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The copper era and Morenci leader., 1917-11-23

The classes in knitting have com pleted their muffers and an an nouncement will be made next week Of the prizes awarded.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1917-11-23

The musical to be given by Prof K. R. Umfieet at the Auditorium on Friday evening, will be a treat to the public and lovers of good music should not miss it.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-01-18

eran church in Long Prairie Tuesday
morning. The ceremony was per-
formed by Rev. E. Michsner of the
township church.
Martin Schaefer, prominent farm
er residing two miles east of New
Munich, Stearns county, was found
dead in his bed Thursday morning by
members of his family. Death was
due to heart failure. Mr.. Schaefer
was about 80 years of age. He was
born in Germany and came to this
country as young man. He has re-
sided on farm near that village for
about 80 years.
Peter Brennan, an Elk River boy
now fighting with the Canadian troops
on the Somme, has been highly COM
mended in a letter written to his
mother by his superior officer. The
letter declares Brennan has shown
such capacity for handling men that
recommendation will be made that he
be promoted to commissioned Off
Ger. The letter says they are fight
ing on the worst section of the Som
me and that there are few of the Ca
madam battalion of 1000 left.
While Agent Stephenson and his
employees were at dinner Tuesday
burglars gained entrance to the office
at the Great Northern depot at Long
Prairie and stole about $55 in cash
from the money drawer. Entrance was
gained to the office by breaking out
one of the spindles from the baggage
checking window in the mems wait
ing room, which, when removed, per-
mitted the burglars to reach through
and unlock the door. The burglary
was the fifth of a series at the Great
Northern and the total loss amounts
to something over $3.50.
Henry A. Flora of Staples, who was
ordered ousted from the position of
commissioner from the First Commits
sioner district of Todd county by a
ruling from Judge Parsons last week,
has decided against an appeal from
the decision of the supreme court and
therefore a meeting of the chairmen
of the town boards of Bartlett, Fawn
Lake, Germania, Moran, Staples and
Willard townships, and the mayor of
the city of Staples will be called for
the purpose of naming some one to
represent the district on the county
board for the ensuing term.
The school house in District No. 1,
Round Prairie was destroyed by fire
Wednesday morning. The loss is to-
tai, nothing was saved. The building
was insured for $1,000 and it is esti-
mated that the property was worth
about $4,000. No. 1 is the first and
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-01-18
TOO MUCH LEGISLATION

Tho new wear ts:.Sl,-..ered in the regular
biennial period Of legislation for the
state and nation and it is safe to say
that countless measures will be offer
ed and innumerable bills passed by
the various legislative bodies remedy
ing, or attempting to remedy every
rea. or imaginary evil the spirit or
the flesh is heir to, and it is equally
safe to say, after all this legislative
quackery has been inflicted on the
people, that in nine cases out OF ten,
their condition will have been deter
iorated instead of improved. Modern
statute books, both state and nation,
during the last quarter of century,
have been literally cluttered with fool
ish, useless and even harmful legis-
lation. During this period the whole
country has been afflicted with veri-
table diorrohea of curative laws that
have more tendency to create ills than
to cure them.
Lawmakers, DESTROYS for notoriety,
which many mistake for reputation,
IldNc SIlucCSiOISu W OoC q oSfAI-
uary industrial, social, moral, and po-
litical lane, which they would fam
compel men to walk from the cradle
t. the grave and have vainly attempt
ed to legally smother all initiative, in
dividualism and originality and to sur
round and hamper with law-restraint
Yankee gumption, quality that has
made this the greatest nation on earth.
1t can't be did. A legislative man.
ufactured conscience is not worth .
plugged picayune. Lew directed eff
fort never arrives anywhere. Club a
mans originality, initiative and indi-
vidualism out of him with law club
and you might as well club the man te
death. Laws regulating mems appar-
el, their personal habits, wishes and
desires and controlling and directing
their worship have caused humanit'
more war, suffering and bloodshe
than all other causes combined. TT
function of the law is to protect t.
innocent and punish the guilty and nc
to destroy individualism.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-01-18
Neighborhood News:
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK ,
TERSELY TOLD FOR THE ,
BUSY READER ,

xE
Internal revenue collections in Min
nesota for the last year showed gain
of $662,3O4 over the collections in
1915. The total amount collected in
the state in 1916 was $6,722,223.
When neighbors started search
for Erick P. Lind of Litchfield, con-
tractor who had been missing several
days, they found him dead, seated in
an upright position in his home. He
had been dead several days. Heart
disease was the cause.
Mrs. Abbie L. Pendergast, widow Of
w. w. Pendergast, first principal of
the school of agriculture and former
state superintendent of education, a
survivor of the Indian attack on
Hutchinson, in which Little Crow was
killed by the stockaders, died at the
home of her son-in-law, Rev. A. w.
Farnum, in St. Paul.
Little Frank Bruder, three-year old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn Bruder #
Reynolds township, Todd county, was
quite badly scalded when pan of
hot water was accidentally spilled up
on him Monday. The child was hur-
riedly brought to the local hospital
where his burns were dressed and it is
thought no serious results will follow.
Henry Faust, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Faust Of the town of Round
Prairie, and Miss Anna Neumann,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Ferdinand
Neumann of Grey Eagle, were unit
ed in marriage at the German Luth-
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-01-18
WHAT THE PEACE NOTE LACKS

Of course, our epistolary inclined
President wrote Peace Note and
with due and solemn diplomatic flub-
dubbery it was transmitted to the rul-
ers of the belligerent nations.
AS masterpiece of English compo-
sition and rhetoric it was without
parallel.
AS a token of the Presidents gen.
tle-heartedness, his intense hatred of
war and his great love of peace, it
reads like inspiration; as peace
producing factor it was valueless as
waste paper.
The warning nations treated it the
same way that the young Norwegian's
sweetheart treated his ultimatum:
Said Ole: "Hilda, if you don't Won't
marry me, I will do Something's derri-
ble."
"Vat will you do?" asked Hilda.
Suddenly Ole laid down his ultima
tum: II will yust let you marry
Knute."
The note reminds one of a shepherd
dog, which, pampered with age and
high life, bristles up, growls and shows
his toothless jaws to the gaunt and
fiery wolf that menaces the sheep
fold. The wolf calmly brushes the
flock's guardian aside and carries off
the pick of the flock to his lair. BE-
CAUSE THE DOG HAS NO TEETH.
The Presidents note has no teeth.
It would beer better never to have
written it.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-01-18

In one European country, at least
every other legislative session is de-
noted corrective" session and is de-
voted entirely to the repeal of useless
laws and the amendment OF imperfect
ones passed at the preceding session,
and affirmative legislation is barred.
1t would be mighty good thing If
the same rule prevailed in this coun-
try. If every legislative body in the
United States, from Congress down,
during the year 1917, would pass the
supply bills and put in all the balance
of the time repeating fool laws and
amending imperfect ones, future gen.
erations, as we'll as the people of the
present, would rise up and call them
blessed.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-01-18
FUTILE

The neutral nations, one and all,
From Uncle Sam to Swtz. the small
Stand ready to state terms of peace,
And pacts upon which war shall
cease.
But nations fighting out this war
Have "Hitched their wagons to a
star"
Are battling for a certain aim,
And will not quit the fighting game
Until they get right good and ready.
Peace notes are a waste of paper
Eddy.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-01-18
THOU ART THE MAN"

Newspaperdom, politicians, sleuths
and the people generally, have become
unduly excited over the ''leak" where
by the contents of the Presidents
"Peace Note" became known in adj
vance of its issuance, and the, stock
gamblers of the country made mil
lions thereby.
Congresse has appointed a commit
tee of Investigations; witnesses have
been summoned from every CONNER
cial center; brokers have been COM
manded to appear with their tape
tickers and the whole nation has been
ripped up the back.
1t is to laugh. 1t does not need a
Sherlock Holmes to locate the leak;
any ordinry, observant man can per-
form the task.
Biblical lore informs US that the
prophet Nathan, in the years long
agone, told to King David a mythical
story Of man, who, though owning
numberless flocks, went out and swip-
ed the one eve lamb of a lone home
steader. King Dave, righteously in
dignant, asked, Mate, who is the son
of a gun? l will lessen his height
eighteen inches beginning at the top"
Or words to that effect, and the pro-
phet, pointing at him an accusing fin
ger, thundered: THOU ART THE
MANI
There is no question whatever but
that the President, himself, is the
leaker who leaked the leak. Not
knowingly, Intentionally, or willingly
but none the less effectually.
Woodrow Wilson, notwithstanding
his craftsmanship, ability and integ-
rity, which no no one questions, is
garrullous as grandmother. He
talks too much and writes too much.
He is innocent in many ways as a
child and is as transparent as a win
dow pane. He wears his mind on mis-
sleeve, and those intimate with him
or having knowledge of his idiosyn-
crasles have no more difficulty in de-
Gliding what he will do under given
conditions than they would in deciding
what action an Angora cat would take
if left alone in room with a saucer
of rich cream.
The President is surrounded by
coterie of highbrows, of whom he
makes confidents, who love to air in
formation and who have no more
knowledge of the effect of advance
information or speculative values than
a grass hopper has of cube root, and
besides this, there are lot of Gin
laws" who have the run of the execu-
tive mansion, who are confirmed spec
ulators.
Spectators know that as soon rs
the Germans proposed peace, that the
President would write a note.-That's
his speciality, writing notes.-It was
not difficult to approximate the con-
tents of that note in advance. We
could have done it as well as Tom
Lawson.
The end is not yet. Other propo-
sitions will be submitted by the bellig-
erants and yet more noces will be
written.
't10 C1lv woy to prevent their con-
tents being known in advance is to put
a sticking plaster over the Presidents
mouth and smash his typewriter.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-01-18

Oldest district in the county The
school house, however, was compare
lively new and was well built and ade
quate.. There are many interesting
"reminiscences connected with the Dis
trict, some of the oldest families in
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-01-18
Rebecca Of Sunny
Brook Farm

This famous rural American COM
edy will be presented by the Fendell
Stock Company at the Caughren the
atre Monday evening, Jan. %. Special
crnerv. new people and beautiful
-tcrv properly told, together with
pleasing specialties will make an en-
;-vohle evening. Reserve your seats
early. adv
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-01-18

the county having been connected with
it. The school house stood at the
foot of the prairie, just west of the.
trout brook What the plans of the
district are are not known at this
writing.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-01-18
FRANK EDDY'S BRAINSTORMS
We'd Like TO Know.

We would like to know, you know,
what Miss Jessie Rankin, the con-
gresham recently elected from Mon
tana, is going to do with the trousers
hangers that the Washington tailors
always furnish free gratis to con-
greSSuen2
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-01-18
The Reason.

A noted preacher declares that "The
Reason that the lions did rot devour
Daniel was because he was half grit
and half backbone"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-01-18
Just An Idea.

Norman Huse, the talented editor
of the Norfolk (Nebraska) News, the
leading country daily Of that state,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-01-18

was recently appointed to m import
ant position in New York City. Lin
coin and Omaha each gave him d
banquet before his departure for his
new field of labor at which much 1T
larity and good feeling was manifest
ed. 1t is just an idea, but we feel as
though we would little rather our
friends would banquet US, cat, drink
and make merry when we come home
than when we take our permanent de.
parture from their midst.
/, Not Desirable.
A noted health shark says any man
can live to be a hundred years old by
simply observing the following rules:
Go to bed at 8 p. m. and rise at 4
a. m.
Take a cold shower bath on arising,
both summer and winter.
Go on five-mile walk every morn
ing before breakfast.
Avoid all exciting sports such as
baseball, football, wrestling matches
and prize fights.
Do not smoke or chew, or drink any
malt, vinous or spurious liquors.
Subsist mostly on raw meats, nuts
and vegetables; eat little or no meat
of any kind, and do not drink tea or
coffee.
Have as little as possible to do
with women.
What we want to know is, what
would a man want to live a hundred
years for under those conditions. 1t
seems to US six months would be long
enough.
The Highest Rate
A man pays a higher rate of inter-
est when he borrows trouble than up
on any other loan.
Sad But True.
If the tenets of orthodox christian
ity are all true, the devil is having
better success and more fun than any
body else.
Oh, So Careless.
NE y
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-01-18
If the High Cost KeeDs In

If the High Cost Keeps Up
Miss Muchcash, the charming young
debaunte, wore costly necklace Of
white navy beans around her swan
like neck, at the coming out party.
Always Popular
The popular majority down south
is always Democratic. 1t IS not only
unpopular but unhealthy to be any
thing but Democrat down there.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-01-18
Why Didn't He Saw So?

WHY DIUN ne Iody ,oU1
President Wilson says: The ulti-
mate combination of heterogeneous,
mental conceptions will eventually re-
suit in idealistic conditions. What he
means is: When all men meet on COM
mon ground of thought, everything
will be hunkadory.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-01-18
The True ODtimist

The True Optimist.
The kid who smiles when he is TAX
ing down his pants so his mother may
spenk him properly.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-01-18
A Similarity.

Men are like dogs; those that growl
are more respected than hose that
whine.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-01-18
Oh, So Careless.

Oh, So Careless.
Most girls drop their eyes when they
meet a handsome young man on the
street.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-01-18
The Truth is Out.

The skirts of modernity have dem
onstrated that there is as many bow
legged, knock-kneed women as there
are men.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-01-18
Sad Rut True

Sad But True.
If the tenets of orthodox christian
ity are all true, the devil is having
better success and more fun than any
body else.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-01-18

The Highest Rate
A man pays a higher rate of inter-
est when he borrows trouble than up
on any other loan.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-14
LOYAL NEGROES
Noble Hearted Kansas citians Send
Financial Aid to Our Stricken
People in East st. Louis.

On last Sunday the editor, acting on
a suggestion of Mrs. John Lange, con-
suited with several of our citizens as
to the advisability of trying to send
some financial aid to the organization
in st. Louis, Mo-, that is caring for the
refugees of East st. Louis, and meet
ing their approval the matter was put
up to DR.. Thomas, the pastor of Allen
Chapel, who readily consented to the
proposition. The editor, assisted by
Mr. Joe E, Herriford, w. C. Hueston
and c. H. Galloway, raised a collec-
tion at Allen Chapel Sunday morning
totaling $3.50, which was Immediate
ly telegraphed to DR.. William H.
Peck, former pastor of Allen Chapel
and chairman of the finance commit
tee of ST. Louis. The editor was ex.
tended an invitation Sunday night to
present the matter to the splendid
people of Ebenezer A. M. E. church
by its popular pastor, DR.. w. c. Will
liams and after the presentation a
collection of $42.03 was raised and
also telegraphed to committee. In
addition several other persons and or
ganizations sent contributions to the
Sun office which we're forwarded to
DIR. Peck making total of $111.S3
raised and sent to him, minus cost of
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-14

The Metropolitan Street Railroad is
preparing to give a big outing to all
its Colored employees and their
families for whole day and night at
beautiful Lincoln Electric Park. Free
transportation will be given each man
for his family, free admission to the
Park and all the concessions as well
as the refreshments will be paid for
by the company. This is in keeping
with this company's policy toward its
white employees and without doubt
will be highly appreciated by the 900
or more Colored employees and their
families.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-14
A REAL GOVERNOR

Jefferson City, July 6.-Many tele-
grams and letters are coming to Gov
ernor Gardner protesting against the
riots in East st. Louis. All are based
on the belief of those who sent them
that East st. Louis is a part of Mis-
souri,.
I'VE do not do business that way"
the governor said in expressing his
veXation over the communications.
"All human beings in this state are
treated alike, and will be treated alike
as long as l am chief executive of the
state. l am told that even some
Eastern newspaper writer's have been
referring to this state as poor old Mis-
souri, on the theory that East st.
Louis is in Missouri. They ought to
post themselves on geography"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-14
If WE WERE ORGANIZED INTO AN
INDUSTRIAL UNION THE MAS
SACRE OF E. ST. LOUIS COULD
NOT HAVE HAPPENED.
The Capitalists Are Useing Southern Negroes to
Break Strikes. This is Causing Very
Bitter Feeling Against the Entire Race.
By RUCKER SMITH.

This article was not written for
those who do not think; the dull and
unthoughtful need not read
Our program arises out of the ac-
tual conditions of contemporary life,
it is not the fine-spun web of a dream
ers' imagination.
Civilization has grown up and eX-
panded all around us; it has swal-
loYed us, but we have not swallowed
it; it has not included us, only in a
very limited degree. During slavery
we were a very important part of the
industrial system of this country.
There is a working class struggle in
every civilized country in the world,
but no country is confronted with such
a perpleXing problem as we have in
this. In the other countries the work.
| ing class is divided into two parts,
! those who belong TO labor organiza.
tions, and, those who, for some rea.
son, refuse to join; the Negro, in most
! cases, is rejected from any affiliatior
with the A. F. of i. in this country
and being unorganized, makes him an
easy victim, target for organized Ia
Dor and the well organized employers
of labor The only kind of work we
are permitted to do is something that
carries with 1t no promotion, we start
at the bottom and remain there, no
matter how much we learn or know
about the job. We should know how
to operate every branch of industry
needed TO run a city or government.
If we do not know this, which is i'm
possible without experience, we are
not absorbing the white mans civili-
zation as we should; nor can we ever
know under the present state of af-
fairs.
Workers, we must organize! There
is a nation wide conspiracy to use
Southern Negroes to break strikes.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-14

Negroes who have come from the
Southland.
We are, as an association, trying to
assist in securing evidence to bring
about convictions for the riot Of July
I'd. We are going to employ the best
of legal and detective talent. We
realize this will cost money, but we
are going to see it through.
1 would appreciate you sending me
the address of the Masonic lodges of
Missouri and jurisdiction, so that an
appeal may be made to them to ielp
in this matter.
Again thanking you for taking the
initiative from outside sources in this
matter, l am,
Very truly yours,
w. H. PECK.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-14
NEGRO LAWYER TAKES LIFE.

Failure to Get Army Commission
Caused Veteran to Kill Himself.
Muskogee, Ok, July 9-Brooding
because he failed to get place as an
officer in the army, w. Scott Brown,
a we'll known Negro lawyer of Mus
kogee, today shot and killed himself.
Brown was a Spanish-American vet
eran and served as lieutenant in the
Tenth Illinois Immunes. Brown had
passed the examination, but the papers
were missent and arrived at Des
Moines, Ia, after the full quota had
been selected.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-14
Mr.. Nelson c. Crews,
1903 East 18th St,
Kansas City, Mo.

Mr.. Nelson c. Crews,
1903 East 18th St,
Kansas City, Mo.
My Dear Brother Crews: I can't
express to you our gratitude for the
liberal Offering you have sent the
Committee on Finance from Kansas
City. Kansas City has been the only
place, outside of St. Louis, that has
up to the present, contributed to this
fund.
Our work of relief is Just beginning,
as tomorrow morning the city of St.
Louis discontinues the relief they
have been giving to $4,000 refugees
from the mob of East st. Louis. The
situation is clearing up, however. EN-
ployment has been found for all of
these Negroes in st. Louis, who de-
sired work, ranging from $500 to
S2.25 per day.
Many inducements were held out to
them to return South, but we find but
few saw fit to accept this invitation.
Some have gone to Northern cities
and possibly 1000 of them are at
present in st. Louis. Some have re-
turned to East st. Louis, but we have
advised all not to return to East St.
Louis until conditions are safe. At
present there is no guarantee Of any
safety for our people on the streets of
East St. Louis.
This situation is without parallel
in the history of our country. In fact
IL our people had fighting chance we
would say go back, but there is no
semblance of a fighting chance for
these honest, industrious and helpless