The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-12-03
HUNGARY BANS
CROSS-WORDS
Find Royalist Propaganda
Woven in Among the
Black Squares.

Washington.-It Is often the com
monplace and the trivial, the relativel.
meaner things, which in times o.
stress and crisis arise to glorious
heights, and become, as it were, sacret
things. Likewise, it is often the com
monplace and the trivial that emerge
from triteness to become harbingers
Of tragedy. The fate of a nation. the
success Of an enterprise. the result
Of a great struggle may all hang on
the most minute triviality In daily
routine.
To whatever one may ascribe this
Observation-Disclosures as it is Otter
said, it is the merest coincidence
is often the ability to foresee these
trivial things and to gauge their worth
correctly that makes for success
Often, Of course. their occurrence Il
impossible to presage, but in many
cases this Is done, as Is borne out by
history and the acts Of leaders Of men
Attention to this is called by re
cent circumstance in Hungary. This
state, born in wars travail, has been
struggling in the throes Of a new re
publicanism. Torn internally by fac.
tional bitterness and sick with poison.
GUS political complaints, it has be-
come accustomed, to strategems and
coups d'etat. 1t has learned to face
almost stoically, revolutionary turbu.
lence, and has been hardened to all
the hatred that accompanies the rise
of a new state. It has learned to be
extremely cautious, but something al.
most slipped past it's caution, the re-
suits of which might have been a de.
Gliding factor in the fate Of its pres.
ent government
Imperiaiists Use Puzzle.
The crossword puzzle, lately a pop
ular American diversion, was until a
few days ago favorite indoor sport in
the land of the ancient Magyars. In.
nocently it's definitive sentences spoke
Of Egyptian sun gods, printers meas
ures, points Of the compass. Austria.
liam birds, ruminants and such, and in
nocently the honest Hungarians pom.
dered over them, even as their Amer.
lean friends had done.
The Horthy government, which is in
the ascendancy in Hungary, might have
thought that there was remote POSSIBLE.
fly of treason in the aggravatingly
blank squares. but treason was there.
The patterns Of these Hungarian word
posers, that is, those that appeared
in the opposition newspapers, were so
conceived as to convey royalist propa.
ganda Of various Sorts The last one
waved the flag for the monarchists by
spelling out, Long Live Otto"
This was more than the Horthy gov.
eminent could tolerate, so when it was
all crossword puzzles had
to suffer for the guilt Of one, and were
relegated to the scrap heap. What
would have been the result had the
Horthy government been more liberal
is, Of course, speculative, but from
precedent it appears that, for their own
good they were wise. If the stupid
cackle of goose could save the city
Of Rome from the Gauls, and silly
looking wooden horse bring about the
TALL Of Ilium when ten long years of
siege had failed, an asinine crossword
puzzle might easily overthrow none
.oo-secure Hungarian government.
Bismarck Used Trivialities.
The master diplomatist Bismarck;
vas more than attentive to trivialities.
BE concentrated on them. He did not.
% be sure, make them his goal; he
made them his means. The simple
Kings in life were what he used to
attain his magnificent ends. When
he diplomatists and statesmen of old
europe gathered he had no elaborate
Of words and complex
,lots to fire at them. His language
vas straight and to the point, and, ac-
.ording to his commentators and his
'wn memoirs, he always told the truth.
This comparatively simple scheme
vas eff1cacious enough. When he told
he truth his adversaries did not know
whether or not to believe him. They
lsually expected something more com.
'licated or vague and read some other
meaning into his words, which was ex.
lctly what he wanted them to do.
Bismarck might have chosen the
crossword puzzle. II 1t had been the
vogue. to start the Franco Prussian !,
var. As II was he used telegraph