The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-03-03

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Up to the hour of going to press
there has been no great demand
from the state senate inqulsltors TO
"recalP' the editor of the Times-Rec-
ord.
Senator Frank E. Ployhar is earn
ing his money this session of the SEN
ate and is one of the hardest working
men in the senate. He attends COM
mittee meetings and the regular SEES
sions during the day and then puts IN
another day listening to evidence IN
the senate investigating farce OF try.
ing to fool the people on the audit OF
the state bank. Mr.. Ployhar is so
busy he has no time to 60 down to
eat. However, Barnes county has a
very able representative in the SEN
ate and our senator is making very
enviable record.
III w. Cathro, director general OF
the Bank of North Dakota, drawing
salary of only $4,000, as a result OF
his extraordinary knowledge OF the
banking business, coupled with MS
shrewd management, can bring about
in the short period of little over a
year and half the highly perfected
mess and muddle disclosed in the fin
ancial affairs of the Bank of North
Dakota the question is: How long
would it take him at salary, say OF
$4,000 to duplicate his past record
and would the mess be twice as rot
ten?
''That yor cannot catch old birds
with chaff has again been exem-
plified in the statement in the press
that the labor organizations had re-
fused to buy six million dollars worth
of North Dakota bonds after being
asked to do so by Gov. Frazier who
has been in Washington recently for
that purpose. The labor organization
committee said that labor was not in
the bond buying business. No organi-
cation and no private person IS gong
to invest in North Dakota bonds which
are not worth much under present con-
ditions. If the league leaders them
selves will not put their money into
these state bonds how can they expect
to get people outside Of the state to
invest?
The newspaper boys in North Da-
kota just chuckled over the idea OF
putting Percy Trubshaw of Valley
City on the stand by the senate
whitewash committee. If there is
ANYTHING in this world that Percy
really enjoys it's telling man
RIGHT to his face what he thinks of
him. Perhaps Senator Liederb ach
got a wrong bunch and thought a.
man named "Percy" would be meat
for him, but the gentleman from
Dunn and his astute lawyer friend
can vouch for the statement that
there's nothing in a name, especial
ly when it applies to the independ,,
ent newspaper men. If they are still
in doubt they might verify it by call
ing on Happy" Paulson or Earl Tos-
tevin.-Mandan Pioneer.
It is getting to be such hard job
for the leaguers to 60 on the stand
and tell the truth these days that
some of them faint on the stand it is
so hard on the system. J. R. Waters:
first manager Of the big state bank
swooned while giving evidence before
the house investigating committee
Saturday. His evidence up to that
time was of the kind that must in
spire even some of the most hard
headed leaguers to think that the
whole league system is rotten and
needs bath to get the rest of the
rottenness out of their system. If
Mr.. Waters is able to get back on
the stand again he will undoubtedly
spill some real dope about how the
state funds have been mismanaged in
addition to the damaging evidence he
already has given.
In view of the fact that Immigra-
ton Commissioner J. H. Worst takes
such an active interest in the affairs
of his department that he knew
nothing about one of his deputies, w.
j. Motley, writing letter on the 18th
Of March, 1920, nearly year ago, ar
ranging to split commissions with
real estate dealers on sales of land to
new settlers brought in by the immi
.ration department, it's no wonder that
Bro. Worst insisted on having large
appropriation for his department for
how is it possible to run it without if
the deputies are to split commissions
in order to obtain living wages Of
course if the appropriation is not al
,1ny-od and Mr. Worst loses his ioh we |
hope that some provision will be made
for the immigration commissioner, as
head of the Agricultural College, for
instance. Why not? Mr.. Worst by j
this time ought to be able to make
a flying switch and land on his feet.
Well say he can.
Chief Justice Robinson of the SUI
preme court Of North Dakota, the pre-
siding officer of the highest tribunal
of law and justice in the state. writes
this over his own signature: ION our
Chin IF State there is modern