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

C1 OCuCSWdu SOuHtyS was oAASSsSu 40
= whiskey running escapade near
the Courier-News found it
to change his name some
what in it's report of the affair. In
stead of Mariner Cook, the name APP
peared in print as Warner Brooks:
Why? Well, Mr.. Cook was one OF
the nonpartisan candidates for the
legislature in Stutsman County last
fall. He is now out on bonds. Still
there are poor farmers who dig up
their last dollar to keep that paper go
ing because "Jt is fair and publishes
the truth. The Independent.
Representative Flood, democrat, of
Virginia, has introduced bill in con.
press asking for a fiat reduction OF
S3 and 1-3 per cent in passenger
rates through the sale Of mileage
books. The bill would direct the IN
terstate commerce commission to IS
sue blocks of not less than l,OOO miles
at this reduction from the establish
ed rate. Mr.. Flood declares there is
a growing demand from the public for
lower rates, with reports from many
sections indicating decreased travel
because of the present tariff. This is
a step in the right direction, but Mr..
Flood should include in his bill a low
or freight rate. which is of more I'M
portance. The freight rates now IN
existence are altogether too high and
in some cases the freight costs more
than the article carried. 1t is time
all these. matters were adjusted.
Bringing down passenger rates may
help some but thu bringing down OF
freight rates is far more important.
Former Vice-President Thos. p.
Marshall paid the following fine TRIP,
ute to his mother and we guess it Will
apply to everybody's mother: IL
think back through the years, the
lean and the fat, the good and the bad
ones, to my earliest recollection, l
see a woman with an EYE that flashes
swift as an archangel's wing; and a
mouth that breaks with laughter and
hardens at the sight of wrong, sing
ing lullabies; a woman who, with
hand grasping the unseen hand,
walks the briar-bordered paths OF LIE
unashamed, unafraid, unframed. She
is clad in garments of beauty for me;
and age does not soil them, nor years
make them cheap and tawdry. Her
tongue is without guile, having never
been a messenger of a lie. 1t is sew
enteen years since her soul went home
to God and her fingers became for me
the fingers of an angel; but nave not
forgotten all she said. She told me
there was a Santa Claus, and be-
lieved her. He brings me no longer
drums and flies; he brings me the
vision of my mother; and the music
of the angelic chorus which sang at
creations down and at the hour OF
mans redemption.
An earnest man and no doubt an
honest one is James A. McCulloch
of Fargo. In letter to the Courier
News Mr.. McCu1loch comes out fiat
footed with the statement that Nor.
gan and the grain gamblers robbed
North Dakota Of $2OO,O0O, OOO last
fall. The bill is not itemized, but II
amounts to precisely $20O,9OOO wy; II
seems there were panlcs IN l9O1, 1917
1915 and 1920, and they "cost North
Dakota billions Of dollars which went
direct to Wall street." No doubt Mr.
McCulloch himself traced those mil
lions to their lair. Our own contrlbu-
lions to the Wall street theft were
made in such an indirect way that we
hardly noticed it; but if Mr.. McCul-
loch would file bill of particulars
we will agree to go as far as any mar
to compel Wall street to disgorge its
loot n the absence of specifications
# would be hard for North Dakotans
to identify their goods. shooting In
| the air" may be a pleasant pastlme
but it seldom brings home the bacon
The above is from the LaMoure
Chronicle. We are so well acquainted
with James that we have never palc
any attention to him. He is one OF
those fellows who makes extraVagant'
statements all the time and seems tc
want to get into public print and SC
long as he gets there he cares moth
ing about itemizing his statements
This malady Of his is family trait
his father has been making the same
rash statements for the past forty
years and we presume it is inherited
| by his son. .4
Speaking about cutting the salaries
Of the railroad men the Farmer and
Breeder, Of Sioux City, Iowa, says;
The railroads say they can not reduce
freight rates without cutting the
wages of employees. We do not agree
with this. although there is no douo'
that inflated wages of certain classes
of workers must come down. When n
comes to that, we think that cuts
should be made all along the line IRON
president Of the road down to the cal
bow. The Association Of Railway Exc,
cutives (the railroad trust) gives gu,
table showing the rates OF wages o.
many kinds of workmen, emphta SIZING
especially the tremendous increase
that has been made since 1917: Inc
roads failed to include in this list the
Higher Ups who have been and are
| now drawing fat salaries in the fa ,@
of the complaint that rates can not be
reduced until wages are cut. II ~, ,the
railroads, that for fifty years mllkeo
the producers to line their own purses
wish to gain the favor of the greaa1
shipping public, let them begin thell