The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-03-18
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EDITORIAL


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The storm of yesterday played
havoc with the vote in the country and
a very light vote was polled IN the
state for this reason. The few scat
tering returns given III the morning
paper indicates that the towns are vot-
lng strong to repeal the blue laws and
if surface indications amount to any.
thing the laws will be repealed. 1t Will
be some days before the final vote IS
announced and before the real issues
arc settled although we should get
fair line up Of how things are going
in the evening papers tonight. we
have received no report from the coun-
try districts of Barnes county at this
time.
We read with considerable anuse-
ment from the Fargo Courier News
that the league was making gains IN
the election of yesterday. Only few
precincts had been received at that
time, mostly from the city of Fargo,
Grand Forks and Dickinson and few
other towns, and in the returns given
the anti -Townley ticket was running
about 2 to against the league. II
this is what is called making gains
the C. n is absolutely all llght-only
the gains were for the other fellow.
Miss Minnie Nelson got the highest
vote of all the delegates in the Fargo
vote of the Times Record editor was
second highest on presidential electo:
which is mighty nice of Fargo we
think.
Congress must take steps to decide
whether or not American troops vii!
be sent into action in Germany if such
an order is given by the allies. This is
an excellent example of where the
United States would be at if she ac-
cepted the peace treaty without reser-
vations, and became party to the
league of nations. The allies could
demand that the United States fur
nish troops to quell the rebellion and
then we could do nothing but comply
and go to the expense Of getting the
troops across and also the expense OF
getting them back again, and all for
the sake Of helping to straighten out
a little squabble in some foreign coun
try in which we have but very little
interest. This, however, would not be
the case now, as there are about 49,
coo American doughboys on German
soil at the present time and could
readily be put into action on short no.
tice, but by entering the league we are
bound to these countries and must
take part in putting down any 'erup-
tons which should happen to blow up.
Europe should take the get to work
cure" instead of being so ready to ac-
cept food donations from the United
States.
Speaking before convention Of del
egates of the Minnesota Shoe Retail
ers Association in Minneapolis, Fred
P Mann Of Devils Lake, N. D.. de-
clared that the only way to combat the
mail order house business is good in
telligent advertising on the part of the
retailers. He is right. Surprising
the mail order houses ceased sending
out their catalogues. You can readily
see where they would be at and they
were only too quick to see the advis-
Utility Of getting their goods before
the people in this way. But the local
merchant has better way of getting
at this matter-in other words the
local newspaper Advertising shows
progress on the part Of the merchant
and every customer likes to trade at
an up to date place. They are inform
ed through the ads when big sale
is put on, what articles are for sale,
the price and a great many other little
things which they are interested in.
The average customer does not care
to go into a store where he has abso-
Iutely no idea what price he is going
to pay but would rather buy where he
knows he can find the article he is
looking for and has somewhat of an
idea of the price he will pay There
is yet another way of getting at this.
This is through the circular letter, but
We doubt if this is quite so effective
since busy business man has but lit
tie time to read every circular letter
that comes into his oce and nine times
out of ten it will end it's days in the
waste paper basket, but after a days
work about the first thing man turns
to is the newspaper and settles down
for a few hours Of recreation to find
out the why, where and how of the city
and will also have the merchants ad
before his eye and will perhaps read it
from beginning to end while he has
paid no attention to it in the circular
letter form. Merchants all over. the
country are beginning to realize more
and more the vital Importance Of ad-
vertising as evidenced by the great
growth of advertising during and
since the war and a great volume of
business can be looked for in years to
come.
PORTABLE HOUSES
BE it ever so portable, there is no
place like home," Chicago is singing
these days, and the Chicago Real Els
tate board is arranging to help the
homeless finance the purchase of su-