The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-03-10

If as claimed by the defenders OF
the Bank Of North Dakota Brinton and
Waters were responsible for taking II
nonpartisan paper into the banks. why
was F. w. Cathro drawing salary
of $1O,O 900 as director general when as
head of the institution he seems tc
have been responsible for nothing
but drawing his salary.
Now that the innocent bystandel
has received his 1920 tax statement
and learns how much it is costing him
to furnish expense money for carrying
on the work of the new day admins
tration, it is too bad that the legisla-
ture before adjourning did not pass q
law permitting the tax payer to pay
his taxes in installments each month
instead Of twice a year.
When Warren G. Harding took the
oath Of Office of president today, his
hand rested upon George Washing
toms Bible and the manuscript of his
inaugural address lay upon the table
used by Abraham Lincoln at his sec
ond Inauguration. The following is
the oath Of Office administered to Pres
ident Harding: ~ do dolemnly swear
that will faithfully execute the Of
fee of President of the United States
and will to the best of my ability, pre-
serve, protect and defend the Consti-
tuition of the United States.".
The attempt of the Lenke, Cathro,
Paddock clique to discredit the testi-
n1ony given before the legislative in
vestigating committee in order to boil
ster up and explain the deplorable con-
ditions revealed in the affairs Of the
Bank of North Dakota and the other
state industries inaugurated by the
socialistic regime, should deceive no
one. The evidence disclosed in the
investigation shows that the Bank of
North Dakota has been used to fur
ther the propaganda OF the new day
advocates is too we'll established to
be offset by ingenious fabrication.
The foreign newspapers, particular
Nv those of Great Britain and France,
are not very much pleased with Pres
ident Harding's inaugural address.
particularly that part of it which al
ludes to the league Of nations and
where Mr.. Harding maintains that the
present British made treaty is not the
proper thing for this country. The
inaugural address of the president is
too much of an American document to
suit these fellows over across the big
herring pond SO that it could hardly be
expected that they would like It, Mr..
Harding is too wise to get into any
entrance alliance with those guys
over there.
The more people come to realize
what a recall election means and what
it will cost. the more convinced many
become that this is not the proper
time to pull off stunt of this kind.
The present state administration has
gotten itself in bad up to this time
with no hope of getting any better and
many are of the opinion that If they
are left alone and given enough rope
they will chang themselves The
fact of the matter is that they have
about come to the end of their rope
and the longer they remain in office
the worse they will get, but a recall
election at this time is perhaps i'll adj
vised.
Dispatches in the daily papers today
say that the socialist party propose
to picket the White House as part
of a campaign to force or try to force
the president to pardon Debs who is
serving a term for disloNalty Pres
ident Wilson refused to commute the
sentence of Debs, in which stand he
was backed by the loyal people of this
country. We hope President Hard
ing will stand firm along the same
lines. In most countries in time of
war men who are convicted of disloy-
atty are usually backed up against a
stone wall at sunrise and shot. We do
not urge such drastic measures as
those but we do think that Mr.. Debs is
getting just what he deserves and no
more and there are whole lot more
Of his same kind that should have a
dose of the same kind of medicine.
This rot we hear occasionally about
making martyr of a man because he
Us punished for disloyalty is humbug.
There is some difference Of opinion
as to whether Warren G. Harding is
the 18th. goth, or 39th president of the
United States. Harding is the 18th
individual to sit in the presidential
chair. However. Grover Cleveland
was twice president, with an interval
of four years between his terms. For
presidential purposes. therefore, most
statisticians regard him in this con-
nection as two men and rate Warren
Harding as the 29th president.
"Whose Who in America" generally
accepted as an authority, names Will
son as 18th president. Counting
Harding, there have been 80 times
that the oath Of president has been
administered, including presidents
who have been elected to second terms
and vice presidents who have succeed
ed the men elected to the Office. On