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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-06-21
Seek National Plan
to Help Producers
Outstanding Leaders on Program OF
Wheat Conference at Chicago
June 1920

Senator Capper, o. E. Bradfute,
president of the American Farm
Bureau Federation, Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, and other well known
leaders are on the program for the
National Wheat Conference, which
opens a two day session at Chicago,
June 10.
Though the project, which has for
it's object a national program which
will bring relief to farmers and the
industries which they support has
been under way but two weeks, wide
spread interest is manifest in all
farming sections of the country, &C
cording to James F. Bell, prominent
in Minneapolis milling circles.
''The conference is broadly
planned effort to bring together all
interested in wheat from its raw
state, up through the many processes
of manufacture to the finished pro-
duct" said Mr.. Bell. ''It will give
all these interests, allied industries
and producers of staple products OF
the farm that are carried into con-
sumption by wheat, an opportunity
to coordinate their efforts in restor-
ing the purchasing power of the
farm for it's own sake and for the
sake of the general industry. -
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-06-21
UNIVERSITY NEWS SERVICE

County commissioners in Mime
sofa have been allotted the duties
formerly given judges of probate, of
signing certificates of admission to
the University of Minnesota hospital
at Minneapolis for residents of a
county who in their judgment require
treatment at that institution. .
DR.. L. B. Baldwin, superintendent
Of the hospital, has sent out an an
nouncement calling the change in
law to the attention of county COM
missioners.
The original law, passed by the
1921 legislature, provided that a
judge of probate should sign the
certificate, following receipt of a
recommendation. The only change
made by an amendment which the
recent legislature passed is to give
each commissioner the duty of sign
ing this certificate for patients re-
siding in his district in the county
When patients are sent from Min
nesota counties to the University of
Minnesota hospital under the amend
ed law the state meets half of the
expense, the cost of the county being
reduced by an equivalent amount.
DR.. Baldwin called attention to the
fact that the report of the doctors
examination must accompany all
applications for admission signed by
county commissioners.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-06-21
SAFETY FIRST CAMPAIGN

The Great Northern Railway Com
pany, together with the other rail-
roads of the country, will conduct
another Careful Crossing Cam
paign" this year similar to that Of
last summer. This years campaign
viii cover the months of June, July,
August and September.
The object of the campaign is to
bring to the attention of the Ameri-
can people the necessity for exer-
cising the greatest possible care to
avoid being struck and killed or in
ju~cd by trains while travelling over
highway crossings, and to impress
upon locomotive enginem-n, firemen.
conductors, brakeman, track foreman
crossing watchmen and all other en-
ployes the necessity for doing every
ting within their powe. to prevent
such accidents.
Thousands of posters illustrating a
grade crossing accident have beeI
distributed for posting along TIE
Great Northern Railr Dad Stickers
with the same illustration will be
pasted on correspondence sent out
from railroad offices. Lantern slides
calling attention to the objects of the
campaign will be furnished to motion
picture houses. Automobile wind
shield stickers will also be distriI TT
I'd.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-06-21
Livestock Firms Are
Suspended or Fined
South St. Paul Market Undergoing
Cleanup Under Federal
Supervision

Nine commission firms operating
on the South St. Paul livestock mar
ket have been fined or suspended
during the last two months, as an in
direct result of federal supervision,
under the stockyards control act !.
In addition, one firm, previous to the
beginning Of the federal audi, re-
tired from the market, under an
agreement which stipulates that it
will never, directly or indirectly, re-
sumo operations.
Official announcement of the firms
fined or suspended some cases
both have been imposed-is being
withheld by Exchange officials until
the present so-called cleanup
campaign is completed. Auditors,
working under the federal supervis-
or, are engaged in going over the
books of all firms. When violation
of the Exchanges rules or yard
practices are found, these are report
ed to Exchange officials, who have
imposed the punishment.
Thus far, % Of the 80 firms on
the market have had their books
audited. One firm has been indef-
nitely suspended because, according
to reports, its books are not COM
plete. Five firms have been fined
$3.50 and obliged to suspend opera
tons for 80 days. Three firms have
been fined, without suspension. Thus,
of the 20 firms whose books have
been examined, nine have been pen
allied, one way or the other.
Whether the suspended firms will
be permitted to resume operations is
question that will be answered by
the South st. Paul Stock Yards
company, upon whose physical prop
erty the commission men do business
under agreements that are similar to
leases.
Auditing of books at South st.
Paul has been under way for two
months and probably will continue
for as many more. Before the work
| is completed, records of all Exchange
members as well as theindependent
and cooperative firms will have
been examined. When the audit is
ended public statement Of all
firms fined, suspended or otherwise
punished for violation or rules and
trade practices will be made accord
ing to Charles L. Haas, president of
the Exchange.
For the present, however, no Of
fetal information is being given out,
despite the fact that many firms are
not operating and the market is
flooded with rumors as to new de-
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-06-21
Four Admit Handling
Stolen Cooperative Butter
Suspended Sentence Last Chapter
in Creamery Associations
Fight

Frank Koch, Carl Brauning, Agnes
Casey and A. J. easy last week in
Ramsey county district court pleaded
guilty to receiving butter stolen from
cooperative creameries in the vicini-
ty of the Twin Cities. Each was
given suspended sentences OF six
months in the workhouse. In the
case of Koch, a fine Of 500 was i'm
posed. This was paid.
The four were charged with re-
ceiving butter stolen by two men
named Bladd and Meyers, each OF
whom is serving sentence OF ten
years.
Sentencing of the four was the
last chapter in an extended campaign
on the part of the Minnesota Co
operative Creameries' association to
round up gang that has been steal
ing butter from cooperative cream
cries for more than two years.
Through the associations efforts, but
ter traced to these parties will be
maid for so the local creameries will
sustain no actual loss.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-06-21
1929 ASSOCIATED TOURS GUIDE

Motorists who are planning vaca-
ton tours during tn summer months
will be pleased to know that the 1928
Associated Tours Guide, the official
road book compiled and published by
the Automobile Club of America, is
now ready for distribution.
By following the carefully selected
it ineraries and clearly defined road
maps with which the Guides 1O4
pages are filled summer vacationlsts
are enabled to tour by motor through
the most charming sections of the
Eastern United States and Canada to
seaside, mountain and country re-
sorts. All tours in the Guide are
compiled with view to scenic charm,
the roads mapped are the best
stretches of hard highway that the
country affords.
For transcontinental motor tour
lists there is double page Atlantic
to Pacific road map showing the
several routes across the United
States, accompanied by complete it
ineraries for this increasingly popu-
lar trip. For those visiting the New
England country there is map OF
the recently adopted road making
system. A large folding road map of
the entire country east of Chicago
accompanies the Guide.
A feature of the Associated Tours
Guide that motorists particularly ap-
preciate is that the itineraries are ar
ranged to allow for logical stopping
places at the end of each days run
at towns where Accommodations may
he readily secured. Synopsis of State
Motor laws, ferry schedules, and
lists of good hotels and garages al
so 90 to increase the Guides useful
ness to the automobilist.
For the accommodation of car own
ers the Guide viii be distributed
through local news dalers, book
stores and drug stores in all parts OF
the country or may be obtained by
renting fifty cents to cover cost
and postage to The Automobile Club
of America, PAT West 81 tn street,
New York City.
FURNISH AMPLE FREIGHT CARS
st. Paul, MINI. June 5,-"Busi--
ness is active in the Northwest and
the outlook for the immediate future
is excellent" Ralph Budd, President
Of the Great Northern Railway, said
Thursday on his return from a two
weeks inspection tour Of the system.
Especial efforts are being made to
provide an adequate freight car sup
ply for handling the Northwest grain,
fruit, potatoes and other farm pro-
Duets" president Budd said.
w. P. Kenney and C. o. jerks,
Vice President Of the road; William
Kelly, Superintendent Of motive pow
er; Fred Bushell, purchasing agent,
and other officials accompanied pres
ident Budd to cooperate with him and
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-06-21

velopments in the investigation. An
impressive phase of the Cleanup" is
the fact that among the firms that
have temporarily suspended opera
tors are those that have been hand
ling the largest volume of business.
Rumors are afloat that farmers and
others may instigate civil suits to
recover amounts reported to have
been lost by producers as result OF
violations revealed by the audits.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-06-21

Great Preachers Sound Advice.
IF crooked stick is before you, you
need not explain how crooked it is.
Lay straight one down by the side
Of it, and the work is we'll done.
Preach the truth and error will stand
abashed in it's presence.-Spurgeon.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-06-21

STATE AID FOR POULTRY ASSN.
The Central Minnesota Poultry
Association is receiving check for
$278,48 state aid, this week. The
state appropriation for aid to Poultry
Associations is $4,000 and checks
Evening star., 1923-08-05

my dirty apparel to shame. while
several other natives of all races and
descriptions were admirinS his
clothes and listening to the fluent
poetry of his polylinguistic tongue.
So this was the man who had begged
for the brown goggles.
I slept upon the aforesaid raised
platform and when l awoke in the
morning the Chinaman had disappear
ed. So also had disappeared my
brown goggles.
The road descended through wide
rice fields and brought us to cluster
of thatched huts surrounding a big
Catholic mission.
There was hope in that mission.
And if the mission failed, there was
said to be an American in town, a
Standard Oil man. 1 would get to
Bangkok somehow.
But just beyond the mission was a
river, and at the end of the street lay
a motorboat. Gungha Dhin bundled
me into it and waved me a FAREWELL.
Where was it going? He could not
tell me, and I applied to a priest be-
side me. He was Siamese. but he
had learned French from the other
priests. Did I not know where 1 was
going? Why, monsieur, this launch
Evening star., 1923-08-05

We arrived at sunset in the first
village in Siam.
1t was merely a collection of
thatched huts. but it included a large
open shed built by the Siamese gov
ernment for the convenience of trav-
elers, and directly across from 1t were
the barracks of the Siamese garrison.
The soldiers, dressed in red or green
pantaloons, were kicking a foot ball
across the parade ground with their
bare feet, but upon seeing me, they
hastened to their quarters. arrayed
themselves in khaki uniforms. and
came marching over to the shed with
rifles loaded and bayonets fixed, led
by a civilian official in purple trousers
and a white coat.
They looked warlike but their mis-
sion seemed to be one of peace. The
object of their mission was not clear
to me, and it seemed to be equally
hazy in their own minds. Evidently
the passing of a white man was an
unusual event. and one which called
for some sort of ceremony. Just what
sort of ceremony no ono seemed to
know. for they halted in q line be-
fore me, and each looked at the other
doubduIly. wondering what they ought
to do next.
Evening star., 1923-08-05

whiskers off. 1 found a matchstick
and cleaned my nails. l turned my
one soft collar inside out and made it
look like a clean one. l parted my
hair with my fingers
The river widened, and we came
upon a dirty little steamer.
1 climbed up the ladder and follow
ed the company's native agent to the
bridge. The captain was an English
speaking Dane. He wore a pair of
Annamite pajamas. but the white
uniform coat above gave him an air
of authority.
Captain. 1 want to go to Bangkok.
1 haven't cent to pay you, but
When-'
He did not smile.
so you're another of these buns,
are you?"
Temporarily, yes. But when 1
get"
I've heard all that before. You're
under arrest Stand over there until
I'm ready to talk to you"
Under arrest? What right did he
have to arrest me? But perhaps, if
he'd carry me as a prisoner ITO Bang
kok. / could see the consul, L could
wave the flag and make the eagle
screech. And just then the COM
Evening star., 1923-08-05
Tortured for Beauty.

DARISIENNES are going to such
lengths to achieve. beauty as
quite to put in the shade the painful
operation of "dimpling" (making a
hole in the chin by means of a drug
ged needle).
Many women think nothing of hav-
ing their noses broken and reset in
different shape, says a Paris cor
respondent. Others actually have the
eyebrows moved upward or GOWN
ward. as the fancy dictates. This
necessitates a complete removal of
the hair and either false and forced
growth in different position or
makeup.
One beauty expert, who undertakes
to change the form of a woman's lips,
has performed many operations. His
latest experiment is to make the up
per lip turn up, giving it an alIuring
pout,
To do this, he stretches a thin hair
from the upper lip to the tip of the
nose. This effect, naturally, is lin
tied to actresses, who use it on the
stage only.
Some fashionable women are being
laughed at for their insistence on
having their cosmetics favored. One
has her lip rouge-tasting of banana
Evening star., 1923-08-05

pany's agent retired over the side and
the anchor began to rattle on board.
The captains face broke into a grin.
psf" he exclaimed. "I couldn't
give you free passage in front of
that fellow. but I'll be damned if I'd
leave white man stranded in that
hole. We've just got time for a cock
tail before lunch"
THE Vagrant steamer plowed IaziIy
i across the Gulf of Siam, and,
crossing the shadows at the rivers
mouth, began to ascend the sixty
miles of the palm -bordered Menam to-
ward the Siamese capital. 1t was
quaint river, this gateway to Bang
kok- Yellow-robed monks passed us
In tiny dugout canoes and chattering
Slamese women were rowing to mar
ket in sampans laden to the waters
eoee with fruit or betelnut Junk
Ike lighters filed with jabbering
chinese coolies swept past US on their
way to the larger steamers anchored
outside the bar, and fishermen in all
sorts of strange craft lowered about
their nets.
The companys launch carried me
shoreward, in my newly washed suit,
which 1 had been obliged simply to
hang out in the rigging to dry, to
Land me at the waterfront garden of
a big modern hotel
1t was the hotel at which the poet
had planned to stop.
A uniformed Hindu gateman, after
staring at the Impressed suit, gave me
q reluctant salute, and several Eng
llsh guests upon the wide-arched
veranda- sitting one at each table and
slipping whisky-and-soda, looked at
me and raised their eyebrows. In
another ten minutes I. too, would
have clothes and money and could sit
at a table, complacentIy ignoring
other people. And then
NO" said a Swiss clerk, there is
no Italian poet of that description
stopping here"
For the first time since the poet and
l parted company I began to enter
tain suspicion. He could not be so
contemplate as to run away with my
things after / had shared my money
with him in Saigon, but he was a
careless, improvident specimen of
artistic genius and it was possible.
Evening star., 1923-08-05
Strange People Join March Through Asiatc jung

ent of my shoes, or my camera, or nv
brown goggles?
We stopped at noon upon the trail,
and 1 brought out one of my cans of
what I had thought to contain pre-
served fruit. 1t was put up by some
Japanese firm, with Japanese inscrip-
tions, but with picture of luscious
Strawberries upon the wrapper. One
chop of Gungha Dhin's knife opened
the can, and revealed not straw
berries, but four or five sickly little
onions floating in fluid which tasted
not unlike kerosene. AS my COM
panions had brought no provisions,
I opened the second can, which was
decorated with a picture of appetiz-
ing slices of pineapple, and which
contained two or three small carrots.
also floating in the same vile-tasting
liquid.
The Chinaman. forgetting the man.
ners for which the Chinese are
famous. promptly helped himself to
the greater part of the contents. I
had been growing more and more ir-
ritable since he Joined me, and when
at the conclusion of his very salts
factory luncheon he produced the
harmonica again. l snapped curt
order to him to stop his racket
He surveyed me appraisingly from
his keen slanted eyes.
You give five dollars, can STOP"
] did not have the five dollars, and
1 took the only means of stopping 1t.
seized him gently by the neck and
administered a slight push with my
foot to indicate that he should betake
himself from the vicinity. He was
slow in absorbing the idea, but finally
after the push had been repeated
moro vigorously he seized his bundle
of possessions from the pack horse
Evening star., 1923-08-05
All Kinds of Omelets
In French Restaurants
Copyright, 1921

is spread on the other and which is
not egg.
The next kind Of omelet will be
made with cooked tomatoes, and this,
! hope, Is what my American neigh
Dor meant by "omelet with tomato
sauce" But 1 have the dreadful sus-
picion she would pour the sauce from
a bottle instead of going to the trou-
BILE to cook fresh tomatoes and spread
the hot pulps-and whopping again.
Any painstaking cook can follow
up this line of the science with all
the other vegetables that are capa-
BILE of Incorporation into an omelet
Truff1es, which are a great F1Nnch
delicacy not always appreciated by
Americans and in any case too .x-
pensive for popular feeding. are usHd
with scrambled eggs-but not for the
insides of omelets, just as the animal
delicacy pate de foie gras" does not
go into omelets
Thus you have potato omelets
Cooked naturally, sliced and cut in
small pieces which are Drowned in
butter, lard or oil-and whopped);
onion omelets (slivered after thor
| ough cooking and browned-and
whooped); mushroom omelets, either
the big ones chopped or the little
| round ones, all cooked beforehand
and whopped; cucumber omeIets, raw
or. for your peace of mind, pas
| teurized. but pulpy and with the nat
ural aroma Then there is the series
of meat omelets-ham, for example
n lnI
whopped.
Apply the same proceeding to your
plain sweet omelet and you will turn
out all its actual and potential va
rieties. The plain is really a sugar
| omelet, not simply powdered outside.
| but with granulated spread over the
! inside and whipped. whereupon it
promptly half melts and makes a hot
icing through the whole mass.
You may choose in succession all
the jams and preserves Of all the
| fruits of the universe if they can
| be spread or chopped and make om-
elets with them-properly whopped
l-currant jelly; apricots; plain apple
! sauce like that in Solon Shingles bar
, rel-all the way to Guava from Cuba
And all such omelets, plain sweet,
vegetable. meat and preserves, have a
French name that looks romantic on
| bill of fare. l tried TO say all this
| to the American lady. and, like a duck
| in the rain. she asked:
| What is whopping?"
Ay, that is the question if you
would make more omelets than a
| miserable one or two.
STERLING HEILIG.
Evening star., 1923-08-05

1 tried the other hotels, but he was
nowhere in Bangkok. And finally,
wringing wet with perspiration and
covered with dust, made my way to
the American consulate to inquire
whether the consul had an unoccupied
desk on which 1 might spend the
night.
"Foster~ inquired the clerk.
Here's a letter for you"
1t was from Singapore. 1t read:
my Friend:
Il have meet one very nice woman.
She is fine big woman. 1 come not
to Bangkok because L am very busy.
I am busy because I marry the fine
big woman. 1 come when / have
finish one honeymoon. Wait in Bang
kok- Be good boy and do thee moth
ing that / would Spt do. You UNDER
stand, Foster, that gentleman will
need much clothes upon the honey
moon, and I hope you do not mind
that wear yours. Goodbye, Foster.
"ENRICO."
x !: x x
7 PAWNED my camera With the
i proceeds 1 cabled Enrico to for
ward my travellers checks from my
suitcase. Adjourning to the cheapest
European lodging place I could find.
l persuaded the Russian landlady to
trust me for my board, and waited.
-
After an interminable interval I re-
ceived a second letter from the poet.
1t read:
Dear Friend:
II send you one check. You know,
Foster, the bridegroom need always
the money. I have signed your name
to the other checks and have spend
them. When 1 get money from my
publisher in Italy, I pay you back.
but l go now for one honeymoon.
Wait in Bangkok, Foster. Goodbye,
Foster. ENRICO"
From the check which he inclosed,
when I had settled for three weeks
board, redeemed my camera and paid
my former steamship passage from
Chantab boun, 1 had barely enough left
to chase him. l did hate to interrupt
a perfectly good honeymoon, but I
started hotfoot for Singapore.
Continued at a date in the near fu.
ture.)
Copyright, 1921
Evening star., 1923-08-05

1 solved the problem by opening
a flask of wine given my by a French
friend on starting.
The civilian official thereupon made
a speech. 1t must have been a good
one, for my Chinaman's English vo-
cabulary was not sufficient to inter
pref it. 1t lasted for twenty minutes,
all in Siamese, and not wishing to be
outdone in politeness, 1 RESPONDED for
the same length of time in English.
They were vastly impressed. They
could not understand a word of it, of
course, but they listened eagerly to
the strange sounds, and were par
ticularly fascinated by the rhythmic
cadence of the multiplication tables,
which 1 recited with eloquent ges-
lures.
Never in my life had I talked to
such an earnest, delighted audience,
and, beginning to feel like William
Jennings Bryan, I paid a compliment
to their soldierly appearance, dwelt
upon the friendly relations existing
between the United States and Siam,
1 expressed the high admiration which
we of America entertained toward
the Siamese people and the de-
light with which our circus patrons
had viewed the Siamese twins, and in
IA final burst Of eloquence I voiced the
hope that we might always be as one.
bound by inseparable ties Of love and
friendship, even as the twins them
selves.
It was the best speech I've ever
made, and when 1 closed by shaking
hands with each soldier in person,
they all marched home, entirely salts
ned.
n r NIGHT in the government shed,
/ \ it was cold. We were at the top
of the mountain ridge, and although
the climate by day was sufficiently
tropical. by night it was genuinely
chilly. The Chinaman. unable to
sleep, sat up beside me and COM
menced to sing in several languages.
He was an accomplished linguist and
was demonstrating the fact. Bur
mese." he would announce, and his
shrill falsetto voice would repeat
about three discordant- notes. Then.
Chinese" and he'd give. the same
three notes in the other language
Then, "Siamese." and he'd give them
again.
sat up myself and told him several
things he was-a--and A.