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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-03-02
Body Of Pvt. Paul D0nart
to Be Buried In Meuse-
Argonne Where He Fell

A letter from the Quartermastel
General to Mrs. Rose Donart form
erly of Sank Centre but now Mrs
VIM. Braatz of Minneapolis will b.
of considerable interest to Saul
Centre citizens because it definitely
decides the question of the death il
action of Private Paul F. Donart il
the late war. The letter was for
warded to the Herald by Mrs
Braatz. The text of the letter fol
lows:
81. This office is pleased to in
form you that the investigation
made to properly identify the
remains of your son, the late Pri-
vate Paul Donart, Company G,
128th Infantry has finally been
successful and the body is now
in a morgue awaiting concen-
tration into the permanent
cemetery at the Meuse- A'rgoone!
"2. You are assured that the
grave of your son will be mark
ed by an appropriate headstone
and will be tenderly maintained
by this Government for all time.
When the reburial has been eff
fected, you will be duly advis-
ed of the grave location.
NBy authority of the Quarter
master General"
Paul F. Donart was reported mis-
sing in action on Oct. 5, 1918. He
was member of Co. G. 128 Infan-
try 32nd Division.
Joseph Jackson Of this city was a
member of this same Company be-
longing to the first platoon while
Paul Donart was in the second Pla-
toon. Joe was the last local person
to see Paul alive and his story of OF
the action in which it is certain that
Paul met his death is as follows:
October 4, the division was about
ten miles north of Romage, France.
and on the afternoon of that day
they advanced about half mile up
a hill near the top of which the re-
sistance was so strong that they
were ordered to halt and dig in, al
though Paul and Joe were in differ
emit platoons they got together and
found shell hole which they dug
out and which sheltered them for the
night. The next morning about day.
break they were ordered into forma-
ton for an advance. AS was their
custom they shook hands and said
"good bye" 1t was quite foggy but
Joe says that he could see Paul from
his position in the line until the
very time the advance started. They
went forward about three quarters of
a mile through a heavy shell fire, al
though the machine guns of the en-
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-03-02
A FALLACY DISCARDED

In ancient days, it was con-
sidered quite the proper thing
for neighboring towns to fight
each other.
Of late years, it has come
to be realized that much more
is to be gained by fighting
for each other.
1t is the old story of Co
operation over again. We all
have too much in common 10
dissapate our energies in use
less fighting.
Now that more communities
are realizing this fallacy every
day, we will all make greater
progress and find more real
enjoyment.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-03-02
sAUK CENTRE ELIMINATED

The DecIamatOry and Urat0r1caf
contests at st. Cloud last evening
eliminated Sank Centre completely
from further participations in these
events. In the Girls Declamatory
contest Mora won first place, Alex
andria second, st. Cloud third and
Sank Centre fourth. The local
school was represented by Lillia1
Rosenberger.
Sauk Centre had no entry in the
Bows, Oratoracial contest. In this
event OsaLis won first, and Little
Falls second.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-03-02
CO-OHERATIvE WINS ON
ANOTHER STOCK MARKET

East st. Louis, March Feb. "a
The farmers cooperative livestock
commission company, organized here
ON the plan worked out by Mime
sofa farmers, has assumed second
place in amount of business doneb
among the so commission companies
operating on the market here.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-03-02
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EVER NOTICE IT?

{ Ever notice that when
, man halls from another town
( that has made progress, that
, he takes pride in telling about
!, thatsprogress?
!, He likes to tell of the many
, blocks of paving, of the public
buildings, etc. 1t is natural
, that he should. Everyone
, likes that kind of commun-
, ity.
, We either make progress in
, this world, or else we slowly
, die. There is no middle
, course to be pursued. It's
, a case of "git up and git"
, or they will get you. Think
, it over a little while.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-03-02
BROOTEN SKI CHAMPION
WINS IN DENVER MEET

Anders Haugen, Brooten, holder OF
the worlds record for distanct ski
jumping, won the annual profession
al event on the Genesee mountain
course at Denver, Col, with jump
Of lit feet. Oliver Kahldahl of Glen
wood, Mimi, won third place with a
jump of LOT feet.-St. Cloud Daily
Journal Press.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-03-02

John Bisel was business caller
at Glenwood last week
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-03-02
Aged Gopher State
Citizens Lead Singing
Former MinnesOtans Over Eighty
Join Concert Fifteen Thousand
Present at Midwinter Picnic

Fifteen thousand Gophers throng-
ed Sycamore Grove yesterday at the
mid winter picnic of the Minnesota
State Society of Southern Californ-
ia. While the former Gophers did
not lack leaders it was announced
that there are no officers of the So
ciety and the chairman who presid-
ed Yesterday was G. H. Parsons, who
is secretary Of the Federation OF
State Societies. He declared this
was the third year in which the Min
nesota gathering had shown a great
er attendance than any other society
except that of Iowa.
The real leaders of yesterdays
event, if enjoyment be considered
were those more than 80 years of
age. HI. j. Brubaker, who led
the singing of patriotic songs, invit-
ed all who had resided in Minnesota
when it became a statei in 1858, and
all men and women more than 30
years old to come upon the platform.
Many responded and when all were
seated Mr.. BrubakSf; led in the sing
ing of "Old Folks at Home" in which
A. B. Chapman, who lives at Chats
worth, and who is 80 years old,
heartily joined. the octogenarians
kept the concert going during most
of the afternoon.
The speaker of the day was Ed
ward Winterer, who was third pres
ident of the Federation of Soate So
cieties Of Southern California.
"The fdst man who enlisted in the
Civil War was a Minnesotan, be for
gotten that the regiment that turn
ed the tide of battle at Gettysburg
was the First Regiment OF Minnie
Sofa"
After reciting his two poems,
"The Music of Nature" and "The
Flowers of Friendship" Mr.. Win
terer dwelt at length on the glories
of Southern California, saying that
the face of America is turned toward
this paradise of the West"
The Minnesota State Picnic was
held at Sycamore Grove Park Feb
ruary 1S and the following list OF
FORMER and present Sank Centre
residents attended:
Mr.. and Mrs. M. L. Billed.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-03-02
FAIR DIRECTORS no MEET

A meeting of the Fair Association
Directors will be called for Monday
March 6. BY order of the president
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-03-02

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The New York herald., 1922-05-14
RUSSIAN PROFITEERING

bourgeois standards and habits of life
and thought return. The students. for
example. begin to fancy themselves in
their old role OF illuminants and intel
lectual pioneers. raised above the pro-
letariat mass. With the new economic
freedom has come political liberty. The
Cheka has completely disappeared. its
police functions merged in the home
department of the central Government.
Only Communist papers exist. but
they criticize without check or censor
ship: and speech on the platform and
in the streets. so far as IL touches pol
itics and not the new money making
interest. seems quite unrestrained.
More important still, the private print
ing OF books has been resumed and
with that great gate Of knowledge
opened Soviet Russia steps out into the
broad pathway of the modern nations.
The New York herald., 1922-05-14
UCATOR SAYS CULTURE is ESSENTIAL TO REAL LEARNING

them and who gained from them en-
joyment and refreshment. These two
languages have been the medium
through which much that is the best
in the literature of Romance and Phi
losophy has found expression. The
world owes debt Of gratitude to the
schoolmaster for teaching these sub
jects to the choicest youth. who in
turn becoming scholars have made
translations into the modern tongues.
This contribution to our life of to-
day Is of far greater value than is
generally supposed for Greece and
Rome are the fountain heads of in
tellectual life. The literature of these
ancient peoples is the one ground
where all modern peoples meet. They
may know little of each others lit
erature. but they have familiarity
with and common inspiration in the
life and thought of Greece and Rome.
The schoolmaster is the one person
more than all others who has opened
the way to these uplands of the mind
and heart and inspired youth to take
the upward path.
However, IL is Greek ana Latin as
literature, not as language. that has
any general educational interest or
value for the young people of to-day.
knowledge Of these classics gained
chiefly through translations is essen
tial to the highest appreciation Of
English literature. Indeed the Eng
lish people during centuries. as Is true
in a large measure of all the peoples
of Europe, have been trained in the
ancient classics and the more modern
literature abounds in references to
them which can be little understood,
except the reader has acquaintance
with the original sources. In my
Judgment few things contribute more
to the abiding satisfactions of life
than the habit. early formed. of read
ing good literature. Choice books are
delightful companions that may ac-
company us anywhere and yet never
intrude. They cheer us in lonely
hours, in quiet or desolate places;
they store our minds with the rarest
treasures and stir our hearts with the
loftiest emotions. Though we may be
The New York herald., 1922-05-14
Woman Kidnapped
BY Ukranian Nuns
for Her Fortune
Found Locked Up in Convent
Where She Had Signed Deed
in Exchange for Masses.

Special Correspondence TO THE Nsw YoRR
Herald.
VIENNA. April 22.-The papers report
remarkable story from Uzhorod in
Csrpathian Russia, which now forms
part Of Czecho-Slovakia In the viii
lagc OF Minaj. near Uzhorcd. lived an
old widow Of the name or PopanJ. who
has attained the respectable age OF 81
years and become a bit childish. sud-
denly the old lady disappeared. without
anybody knowing what had happened
TO her.
When the police investigated the mat
ter they found out that the old lady
who dlsposes OF considerable wealth had
been rushed away in motor csr by two
Ukrainian nuns Of a neighboring con-
vent and taken to the legal adviser
of the convent. There she was persuaded
to sign deed in which she bequeathed
her entire fortune to the nuns who on
their part promised to have every year
thirty masses said for the salvation
OF Mrs. Popanj's soul.
The New York herald., 1922-05-14

For some years recognized as
a literary critic Ludwig Lew
isohn in his latest published
volume, chiefly autobiographi-
cal. appears as an equally bold
and remorseless critic of life.
Although claiming to be psy-
cMcally American, he does not
share the American (and Brit
ish) dislike of searching anal
ysis. He gained the expert
ence which is the basis of this
article in an English professor
ship in a middle Western col
Iege.
The New York herald., 1922-05-14
France Discovers
Oil Possibilities
in Own Back Yard
Clermont-Ferrand Wells Give
Small Output, but Are
Promising.

SPECIAL cable 70 THE NEw YORK HEsALp.
Copyright. fsRs. Jy THE New yoRK HrsALp.
New York Herald Bureau.
Paris. Nav ~.
With the whole world fighting for
petrol rights in Russia. France Is just
beginning to discover that she has
substantial supply In her own back
yard. IL properly developed. Prospect
ing in the vicinity OF Clermont-Ferrand
last year produced more than a ton OF
crude oil of good quality.
Encouraged by the first success. new.
wells have been drilled 2.400 feet, flow
ing several gallons day. This week
the constant emissions OF gas were no
ticed to be growing stronger. and as a
result the output OF the new wells
jumped TO more than a barrel. Experts
believe that II they dTill about 900 feet
deeper they will get a steady flow suf-
ncient to warrant commercial exploita-
tion OF the resion. It's Reolorlcal founs
dations compare favorably with those Of
the Pennsylvania neld
The New York herald., 1922-05-14

applied yet he is familiar through his
reading with the results of science
and can enjoy the benefits that the
sciences bestow. In other words. he
world and gives as much more to the
world through the many avenues that
are open for receiving and conveying
truth.
To draw the line of demarcation too
closely between what are to-day COM
monty called cultura! and vocational
The New York herald., 1922-05-14
Technical Schools Fit the Student to
Readily Earn a Living, but the
Youth Who Polished His Training
With Cultural Course Will Con-
tribute More to Society in the
Long Run.
BY RICHARD E. SYKES,
t. Lawrence University,

HE immediate advantages
education
defnieness a
school
bank without efficiently
employer technical
fitted
which
eager gained vitality
quick
AT
ay share the view that the schooling which
practical
be desired The
think
SEN their handicap them the right
The New York herald., 1922-05-14
Colleges Seek Culture, Combined
With Spiritual Awakening

With Spiritual Awakening
Our colleges were founded and fos-
tered often at great sacrifice by men
of broad culture and deep religious
conviction. Within their walls high
ideals on which alone our govern
ment can securely rest were taught
and exemplified. Intellectual power
was sought only as it was associated
with spiritual power and force of
character. While to-day new courses
are being added to the curricula of
these same colleges, yet the purpose
Of broad culture remains.
The pressing need of practical ed
ucation should never crowd out but
supplement the cultural courses. In
other words, the cultural is eminently
practical. While men are cultivating
the soil, mining coal, silver or gold,
manufacturing cloth. making ma
chinery and building houses-doing
all the things which are taught them
in technical and professional schools,
their lives are made much more sat-
isfactory to themselves and others il
they also have cultivated their taste
for music. literature and art. They
have learned how to live as well as to
make a living. Indeed, without these
refinements of the mind and heart
life keeps to the lower levels and de-
generates into drudgery.
have associated intimately with
people of moderate means who gained
livelihood by the skill of their
hands; invariably ] have found that
they had an inner life of love for the
good and beautiful which afforded
them rare satisfaction. Though they
were denied the privileges of advanced
education, yet they were most ap-
preciative of what men of thought
and vision contributed to their lives.
There should be no confliction be-
tween the classical and practical. A
blend of the two makes for the best
in individual and community life.
The New York herald., 1922-05-14
Convention Rules Faculty,
As 1t Does the World

To sum up: | can think OF no great
creative spirit of ancient or modern
times, European or American, OF no
sage. teacher, artist, proclaimer'
prophet who. finding himself on the
faculty of an American college or uni
yersity. would not be despised by~tne
students. uncomfortably tolerated bv
most of his colleagues and finally fired
by the administration on account OF
G) unconventionality of public beha-
vior. CD heretical opinions, CD irreg-
ularity of private conduct. Please OBJ
serve the word-irregularity Depar-
ture from convention Is enough.
Whether that departure is noble or
ignoble would not be inquired.
| am not unaware of the apparently
reasonable answer that could be made
to my arragnment. 1t could be said
that our colleges are teaching institu-
tions, that the communication OF
knowledge from teacher to pupil does
not require the great but dangerous
Qualities of which / speak. That an
swer would be true were knowledge a
dead, fixed. stagnant thing without re-
lation to the stream of reality orthe
ortinuity of human experience. 1t
would be true IL we had or wanted to
have body of rigid and changeless
text and doctrine which, like the Con-
fucian classics of the old Chinese Civili-
zation. we considered permanent 3nd
sufficient. Such obviously is not our
situation; such as, under present con-
dtions our grave danger.
Ii is the Chinese menace of wooden
conforp1ity to received doctrine Of
raising intellectual, social, political
orthodoxy to the position of an idol
il is this menace that we are facing.
No teacher is worth his salt who is
not. in however humble n fashion,
spiritually allied TO those creative
minds whose works. wills. visions. re-
bellions, discoveries. heresles, expert
The New York herald., 1922-05-14

A RUSSIAN of ability who has seen
~ much of Russia under the
Soviets gives his frienos here
a curious picture OF the rush to profit
eering which has followed the permit
to private trading. The Government
maintains its monopoly of exports and
imports: but it encourages the return
TO free internal commerce. The trade
that has thus sprung into life is neces-
sarily speculative. Everybody who en-
cages in IL CANDLES wildly, and great
gains have brought luxury in their
train. so that in Moscow the old Tsarist
hotels and restaurants or repute Zone
is in the hands of the Trade Union of
Waiters) have reopened their doors
and keep house merrily enough.
Wine tfrom the Crimea) Is being
made and sold; and one by one the
The New York herald., 1922-05-14
Life Is Not to Be Measured
By Worldly Success

But life should not be measured al
together by the standard of worldly
success. One of the greatest benefits
OF cultured education is that II en-
ables a man to enjoy his own mind.
He has, through his early studies, got
ten the key that unlocks the treasure
house of literature, stored with the
choicest mental and spiritual treasures
of the greatest men who have ever
lived. The cultured person in his
hours of leisure often lives in a world
TO which the uncultured man is a
stranger. He is at home in the realm
OF letters, music and art, and while he
may not know all the processes by
which scientific truth is gained and
The New York herald., 1922-05-14

courses seems to me artificial. A blend
of the two is what enables US to get
the most from life and contribute the
course wise to so relate education and
training to practical affairs that grad
yates from schools can make a living,
but If education is thought of only or
chiefly as a tool by which to gain a
livelihood and is divorced from these
higher enjoyments of the mind 1t will
make limited appeal either to youth
or age.
l have known men who. having only
the most meager schooling. yet finan-
cially have been most successful. Their
confessions to me reveal the TACT that
they sorely feel and regret their limita-
tions and wish to give their sons and
daughters an education which COM
bines the ideal and practical When
a man arrives at middle life and finds
his chief enjoyment in material things.
learning too late that there are vast
regions of truth and beauty which for
the lack of training and taste he can
not penetrate. he then deplores his
mistake of emphasis and does not wish
his child to thus narrow and contract
his life. Such men are seeking the
cultural as well as the practical for
their children. 1t Is indeed pitiful to
have abundant means for seeing the
best the world offers and at the same
time be so lacking in appreciation as
to resemble blind man in an art gal
lery, or deaf man at a symphony
concert. Such people are like travel
ers who constantly move about, but
never hecOna travelled
The New York herald., 1922-05-14

so in a busnesslike manner. Pre-
viously he had been an extensive cattle
raiser and the bankers knew him for
a trustworthy client. But he bore none
of the we'll known earmarks of a
poltico. He was rarity indeed for
the Presidency. However the popu-
lace watched distrustfully while he
abolished Government monopolies. re-
sumed foreign relations instantly and
established a deal more freedom of the
press than Castro had dared to permit.
"All very we'll for beginning" they
shrugged, but watt" And it is well
that they did wait. Venezuela, like
Missouri wished to be shown. and
Gomez proceeded to show her-not
through any spectacular coup, but in
steady, quiet growth of prosperity
and contentment.
Once every three hundred years."
once read, "a man is born who loves
his country better than himself" 1t
took Venezuela some time to grasp the
fact that this tercentennial she had
been the one to draw the lucky lottery
number. For Gomez has no interests,
no ambitions, no passions outside of
his own country. Venezuela is his
mistress" they say of him, and an
exacting one she has proved, brooking
no rival. The money in the treasury
goes no longer into baubles and orgies
for fiatterers, as in Castro's regime
but into innumerable public improve
ments, including a truly marvellous
system of automobile highways.
Generals Hard Working Day
Begins at 4 A. M.
Up at four each morning, he gives
Venezuela every hour of his hard
working day; there is no leisure in
that austere schedule; his time is di-
vided between his office, where he at
tends personally to all correspondence
and the constant supervision of public
works. Yet he finds time TO supervise
as well every detail of the conduct OF
three immense modern breeding farms
for cattle. Fortunately for his health
he is a great deal in the saddle: horse
back riding and swimming are his
principal recreations. He retires at
nine o'clock. keeps clear conscience
and although 62 he looks easily ten
years youIStI. he does nOtnlnG TO
impair his really prodigious strength.
/ saw him one day roll with apparent
ease down the mountain side a huge
rock which impeded traffic in the road
and which no other man in the party
could bulge an inch.
Not only does Gomez give to each
detail of his administration the closest
personal supervision. but he knows
too. how to surround himself with
loyal. capable associates. Serious
earnest men they are. Of his own
hearty type. lifelong friends from his
beloved mountain home and devoted
like their leader to Venezuela's inter-
ests. Drinking, Gomez maintains. un-
settles mans judgment, so he limits
himself to a glass OF mild cIaret al
meals. and his associates follow his ex-
ample.
With all this rigorous self discipline
that Gomez imposes upon himself
there is nothing of a recluse in his ma
ture. When the cares of government
permit him holiday he makes a
charming companion and most in
teresting one. The few social functions
he attends he enjoys thoroughly, al
though he much prefers to act as host.
During our eight years in Caracas /
had the honor of being the only woman
The New York herald., 1922-05-14
peace and Work Has Been
Motto of Leader Who Sue
ceeded Castro.
DOES MUCH IN 13 YEARS
Caracas, With Wonderful Po-
lice System, One of Worlds
Safest Cities.
By MRS. PRESTON McCOODWIN,
Wife Of American Minister to
Venezuela, 1913-1922.

~ 1OTHING since my return mas
I'M astonished me quite so much
= as the kindly sigh of relief
nv North American friends invariably
draw upon welcoming me to the
States. Thank goodness their usual
greeting runs, THAT you have lett at
last that country of bandits and revo-
Iutions and can settle down safely at
home"
This at first seemed merely anus
ing. in view of the fact that one feels
scarcely safe here at noon on Broad
way, while in Caracas no one ever
troubles to lock his door on leaving
home. Why should he in land wnere
under really wonderful police system
in the last nine years there have been
no robberies and only one murder
and that by an escaped lunatic. NO
thievery because, as explained to me
by the aged but robust Prefect of Po-
lice, thirty-five years in service, to be
a thief one must have pistol, ana
there are severe penalties for carrying
weapons If the prospective thief had
pistol. But" with a giant shrug, "ot
course he'd sell it and retire on the
proceeds"