The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-08-03

North Dakota Agricultural College
and the bill provides that it shall be
the duty of all the departments at
the college, especially the eperimen-
tai mill, to cooperate with and aid
the supervisor in the enforcement Of
the law. The supervisor is vested
with power to prescribe the margin
of profits, enforce fair grading and
correct weights and compel payment
of a fair market price for dockage
in the grain sold. Under the act all
public warehouses must be licensed
as we'll as the grain buyer. The sup
ervisor has full power to revoke the
license of any house or buyer violat-
ing the law. At least 10000 sigma
lures are required to get this bill on
the ballot for the fall election The
petitions must be in the hands Of the
secretary of state by August 5.
Henry Ford has long wanted to get
into the presidential chair, and the
first step toward that highly carved
piece of mahogany was by the sena-
torial route in Michigan, when he ran
against Truman Newberry and was
defeated, since which time he has en-
ployed every means within his power
to have Newberry unseated because
he is afraid that the seat was Won by
spending too much money in the pri-
mary campaign. 1t is wonderful how
pious some of these democratic can
didates for Office get at times. Mr..
Ford, who is a democrat, roundly
scores his opponent Newberry, for
spending money on his election, which
said money is not stolen from the tax
payers, while he in turn is trying to
extract few billion dollars from the
people of the United States through
the Mussle Shoals deal. He is a
shrewd, pious old bird, but he cannot
catch the people of the United States
by chaff. The St. Paul Dispatch has
the following editorial in recent is
sue:
That portion of the public which
has been taught to regard Henry Ford
as a public benefactor rather than a
businessman is sure to receive a
shock from the majority report Of the
senate agricultural committee, deal
ing with Mr.. Ford's philanthropic Of
fer for the Muscle Shoals property.
This report points out that if Mr..
Ford's offer, based upon 100-year
lease, were accepted by the govern
ment, it would be the equivalent Of a
gift of $236,250,000 in cold cash to the
Ford corporation. Compounded, as
Mr.. Ford asks the government to
compound what he pays, Mr.. Ford's
"velvet" in this deal, during the 100
year period, would amount to $14,-
O0,0O0,000, or about half of the cost
of the late war.
Says the committee:
"There is nothing in the history>o of
the world with which this can be COM
pared. Civilization is without pre-
cedent. If the Ford offer is accepted,
then the fight for conservation that
has been waged by public spirited and
patriotic men and women all over the
country is not only lost and given
away, but those who are unwillingly
compelled to make the gift are to be
taxed 100 years to make the gift more
profitable. It is the greatest gift
ever bestowed on mortal man since
salvation was made free to the human
race"
We shudder to contemplate what
might have happened had such pre-
dacious plute as J. P. Morgan made
this proposition. Mr.. Ford, however,
is different. Apparently he can get
away with anything up to, and posi-