The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-07-05

or may be called on to I'LL vacancy
in that body before the first of the
year. One of the members, it is said,
contemplates retiring because of con-
tinued ill health. Capitol circles pick
Attorney General Smith as the bene-
ficiary with the appointment OF AS
sistant Attorney General Clifford Hill
ston as Mr.. Smiths successor. How
ever, there are others who have de-
signs on the two jobs. 1t is known
that if vacancy does occur on the
bench, friends of Judge Dibell, one OF
the supreme court commissioners, will
vigorously urge his promotion. The
name of Senator Putnam OF Blue
Earth has also been mentioned in con-
nection with the supreme court and
the attorney generalship, but if such
ever comes it will have to be after he
has worked out his present official
not allow his appointment to either.
There is a growing feeling that the
state safety commission with its ST.
100000 appropriation, if it wants to
merit public confidence, will have to
do something more than concern it
self with the so-called moral upllft.
This opinion, it is said, is also shared
by some of the members of the COM
mission, among them former Governor
John Lind; and he has taken occasion
to so state in remarks before the
board. Of the seven or eight general
orders issued to date by the board,
five concern liquor and moral uplift.
Added to this have been the launching
of many plans and schemes for the
organization of women's clubs and
civic cooperation generally. All the
high cost of living and other affli-
lions have received has been unused
publicity urging increased acreage
and conservation. An observer writ
ing to a local paper thinks the COM
mission might do some good if it
buy several hundred carloads of po-
tatoes and sell them to the people at
cost. This perhaps is somewhat far
fetched, but it contains much food for
thought. The commission is compos-
ed of big men and they have it in their
power to be of great aid to the state.
BY an order of the state safety COM
mission to be issued shortly, CONNER
cial fishing in the numerous lakes OF
the state is to be permitted. The fish
ing will cover rough fish only, will be
for the benefit of the state institutions
and any excess will be given to the
public. Sam Fullerton, former exc
cutive agent of the state game and
fish commission, has been urging the
taking of rough fish from the lakes of
the state and their sale to the public
at reasonable prices. Carlos Avery,
at present state game and fish COM
missioner, has also urged such move.
At the meeting of the commission last
week Mr.. Fullerton convinced the SAT-
ey commission that smoked carp was
as good as the imported article.
Frank Minette of Sank Centre, who
in the old days travelled with the un-
washed and who represented his dis
trict in the 1915 legislature, is now
non-partisan league booster. At a
meeting of league organizers in Todd
county last week he endorsed the aims
and purposes of the present telephone
control law, something he has since
admitted that he was not overly proud
of. He was busy during the last SEES
sion of the legislature trying to in
duce the members to put over another
telephone measure but fell down on
the job. 1t is significant that after
the telephone control law was passed
telephone toll rates in the state in
creased from rs to 33 and 1-3 per cent.
This month the state board of par
dons will consider an application for
the unconditional release of Walter
Smith, former sttae treasurer and II.
C. Pickett, former clerk in the office
of the state treasurer, from the Still
water prison. Both are serving indie
terminate sentences for embezzle-
ment. Mr.. Smiths wife is active in
trying to secure her husbands re-
lease and friends have interfered in
behalf of Pickitt. Both have served
over a year. Smith will likely locate
in Ohio if given his freedom.