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The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-06-22
SETTING NEW YORK RIGHT

The Kansas City Star says: The
Middle West ought to be grateful to
New. York for warning it against the
St. Lawrence project. The West is
impetuous. When it sees something it
needs and wants it has way of go
ing right after it: New York restraints
itself more. Particularly it restraints
itself more when it is a question of
going after something that the West
wants.
This St. Lawrence waterway, now.
New York does not for moment take
the position that the West ought not
to have it. Even if it would take COM
merce away from New York and
send it to the Great Lakes and the
river ports of the West, New York
would still want the West to have it.
Don't let the West misunderstood
New York on that. But what New
York is afraid, of, and what Governor
Miller Of that state has repeatedly
warned of in his debates with Cover
nor Allen on this subject, is that the
West has underestimate the cost and
overestimated the untility of this pro-
ject. New York is afraid that the
I West will spend it's money and get
nothing for it. We suppose New
York feels the same way when the
West visits that town and takes in the
theatre. . .-.@ .....
New York hears it's awfully expen-
sive dredging in the st. Lawrence.
Much more than dredging in New York
harbor. Also New York hears that
the St. Lawrence freezes up for a
good part of the year. Surely the
West wouldn't want to spend hun
dreds Of millions of dollars and get
nothing. but skating rinf1. It is of
these disappointments that Governor
Miller warns the West. Go slow, is
hs advice. Or perhaps he would say
go slowly, if he took time to think.
And get New York right, he urges.
! 1t is merely acting for the Vests
own good when it opposes this scheme
1t hasn't considered the point whether
it would bump New York at a port,
because that is not the question. The
question is what is best for the West.
| Once New York determined that point
there never was any doubt which side
it would be on, and New York wants
the West to feel perfectly sure of it.
Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Tidewat-
Ter Association, June, 1922.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-06-22
grown in the last 16 years.

grown IN the last 10 years.
Hundreds of similar instances could
doubtless be cited, but since the story
of that one settler was related, a
much more remarkable one mas come
to The Forums attention.
In 1908 a certain Syrian immigrant
came to America and settled in lndi-
ana, where he tried to earn living
as peddler. His travels brought
him to North Dakota where he heard
about homesteads. He decided to take
a homestead here, although he knew
absolutely nothing Of farming, and his
entire capital consisted of two horses,
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-06-22

. 4 d d. ..
DR.. S. A. Zimmerman is enjoying a
visit from his father, Mr.. Abraham
Zimmerman, of Black Duck, Mimi,
who recently arrived in the city to Wis
it the doctor. Mr.. Zimmerman, ST., is
a very spry young man of some Sc
summers and from the way he gets
around he could give his boy quite a
race down the avenue. He is veter-
an of the civil war and is proud of the
fact that he was able to go in and
render service to his adopted coun-
try, to which he came in 1861. We
had the pleasure Of meeting this vet
eran and hope that he will enjoy not
only this but many more visits to Val;
ley City.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-06-22

then go to the senate, where also the
tariff bill is under discussion. But
not even the tariff should be permit
ted to hinder the enactment of mer-
chant marine relief. There is little
use in building up our industries by
tariff protection, if our exports are
to be carried in foreign ships subject
to the will of foreign owners. The
exigencies of war or of business COM
petition may cause the withdrawal of
those ships from the American trade
at any time, leaving the American ex-
porter to find his cargo carrier as
best he may. Independence in produc-
ton is fine thing. 1t is cardinal
republican doctrine to encourage by
adequate tariff duties every industry
that may contribute to the needs of
the nation, but independence will new
er come to our producers until our
foreign commerce is handled by men
whose first concern is for he welfare
of the United States. The British
and other foreign ships that now car
ry such a large part of American
cargoes keep the seas largely through
subsidies paid their operators by their
home governments. The sympathies
of those operators are not only with
their own countries, but in most cases
they have signed contracts to turn
their ships over to their governments
the moment they may be needed in an
emergency. Until the United States
is possessed of a commercial fleet
that is free from all such restrictions,
our foreign commerce can never have
that substantial foundation so neces-
sary to permanent success.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-06-22
THE BANK PROSECUTIONS

It is unfortunate that che Scandina-
Wan American bank prosecutions
should be considered from the stand-
point of politics, but it IS impossible
to close ones eyes to the fact that if
the Nonpartisan league candidates are
elected, prisoners indicted for the
Scandinavian American bank mess
may never be tried.
To that extent at least, the
cases must be considered as an
issue in this campaign, as cor
respondent notes in another COL
umn on this page this evening.
That does not mean that the politi-
cal aspect of the cases need be carried
into the courtroom, but it does mean
that if the political aspects of the
cases are not considered by the voters
at this time, the prosecution Of the
prisoners will be left to Nonpartisan
league officials, and if pushed at all
will be pushed halfheartedly. In view
of the fact that Nonpartisan league
! officials did nothing to bring the
wreckers of the Scandinavian Ameri-
can bank to justice, there is no reason
to believe that they will show any in
terest in the indictments now.
It would be grave miscarriage Of
justice if the men responsible for the
banks failure were permitted to go
unpublished. The fact that more than
100000 of public money was poured
into this bank, and loaned to the lea
que leaders for their various enter
prises, in unlawful amounts and by
unlawful means, is disputed. A grand
jury Of 81 reputable citizens has in
dicted 10 prominent North Dakotans
in this scandal.
Are the voters going to place the
prosecution of these men in the hands
of Nonpartisan league administra-
ton?
! Are the voters Of the state going
to vote, in effect, to have these in
dictments dismissed, or to leave the
prosecution in the hands of friendly
officials? e
Are the voters going to nullify the.
action of the grand jury, or are they
going to permit these Is men to be
brought before a jury Of their peers
and tried for shameless violation Of
the banking laws of the state?
! If the 10 prisoners escape trial, or
if their trials are permitted to be-
come farcial, the banking laws of our
state will mean nothing. 1t will be a
public proclamation by the voters that
$ any banker can violate the state bank
ing laws and get away with it if he is
fright" politically.
! A vote for the. league candidates for
state office, means vote to white
wash the Scandinavian American bank
deal. And two of the men indicted
are the owners of the official league
daily which is SO vigorously denounc-
ing the present attorney general for
securing the indictments. No wonder
they are interested in the defeat of
Attorney General johnson. It may
keep them out of the penitentiary.-.
Forum.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-06-22
MORE FIRST HAND EVIDENCE

North Dakota has many a citizen
who can testify from first hand ex-
perience that farming does pay good
returns, and that despite all the han
dicaps of weather, rust, grasshoppers,
and low prices some North Dakota
farmers can and do get ahead of the
game.
This week The Forum told the sto-
ry of one settler in North Dakota who
had accumulated property worth $4O,-
900 solely from the crops he had
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-06-22
BREAKING HIS OWN LAW

Pleas for the strict enforcement Of
the prohibition laws do not come with
particularly good grace from former
brewers, and their motives may we'll
be open to suspicion, yet Adolphus
Busch, in a pamphlet which he has
just sent to every congressman and
most daily newspapers scores point
which cannot be ignored.
Mr.. Busch makes the charge that
intoxicants are openly sold on all YES
sells controlled by the American ship
ping board land he provides copy
Of the wine list of the steamer George
Washington as evidence.
The list includes all the common
wines, champagnes, WHISTLES and
beers, even to cold American rye
moonshine". ..-
Inasmuch as the constitution fol-
lows the flag, it is violation Of the
constitution and the enforcement act
to permit the sale of intoxicants on
any American ship. It is also a vio-
lation to transport it within the three
mile limit, and another violation for
any government ship to possess intox-
icants within the three-mile limit.
The only defense made is that it is
necessary for American ships to sell
intoxicants if they are to compete
with foreign vessels.
The same plea could be set up by
any bootlegger-the plea Of financial
profit. Any saloonkeeper who was
put out of business by the Volstead
jact would have as good case as the
shipping board. He could well argue
that he had to sell liquor to remain
in business. r.
If the American government wishes
to foster respect for its own laws, II
should certainly begin by obeyine
them itself. If it is desirable to sell
;intoxicants on American vessels, il
should be done legally through an
amendment to the Volstead act. II
the government itself violates the
present law and constitution, it is an
admission that they are undesirable
or nonenforceable. If they are non
enforceable or undesirable they should
be changed, but as loHg as they are
on the books, it does not seem reason
able to demand that the government
itself observe them Forum.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-06-22

mot give rap for the punishment
they are sentenced to because they
know they will get off shortly. Speed
the day when the law breaking class
will realize from the sentences they
receive that they will have to serve
time. They get into the penitentiary
on their own initiative and they should
be allowed to remain there if that is
what they want. Judge Coffey is to
be commended for that sentence.
More power to him.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-06-22

When Bill LANCER was here two
years ago and the people thought he
was honest in his convictions he had
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-06-22

There is no measure now pending
before Congress in more imperative
need of early enactment than the
merchant marine bill. Every day that
American ship owners and operators
are denied the relief that IT'S provi-
sipns afford means that when the bill
eventually becomes law there will be
just that much added difficulty in re-
covering from the deadly foreign COM
petition that now besets our ocean
commerce. President Harding has
sensed the situation and is doing ev-
erything he properly can to expedite
consideration : Of the measure. The
bill is pending in the house, and must
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-06-22
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EDITORIAL


We are promised something like a
ten per cent cut on freight rates about
July first. According to the way the
railroads are cutting down the wages
of the men we are not getting suf-
ficient cut in freight rates. We
should be getting at least so per
cent cut to keep up with the cut the
men are getting.
"We're forever blowing bubbles,
blowing bubbles in the air., might be
well applied to F. 0. Hellstrum and
those who are fighting the fusion
forces in this election. The latest bub-
BILE that Hellstrum and his chronic
kickers have sent up into the ambro-
sial air was yesterday when they Sc
cured an injunction from Judge Lowe
at Minot restraining the joint COM
naittee of the l. V. A. forces from act
ing together as an organization to COL
lect funds and spend them for cam
paign purposes. Hellstrum always
was a disturber and is forever seek
ing an office of some kind. We hard
ly think that the temporary injunction
of Judge Lowe is going to stick and
we expect to see action taken soon to
dissolve it, but Hellstrum and his
hackers have played a good game of
politics by waiting until seven days
before election to pull it off. Courts
YOU know move somewhat slowly
sometimes, and it will require quick
action to head this off. Anyway,
is only another bubble which will soon
be pricked and blown to pieces.
If the stories carried in the press
about the state game and fish board
are correct that is another good rea-
son why Gov. Nestos should be re-
elected and Mr.. Baker turned down.
The governor, you remember, remov-
ed Mr. Bloom from that board but
the incumbent refused to be moved,
and is fighting his removal in court.
1t has been the contention of the gov
ernor that Mr.. Bloom is not the prop
er person for the job, hence his re-
moval. The Times-Record is not in a
position to say whether the parties
concerned in this alleged graft are
guilty or not, but in the sight of the
fact that papers have been served up
on him there must be something more
than mere talk to it. We can hardly
think that the state officials would
prefer such charges unless they have
some real foundation in fact, but eve
ry man is innocent until proven gull
ty and so we shall have to wait and
see what is the outcome of the charg-
es. There have been some raw deals
pulled off by the leaguers in office
and state money has been squandered
and wasted as we'll as made away
with without any benefit accruing to
the tax payers or the state. We pre-
sumo now that the league organs will
say that these are more political pros
ecutions. They have already said that
the grand jury system is all wrong
but they didn't say this until several
of their leaders were indicted and are
now facing trial.
The Courier-News doesn't like it be-
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-06-22


The Courier-News doesn't like it be-
cause many l. V. A. papers are es-
pousing the cause of Senator McCum-
Der. That paper likes nothing that
does not conform to it's political think
ing. The people of this state would
be foolish indeed if they did not sup
port McCumber. 1t is either a ques-
ton of supporting McCumber, with
his experience and prestige, and keep
ing the state in the ranks of sanity
and good business judgment, or sup
porting Frazier and sending a man to
Washington discredited at home last
year and whose record for efficiency
is below par. Frazier may be an hon.
est man-we do not say that he is not
but giving him that, you will have
to admit that he is too easily led
around by those whose ideals of good
government are very disastrous to the
people of North Dakota. Frazier had
a great opportunity when first elected
governor to make for himself mark
in the world, but instead of doing so
he allowed himself to be used as a
dupe by lot of socialists who ex-
plotted their theories in this. state
costing the tax payers millions of
unnecessary dollars. We say that
such a man should never be sent to
the United States senate. He is in
danger of being kidnapped while
walking down Pennsylvania avenue
The real common sense thing to do in
this election is to vote for Senator
McCumber who is at least 100 pei
cent American and who is able to rep
resent US with dignity and efficiency
in Washington.
The New York herald., 1922-06-25
ference. In actual life the man was
never found.

ference. In actual life the man was
never found.
HERE was a coincidence Of a
similar nature in connection
with Mr.. Crawford's "Pietro Ghis-
leri." When writing that tale of
modern Roman life the author was
for time dubious as to the man
ner in which Lord Herbert Arden's
death should be brought about. The
device of the table napkins infected
with the germs of scarlet fever, with
which readers of the book are famil-
lar, seemed to him to be somewhat
far fetched. Yet several years af-
ter the writing of the novel Europe
was startled by the case of French
physician, living near Paris. bac-
teriologist of some note and man
of personality and social impor-
tance. A time came, however, when
strange rumors began to spread.
He had been in the habit of enter
tanning, and it was noticed that af-
ter one of his dinners some guest
would die of a virulent malady, in
one case cholera, in another scarlet
fever, in a third smallpox. Ar
rested, the physician shot himself
before he could be brought to trial.
At a subsequent investigation his
servant, who was to a certain ex-
tent implicated. confessed that his
master, who had become a danger
Gus maniac, had been in the habit
before each of his dinners of infect
ing with the bacilli of these diseases
the food or wine of some particular
guest. !
The New York herald., 1922-06-25
Authors Works
And Their Ways

An unpublished manuscript Dy
Jane Austen was recently discovered
in England. 1t is to be published
there and Stokes has made arrang.-
ments for the American edition,
which will be ready during the sum-
mer. The volume will contain an
early novel-probably written before
1800-and several shorter pieces.
Nina Wilcox Putnam, author of
West Broadway" and Tomorrow
We Diet" and Ethel Watts Num-
ford. are writing a comedy entitled
Mammals Profession for Josephine
Drake for next season.
Dodd, Mead & Co. are publish
ing a second American edition Of
THE Secrets of Kuttite," Capt.
E. o. Mousley's narrative of adven-
ture in the East, before, during and
after the Siege of Kut. Capt Nous
ley was a member of the British
Commission to Washington during
the disarmament conference and re-
Gently attended the Genoa confer.
ence in an official capacity.
Only week or two before the.
publication of the book devoted t.
his Life and Works. the great COM
poser, Camille aint-Saens, diei.
Now comes the news of the regretted
death of Mr.. Arthur Hervey, the
author of the volume. Mr.. Hervey
was Irish by blood Partisan by
birth and combined the double Office
OF musical composer and musica,
critic. and added occasional author
ship. His was the first book in the
English language entirely devoted -
Saint-Saens.
The recognition at the present
time accorded that neglected writer.
philosopher, symbolist, and founded
of the great school of ''forecastIc
iction"-Herman Melville, makes &c
particular interest the announce
ment from the Princeton University
Press that two volumes. one of Me-.
ville's prose sketcnes and one of his
poetry, are listed for early autumn
publication.
The Letters of Jan es Gibbons
Huneker," to be published by Charles
Scribner's Sons in the autumn. wi.
contain letters written to Royal Cor
tissoz. Henry Cabot Lodge. Richard
Aldrich. H. E. Krehbiel, Benjar.,in De
Casseres. w. c. Brownell, walter
Prichard Eaton. William Ma. ion
Reedy, Elizabeth Jordan, Frida Ash
forth, Emma Eames, the MARQUIS Sc
de LAMA, Henry James, Jr., Henry
L. Meneken, and others.
Charles Scribner's Sons announce
that Chauncey Depews ''My Memo
rieS of Eighty Years. is in its third
large printing. Other Scribner books
of the spring which are now reprint
ing are Songs Out of Doors" by
Henry van Dyke; 1.-The Cowboy" by
Philip Ashton Rollins; 1.-The Minds
and Manners of Wild Animals" by
William T. Hornaday; 1.-The Un-
speakable Gentleman first nov.l
by ]. p. Marquand, and Where Yo,.r
Treasure Is,' novel by John Hast
The New York herald., 1922-06-25

ten: "As was characteristic of me,
I broke with Paris suddenly, with
out warning any one. / knew in
my heart of hearts that I should
never return, but no word was
spoken, and 1 continued a pleasant
delusion with myself; I told the
concierge that would return in a
month, and 1 left all to be sold,
brutally sold by auction
Not even to Marshall did l confide
my foreboding that Paris would
pass out of my life, that it would
henceforth be with me a beautiful
memory. but never more practical
delight" Those ten years in France
were years of an immature mind
the mind of twenty to thirty, with
out traditions or other anchorage,
and with ardor alone for guide.
He was going from influence to in
fluence; playing the sedulous ape,
as Stevenson phrased it. He de-
rived Impressions, and, says Mr..
Freeman, "it is perhaps remark
able how clearly he sees the French
writers with his own eyes,"
ONCE, disguised as a Partisan
~ workman, for the occasion
was a fancy dress ball in honor of
"L'ASsomnloir," Moore thrust
through Montmartre crowd and
found himself speaking to a thickly
built. massive person-Emile Zola
himself--who chilled him with a
bow and passed on. Says Mr..
Treeman: Not until he sought out
hs'uralism in a temporary fastness
did he really talk and listen to
Zola, who was not yet the kindly
and gracious host, but bear ours
ing the universe-no-a Buddha
with fat legs lying on a sofa.
Buddha. however, finding he had
not to entertain fool, was ready
to talk on Professionalism in art to
the author of Martin Luther I'll
have made FRIEND repeated Moore
again and again as he returned
from his first conversation with
Buddha; but the significance of the
friendship was exaggerated,
WEARS after, when The Con-
fessions Of a Young Man
was appearing in magazine and
Zoia was under promise to write
a preface to French translation
OF "A Mummer's Wife, Moore called
again and found that Zola would
not write it. Why? Buddha. re-
suming whatever humanity he NAV
De supposed to have discarded.
pointed to offensive passages in
La Synthese de la Noupeue
4thenes." For there already Moore
had discovered that Zola had no
style, but sought immortality in an
exact description of linen draper,s
shop; and l conceive Zola pointing
out this enormity of recantation
and others as huge, and disdaininp
mis- critics pleading hands. VainIv
and surely with no excess of dig
nifty, did the younger novelist urge
that he was not giving his real
opinions-it was a synthesis of
others opinions-can't Won see9
NOT so. replied the rehumanized
Buddha; you call them Confessions
and when we use that word we mean
that at last we are going to tell the
truth"
oME Revolutions and other
Diplomatic Experiences nv
Sir Henry G. Elliott, G. C. b., which
is reviewed elsewhere in this isspe
OF the book section, contains an ac-
count of the fire IN the British
Embassy at Constantinople in 1875.
an event which the late F. Marion
Crawford used as the climax of
raul Patoff." There is a curious
story connected with that book. It
dealt with the disappearance of a
man in StanfipopIa NJ nj A.. ~.