The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-05-26

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produce knocked down over one hun
bred per cent and they are the ones
who have to pay most of these excess
sive freight charges. The railroads
are laying off men all along the line
and cutting down wages while at the
same time they are pushing up freight
rates. There does not seem to be any
justice or consistency in this sort of
thing. The railroads are trying to
tack on big dividends for themselves
by reducing wages and pushing up
freight rates-in other words the pub
lie is getting it both coming and going.
The laboring man seems to be the goat
on the one hand and the suffering pub
lie on the other. 1t is time that wages
and freight rates came down together
but it is not fair for wages to come
down and rates to 60 up.
On the twenty-sixth of July, 1921,
the postal service Of the United
States can celebrate the one hundred
forty-six anniversary of it's estab-
lishment. 1t was on July 26, ITS:
nearly a year before the indepen-
dence of the colonies was proclaimed.
that the freedom of postal affairs
was made an accomplished fact. The
British control had existed for eighty
three years, from 1852 to IT'S. There
was only one line then in existence
along the coast with but few branches
and those far between. This service
was first managed by private inter-
ests under a patent from William
and Mary, but afterwards directly by
the English Crown. The fullness of
time had at length arrived, had
brought the suspicious day, and pos
tai independence was born! Patriotic
sentiment is not wanting in this
country of ours, and the flag is ever
the object of sincere and heartfelt de-,
votion. The great strides in postal
development from that day to this
should make the pulse of every citizen,
particularly every postal employee:
great or small, quicken with civic
pride as each successive anniversary
of our great postal establishment
brings the date to mind. Postmasters
might we'll signalize the day by con-
spicuous display of the flag under
which such tremendous progress has
been made not only in postal affairs
but in national greatness and glory.
One of our citizens went out to the
Chautauqua grounds this morning to
take load of children out there to
picnic. It took him an hour to get
back and he had to get team to pull
him out of the mud. We need some
work done on the roads leading to the
Chautauqua, the high line, the 500
and other approaches to the city: 1t
would seem to us that some provision
should be made by the city authorities
to gravel these particular roads. Some
money spent along these lines would
be money we'll invested. We have un-
limited quantities Of gravel close at
hand and if it was put on some OF
these roads we have mentioned 1t
would be we'll worth while. 1t is no
wonder that business men get rlled
up when they are ordsred to build side
walks where sidewalks are not neces-
sary when they have to put up with
the conditions of the roads to the
Chautauqua and the other places we
have mentioned. We notice that
when ordering in sidewalks the alder
men are very careful not to order any
in where they will have to pay for 1t.
If any of them can tell US why a side
walk is any more necessary on the
north side of Elizabeth street in our
block than it is on the south side, OF
Helena we will give them leather
medal, or why a sidewalk is any more
necessary on the south side of our
block than it is on the north side OF
the block east of US. It seems to make
a difference where the aldermen
live. We do not object to putting in
ours, but we do not like to see fav-
oritism shown.
It is reported that the powers that
be at Washington have asked for the
RESIGNATION of District Attorney Hill
dreth, and also that the resignation OF
S. J. Doyle. United States marshal is
to be asked for. For the life of US we
cannot see why this unseemingly haste
to get hold of the official positions OF
the government should be allowed by
the dQnllIllS CIdC1Oll. ~ oSChAo w 10
that out of common decency the in
cumbents should be allowed to fill out
the terms for which they nave COM
missions. This sort of thing will not
appeal to anyone. We do know that
MIR. Doyle has shown his loyalty to the
government all through the war-dur-
ing the last two campaigns against the
socialists in this state he has been
found at the head of the firing line for
the forces of good government and we
can see no valid reason why he should
be molested at this time. In the case
of Mr.. Hildreth we cannot speak so
plainly because We do not know. 1t is
said that in the Waters matter he has
not been as thorough in prosecuting
the Indictment as returned by the
grand jury against Waters. If this is
50 then the government may have
reason for asking his resignation. But
these are minor matters at the best
and all we want to see is the present
administration to use little modera-
ton and judgment in obtaining con-
troll of the federal patronage OF the
state. It looks too much like McKen-