The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-02-02

that the city will be willing to help
out in furnishing water, heat and
light for the company, all Of which
will be very satisfactory to the people
Of the city. We are now credited with
having the largest company in the
| national guard of this state, and the
Times Record congratulates Captain
Mcdonald and his fellow members of
the company in this happy solution OF
the matter. When this basement has
| been fixed up it will be one of the fin
est armorics in the state.
The Fargo Forum in an editorial
last night very wisely suggests that
the building Of sixteen foot hard road
ways is mistake, especially on trunk
lines. The point we think is very
we'll taken. Take it out on the Pacif-
ic Coast where they have hundreds
of miles of hard paving, they have
built sixteen foot roads. It has been
found that this is not the right thing
to do. In the first place they are
too narrow to permit of the passing
in any too degree of safety in these
times when speed fiends do nothing
but try to see how fast they can trav-
ell and how close they can come to
hitting the other fellow and just miss
him, That of course is not so much
of an argument as the one used by
the Forum where it says that the mar
row road will cost too much for repair
as the heavy traffic wears it out
quickly and the upkeep will be ex-
pensive. That is what the people
out west have discovered and we have
been told that the state of Oregon, at
least, where they have these sixteen
foot roadways, is contemplating add
inc four more feet in width to them.
This should be taken into considera-
ton by those who will have the su-
pervision of roads in this state, and
when we do build hard surface roads,
build them the right width. 1t is far
better. to build a less number Of miles
of roads than to build whole lot that
in time will be unsatisfactory. Let's
go slow on this proposition, anyway.
The Tower City Topics in an arti-
Gle published in that paper recently
SAYS: "Another idea of how the courts
spend time and money with a public
be damned atmosphere is the time
that the court, and attorneys work.
The court is supposed to start at 10
o'clock but generally it is about ten
minutes late. 1t is supposed to work
until IL, but generally about Is min
utes before dinner adjournment is ia
ken, until o'cloc. Well, it is gener-
ally ten minutes at least past two be-
fore court starts and at $3.50 recess
is taken, and this generally runs from
Is minutes to 80 minutes and thus
4 o'clock rolls around and only an
other hour remains before adjourn
ment is taken until the next morning,
ang generally that hour iscut short.
Of course, we realize that the mental
strain upon the legal lights Of both
sides and the judge is quite heavy but
at that, at least six actual hours a
day could nicely be given to the pub
lie cases, or eight for that matter.
| Thus a case like the GUNNER case
would be put thru in half the time,
| and the taxpayers save good many
hundred dollars. This is not criti-
csn of this case alone, it is the gen.
eral condition Of every case tried in
court and the judge who goes onto a
platform this year in the elections
with promise of eight hours day
work on the bench when he has charge
of trials, gets the vote of this little
old rag of freedom and our hearty
support. We believe that only edi-
tors should be allowed to work when
they please but the rest of the world
should work eight hours per day."
The city administration is making
fight in court to compel the North
Dakota Independent Telephone Com
pany to restore the old rates that the
franchise calls for. This is being re-
sisted by the company and legal bat
tie in court will be the result. All
the attorneys in this city have joined
together to prosecute this suit and
the fight will be to a finish. The
claim that the telephone company is
not making enough dividends to get
fair rate Of interest on it's invest
ment does not cut any ice. The city
has franchise or contract to furnish
the people telephone service at so