The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-04-06
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EDITORIAL


held in Valley City in the city hall
on Saturday, April Is for the pur-
pose of electing sixteen delegates
from Barnes county to attend the an
ti-Townley republican convention to
be held in jamestown on April 49,.
The thirty-eighth district will be en-
titled to six delegates and the fiji
teenth district to ten delegates. All
-Townley. republicans are invited
to attend this meeting and partici-
pate in the selection of these dele
gates. At this convention repre-
sentative and senator will be en-
dorsed from the thirty-eighth district
and one representative from the fiji
teenth district. If you are interested
in good government for North Dako-
ia come in to this convention.
On Thursday and Friday of this
week one of the largest conventions of
the year will be held in Valley City.
This is the meeting of the southeast
ern division of the North Dakota
Teachers association. There are about
$500 teachers in this division and it
is expected that there will be fully
500 in attendance at the meeting. 1t
is proper that Valley City meet the
teachers with warm welcome and
for this purpose it might be we'll for
the merchants of the city to make
special effort to have their windows
dressed lastly and decorated in any
way which seems suitable. Last year
the convention was held at jamestown
and for many weeks the jamestown
commercial club was active in arrang-
ing for the entertainment of the visit
ors with the result that the teachers
were loud in their praise of the neigh
boring city as convention city. We
do not want to suffer from connpar-
ison with jamestown so it will be up
to the citizens of the city to see that
the teachers are warmly welcomed
and their stay in the city made an
enjoyable one. This may be done by
window displays suitable for the &C.
casion and by the citizens doing what
ever possible to make the stay of the
teachers a pleasant one. Make a spec
ial effort to advertise the city with
the teachers by your individual eff
forts and they will be anxious to re-
turn.
Yesterday was the first time the
voters of the City of Valley City
went to the polls to vote squarely
upon taxation issue, and the ans
wer was most emphatic on the pr'p-
osition of reduction of taxes. The
election of two members Of the park
board on a retrenchment platform
should convince all that at this time
the public wants no more needless eX-
penditures in the buying of parks I'M
necessary, or buying anything e'se
that we do really do not need. What
is wanted is conservatism to help re-
duce taxation and that is The way
the people voted yesterday. The con-
stantly increasing tax burden is tal's-
ing the people to sit up AMI take 10
tice and they want letrencbmelt all
along the line until we get the conn
try back to normal conditions. What
was done at the city election yester-
day along these lines will no doubt
be done along all lines in the city,
school districts, county affairs and in
the state. 1t is time that in every
department of public business econo-
my be practiced, and economy can be
practiced in many places. There is
no need to cripple any Of those things
we now have but we should go slow
in adding more tax burdens. The
election yesterday demonstrates the
fact that when three hundred or more
people who are tax payers hold a
meeting and protest against buying
any more parks or anything else that
they must be listened to instead of be-
ing told that it was none of their bus
iness-and that is what they have
been told by the park board. The peo-
pie will rule Or know the reason why
and you cannot override their rights.
There would have been no fight yes
terday had the people been given a
fair deal and those who were defeat
ed have nobody but themselves to
blame.
The Bismarck Tribune is of the
opinion that Senator McCumber should
not abide by the will of the James
town convention in case he is defeat
ed. This attitude is to be expected
of the Tribune. 1t could not break