The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-04-28

can plug a bullet hole through some
of the political propaganda that floods
an editors desk in these days. Per
haps if you have good stand in with
them you can have them stand by the
letter drop and PUNK off some of your
creditors when they drop in their
monthly bills.
The wisdom of returning Congress-
man George M. Young to the national
house of representatives is becoming
more and more apparent every day.
His selection as the chairman of the
important agricultural committee is a
just recognition of his services along
these lines in the past, and gives the
Second Congressional District Of
North Dakota great prestige IN our
lawmaking body. - New Rockford
Transcript.
A Washington dispatch yesterday
said that nearly 100000 quarts of
imported whiskey, gin and fancy
brandies certified pure by the govern
ment now is begging for legal pur-
chase at one dollar a gallon. The
whiskey is for sale by the customs
service which seized it from border
rum runners. The government. will
have no trouble in disposing of the
whole million quarts right around
here if the present demand Tor 1T
keeps up and the risks men are taking
in sneaking liquor through the coun-
try even at the risk of losing their
lives.
If this rainy weather continues we
guess it will be case of the farmer
"summer following and fighting" or
else as the Fargo Forum suggests get
ting behind "the straw stack and
pouting." The weather man has GER
tainly iven the farmer raw deal tghe
past few days which will cut down the
wheat acreage we expect. Anyhow
there has been no disposition on the
part Of the farmer to either pout or
fight for up to this time he has been
too busy trying to put in enough grain
to get a living for himself and fam
ily to pay any attention to politics: In
fact the average farmer has had all he
wants of politics for some time to
come. What he wants mostly is bet
ter price for what he raises.
A Courier-News dispatch of yester-
day says that the state has placed an
order for three machine guns to be
used with the aid of high powered
cars, in waging war on the whiskey
runners. 1t is coming to a pretty
pass when warfare of this character
has to be employed in order to en-
force the laws of the land. There are
enough desperate men still in the
whiskey running business who are
willing to take their lives in their
hands-as we'll as to jeopardize the
lives of the officers-in order to supply
booze to those who, cannot get along
without it. If these tactics are con-
tinued the prospect is that many lives
will be lost the coming season in try
ing to enforce the Volstead act. The
officers have right and might on their
side and if the whiskey runners want
to take these chances it is up to them.
The labor situation in England is
directly analogous to the situation in
this country among the railroad en-
ployees as it was during the period
of government control. The English
miners want subsidy from the Brit
ish government, although it is admit
ted by all that the mines were being
run at loss to their owners. That is,
they want increased wages paid from
the taxpayers money. Precisely that
course was followed in the United
States in 1918 and 1919. Repeated
increases in wages were granted to
the rail employees, all to be paid from
the public treasury so far as they ex-
ceeded the available income Of the
roads. Advocates of government own
ership of utilities have only to contem-
plate the state of affairs in England
to see what would follow the adoption
of their policies in the United States.
In line with the policy Of rigid econ
omy laid down by Congress, the axe
las been swinging in the quartermaster
Corps of the army since January
last with more than usual diligence,
and it was announced today at the
1uartermaster generals Office that
nearly 100000 in salaries will have
been saved to the taxpayers by June
30, or at the rate of about Sc, 0OO, 900
. year. For the first three months Of
his year, 1856 civilian employees
lave been separated from the quar-
ermaster Corps, and the approximate
mount Of savings in salaries up to
June 80 will be $2,778,OoO. In addi-
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