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The Sauk Centre herald., 1929-09-26
QUEER sUPERsTITIoNs

Superstitions regarding the prevention and cure
of disease have persisted from time immemorlai,
many of them being still prevalent in the more
backward sections of the country few were called
to mind by recent writer, in noting the death OF
an aged Kentuckian who continued to wear earrings
to the last in the belief that they were good Tor
his eyesight.
Another old-time notion was that wearing q
mustache was beneficial to weak eyes, just as was
thought that carrying buckeye or potato in the
pocket would prevent cure rheumatism.
One doesn't have to be very old to remember
when children were caused to wear little bag OF
asafetida strung around the neck as protectlon
against Catching" diseases, and when in many
homes punches of various dried herbs were hung
about for the same purpose. Some believed that
keeping goat around the house was a prime health
measure.
The writer remembers being warned when boy
not to wade in water when afflicted with hives lest
they strike to his heart and kill him. He wadded,
nevertheless, and lives to tell the tale
These superstitons, like the belief that horsehair
placed in the rain barrel would turn into snake,
are gradually dying out-but many presumably IN
telgent persons to this day will refuse to take the
third light from match walk under a ladder for
fear of dire consequences
The Sauk Centre herald., 1929-09-26
RETAIN THE FLEXIBuITY FEATURE OF THE
TARIFF BILL

The dairy farmers of Minnesota profited mater
tally because of the flexible feature Of the tariff law.
The fexibility clause gives the President the
right either increase decrease the tariff duties
after a proper showing has been made for the
justice and necessity of the change The maximum
change authorized to so per cent.
About three years ago, after showing by the
Minnesota Congressman President Coolidge increased
the tariff on butter from cents to II cents per
pound
President Hoover by recent order increased the
tariff fax, placing the American farmer on a
parity with the foreign producer.
The tariff bill pending before congress
leaves the flexible feature in the law.
Democracy has always opposed the protective
tariff idea. Several Southern Democratic Senators
aided by number of the radically inclined Republi
cans are making fight to have the flexible feature
removed from the measure in the bill now pending.
The present bill makes the tariff butter IA cents
per pound, and increases other farm products ma
terialy.
If the flexibity feature remains in the bill the
farmers interests will be further safeguarded.
President Hoover desires to have this feature re-
tanned. The American people have unlimited conf
dence in his ability and integrity.
The fexibility clause has been of distinct adj
vantage to the Northwestern agricuurist and dairy
1t should be, and the Herald believes will be,
retained in the bill
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Gray cow, 21s years old
Red cow, 5 years old.
2 yearling heifers.
2 heifers 6 months old.
2 heifers, 3 months old.
l brood sow.
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MORE PORK AND MILK

Some interesting facts concerning the nations
eating habits contained in an address by O. T..
Baker, of the Department of Agriculture particular
ly with respect to the large capita increase in
the consumption of pork and milk
During the past 25 years the amount of pork
eaten per person has increased about 10 per cent,
while the consumption of milk has increased IL per
cent. On the other hand wheat -four has decreased
over 20 per cent and corn meal over 60 per cent.
Commenting this, Mr. Baker notes that among
all farm animals the hog and dairy cow produce the
most human food per unit of feed consumed, hence
the trend of the national appetite toward these
ducts is in the interest Of true economy.
slight increase in the consumption per capita
of poultry products has occurred since the war,
which places that industry also IN relatively IA
vorabe position among the food producing activities
of the country.
All of which indicates that the COW. the AMI
the hen should be included in every farmers program
of production.
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away from the shore with q boat
where formerly there were good
landing places. The large bass
spawning grounds on the west side
of the lake are dry, seriously af-
fecting bass propagation in the
lake. There are sand bars appear
ing in many places where it was
always possible to run motor boats.
The water in the bay in front of
Osakis is so low there is little cir
culation-practically a weed bed
and the city water is drawn only a
short ways from where the sewage
empties into the lake.
The county boards have not been
asked to raise the level of the lake
to the level Of former years, or sew
en- or eight feet higher than at
present. They have merely been
asked to establish a permanent
level approximately two feet higher
than the present level. This will
not injure anyone. If this request
is granted instead of having the
lake dry up almost to nothing each
summer, place a dam at the outlet
which will maintain the level and
water over the prescribed level will
run over the dam and down the
outlet as at present.
The county boards after due con-
sideration agreed to a man that ii
was high time to do something to
keep Lake Osakis one Of the most
beautiful lakes in the state-the
most valuable asset this section OF
the country has.
Engineers will be put to work
Immediately surveying the lake to
find out how much below normal
the lake is at present, and how
much it can be raised and not in.
jure adjoining property.
| It goes without saving that the
efforts Of the committee behind the
project will be appreciated by the
entire community. Every good citi
zen of Osakis is expected to get be
hind and push.
| A couple of years ago the same
condition existed at Lake Carlos il
Douglas county. The lake was run
ming out of it's outlet until it wa.
practically ruined. The commits
sioners met, and in spite of som,
opposition the outlet was damned
and the level raised to permanent
position. All agree today that tn,
action was wise and timely.
Opposition from any quarter il
not expected from the citizens Dor
dering Lake Osakis as all are
broadminded enough to realiz'
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the dormtory floors and the doctors office Leaving
the university, he was connected with schools IN
Chattanooga for q time then conducted business
college OF his own. which brought him into contact
with business men Of influence, through whom ne
became identified with important manufacturing en-
terprses For several years he has been connected
with number of business and financial corporations
and he is quite wealthy.
Mr.. Huston was assistant secretary OF commerce
under Secretary Hoover nearly two years and has
been active in political life for long time as Re-
publican leader.
His rise to wealth and influence is another Typ
ica illustration of what an intelligent and energetic
American boy can do.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1929-09-26

of Osakis, Todd and Douglas coun-
ties that has come before them for
some time-the matter of MAIN
tanning the water level Of Lake
Osakis at its normal level. The
meeting was held at the Fairhaven
Resort near the head of the lake.
Beside the county boards the ses-
sion was attended by County At
torney w. M. Wood, of Todd
county, County Auditor Jay D. Lar
son, of Douglas county, County
Auditor L. J. Ramstad, of Todd
county, District Game Warden Tot
ten, of Little Falls, Game Warden
Jas. Waters, of Alexandria, Game
Warden Chas. Waters, Of Long
Prairie, County Engineer Yahnke,
of Todd county, and number of
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others interested in the welfare

others interested in the welfare Of
both counties.
The meeting was called in re-
sponse to a petition signed by over
95 per cent of the land and prop
erty owners bordering all the way
around the lake.
A committee representing these
property owners and composed
of Tommy Gibbons, L. D. Warner,
w. Balder, A. Nelson, c. Heen and
F. Sanderson appeared before the
boards to present this petition and
urge that something be done to
save the lake which is one Of the
finest in this part Of the state,
from becoming something more
than a weed bed or marsh which it
will be unless something is done to
The Sauk Centre herald., 1929-09-26
NEW G. o. p. CHAIRMAN

Aside from partisan considerations, the selection
of party chairman is a matter of interest,
hence good deal of attention is being given to the
personality of Claudius H. Huston, recently elected
to head the Republican national committee.
Mr. Huston is the son of Presbyterian minister
who died when Claudius boy. The son attend
ed country school in Indiana, becoming teacher
later at salary of $50 month for five months III
the year, working farm during the remainder
of the time
With little money he had saved he entered VAL
pariaso University and worked his way through by
ringing the school bell, waiting tables, sweeping
The Sauk Centre herald., 1929-09-26
old the water from draining out

hold the water from draining out
Of it.
The meeting Saturday was called
at 1000 o'clock and the first step
taken was to proceed to the outlet
of the lake to view the condition
and the site Of the proposed dam to
prevent the water from running
out of the lake and draining it to
the present low level.
Upon returning to Fairhaven all
present were served one of Pete's
famous dinners. After dinner and
before the county boards went into
joint session, L. D. Warner, chair
man Of the committee called upon
a number of the gentlemen present
for short talks relative to the con-
dition Of the lake and its effect
upon the fish and game in about
it, and the territory adjacent to it.
Excellent and enjoyable talks were
made by Tommy Gibbons, VIM.
Balder, w. M. Wood, of Long Prai-
rie, County Auditors Larson and
Ramstad, Game Wardens Totten,
Waters and Waters, County En-
gineer Yahnke, p. Perreten, John
Page, c. p. Mattison, who spends
every sumner at Lake Osakis, Mr..
O'Brien, chairman of the Douglas
board of commissioners, Mr.. Spei-
ker, chairman Of the Todd county
commissioners and others.
An especially enjoyable talk was
made by Mr.. Pinet, a member of
the State Game and Fish Commits
sion Of the state of Kansas, who
happened to be. having dinner at
the resort. Mr.. Pinet made the
statement that if they had lake
Osakis in the state of Kansas one
couldn't buy it for a hundred mil
lion dollars, and for goodness sakes
take care -pf it. He said Kansas
spent thousands of dollars
building artificial lakes and keep
ing them full of water. He always
has considered Lake Osakis the
finest lake he knew of, but added
that for the past two or three years
he had noticed the water was go
ing down and had wondered why
something had not been done to
maintain it's natural level.
It is well known fact that Lake
Osakis has been drained so low
that its natural beauty and value
to the community has been greatly
diminished. It's shores, which here
tofore have been washed by clear
and sparkling water are now grow.
ing up to weeds and at many
places it is almost impossible to get
The Sauk Centre herald., 1929-09-26

Gray mare, weight 1850.
Bay mare, weight 1850.
Bay gelding, weight 1900.
Red and white cow, 3 years old.
Red cow, 9 years old
Red and white cow, 8 years old.
Red and white cow, 6 years old.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1929-09-26
s1ELRosE MILL TAKEN OVER

The Melrose mill property which
has been idle for some years. was
recently disposed of to Thelen
Brothers, Of Freeport. in deal
concluded with the Maetzdorf i'm
terests, st. Cloud. Plans to inn
prove the property are being made
by the Freeport firm. This will be
one more manufacturing institu-
ton for Melrose.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1929-09-26
LAKE OSAKE LEVEL
WILL BE RAISED
Todd and Douglas County
Commissioners May Build
Suitable Dam
From Osakis Review

The Board of county commits
sioners of Todd and Douglas coun-
ties met Saturday in joint session
to take up one of the most import
ant matters affecting the welfare
The Sauk Centre herald., 1929-09-26
that the lake should be maintained
at proper level.
MEERosE HARVEST FESTIVAL

MEASOSE many LS1 CGS1AVAA
Melrose will have q harvest festi-
val Oct. II and II, businessmen
there have arranged, and consider
able enthusiasm has followed an
nouncement of it. A finance COM
mittee has been appointed to solicit
for the festival and has received a
great deal Of cooperation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-17
JAIL COMMUNIST
LEADERS IN PARIS
"ANTI-RED RAID"
Campaign Against the
Party Is Growing
(WireLess BIZ "Inprecor7.")

(WUeteSS By "InprecOTT")
PARIS, France, April 16.-The
editor of L'Humanite, French Com
munist daily, and Bouthonnier,
member of the Central Committee of
the French Communist Party were
arrested here today.
The police seized the Communist
leaders on charges involving articles
calling for determination of soldiers
and striking miners. The articles
appeared in LHumanite last Janu-
airy.
The seizure of the Communists is
part of the offensive which French
capitalism thru it's government has
waged against the workers for
months. 1t has been featured by
such events as the arrest of the en-
tire Communist Party convention of
the Paris district, the police attacks
on the national Party convention
and the persecution of individual
Party and Left wing union mem
bers.
Chiappe, the chief of the Paris
police, notorious for his ferocious
treatment of workers during the
Sacco and Vanzetti demonstrations
is active in the present government
campaign.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-17
OPEN TYRANNY
IN JUC0SLAvIA
Suppress Croat Paper;
Generals Fired

VIENNA, Austria, April 10
Reports from Belgrade state that
the Croatian newspaper, Dom, found
ed by Stefan Radich, has finally
been suppressed by the Jugoslav die
tatorship. Practically every issue of
the paper since the dictatorship was
proclaimed has been confiscated.
The retirement order for SO gen
erals on the general staff originally
represented as an economy move,
is now seen to be a move on the part
of the Zivkovich group to clear
away their political opponents. All
the retired generals owed their ap-
pointments to the Radical party.
The retirement of the generals
and the suppression of the Dom and
daily confiscation of other papers is
interpreted to mean that the dicta-
torship now feels itself sufficiently
strong to begin rule of open OPP
preston in place of the less OBJ
trusive methods it has been using
to consolidate its power.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-17
Dictatorship Denies
Portuguese ROyalist
Plots Will Succeed

LISBON, Portugal, April 16.-An
official denial of the report that the
royalists are organizing conspiracy
to reestablish the monarchy in Por-
tugal was issued by the government
here today.
"The government is watchful of
the republican regime" the govern
ment boasts in it's statement, adding
that sit will defend it with the GER
tainty that the dictatorship will
govern Portugal with the prosperity
which all republicans desire"
Despite the official statement, it
is commonly known that monarchist
plots are rife in the country, the re-
cent seizure of shell factory and
the arrest of a number of army Off
GERS being the latest evidence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-17
PAN Pacific SecyetaWat
Protests Indian Massacre

Declaring that every strike in
India in the past year has been met
by massacres caused by wanton fir
ing of police upon workingclass
meetings and demonstrations the
Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat
Genounces the Anglo-Indian govern
ment, calls upon the Indian workers
to affiliate with Secretariat and es-
pecially urges the working class of
Great britain to aid the struggles
Of the Indian workers and peasants.
The protest recalls the recent out
RACES in Bombay where police at
tackled crowds of unarmed workers
marching in the street, killing six
and wornding so seriously. British
newspaper reports stated with frank
brutality at the time that the work
ers were moving along peacefully"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-17
CAIN IN FIGHT
FOR MASTERY OF
INTERIOR REGION
Kiangsi and Fukien
Districts Also Theirs

SHANGHAI, China, April 10
Reports from the interior state that
worker and peasant forces are in
control in many parts of the prov
ince of Kweichow. The worker
peasant armies are said to be es-
pecially strong in the southwest.
The control of Kweichow province
by worl1er-peasant troops makes it
the third province to be held by
them. Large sections CT Kiangsi
and Fukien provinces, where there
is a victorious worker-peasant army
in the field, are also under their
control.
The reactionary armies have never
been able to destroy the Soviet set
up in sections of Kwantung province
and defended by worker-peasant
armies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-17
NO PLOT TO KILL
INDIAN vICER0Y
British Start Wild Red
Conspiracy Rumors

BOMBAY, India, April 16.-At-
tempts by the Anglo-Indian govern
ment to create a Red scare atmos-
phere continued today with rumors
that Lord Irwin, the viceroy, and
his wife, had been the objects of a
plot against their lives.
The Exchange Telegraph Company
is circulating a report that on
Saturday, the train bearing the
viceroy from Delhi to Dehra Dun
was halted by a blazing bridge a
short distance from Saharanapur
and that eighteen sleepers were
burned. 1t is stated that telegraph
wires in the vicinity had been cut.
Reuter- is much more conservative
and admits that the bridge caught
fire, apparently by accident, and
that one sleeper on the bridge at
the time was burned. The only point
on which the dispatches agree is
that the viceroy's train was delayed
an hour.
The British government set the
widest rumors in circulation in or
der to justify the mass arrests and
the trial of the left wing union and
Workers and Peasants Party leaders
which is to take place at Meerut to-
wards the end of this month.
Talk of Communist plots is broad
cast thru government agencies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-17
LEFT WING WINS
IN GERMAN VOTE
Returns from Dresden,
Mines, Prove Success

DRESDEN, Germany, (By MaiD
As result of the recent elections
on the Dresden street railway lines,
the trade union Opposition Cleft
wing) has won an Overwhelming
victory. The following figures tell
the story: Opposition-1,880; So
cial democrats-914; Christian So
cialists-423.
The Opposition have ten shop
council seats, the reformists four
and the christian socialists two.
These figures gain special signif-
icance in view of the unusually high
halloting. Out CT 1926 voters, 3,237
participated in the balloting.
The reformists have been COM
pletely routed by this catastrophe
defeat. The social democratic City
Nominating Fraction and the NUM-
cipal and National Union mailed the
street railway workers a leaflet, but
it did not work. The street railway
workers decided for the Opposition
by an overwhelming majority at
the polls.
Other Industries.
The Opposition won the greatest
number of votes (686) in the big
Anton Reiche works. In the Krause
and Baumann paper factory the OPP
position received 481 votes, the
majority and controls the shop coun-
Gil In the other big East Saxon
factories, such as the Greiling and
Jssmatsi Cigarette Factory, tn e
Siemens-F reithal glass factory, the
Opposition won the majority in the
shop councils.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-17
International Publishers.
Copyright, 1929

| "Hats off! Pm going to talk
about the martyrs of the Commune!"
Such mighty, juicy yell! Grishka
fastened on the words, and began to
yell them in the crowd:
"Hats off! I'm going to talk
about the martyrs of the Commune!"
He shouted these words into the ears
of peasant woman, and she gave
him resounding slap.
'The pup!-hollerin with o. t
sense! He don't know what the
Commune is, but he hollers just the
same!"
CRIsHKA rubbed the spot where he
" had caught it, and FASTENED
merrily on. Wha' dye mean, he don't
know? He knows, all right. Com
mune is what the Communists have,
and Paris. Well, there is city
like that. Somewhere the other side
of Moscow. He had heard about it
at the Children's Home: paris is
a great, big town; when you get
there your head goes round" Yes,
sir, Grishka knows. And again he
yelled in boisterous frenzy:
1--WE have been naught-we shall
be ALPS
People stopped again. On
platform a peasant woman, or
lady, was holding forth in shrill,
piping voice. One could not make,
out what she was saying, but it was
funny to watch her. She's wearing
herself out. Grishka mimicked her
in falsetto tones: "Te-tee- -teew
and went on. Suddenly a drunkard
popped out of the crowd.
He wore clean coat and hat with
two long ear-flaps tilted sidewise;
red ribbon was stuck to his chest.
He was lean, toothless, and cross
eyed. He waves his arms and
shouts:
Comrades, I beg you to over
throw capitalism"
His missus pulls him back by the
coat, but he struggles toward the
speakers box:
81 beg you persistently to over
throw capitalism"
Two mounted soldiers rushed to-
ward him and grabbed him under
the arms. The crowd roared
There, he's overthrow capt.
talism!"
where did he lay in all that
booze?" hoarse, bass voice ques-
toned enviously.
A new joy for Grishka. He flew
to the cemetery with the ringing
cry:
(To Be Continued) "a.
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Polka, a fool, whimpered: "I'm
scaredw
Grishka demonstrated with her:
"Stop bawling, you fool? Vaska
made it all up"
But Vaska asseverates:
Gods truth, bust me eyes if ii
amt; it wuz printed in a paper. A
Ugh chool or calidge gal, 1 dunno
which"
Petka is the chief; he is only a
boy himself, no older than Grishka,
He shouted:
keep on bawling, you COW. The
sexton will hear you and he'll show
you something worse than Vaska S
but he is strict. He is the chief here.
yarn. And you, jabber-jaw, shut
your trapw
Vaska grew angry.
There! Shut your trapn Did /
go and print it in the papers? I'll
paste you one in the eye, then yer
gonna believe me-"
And at that moment, in the forest,
"Bang-bang" The forest began at
the very wall of the cemetery.
A hush fell upon the children.
Shooting" whispered Aniutka.
She spoke low, but there was no
fear in her voice. 1t was not the
first time they heard shots.
Grishka, with knowing air, knit
ted his brows in the darkness.
"Them are the guys what's gonna
be shot. The counter rev'lutionists."
"And what for?" piped Polka.
Petka replied:
what fool! How many times
ave / told you: it's them who is
agin the Soviet rule"
Taciturn Antropka fidgeted:
"Im scared when they shoot peo-
pie. 1t hurts"
AND in the forest again: "Bang,
a bang!" They were silent, listen
ing intently. They were afraid of
the dead, but they had no compre-
hension of death. And they were
not terrified by the agony of those
who were being shot. Only Antrop-
ka trembled. He had seen war in
his native hamlet. His heart shrank
into a tight lump. And swallowing
his tears, he said in a low, wistful
voice:
"They should have put 'em in
prison"
Petka spat contemptuously.
"And how bout a guy who's a
rotten bum, who's killed a lot of
people himself? What bout him 2"
putin in prison"
Hell run away and murder
again."
well put soldiers to watch EN-,
then he won't run away. :"