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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-02-13
Thursday, February, Is, 1880
Chess Without a Peer
in Line Of Amusement

Chess Is the king of games. Its
subtlety and scientific beauty Is
without a peer In the line OF
amusements. For centuries the
sport has constituted one of the
principal diversions of kings,
statesmen. painters. poets and cap
tains of industry and commerce. It
has been universal in its scope and
without restrictions among peoples,
creeds or countries.
This intellectual pastime fire.
quently has been suggested as a
cure for few of the world Ills.
Students of the game are OF the
opinion that 1t develops thinkers,
brings to light genius and encOur-
ages mathematical calculations.
The dull brain is stimulated into
flaming activity; young minds are
schOOled to think clearly and con-
cisely, while the old brain Is re-
juvenated. 1t is mental solvent
that contains those ingredients that
make the eye sharp. the spirit calm
and the disposition unruffied. In
brief, chess is a mysterious science
dealing with profound problems.
Like golf, the game takes pos
session of the mental faculties and
diverts them from their ordinary
grooves. The absorption and alb
straction afforded constitute pam
acea for the cerebral organ wearied
by business or frazzled by cares,
the latter being neutralized by the
foresight Observation-Disclosures City
/ Times.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-02-13
Nova Scotia Island
Dreaded by Mariners

Every year, Sable island, on the
coast of Nova Scotia, has had it's
tale of disasters During the war
between the French and the Eng
lish, troop ships we're known to be
dashed to pieces in the terrific
breakers. In 1746 the Due dan
vile lost a transport and fire.
ship in a severe storm near the
island, and in 1851, one of the YES
sells that had been with Wolfe at
Quebec was wrecked. A curious
tale is told about the latter.
There was an old landmark on
the island in the form of a pyra-
mid of sand a hundred feet high.
In 1912, during a fearful hurricane.
this was completely blown away.
and where it had stood were some
small huts built from the timbers
of wrecked ships. The huts con-
tanned articles of furniture, bales
of blankets, some military shoes.
and boxes of other goods. A brass
dog collar that was unearthed bore
the name of Major Elliott. Forty
third regiment. This was the reg
iment wrecked in 1861. and exam
ination of the records showed that
the soldiers who had been saved
from Wolfe's transport had been
taken off the island. The site of
their old encampment is now I'm
der water.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-02-13
KISSING is AWFUL.

Every so often some learned doctor
whose best friends, we suspect, won't tell
him what the trouble is--has his fling at
taking the joy out of life by issuing solemn
warnings against the perils of kissing.
Now comes one DR.. O'Leary, of Mime
sofa, who declares as many have done before
him, that kissing is likely to spread a wide
variety of disease germs, ranging from tu-
berculosis to housemaids' knee. Says he:
even the healthiest are liable to disase
from germ infection through careless oscula-
ton"
But, like others of the killjoy tribe, the
good doctor doesn't know just what can be
done about it. In spite of all warnings the
ancient art of kissing still fourishes. 1t is
even suspected that in certain quarters it is
on the increase.
Yet few will deny that kissing has
dangers. One of which in certain cases, is
that of getting caught.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-02-13
Lessening Aversion to
Formal Music Lessons

Children'S aversion to music les
sons, entailing long hours of prac-
tice for many months, can be over
come by making them familiar at
an early age with musical toys, &C.
cOrding to Frank II. Richardson,
NJ. D., in WOman's Home Com
panion.
Many families have found the
approach to real appreciation
and love of music is made easier
by having the simpler musical in
struments around where they can
be picked up and played casually
even before formal lessons have
begun" says Doctor Richardson.
"Such simple things as the fife,
flageolet and piccolo; the banjo,
mandolin or even the humble
ukulele; the xylOphone or bells
will often tempt not only the child
but also the guest in the home.
Improved ensembles prove de-
lightful ways Of teaching children
gOOd-fellowship and freeing them
from the embarrassment so over
towering in children whose only
contact with strangers has been
formal.
"Many a child who would have
been repealed at first by the tech
nical difficulties of the violin or
piano, has come happily to these
more difficult musical instruments
by way of their humber and more
easily mastered brothers in the
musical family"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-02-13
Desolation in Wake of
Gigantic Gold Dredges

Automobile tourists through the
northern part of California are
liable to have their attention at.
tracted to mountains of cobble.
stones frequently seen. Sometimes
these piles are. 80 or 60 feet high
and several hundred feet long.
They are never beautiful and they
add nothing to the landscape. In
; fact, they are eyesores, but there
is little prospect of their removal.
These piles are the accumulation
of the gold dredges, gigantic con-
structiOns which eat their way
/ through the land and leave a trail
Of desOlation. Farm lands and Or
chards are bought up by the op-
orators and left in ruin, for the
land is useless for any purpose
whatever after the passage of the
dredger. These machines cost
about a quarter of a million dol
lars, but the cost of operation is
very small. A large quantity of
the earth must be treated to recov-
er a small quantity of the yellow
metal, but at that the business is
very profitable. The stones taken
from the soil are useful only to
grind up for cement, but the piles
standing today will offer crushed
stone sufficient for the demands Of
the entire country for many years.
Washington Star.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-02-13
CRIME AND HOME DISCIPLINE
Minneapolis Journal

Figures on crime presented by the Min
neapolis police record bureau and the pro-
baton officer of the Juvenile Court, go long
way toward eliminating the World War as
direct cause of criminality.
Juvenile Court figures deal with boys
and girls under eighteen years of age. In
1929 maj or crimes were charged against one
third of the youngsters accused in that
Court. Major crime figures for all ages from
eighteen upward show that persons under
twenty five years of age committed fifty-siX
per cent of all the burglaries, forty-four per
cent of the grand larceny, sixty-nine per
cent of the use of automobiles without the
owners permission, forty-three per cent of
the forgeries, and sixty-two per cent of the
robberies
The oldest of these offenders in the
group between eighteen and twenty-five was
only thirteen when the war closed. And the
oldest of the delinqunt children under eigh-
teen was only six years of age at that time.
Only by great stretch of the magma
ton can the World War be viewed as even an
indirectly contributing cause of present Grim
inality among the young. The discipline
that Judge Paul w. Guilford of Juvenile
Court says is lacking in parents may have be-
gun to slip-if it ever existed because of
wartime stress.
The children and youths themselves, un-
der twenty-five years of age, are delinquent
and criminals partly because their parents
failed to inculcate in their offspring proper
respect for authority and hence for law-and
partly on their own initiative, as environ
ment aside from the home contributed to de-
linquency. But the World War cannot be di-
rectly blamed for their delinquency.
However the blame is traced, the figures
strengthen Judge Guilford's conviction that
the present generation of parents needs to
establish effective discipline in the homes. If
we accept the Judges indictment, parents
are the real criminals to be arraigned at the
bar Of justice.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-02-13
Puzzle Presented to
English Legal Minds

A barrister contributes to the
Times, in letter, an ingenious and
apparently insoluble puzzle, which
may be summarized thus: A says
to B, l will teach you to be a bar
rister; half fee now, and the other
half if you win your first case. B
was taught, and called to the bar,
but failed to do anything at all for
two years. A then said to him.
self: If I sue him for the Install
ment of my fee. and win the case,
he will have to pay me; If I lose,
then he has won his first case, and
will therefore have to pay me.
That seems unanswerable until we
get BIS. view: If A wins, then I
have lost my first case and need
not pay him; and if he loses, then
by the judgment Of the court I need
not pay him. So that is that; and
there Is no evident solution
Weekly Scotsman.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-02-13
Donkey's Wonderful Foot

The foot of an ass is one Of the
most ingenious and unexampled
pieces of mechanism in animal
structure. The hoof contains a Sc
ries of vertical and thin laminae
of horn. amounting to about five
hundred, and forming complete
lining to it. In this are fitted as
many laminae belonging to the cof-
fin-bone, while both sets are elastic
and adherent. The edge of a quire
of paper inserted leaf by leaf into
another will convey a sufficient idea
of the arrangement. Thus the
weight of the animal is supported
by as many elastic springs as there
are laminae in all the feet, amount
ing to about 1000. distributed in
the most secure manner, since every
spring is acted upon in an Oblique
direction.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-02-13
A THANKLESS JOB

When Alexander Legge left the presi-
dency of big implement concern to head the
Federal Farm Board he took thankless job,
in the opinion of Ed Howe, Kansas editor and
philosopher. MIR. Legges former salary was
100000 year; the government pays him
$4,000. Says Howe:
"To transfer the president of such a
company to Washington and make a politi-
clan of him is largely to reduce his useful
ness, since he can not exercise his usual in
telligence in politics as he did in manufacture
ing farm machinery. Immediately on his ar
rival in Washington, members of a Congress
sional committee, some of them cheap and
unreliable men, attack him and almost made
out that Mr.. Legge was pickpocket.' 49,
This is one of the reasons why really
high class men hesitate to go in for public
office, particularly under the Federal gov
eminent. They are continually subjected to
criticism, assessment and humiliation at the
hands of small-bore Senators and other Of
fetal superiors, to which no man of ability
and spirit cares to submit.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-02-13
TAFT AND HUGHES

This month saw the end of the long and
useful public career of William Howard TAFT,
the only man who has ever occupied IN turn
the offices of President and Chief Justice OF
the United States. Ill health caused him to
resign from the latter office at the age OF
II, after nearly half a century of almost
continuous public service.
Among the positions held by him during
this long period were those of soicitor-gener-
al of the United States, federal circuit judge,
president of the Philippine commission, first
civil governor of the Philippines, secretary of
war, acting provisional governor OF Cuba,
President of the United States and finally
chief justice.
Charles Evans Hughes, who has been
appointed chief justice, is likewise one of the
most distinguished of living Americans, and
is now 81 years of age. He first became ma
tonally prominent as counsel for the Arm
strong insurance investigating commission
of the New York legislature in 1905.
He served two terms as governor OF
New York; was an associate justice of the
United States supreme court, resigning to
accept the Republican nomination for Pres
ident in 1912, when he was defeated by
Woodrow Wilson, He was secretary of state
under Harding and Coolidge for four years,
and chairman of the international conference
on limitation of ornaments held in Washing
ton in 1921 He has served as justice of
the permanent court of international justice
and has taken part in numerous information
al conferences in the interest of peace.
Both outgoing and incoming chief just
ices have the confidence and esteem of their
fellow countrymen in the very highest de-
gree, and both have been among the out
standing figures of their time in world af-
fairs. saz
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-02-13

in jail Judge Perry found him guilty of modest
ing woman. Stewart offers old
Adam: "The led on" In Jail Stewart
refuses to eat. It would have been fortunate for
Adam, and for but bad for the clothing business,
had Adam likewise refused to eat.
Charles Evans Hughes returns to the Supreme
court chief justice at President Hoovers request
In him the people have brilliantly able worthy
to take Mr. Taft's place.
And from Mr. Hughes acceptance of the posi-
ton you learn that honor and opportunity to be
full are more important than financial profit
Mr.. dughes gives up private law practice
worth than 100000 year for the small salary
and great opportunity of the Supreme bench.
Chcago's Retail Advertising institute is told that
American women spend every year ffty-three billion
dollars
million is great DEAL thousand millions
is very great deal FIfty-three thousand millions
spent by the in this country is an extraordi-
nary amount of money.
The rich, in this happy land, very happy for
some, richer than they were. The Treas
ury department tells you there were 1876 Americans
in 1928 with annual incomes above $10OO0O0 The
total on which the paid income tax was one thous-
and and seventy-three millions.
And you know, this represents only fraction
of the really big incomes. There are men with in
comes above hundred millions each. Their money
is in great corporations The latter renvest their
earnings and hand stock dividends instead of cash
to the big controlling stockholders. On such divi-
dends, in accordance with Supreme court decision
the really rich men pay no income TAX
One man, with much more than hundred mil
lions income paid shown in reports once publish
ed, only six millions income tax. Without the stock
dividend device he would have paid forty millions
at least At lot of salary earners and professional
men made up the difference.
Of the supermililonaires, twentyfour have more
than five millions year each. With all that money
you would expect to hear of some remarkable and
interesting things done, but money and imagination
do not often go together Imagination prevents
emulation.
For brains and ingenuity there always open
ings and success What is wanted is something that
will give decent wing to any man woman will
ing to do horest work. Even the average man has
a right to i've should have.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-02-13
Good Idea

Harringby was trying hard to
listen to the speakers eloquence
at political meeting, but the
squalling of an infant directly in
front of him gave him little chance.
At length he leaned forward,
touched the mother on the Shout
der, and asked: "Has your baby
been christened YETI" "No, sir.
Why do you ask?" Merely be-
cause I was about to suggest that
if he had not been christened you
might name him Good Idea I"
"And why Good Idea'?" asked the
woman. Because" replied Har-
ringby, ''it should be carried out !"
Vancouver Province.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-02-13
THE COST OF WAR-AND ROADS
DEBORAH, Iowa, Journal

Last year there was collected in Iowa
$22,00O,O0O in auto licenses and gasoline
tax. That is huge sum- but it wouldn't
pay for one modern battleship.
In the past 10 years, when all of Iowa's
road system has been in the process of re-
building, there was spent on the primary
roads of Iowa $147,OO0,00. That is vast
sum to spend in 10 years on Iowa's principal
roads But it is only little more than one
third as much as the United States spent on
it's war department last year.
We sometimes think our roads cost us
lots of money. They do. But their cost is
a mere printing compared with the colossal
OUTLAWS on our army and our navy and on
the payments for wars that have passed. Let
us not be deceived: The money spent by the
national government on the army and on the
navy comes out OF" us Iowans just as our
state expenses, county expenses, township,
and city expenses comes out Of u.s." The
national government spends more than 800
millions dollars year now on our army and
navy. About 80 cents out of every dollar
taken in by the national government is spent
to pay for past wars or to make prepared
ness" for wars that may be stirred up in the
future
Roads don't cost us the big money.
Schools don't cost us the big money. 1t is
war, past public expense. If we can do away
item in public expense If we can do away
with the prospect of war, we'll have plenty
of money for grading, crawling and paving
roads, and for equipping and maintaining
our schools and colleges
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-02-13
MARTHA WASHINGTON

The annual recurrence of Washington's
birthday on Feb. 20 is always an inspiration
for many editorials and articles on the "fath-
er of his country" Occasionally some men
ton is made of Martha Washington, his de-
voted wife, but her personality is not as well
known as it deserves to be.
Mrs. Washington was the daughter of
Col. cambridge, planter of New Kent coun-
ty, Virginia, and was the widow of Daniel
Parke Custis at the time Of her marriage to
Washington on Jan. 6, 1859, being the moth
er of four children by her first husband.
Two of her children died in infancy, the
others being Martha Parke GUSTS and Col
John Parke Gusts, whose granddaughter be-
cam the wife of Gen. Robert E. Lee, famed
Confederate leader.
Mrs. Washington was short and plump,
with hazel eyes and dark hair, her stature
being in marked contrast with that of Gen.
Washington, who was six feet two inches in
height.
She inherited considerable wealth from
her first husband and this added to Gen.
Washington's fortune made them one of the
wealthiest couples in America at that time,
their estates being valued at more than
$5,OO0O00.
George and Mortha Washington had no
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-02-13
On the Menu

The portly gentleman who had
been engaged to sing in the musical
program following dinner at a
large restaurant was looking very
enraged. He was scanning the
list Of musical items, and, to his
CONSERVATION, his name had been
omitted!
Approaching one of the organic:
ers he brandished the program furi-
iously, and demanded the reason
of the omission. The young fellow
whom he approached glanced down
at the card, then laughed nervous
ly. Aren't you Signor Jelly, the
singer" he asked.
EYES," was the reply.
"Well-er-your name being 'Jel-
w." said the young chap, ut ap-
pears to have been put on the
menu by mistake. Montreal Star.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-02-13
Pacific Mystery

Easter island is called the "Un-
solved Mystery of the Pacific" be-
cause Of the scattered presence of
hundreds of immense heads carved
out Of stone which are to be seen,
some standing erect, while others
are down upon the ground. Their
meaning Is only conjectural and
no one has ever offered any ex-
PLANTATION which Is generally ac-
cepted. Apparently Easter island
was chosen as the graveyard for
the chiefs Of a large island archi-
pelago which suddenly disappeared.
The thousands of slaves who were
kept at work carving out these i'm
ages were left without food and fell
upon each other until only few
remained. The story of all these
events was never recorded and can
be read only by inference.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-02-13
THE WORLD TODAY
To Terrify Terrorists
AnOthei Attemps to Kill.
FOt Gold Sta Mothers.
Women Spend So Billions.
by ARTHUR BRISBANE

Los Angeles, Calii.-The shooting OF the Mexi-
can president, his wife and another, killed.
fortunately, will drastic action in Mexico Nc
nation will tolerate in civilized times cam
Back OF the young hand that fired the shots there
stands in the shadow some murderous organization
relying terror and using servle tools for its pur
pose.
Ortiz Rubio and the powerful Portes Gil, form
er president, RuboS secretary of the interior
will find way to terrify the terrorists.
Before the wouldbe murderer shot him. Ortiz
tublo. in his brief Inauguration address had prom
ised that all classes of Mexicans should enjoy
privilege of being classed men," Those familiar
with conditions under which Mexicos lower classes
have lived, and with the attitude toward them of
the upper classes, will know what that means to
the Mexican under dog.
Congress votes more than $5OOOOOO that "gold
star mothers may visit their sons graves in France
900 mothers entitled to CO. 5000 have expressed
desire to- CO. Many cannot CO. because of duties at
nome. Otners perhaps, dread the sorrowful shock.
To those that do not go, congress should pay in
cash the pro amount that it would cost to send
them, about 81 OO0 No other coures would be fair.
Texas has an "antchan store association" to
drive and keep out chaian stores outside the
state. The governor and other high officials are
said to indorse the association which seeks pro-
drive and keep out chain stores owned outside the
wall by chain store efficiency and economy.
Another attempted murder among our Latin
American friends. An attempt, fortunately fail
ure, is made the life of Melo Wanna, vice pres
ident of Brazil AS in the recent Mexican outrage,
the man attacked making political address
and the woud-be murderer moved by political
hatreds. Only harsh severity meet such an as
sassination epidemic. &c.,.
Richard Stewart rug merchant of Warren, Ohio,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-02-13
Canadian Bituminous Sand.

In what is known as the McMur-
ray country, in Canada, 300 miles
north of Edmonton, are to be found
extensive deposits of bituminous
sand. The future commercial sig
nificance of these deposits is as yet
not generally realized. it adds, al
though it is possible that even
tually they may prove to be of real
national Importance.
1t is thought the bituminous sand
in Canada is in many respects sim.
ilar to the oil shale in the United
States and that the development of
bituminous sand should be consid-
cred quite as seriously as that OF
the oil shales. Yield per ton from
the latter will. in some instances,
be higher than from bituminOus
sand, but, from the point of view
of mining costs and certain other
factors, the development Of bitumi-
nous sands will probably have adj
vantages over oil shales.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-02-13
French Superstitions

To considerable extent, the
French peasants still attach ere
dence to the evil eye, to witches,
to were-wolves and to other weird
medieval superstitions, in spite of
years of persistent effort to eradi-
cate these primitive beliefs. In
many remote villages Of Normandy
and. Brittany belief in heather
deities also survives. Sacred trees
are the object of midnight worship,
when young girls gather to dance
in the moonlight, as in the days Of
Druidical heathenism. Healers and
medicine men abound In the rural
districts and certain animals still
are treated with reverential awe.
Cases involving superstition are
constantly coming to the attention
Of the French courts.