The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-03-24
AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS IMPROVED

Five thousand more Minnesota citizens
paid income taxes this year than last year.
This in spite of broadened exemptions. A
good percentage of this increase was made
by farmers of the North Star State. The
income tax is said to be a true reflex of the
prosperity of any community or common
wealth. With the report of the Internal
Revenue Collector just filed one cannot help
but arrive at the conclusion that the peak of
the disastrous conditions in this state have
been passed. The Herald does not contend
that the Minnesota farmer is Sitting on the
top of the world," but his condition is much
more healthful than the political demagogue
would lead one to believe. Soil conditions this
spring are said to be very favorable and with
a strong probability that grain will be planted
in good season there is gratifying prospect
for good crop in 1927.
When the tiller of the soil prospers the
rural business man prospers.
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President Coolidge will likely give North
Dakota huskies wide berth in the future,
as press dispatches state he suffered a
sprained wrist shaking hands with one day
or two ago.
In glaring headlines the st. Paul Dis
patch of Tuesday evening says: "Vandals Cut
off Women's Fingers and Strip Them of
Clothes, Seeking JeWehy." The highbrow
headwriters of the metropolitan press appar-
emily have occasional mental lapses.
Hon. C.. j. Swensen, chairman of the
Minnesota Board of Parole, appears to be of,
the opinion that those citizens of Minnesota
demanding that the criminal laws of the
state be revised and strengthened, are max
ing personal attack on his character. Evil
IDENTIFY the gentleman is pretty thin skinned,
as men can honestly disagree on important
matters without the integrity of those with
whom they do not agree being questioned.
-OOo
The ST. Cloud Journal-Press of Tuesday
evening very profoundly states that the Sank
Centre Library Board have ordered copies of
Elmer Gantry," Sinclair Lewis latest liter
airy outburst, and after members of the
Board have read the book they will decide
whether it is fit to grace the library shelves
for public consumption. The copies have
been ordered and quite naturally the Board
may exercise their perogative of reading
Elmer Gantry" first before the public gets a
crack at it. The Herald understands they
are not planning to act as censors.
-OOO--
The stencil eminating from the Commit
tee room where the investigation of the po-
itical tactics of United States Senator Thos
SchaH is getting more pronounced. Jacobs
who served jail sentence for libeling Mag
nus Johnson has been the only witness to
date. Jacobs was formerly pal of Toms
but now he is Magnus' right hand man in an
endeavor to get Thomas political goat.
Jacobs isn't such sweet smelling geranium,
| and if the investigators must rely solely on
his testimony they are in bad way. It will
| be recalled that when the investigation was
on before the United States Senate, by aft
davit, Jacobs testified directly opposite to his
present story. The conclusion of the ordi-
| nary citizen would naturally be that he was
prevaricating in his Washington affidavit or
| that he is lying before the State Senate COM
mittee. This investigation will cost the state
tidy sum of money and no real good will