The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-09-30
TRUE ECONOMY


True economy does not consist in
boarding, sparing use of necessities,
or restraining from necessary expen-
diture, but the elimination of waste.
Wonderful results have been achiev-
ed by nations, corporations and indi-
viduals by the elimination of waste.
Thomas Budget, one of the old time
rich merchants of England when ask
ed the secret of his prosperity replied,
Nothing is ever wasted at our
stores"
The Great Northern is probably
the best paying railrad system in the
world, not because it earns more than
any other, but because under the eff
cient management of James J. Hill,
all waste is eliminated, even bits of
Irvine and bent nails are utilized.
Germany engaged in a war with an
aggregation of Europe's most power
full nations, with allies that she must
sustain instead of drawing assistance
from, has maintained millions of men
in the field for over a year and has
not bought a pound of food, a par
ticle of ammunition, borrowed, or at
tempted to borrow dollar from the
outside, because for years she has
made scientific study of the elimin-
alton of waste in every department of
life.
Years ago the great Bismark issued
a simple statement: watch the gar
bage can" And that has been the rule
of the German public and private life
ever since.
Minnesota produces about twice as
much pork as is used in the state, yet
two-thirds of the bacon, picked pork
and hams used are shipped in from
Chicago and St. Louis. The transport
tation of the hogs to these points and
the transportation of the the finished
products back is a waste that the Ger
man government would eliminate.
Minnesota people are among the
largest wooden goods wearers and US
ers in the country. Her opportunities
for sheep raising are unequalled by
any state in the union; abundant wa
ter facilities afording cheap power for
facilities are unsurpas-
sed, yet other states raise most of the
wool and practically manufacture all
the wooden goods used by us. The
transportation cost, the profits of the
sheep industry and the manufacturing
gains that might come to this state
are all wasted waste that would be
eliminated were the German policy of
utilizing all the possibilities of local
ity within the locality itself, followed.
One of the first manufacturing
plants located in this part of the
country was FIGURING mill and it has
been in business most of the time for
45 years. 1t now and always had man.
ufactured as good grade of flour as
can be found on the market, yet two
thirds of the flour used in this neigh
borhood is shipped in; consumers pay
transportation on the wheat to man.
ufacture the flour and then on the
flour. If every person using flour pa
trained the home plant it would mean
an increase of two cents bushel on
every bushel of wheat raised in this
If every article used in this COM
munity, that could be obtained here
were bought here, and the transporta-
ton waste eliminated, and the money
kept in home circulation the economic
gain would be astounding.
In 1902 we spent some weeks in
Germany and traversed the entire
length of the empire. We discovered
that Watch the garbage can" prin-
ciple prevailed and governed in every
line of private business and public af-
fairs. There were no duplication of
official duties; public institutions were
located for public benefit and not pol
itical advantage; there was no weed
waste, transportation waste, timber
waste, in fact the elemental base of
German mightiness is the elimination
of waste. ...... -..
We are not pro-German. There is
a lot of German procedure we would
hate to see transplanted to this coun-
try but if we were to adopt their
waste elimination system we would
speedily become, to much greater
extent than we are now, the greatest
nation on earth and sufficient to our
selves, and in no way dependent on