PAGE SIX EMMONS COUNTY RECORD August 4, 1921 EMMONS COUNTY RECORD LINTON, NORTH DAKOTA F. B. STREETER, Publisher Omicial County Newspaper Ploneer Paper of Emmons County OFFICIAL CITY PAPER Established 1884 The Record is entered at the Linton, North Dakota, Postomce as secondclass matter: Display Rates: 25 cents per column Inch for single insertions. 20 cents for contract space. Ten cents per tach Locale: Ten composition.
cents per line for one Insertion. The Record circulates thoroughly in the south half of the county, and quite generally throughout the north half. Advertising copy should be in the bands of the printer not later than Tuesday noon of each week. Foreign Advertising Representative THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION At 0 st Usher L. Burdick has come out in the open on the same side of the recall election question as Frazier, Lemke and Hagan are.
Mr. Burdick has the same right as every other citizen to have an opinion on the recall election and to express it, but he has no right to try to fool anybody. But should he make an effort to use his official position or either organizations that he represents for the purpose of helping to keep Frazier, Lemke and Hagan office until the next general election, it goes without saying that several thousand farmers, who are now. members of the Grain Growers and the Farm Bureau organizations will resent such an effort. Many thousands of those who have already enrolled as members of these organizations are opposed to the FrazierLemke-Hagan program of state ownership, public deception and the misusing of public funds.
That there is room for improvement in the marketing of our farm products no one questions. Anybody may offer advice and suggestions along that line, but any move in order to be of any material benefit must have the unqualified support of so many farmers that the crops that they control will constitute a factor in the market. Today there are three organizations developing among the farmers, which bave for their objective the improving of our farm marketing, machinery and farm life in general, namely; the Farm Bureau, United States Grain Growers, and the National Wheat Growers' Association. The Farm Bureau is general in its scope. The Grain Growers' Corporation is specifically concerned with the marketing of grain, while the National Wheat Growers' Association is specializing on marketing wheat.
Every farmer should study carefully the plans and purposes and all factors thut have to do with the success or failure of each of these organizations, and decide for himself what to do in the premises. Certainly some good will come out of all of them, even if none of them attain all that some of their most optimistic sponsors may have hoped for. Gummerson and Totten, headliners for the nonpartisan league troupe of comedians have made their exit. They threatened to "show up the league" if they were prosecuted for the various and serious crimes. with which they were charged.
Evidently they had something to tell for the charges against them were dropped. If Gummerson and Totten are guilty of felonies or even misdemeanors why does the league not perform its duty and prosecute? What business has the league to say to these men that if they would sign a retraction of the charges made against various nonpartisan leaders, they would not be prosecuted? If Gummerson and Totten knew so much about the league that would be of interest to the people of the state why not disclose this knowledge? Why? Totten says it all in a few words: "I signed the' article (retraction) for the good of the league and upon the advise of Attorney General Lemke." That's the whole story. For the good of the league. And upon the advise of Attorney General Lemke. He might have said "Bill Lemke" for surely Bill wasn't acting as attorney general when he stood by and saw these men charged with crimes released because they had done something for the good of the league.
Bill Lemke is so busy ordinarily with the business of the league that he and his assistants, it is said, have little time to perform their official duties. After all perhaps it is well that the people of the state do not get too many opinions from an attorney who for the interests of his socalled political party fails to perform his duty as attorney general. In fact it would seem that he has aided and abetted these men, Totten and Gummerson, to escape punishment. Yet the leaguers seem to like it. We suppose they like it because it is "for the good of the league." When will there be among the men in the league a man big enough to admit the mistakes the league has made.
Many of them have resigned from the organization and have told things, but the rest of those in power have been able to keep their flock together by preaching hate and prejudice. If Bill Lemke or Lynn Frazier or Art Townley were one half the men the people back of them think they are they would tell the people of the state, that the nonpartisan league has failed. That, however, is not their purpose in holding office. They are not working for the people, but as Totten says: "For the good of the league." It's only the big man who is able to admit his mistakes. A small man never does.
FISK TIRES Cords Fabrics DEDUCTION in Fisk prices does not mean a lowered quality. Every Fisk Tire, large or small, is a standard Fisk Tire. Present low prices are on tires which have made the name Fisk famous for quality and mileage. There is no better tire value in the world thana Fisk Tire at the present price. Sold only by Dealers Lemke and Frazier would bankrupt the state and all the people in it before they would admit their mistakes palpable as they are.
They are going to sink the ship and it looks as if the sinking is going to good this fall. That will be for the good of the people who really after all should count a little in our nice TrotzyLenine scheme. Now that we understand we will I expect that everything done hereafter will be done not for the people but "for the good of the league and upon the advice of Attorney General Lake Journal. For more than three years A. C.
Townley has been able to escape punishment for the offense for which he was indicted and arrested in April, 1918. The Minnesota state supreme court has just denied his. petition for a return of his case for a new trial, but he has appealed to the United States supreme court and the end is not yet in sight. He probably will be able to put off his stay in jail for at least another six months or perhaps a year. A few years ago it was popular to complain of the manner in which "malefactors of great wealth" were able to clog the wheels of justice.
Nothing did more to cause distrust of our courts than the manner in which rich men were able to escape punishment almost indefinitely by means of legal quibbles. By taking advantage of all the technicalities of the law, they "wore out" the prosecution authorities, or delayed action until new officers were elected and were thus able to escape entirely. But nowadays the "malefactor of great wealth" sometimes gets scant consideration. He is lucky to get, the same treatment accorded a poor man. It is the politician of great influence who is able to evade punishment he so richly deserves.
It costs so much in time, money and effort to prosecute men like Townley, Debs and Haywood that only a courageous prosecutor will tackle the job, and then the courts and the county and the state authorities are so fearful of giving the defense some excuse for yelping about "railroading" that justice moves with an almost imperceptible creep. And right here in North Dakota we have certain official lawbreakers who seem immune even to prosecution. They are able to openly to flout the law and "get away with -Forum. The Courier- said that the people do not want to go to the expense of a recall election. There may be something in that, but then the people have been forced into this by the reckless waste and profligacy of the state administration.
We are up against a serious financial shortage in the state and bills have been held up for the past two months. The people did not want to stand for the spending of fifty thousand dollars in an endeavor to sell bonds down east, which said endeavor provided a bunch of leaguers a trip down east to spend the people's money at big hotels and on the railroads and dining cars. The Courier-News over looks these items when it is complaining about the cost. It does not tell its readers that fourteen thousand dollars of the victory fund contributed by the state has gone into the sinking-hole of that paper to pay newspaper bills and that nearly that same amount of that fund has been paid over to the league managers in salaries. Why not carry the truth to the people and thereby show the world that a square deal is what they want to give instead of deceit and camouflage.
Why don't the league leaders come out in a manly clean way and tell the people they have been wrong and unable to carry the state under its present load of mismanagement. Any effort to do right would be appreciated instead of this everlasting hounding the people for money to keep them in office. They have been in control of the state for the past five years and have been found deficient in management and have cost the tax payers of the state millions of dollars. The recall will be the cheapest possible method of stopping any more such waste and we guess the majority of the people are willing to pay the bill. -Valley City TimesRecord.
"The degree in which judge should separate himself from general activities as a citizen is not usually fixed as statutory law but by a due sense of propriety, considering the nature of his office, and by well-established custom. A judge should avoid extra judicial activities, not only because they may put him in an attitude actually or seemingly inconsistent with absolute impartiality in the discharge of his judicial duties, also because he owes his whole time and energy to his judicial work." -William H. Taft. Yes, that sentiment was expressed by William Howard Taft, the new chief justice of the supreme court of the United States. And by the statement.
which was not made for public print, he shows his fine ideals, his integrity, his sense of the proprieties and his high conception of the duties of a judicial This country is, and has been, particularly fortunate in having many judges who' hold and have the same opinions, but it does no harm to have these views Forum. In any disarmament conference in which the United States particirates, Rule No. One must be whatever agreements may AB to size, additions or 'subtractions, the navy of the United States shall be second to no other navy in the world. That must be the "irreducible minimum" with' which we enter the conference, and with which we come out. With Europe on our Atlantic side and Japan on our Pacific side, no other rule will be acceptable.
Reflection appears to have convinced the majority of the senate of the dangerous unsoundness of the Norris farm export corporation bill, despite the support given it by the "agrarian bloc." The proposal was to set up one more complex machine in Washington, and to provide it with a hundred million dollars out of the Treasury. In addition the Government was to underwrite a bond issue of a billion dollars. The function of this new and expensive machinery would be to buy farmers' products and find a market for them abroad. But, as Senator Nelson said in the senate Monday, the corporation would have to get paid for these products either in cash or securities, and that would present the same question that confronts us in respect to the foreign loan. Europe has little cash, and to accept securities would mean lending her more money with which to buy our products.
Senator Kellogg, of Minnesota, has apparently cleared the atmosphere with an amendment empowering the War Finance Corporation to proceed at once to the relief of the farmers. This assistance would include the advance of money to such country banks as are overloaded with farm credits. The president practically endorsed Senator Kellogg's amendment in his message to congress. Representatives of farming districts in congress are reported to be pleased with it and will give it support. The question is to be completely separated from the parallel proposal of empowering the War Finance Corporation to settle the government's debts to the railroads.
The situation of the farmer in his need of ready money is in many localities really pitiful. It is just as important that assistance be given him as to the railroads. They are both in the same predicament. In many sections, the farmer has not produced a crop in two or three years, and he is stranded. In the south, he has cotton but cannot sell it, and the result is a serious situation.
Senator Norris is not a safe counsellor to the farmers. This is not the time to establish more bureaus to become clogged and ineffective, and it is well that Senator Kellogg has seen the way straight through the mess, so that all this competition will be avoided and the way be opened for quick relief. The single care in the passage of the bill should be that only those entitled to relief should receive it. The farmer who has been deprived of crops should receive assistance first, as against the farmer who has had some crop. After all this is said, the wisest farmer will accept the least, because he will owe less in the end.
And his day for a big clearance crop yield in a single year is not far off. State Summary Passing Glimpses of Late Events in North Dakota Park Center- -The Lutheran church of Park Center recently was dedicated. Grand Forks--About 2,000 persons attended the Grand Forks county farm bureau picnic at Bachelor's grove. St. Thomas -The Ottem-Dall post of the American Legion held a big celebration July 14.
Valley City--Divers have recovered the body of Paul Nicolai, 21, from the Shevenne river. Wahpeton- The Fergus Falls Motor Bus company will start a bus line between this city and Fergus Falls. About 100 pastors and delegates attended the State Baptist convention here. -Residents in the north balf of the Newberg special school district have petitioned the county board to form a new school district. Hope The Hope businessmen have raised $898, of which $144 was used to buy an American flak and a special Legion standard.
Mines -J. T. Philips has been named president of the Lone Star- Rurul Telephone company. R. Glibertson Is secretary.
Watford of farmers telephone company is way in this section, Wahpeton-Wm. H. Thiel of Idaho Falls, formerly a farmer near Wyndmere, is dead. Cooperstown--M. F.
Washburn, 73, a resident since 1881, is dead. Apolexy was the cause of death. Wahpeton-Contract for a $10,250 combination firetruck has been awarded the American LaFrance company. Fargo--The harvest of early oats and rye is under way. according to J.
W. Haw. state leader of county agents. Hillsboro- Fred Clark was injured when the auto in which he was riding struck a rut and overturned. Valley City--Billy Sunday, evangelist, will appear at the Valley City chautauqua July 26.
Mandan The Mandan Electric company has announced a restoration of the old rates for lighting. Cardio J. G. Rugland, who has been located in Carpio for eight years, has resigned and accepted a call to Belfield, N. D.
Fargo -Members of the second Y. M. C. A. boys camp at Lake Cormorant have returned after a 10-day encampment.
Kenmare- -The Ministerial and day school convention of the church of the Brethren was held in Kenmare July 12 to 14. Elgin- George Horeauf is dead A8 the result of inpuries received when his car backed off an embankment into the Cannon Ball river. Bowbells--By a vote of 115 to 30 Bowbells approved bonding for 000 for building an addition to the present school building. Minot-Albert L. Echner, former Soo agent at Makoti, has entered a plea of guilty on a charge of embezzlement.
Velva-Fire, believed to have been started through the negligence of tramps, destroyed the L. C. Heap residence here. Minot- -The county commissioners have awarded the contract for the construction of 18 miles of improved highway in Ward county. Fargo- Olson of Grafton, who has just taken office as collector of internal revenue for North Dakota, announces that for the present he will make no changes in the office staff.
Mandan-Tax Commissioner Wallace has advised local officials that the city of Mandan wlil be re-assessed. Judge C. L. Crum has been named to make the re-assessment. Granville--The potato growers.
of the Granville district met recently and discussed organizing a potato growers association to solve marketing problems. Bismarck- The commissioners of Burleigh county have rejected petitions asking for a division of the Iowa school district No. 2. Two petitions were submitted. Velva The new bridge across the Mouse river at this point is just about completed.
The old bridge will be thrown across the river east of Falsen. Minot--Saturday was Minot's 34th birthday. It was on July 16, 1887, that the residents of Minot voted to Incorporate the town. The city was named after Henry D. Minot who was an officer of the Great Northern railroad.
Bismarck- The McKenzie County bank of City, capital 000, has closed, the state hank examIner has been informed. 0. E. Loftus, state examiner expects three or four closed banks to reopen within the next week or so. Bismarck Reduction of freight rates on grain by action of the interstate commerce commission will be asked by the North Dakota railroad commission in conjunction with similar requests by the commissions of other western states, it has been announced.
Minot-Minot was awarded the 1922 convention of the North Dakota Title Men's association. A. D. Dennis of Grand Forks was re-elected prestdent. George Phelps of Bowbells, vicepresident; R.
W. Durron, Bismarck, secretary, and R. L. Phelps of Steele, treasurer. -Settlement of an estate case which has run 20 years, has just been made by Judge J.
A. Graham. John Edwardson, farmer, died 20 years ago, leaving no will. The case was left pending until his three John, Theodore and Olaf, became of age. Ellendale- Nature of the observetions of air conditions carried the United States aerological station at Ellendale, one of the six of the kind maintained by the government, is described in a statement by C.
S. Ling, supervisor in charge. The Ellendale station at present employs seven inen. Bismarck--A special committee has been named by the North Dakota Farmers Matual Insurance association in conference here to work out plans for a reinsurance company on a mutual plan, to, aid any farmers mutual company which is a member in case of extraordinary loss by fire. The convention rejected the proposals to organize.
a tornado reinsurance company. Grand Forke Tracy R. Bangs of Grand Forks was elected president of the North Dakota Bar association for the ensuing year, succeeding Judge Charles A. Pollock of Fargo. Judge Charles Fisk of Minot was elected vice president while John Green of Minot was re-elected secretary.
Grafton-More than 1,000 pheasants batched at the state game farm here are to be released throughout the state this season. Birds released around Grafton have Increased rapidly and it is hoped. that within ten years the state's brush and timber landa will be stocked EMMONS COUNTY Auditor H. Brant Treasurer Chas. B.
Carley Register of Deeds. A. H. Irvine Sheriff Miller County Judge L. Tracy Clerk of Court.
C. F. Wagher Sup't. of Schools, Hanson State's Attorney Chas. Coventry COUNTY COMMISSIONERS T.
P. Lee, Second Dist. Frank Goughnour Dist. F. J.
McConville Fifth Dist. Jacob Schall Third Dist. L' du Fourth Dist. Officer for Emons, Logan and McIntosh Counties CITY OF LINTON Mayor A. Woolverton: Auditor H.
Smith Treasurer Ed. Graf Police Magistrate M. Britts Justice of the Peace Britts City Attorney H. C. Lynn Chief of Police Henry Wittmayer Assessor M.
Britts Engineer D. Fogle Fire Chief Fred Petrie Health W. C. Wolverton Official Newapaper, Emmons Co. Record THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT Frank F.
Allen, Presiding Judge Fred A. Oliver, Stenographer Geo. M. McKenna, Associate Judge C. C.
Olsen, Stenographer Rev. Newcomb, Juvenile Court ALDERMEN Frank Sternhagen First Ward Nick Heisler First Ward Harry Hinton Second Ward Frank Meier, Second Ward Martin Reidlinger Third Ward. Chas. Paulson Third Ward CHURCHES GERMAN EVANGELICAL FRIEDENS CHURCH. Services at 10:30 and Sunday School at 10:00 every third Sun-.
day morning and every Sunday evening services at 7:30. ST MATTHEWS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: Rev. Vm. Malpass, Minister Sunday School .10:00 a. m.
Morning Service 11:00 a. m. Evening Service .7:45 p. GERMAN BAPTIST CHURCH. Services every second Sunday at 11:30 a.
m. and in evening at 8:00 p. m. Sunday School every Sunday at 10:30 a. m.
REV. RUDOLPH LUCHS Sunday' METHODIST School EPISCOPAL CHURCH 6:45 10:30 a. Epworth p. Preaching, 7:30 p- League, Prayer Meeting, Wednesday evening, 7:30. NATHAN L.
ROCKWELL, Pastor: EVANGELICAL CHURCH. Church at Evening services at every fourth Sunday. 7:30. Sunday school at 10:00 a. m.
every Sunday. REFORMED CHURCH OF STRASBURG Services in Holland at 10:00 a. m. Services English at 2:00 p. m.
R. DUIKER, Pastor CLUBS LINTON LODGE NO. 88, A. F. A.
M. Meets on second and fourth Tuesdays in each month. Hall over Stone Drug Store. F. B.
Streeter, 'W. M. W. C. Wolverton, Sec.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. Linton Lodge No. 71. Visiting Meets every Thursday evening. welcome.
brothers are always. CHAS. P. L. ALBERTSON, R.
LINTON CHAPTER 67. ORDER OF EASTERN Meets every Arst and third Tuesday. Visiting members always welcome. STELLA A FOGLE. W.
M. OTILLA MEIER, Sec. No. ROYAL 5589. NEIGHBORS, Linton Lodge LILLIAN LANG.
Oracle ETTA JUNGE, Recorder MODERN WOODMEN OF Linton Lodge No. 11020. AMERICA. D. A.
SMITH, Consul Clerk ETY EVANGELICAL MISSIONARY SOCIeach month. meets on the first Thursday of Mrs. A. Saunders, Pres. Mra.
P. Wm. Bechtle. Vice Pres. Mrs.
J. Schott. Treas. Mrs. Gottlieb Gottlieb Bechtle, Sec.
Bechtle, Cor. Sec. every CATHOLIC second and SEWING fourth Meets: ternoons. Thursday afMrs. Glass.
Pres. Mrs. Anton Horner. Vice Mrs. M.
R. Corwine, Sec. Pres. Mrs. T.
Barger, Treas. MACCABEE LODGE Irene Irvine Augusta Pomerance Etta Junge Anna Pietz AMERICAN LEGION ican dave of Legion. each month first at and thirl FriDan R. Richardson Post No. 54, Amer Visiting Sailors, Linton, Soldiers North and A.
Marines H. always welcome. Glen Paul Turner, Marshall, Adjutant Vice Commander Commander the W. C. month.
T. U. meets the first Friday in Vice Pres, Mrs. Pres. Mrs.
Thruda Hageman Cor. Mrs. Fay Harding Rec. Mrs. Nellie Pagel Ellyn Freeman Wednesday LADIES GUILD.
afternoon. Meets every other Etta Junge, Pres. Mary Lynn, V. P. Irene Irvine, Sec.
Flora Stella Carley, Cor. Sec. Fogle, Treas. Wednesday. AID SOCIETY.
Meets every LADIES Mrs. Mrs. Ella Emma Norman, Pres. Mrs. Pagel.
Vice Pres. Mre. Annie Pitcher. Sec. Hulda Hageman, Treas.
CLIO CLUB. -Meets ternoon. every Friday Jean Theresa Streeter. Smith, Vice Edith Brant, -Treas. Bans Has Special Right There Is only one national bank the United States which does not have as a part of its name.
It is the Bank of North America. In delphia. special act of Philato permit a national hank congress to fuct operate that as it such without indicating the a national bank to its.
