The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-02-23

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affairs on businesslike basis, does
not solve the problem permanently
There is no assurance that some flu
ture administration will not. attempt
to use public funds as they have beer
in the past. The temptation is al
ways there, and whenever we have
weak or dishonest officials, they vii
yield to that temptation. There i:
just one field of real usefulness fol
the Bank of North Dakota, and tina
is the farm loan business. 1t can eff
fectively handle the making of farm
loans, borrowing money on the states
credit and loaning it at cost on frs
mortgages on farms. But no banking
organization is needed for that. A
very simple and inexpensive govern
ment department could handle thai
business. The rest of the banking ma
chinery is a useless expense and {
burden on the businessmen of the
state, including the farmers. 1t coulc
be closed tomorrow, if other arrange
ments were made for handling the
farm loan business, and nobody would
miss it but the employes.-Fargo Fo.
rum.
The league leaders who met here
last Saturday to thresh out the widen.
ing split in their ranks occasioned by
the Townley "balance of power" prop
osition, have succeeded in keeping
their deliberations secret and we un.
derstand that they passed a resolu-
ton to the effect that the newspap-
ers, should not know what they were
| doing. Sure! That has been the
trouble with the league leaders all
the time. They have been keeping
their Vaccinations under cover in
stead of letting the light of day beam
down upon them, and that has been
their undoing. Now the rank and file
is confronted with bitter fight
among those who want to betray
them and known as the Townley
bunch, and the outfit that wants to
put a league ticket in the field and
fight it out in the open. It is fight
to control one of the greatest politi-
cal machines ever created and will
result in regular cat and dog scrap
before they get through with it. The
Courier News, which has been herald
ed as the only farmers daily paper
in the world, and which has been
lauding Messrs. Townley, Lemke, ct
al, as the greatest Of all living men,
and calling upon the voters to uphold
their arms in the laudable ambition
of wrecking the state treasury, the
Scandinavian American Bank, the
Home Builders Association, the CON-
pensation Bureau and other Industries
costing the taxpayers millions of dol
lars of good, hard earned money paid
in cream checks and fresh eggs, is
now using rawhide to flay the
backs of these men in a most vigor-
Gus manner, and Editor Andrews, who
is editor Of the Courier-News, and
with the Liederbach bunch, is a whirl
wind at the job. Lenke has gone to
Mexico, Hastings is coming back by
special request to answer charge OF
embezzlement, Totten has resigned
before he got fired, you know what
has happened to Waters: Cathro and
the other shining lights in the grand
mixup to run the state into the hole
and so we could enumerate hundreds
more Of the faithful Townleyites who
have walked the plank. But they See
another vision-at least some OF
them do-in the balance Of power
idea and this is being instilled into
the minds of the unsophiscated by the
Townley bunch to work up strong
sentiment for the balance of power
plan under the guise of trying to die
tate who shall be elected as means
to furthering the league plan but the
bald facts are that the Townley
bunch are only the puppets Of Nc
, Cumber and Alex. Mckenzie to again
elect McCumber to the senate. The
balance of power plan is only to
throw down the real leaguers in the
end to shove McCumber back into the
senate and then Townley will get
his reward some way or other. Pad
dock, the man who was secretary OF
the industrial board, and who was the
chief inquisitor at the senate investi-
cation is the spokesman for the
Townley bunch, and as Frazier and
Hagan6 are travelling in his company
at these meetings being held, a shad-
ow of suspicion is cast over them and
the outcome will be watched with in
terest. "By their works We shall
know them. The fight is going to
be a warm number and unless they