The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-02-10
SEE OUR COUNTRY
FIRST IS OUR ADVICE
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ness and by the many lessons we have
learned from the fact that seeing one's
own country first is much to be de-
sired, and if these people who want
to see things would do their own
country thoroughly there is much all
over this great land of ours we'll
worth looking at and much finer than
anything they can see in foreign
lands.
Continuing our "speil" about our
trip east we left Washington with re-
greet on Thursday morning, taking the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad for the trip
and landed in the city of New York
the same afternoon. Those of you
who have taken long stick and poked
it into a big ant hill and then seen
the inhabitants of that hill come out
in countless numbers can form some
idea of conditions in the biggest city
in the world. It is "a seething mass of
rushing, pushing humanity carrying
everything before them, that char
acterizes the average New Yorker. 1t
is a great city, wonderful from any
angle you look at it, because it is the
real metropolis of the world, where
there is more money! more energy
and more real go-aheadiveness than
any place we could mention. Over
head railways, subways, myriads Of
street cars, all kinds of automobiles,
vehicles and other modes of convey
ance with the steady, pulsating throng,
led one to believe that here indeed
is the strenuous life. We made a
limited visit to New York but we got
crick in our neck rubbering at'some
of the tall buildings. They use the
sky as the limit out there where here
in North Dakota we have millions of
acres in which to breathe and we
rather like our condition best. This
hurley-burley and hurrah boys is all
right for short time and we are glad
to have been in it for brief period.
We have always had high ambitions
but when we were shot up to the sew
enteenth floor of our hotel where we
had engaged a room in almost the
twinkling of an eye. it appealed to us
that we were getting higher up IN the
world faster than we had intended. We
like it somewhat better. lower down
but we do not want to be so low that
we are liable to get stepped on. New
York is a great city but it is a place
where time counts and persons who
have not energy enough to keep hiking
along are apt to get pushed off the
earth.
It was after this visit that we
turned our face once more toward the
west and home and bidding the me-
tropolis of America goodbye we
boarded the Pennsylvania limited fDr
where we wanted to con-
clude our trip with long visit with
our daughter, and son-in-law, Mr.. and
Mrs. B. A. Parsons, and the two little
We visited them a few
days prior to going to Washington.
Here our readers may we'll guess was
where we were very happy because
in this little family circle was conferred
all our dearest ties and we wanted to
enjoy every minute we had to spare
and we did. Mr.. Parsons is assistant
traffic engineer in one of the big de-
partments of the Bell Telephone Com
pany, Of Milwaukee, which owns
great many exchanges and lines run
ming all over the United States. He
has a very good position and is doing
we'll. We know Ben's Valley City
friends will be pleased to know these
facts. The Bell company has Won
derful plant in this main building,
which is a mammoth structure eight
stories high and houses hundreds of
in the many departments.
On account of the immense amount of
business done they will have to build
and are going to build seven more
stories on top Of this present large
building. 1t is very thoroughly
equipped institution. 1t employs hun
dreds of telephone operators alone for
it's own business. blocks of operating
boards and equipment are. to be seen
Of the highest type Of efficiency
great beehive Of industry. Here we
find in this building rest rooms very
comfortably furnished for the girls
when they are off duty, equipped with
pianos, music and in fact everything
10 make it homelike and pleasant.
There is a cafeteria for the girls for
hose who want this kind Of help your
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