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The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-21
COMMON SENSE IN A SMALL
TOWN

Dunbar, Pa, is not a large city.
Its population is only about seven
thousand. Nevertheless, what Dun
bar lacks in numbers it makes up in
spirit. It is the one place in America
whose citizens share the ups and
downs of life together for the better
ment of all.
Dunbar has, Of course, been hit by
the business depression. The manga
nese industry, which furnishes en-
ployment to most of the population.
has for some time been computing its
monthly balances in red ink. It was
decided, therefore, to close down the
furnaces and plants on July first.
But the community saw disaster in
this move. So the employees got to-
gether and talked things over. They
decided to go to the employers and Of
fer to stand forty per cent wage re-
duction, so that the plants might con
tinue to operate. eve believe it is
better to work for less pay than not to
receive any at all,' read their peti.
ton. - =
That started things going. Before
shutdown the whole community, high
and low, employer and employee, had
started on new ledger page an &C.
count Of happiness and prosperity.
The employers accepted the mems
terms. In turn they cut rents on the
houses they let to employees forty
per cent. The stores Of Dunbar did
their share by agreeing to reduce
prices on all necessities. They rea-
lized that their prosperity was de-
pendent on that of their customers
Thus did the Dunbar employees petit
ton become community affair.
That Dunbar has been the age-old
question in its true light is deserving
Of mention in this day, when men in
other communities fool theplselves
into believing that the world can move
forward with labor aid capital at
enmity.-Minneapolis Journal.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-21

j. w. Brinton, not being satisfied
with handing the league bunch a
knockout blow in the conclusion of his
perjury case at Bismarck recently is
not satisfied and now he is going to
place an injunction on Mr.. Lemke
moving into that fine state built pal
ace at Fargo. Mr.. Brinton should not
do this. He himself, has enjoyed the
spoils that came in with the new day
until he fell out with the Townley out
fit, and he used to ramble through
town here occasionally with Que OF
those high powered automobiles that
the league purchased with money OBJ
tanned from the farmers of the state.
By-the-way, who are the lucky suck
ers that get these autop obiles sub
scribed for by the people? There
must be several hundred of them to
hand out unless they have already
been appropriated by some Of the
leaders in various sections of the
state. Mr.. Lemke is entitled to his
share of the spoils and it is bad taste
for Brinton to put up a roar. Town
ley has his sisal land, Lemke has his
palace and Brinton has had fat pick
ings until the trouble started.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-21
PunctuaI

Mrs. B Clearing clash and jangle
from the kitchen) Goodness What
was that noise?
Mrs. Doh, that's Bridget. Prompt
" 1T 8 she stops work and then she
drops everything.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-21

Man Walked u Miles to Buy Suit.
A walk Of IA miles. from Kilbourne
to Baraboo, Wis. was taken by Thorn
MS Kirshaw.. SO-year-oId Civil war
reteran, when he neetie,. new suit of
clothes. The merchant from whom he
purchased the suit took the sturdy old
veteran home in his automobile.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-21

Captain A. Goodell, accompanied by
his wife, arrived in Valley City We'd
nesday, and from this on will have
charge of the Salvation Army work in
Valley City. Capt Goodelps home is
at Mankato, Mimi, but he is now from
Chicago where he is fresh from the
college. He will have a welcome meet
ing at the barracks on Sunday evening
at 8 o'clock and invites any and all
who feel like dropping in.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-21

Down at the inter state fair at Far
20 the l. V. A. people want to make
good their assertions, so in order to
do so they are maintaining 80 min
ute free auto service out to the
Lemke state built palace. Many peo-
pie to the l. V. A. headquarters are
anxious to see for themselves this
model house built by the people and
in order to take care of the crowd the
trip service was maintained. Tax
payers are paying more attention to
this exhibit of the state home build
ing concern than they are at the ex-
hibits at the fair-it touches their
pocket in a more concrete form.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-21

Leiderbach and his bunch have fin
ally gotten Gummerson and Totten to
sign articles of retraction about what
they said about the victory fund be-
ing squandered. It is maudlin, sub
servient retraction, given no doubt,
under threat of being prosecuted Tor
embezzlement, which cases have now
been dropped, and will lose it's force
from the simple fact that If these men
were telling the truth when they wrote
the articles in question when they
were not under stress, it is reasonable
to suppose that they are now lying to
crawl out of a very bad condition in
which they have put themselves. The
truth of the matter is that they were
telling the truth in the first place and
must be lying about it now to shield
themselves. They cannot be believed
under any circumstances now and as
the matter stands before the public
it is in the nature of a Scotch verdict
"guilty, but not proven" because the
main witness cannot be depended upon
to tell the truth under oath. It is the
most abject surrender of principle that
we have ever seen and shows the cali
Der Of the men who are gouging the
public for funds to continue them
selves in office. They admit themselves
that most of this money was used to
pay Courier-News bills and salaries
and old notes then turn around and
try to make the public believe the fund
is not being misapplied. It takes 9
long time for many dupes to take q
tumble to what is being done to them
Gummerson and Totten spoke the
truth in the beginning which has beef,
substantiated by their own statement
published in the Courier News by the
auditing committee composed OF
leaguers.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-21

Governors of 16 states representing
more than 100000 personatoday
Endorsed President Harding's disarm-
ament conference. In message to
the United Press, these executives de-
clared for armament limitations on the
following grounds: Prevention of
wars; relief from taxation burdens;
Improvement of the general world
economic situation. Governor Perci-
val Baxter of Maine summed up the
general attitude of his colleagues when
he declared that the nations of the
world must disarm or go into moral
and financial bankruptcy. To this
Governor D. w. Davis of Idaho added
that eve can't talk of achieving peace
with knives in our hands," The gov
errors, ten republicans and six demo-
Gratis, were those of Arkansas, Colo
RADIO, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Louis
lana, Maine, Massachusetts,, Montana:
North Dakota, Oregon, South Caro-
lima, Tennessee; Utah, and West Vir-
ginia. The combined populations of
these states is 2O.821,170. "The ma
tions of the world must disarm or 60
into moral and financia bankruptcy"
Baxter declared. Governor Davis de-
clared that the conference was great
step towards peace.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-21

VIII Pay Aftsr Corn Reaches 81 Blu.
An agreement made between Frank
Nelson plumber, and D. II. Sullivan, of
Fort Dodge, Ia, provides that plumb
Ing material purchased by Sullivan
from Nelson shall be paid for when
corn reaches 81 bushel, no interest
charged.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-21
Not ! "safety" Driver.

Not 4 safety" Driver.
"Why did you sell your car =
"Cost too much for repairs
Wasn't it good machine?
First rate. Never got out of order.
But ! had to pay for repairing the
people it ran over."p
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-21
And Recreation.

Visiting Curate Mandy, is II neces-
sary for you to leave all these young
children at home ard 60 out to cook
Mandy-Yes, sir; the doctor says ]
needs q rest.-Exchange.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-21

That Kid Again.
Boy-Are you and sis going on 4
long hike this afternoon!
Suitor-Yes, Jimmy; why do you
ask7 as4f
Jimmy Cause she's had the corn
doctor here all morning. 55
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-21

Newspaper men are used to being
called crooks, blackguards, ETC., and
pay no attention to such small mat
tiers, but in the United States senate:
where dignity is supposed to reign
supreme, the other day the word
blackguard nearly precipitated a fist
fight. It was all on account of the
soldiers bonus BILL Senator McCum-
Der was making speech and Senator
Reed, fiery Missourian, let his tenn
per get the better of him, and he
hurled the word blackguard at our
senior senator, which was too much for
the dignifed McCumber, who immed-
lately rolled up his black alpaca
sleeves and invited the man from
Missouri to 60 out in the back end Of
the capital lot and settle the matter.
Wise heads assisted in pacifying the
irate senators and in few moments
the dove of peace was cooling sweet
ly on top of the nations capital, and
bloody war averted. Men are men
the world over, whether in the senate
or on the street and will resent being
called. names. The whole, matter was
expunged from the senate record and
thus another war history has been
lost to the electorate of the nation.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-21

That Cooperstown editor, Nye, is
still sending up wall like the last
notes Of a dying swan trying to square
himself with the people of his town
about the vote his paper received in
the city last fall. Forget it, Gerald,
old boy. Cut out your whining and
forget about Trubshaw. You could
make more real medicine for yourself
If you would use up a lot Of your space
in trying to tell the farmers of Griggs
county how Messre. Gumerson and
Totten were brought up and what has
become of that victory fund. Carry
the. truth to the speople--they want to
know. And they care nothing about
what you say about Trubshaw. They
all know him UP there and we need
no recommendation from you. We are
willing to stand Or. a record Of
twenty-seven years of service and we
are proud of the record recorded up
in old Griggs. We never wore g col
lar and no service bureau ever die
tated our editorial columns. Cheer
up, old boy, the worst is yet to come
for your aggregation. h
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-21

We learn with growing concern
rom the Sunday Courier-News that
he I. V. A. leaders have dispaired of
getting the required number Of sig
natures for the recall election. Then
in the next breath the same paper
calls upon the leaguers to continue to
furnish money to fight the recall. If
they can't get the signatures there
will be no recall, will there? And If
not why this great scramble for more
money to fight something that is not
going to be? But the leaguers draw
p ing pay must have money to pay these
salaries hence the need of sending in
the money for recall that is not GO
ing to be-according to the c. N.
Some of those chaps are going hungry
this winter if they are depending on
the results of the recall election which
we feel certain is going to come.
There is going to be house cleaning
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-21

R. M. McClintock has again been
boosted into the editorial chair Of the
Courier-News sanctum by Friend
Liederbach, and if they will let Mac
alone he may "stay put" as long as the
victory funds roll in. The c. N. this
morning says that the l. V: A: folks
are peeved because the split IN LII Ihe
league ranks did not, happen; Inc
bunch is trying very hard to keep a
stiff upper lip, but the damage mas
been done and Messrs. Gummerson
and Totten have been largely instru-
mental in doing it. Few people be-
lieve the retraction, most of them pre-.
ferring to believe that what they said
in the first place was true.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-21

We have a brilliant idea-at least
we think it is brilliant, maybe we are
mistaken. But here it is. You know
these days that many pilgrims going
to Fargo are greatly interested in
VIM. Lemke's state built palace of
which you have heard so much about:
and they are going up to Thirteenth
street or wherever it is to look it
over from the outside. Now & the
Lemke outfit needs money to buy
Airedale pups and young bulls to say
nothing Of Billy Goats, and it would
be soft way of getting in some loose
change to help pay salaries II Mr.
Lemke made it business to have
someone at his house to show people
around inside and outside charging
say two-bit fee to help defray ex-
penses. If we have built as fine a
house for him at a cost Of several
thousand dollars more than the law
calls for, the taxpayers should at
least have the privilege Of looking at
this wonderful new day experiment
that is costing the people so much and
furnishing the owner with so much
genuine satisfaction as he must rea-
lie the great social standing it gives
to own such a beautiful home. Yes:
indeed, this is great age we are llv-
ing in in North Dakota. 1t is gov
eminent of visionary dreamers and
grafters and financial embarrassment
and no money to pay teachers with or
anybody else in the Bank OF North Da-
kota.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-21

It would be interesting to know
Just how much it cost Friend Lieder-
bach and his fellow workers for that
retraction Of Gummerson and Iotten.
We have an idea that our league
friends were mighty fearful OF gong
ahead with those embezzlement cases
for fear Messrs. Totten and GUNNER
son might tell too much to get out to
the people. That Brinton case at Bis
marck was hard blow to the league
gang. Brinton spilled too much OF
the inner workings of the gang. Tot
ten, if grilled on the witness stand,
might give some damaging testimony
against the league management and
the gang knew it and so in some mys-
ferrous manner they inveigled the two
easy marks to retract. The hand
writing on the wall is becoming more
visible each day as the tale unfolds
and the perfdy of the league leaders
is being shown up. You Bible stu
dents remember that at the feast OF
Belshazzar there appeared on the wall
mysterious writings as follows:
Meme, Meme, Tekel, Upharsin." Bells
hazzar could not interpret this writ
ing and sent for Daniel who interpret
ed it as meaning "thou are weighed in.
the balances and art found wanting"
Frazier, Lemke and Hagan, who have
been the administrators of the peoples
business in this state, have by this
time seen the handwriting on the wall
and R. A. Nestos will be the Daniel
that will make the prophecy good, to
the people of North Dakota. The three
of them have been found wanting and
have been weighed in the balances.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-21

Drawing a picture of the condition
of the federal government when taken
over by the Harding administration,
the Republican Publicity Association,
through it's president, Hon. Jonathan
Bourne, Jr., says: "Can you imagine
a sea captain sailing his ship reck-
lessly for eight years, grounding it on
the shoals, smashing it's sides against
the rocks, letting barnacles accumu,
late on it's bottom, leaving the hull
unpainted, permitting the sails to pc
torn into tatters, disabling the rud-
der, throwing away the flag, then TAX
ing the old hulk to shipyard for re-
pairs, and complaining because the
shipwrights are unable to get the YES
sci into perfect condition in a few
weeks? Yet that is exactly what the
Democratic party has done with this
old ship Of state"
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-21

Canada's standard bushel is bigger
that the U. S. bushel by 60 cubic
inches. Many people who do not un-
derstand the difference in size of the
two bushels believe that the American
wheat is lighter than the Canadian
when as matter Of fact the explana-
ton lies in the size of the two bushels,
declared w. C. Palmer, chief grain in
spector today. "Wheat that has test
weight of So pounds in a U. S. bushel
will have a test weight Of 60 pounds in
a Canadian bushel," said Mr.. Palmer
"In other words the correct weight IN
Canada must be two pounds greater
per bushel than in the United States
in order that the wheats are equal.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-21

The State War History Commission
is anxious to secure complete file OF
the Daily and Weekly Times-Record
for the war period, the years 1917
1918. It is possible that some one in
the county realized the historical value
which those papers had and saved
them. If any one has such file it is
hoped that he will be willing to con.
tribute them to the county historical
collection. There they can be care
fully preserved, and it is readily ap-
parent how valuable they will be in
the years to come. If any one has
these papers or knows where they
might be obtained kindly communicate
with the county chairman, Miss Helen
M. Crane, Valley City.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1921-05-12
Unschooled Woman Sculptor of Bolivar

4 GOOD part of official Washing
ton journeyed to New York with
President Harding on the occasion of
the dedication of the statue of Gen.
Simon Bolivar The statue stands In
Central park and is the gift of the
City OF Caracas, capital of Venezuela
and birthplace of the great South
American liberator.
There's more to this story than the
mere dedication of a. statue. Bolivar
HILL" In Central park, has been for
81 years the center of drama which
mas the elements Of human interest
In 1883 the first statue of Bolivar was
unveiled. 1t was the gift of the Ven
ezuelan government to New York city.
The sculptor was De la Cova. a
South American. Then President
Crespo of Venezuela decided that it
was not fitting that the great Bolivar
should prance in so undignified a pos
ture. He therefore commissioned Gio-
yanni Turini to prepare another model.
Iurlnt was an Italian. 1t is his statue
OF Garibaldi that is on the pedestal in
Washington square. Turinis Boil
var was modelled after a statue at
caracas, pompous figure seated
stifily on a conventional Roman horse.
The Society of National Sculpture dis
approved OF. this statue. Although
Judsonia weekly advance., 1921-05-12
Bills In the

ATASHINGTON.- the Sixty-sev.
w enth congress does not grind out
legislation in quantity, it will not be
for lack Of material In the hopper.
While old and new legislative propos-
ais in the senate numbered less than
500, as compared with 2,500-odd the
first day in the house, they ranged
from tax plans through anti-strike leg
islation to adjustment of international
debts.
Senator Smoot, Republican, of Utah,
offered his bill establishing sales
tax in lieu of excess profits taxing
methods and also an embargo meas
ure against wool importations.
Senator King. Democrat, Utah, pro-
posed to make conferences to assist
price-fxing criminal and also to make
conspiracies to hamper movement of
freight and persons" In interstate
commerce illegal.
Senator Poindexter, Republican, of
Washington, presented a bill to pro-
Judsonia weekly advance., 1921-05-12
National Banks New Prosperity Record

THE 1920 fiscal year report of the
i comptroller of the currency shows
that the national banks are flourish
ing. The number of national banks
in operation reached the highest point
October n, 1920, there being S,157 ma
tional banks in operation or author
lied to do business.
Since March ii, 1900, 2,S2S state
banks, trust companies, and private
banks, with capital of $1S3,554,S 800,
have been converted into, or reorgan-
lied as national banks and the move
ment toward naturalization Is pro-
ceeding steadily. The 361 new ma
tional banks chartered were distrib-
uted through 40 different states and
the District Of Columbia. The IA states
in which the largest number of ma
tional banks were chartered are Min
nesota, 80; California, 30; New York,
&c; Texas, %; Oklahoma, 81; Kansas,
10; Illinois, II; Pennsylvania and
Ohio, IA each; New Jersey, Virginia
and Colorado, 13 each; Washington,
II; Idaho, IL.
In the number of depositors or de-
posit accounts In national banks all
previous records were exceeded, off,
Judsonia weekly advance., 1921-05-12
REALLY FLOWERS OF SPEECH
Sayings. Witty and Wise, That Are
Worth Being Preserved in
an Anthology.

Prof. Sir Arthur CUTLER Couch,
In the course of his lively lectures
ION the Art of Reading" gives some
examples of Irish peasants sayings
with the large simplicity, the cadence,
the accent of Scriptural speech. The
best is the benediction bestowed upon
one of the two authors of the incom-
parable Irish r. NJ" by an old wom-
an in Skibbereen: "Sure ye're always
laughing That We may laugh in the
sight of the glory of heavenw The
writer once thought of making an an
thology Of such wild flowers of way
side speech. He would have included
in it some far-traveled sayings. such
as that of the freighter in the alkaline
districts of Alberta, who said, point
ing with his whip to an intensely blue
lake on the horizon, "Bitter as a dy-
ing mans sweat is that same water"
and the perfect definition of a ghost
implied in the words of a Newfound-
land fisherman, "There I sees 'em
warming themselves in the moon
light"
Judsonia weekly advance., 1921-05-12

NJ ATIONAL park legislation in great
variety was introduced early in
the Sixty-seventh congress. Bills
were introduced for the establishment
of two scenic national parks of the
standard type On public lands. One
provides for the establishment Of
Mount Baker National park in the
northwest corner of Washington. The
park area furnishes scenery like in
kind to that in Mount Rainier Ma
tional park, in the same state.
Utah asks for the Utah National
park. This project centers about
Bryce canyon In southern Utah, on
the eastern declivity of the Paunsaunt
plateau $1,000 feet). Bryce canyon
Is vast ampitheater a Thousand feet
deep, filled with the most amazing ex-
amples of erosion-temples, shafts
and pinnacles, with an endless variety
of sculpture and ornament. The ero-
sion uncoyers many strata and the
Judsonia weekly advance., 1921-05-12
National Park Legislation in Variety

range and intensity of the coloring is
beyond description or reproduction.
Senator Kenyon introduced a bill
for the creation of the Mississippi Val
ley National park in northeastern
Iowa and southwestern Wisconsin.
The area lies on both sides of the
Mississippi and includes islands.
bluffs, virgin forests and much terri
tory of historic interest. Most of the
land is privately owned, and congress
Is asked to appropriate several hun
dred thousand dollars for it's pur-
chase.
Representative r. Y. Thomas of
Kentucky introduced a bill which asks
for the appropriation of about $780,
600 to buy Mammoth cave and a sur
rounding area for national park.
North Dakota has two projects. Sem
ator McCumber introduced a bill es-
tablishing the Killdeer Mountain Ma
tfonal park. He also presented a
memorial from the North Dakota leg
fslature asking for the establishment
of Roosevelt National park in the Bad
Lands along the Little Missouri, where
Theodore Roosevelt operated when he
was stock-raiser.
Bills were also introduced for es-
adjustment of national parks in the
Mount Katahdin region, Maine; on the
battlefield at Oriskany, N. Y, and on
the Plains of Chalmette, below New
Orleans.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1921-05-12

Turinl sued for the $4,000 that had
been promised him, only $4,000 was
paid. Turin died short time later,
some said of broken heart. This
was in the late nineties.
And now comes Mrs. Sally James
Farnham. For the new statue 20
sculptors competed, and of the three
models finally chosen and sent to Ven
ezuela Mrs. Farnham's was accepted
by reclamation.
The great Bolivar Is the work of
an unschooled, self-taught artist who
never had lesson in her life and,
what is more, it is the work of one
who was grown woman, the mother
of two children. before she did hel
first modelling; indeed, before the idea
of being sculptor at all ever entered
her much pre-occupied head.