The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-01-26

All this discussion concerning the
rewriting of American school histo-
ries should be productive of desirable
results. For one thing, it will make
selectors Of school histories more
careful. 1t will also make parents,
and American citizens generally, take
personal interest in the character
Of the text books placed in the hands
of children. We have among US one
class of people who are opposed to
all governments, the United States
among the rest. We have others who
profess an internationalistic spirit
which usually manifests itself by the
placing of America last in their inter-
more thoughts. We have still others
who reside among US but still retain
their loyalty to some other country
they are not internationalistS, but
are nationalists with very definite
and permanent affection for some
other nation than our own. With all
these un-American inhabitants, we
must cope. The open and avowed an
archist may, in fact, be the least dam
gerous of our enemies, for the anar-
chist works in such way as to make
himself directly responsible for his
acts. The internationalist, who claims
equal concern for the welfare of all
nations but is least active in the in
terest of our own, is sort OF man
without country-he wouldn't be
welcome in any other country and
ought not to be welcome here. The
hyphenated American, not as numer-
Gus as formerly, is perhaps less dan
gerous than the professed interna-
tionalist, for we learn to guard our
selves against him, as we do against
the anarchist. The internationalist
and the hyphenated American are the
classes who would corrupt the minds
of our youth by cratfily smuggling in
to our school histories a distortion OF
facts calculated to weaken the spirit
of patriotism and destroy pride in the
achievements of the founders and de-
tenders of the nation. 1t will be we'll
if loyal American citizens take the
trouble to examine school histories
with care and see that there is dis
continuance of any text books that
fail to convey to the student a fair
conception of the. circumstances and
difficulties under which this nation
was founded, the principles upon
which it was established, and the her
oism of those who have given to it
the "last full measure of DEVOTION
We are mighty pleased that the
jury now trying the GUNNER case is
composed wholly of men, no women
having as yet had their names put in
the jury box Of Barnes county. We
talk very much of equal rights and
lot of women loudly proclaim that
they should be allowed to do jury du-
ty, but those of finer feelings and cul
ture do not want anything of this ma
ture. Take the case in court for in
stance, it cannot help but be nause-
ating to hardened men. whose feelings
and sense of modesty are not so fine
as that of womankind. The disgust
ing details that must come out in
trial of this kind must be a source OF
embarrassment and annoyance to
many men whose feelings are built
upon finer lines than those who are
the principals Of case of this nature.
Equal rights may be what most wo-
men want but we cannot see where
any woman would want to be mixed
up in the average jury duty. We
know very we'll we would not want
our wife or daughter dragged into
the Jury box to listen to what they
would have to at times. The Arbuc
kle case is another dirty mess that
some women have to listen to as
members Of the jury. The argument
may be brought out that what is all
right for the men is also all right for
women, but it does not hold true.
Men are built Of rougher material
than are women and can put up with
a lot of this stuff that modest women
would shun. At the trial now on in
our Barnes county courthouse women
are striving to get in to listen to the
rotten mess that will be presented to
the jury and court and there is going
to be some rotten testimony brought
out that should bring a blush to the
cheeks of those who are sitting there
listening to it. Tie editor is not claim
ing to be an angel or anything Of that
sort in writing thus, he is just simply
telling what he feels about this jury
system and the connection that women
will have with it in the future. Per-
Il