The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-05-19

roots must stand in surface water,
Good results can be secured with flax
on old wheat, oats or barley stubble
after spring blowing, if care is taken
to refirm the soil. If the work 8.
properly done, there is less chance of
a growth of weeds to interfere with
the flax than if fall plowed. Do not
place the seed too deep in loose
ground, disk, harrow and pack. Make
the seed bed firm enough to hold up
the shoes or disks Of the drill.
Has not the Bank of North OAK
ota had from. ten to thirty-fve mil
lion dollars of the peoples money ever
since it started in spite of the fact
that it started on wind. Of course
it has. Is there any bank this side Of
the Twin Cities that has had one half
or one-third such funds to do with?
Certainly not. Then why in the name
of common sense couldn't Cathro with
the State Industrial Commission back
Of him do business like other bankers
if his management was so great?
Registering checks" is simply an
other way of refusing to pay checks
| SoA.AS ~ peJ HAe.AS .SS
posted with the bank The Drake
mill was bought for $4,000. Plenty
Of capital was furnished. It paid no
taxes. 1t bot sacks when they were
! cheap. The managers told the public
during the two 1920 campaigns about
i it's wonderful profits. The Leader and
Courier-News fairly went into ecs-
tacies over those profits. Now it ap-
pears there was loss of $32, 900 and
no profit. Whoever questioned the
Drake mill profits during those cam
paigns was a liar, an enemy of the
farmer, a big biz tool and what not
What kind of farmers were Frazier
Hagen, McGovern and that bunch
who squandered $4,000 of the farmers
taxes and then lied about it? Was
there any Big Biz or small biz concern
that ventured to build million dollar
mills and elevators when the war
prices for labor and material and ma
chinery were still soaring Not a
one. But the state industrial commits
sion, state tax money being free and
easy, never hesitated minute to put
a million dollars into such scheme
with millions more to 60 in, before it
can be finished for anything. There
is plenty Of evidence that proves that
the charges of mismanagement made
against the Industrial Commission are
true. The more bonds they sell.
the more money they will have to mis-
manage, and the more taxpayers will
have to dig up. Bring on the recall
Stutsman County Democrat. '@
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The appointment of an assistant
federal Judge for the district of North
Dakota to assist Judge Amidon, who
has not been physically fit for some
time, is creating quite furore among
legal circles in this state. Senator
Ladd wants Seth Richardson, of Far
go, who was the league candidate for
the supreme court, appointed. Sena-
tor McCumber is said to favor Andrew
Miller of Bismarck, and the bar, of
the state does not want Andrew-or at
least a great majority of the mem
bers do not. It seems to be matter
of political reward, more than it does
the fitness of the man for the Office.
Alex Mckenzie and his bunch seem to
have the ear of Senator McCumber
and those who follow his lead and
from past experience since the new adj
ministration went into power and the
appointments already made to man
up tree it looks as if Mckenzie and
his henchmen were coming back into
power in North Dakota. This is what
the progressives of the state have
been fighting against for years and it
is not going to sit very we'll with those
who for the past few years have been
fighting for clean politics to have this
bunch dictate the appointment and
rund the politics in this state. The
appointment of federal Judge
is life position and for that
Office the best material in the state re-
CARELESS of political utilization should
be chosen for the place. What better
authority could be asked than that of
the members of the bar of the state
who are much better fitted to pass on
the qualifications of the man who is
to have this exalted position than a
few worn out politicians who want to
pay off some political debt. Senator
Met umber and those he is running
with should come to halt and give
the people of the state a chance to Sc
lect a judge instead of trying to rush
through the appointment of any man
regardless of his fitness for the Of
flee of Judge to reward politician.
We know nothing of Mr.. Miller's abil-
ity but we do know there are lawyers
of considerable ability in the state
that would make good on the bench
and the best authority on these mat
tiers in our judgment would be a re-
commentator from the bar Of the
state. e..e.-r. .--s.
/ "BY THE ETERNAL" ssz
After eight years of such phrases
as stoo proud to fight" and "peace
without victory" it is indeed hearten-
ing to hear president say 1--WE do
want that which is righteously our
own and, by the Eternal. we will have
it," It has the ring of that famous
demand for the surrender of Fort
Ticonderoga made Of the British COM
mander in It's by Ethan Allen "by
order of the Great Jehovah and the
Continental Congress" In formal