The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-03-23

tjcs1>> cause some good attorneys to
have laQdable ambition to sit on this
court. tits true that the salary con-
nected with the position is not large
enough I'd tempt the best attorneys
unless it is the ambition, which every
able attorney has right to aspire to,
to occupy judicial position which is
the highest one they can get in
their chosen profession. Without the
best minds and men of the highest
ability to constitute our supreme
court. We have not had this in the
past because men have been chosen
and hand picked by politicians instead
of the people selecting the best legal
talent for the job. Let US elect real,
dignified, able bunch of~,nen this COM
ing election.
The nonpartisan league convention
will be held in Fargo on Tuesday Of
this week, to name state ticket or
50 much thereof as the convention
may feel like placing in nomination.
According to all the returns in from
the various county meetings the bal
ance of power was almost wiped off
the map in the election of delegates
and the delegates elected are strongly
in favor of going down the line NOM
mating complete ticket. This means
that friend Liederbach will be the
boss Of that convention. There is
much comment on whom that con-
vention will nominate for United
States senator. 1t is reported that
Townley favors McCumber while
Liederback and a few others are warm
ing up considerably to Gronna while
the more radical leaders are insist
ing that Lynn J. Frazier, recalled
governor, be the martyr for the big
cause, and so the merry fight is on.
For governor there does not seem to
be any special candidate but if the
convention is at a loss for candi
date they can at least draft Lieder-
bach as a sacrificial lamb for the &C.
casion. Gov. Nestos is doing so we'll
in his job that it is very doubtful in
deed if any candidate can be nomin-
ated who will be strong enough to
wrest the gubernational toga from
him. The outcome of that convention
is going to be watched with intense
interest by the people of the state.
The Bishop Brissman report on
the mill and elevator projects under
the late administration show loss
to the taxpayers of S7,194.17. There
has been expended $1,268,5S4.95 in
this state venture and our net loss
to date is Is percent of the invest
ment. Is this worth while? Of
course the Grand Forks mill has been
a bill of expense so far and will not
be able to produce any income until
it is completed but the Drake mill has
been in operation continuously since
it's purchase by the state and the
larger part of the loss was incurred
in that mill. There is some $87, 900
expense in the Grand Forks mill,
$4,000 in expense in maintaining the
Fargo office of the association and
$4,000 loss in the operation of the
Drake mill. The Drake mill has new
er shown a profit in it's operation
except in 1919 and then a profit was
shown amounting to $2748. The pro-
fit was obtained by arbitrary increas-
ing of the inventory. The mainten-
ance of a Fargo office was required
by the operation of the Drake mill
and the expense of this office should
be charged to the loss in operation Of
the mill. We busy building mill
and elevator at Grand Forks which
will cost millions when experience has
shown US that the state has lost ap-
proximately 100000 in the operation
of mill which has an invested cap
ital of $4,000. In view of this loss
a private corporation would not con-
slider for moment the putting Of
more money into business which has
shown itself to be a failure. Why
should the state government handle
state affairs any differently than
good judgment would show a private
concern how to handle the same con-
dition? The quicker our state ad-
begin handling state af-
fairs in the same manner in which
they would handle their private af-
fairs the quicker we will get back to
normal and the quicker our taxes will
be reduced. AS the people of the
state have demanded a state mill and
elevator we suppose it will be neces-
sary for the administration to go
ahead with the construction of the
Grand Forks project but we have lit