The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-12-22

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THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION
Andrew Miller, who aspires to be
federal judge by the grace of Alex.
Mckenzie and Senator McCumber, is
down in Washington furthering his
interests along those lines, dis
patches read in the papers. We shall
look for this plum to drop in the very
near future with Andy the winning
candidate.
R. NJ. McClintock, who has been
cited by Attorney General Johnson
for contempt of the supreme court.
has gone to Oklahoma or some other
place on account Of his wife's health
he says: in his letter of resignation to
the chairman of the league forces, Mr..
Aaron Liederbach. Mr.. McClintock
says he ought to have remained here
to fight the case before the court
which would have been the better
thing to do, and he says he does not
feel that he would like to spend any
time IN Jail on account of his fool
hardness in abusing the court, so he
has looked the matter square in the
eye and has resigned because his
wife's health needs a change of eli
mate-and we figure that the health
of Mac would be better where he is
than here.
Do you read the Courier-News?
Have you noticed the various articles
regarding Attorney General Johnson's
filing of information with the supreme
court which charges Editor R. NJ. Nc
Clintock of the Courier-News with
contempt of court? If you have you
have also noticed that, in referring to
this action by the attorney general,
they state that the action is based on
the printing of letter in their Mail
bag" and also on an editorial-but the
emphasis is on the printing of this let
ter. This mornings paper places the
action as result of printing the let
ter-forgetting to mention the editor
ial at all. This is in line with their
usual policy of misleading their read
ers as the information filed by john
son places the emphasis on the edl-
torial and mentions the letter only as
incidental. In this connection we
thing McClintock proved that "discre-
ton is the better part of valor" in go
ing out of the state for a vacation at
this time.
In Canada there is in force the Tor
rens system of land titles. Under this
system the possession of certificate
Of title to piece of property, proper
ly signed by the previous owner, is
prima facie evidence that the holder
is the owner of the property. The
system is simple and makes the trans
fer of property simple matter.
Press dispatches state that this sys-
tenn is to be applied to the ownership
of automobiles in Manitoba if the
necessary legislation can be enacted.
The theft of automobiles has become
almost standing business, so we'll
has it been organized, and no mans
car is safe from the depredations of
the organized bands of automobile
thieves operating in the country. The
system of registration contemplated
by the Manitoba authorities would
not be detriment to the theft of cars
but it would certainly act as detri-
ment to their sale after they had been
stolen and this would be reflected in
the number of cars stolen. We think
the idea is very good and feel that
some such legislation should be en-
acted in this state.
Senator Pat Harrison recently as
sailed President Harding for deliver
ing his message in person to congress
saying that President Harding was
doing the very thing for which Will
son was criticized. And on the other
hand Harrison is condemning Harding
for the very thing in which he upheld
Wilson. In fact, there was never any
very pronounced criticism Of Wilson
for the method he adopted in giving
his views to congress. People are in
terested in the message, not in the
form of it's delivery What Wilson
was criticized for and rightly, was
that he treated his congress like a
group of school children fearful of
his pedagogical rod, and that he de-
liberately f1outed the direct represent
tatives of the people. No one can lay
that charge against Harding, who, in
his recent message declared: EN-
croachment upon the functions of
congress or attempt dictation of it's
policy are not to be thought of much
less attempted, but there is an in
sistent call for harmony of purpose
and accord of action" Harding is a
harmonizer. Wilson was what Wat
terson called him. trouble maker.
The charge that loans have been
made on farm lands at such an ex-
orbitant figure that the loans practi-
cally amount to sale of the lands to
the state are justified by the fact that
a number of notices sent out by the
state treasurer of installments due
on these loans have been returned to
the treasurer's office with the post
masters notation of 'Unclaimed" or
"Unknown" stamped on them. The no.
tees were sent to the addresses given
by the borrower at the time the
loans were made. The treasurer has
a list of seven borrowers whose mail