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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-11-14

Adolphus college, and Henry j., a
student at the st. Peter high school
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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-11-14
Thursday, November Ia, 1929

SO leaves three brothers, Frank
and Fred, who live in Idaho; and
Joseph, of Spring Hill; and one
sister, Frau Dena Himmerlreich,
who still resides in Germany.
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off my chorus and Yiefef fun aground yet and
I'll put my judgment against any instrument"
And he had proved his right.
Rickly endowed with humor, steady-eyed and
utterly American, these captains of the oyster
fleet of Maryland and Virginia are men well
worth going miles to find and talk with. They
splendidly built men, blue-eyed sea tanned.
descendants of early settlers from England and
no college educated or city experienced man
know can surpass for fneness Of manners or
fluent and excellent English such men as Capt.
Miller or Capt Lore or Capt. Mister or Capt.
Watson or many another.
WHEN their hard work is not calling they
take their rest in sweet little houses
Swallowed by trees, part Of the picturesque
scenery of this water-color landscape. and there
they enjoy such food as an epicure might envy.
And always, threaded through their lives, goes
the honey Southern favor Of the local colored
helpers They, too, have been for generations
in and of these places, these waters. They. too,
are content. The Eastern Shore Negro has
curious accent all his own.
That's where the rake Hes might could
be oyster there" says Tom Toy.
THE rake?" you say. "Suthen1y, the rake.
Whar the ole Mary Ann got sunk and amt
neveh been able lf her out yit."
Another who used to take people out in his
boat gave up following the water" entirely.
When we asked him why he had done so, he
said:
"I was out en- my boat en- a squan come up
and done nearly drowndead. After that
couldn't go out in the deep river amy mohe,
was so weakened down. Every time come
about my center-boahd done tech bottom!"
In the very strength and d-time individual
ism of the character of these oystermen ironi-
cally lies the real menace to the future of the
oyster industry Of these waters. They them
selves are the first to tell you Of their own di-
minishing takes, stories amply borne out by the
official figures.
I'm the old days." said Capt. Miller, "a good
day was $50 to 200 bushels. Now it's a right
good day to get 40 or so bushels. Then they
sold for 80 or IS cents bushel. Now they
sell for 81 or $125 buSheL"
The abandoned town of New England finds its
counterpart here in Dorchester County in Mary
land in such abandoned-and picturesque
oyster villages as Applegarth or Hollins Island,
the latter now made over into Summer colony.
Clearly, an oyster eating public should be in
tereSted in the price rise, which Is due to q
single fact above all elSe-the determined indi-
vidualism Of the oystermen who refuse to CO.
operate with various efforts at conservation.
The most important Of such efforts Is that
Of the lease system, by which the State sur
veys, stakes out and leases acreage OF oyster
rock, just as II it were dry land, charging about
81 an acre annually in rent. There Is a great
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-17
Sleepy Grass and Horses.

"SLEEPY GRASS" so named because of the
irresistibly drowsy effect it has on horses
which dine upon it. is fairly prevalent in the
arid and semi-arid parts of the Southwest.
but saves its big act for only two counties,
these being in New Mexico.
Just why otero and Lincoln Counties should
have the distinction is not evident but expert
ments and inquiries carried out by the De.
partment of Agriculture have failed to indi-
cate any undue effect upon stock in other Sec
lions where the grass grows
Its official name is Stipa Vaseyi, and it is a
Stout upright perennial grass, with narrow, fiat
leaves and narrow green or tawny flower heads.
II is supposed to be poisonous to horses. cattle
and sheep, but little effect was seen on anv
animals other than horses in the test.
In the experiments less than 1 per cent oP
the weight OF the horse in the grass was fed
Inc animals became drowsy with fever and An
accompanying light pulse. The animals AZ
1ected often lay with their heads and necks
scretched out on the ground. They were de-
cloedly affected in their gait, and when thew
could be stirred out Of their letharpv enou0h
10 move their rear legs dragged. Profound
siamoer usually set in and the animals slent
tor "a TO SO hours, but, upon waking were
1ound 70 have no i'll effects
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Treatment Of Farm Land.

Farm land twice the area of the State of
Rhode Island has been subjected to treat
ment to prevent soil erosion and loss of fer
tility through the effects of rains and flood
waters as result of a campaign carried on by
the Department of Agriculture More than as
600 farmers needed the advice of the DEPART
ment and built dams and terraced lands which
were subject to erosion.
This work was carried on in 81 States. with
Texas leading. The cost of the work has been
from SIS to $40 an acre, but the saving to the
farms is believed to warrant many times that
amount in expenditures. The farmers of the
Northern and middle Western States are
awakening to the need of the work and more
rapid progress Is expected in the future.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-17

concession on Otto's part. He told the names
of the Senator'S that were there.
Well, anyhow, the other Senators could have
choked him for telling all this. for it just made
other Dining room.
Senators lives are getting tough enough as
it is without losing out on any invitations that
might crop up
Look at Senator Bingham; they said he had
disgraced the dignity of the Senate. and every
body couldent understand what he could possibly
have done, so he was reprimanded. The Demo-
Gratis wanted to have him thrown out, and his
place taken by dignifed Democrat, but they
couldent get him to resign. It's awful hard
to get a Senator to quit. In fact, Mr.. Bingham
wouldent even appolgise to em. Bingham is
strong for aviation, And like Hiram, he has
done some mighty worthy things, and, anyhow,
it takes years in this country to tell whether
anybodys right or wrong. Its kinder case Of
just how far ahead you can see. The fellow
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that can only see week ahead is always the
popular fellow for he is looking with the crowd.
But the one that can see years ahead, he has
telescope, but he can't make anybody believe
he has it.
But, anyhow. it's been q great fall in legisla-
tive matters Nothing has been accomplished,
making it a typical session. But there has
been lot of laughs, plenty of what looked like
excitement at the time but which in the gen.
eral results ddent amount to anything.
They had Grundy up for awhile and he gave
them the lecture of their lives ON Protection"
They was going to try and prove he was a Lob
byist. Well he not only admitted 1t, but seemed
proud of it. Well, that dident leave them a
thing to do but just look amazed. Said he had
been Lobbyist for fifty years and never lost
a Lob. He raises million dollars every Presi-
dental year for the good of the Party, and is
down there to collect his dividends.
Don't want thing but protection for every4
thing that is made in Pennsylvania. Said the
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THERE Is many q man still clustering in the
waters Of the Patuxent and the Potomac
and the Chesapeake who remembers when
things were very different They tell of days
when it was common practice to shanghai men
in Pratt street and other river streets of Balti-
u1ore-if they could-and impress them in the
oyster feet. The capn'S will law. From
the time they woke up aboard ship till the
season ended they never went ashore except
virtually under guard
THE food was terrible" says Capn Harry.
Beans and black molasses, little heckfish and
mighty seldom -four bread. If a man rebelled it
was mutiny and treated as such. The regular
crews were tough lot-unskilled, mostly for
eigners Now they are made up of local people,
who divide their time between clustering and
grabbing and fishing and working for the can
ming factories.
And when the season was over in the old
days there was many cap'n found it cheaper
to pay his men of with the boom. What's that?
Why, just give them an order that will make
them go up for'ard and stoop over, and then
swing the boom around and wash them over
board"
thought the cap'n was having little fun
ct my expense. know better now.
Rowed ashore from the James o. Wright In
Monroe Bay walked along the beach to what
they call "the Point" It is tiny spot covered
with thickets. On this single point are the un-
marked graves of dozen bodies, unknown, un-
30entlneO ana long SINCE 1Orgotten.
And just the other day Dr. Truitt dropped
from the airplane in which he is making sur
vey of the Maryland waters for likely spots for
a marine laboratory upon My Leg Island. He,
too, had heard such stories. He took spade
and began to dig. In an hour he unearthed
the skeletons of half dozen men who similarly
had met their deaths These were no idle tales.
past My Leg Island, where the Patuxent In
past My Leg Island, where the patuvent in
Maryland flows to the Chesapeake, past many
another inlet, wander, talking to the oyster
men of today.
Here is Cap'n Mister of Solomons Island In
Maryland-"Ole Cap'n Mister" as distinguished
from his son, who is the young capn. We sit
in the twilight after his day on the waters-a
group of us-talking of the oyster wars between
the men Of Maryland and the men of Virginia.
of the machine guns hidden in small boats and
the rifle fire that has taken scores of lives at
lacking or defending what each thought was
his own privileged oyster rock and of the way
the States had Just recently arbitrated and set
tied line and driven the local warriors back to
legality by dropping shells from a one-pounder
gun into the mud ahead Of the machine gunners
and rihemen.
There was Cap'n Vessel, who has fine scorn
for gadgets Some one asked him why he did
not carry a compass on his boat
IT steered my chorus UP and down the bay
for 40 years." he remarked, land I never got
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country, on the water it rises sharp and chill
and penetrating damp, and rapidly upon the
water the cold comes on, till, by December,
these men who follow the water" Gas they
say are first drenched and then frozen as they
work, tumbling below exhausted to thaw and
steam when the day is over.
We crowd on sail and make a new race
for the nearest harbor to negotiate with the
'buy boats" those Intermediates between the
"drudgers" and the "shuckin' houses"
"Capn" shouts the buy boat captain to the
dredger, you haven't thing in there except
a lot O. culls!"
Then begins such dickering as never was
heard outside stock exchange. At last they
hit on a price. The bargains contamination is
marked by the buy boats order: IAN right.
Start in an load!"
windlass with a block-an- tackle fail
lets down an "oyster bucket"-a rough buShel
measure-and the count begins. The buy boat
men say the drudgerS try to ease the oysters
up on end and slip in few stones. The
drudgers say the buy boat bushel measure holds
about a buShel and a quarter. The buy boat
captain sits with shingle in his hand and
makes q vertical pencil mark on 1t Tor eacn
bushel delivered, with tally mark for every
fifth. They chant back and forth from boat
to boat:
lone is a one!" says the buy boat.
zone is a one!" the "drudger" answers.
1.-TWO is two!" 1.-TWO is a two!" Three is
threel" Three is a three!" -Four is a four!"
's.Four is . fourl" comes the echo. and then:
Five Is a hve-TalyI"
Wholesale buyers board the dredgeboats and
Gicker for lots of 40 or so bushels at time. At
last the bargaining over. the buy boats put
off for their shipping ports, for such great
oyster marts as Norfolk in Virginia or Crisfield
or Cambridge on Maryland's famed Eastern
Shore and scores of others.
There in the shucking-house, men and
women wearing heavy gloves shuck-or open
the oysters 10 or IL hours day with the
rapidity of skilled piece-workers, pass them on
to be cleansed in fresh water, to be packed m
ice and shipped in special cars by express, to
be redistributed from Baltimore or Washing
ton.
Second grade oysters-these to the shucking
houses The epicure's delight and the JOY
of the raw bars go to their last red receiving
station in or on their shells and still alive.
Cold and wet and tired but enormously
healthy the blue-eyed cap'n sees the buy boats
scud away and goes to his O'Clock supper.
His men will sleep tonight, and every night OF
the oyster season, aboard ship. A hard LIE
for hard men. But not so hard today as IL
was Just q few years ago. Today most OF the
crews work on shares, and Cap'n Harry tells
you it is a whole lot easier to wake them up In
the morning. The cap'n buys gas, w1nders,
and equipment and gets one-half OF the gross
sales. The crew pay the cook and the grub
bill on shares and divide the reSt-and the
cook helps with the dredging
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deal of such leased oyster rock in these waters.
Many ardent conservationists would go farther
and, temporarily at least, provide for a COM
pletc oyster lease system DR.. Truitt has an
even simpler idea He would emphasize con-
troll of the shells and their return to the oyster
bars, so that on them the seed oysters could
find their perfect resting place.
For it seems that the oystermen no longer
throw the shells back onto the bed Of river
and bay to make new ideal surfaces for the
searching oyster seed to grow on, but sell them
20 road makers and chick-feed grinders Yet
few months ago, when Maryland protagonistS
al scientific oyster conservation had their
hearings in the Statehouse at Annapolis be-
fore throng which packed the big room and
reached out through the corridors to the
street, it was these very oystermen of whom I
have been writing-these strong, charming and
seemingly highly intelligent captains of the
oyster deet-who were too indivdualistic, too
welded to their own ancient traditional ways, to
permit the new attempt at saving their industry
to be lent legislative hand. 1t was so Ameri-
canly like all of us, so magnifcently wrong,
that it could not be called pathetic.
And they could oppose it successfully be-
cause in Maryland these oystermen hold a bal
ance of political power.
And in Virginia, when bill to lease certain
natural oyster rock passed the Legislature and
the men who owned this mere legality at
tempted to exercise its rights, they were literally
driven of the water at the point of the guns
% Tie auBSIeQ 1OCaA OySteILnen. 1ncy 0a0
their choice between a dead letter law and
being dead themselves, and they chose the
former. Temporarily so, at least, while the
quarrel over leasing oyster beds in Mob Jack
Bay goes to the Supreme Court
lust recently the century-old dispute as to
the dividing line between Maryland and
Virginia along the Potomac all the oyster way
to its entrance into the Chesapeake-a dispute
whose great importance lay in the presence OF
oysters and also crab and fish in these waters
was settled. Now that the police boats slip
about among the "drudgers" and each ship
carries her license number on her sail, now
that shanghai-ing IS gone and crews work ON
shares and motor winches wind and the oyster
man has his telephone and radio and like
every one else-now In this day Of the oyster
industry you think drama is dead and eco
Monies hourishes. It is not SO. They have
their own local saying which tells its own story:
Find me two tongers who agree" they say,
"and win show you one landlubberI'
No. So long as there remain these blue.
eyed men who follow the water" so long as
there remains an oyster IN the Potomac, the
Patuxent. the York, the Chesapeake, there will
be the flavor Of life different from any other
among the oyster "drudges," and it win con-
tinue to affect the new phases of their oyster
wars.
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Will Rogers Looks In on New Political Rodeos

only thing that idaho, ArkanSaw and Montana
raised was Senators and they made too much
noise. He said every state should make a noise
according to what it manufactured and that
as Pennsylvania manufactured more things &c
was his night to howl and he was there to Howl.
The Senators couldent think of any answer TO
that so they adjourned the investigation. and
they cuss the day they called Grumpy.
(Copyright, 1921
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course attracted quite q little attention, Out
was no surprise to any one when Walker won
by half a million. One big fight was in Virginia.
The Civil War was the issue there ana the
Confederates won. Bishop Cannon turned his
pulpit into rostrum and wound up with the
minority.
Tentuckv threw out a mess of Republicans
that had accidentally got in during the boom
DAYS Another Dinner Scandal In washington.
When Mr.. Hoover was pouring tea Tor Mr.. and
Mrs. Dawes why it seems that the invitation OF
Senator Hiram Johnston was misplaced, per-
haps purposely, and instead of Hi getting into
the White House, why he had to eat with some
Democrats In the Capitol Restaurant. Wen,
that brought up big scene out here In Cali
fornia Our papers played it up very big, for
they are both home town boys, both members
of the same club Republican).
These lads seem to have had different views
for some time past. When they come West
locking for President why naturally Mr.. john
ston couldent see why they had to pass his house
ON the search. He was in Washington and
wouldent have to move his things far, and It
looked like good move all around. But the
Republicans always claimed that while Hiram
was carrying a Republican labor card, he was
at heart for the open shop, and they claimed
that everything they started he would not only
disapprove of, but he would even go so far as to
lead his support to the Democrats. Well that's
one thing the Republicans wont forgive They
can excuse you being against them, for in their
hearts they know that you are right, but when
you go and throw that support to the Demo-
Gratis that's the last straw
So along comes Mr.. Hoover and naturally
he had some ideas of what he would like to have
done in the way Of Civic good for the entire
Commonwealth. But every time he would sug-
gest something why Hiram was there with the
veto. Mr.. Hoover would suggest fishing In
Virginia and Mr.. Johnston would suggest that
he fish in California. Mr.. Hoover suggested
relief for the farmer, Mr.. Johnston suggested
Relief was what put the Farmer where he is now.
THEN the Tariff come up and for awhile
- they dident know how to disagree on 1t, for
neither knew how the other stood on it. But 1t
finally worked out satisfactory to each Of them
they disagreed. I can understand this invita-
ton being lost in the mail.
Now, that brings us down to Senator Brook
hardt, who week or SO ago related the ingredi-
ents of a wild party he attended. He said
Liquor just flowed like Oratory in the Senate
Said he sit next to Otto Kahn, which sounds to
me like boast, for it was certainly a social
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~EIL., all know is just what read
in the Advertisements. Been q
lot of Scandal In the last few
weeks, including elections all over
the Country New YOfk'S, OF
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Cele Polityczne Stowarzyszenia
Polek w Stan. Zjednoczonych
kARTkA Z HISTORU
STOW. POLEk

ju To tez Stowarzyszene ME tylko re poucza obo-
wiazkach swe cz}onkinie, ale przywilejach tax
W zyciu organizacyjnem jak W polityce, azeby
g1upa obywateli tego kraju polskiego pochodze-
MIA, ktorej my czastka jestesmy, zdobyc sobie mo-
g1a ME tylko jednakie pod kazdym wzgledem ira
ktowanie ma r6wni innymi, ale z czasem stac sic
mog}a wzorem ola wsp6lobywateli wsp6}obywate-
lex, cd innych niz my narodowosci> >rod sw6j wy
wodzacych.
To jest dalszy, nieprzerwany, ciagly pro-
gram W sprawach polityki tego kraju program ten
obejmuje zadania wzgledem naszych cz}onkin. Sto-
warzyszenie Polek W Stanach Zjednoczonych stara
sic wszekimi sposobam uobywatelnenie swych
cz}onkin W tym duchu, aby korzystajac z posiada-
nego przewieju g}osowania zna}y swe obowiazki
i te wype}niely mysl potrzeb program6w, jake
nakresli}a sobie nasza newiescia organizacja.
Me by}a to 1atwa praca poczatkach egzv
stencil naszej organzacji jak ME by1y nemi wszel
kle poczatkoWe poczynania naszych pionierek ich
nastepczy11 ale biegiem lat coraz to jest wiecej
pomiedzy naszemi cz1onkiniami Stowarzyszenia Po.
lex uswiadomienia obywatelskiego i juz nied}ugi
czas re pod tym wzgedem zdaj sic ca1kiem do
brze bedzie
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roku 1862 bohaterem powiesci,
sutor nader zrecznie potrafil sple;e
osobiste przygody bohatera mai
wazniejszemi zagadnieniami owcze-
snej Polityki polskiej oraz zyciem
mieszkancow m. krakowa. Szkic
ksiazki byf napisany jeszcze wow
czas kiedy autor studjowaf wy
kiadaf ma uniwersytecie Krakow
skim jake stypendysta Fundacji
kosciuszkowskiej. Spolka wydaw-
nicza The Macmillan Company W
Nowym Yorku wydaia te ksiazke.
Jednym tych. ktorzy otrzyma-
Ii ten medal W latach poprzednich
jest Henryk Van Loon. autor ksia-
Xxi The Story of Manking.'
lyle podaje oficjalny komuni-
kat. | dosycl To wystarczy. K.ia-
zka 0 Polsce zdobywa nagrode sto-
bibljotekarzy amery-
kanskich. Znaczy to, 4e wiecej
miodziezy wypozyczaio czytalo te
niz jakaskolwiek lima ksi4-
IKE " roku ubiegiym. Znaczy to.
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z CYKLU ARTYKUL6W
"NASZA PRZESZLOSc"
STOWARZYSZENIE POLEK w St.

STOWARZYSZENIE POLEK Stanach
Zjednoczonych pod opieka Swietej Rodziny ceszy
sic nieposledniem znaczeniem nawet juz potrafi1o
sobie jakes takie wp}ywy wyrobic dzieki temu, il
czlonknie naszej niewiesciej Organizacji coraz to
wiekszy udzia} biora zyciu politycznem tego kra-
ju. A sprawa to jest wanna i znaczenie pierwszo-
rzedne majaca ola naszego dalszego rozwoju tax
duchowego jak materjalnego
Jestesmy W stanie juz pomyslec i o sposobie
zapewnienia sobie odpowiedniego mas traktowania
re strony wspo}obywateh wspo}obywatelek innego
niz my pochodzenia czy innej narodowosci ub rasy.
To sta}o sic jednak dzeki sta}emu, ciag}emu wyra-
bianiu sic tax organizacyjnie jak pod wzgledem
obywatelskim.
ze ME zawsze korzystamy ca}ej pe}ni przy-
s1ugu]acych nam praw przywilejow - ME zawsze
W tenn Jest Wna nasza czy nawet naszej spo}eczno-
SCI, czyi jasniej m6wiac - obywateli amerykan-
skich polskiego pochodzenia
Czestokroc dzieje sic to dzieki uprzedzenu
ku nam nieufnosci, jakiej prze1amac jeszcze do
tychczas ME byli W stanie nasi Rodacy Rodaczki,
pomimo nawet wielu wysi}kow ich strony czynio-
nych
Tu w}asnie ma doskonale pole do piracy cz1on-
KIM Stowarzyszenia Polek, obywatelka tego kra-
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: "1rebacz krakowsM" Zdobyf Pierwsza Nagrode .

tekarzy dla m}odziezy przy ame-
rykanskiem Stow. Bibljotek Publ
cznych "a najpoczytniejsza the
most distinguished") ksiazke dla
mlodziezy z roku ubieglego. zostal
nadany W tym roku dn. l5-go ma
ia, p. prof. Eric P. Kelly Dart
mouth College "a jego ksiazks
The Trumpeter of Krakow
Medal ten jest nazwany imie-
MEM John Newbery, ktory jeszcze
W I8-tem stuleciu byl pierwszym
wybitnym wydawca ksiazek dla milo
dziezy. Jest to dar p. Frederic a
G. Melcher'a Nowego Yorku. Tyl-
10 obywatele lub mieszkancy Sta.
new Zjednoczonych moga takowy
otrzymae.
Them ksiazki The Trumpeter
Of Krakow jest prastare polskie
n,iasto Krakow. Tam wlasnie cd
czasow dawnych jest zwyczaj wy
grywania CO godzine hejnalu z
wiezy ko;ciola Najswietszej Fanny
Marji. Czyniac miodeso trebacza