The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-18
THE VAIL OF A POOR LOSER

When the Herald was awarded tn
contract for the County printing b,
the Stearns County Commissioner
January 2, Der Nordstern, st. Cloud
German paper, was tied up with tn
st. Cloud Daily Times Bid. The fol
lowing inspired editorial which ap
peared in Der Nordstern of the issu
of January IL is, of course, entirel.
unprejudiced, and it is so good tina
the Herald publishes it in full here
with:
The county board has awarded
the county printing to the Sank
Centre Herald, the same to be
published by supplement in ten
papers of the county, all outside
of the city of st. Cloud. These
papers have no circulation worth
speaking of in the eastern part
of the county, and the result will
be that over one-third of the
county, will not be informed as to
the county proceedings.
The three members, Bergman,
Weber and Thelen, have allowed
themselves to be fooled into be-
lieving that they were elected to
serve only the particular wants of
their district, and that whenever
one can get something for lit
tie money that it is cheap. They
oug:At to know that they are
county commissioners, and not
district commissioners, and that
it is the interests of all the coun-
ty which they should consider.
A number of years ago, the
same thing was done, but one
year was enough to demonstrate
that it is not only impractical,
but very poor. service. 1t is not
enough to merely consider what
is asked for the service; they
should also consider what kind
of service the people who pay are
getting. How many people for
instance in the city of st. Cloud
will get any service? And yet
that is the county seat, and the
principal city in the county, and
its people pay their share of the
taxes just as we'll as the people of
the more westerly part Of the
county.
1t also makes it more difficult
for the county officials to get cor
rect publications of the legal no
tees and proceedings, as the copy
must go out of the city for setting
up, and then the copy must be
sent back here to be proof-read,
and again returned to the paper
to be published. A good deal of
time will be lost before the pro-
ceedings can appear in print, un-
less they are published without
the proof read by the officials.
We hope that the best of care
and cooperation will be used to
insure legal and valid publica-
lions, but it is to be regretted
that the eastern part of the coun-
ty is left without adequate SER
vice.
1t will not be amiss at this tim
to let little light in on Der Nord
stern's wall. 1t is true that the news
papers publishing the Stearns Count,
business for 1923 are all located out
side of the city of St. Cloud, but tn
claim that they have no circulation
worth speaking of in the Eastern par
of Stearns County is absolutely er
roneous and without foundation o
fact.
The pettiness of Der Nordstern il
the criticism of Commissioners Borg
mann, Weber, and Thelen because the,
voted to give the Stearns County bust
ness the widest possibly publicity
shows the calibre of the editoria
brain presiding over Der Nordstern
They acted for the best interests O.
the entire county. The district com
missioners were the two gentlemen