The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-12-02
REFERRING TO MAIN STREET"
By X. C. Dingpoor, (philosopher)


Sank Centre in late years has attained notoriety
that is enviable, un-envable, depending upon how
you look it. 1t has been acclaimed by the general
public the original Main Street. - And our old
town is very much on the map. In a recent number
of The Geographical Magazine, writer describing
the carnival on the Riviera, mentions Sank Centre.
late bookrevew speaks of certain orgies occurring
in Manhattan such would cause 'The yoies of
Sank Centre" to bulge at the eyes. Coos! We az
cept the situation though the prominence be due
to our crudities.
Better be first in little Iberan village
Than be second in Rome
Caesars dictum. And with no protest, but
rather with appreciation of the conspicuous place
vouchsafed in that limelght whose effugent glare
is eagerly sought by other 100 per cent Americans,
we rest content. . So much for contact with the
outside world.
Now friends, it happens that local pride with
the people who live Main Street runneth in quite
the contrary direction For Main Street is not one
sided There are two sides to every Main Street
throughout the length and breadth of the land. 1t
is that other side of Main Street that should receive
the greatest consideration For that side is marked
by the pioneer spirit to which the world has owed so
much; there is found the honest human effort which
applying itself assduously day after day and year
after year, frequently, in the of Sank Centre
with nothing but the rawest of material at it's COM
mand, succeeds in constructing the clean, healthy lit
tie city full of comfortable homes supplied with all
the modern aids to the enjoyment of living and there
also have been witnessed the public sacrifices That
is the side of "Main Street" in which we glory and
hold justifable pride
At Homecoming celebration, only few years
before popular fiction dragged us hind-foremost in
to the public gaze the subject of Community build
Ing as applied to Sank Centre, and that means this
other side of 'Main Street." was presented, in a
somewhat jocular manner, by of our citizens in
the following lines which take the liberty to re-
produce:
o Was fellow named Adam You know what befel us
When certain fine apple tree caused him to switch
And sent his Ford runabout into the ditch:
Wnether we fell or not with ADAM the fact makes
vince
It's been nothing but tinker the car ever since.
But this has little to do with my story
What wish to make plain to you all if l can
Is that Eden in all of It's wonderful glory,
Was given free gratis to this pioneer man.
The fruits of the field were his for the picking
The beasts served him we'll without urging or lick
Ing
The songs of the birds were in their first edition.
And only one tree was marked Prohibition.
Just think of it, friends, absolutely nothing to
trouble you
Not even a church, or an l. W. w.
Al the eye could DESIRE the could demand
Was granted to Adam with no turn of his hand;
But with nothing to win, with everything to loose,
He soon ran amuck like victim of booze.
And the settlement failed; for it does beat the
How often Too Little wins the race from Too Much.
For man is a suggard by nature, guess,
And he needs the prod of the storm, and the
OF the illwinds of Fortune to xaark him in strife
As the Captain indeed of the forces of life.
lThis last is by way of small nterjection
10 give me chance for moral reflection.
Well, Eden, sweet Eden, has long ago passed;
And really Sank Centre has got her out-classed
For when a strong race of resolute men
Take the bare sand-knols on the banks of
stream,
With not even tree for the home of wren,
And start, with the queer fates had lent her.
town-site with the meaningless title, Sank
Centre,
Twist the dunes into parks spread the streams to
lake,
Grade the streets lay the pipes whose liquid intake
Should gladden. the heart of the waste till it thrilled
To the presence of flowers, of verdure and shade,
AS tho Nature repentant, her chalce had spilled
OF the choicest of gifts for the mistake she had
made;
Build the churches, the schools that put us abreast
Of the foremost of those engaged in the quest
The daring and fully complete realization
Of all that is embraced in the term, Civilization;
say, when the purpose of indomitable
Applies itself thus to this luminous plan,
We out-Eden Eden deny it who can
That settlement failed, and this never will
For it is born of human endeavor and skill
OF the courage that grows to the tasks it shall
It's the God that's in brings the world to his
feet,
Talk about tough luck A st. Paul man had a
fine buck stolen off his automobile shortly after he
arrived home from a long chase through the wilds
of Northern Minnesota before he brought down his
buck
Congress is about to reconvene for its winer SEES
sion. The lame duck member defeated at last
months election will be out for revenge, and the
politically is apt ito be rather cocky 1t
looks though Cal had his work cut out to have
the administrations Drooran whatever adontad