The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-04-20
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That the proposed Great Lakes St
Lawrence deep waterway will in
crease the price Of wheat from 10 to
Is cents per bushel for the farmers
Of North Dakota is the prediction
made today by Edwin M. Crime OF
Fargo, supervisor of bridges and
buildings for the Northern Pacific
railway, in commenting upon the val
ue of the project to North Dakota.
BY shortening the route some 500
miles from this section of the coun-
try to Liverpool, England, the CEN
trial market for the world and by de-
creased freight rates on the water
route, the cost Of transportation will
be greatly reduced and Mr.. Crime
believes that the opening of this wat
er channel to the sea will add real
value to every bushel Of grain raised
east of the Rocky Mountains. "This
enterprise promises to yield a larger
public benefit in proportion to its cost
than any engineering work Of the
first magnitude ever undertaken" he
declared. There is great demand
for more efficient marketing of grain
raised in this state, according to Cap
E. Miller of the Agricultural econom-
les department, Agricultural College,
IN summing up his opinion of the pro-
ject. "This new water route would
give North Dakota quick access to
foreign markets, and grain could be
moved when the price is right" he
said. "Fears have been expressed, es-
pecially by New Workers that this
project may injure the port of New
York and the Erie barge canal. That
such fears are without good founda-
ton is evident, according to Mr..
Crime, "when we consider that New
York is now the nations commercial
capital and what benefits any one
section is bound to benefit New York.
New York already has more freight
business than it can properly handle
and this new waterway will simply
take the surplus" he said. "The most
interesting feature Of this project"
said Mr.. Grimes, lis the fact that the
rental value of he 100000 electric
horsepower developed by the water
power of the St. Lawrence river,
would be sufficient to offset the en-
tire cost within period of so years."
The Jury in the third trial of Fatty
Arbuckle - with mixed jury -
brought in verdict of acquittal af-
ter being out only six minutes. A
group Of jurymen headed by the fore
man issued the following statement:
"Acquittal is not enough for Ros-
coe ,Arbucklg. -.
{"We feeD that a great injustice has
been done him. We feel also that it
was only our plain duty to give him
this exoneration, under the evidence,
for there was not the slightest proof
adduced to connect him in any way
with the commission of crime
"He was manly throughout the case
and told straightforward story on
the witness stand, which we all be-
lieved.
"The happening at the hotel was
an unfortunate affair for which Ar
buckle, so the evidence shows, was in
no way responsible.
eve wish him success and hope
that the American people will take
the Judgment of fourteen men and
women who have sat listening for 81
days to the evidence, that Roscoe Ar
buckle is entirely innocent and free
from all blame" ....-
Thus the seal Of approval official
ly-has been placed upon one Of the
worst drunken, licentious orgies ever
heard of in the country which ended
in woman losing her life. The fact
that Miss Rape placed herself IN a
/ position which placed her life in jeo-
pardy does not in any way mitigate
the crime against Arbuck.e. The YER
dict may please lot of people who
look upon this rough stuff as recess
,, sary thing in every day life, but it
will not please millions Of people in
,, the country who believe in decent liv-
ing. The press dispatches say that
Fatty was greatly affected and the
! verdict was received by him with a
great sigh Of relief. We should rath-
er think it would. We now look for
Fatty to become the hero Of lot of
, hysterical people whose sympathies
run in the same channel as do his.