The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-01-27

haps not be able to fulfill the engage
ment. The following from the Kan.
sas City Star, shows how LANCER is
trailing Townley and making things
much to hot for the big chief. The
Star says under Mcpherson, Kan
sas, date line:
LANCER is eager to meet Townley
in open debate at any time, at any
place, anywhere and the only condi-
lions he asks are that he and Townley
each select a man, and these two men
select a third to make arrangements
for the debate. He also wants it un-
derstood that no time limit shall be
placed on either Mr.. Townley or him
self while on the platform. -,
"Mr. Gale said today that he would
use every effort to bring about this
debate here in MCPHERSON County,
where Townley recently madb the
defy that tomorrow nights meeting
was open for debate. Despite all
efforts to find Townley at 'Lindsborg
he continues to be "absent from the
SWord' was received from Mar
ouette, located in the northwestern
part of the county, this morning, that
the "skies are raining Nonpartisan
workers there. For the last three
DAYS the campaign for membership
there has taken. on bold front, and
Yesterday at one time six cars con-
tanning workers were counted on the
streets Of the town.
J. "Inman reports that the efforts
made by organizers in that locality
have almost ceased, due undoubtedly
to the cold reception they received.
Points to the south continue to re-
port that the workers have failed to
invade that section of the county yet.
An absence of organizers also IS re-
ported in the territory to the east OF
here.
"Mr. Gale said this morning that he
was working under instructions from
Hale and Kitterman in the organiza-
ton of the branch Of the defense
league here and he has been promised
all the assistance needed to carry on
the light against Townley in this
county"
Under a headline that occupies
about two inches Of valuable space
across the top of their front page,
the Daily Morning Screech at Fargo
in other words the Courier-News-
announces to the world through it's
prophet at Bismarck that the Bank
of North Dakota Gets Clean Bill"
meaning of course that the bank is
solvent, and that the audit report
made by Bishop, Brissman & Co., of
St. Paul, gives the standing of the
bank .as very good. All well and
good. We hope that the bank is SOL
vent, and that nothing crooked or out
of the way was found by the account
ants, but the report. we believe was
not gone into very carefully yester-
day by the members of the legisla.
ture, and therefor the exact result of.
the. audit of the company is not
known. The report is said to con-
tain over 500 pages, SO the scribe OF
the Courier-News, in his hurry to get
story through, does what looks like
to us, little prophesying. In the
report on the Drake Mill, the News
says, "as in the case of the report of
the audit of the Home Building Asso-
citation, the partial audit rendered of
the Drake mill is practically valueless
So lar dC UNDERMINING VIC ACouIoo ".
the operations of the experimental
mill" Sure it is valueless. Some
of the Drake millers or somebody
drawing plump salary on the league
pay roll was cavorting around the
state with the records of the mill in a
suitcase, weren't they? A fat
chance Of making a report on an in
stitution that refuses to show its re-
cords, isn't there Meantime we will
bide our time and see what the
legislators at Bismarck, nonpartisans
and independent, think about the re-
port. If everything in all these in
situations is found in tip top condi-
ton, it is only as they should be. If
not, there should be a house cleaning:
and proper punishment melted out to
those responsible for the mismanage-
ment. The people will be satisfied
with the report Of the audit company:
whether it shows everything to be all
right or reveal skunk in the
.woodpile" They demanded the re-
port and will be satisfied with the
findings.