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Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1921-02-18
FAWNDALE
PAGE. EIGHT .

Mrs Frank POintek February 18th :. :
Anrew Beas' deliyfr:a Wood NO ,s & the
Mrs. Simon sobieck visited at the II.
M. Kinney home in Swan River VERA, Mon ndsS;
Thomas Schneider Of SWanVille speht
Mrs. Novokoska who has been Wis.
iting in Little Falls. recently returned
Mrs. Stella I,radala of Little FAILS
was guest of Mrs Simon Soplech las'
week. 1:, ,,oro sun.
day visitors at the w. Davies home IN
L. =. Anderson motored to Bowlus
Friday to meet Rev: Eammen. .so
'Jotn Kalis was an Elm Dale visitor
Mr. and Mrs. 1gnatz Biennieck of
swanvillc.; visited with Mr.. and MIS-
Sir~>,n Snb,cck Sunday
MI: and Mrs. John G ;e were we're
ing the week. 49,,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Rosa and chill
dren Christina and Roman. Of swan-
o'g gohn "f Pekuia Visited at the home Of
his sister. Mrs. JOS. Novokoska, OF this
George nf Swanville visited relatives
and friends here Sunday.
joseph GchoHn and son smd stfpSfn KinneG
MI and Mrs. J. r. Kulla and Mr. and
Mrs. Peter Ohotto were Bowlus busi-
Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. Rosa and dauSn-
ters Reg ina and Kathryn, We're guests
at the Frank Rosa home in Swanv'ile
Sunday.
Miss Anna Matros. on Monday return
ed to Minneapolis, after spending a
week at the home of her parents. MI.
Mr.. ana Mrs. Paul Remington left
Friday for their home near Brainerd.
after several days visit with relatives
Rev. Vanamen held services at the
Danish Lutheran church in Elm Dale
Sunday.
Geofrrey Hanson has been hired as
Association, to take the place of Henry
Mar1inson. who recently rendered his
John sobieck, Peter Pointel, Thos.
Schneider and the Misses Martha and
Anna Sobieck visited with friends in
SWanville Sunday.
Lawrence OhottO farm. Several farm
ers are hauling logs there ready for
Mr.. and Mrs. M. J. viechorek enter
tanned the following guests at a feath~
er stripping bee Monday evening": Mr.
and Mrs. A. J. Rosa and daughter Re-
gina Mr.. and Mrs. Schwientek, Mrs:
John Drew and sons Michael and
Thomas, Leo Retka and sister Miss
Anna, A: r. Viechorek, Mr.. and Mrs.
George Yasgar and the Misses Yasgar
and Retka. Refreshments were served.
consisting of the following tempting
viands: Potatoes, brown gravy. roast
pork and beef baked beans. macaroni
and tomatoes, potato salad. pickles,
bread. buns, doughnuts, cookies. war;
iety Of caka and pie, jello and fruit
articles that are necessary to make a
meal complete. Coffee furnished the
beverage. Those present spent a very
pleasant evening and a good amount
Of feathers were stripped.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1921-02-18

Z. Frank x v1rnfg and son .LlASE Piers,
were business callers at Buchanan Sum
day. ~ ~ 49, - ;. ). .--s.5 -,
to his ranch at Sullivan Lake Monday.
Lewis Poster of Morrill, visited his
mother here over Sunday.
Mrs. Franz Karrel has taken possess
sion of her new home in the village.
which was under construction during
the winter.
to St. Cloud Monday.
VIM. Gohl visited his parents at
Onamia Sunday.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1921-02-18
held at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Mark Gunderson. February Is, Friday

held at the home OF Mr. and MrS.
Mark Gunderson. February Is, Friday
evening.
Little Amy Jacobson spent Saturday
and Sunday at the home of her uncle
and aunt, and Mr.: and Mrs. L. r. An
derson of Swan River.
Geffrey Hanson. our new creamery
man, will take POSSESSION of the Elm
Dale creamery. March J..
Robert Larson hauled logs to G. j.
Lundin's at Cpsaja Saturday
Misses annie and Ella Larson and
Mamie. Lille and Amy Olson visited at
the home o. Andrew l;6seil Of swan
vile.
Peter Johnson spent Sunday at the
home of J. J. Jacobson.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. p. Anderson of Swan
River and Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Henning-
son of Brafnerd visited at the home of
J. J. jacobson one day last week.
Miss Grace Jacobson, who spent the
Pasf week a At the nome ,, 81 n7r r oel;
home Sunday and was accompanied by
her brother o. p. Jacobson and family,
who spent the day 1T the home of J.
J. Jacobson.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1921-02-18
DARLING TO w

. Feb 15.-Andrew Hedin q Little
Falls was here last week heIpda aSmH
Anderson cut wood. He returne0 nome
Sunday morning.
me roads are in bad shape - re-
suit Of the thaw the first of TIE week.
ert Nelson Of Stevens Point. Wis. re-
Gently. c.:.,, 1.%,,a,an
church Sunday morning al. w. Win
communion. All are welcome 90 az"
tend.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1921-02-18
RANDALL

Fab. 1G-Herran Rittcrs end Paul
Olson left for Minneapolis Thursday
,nc"niner to attend the auto show.
Burdette Van Eaton spent Thursday
here visitirr friends, returning to his
home in Little Falls Friday.
Ole Wagon left for Iowa Thursday
for short visit with friends and rela-
tives.
Anton Bermel shipped carload Of
n",rwcca to the paper mill at Little
William Smith, formerly Of Randall.
spent g. few days here last week visit
ing old acquaintances. returning to his
home at Haclkensacl< Saturday morning.
Russell Hendrickson. who Is at
tending business college at Little Falls,
spent the weekend with his parents
here.
William Strahl shipped two carloads
of hay to the market last week.
George Hager, who has been employ
ed in the woods near LaWler this win
ter. returned Sunday morning to his
home here.
J. r. Gibson Of Little Falls was a
business caller here Saturday.
A. X. johnson of Cushing was a bus
mess caller here Monday.
Albin Anderson shot q full grown
wolf last week.
Albert o. Nelson and son Norman left
Tuesday morning for st. Paul, where
they will attend the hardware dealers
convention.
Marshall Thelen returned Tuesday
morning from Lawler, where he has
been employed in the woods:
Peter Nordlund of Cushing was in
town on business Tuesday.
PRIV II o. Latest ro1non1 rrfooo ~
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1921-02-18

"TRIP to Royalton Monday -. #
Louie Poster transacted business IN
Royalton Friday.
Mrs T. Emerson. who has been very
sick. is up and around again.
Anton Bauer. John Stotesbery and
Barney Miller Of Royalton helped VIM.
Miller saw wood last week.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1921-02-18

At the meeting Of the Hawthorne
school mothers club this afternoon at
$3.50, program will be given by tho
school children. Among the numbers
will be play Celebrating Lincoln 8
Birthday with Grandma,' dramatiza.
ton Of valentine making and recita-
lions
The Washington herald., 1921-05-15
By William AthertOn Du Puy

people Of the city Of Washington and the
result was that the Postmaster was able
Immediately to take twenty men Of the shift
that had been handling the peak load"
Then led Mr.. Hays to talk Of his past
life, because I hold that a man is like a
race horse and can be best judged BY his
past performances.
When he was q small boy out in Sullivan.
Ind, which has but 1000 or 5000 population
even now, the county courtroom used to be
his favorite playground. His father, John
T. Hays, was . practicing attorney there,
and the boy sat at the feet Of the Judge and
played among the jurors while cases were
being tried. Sullivan is over on the Wabash
side Of the State and down toward the south.
ern end, where people are somewhat old.
faahioned and disinclined to adopt metro.
politan waya
WIN Hays was sixteen years old and mill
wearing short trousers when his father tooL
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the time that Will Hays was at Wabash
tnere was no oratorical contest STAGED in
which he did not participate and few in
which be did not carry of the honors.
Following his fathers expressed desirs
that he take citizens interest in pou.
tics, Will Hays became precinct commit
teeman before he was twenty.on.. when
ne was twenty two he was nominated for
prosecutor and defeated, this being a fore
gone conclusion, for the community was
strongly Democratic. At twenty. three he
was county chairman. little later be
went up to Indianapolis and handled the
speakers bureau for the State campaign.
by l9o6 he had broken into the Democrats
In his district and elected part of the can
oidates. When 1914 arrived there was great
gloom In Republican circles. The Roose-
veit-Taft breach had not been healed in
Indiana. The Democrats had everything
nailed down. The Progressives showed
no desire to get back into the party.
bays was made State chairman. 1t was
then and there he began to preach his gospel
that there are no yesterdays in the Re-
publican party" He insisted that the door
was wide open, that all were welcome back
and that all were entitled to a voice in the
councils. He hired the biggest elephant
In Indiana and painted on his sides: &c.
y. r., l am back already and paraded
him through the streets Of Indianapolis.
Good progress was shown at the polls. The
Republicans almost won.
THEN came the campaign of 1915, in which
hays made his big reputation. Indiana,
which had become almost confirmed in its
Democracy, piled up q good majority for
hughes and elected most of the ticket. This
victory made Hays chairman Of the Ma.
honal Committee.
win Hays was q bit Of q novelty as a
political leader. BE held a deep conviction
which he often preached a. the foundation
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him down to st. Louis in 1896 to his first
national convention. 1t was then that he
sat with his father and saw William Nc
kinley receive a presidential nomination
and got his first look into that phase Of
politics in which he was destined to win
distinction.
MOT long ago Mr.. Hays was digging
~ around among his effects and found an
envelope, yellowed by time, and filled with
clippings from the Ste Louis papers, de-
scribing the progress of that convention.
Written across the back of it in the hand
writing Of his father was the legend:
ITO Master Willie Hays, with the hope
that he win always take a citizens interest
in pohtics.''
1t was in the same hotel in which the
elder Hays and willie" stayed on that
occasion Of their first visit that, twenty
tive years later, the young political or
ganizer from Indiana was chosen as Re-
prblican National Committee chairman. 1t
was in this same court which he had made
his playground Of childhood that, William
Harrison Hays was admitted to practice on
the day he was twenty one. and it was from
that same courtroom on that same day that
he went forth to cast his ballot for it hap.
pened, somewhat prophetically, that his ma
jority and election day arrived simultane-
ously. ....
1t was to this court house, also, that he
went in boyhood to hear Benjamin Harrison
plead case. and it was during the speech
that this man, who was to be President,
made that one sentence was uttered that
fixed itself In the mind Of Willie Hays and
has remained there ever since to be often
used a. his favorite quotation. "The length
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SM'Mu~>~-

is the simple, decent thing to do and, By all
the powers, It shall be done"
The great idea." he continued, "is to
get In touch with people. l have just
had groups Of postmasters down here to con-
fer with me. There were Democratic Post
masters, holdovers from the former admin.
istration. When I proposed to bring them
down l was told that it was useless, that
they would not CO operate But got them
liere and talked about humanizing the serv-
ice, about developing q new morale, about
convincing their people that they were not
working for US but with US. They arose
to the occasion as men always do. Folks
want to be human beings and will be II but
given q chance"
what is your view," asked, "of the
relation Of the Postofice Department to poll.
tics?''
II regard it As a business organization, -
be replied. 1T should be 20 firmly built Is
a business organization that politics will
never again have anything to do with its
makeup. Ny hope Il to establish It on this
basis.
There are many common sense possibili.
ties Of increasing the efficiency Of the de-
partment. There 10 that matter Of the time
Of day when the citizen drops his letters into
the box. The habit II to mail everything
between four and seven in the evening. Al
most no mail comes in in the morning. 80
we have a peak Of work and an absence Of
hands for its distribution. So want people
to use their heads. Don't dump everything
into the mails at the same hour. Get
some Of your mail Of in the forenoon. Hold
all Of It over until the next morning that
will serve your purpose just as well and mail
1t then. issued Q plea Of this sort to the
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upon which party srccess should be built.
de said that, in q democracy, the party
which would be in control longest was the
party which was most consistently right.
Therefore. the first requisite was to get
right and the second was to stay right. He
believed that the party belonged to the
people and that they had a right to be
heard, that they did not need be 90 darn
regular. and that the latch string was hang.
ing out for anybody who may have wandered
away. He had just sort Of grown up liking
people and he still liked them and got along
with them. 1t was said at Republican head
quarters that nobody ever came in with
whom Hays could not work. / never heard
anybody say that they had ever seen Rays
mad. He never wields a big stick. He
never dismissed a man from his Office or
from the party in his life. Whoever he was
he would find 4 place for him to do effective
work. He had a genius for putting people
to work. The individual might not be per-
sonally attractive to him, might not be
tuned to the key he liked. That did not
mean tnat he could not be made useful. He
found the job that fit the man. II it was
at his very elbow he would work with him
despite personal uncongeniality.
And the way this slight, apparently frail,
man could work. 1t was BY no means an
uncommon thing to see him working two
stenographers and two telephones. 1t was
said that Caesar could interview seven peo-
pie at one time and at the same time write
his memoirs. Two modern stenographers
and two telephones is about as complicated
q task.
Things do not happen" he Is fond Of
saying. They ere brought about.'
Human nature" be insists, lis the core
Of politics"
Some one recently suggested to Mr.. Hays
that he had grown to be q national figure
now. that he occupied a high and dignihed
position, and that be should therefore auit
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stand oct prominently from his head. His
face Is always wrinklins up In Q merry
smile. 1t is q gleeful, contagious smile,
quite personal.
As he talks with Q friend his arm steals
over onto his shoulder or, perhaps, clear
around to the northeast corner. All the
time he Is dispatching business. In ten
minutes he has satisfied ten men, has cleared
the anteroom Then he leads me, the in
terviewer, to his inner sanctum.
This Ia . great, human job" he tells
me. The Postofhcs Department Il the
greatest employer Of labor in all the Gov
ernment. We hire Soo,0 900 people. It II
the greatest business institution in the
world. We have q hundred million Gus.
toners 1t operates the biggest express
company on earth, the greatest savings
bank Its activities touch every family,
every indfvidual under the nag.
NY nrse interest d the human Interest.
] want b Tst in touch With the people who
work for the department. I do not sub.
scribe to the theory that labor IL . com
modify and the way to buy Il h at the lowest
price at which II ID offered. That theory
was abandoned 1921 years ago last Easter.
I want to hnd ont about these people ana
the conditions under which they work. All
over the United States there are great In.
dustries that are spending large sums OF
money for welfare work among their EN-.
ployes. I would not say that It was selfish
interest that has inspired this welfare work,
but will say that 1t has been found to pay.
'f an organization has thousand EN-
ployes or Q hundred thousand and each Of
those employees is q time server without en-
thusiasm, or an individual who harbors hate
Of his employer in his heart, the amount Of
service rendered per employe will be greatly
reduced. II each of those employees u
brought to feel that he Is working for Q
human institution that appreciates him as q
human being and the efforts that he b max
ing, the amount Of service rendered VIII rise
appreciably, a new spirit will come into the
organization, results will increase inmeas.
urably.
If consideration Of the welfare and han.
piness OF employees Of industries works to the
interest and advantage Of those industries. a
similar program on the part Of the Postofac.
Department, the Governments greatest EN-.
ployer, should work out similarly.
And BESIDES declared the Postmsst.,
General, rising and striding up and down
and waving his arms in his enthusiasm, ..it
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and faces. One modest clerk shook hands
and sought to hurry past without giving his
mime. Why should he? The PING would
not remember. Mr.. Hays stopped him,
asked the name, and, his associates say,
will meet this clark in the hallway some
day and call him by it.
Then, when / went to see the Postmaster
General for a talk, / had further chance
to see him in action. There were many
men in his outer Office. There are post
masters by the tens of thousands to be ap-
pointed and there are ten candidates for
each office. They and their friends and
their congressman seek the ear Of this man.
He receives as many of them in the inner
Office as be can, but the day is not long
enough to get all the way round. So, when
the sun gets low, he emerges from the inner
sanctum and passes among those who are
waiting. His face lights up as he grasps
the hand of the first man he meets. Hello,
Colonel" he exclaims, How is Montana?"
and they draw aside for a few confidential
words. Mr.. Hays, as he talks, looks over
the Colonel's shoulder and waves a boyish
salute to q waiting friend, does a mimic
handshake with another, passes a third q
merry wink. All the time he Is registering
pleas. giving assurances Of consideration.
directing steps to be taken.
AND ! observe and register impressions
~ Of the new Postmaster General. have
recently interviewed DENLY and Weeks of
the Navy and War Departments, each of
whom weighs 25o pounds. hays is about
half the weight Of one of these heavy Sec
retaries. BE is Of medium height. but very
thin. The boys must have called him
Skinny" on the old playground. he has
dark hair and brown eyes. He Is sharp
faced with q razor-like nose that varies q
ht from the meridian line. Large ears
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ONE Of the humanest Of men in the
" Harding Cabinet Is VIII h. Hays.
Neither Marx Twain NOR Thomas R.
human than this bantamweight political
strategist who has become Postmaster
General. Human sympathy with his fell
lows is one of two or three characteristics
which make him . very unusual man. A
second quality Is dynamic energy similar
to that Of Theodore Roosevelt. And to
these he adds q capacity for organization,
and the result is an individual who, at
forty one, has climbed to q high place BY
the road Of accomplishment.
Here ID an example of the way he works:
On the secoad Sunday before the election
hst NovsmbR he got into Chicaco at 10
o'clock in the morning. His purpose was
to estimate the sitaation in the West. He
had to know how things were going that
ne might wisely dirsct the drives of those
vital last few days Of the csmpaign. He
had to get in touch
Hs resorted 10 his fs1orits means Of
Communication, the long distance Telephone
IL s probably true that more miles Of tele-
phone wire have tingled with the messages
OF VIII II. Hays than Of anJ other man
the world has known. When I was down
past the Postof6ce Department some weeks
ago he was reaching out after q certain
man he wanted as second assistant-a hun
dred thousand dollar man who would take
Job at six thousand. He was arguing with
this man out in San Francisco about his
duty to render public service. and doing it
over 5000 miles of telephone wire.
WELL, on this second Sunday before elec-
w ton, he began calling up national COM
mitteemen and State chairmen west of Chi
cago. Oregon, New Mexico, Nevada, Kansas
responded one after the other. Tie view Of
the State chairman was checked by that
of the national committeeman. 1t was
Tom, Jim and Charley to whom he talked
all personal fri" ), all responding to the
human torch, all supplying their best in
formation rs to the low down" on the
situation.
The difficulty, the insistence. the pa
tence, the industry that is required for
days work like this can be appreciated BY
anybody who has 30 much as tried to call
up fifty people in his own town to invite
them to a party. But by Sunday night
WIN Hays had completed the survey, had
classified the results, had flashed them to
New York, and the basis was laid for the
fight that was to enc the campaign.
Then there il the correspondingly illus
trative picture presented when the POST
master General stood in line for three hours
and shook hands with the employees Of the
department. There was a genial fellowship
In the smile and the handclasp he gave each
division chief, stenographer, scrub woman.
He insisted on getting the name of each.
registering it n his mind and fixing it with
the face. As a master politician he has
long trained himself to remember names
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HAYS HUMAN LIVE WIRE WHO DELIVERS YOUR LETTERS

Of the stsp," said Harrison, ''is not 20
important - the direction in which Il il
taken"
The elder Hays was of Scotch Irish de-
scent and was q Presbyterian. It was,
therefore, but natural that his son should
go up to Crawfcrdsville to Wabash College
and there acquire an education. 1t was
an old-fashioned sort Of school, but there
has always been about It something Of that
atmosphere that has caused the sons Of In
diana to write books and participate In
other callings Of the intellectual. During all
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The Reason

MR.. LIGHTLEIGH was bosstins 10 Ma
INl Billinston that he had bean able 10 re-
tain . cooks service for . period In szcsa
Of two months.
WHAT" demanded Mr.. Billinston, An.
credulously, You don't mean 10 tan m
that a cook stayed in your employ for NOR,
than two monthsi How On earth did yos
manage itf'
well" continued Mr.. MshtleisA, "vv
were cruising on q housebeat snd -
couldn't swim"