The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-08-10

Gov. Nestos in his efforts to get
harvest hands into the state by get
ting the railroads to give fare OF 50
from Minneapolis or Duluth to any
part of North Dakota, certainly de-
serves credit for it, whether you agree
with him along other lines or not. His
work in behalf of the farmers of the
state has brought thousands OF good
men looking for work into the state
and that is one reason why there IS
50 little disturbance here as compared
to last year. The men coming in, pay
ing their railroad fare, really WanI
work.
Hellstrom fed at the public crib of
the state for several years in various
capacities and after he got turned
down by the people of the state at
the primaries he seems to be suffer-
ing with a sour stomach and distort-
ed vision. His continued prosecution
of Mr.. O'Connor is ridiculous and
shows that Hellstrom's mind is weak
ening. Where does any corrupt prac-
tice act come in if candidate regu-
larly elected by his party as the party
nominee is endorsed for position by
some other party and the two parties
together agree upon fusion? If the
gentleman has any friends they should
pick him up and take care of him.
Senator Kellogg in speaking to an
audience of four thousand people re-
Gently at Duluth, told his audience
that the big ambition of President
Harding was to put through the
Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Canal dur
ing his administration. AS the Pana-
ma canal was the outstanding achieve
ment of the Roosevelt administration,
so President Harding hopes to make
the deep waterway, admitting ocean
going ships to the Great Lakes, the
outstanding accomplishment of his adj
ministration. If the president can do
this he will do something worth while
for the agricultural interests of the
country, because the completion of
this canal means the saving to the
farmers of the nation billions of dol
lars in freight rates.
In Ohio yesterday they had a pri-
mary election that had more than a
passing interest to the people of the
United States for one or two very
good reasons. The main issue was on
the prohibition question, Ohio making
that the prominent fight. According
to the early returns received from
that election the Harding candidate
running on the anti-saloon platform
was running away ahead of his fell
lows on the ballot. The vote from
one-tenth of the precincts of the state
was Thompson anti-saloon candidate
1923, Burnell, wine and beer candi-
date $50. If the Literary Digest poll
on these questions are taken as cri-
terion to go by and Ohio on the rest
of the state to be heard from holds up
the percentage given above, we rather
think that the people of the country
have definitely decided that the saloon
is an obsolete institution so far as the
United States is concerned. And if
Mr.. Bunnell, running on beer and
wine platform, does not improve his
percentage from the rest of the pre-
cincts to hear from, it can also be said
that the people of the United States
have not much faith in the beer and
wine theory-which is only an open
ing wedge for the sale and manufac-
ture of Intoxicating drinks. There will
be little comfort for the advocates of
the wine and beer theory unless Ohio
later returns are different than those
already received.
We regret very much that the tax
payers Of Valley City could not have
heard the talk given by Mayor Bon
hus before the Rotary Club yesterday
on the needs of the city for a bigger
and better water supply. The mayo,
in very plain language told just what
we are up against and how far the
past two years he and the council
had been working for solution tc
the problem and now the time hac
come to put their previous prelimin'
airy work into practice. He showed
how experts had assured the city that
we had all the water supply necessary
for a city many times larger thar
Valley City and water of the finest
kind, all that was needed now was tt
get the proper storage to take care Of
it. The mayors talk was a concrete
one and plainly demonstrated to those
present that when the city admins
tration is seemingly doing nothing il
is working best, as in this case. The