The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-08-24

Murphy was appointed in his place.
The question hinges on whether the
oath was filed. Cahill claims he filed
it and the secretary of state claims
that he did not. The filing of the oath
of office was forgotten by lot OF Of
flee holders in the state, many OF
whom make hasty scramble to nile
after the governor had removed Ca
hill.
If the railroad companies are build
ing hotels on their properties to house
men working in the place of strikers,
they must figure on a fight to the fin
ish. The time has come when this
strike matter must be settled definite
" and both sides might just as we'll
90 to it and fight it until one side or
the other throws up the sponge. The
public is tired of strikes every few
months, which not only causes lot
of inconvenience but it always results
in the public paying a much bigger
price for those things they need, par
ticularly fuel, and other things ship
ned in by freight. 1t is not the strik-
ers or the railroads that get the worst
of it, it is the general public.
James X. Vardaman, formerly a
senator from Mississippi, is leading
his opponent in the primaries held in
that state by about 1900 votes ac-
cording to last reports, but ne fell
short of the required number of votes
by about $4,000 and a second primary
will be held on september to settle
who shall represent Mississippi in
the United States senate. Woodrow
Wilson wrote letters asking the peo-
ple of Mississippi not to elect Varda-
man to the senate. He also asked
that Reed, of Missouri, be canned, but
in both cases these men have won
majority votes IN their respective
states. Woodrow's letter writing new
err did carry much weight.
Mrs. Sharples in her address or talk
at the high school gymnasium Sun
day night, speaking on the alarming
growth of vice and venereal diseases
in this country as result OF the
spread of white slavery asserted that
carnival companies did more to spread
the "black disease which is the ruin
alton of American manhood and Wo-
manhood than any other agency in
the world. She a speaker of abill-
ty and has a way of calling spade
a spade and does not mince matters,
forcing home the truths Of her asser-
tons by statistics that cannot be dis
puted. The Minneapolis Journal, in
an editorial few days ago, comment
ed very strongly on the spread of dis
ease through travelling carnival COM
panies and urged editorially that cit
les refuse to allow them to come in
with their disease spreading compan-
les of habitues.
The people Of North Dakota who
are facing coal shortage as a result
of the rail strike, are now confronted
by the hoggish action of the coal mine
owners of the state who, seeing the
predicament the people are in, have
tackled from SOC to $1.O0 ton raise
on the price of Ignite coal. There is
no warrant for such action. The
mine owners are simply taking advan-
tage of an acute situation and are 60
ing to hand a package to the consum-
ers of the state as a consequence. In
other words they are simply profteer-
ing at the expense of the common
people. The price paid for Ignite
coal was plenty without adding any
more to it. The great wonder is that
there are not more so-called "bolshe-
viks" in the state than there are -
such extortion is enough to make
bolshevik out of any person and the
action of the mine owners will not in
any way be the means of creating any
good feeling among the people Of the
state.
For some time whole lot Of peo-
ple driving cars have been going
around with only one headlight, no
tail light, and some of them without
anv lights at all. This is coming to
an end. Mayor Bonhus has issued
orders to the police to pick up and
arrest all persons driving under these
conditions. Last night the police ar