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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-03-17

March 1, compared with Al per
cent last year or 82,139, 900 BUSH
els and the 5-year average of g.
235, 900 bushels. 1t is estimated
that only 18 per cent of the crop
has been or will be shipped out of
the county where grown, compared
with 81 per cent one year ago.
Stocks of barley on farms were
estimated to be $4,000 bushels
or u per cent of the total produc-
ton, compared with 9,882,0O0
bushels on farm March /, last
year, and '7,257,000 bushels the
5-year average. It is estimated
that 30 per cent of the crop has
been or will be shipped out of the
county where grown, compared
with AZ per cent last year.
Stocks of rye on farms March
l were $4,000 bushels, or Is pei
cent of the total crop production.
This compares with $4,000 BUSH
els for one year ago and the 3-year
average of 1,771, 900 bushels. The
report shows that rs per cent of
the crop has been or will be ship
ped out of the county where grown,
COMPARED with 70 per cent one
year ago.
The milk production shows a
slight increase over last month, due
to favorable weather. Egg pro-
duction also increased for the same
reason.
The supply of farm labor is the
same as one month ago being 95
per cent of normal, but the demand
is only 80 per cent of normal, com.
pared with 90 per cent one month
ago. This would seem to indicate
that farmers are not making much
of an effort to secure farm labor
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-03-17

The Minnesota legislature is wrestling
with the problem of enacting laws which will
strengthen the banking system of the state.
A law guaranteeing deposits has many
advocates. 1t has been claimed that the Ne
braska Bank Guaranty law was quite salts
factorily safeguarding the interests of de-
positors
In order to get first hand information
Senators James A. Carley and William L..
Roepke, Representatives Joseph A. Quinn
and L. C.. Rosetter were sent to Nebraska
to investigate the plan in that state and
report their conclusions. Mr.. Rosetter is
one of the co-authors of one of the pending
bank guaranty bills before the legislature.
The joint committee made report of
their findings to the Legislature the latter
part of the week, the conclusion of which was
that the Nebraska law is "unfeasible and in
applicable to the banking condition as it now
exists in Minnesota, and might be danger
GUS step to take at this time"
The committee report cites the strong
and weak points of the Nebraska law. Those
favorable are:
That That % i. on banks 9 s are prevented.
been paid in full.
That many banks are taken over and OPP
Grated as going concerns" by the guaranty
fund board, and that this system keeps local
business going and reduces losses
That guaranty fund certificates bear 6 per
cent interest and have ready sale.
The favorable features, however do not
tell the whole story as the following adverse
criticism shows:
The guaranty fund June 80, 1926 owed
depositors $12,575, 032.
This has been Every materially increased"
by failure of "a banks since that date.
The fund has $25OO,O00 in certificates of in
debtedness outstanding
There is 100000 cash on hand, and an as
sessment will produce about $1,7250 900.
The fund started out strong because it had
been built up by assessments in IL prosper
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-03-17
REGRAvELING IS NEEDED

Speaking of gravel roads, we
heard a man say the other evening
that No. g from Blue Earth to
Fairmont, twenty miles, had cost
the state better than six thousand
dollars per mile, including all cost
of grading, regraveling and main
tenance. If you traverse that high
way this spring you will observe
that another crawling is almost
imperative. Enough money has
been spent on that highway since
taken over by the state to have
paved nearly the entire distance.
And yet there are those who con-
tend that Bobcock spends our
money as reckless as a drunken
sailor Earth Post.
There cannot be any argument
against pavement that will offset
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-03-17
Highway Building to Aid
Snow Fight Next Winter
Four Shops to be Erected Soon,
Department Announces, to Pro-
mote Efficiency

AS a means of keeping the main
tenance crews and equipment bet
ter prepared for keeping the Min
nesota trunk highways open in
winter, the State Highway depart
ment expects to complete a pro-
gram of erecting state owned shop
and office buildings in each of the
sixteen maintenance districts with
in the next two years, according to
Commissioner &c. M. Babcock.
Plans for new buildings at
Crookston, Duluth, Morris, and
Willn1ar will be opened at the
State Department of Administers
tion and Finance, March 20, at
10 A. M. Buildings were erected
last year at Benidji, Brainerd, De-
troit Lakes and Rochester, Pre-
vious to that, a building had been
erected at Hopkins. This leaves
seven districts which, according to
the program, will get buildings not
later than 1928.
Keeping the roads open in win
ter, which was undertaken for the
entire system two years ago, makes
it necessary to have convenient
place where plows, trucks and
tractors can he repaired quickly
and kept in readiness for quick
action after a storm. Besides pro
noting efficiency, ownership of
the district shops has also been
found economical.
The four buildings upon which
bids will be asked this month, will
all follow the standard plan use
in the buildings erected last year.
They will be so by 1870 feet, of
solid brick walls, one story with
heating plant and fuel room in the
basement. The district superip-
tendent and his clerical force will
have office room in the front of
each building. Besides a large
storage room and repair shop, each
building will have a paint shop.
machine shop, stock room and oil
storage room. The estimated cost.
including heating and plumbing.
electrical equipment and machin-
cry, is about Sd 900 each.
Plans will be received on each
building separately, to encourage
bidding by local contractors. Plans
and specifications are on file at the
central office of the Highway de-
partment, 1916 University avenue.
st. Paul, at the offices of the de-
partment of administration and
finance, State Capitol, and at the
offices of the district superintend-
ents in the four cities named. The
building at Crookston is to be
completed July 1, those at Morris
and Willmar August /, and bhe
one at Duluth September L.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-03-17
Unique Ordinance
Covers Gravel Pits
Regulation Said to Be First in u.
S.-Road Material Scarcity
Seen

The provisions of gravel pit
ordinance recently adopted by the
New Ulm city council may be of
interest to road builders in other
parts of the state. The city at
torney who drafted the ordinance
stated that no city in the United
States could he found that has any
regulations covering this matter,
and the ordinance is therefore
unique.
Persons apply for permission to
open gravel pits within the city
limits must give a surety bond, to
safeguard the city in case of ac-
cidents. The pit must not come
within six feet of any city prop
erty, and must have As degree
slope to prevent cave-ins. The
gravel pit must be surrounded with
a substantial fence, it must not be
dug more than forty feet deep, and
must not be dug under any city
property. The surface dirt or
strippings must not he placed on
city streets or alleys.
The fact that the city council
found it necessary to take steps
to prevent encroachment on city
streets is another sign of the COM
ing shortage of gravel convenient
ly available for street and highway
surfacing, says a State Highway
bulletin, and it emphasizes the wis
dom OF paving thoroughfares where
traffic is so heavy that gravel is
worn away rapidly.
A similar note of warning is seen
in the annual report. of C. w.
Anderson, highway engineer OF
Lyon county. Within five years,
ne says, the county, whether ii
likes it o. MT, vii be engaged in
lsasd-suifac.ng some Of its roads
At present 10000 to $4,000 cubic
yards of gravel must he replaced
per year, close haul gravel deposits
are nearly exhausted, and mainte-
nance costs are increasing annual.
| ~. In places patrolmen are re.
placing about 120 cubic yards pei
mile in a year, while traffic is de.
stroying $50 cubic yards.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-03-17
Pennsylvania, Verm t,
Washington, Wisconsin, also

Pennsylvania, mont,
Washington, Wisconsin, also
District of Columbia.
One cent, two states: Rhode
Island, Texas.
No gas tax, four states:
Illinois, New York, New Jer-
sey, Massachusetts.
The four states which have nc
tax at all have bills pending to
establish tax of two cents OF
more, and nearly all the states
which have not recently increased
the rate, have bills pending for in
creases. The outlook Us that be-
fore midsummer every state viii
have a tax of two cents or more
and that the average, which is now
just below three cents, will soon be
more than three cents.
Of the four states bordering on
Minnesota, South Dakota has a
three cent tax, Iowa and Wisconsin
have two cents with bills pending
for increases to three, and North
Dakota has two cent rate.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-03-17
Agricultural Notes
Plant Flax Early to Get the Best
Results


Results
Careful trials have shown that
flax planted in April or the first
week in May yields at a higher rate
than that planted later, says A.
c.. Arney of the farm crops staff
a. University Farm. This is ex-
planned by the fact that even when
wilt resistant varieties are used
there lis more damage from wilt
in late than in early planted flax,
In other words, wilt resistance in
flax varieties are advised to obtain
seed of known wilt resistance and
to plant early at the rate of AZ
pounds to the acre. If the seed
was damaged by the weather last
fall and is of low termination
then the 42-pound allowance
should be increased.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-03-17
Three More States Have
Increased Gasoline Tax
Twenty-three Now Have Higher
Rate Than Minnesota-Only
Six Have Lower Levy

Four states have increased theil
gasoline taxes since January 1
according to State Highway bull
letin. Increases voted recently
and taking effect this month art
as follows: New Mexico, increased
from 8 to 5 cents !. Idaho, increased
from 8 to a cents; Wyoming, in
creased from 21a to cents. The
Alabama rate was increased from
3 to cents in January. Tht
rates now in effect in all the state.
are shown below:
Five cents, three states:
New Mexico, Kentucky, South
Carolina.
Four and one-half cents,
one state: Virginia.
Four cents, eight states: AL
ALBANIA, Arkansas, Florida,
Georgia, North Carolina, Mis-
sissippi, Nevada.
Three and one-half cents,
two states: Utah, West Vir-
ginia.
Three cents, nine states:
Arizona, Indiana, Maine, Ok
lahoma, Oregon, South Da-
kota, Montana, Tennessee,
Wyoming.
Two cents, nineteen states:
California, Colorado, Con-
necticut, Delaware, Iowa,
Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland,
Michigan, Minnesota, Mis-
souri,, Nebraska, New Hanp-
shire, North Dakota, Ohio,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-03-17

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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-03-17
spANNINGo STARTS; SALES INCREASE

Sinclair Lewis latest novel, Elmer
Gentry" is off the press, and the book re
viewers, clergy and sob sisters are knock
ing" For instance the. Pioneer Press critic
expressed the thought that there is no sense
in paying $3.50 for a copy of Elmer Gentry
when one can buy copy OF the Twin City
Reporter" for a nickel.
William Allen White the Emporia Kan,
philosopher characterizes ELMER Gentry as
a "Pdnch and Judy" attempt of a satire on
commercialized religion. Mr.. White conclud-
ed his criticism as follows:
Gentry" is unconvncing when youth
from country town he goes to a theological
seminary, where he appears in the role of
hypocrite, thief, liar and seducer. He finally
is expelled Later to repent.
Much is to be said about commercialized
religion, and Lewis has told much, but not
enough. He has said what he has said
badly that it does not make the impression
where it should and as it should.
Sinclair Lewis stood in the pulpit of Kan
sas City church last spring and defed God to
strike him dead. So far as Sinclair Lewis, the
artist, is concerned in the book, ELMER Gen
try" God took him at his word. He got so
excited making faces at God that he forgot
his craftsmanship.
The only good preacher in the book is
saphead. The only good women are dull.
The Herald is of the opinion that Lewis
is the best money" writer in the United
States. He writes with the idea in mind
that his books will be "panned," thus stimu-
lating the public demand. elmer Gentry
will likely have the largest sale of any ot
the Lewis books because it will be roundly
criticised from nearly every pulpit in Amer
lea.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-03-17

GUS years before defation hit things a period
in which only three banks suspended. Its
greatest test lies ahead.
The law makes no discrimination between
the good and the poor banker, and tends to
discourage loose banking methods, with the
consist largely of unliquid securities.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-03-17

A plot to poison the guards in the Joliet,
ILL.,, prison and liberate 1,200 convicts was
frustrated Tuesday, according to the daily
press. The finger of suspicion points very
strongly to Nathan F. Leopold, Jr., as being
the master mind in the plot. Herald readers
will recall that Leopold is serving life sent
ence in Joliet in connection with the murder
of young Frank of Chicago, few years ago.
Had Leopold been an inmate of Minnesota
penal institution this states kind hearted
Parole Board might have liberated him after
comparatively short time. It's really too
bad, you know to incarcerate young man
in the bloom of manhood
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-03-17
March Crop Report


Stocks of corn, wheat, oats
barley and rye on Minnesota farms
March 1, 1927, were considerably
below stocks ION farms March l.,
1926, and also the 5-year average,
except barley stocks which exceed
ed the 5-year average. This is
shown in the report of Paul H.
Kirk, federal statistician for the
Minnesota Cooperative Crop RE
porting Service; who states that
this condition is caused by short
crops last year, heavy feeding re-
quirements and in the case of rye
relatively heavy shipments due to
better price than last year. Rye
was the only grain crop showing q
greater per cent shipped than one
year ago. However, apples, due to
the heavy production, show an in
crease in shipment out of county
of l per cent over last year, when
it was estimated that per cent of
the total crop had been or would be
shipped.
Stocks of corn on Minnesota
farms March 1, this year, were
estimated to be 27 per cent of
the total crop, or 39,869, 900
bushels, compared with 50,625, 900
bushels for the same date last year
and a 5-year average of 45,135,-
600 bushels. OF the total crop
produced only 10 per cent has been
or will be shipped out of county
where grown. The merchantable
quality of the 1926 corn crop was
so per cent, compared with 81 pc
cent one year ago.
Stocks of all wheat on farms
March /, this year, were placed at
1851 900 bushels or FL per cent
of the total crop production, COM
pared with 6,356,000 bushels on
farms one year ago and the 5-year
average of 6,469,00O bushels. I
is estimated that 70 per cent of
the total crop has been or will be
shipped out of the county where
grown, which is the same as re-
ported last year.
The report indicates that A.
623 900 bushels of oats, or 33 per
cent of the crop was on farms
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-03-17

the above. Crawling on highways
where traffic is heavy is money
thrown away. Let JUS get wise to
the true situation. -Fairmont
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And which is worth WHILE "artisticay trimming" your
fellow in the prize ring devong your energy ntel
gence and talent work such Paul Swan young
with fine face, is doing in this picture.
As to which really COURAGEOUS of course there can
be question took absolute courage for Lndbergh to get
in his little plane all alone having ocean,
and start out through the fog the Great Banks
the wide Atlantic.
As to the courage of prize fighters gentlemen demon
grated it's qualities pretty well during the AS soon
the broke out practically all Of them cawled under the
ped to remain until the Aristice they about the same
thing and went into safe camp teach boxing to soldiers
soon to be rszing their lives
The conspicuous exception in this country was Gene Tun
mey He enlisted marine, the front and owes
His boxing championship the fact that boxed for
ent with the other soldiers continued the boxing after
e got back casually making million dollars of it.
Nobody will grudge him that money, since he won by
practicing a soldier.
The thing applies to Carpenter the French boxer
he better pound weight probably than anybody
IA the United States since John Sullivan Jack Dempsey
and Ftzsimmons.
Carpenter fought in the trenches years And after
that in Jersey City he within of knocking out
bigger and heavier Jack Dempsey One punch and
there wouldn't have been any Jack Dempsey champion
is all right for this black fighter his living at
boxing he He might not do well any other way
cept perhaps by tips waiter If white men will nav to
him backen the eyes and bloody the of white man.
you cant blame him for taking the money Nor can YOU
blame the other fighter heavy dull creature Of the white
race or blame prize fighters generally.
The blame is the crowds that gather and spend their
money watch such exhibitions dsgracng themselves pro-
noting brutality encouraging crime and spreading worst
diseases.
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GREAT MEN
BY DR.. Frank Crane

VTERY few of the great of earth inspection
They need to be regarded at distance either time
space, for us to realize their greatness
height high apparent to us
until at such distance they the hills
time recedes, the qualities great
and more.
Therefore the attempt scrunze them closely
We do not like Mr. Froudes chatter about Thomas Carlyle
prefer to regard the old literary hero pedestal
distance
Tradition has built pictures of Washington
and these enlarge with time OF human
and ii may do us good to realize that.
During the past months volumes appeared
porting to humaue and destroy pedestal upon
which they stand
Washington and Gladstone and others have met
with such treatment Lincoln
attempt been made to write such biography.
There is something worth thinking about in that
VI all the great men OF history he the least aristocra
he always stood with his feet the ground
He knew ne homely and didn't try get around the
TACT He never encouragement any
the authors in laudatory biography of himself
MUM Liar of History"
There point trying puncture the vanties of man
who has none or trying to what the individual
admits himself
So Lncons greatness aloof because it was great
frankness. M e -
"A great man." Emerson always willing to be
little" e " 10
his generals this description of him:
"A Uresolute, but of in
slave State among aristocras; kind spirit envous
and anxious for approva without the large to
grasp great questions; uncertain of himself things
ready to lean too much Others" e~
This the usual method During the lifetime what he
Lincoln able to himself was honest enouph
to admit what he stood the earth of
thus disarmed those
weaknesses of great
Copyright 1927 by Mcclure syndcst. Inc
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By ELSIE ROBINSON
They Left Us FIOwers

drought, the hell of heat, the bit
ter hell of cold. Over the seas.
too, they flew-from England and
China, from far Brazil and Peru
the men who were to people
the west for America. And al
ways through their night blazed
the beacon of gold-always in
their thoughts ran the hope of
gold, like fiery drug, stirring
them, soothing them.
Yes. they had their drug and
their beacon, those gold mad
men. But how about the women
who came with them--the quiet,
staunch women from Maine and
New Hampshire. the gentle, stately
women from old Virginia, the
soft-eyed, brooding wives and
mothers from Peru, the wistful
little women of China, the tall,
proud daughters of England?
What could they ever find that
would be half as precious as those
dear homes they left behind?
And yet, they followed after their
men and gave to us that proud
and prosperous West we know
today.
The little homesick pioneer
mothers Of America-how often
we froget them in our ceIebra.
tons. We are SO taken with all
the fierce and noisy deeds that
we forget the tremendous gifts
of those who did their gentle
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Harvesting the tides success.
fully through the development of
other principles than those now
partially successful.
Transmission of heat In one
direction, probably through the
discovery of the relation between
electric currents and heat trans.
mission. thus giving intense heat
or absolute frigidity at will.
Perfection OF the present highly
possible theories for the manufac.
ture of gold from material such
as mercury. This is already be.
lieved to be successful develop
ment of the study of separating
and regrouping atoms.
Reaching and putting to use
the inexhaustihle heat beneath
the earth's crust. which for ages
has manifestly been accessible by
volcanoes and hot springs.
Why hs, = all these emporium
tiles been so long neglected."
asks Doctor Williams and an.
swers that "old Mother Necessity
has not been at hand"
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brought from home" so long
ago.
Down in the empty gullies you
find them, where the placer gold
once lay-wreathfng some lonely
grave by the coyotes trail
webbing their bloom across a
rotting mining shaft-spraying
their petals on some crumbling
floor. Those small, sweet Persian
roses, as bright as living gold
that once grew on some stone
wall in Vermont. Hollyhocks-
straight as Puritans-flag lilies,
blue and white, standing in prim
rows beside the old fandango hall.
A mass of herbs that still smell
of Peru-a strange, exotic tree
from Sicily-lilfes from China
and a row of box some homesick
girl from Sussex planted on a
lane
The hands that planted them
are long since dead-such weary
hands, when they at last lay still.
But that which those hands
wrought goes on and on.
Our wilderness was watered by
their tears
Our rocks were covered by their
wreaths of roses
Our gambling halls were hedged
with their sweet faith
Their herbs stiIl soothe and
sweeten our mad dream of
gold.