The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-03-24

citizens who want to see this traffic
stopped. This Vhiskey running is get,
ting To be serious problem to handle
| but it can be handled if the authorities
want to cooperate all along the line
with the attorney general. Mr.. Lemke
says he is going to equip prohibition
enforcement cars with machine guns
and will 60 after these law breakers
with all the strength that he has as
the legal representative of the state
Here's hoping that Mr.. Lemke is not
playing to the galleries and that he
will do just as he says. If he does
| he will have not only our support but
the support of every law abiding, cit
! izen of the state.
We have been opposed to the recall
and up to this time have not changed
our mind, but if such a recall is deem
ed advisable by the Devils Lake con-
vention we have a tentative candidate
for governor in the person of our for
mer townsman, DR.. L. S. Platou. The
state of North Dakota could do much
worse than by electing a man like
DR.. Platou. He is one who has con-
victions of his own and if elected gov
ernor could not be influenced BY eth
err politics or anything else and we are
dead certain shat he could not be pull
ed around by the nose-he> would be
governor in every sense of the word.
Barnes county would give the doctor
a big send-off in votes we feel sure of
that and we also feel sure that DR.:
Platou can get a larger following of
those who have favored the league in
the past than any other man who could
be placed on the ticket. The Times
Record by this editorial is only saying.
a go0 word for one whom we believe
would make a good governor. He has
his faults no doubt like most of us, we
are none of US perfect, but he has the
good qualities also that make good
officials mainly honesty of purpose
and a conviction to- go ahead when he
feels he is night that cannot be side
tracked by either friend or foe.
Every business depression is largely
a matter of the state of mind of the
country. That statement was never
so true as it is today. There is less
cause for a business depression now
than during any similar situation in
the past. The country was suffering
from inatNn. 1t has witnessed a huge
defation. Conditions are now normal
or subnormal. They are ripe for the
Prosperity Drive. The average man
made and saved money during the last
several years. All that is needed to
make business good is to awaken that :
average man to the fact that if ne
continues to spend money he continues
to earn it-that unless he spends the
stores and factories and mills cannot
ccntinue-and that means unemploy-'
ment and no possibility to spend
Consequently you have this opport1h~
ity before you-the opportunity to
prove your standing as the most pro-
gressive merchant in your community
BY doing a, work that will build in
prosperous. way among
your people. Now is the time to
strike. Delay. is costly. Organize
your community forces, do all you can
and through cooperation.
POUND HOME. THE ECONOMIC
TRUTHS THAT WILL MAKE BUSI-
NESS STABLE AND PROSPEROUS
The terrible tragedy enacted last
hight at which time one of the young
men of the city lost his life, practi-
ally through drunken brawl, only
serves as a lesson and warning to
,ther young men and older men to
ut out this whiskey proposition.
Whatever the facts are in the case the
,nly conclusion to be drawn is that
,ooze was at the bottoW of the whole
hing. Those connected with the deal
lave on various occasions been mixed
Up, in affairs of this kind-only they
AVE escaped without any bloodshed
md certainly without notoriety. 1t is
shame and disgrace to have these
Kings happen in a law abiding and
plendid community of this kind, and
he fact that such tragedy has hap
'ened is in no way anything against
he community which as a whole is
ne of the best in the land. We are
law abiding people, and a large ma
GRITTY of us try to live lives Of use
illness in our town but we, have these .
Kings to contend with at various 4
ines. The tragedy of last night {
hould be. very strong object lesson !
0 those young men, not only in this
but in all others: wbo have /
penchant for flirting with liquor and
to sit up and take notice.
1any a young man coming from. ex-
client families has fallen because I
hey have not had the will power to !
ssist the magnetism of some of these f
Ugh lights of the tough world SO that r
ley want to emulate their bad ex- 9
mple and thus ruin their own lives.
[aybe we shall be accused Of being t
temperance lectures If SO we are I
ad Of it. We are against any and all 3
affic in the diabolical stuff that ruins
ems lives, bnings good women into 4
e gutter and ruins families that i
lould be looked up to as the best citi- s
nship Of our nation. When you get +
ght down to the bottom Of most of 8
e crime Of this or any other country1 Q
vi can trace it to women and wine, +
,st nights affair is certainly one Q
at has wrought havoc in one family q
cause the father, policeman, was e
wing to arrest drunken man. was
e cause Of the death of one Of our
ung men, and on the other hand i,
ose men who were connected with w