The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-11-17

editors know very we'll that the pres
ent Frazier administration is still do
ing business at Bismarck and that the
new officials have not gone in yet
Why don't they cut out this foolish
ness and wait until the other fellow
gets a chance.
One of the greatest conferences
ever held in the world is now on in
Washington-the disarmament con-
ference. Secretary Chas. Hughes has
been made permanent chairman of
this conference and he is showing
very much craftsmanship so far in
his work. The United States through
Mr.. Hughes has offered a very liberal
program to this conference in the way
of disarmament and points the way
to the other nations of the world very
unselfshly. There is absolutely no
reason why the nations of the earth
cannot disarm very materially and
keep disarming year by year. There
should never be another world war
and there should never be a war be-
tween nations. If the nations of the
earth want to live in peace they can
do so if they are willing to leave greed
and conquest off their bill of fare. 1t
is going to take some real statesman
ship to bring this about in the Wash
ington conference but it is pleasing to
see that England at least is willing
to join with this country-or at least
surface indications point that way.
The other nations may be whipped
into line and the result of this con-
ference may see general disarmament.
We hope so.
Capper's Weekly, owned by Sena-
tor Arthur Capper of Kansas, has
made powerful appeal to it's half
million subscribers, mostly midwest
farmers, to give their low priced corn
to the starving women and children OF
Armenia and the Bible lands, rather
than burn it as fuel this winter. That
the appeal las had a telling effect is
shown by the fact that not bushel
of corn has yet been burned by west
ern farmers and that many inquiries
are coming in daily to the Near East
Relief as to how the corn can be ship
ped. Here is the heart throb appeal
put out by Capper's Weekly: "While
thousands of children in Armenia and
the Near East are starving, farmers IN
the United States are talking OF burn
ing corn as fuel this winter, rather
than sell it at the present low prices.
It is a world tragedy that in Europe
children, innocent Of any wrong, must
pay the supreme penalty while in
America food is being destroyed by
flames. Only the exceptional farmer
would be unwilling to shiver a little
this winter to save the life OF some
starving boy or girl. A wagon load
of corn will defeat starvation. And
every bushel contributed to the mercy
grain pool being raised by the Near
East Relief, will take that much corn
off the market, tending to prevent
further price reductions and perhaps
eventually working toward an IN
crease. Warmth from burning corn
will not give much comfort if obtained
at the cost of a child's life
While some of the more radical
league papers are still continuing the
fight on the new state officials: others
are adopting more conciliatory tone
and advising the people to let Nestos
and his fellow officials elected at the
recall go ahead and try out their pro-
gram. The Courier-News said edi-
torially the other day that Nestos had
great opportunities to do things,
which perhaps is right. He can try
to do something but the way the state
is in now and the initiated laws de-
feated, his chances of doing very
much are slim. Anyway that is
mighty good way to look at the mat
ter and if some of the other fellows
would adopt the same attitude it
might help some. A majority of the
people voted for a change and now
that the time is about come for that
change to be made: it would not be a
bad blan to let the new bunch try it
out. This rank stuff about crooked
ness in the election being thrown out
by few radicals is mighty poor stuff
they know that there is nothing to
it, so why engender any more bitter
feeling by keeping it up. If there was
any crookedness in the election we are
perfectly sure that those who are
making these bold assertions are faint
ID themselves. It gets North Dakota
Nowhere to keep this feeling up. Let
IS abide by the result of the majority
md give Nestos and his co-workers a
nance to make good. If they fail