The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-12-18

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condition of the Country" You see
Congressman and Senators are not
supposed to know anything about
the Country" and they generally
don't, so the President issues his
message. He starts out, "Substan-
tial progress has been made dur
ing the year in national peace and
security. Education and scientific
discovery have made advances. Our
Country is more alive to it's prob
lens Of spiritual and moral well
fare" Now there is mighty good
opening paragraph, especially when
you would think it would be kinder
hard to see where we had got
ahead much in the last year. But
he found SOME mighty worthy
things about us. I like that line
Substantial Progress has been
made"
Substantial" When a fellow is
going to hire you and he amt go
ing to give you much he always
says, II will give you substantial
stipend" It's kind of way of
making it look like you are getting
something and yet, you figure it
out and you are not. But it was a
mighty good word to use under the
circumstances. It come in kinder
like the old White House word
Choose" there was just no telling
exactly what it meant. So this
Substantial" covers up quite a
good deal Of ground.
He says we have made some
Substantially progress in Peace
and security. Well if you got the
Peace you have naturally got the
security. He means that we got
more peace than we did have, we
will say a year ago. We wasn't
fighting anybody a year ago, and
we are not fighting anybod now
but ourselves we are all laying it on
each other. But its a kind of a
Substantial" blame. OF course we
are nearer war than we were a
year ago, for each day you live
you are nearer it, for its in the
future and you draw nearer it every
day.
Now that brings us to Security.
Now we haven't done much along
the security line, outside the dis
armament Conference in London,
which wasn't hardly able to be
called Substantial" But Mr.. Hoo
yer has done all in his power to
try and further peace and at the
same time leave us musket load
ed in the corner at the same time.
Well that's as it should be. It's all
right to go to these Conferences.
But it's always we'll to come home
and reload your gun after each
one is over.
He says that education has made
some strides. Well that's pretty
hard to say. I wouldn't call it
Substantial stride. It's awful
hard to tell what education is. Lots
Of things since last year. Now
whether they was the things they
ought to know will take a lifetime
to find out. So guess education
has advanced. But I expect knowl-
edge has gone back during the past
year, at least we act like it.
He says that during the last -
months we have suffered with 9TH
err nations from economic depres-
sion." Yes and we have suffered a
lot alone too. In fact would go
even further than the President
and say that we had suffered "Sub-
stantially," or even "gross substan-
tally You see that's how lot of
people try to make us feel good is
to tell us how bad somebody else
is off. I don't know what kind of
a streak or complex it is in any
body that gives 'em a kind of de-
light to know that somebody else
has lost a leg along with you, and
If they happen by chance to have
lost two and you only one, why
then their day is just complete.
They show that there is just as
much of everything as there ever