The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-01-19


itself but to provide a market for
their grain. It certainly can find no
reasonable objection in the mind of
any one who wants to be fair. A
bigger share of the taxes occasioned
by putting up this mill and elevator
will have to be borne by the farmers
themselves and if they are willing to
pay the piper we surely are. That
mill and elevator project has been the
big dream of the farmers of this state
for many years and now the wish is
about to be realized. 1t will require
much money to operate the concern
after it is complete but if it is rightly
managed it should take care of itself
in due time. This and the bank are
main props of the farmers program
and the present state administration
is going to give them fair tryout,
which will meet with the approval of
all reasonable minded citizens. There
has never been any opposition to the
real program Of the farmers by the
independents-the opposition has
come against the leaders Of the league
who tried to put system of complete
socialism in vogue in the state and as
a consequence we are now facing a
serious financial stringency in state
affairs as a result. We hope before
the year 1922 closes that the Grand
Forks project will be completed and
in running order and that it can be
given fair and honest trial.
Nothing has been said lately about
our commercial club proposition and
it is going by default unless we gin
ger it up once in awhile. 1t is fact
that no city can get any place unless
it has a live commercial club that will
and can look after things and keep
the town on the map. The coming
summer we are to have the largest
convention of them all at Valley City
the United Commercial Travellers.
The boys will need all the help that
they can get from the people of VAL
ley City to properly look after this
convention. Already word has been
sent here that St. Paul and Minneap-
oils and Saltwater, Mimi, U. T. C.'s
have made arrangements for a spec
ial train to bring their delegates to
the city next June. Other Minnesota
cities will do the same thing and we
shall have at that convention probably
two or three thousand travelling
men. 1t is highly important that VIC
have real live commercial club to
act in conjunction with the boys at
the head of the coming convention SO
we are just bringing out these facts
and reminders to keep you alive to
the fact that on the third Tuesday in
February the annual meeting of the
commercial club will be held at which
time you are requested to be on hand
and state your views regarding the
continuance of the club or not. There
is more hot air expelled from the
sidewalks about this proposition than
there is action in the club rooms
where the criticisms if you have them
should be made and where sugges-
tions for the upbuilding Of the city
instead of the tearing of it down,
should be made. Bear this meeting in
| mind and go.
The United States senate settled
the fight on Senator Truman New
berry by Henry Ford by seating New
berry, the vote being 46 for and Al
against. Looking at the matter from
matter of expenditure we would
say that the managers of Newberry
spent altogether too much money in
that campaign and that leaves the
mind open to suspicion that this mon
ey was not spent in the best interests
of the public good. On the other hand
it was clearly shown that Mr.. New
! berry at the time this election was 60
ing on was attending to his duties in
the navy yard out of the state and he
personally had nothing to do with the
spending of this large amount. Then
there was such fight made by the
democratic side of the senate chamber
to GUST republican to give the job to
democrat that there can be very lit
tie sincerity about the noise they
made-it is just a rank case of poll
tics, nothing more or less. Yet there
were senator's no doubt who stood up
in the senate and fought against New
| berry that if the truth were known
spent just as much money to get elect
ed as he did and probably many of
them have gotten money in their ca
nacitv &C onafors that Doiuht pocc;