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The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-09-07

The soldiers bonus bill will pass
congress and it is said that President
Harding will veto the same because
it is not drawn to provide getting the
money to pay the bonus. Whatever
the objection the president might
have to that bill if he vetoes it he will
display more backbone than he has
been given credit for and will in our
Judgment kill any chance he might
have had for denomination next
year or the year after. With the
American Legion sentiment in the
country strong for bonus it requires
considerable nerve to step out and
veto bill of this character.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-09-07
BONUS GIVES WAY TO TARIFF

BONUS GIVES WAY TO TARIFF
Washington, D. c., Sept. 2. - Con-
gress today delayed the action on the
bonus bill in favor of the tariff. Ow-
ing to the rapid progress of the tar
iff bill, Chairman McCumber delayed
the action on the bonus bill.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-09-07

Verify the farmers lot is a hard
one and conditions regarding their
market must be revised if they are to
continue. A farmer near Valley City
yesterday sold quantity Of sixtytwo
pound wheat at a price of sixty-two
cer.-. Ty the time he has paid four
dollars day for harvest help and
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-09-07
STILL DODGING THE ISSUE

The senate has approved the plan
Of using the interest on the foreign
debt to pay the proposed soldiers
bonus.
"There now, that's done" is the at
titude.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-09-07

has paid the high price of threshing
he will have deficit stareing him in
the face to pay him for his years la
Dor, all of which will not encourage
him greatly to continue his farming
operations next year. Unless some
means is devised whereby the farmer
may be assured a fair protI Tor his
years work there will be a large per-
centage of farmers looking for other
fields of endeavor. It is mighty hard
for farmer to see any ray of light
when conditions are as they are at
present but it is certain that agricul-
ture must be protected as agriculture
is the basic industry of a large part
of the nation. If agriculture fails the
business of the nation will also fail.
Many of the large companies Of the
country, who have extended c.'edit in
agricultural states, find themselves I'M
able to collect the money that is due
them after having carried the amounts
on their books for the past two years
and are themselves being hard pressed
for money to meet their own accounts.
Wholesale bankruptcy of farmers,
which a continuation of present condi-
tons will mean, would put many
wholesalers and jobbers in a critical
condition financially, condition which
they will do anything to avoid. In the
past the farmer has been fighting an
uphill battle alone but his financial
condition has been steadily getting
worse for several years and he has
gotten to point where the large COM
panies have got to volunteer their aid
in fighting his battle in order to pro-
tect their own interests. When these
companies insist on a square deal to
the farmer and combine their re-
sources with those of the farmer to
see that he gets it the market condi-
lions will be revised in such a man
ner as to assure the efficient, econ
omical farmer a fair profit for his
work and we believe that time is not
far distant. Of course the inefficient
uneconomical farmer has no place in
an agricultural community and cannot
be protected, nor should he be. The
quicker he goes broke the better off
the country will be.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-09-07

We talk much about what the
bonus will cost, what this and that
will cost, and all that, but how many
of you have stopped long enough to
give the cost of the coal strike alone
a little consideration. The loss as a
result of this coal strike alone is over
one quarter what it would cost the
American people to pay the bonus bill
just passed by congress. Here are
the figures, estimated: Loss in wages
to 100000 miners $3.50, 100000; loss
to operators $4O,OO0,OOO; extra cost
Of coal to consumers 100000, 900;
freight revenue losses 100000, 900;
payment Of at least 81 per ton in
crease in the price on 100000, 900 tons
coal consumed from now until April
added to the price Of wheat in North
Dakota it would be wonderful help
to the farmers. We waste more mon
ey and throw it away every year in
this kind of foolishness-en enough if
l, $3OO.000,00O or a grand total of
$1,19O,O00, 900. If this alone could be
properly handled to reduce the tax
debt of this nation a whole lot and it
has all gone up in smoke, as it were.
Not only have the miners set them
selves back SO far that they will have
n u,orl, fo,. y,onp+hs RI oo%oh IN h1,+
they have thrown away money that
if they had put away in the bank
would have provided nice little stake
for a "rainy" day. This is not all.
We are going to leave the operators
out of the deal and forget their loss
es, but look what it has meant to legi-l
innate business Of the country and
taken out CT the regular channels Ct
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-09-07

quicker he goes broke the better off
the country will be.
The 500 (Mich.) Times: The oppo-
sition to the Great Lakes-St. Law
renee waterway is conceived in two
things only, viz, ignorance or pre-
judice, or both. Montreal is fighting it
in Canada, because it will make her
way port instead of terminal. All
Canada pays tribute to her now just
as all of the United States pays trib-
ute to New York. Her big steamship
companies and her big dock and ele-
vator owners know that a very large
part of the tribute they exact on all
Canadian exports to Europe will be re-
Elected in a lessened freight rate When
the ships carrying the grain from west
ern Canada go sailing past Montreal
to Europe without having to transfer
their cargoes. Montreal is holding
Mackenzie Kings government by the
throat but the grip is slowly loosening.
New York is trying to do the same
thing. Her pier scandals have smelled
to heaven. For decades she has levied
an ungodly and excessive toll on AM
erican commerce, both exports and i'm
ports, and she does not want to give
it up. Excess terminal charges in
New York harbor total $3.50, 900, 900
year, enough to complete the entire
deep waterway. 1t is estimated that
the deep waterway would save the
United States in freights alone $780,
100000 per year. For instance, it casts
two cents per bushel to ship wheat
from Duluth to Buffalo and between
six and seven cents per bushel to
ship it from Buffalo to New York.
Why? Because New York's piers and
terminals are ruled by Tammany Hall.
So complete is it's grasp that fully one
half of New ork, led by Mayor Hy-
Ian, is fighting the development of
the port of New York-inprovement
plans which would at least make the
port of New York business PROPOSE
ton and take it out of politics. Mich
igan manufactures total over three
and a half billions Of dollars year.
Her agricultural products total over a
half billion dollars in value. A large
part is eexported and more will be
exported with sheaper transportation.
New York is taking her tribute from
Michigan in millions of dollars each
year by squeezing. her freight thru
the neck of the bottle. Of course,
New York doesn't want the st. Law
renee deep waterway. It would spell
freedom and prosperity for Michigan,
and less money and extortionate rates
into the pocket of New York. Such is
the opposition, and the only opposition
Michigan should and will sweep away
with relentless hand all that stands
in the way of making the deep water
way an assured fact. A blow at the
deep waterway is blow at the heart
of Michigan. .5
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-09-07

Farmers are naturally curious as to
the reason for the steadily decreasing
value of their wheat. Perhaps the fact
that so many are hauling grain to
the elevators at this time has some
thing to do with it. Reports from
the Farmers Elevator at Berea state
that on Wednesday they took in the
greatest amount of grain ever receiv-
ed in one day, something over 12O
loads of wheat being received during
the day. Of course large amount
of this grain is not being sold at
present prices, the farmers holding
their wheat for higher prices, but it
went on the market nevertheless. If
a wheat grower is not satisfied with
the price of his crop at the time he
threshes he does not show very good
Judgment in hauling it to the elevator
and holding it for higher prices, the
place to hold it is on the farm. When
the grain goes into the elevator it
is on the market No elevator in this
country is large enough to- hold all
the grain hauled into it for storage
and consequently it is turned over to
milling companies for use. The farm
er, in the meantime, is paying for stor-
age, is out a good percentage of the
value of his grain and the amount Of
his grain being shipped to the terminal
adds just that much to the receipts
below and helps depress the price.
The only loser in system of that
kind is the farmer. If millers can
see a sufficient amount of grain COM
ing into the terminals to meet their
manufacturing needs for some time
they are not anxious to buy more
than they need for immediate pur-
poses but of the farmers Of the coun-
try are holding. their grain in the
granaries on their farms the amount
of grain as whole is problematical,
the miller is forced to bid higher for
grain in sight for immediate use and
the market will be forced higher. If
not satisfied with the present price
of wheat the successful farmer will
hold it in the granary on his farm
until such time as the market reacts
in his favor.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-09-07

ornia after Johnson himself had car
ried the state by over two hundred
thousand. In the republican party to-
day are four men who stand out as
possible presidential timber-and they
are good men at that. They come ac-,
cording to our view point in the fol-
lowing order First, Charles E. Hughes,
the greatest premier we have had in
this country. Cool careful, cold, but
withal a statesman from the ground
up. Not a mixer but as a president
he would be superb. Then comes Bev-
eridge, Of Indiana, another strong
man, Johnson, of California, Borah Of
Idaho, three meritorious citizens any
Of whom would do credit to the nation
should they be elevated to the pres
idency. If the democratic party thinks
the republican party is bankrupt for
lack of candidates for the presA 1ency
! it has another guess coming:
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-09-07

The bar ASSOCIATION of Minnesota
and other organizations are going to
urge the next session Of the legisla-
ture to restore capital punishment, al
so the adjustment of the state parole
board. The people of the states where
capital punishment has been abolished
are getting sick and tired of the wave
of crime that is sweeping over the coun-
try and for which the doing away
with capital punishment is largely re-
sponsible. Brutes in the shape of
human form commit horrible murders
of the most horrible kind, they are
sentenced to life imprisonment then a
parole board turns them loose in a
few months to again prey upon public
society. The parole board of this state
is nothing but big joke and no mat
ter how the courts try to curb crime,
their good work along these lines are
offset by the work of the parole or
pardon board. If punishment was
made to be felt instead of a joke
there would be less crime in the coun-
try.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-09-07

Senator Hiram johnson has won a
notable victory at the polls in CAL
ifornia after the hardest battle of his
political career. 1t was confidently ex-
pected that Johnson would be showed
under in the primaries but he seems
to still have the endorsement of the
people of his state by a large margin.
Senator johnson has been one of the
most outspoken and fearless men in
the United States senate. He is not
always right, but he is live wire and
has the courage Of his convictions. He
came into more prominence few
years ago when he stumped the coun-
try against Woodrow Wilson's league
of nations idea, and his stand on that
subject has been proven to be right. In
the new tariff bill he has succeeded in
getting for California more than has
ever been obtained before in a tariff
bill-showing that he is alive to the
interests Of his state. It was Johnson's
attitude in California, however, that
caused the election Of Woodrow Will
son at the time Mr.. Hughes was the
Republican candidate. There was some
sort of ruction between the Hughes
and johnson forces that caused
Hughes to lose the state of Calf
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-09-07

it has another guess coming
Talk about monopoly and putting it
over the people the coal barons are
the guys to put it over. We read in
the scriptures something about mono
poly. You know, Adam and Eve had
a monopoly in the Garden Of Eden
but they lost it because Eve got
squeezed in the apple market. Phar-
oah's daughter was a great monopo-
list, because she raised great profit
(prophet) out of the waters of the
Nile, and so it is with these coal bar
ons, profting by the ripe experiences
of Adam and Eve and Pharoah's
daughter they are going one better by
squeezing the people of the northwest
for a higher price for coal because
they know the people have to have
this fuel to keep from freezing. It is
the usual procedure for the greedy
operator. Squeeze the life out of the
public just because you have that pub
lies wind shut off. We are informed
that while ago the Ignite miners of
this state offered to make contract
with our local board of education to
deliver Ignite coal at the mines at
$3.50 per ton. Then along came the
coal strike and shortage of fuel in
sight. They then withdrew the offer
and raised the price to 1885 per ton,
making it cost the board approximate
ly $1,000 more for coal used in our
school building. 1t is not costing
these mine owners any more to mine
that coal than it has right along, but
they take an opportunity to put the
thumbscrews on the public just be-
cause they know they have the pow
er-people must have coal to keep
from freezing Suppose the farmers
of the country-all over the country
refused to market a bushel of grain
until they got say 81 or So per bushel
for their wheat. And suppose these
same coal mine owners and the public
could get no bread to eat. What would
be the result? A revolution, to be
sure. Yet we allow these monopolists
to take their toll without any SUBJ
stantial protest. The system is all
wrong.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-09-07

Coal prices are going up and grain
prices are coming down. Verify There
is not much chance for a person to
feel exuberant over such conditions
The government of the United States,
could, if it wanted to, stop profit
eering in coal and other commodities,
and could also fix the price of wheat
so that a fair price could be paid the
farmer for raising it. North Dakota
furnishes a great big share Of the
worlds wheat and if this state, Min
nesota and one or two others should
20 out of the business of wheat rails
ing there would be something doing
along reasonable prices before very
long because the country needs the
wheat to provide flour. If the farmer
knew that he could get say from $1.25
to $3.50 per bushel for MS wheat it
would give him encouragement to go
ahead and farm, but when he works the
year around and gets only 60c per
bushel he has nothing left but men,
ory of the debts he owes and cannot
pay after he has paid his expenses for
raising this wheat. We hear much
about bonuses these days. If we
heard less of it and a little more
about giving the producers of the
country better chance, it would be
better. If ever there was need for
qualzation along industrial and farm
ing lines it is right now and the
country has come to the point when
something must break to remedy ex-
listing conditions or things will go
from bad to worse.
The Washington times., 1922-11-26
Quincy Todd on Thanksgiving By Roy K. Moulton

thing off the top and leave a
little around the edges, which II
. very stylish haircut in them an
cient days.
"Then the Indians steal the
turkey and the keg Of rum that
Peleg Prouty is keeping for medi-
cinal purposes and leave the dis
trict until the next Thanksgiving.
Yes, those old boys were sitting
pretty In those days. do not
blame you for envying them"
"They could get something for
their money in them days." says
Elias Q. Higginbotham. "You
could live all winter on eight dol
lars and have a little change left
in the Spring"
"But you wouldn't have the
eight" says Quincy, (which puts
quite a crimp In the matter. I
know one feller that always sighs
for the old days when he used to
rent . house for SIS a month.
He forgets that he was making
only $1S . month at the time.
He Is now paying $3.50 a month
rent and making $500 q month,
but still longing for the old times.
II we could only bring the old
times back once In q while for
week or two II would do away
with . lot Of squawking In this
country"
But things II In an awful
mess" says Elias @. Hlggln-
botham. L"Lookit all the shooting
that Is going on, and the mur-
derers going free. and the boot
leggers 80 thick. they try to sell
II to each other, and the prices
going up, and the war In Turkey,
and the strikes, and the nappers,
and the vamps, and the Euro
peans refusing to pay their
debts, and . lot Of flu going
around, and railroad wrecks, and
90 forth. It Is enough to bother
any guy to find what to be
thankful for this year."
.'Tf you had any sense, which
you have not" says Quincy, "you
would have no trouble finding
something to be thankful for,
It is something that am thank
full for every day Of my life and
I don't wsit for Thanksgiving,
either"
"Whst have yeu got, to be
thankful for, with conditions
what they are to-day" q
'T am thankful" says Quincy,
"thst they are not worse, which
they could easily be, at that"
Great Britain Rights Reserved.
The Washington times., 1922-11-26
How's Your
Culture?

MOVEMENT has bee

A MOVEMENT has been
~. launched to improve the
90 speaking voice. 1t should
be recommended to train callers,
subway guards, hucksters and
people who open the dumbwaiter
door and yell, "Whozzit?"
Certain rules have been laid
down which are guaranteed to
cure the twang, the drawl, the
Boston "a," and the prn belt
huskiness.
For instance, breathe from the
waist up. II you breathe from
the waist down, you'll never con-
meet with the outside world.
Speak with the front part Of
tho mouth. If you attempt to
speak with the roof Of the mouth,
It may spring a leak.
Keep the tongue well back.
This not only aids the voice, but
will avoid the danger Of biting
the tongue.
Speak delicatcly, and don't
overwork the jaws. In other
words, give them an occasional
rest.
Lastly, try to initiate good
speech. Thus, when . friend
who speaks excellent English
stops you on tho street and says,
"May I borrow Q five1" The
thing to do Is not to hand over
the Ave, but to try to initiate the
good speech. You can do. this by
saying, likewise, MAY borrow
q five7"
In this way, you not only I'm
prove your voice, but you save
Ave dollars.
The Washington times., 1922-11-26
Things Not Worth Knowing

TN certain portions Of the FIJI Islands the rarely dress for
dinner
They engaged digging tunnel under the Rocky
Mountains They tunneng under the for the
that would hardly be worth while trouble Of unneng
them. The tunnel will not be open sirplanes
pinch Of which potatoes boiled
will add slight saline flavor to the potatoes
Monkeys being trained pick in Venezuela
Everybody else in Venezuela is in the army
One may travel many hundred meeting
bandit, provided he travels in airplans
Christopher Columbus died broken heart heard
the in Ohio that had been
The who invented transparent dunnns letters
died eight mounsd by spa circle of admirers
Copyright isas. by a.
The Washington times., 1922-11-26

your hired man shovel 1t Into the
furnace. It's terrible. All them
old boys in 1920 had to do was
to 60 out in the snow, chop down
q tree, drag 1t to the house and
cut 1t up with an axe.
"When these old birds want
something to eat, all they have
got to do Is to 60 out and shoot
1t and then fight eight or ten
Indians for It. Look what you
got to do. You got to drag your
chair all the way up to the table
and set down and carve off what
you want. You have got it tough,
believe me.
"When you want a doctor in .
hurry, In tho middle of the night,
you have got to go away down
stairs to the telephone. When
those old boys wanted one, all
they had to do was to tramp five
miles through the snow-drifts to
find that the doctor had left the
settlement five months before,
but that another one was expect
ed from England on the next
shipp
"If I want to be thankful"
says Elias @. Higginbotham, ~
have got to pay $19 for q turkey
and the whole dinner sets me
back about twenty-five berries.
Prices are too high. That's what
call tough"
you're right" says Quincy.
"The old Pilgrims have q snap
The Washington times., 1922-11-26

Nv Todd. 'T suppose you
" are going to be thank
full this year again"
81 am going to 60 through the
motions" says Elias Q. Higgin-
botham, "but I haven't figgered
out what l am going to be thank
full for this time. It's q tough
life"
"Sure is," says Quincy, when
you come to consider the fact
that you have got only seventeen
steam radiators in your house;
that you get meat only three
times = day; that they deliver
milk only as far as your door;
that you have to 60 out, on the
front porch after your morning
paper, and when you want to 60
anywhere, you have to walk at
least twenty feet to your garage
and climb up into an automobile
all by yourself without any help.
Yes, It's tough"
"Well, it is hard life at that"
says Elias @. Higginbotham.
"Lookit the taxes l got to pay
and"
,"T'l say it's hard" says Quin-
cy. when you want something
to eat, you have got to walk way
over to the telephone and order
It from the butcher shop, and
when the boy brings It, you have
got to lift It into the ice-boxryo
self. ! feel darn sorry for you.
Did you ever happen to know
anything about them fellers In
New England back in 1920, the
first settlersl"
"They never have to settle for
as much as do" says Elias Q.
Hieginbotham. Eyes, I do know
one thing about them. They
never paid no income-tax and
they, did not have to pay no hired
girl $40 . week to pose In the
kitchen every other Tuesday and
refuse to do the washing"
"Thoss old boys sure had II
. easy" says Quincy. mo won
der they got up this Thanksgiv-
Ing thing. Look what they had
to be thankful for. They had
cinch. They shimmied around In
front Of q fireplace with their
stomachs warm and their backs
freezin'. Now, when you need
fuel, you have got to walk way
over to your telephone and call
up the coal company and you got
to 20 to oil the trouble Of having