The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-05-26

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The Bismarck Tribune very aptly
remarks "pretty soon newspapers
NAV be running extras whenever Babe
Ruth doesn't make home run" There
is more truth than poetry in that. At
this time both the United Press and
Associated Press send out special tel
egrams every time Babe hits home
run-just as if that was important
worlds news.
Henry Ford is not satisfied that the
supreme court has cleared Senator
Truman Newberry so he is pounding
the United States senate on the back
in an effort for that body to investi-
gate the Newberry campaign fund. If
Mr.. Ford is wise he will remember
that trite saying people who live in
glass houses should not throw stones
When it comes to spending good mon
ey to try and get elected to the SEN
ate Mr.. Ford is some spender.
The death of Chief Justice White re-
moves one of the most efficient su-
preme court justices that we have
had President Harding will have the
appointment of successor to the late
chief justice and the friends of ex-
President William Howard Taft are
expressing the hope that he will give
him the appointment. The Times-Rec-
ord believes that if such appointment
is made it will please more people in
the United States than any other ap-
pointment possibly could. He has
the temperament and the ability and
we believe he would be an honor to the
greatest court in the world.
A great fuss has been made over the
case of Chicago man who was list
ed as failing to respond to the draft
call. 1t was shown that he had volun-
teered and rendered distinguished SER
vice in France. It also develops, how
ever, that the man had twice changed
his residence without notifying the
war department or the local board,
and enlisted in town different from
the one where he was enrolled as sub
ject to the draft If there was any in
jury to his reputation through pub
LEGATION of his name in the Stacker list,
he was chiefly to blame.
James Keeley's suggestion that a
tree be planted on the national high
way for every man who gave his life
in the recent world war is an inspira-
ton. The central idea in it's latest
form is that a tree shall be planted
on main highway for each man who
wore the khaki or blue in the late war:
the trea to bear his name, unit, and
service. There were over four mil
lion in the national army. It has been
roughly estimated that at thirty foot
intervals a line of trees on both sides
of the national highway could be set
from New York to San Francisco and
still leave more than half the men
without representation.
President Harding has had the sat
isfaction of having one of his legisla-
tive acts while senator upheld by the
supreme court. Senator Harding was
the author of Section of the prohi-
bition amendment to the constitution,
which says that the amendment shall
not be operative unless it shall be rati-
fled within seven years of the date of
its submission to the states. A resi-
dent of California carried a case
through the lower courts and to the
supreme court based on the contention
that Section placed limitation upon
the action Of state legislatures and
was, therefore, unconstitutional. The
highest court of the land held other
wise and sustained Mr.. Harding's leg
islative judgment.
We are up against a menace at the
city park that perhaps many people
are not aware of. We allude to the
large number of rats that can be seen
most any time around the pens in
which the rabbits, badgers. etc., are
kept. Most any evening you can see
from one to half dozen rodents feed
ing in some of the pens-the writer
has seen them several times when
driving down the prive past the pens.
These rats are great breeders and un-
less they are exterminated the city
will become infested with these TO-
ucuIS. AZ dISO anu OIic1 PAoSSS
they have become a pest and extra
steps have had to. be TAX
en- to have them reduc
ed and exterminated as much as
pear to be a great place for rats to
i've in and we repeat that something
will have to be done to put stop to
heir multiplication. <e
Passenger rates have gone up again
20 per cent in this state and freight
rates about IS per cent. If the rail
.oads keep on pushing up freight
.ates they might as well take the
freight as it costs about as much now
@ pay the freight as the article you
,ay freight on: Passenger rates do
lot cut as much figure as the freight
'ates because it is only those people
Who can afford to travel that do so
md if they insist on travelling they
must expect to pay for it. But with
reipht rates it is different. The farm