger than we had any idea of. They
are employing twenty-six people and
have four salesmen on the road all
the time so you can see they have a
large pay roll and are a growing and
important business for this city. One
OF the great drawbacks they are run
ming up against is getting houses for
their employees. They are carrying a
very large stock and are shipping
thousands of dollars worth of candies
and CONNECTIONS monthly to all points
in this state and over into neighbor-
ing states. They carry a large stock
and the company is now being turned
into stock company and later on we
shall be able to tell Of big things this
company intends doing. What we
want to impress on our readers is that
Valley City has a very we'll equipped
candy manufacturing institution that
furnishes employment to a large num-
Der Of people whose wages go into the
various stores and business houses of
the city and therefore is one Of the big
assets for the city. Then we want to
commend the hustlers at the head of
it for the efficient way they have built
up this fine business which is growing |
day by day and will develop into one
of the large manufacturing plants of
the state.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-02-19
MISS RUTH ST I.
DENIS IDEALS

The ideals of Miss St. Denis are to
dignity and ;beautify pure. dance, and
to present it again in a form which
will give it permanent place in Amer
ica's art life. For~ this reason the
girls chosen for this group are all
American girls, who have had the ad-
vantage of a thorough education. All
but two of the girls are good pianists,
nearly all of them draw, paint, and are
competent craftsmen. They represent
fine, wholesome, upper niddle-class
parentage-the class to whom we look
for our ideals of real culture. They
are following the dance because they
love it; the children of well-to-do par
ents, they are not forced to consider it
as medium of money-making, nor
does fame lure them. It is for them
means of expression of beauty in its
-loveliest form, through the instru
ments of human body, and it is their
desire to lend their energies and their
lives as constructive force in the de-
velopment of a fine art which shall be
based upon American ideals of whole
someness, and the fine culture of
sweetness and light which the out-of-
doors gives as nothing else can. These
girls know of the value Of regular ex-
ercise, simple food, plain, dignitied
clothing, fresh air and sunshine. They
are, Miss St. Denis feels, a represen-
tative type of young womanhood. The
ideal American type, clean and whole
some, free from affecttation, bad
clothes and stupid habits of mind.
They are disciples Of better life, {,
life of truth and beauty, and they
challenge your attention as such.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-02-19
OBITUARY

Mrs. Ole ]. Kjelland (maiden name
! Jessie Christine Davidson) was born
on the homestead near Hastings.
! Barnes county, Sept. l1th, 1891. She
was baptized the following spring by
the Rev. Bothny, and together with
her parents she came to Valley City
in the spring Of 1896. Here she at
tended school until the year 1900,
when the family moved to Green
Township. She finished her schooling
IN Green Township and Valley City.
On Dec. lst, 1915, she was married
to Mr.. Ole J. Kjelland, on whose farm
they have made their home up till the
present time.
Mrs. Kjelland, her husband and
two little children came to Valley
City short while ago to visit with
friends and relatives, and while so do
ing, Mrs. kjelland contracted inf1u-
enza-pneumonia which resulted in her
death Thursday, Feb. 18th, 1920.
Besides the sorrow stricken husband
and the two little boys, she leaves to
mourn her death her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Andrew Davidson, and the fol-
lowing brothers and sisters: Harry
Th., Arthur w., Walter. A. and Clar-
ence A.; and Eda P. and Edna NJ, be-
sides large group of relatives and a
host of friends, whose sympathy goes
out to the bereaved husband and
family q.
Jessie as she was commonly
known and called, was favorite play
mate as a girl, as we'll as an obedient
daughter, and after she grew to
womanhood she was devoted wife
and mother.
According to statements by those
who were near Mrs. Kjelland towards
the closing Of her young life, she put
her trust in God and His mercy.
May the all-wise, loving God sus-
tain the parents who lost their daugh-
ter, and the husband and children who
lost wife and mother; may their trust.
too be in the Lord, and may their hope
reach beyond the grave to the home
of no sickness, no sorrow, and no sad
good byes.
The funeral services for Mrs.
Kjelland were held at the Scandinav-
ian M. E. church Saturday. Feb. IA,
at 2:3O in the afternoon The great
abundance Of flowers as we'll as the
"crowd" that filled the
church speak in no uncertain voice Of
the great esteem in which this young
woman was held by the community.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-02-19
SPRlNCDALE HERD
WINS PREMIUMS

C. S. Brown. of the Springdale
dairy farm returned recently from
Crookston, Mimi, where he had been
attending the Red River Live Stock
Association meeting and sale and at
which he had his herd of Shorthorns
on exhibition. The Springdale herd,
he informs the Times-Record, won
first premiums in all classes shown.
He won a nice lot Of ribbons and he
was awarded a silver cup for the best
Junior herd of Shorthorns comprising
FIVE head, four heifers and one bull.
These were sired by the famous Finan
cier. The show held at Crookston was
second to none held in the northwest
and can be regarded as little inter-
national stock show. A much larger
business is expected to be done. at
Crookston next year. Every man in
terested in Minnesota is interested in
the Crookston Association and give it
their best support. Barnes county and
the state should support the stock
congress to be held here in March and
we believe that is just what is going
to happen. Mr.. Brown hopes the
farmers of Barnes county will raise
a bunch of hogs similar to one Mr..
Green, of Stevens, Mimi. raised, SELL
ing one hog for $925 at the Crookston
sale. The income from this SOW last
year was sold through the sale at
Crookston and netted him profit OF
$4,000 Why should our farmers raise
wheat, inquiries Mr.. Brown, when corn,
hogs and clover is the larger part of
industrial farming in North Dakota,
when raised in connection with the
growing live stock industry of the
state. The points raised by Mr.. Brown
are certainly very pertinent and well
worth paying attention to by farm.
ers Of this state. Stock raising OF
the right kind pays, so does the rails
ing of hogs, corn and clover.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-02-19
OF INTEREST TO
PROPERTY HOLDERS
OPINION

IcOI udl =.
Hon. Gordon V. Cox,
Income Tax Property Tax Com.
Bismarck, North Dakota.
Dear Sir: Replying to your letter
of February 3rd, in which you inquire
concerning the construction of certain
provisions Of the income tax law, |
beg to advise you: -"
1. In my judgment, income received
as interest upon land contracts, that
is, contracts for deeds wherein the
title remains in the vender, is exempt
from taxation under the provisions of
the income tax law. While the matter
is not without difficulty, l have no
doubt that it was the intent Of the
farm loans from the operation of the
income tax act, to resure at low rate
of interest as possible for the borrow
er. No one questions where the Incl
dent of the tax on farm mortgages
falls-the borrower invariably pays
the tax. The same is true of a tax
upon land contracts-the buyer who
is usually struggling to possess him
self Of home, must pay the tax.
2. AS to the income received upon
notes, the security for which consists
of both real and personal property, |
am of the opinion that the principal
security should govern it's nature. If
the principal security is the real prop
erty, then am of the opinion that the
mere incident of chattels being added
thereto does not destroy the exemp-
ton. On the other hand, if the prin-
cipal security is chattels, then the
incidental inclusion of third or
fourth mortgage should not be said to
begin the loan within the exemption
provision. The predominant use gov
erns as to the exemption Of property
used for religious, charitable, or edu-
cational purposes. Where part of the
property is used for purposes within
the exemption statute and the re-
mainder used for other purposes, l
see no way out Of the dilemma indi-
Gated by your second question, except
to fall back upon this rule of predom-
mate use and stretch it to fit the oc-
casion.
8. Income received for negotiat-
ing loans upon North Dakota real
property in the nature of commits
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-02-19
THE "FLU"

(The Eesta correspondent sent in the
following poem on "The Flu" but
Z we do not know who the author is. J
When your back is broke and your
eyes are blurred,
And your shin bones knock and your
tongue is furred, 81.
And your tonsils squeak and your hair
gets dry,
And you're doggone ure,,ycu're going
to die. >''~,-.,~- ,-~. -
But you're eskerred you won't and
p afraid you will;
Just drag to bed and have your chill,
and pray the Lord to see you
thru. .-.
For you've got the |'du" boy, you've
got the. "flu"
When your toes curl up and your belt
goes fiat
And you're TWICE as mean as Thomas
cat,
And life is long and dismal curse,
And your food all tastes like hard
boiled hearse-
When your lattices ache and your
heads abuzz,
And nothing is as it ever was;
Here are my sad regrets to you
For you've got the "fu" boy, you've
got the "fu"
What is it like, this Spanish "fu?"
Ask me, brother, for I've been thru,
1t is misery out of despair,
It pulls your teeth and curls your hair.
1t thins your blood and breaks your
bones,
And fills your craw with means and
grOans,
And sometime, maybe, you'll get well.
Some call it s'fiu"-I call it hi!
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-02-19
OLD DORMITORY

Miss Mccarthy has recovered from
her attack of influenza and is now
able to resume her vigil during study
hours.
Mr.. Conrad Shefveland, Of Manfred,
called on Edna Johnson last Saturday
evening.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-02-19

Miss Anne Lamm arrived last night
to take charge of the trimming de-
partment at Miss Sargent's Millinery
shop.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-02-19
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to thank our friends and
neighbors for their kindness and also
for the many beautiful flowers sent
during the illness and death of our be-
loved daughter and wife, Mrs. O. j.
Kjelland.
o. J. Kjelland,
DIV and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Davidson
and family
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-06-11
J! NJ TO !. ......
VOTEON BONDS
Election to Bond the Town of
Culbertson for $4,000 to
Be Held July l, 1920.

The citizens of Culbertson will on
July l, 1920, vote for or against the
issue of "Water Bonds" in the sum
of $4,000.
At the request Of the City Council
of Culbertson w. B. Saunders of Hell
ena, a civil engineer, visited this city
to look over the situation with "a view
OF constructing a new water system.
Mr.. Saunders is the man who laid
out and supervised the erection of
the water and sewer system at Pop
lar, and is at present supervising the
water and sewer system at Scobey.
1t has been apparent to the Town
Council for several years that the
present water system Of Culbertson is
inadequate.
Mr.. Saunders says that at Poplar a
supply of good water was found at
a depth of 62 feet, and similar sup
ply can be had at nearly the same
depth in Culbertson. 1t is proposed
to dig a well of adequate size, to
erect a water tower and pumping
station above it and to connect with
the present water mains and pipes,
and abandon the pumping station on
the river bank as well as the tank on
the hill and the main leading to the
town.
Voters can register for this election
on Monday and Tuesday, June 14th
and 18th.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-06-11
COUNTY AGENTS
ARE RESIGNINC

Director F. S. Cooley of the extern
sion service of Montana State College
announces the designations Of three
county agents in this state.
Paul P. Banker, agricultural agent
in Hill county for the past five years,
resigns to take up county agent work
in South Dakota at a salary far in
advance Of the amount received in
Montana.
W. H. Jones, agent in Saltwater
county, quits to take up the work of
assistant state leader Of county
agents in Washington at Il salary
above that now paid him in Montana.
Murray Stebbins, Valley county, has
resigned to take up work with !. COM
mcrcial organization in Valley coun-
ty. Mr.. Stebbins, also, makes the
change to the accompaniment Of n
nice salary increase.
Two, and. possibiy three, other
county agents have either tentatively
resigned or have announced their in
tcntion Of .resigning this summer, it
is said af the extension directors Of
flee. In each instance the men have
received offers of salary in other
states above the salary levels possible
in Montana.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-06-11
,J0HNS0N'S "RADI-
CALlSM" IS ONLY
PALE PINK"
Californian's Program Being
Smothered - But Johnson
Will Run On Any "Old
Platform His Friendship
For Labor Is For Political
Purposes.
California Pro-Mexican War
interests Behind 'eHiraIm'
BY Paul Hanna,
Staff Correspondent,
rrb, E,1oro%o<l D~occ

Chicago, Ian. S.-Paris had it's
Woodrow Wilson. Chicago has it's
Hiram johnson. And the Fourteen
Points were no more thoroughly pin
cushioned by the secret imperialists
Of Europe than Johnson's program is
being asphyxiated by the practical
politicians whD have drawn up the
Republican platform.
Many millions Of Americans are
following the conduct Of Hiram john
son at Chicago with the same hopeful
anxiety with which still more mil
iorS awaited the outcome of Will
sons combat with the cynical states
men ut Paris. When Wilson was
rolled out at Paris he called his
downfall Il mighty victory for the
ideals he had pronounced. Radicals
and liberals at Chicago are now WON
dering whether johnson, too, will cry
|"Vic.oly!" and pretend that black is
white after all that he claims to stand
for has been spat upon by a reaction
AIRY majority in the convention.
It will be easy for johnson to do, de-
w}lsb sREs ss94eaass Ss a MI fas sadies|fs.
Johnson's actual program is even
more ambiguous than were the Four
teen Points. He is against the Will
son treaty and league, but he has
never said he would not accept them,
with reservations. He is supposed to
oppose big business, but nobody can
define just wherein or to what extent
he opposes it.
johnson, they say, is popular with
laboc, hut this convention will 70 on
record to make it a crime for the
workers on public utilities to declare
IL strik" Does johnson defend the
right Of public utility workers to
strike? He is silent on the subject.
Next to its general right to strike,
labor Of Ill shades is demanding that
that power Of the courts to make
strikes Illegal by means of the in
junction shall be removed. In these
days of increasing tension between
capital and labor no candidate can
claim tho labor vote unless he takes
his stand against the injunction.
johnson takes no such stand.
John kept his hands clean of the
administrations record of labor sup
preston and threats during the coal
and outlaw railroad strikes, which
were generally applauded by big en-
ployers. But while he did not join
in the unfair attacks on labor, neitEl-
er has Johnson once raised his voice
to defend labor from those attacks.
johnson knows, and all the politi-
clans at Chicago this week confess,
that the nearly allied problems of la
Dor, cost of living and taxation will
prove bigger factors in the coming
campaign than the peace treaty and
league. The threat of Intervention
in Mexico is the only foreign prob
lem in which the bulk of American
labor can be said to feel lively in
terest.
California is pro-Mexican interven-
! Continued on; Page Four)