The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-01-05


largely instrumental in the nom'na-
ton of President Harding, doing much
of his political wire pulling from a
sick bed and using the telephone.
The holidays are gone and no"
we are to settle down to sort OF
normally and get down to business
Merchants are busy now taxing IN
yentory and trying to find out "here
they are at. The past year has oeen
a neculiar one in business way. Inc
failure of crops in various parts OF
the country and the scarcity OF mon
ev caused business to slump greatly
and as a consequence the past year
fell down in business volume. "hen
the farmer gets hit every line OF BUS
mess suffers. For the coming year we
are told there is prospect OF great
revival in business and the OUTLOOK -
oood all over the country, but as IN
tho past all this will largely depend
m the farms of the country. II
weather conditions are such that crops
suffer then business suffers. 1t IS
MIRO thing to be an optimist and 50
1ot nc all turn a cheerful countenance
into the future and try and 90 1he
host we can to push along the wagon
of prosperity and business revival
T ct us boost for Valley City, Barnes
county, North Dakota and the on'eo
s+.tes of America-the best ana
greatest country upon which the sun
ever shined upon.
"The new administration gives pro-
mise of success, says Justice ). r.
Robinson in New Years Saturday
evening letter to local paper. line
new governor proclaims that public
money is not to be lavishly squander-
ed; that public servants must 40 their
duty faithfully or quit their jobs. we
must scale down and liquidate tax
burdens cancel the illegal taxes, the
costs and the penalties. We hear
much about the league program ana
the demand to give it fair trial,
continues Justice Robinson. "Who
knows what is meant by the league
program? If it means to conduct a
bank, a mill Or building enterprise as
the same has been conducted, then it
has been given a trial and it has
proven a sad failure. 1t has been
weighed in the balance and found
wanting. But if the purpose OF the
program is to conduct public enter
prises by stock corporations with
union of public and private capital,
like the Federal Reserve bank, then
it has not ben given trial. The gen
eral policy of the state has been to
throw the industries of the state wide
open to EXPEDITION, without any COM
petition or restriction
The farmers are to have another
chance to dig up some membership
fees in the near future. In the Fargo
Forum of last night appears an artl-
Gle signed by N. K. Wicks, general
manager who says that new organ1-
cation was recently organized, bl-laws
and constitutions adopted, and which
new panacea for all the farmers ills
is labeled 1.-THE Farmers Federation of
Labor" Mr.. Wicks says in this ar
ticle that he was appointed general
manager of the new organization. The
object of this new organization, says
Mr.. Wicks, els to have the farmers
themselves set the fixed price on all
farm products based on cost OF pro-
duction plus reasonable profit. 1t
is just as essential for the farmers to
have profit as for a person to have
food. No person can or will deny the
fact that the farmers ought to have
at least high enough prices on their
products to give them cost of pro-
duction with little profit and no one