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The Sauk Centre herald., 1930-11-27
CAN CONGRESS FINISH?

Already much talk is heard of the prob.
ability of an extra session of Congress soon
after the short session which will end next
March. Many believe that it will be impos-
sible to finish necessary legislation this
winter.
Much will depend, of course, upon the at
titude of certain groups which have pet
measures to advance, or others to oppose. 1t
appears quite evident that President Hoover
will call an extra session with extreme reluc-
tance, if at all, but if obstructionist tactics
pursued by those Senators of both parties
who seem to delight in throwing monkey
wrenches into the legislative machine, he
may be forced to it.
It is foregone conclusion that the pres
ent economic situation will be the subject Of
much debate, and that all sorts of remedies
will be proposed in bills to be offered.
The farm relief question is by no means
settled, in spite of the present law, passed
after several years of wind-jamming on the
floors of both houses. The Farm Board will
be subjected to much criticism, and many
proposals will be made for modifying the ex-
isting set-up.
Senator Wagner's long pending unem-
plOyIneUC DlllS VIII nave q new airing. Ap-
preparations for prohibition enforcement will
inevitably bring on lot of talk. New bills
will be thrown into the Legislative hopper as
a result of almost innumerable recent investi-
cations by committees of both houses. That
hardly perennial Muscle Shoals, will be the
subject of another spirited and probably fu-
tile tussle. 1t would take column to enum-
crate all pending questions, each of which
somebody or other thinks the most vital is
sue of the day.
Amid all this weter of controversy it is
to be remembered that the annual supply
bills, providing appropriations for all depart
ments of the government must be passed. It
has been broadly limited that some of these
will be deliberately obstructed in order to
compel the calling of a special session. OPP
ponents of the administration deny this, but
denials or statements of politicians, whether
on one side or the other, may be taken with
several grains of salt.
So, everything considered, the question
of whether Congress can finish the impera-
tive tasks before it by March is very
lively one.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1930-11-27
zen and is vital element in the life of every COM
READERS MIGHT BE INVITED TO GET
OUT PAPER
(Redwood Falls, Mimi, Gazette)

Redwood Falls, Mimi. Gazette)
Getting out good newspaper is fascinating
task but it is also difficult one" mo other job
that to mind is quite taxing, hurried,
demands greater pains. From the moment a news
paper is started, be it either daily weekly, the
work is carried under pressure race against
time. Put yourself in editors postion-could you
do it?
"Could you for example, spell correctly, offhand,
the of large percentage of the residents of
this town? If you could do that. could you write
their initials correctly without resorng to the ele
phone directory other authority?
"Coud you write down, offhand, the names of
YOUR city ocials your local school board your
ty officials your leading state and national officials
getting all the names, initials and offices correct
"Could you gather the threads of story from
half dozen and weave them into an lntelll-
gent, readable account the first writing?
Gould you write seven columns Of material of
1900 1400 words each in two or three days, week
after week, year after year, and when you had fin
ished those seven, pound out two or three columns
more before prsse time?
I'm writing a headline, could you call to mind in
a moment enough synonyms so that you would not
repeat the main thought in the same words?
"Could you judge in a minimum of time what
size headlines, and what position in the paper could
be given to each Of the 75 100 or more stories that
might go into your paper?
Gould you decide in moment, or exercise snap
Judgment on the dozens of questions a newspaper
man must face daily and get a majority OF then:
correct?
1--WE won't tire you-but If you could do these
few simple things and thousand and one more diff
fcult ones, you should be a newspaper editor.
1.-THE point wish to make is that one can pro-
duce q good newspaper only after continual diligent
study and years Of practical experience You have
heard dozens of persons remark that they could
turn out a newspaper, and good one too, bit bet
ter in fact than the they are getting. That is
not true, unless they have gone through the years
and study that good newspaper demands OF its
makers
'Were it not for the peculiar fascination asso-
cated with newspaper work, there would be no news
papers, for there is greater tasmaster and money
alone would be far to scant compensation"
The Sauk Centre herald., 1930-11-27

never cease. Whenever it was
necessary to replenish the supply
of fuel, one of the men would ven-
ture out, feeling his way along the
building to the woodpile in the
rear. If he had lost contact with
the wall, he might never have re-
turned. For food they had cove
oysters, crackers, canned peaches
and tea. They lived in this fash
ion until the afternoon of the third
day, when the storm abated, and
they could creep out of their re-
treat to discover what had happen
ed to them.
According to Pfefferle, who after
wards wrote the story of the storm,
the mountainous heaps of snow
make the tale of Munchausen ap-
pear like a childish exaggeration.
Trees 60 feet high were buried
from. sight, and the deep ravines
surrounding the fort were filled to
the level with snow packed so firm
ly that teams could be driven over
it in any direction. Anyone taking
a look at the huge gashes made in
the surface of the country near
Fort Ridgely by the Minnesota riv.
er, hundreds of feet deep and very
wide, can appreciate something Of
the magnitude of this snowfall.
But it really did happen, and
sometimes one wonders what has
happened to the weather in these
effete days. Nothing happens
worth talking about-not if you
consider the snowstorms of the
doughty baron and the historical
correct sueler's helper with the
unpronounceable name.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1930-11-27
TuRTY-SX THOUSAND LIVES
Brown County Journal

Brown County Journal
The United States is it's way toward estab-
fishing new high record for deaths due to the au-
toobile It is forecast that at the end of 1880 the
total casualties will be 360O0-several thousand more
than killed last year. when the present tragic
record was established.
Recklessness and carelessness still the mod
"rule of the road" Hundreds of thousands of in
competent are allowed full Of the public high
ways.
This last factor-that Of incompetent-s prob
ably largely responsible for gigantic record of
fatalities. Only a few states have laws requiring
strict examination of applicants for drivers license
Fortunately, there is trend toward such laws
throughout the nation and when every state has and
enforces them, at least partial success in accident
prevention win be achieved.
Another crying need, in most states is for mod
ernzation and revision Of traffic ordinances. Upto
date enforceable codes that would be supported the
public, are essential to highway safety.
There Is no more serious problem than that Of
automobile accident prevention It affects every cit
The Sauk Centre herald., 1930-11-27

boys in his neighborhood. Chaplin
had many imitators who annoyed
him, several being stopped by le-
gal injunctions. His fruity comedy
was literally squeezed out of boy
hood of Illustration. He was in an
English poorhouse for years and
when he got his first chance at a
job suffered an accident from
which his eyesight was believed
lost.
Short shavings: Bark and Howell
conduct kennels at Jacksonville,
Fla.-Claire Windsor is Ola Cronk
Eugene Howard, long his BROTH
er Willie's straight man, has be-
come comedian-Adele Astaire is
reputed pouting over her role in
the Marilyn Miller show-The trou-
BILE with the theatre is largely that
everybody wants to be star. The
hair of Harold Ross, New Workers.
editor, is no longer pompadour.
"Best Seller" by N. o. Youmans,
is the hilarious story Of a young
man who came to New York to
write a novel about young man
who came to New York to write
novel-Bobbs-Merrill is the pub
Usher.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1930-11-27
Water Fowl Supply Low

Reports from all directions con-
cerning the 1880 crop Of ducks are
most disquieting. Due to drought
conditions and to the constant en-
croachment upon breeding areas
only about half the usual number
of birds will wing their way to
their accustomed wintering gounds.
The construction of water areas
will induce the birds to concentrate
in unusually large numbers this
year. says Paul G. Redington, chief
of the U. S. Biological Survey, and
give sportsmen an erroneous i'm
preston that ducks are stin in
great abundance. Such fallacious
reasoning may lead to excessive
killing. I therefore make an urgent
appeal to the sportsmen of the
country to recognize the situation
now menacing the waterfowl and to
be governed accordingly in taking
ducks and geese during the present
season.
We concur in this timely appeal,
reads an editorial in OUTDOOR
AMERICAN, official publication of
the Izaak Walton League of Amer
lea. Don't take ducks and geese in
enormous numbers this year. And
remember that the maximum fed
eral daily bag is fifteen ducks and
four geese, which includes all birds
taken by guides and pushers who
for hire accompany shooters. The
possession limit is the legal bag for
two days, 80 and respectively. No
State law can legally permit more,
some of them are smaller. The
Biological Survey is anxious to have
all bands returned to check up on
them igrations Of the ducks.
Government officials are being
importuned to cut off about a
month at the end Of the season to
save ample seed stock. No doubt
some appropriate action will be
taken when the Advisory Board
meets in Washington early in De-
cember. The seasons are too long
ANYHOW. and certainly shorter
season is better than a closed sea-
son.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1930-11-27
THE PARADE OF PEDDLERS
Thief River Falls Times

Thief River Falls Times
The conversation never drags at meal time at our
house any more for when the ordinary run of fam
iy talk slows just switch to the subject of
peddlers Each day brings fresh variety to the
door and there is always something interesting in
each visit. Just by comparing the methods and man
ners of these visitors from day to day and talking
them over among ourselves we have received lib
eral education in the peddling racket and we never
worry any more about what would happen to us II
the bottom should fall out of the newspaper business
If the worst to worst We'll just out and sell
srnuggled Irish linen kitchen crockery that sweet
ems the breath, sharpens the teeth and makes the
hair grow. The youngsters could vote themselves
through college education with magazines
It's a caution how folks buy stuff from peddlers
People who wouldn't trust their neighbor with
spoonful of salt will take the word of stranger
that a two by twice rug is bargain at fifty bucks.
friend of ours paid several hundred dollars for
ponyskin coat for his wife couple of years ago.
He bought it from slicker who told him in whis-
per it was a genuine Russian sable that had been
sneaked across the line without duty For two years
straight crew has worked this town selling lace
that was made by hand in Ireland. One woman who
didn't buy quite enough was able TO match 1t up at
a local ribbon counter at fifteen cents yard
Sometimes we feel the laws ought to be a little
more strict about this kind of traffic. The public
ought to be protected But then again if the thous-
ands of people who feeced every year in this
way were protected they'd just throw their money
away fooshly in some other way so why protect
them. It's the people who fall for this kind OF
stuff time after time. And the peddlers have to live
too. AS long they have to be fed why not let the
fools feed then.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1930-11-27
Greeley Heads Game Unit On
Death of Avery

William B. Greeley, a member of
the board Of directors, has been
chosen as acting president of the
American Game Protective Associ-
alton until the annual election in
December. Mr.. Greeley will fill the
vacancy caused by the death of
Carlos Avery on October 5th last.
The work of the Association will
continue without interruption, Of
ficials said.
Mr.. Greeley is a leading lawyer
of the New York bar. He has been
interested in conservation of the out
doors in all it's various forms since
childhood. He is chairman Of the
conservation committee of the
Camp Fire Club of America, a ma
tional organization also dedicated
to conservation and restoration
work.
Those who may not have read of
the sudden death of Carlos Avery,
president of the American Game
Protective Association, as reported
by the national press associations,
will learn with sorrow of his pass
ing.
1t is of singular interest that the
last act of his life was feeding wild
birds near his home at Rockville
Center, Long Island, few minuets
before the fatal stroke of apoplexy.
Mr.. Avery and his wife, as was
their custom every Sunday, took
bags of food to the country and
fed wild birds. Mr.. Avery, whose
life had been devoted to conserva-
ton and restoration of wild life
seemed to possess charm for the
wild folk. They soon realized that
he was friend and showed no fear
of the gentle man, often approach
ing and eating of the grain scatter
ed near his feet. It was an indul-
gence of Mr.. Avery to talk to the
birds. The same kindly voice that
has been heard by millions over
the radio on numerous occasions,
won their friendship also.
Mr.. and Mrs. Avery returned 20
their home just before dinner and
it was while preparing for it that
death struck without warning. Mrs.
Avery heard him fall in an upstairs
room. When she reached him he
was dead. kilograms and messages
of coincidence by the thousands at
tested the high esteem and affec-
ton in which he was held through
out the United States and Canada
where his work was so well known.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1930-11-27

A firm in Germany has intro
duced eyeglasses that have electric
bulbs on the ends Of the frames for
persons who read at night.
A new passenger bus which seats
100 passengers and Is able to make
IS miles an hour has been placed In
service at Paris. France.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1930-11-27

OAASAAA
he acquired his
famous manner
isns-the shuf-
fling walk, quick
heel turns and
derby tip. The
old fellow held
horses in front
of a pub and
w a s especially
amusing when
i n his G u p s.
Chaplin used to
m iv,oin hinr fN~
The Sauk Centre herald., 1930-11-27

Plans for the French govern
ment to admit water from the Med
iterranean Sea to the Sahara De-
sert have been worked out by a
Boston irrigation engineer.
The government Of France has
placed a heavy tax on billboards,
hoping to eliminate them as they
are becoming q nuisance.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1930-11-27

tickled over the
sudden. return
to the typewrit-
er of that strap
ping, w h i t e.
haired author of
their youth =
Burt L. Sand
ish. Under this
pseudonym he
turned out the
five cent Frank
Merriwells.
In real life he
is Gil Patten,
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New York-Those thatching gray
about the temples and collecting
crows feet around the orbs are
The Sauk Centre herald., 1930-11-27

A miniature golf course, with a
par of 16 strokes, has been con-
structed on pool table in the boys
division Of the Boston Y. M. G. A.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1930-11-27

The total amount Of loot secured
by a bandit who pried open II safes
at Denver, was 81.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1930-11-27

from up Bangor way, two-fisted
ceeds that of any living writer. He
is a typical drawling-voiced down
fastener who inspired thousands
of boys to become collectors of his
Tip Top Library at the cross roads.
Years after FRANK Merriwell
was only a memory I used to play
pool with crowd which included
the late Clare Briggs, the late
William Johnston, Ewing Gallo
way, H. T. Webster, Ray Rohn and
Herb Roth. We gathered at an up
town hotel.
Into the game one Saturday af-
ternoon came a fellow they called
Gil" We were casually introduc-
ed and as he was about to make q
shot someone nudged me and whis-
pered: That's the bird who used
to write the Frank Marriwells."
don't recall receiving a bigger
thrill.
I cornered him and told of my
youthful admiration and he seemed
actually surprised anyone had re-
membered him. Frank Merriwell
was dropped because Author Pat
ten had carried him all through
Yale and to happy marriage. Too,
the movie pictures came along with
new sort of wallop.
But the pendulum swings back.
Patten believed there was a place
for a dime weekly fitting into the
pocket. The Swift Story Magazine
Co. was incorporated as result.
The newer hero, modernized, is
known as Bob Hunetr of The
Boss of the Rum Runners"
There is fascination for me in
prowling around Baxter street. 1t
was one of the streets from which
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. heroes of
the Horatio Alger books sprang,
sleeping in dry-goods boxes and
eventually marrying the bankers
daughter.
Speaking of street waits, fire.
quent visitor to the haunts around
Delaney Street, tho Broadway of
the East Side Ghetta. is Fannie
Brice, the comedienne. AS Fannie
Borach she was born there 3S years
ago. Her father was saloon keep
er and Fannie became literally
product of the pavements, singing
and dancing and beginning her
public appearance in stereopticon
parlors in the neighborhood.
The saxophone goes the way of
the bicycle to oblivion. While the
present crop of tooters are not cast
ing the instruments aside there are
few fedgings to take their places.
The accordian is gradually sup
planting the sax in collegiate pop
ularity.
The accordian has not suffered
the comic paper stigma accorded
the saxophone. Parents associated
it with wide pants, postage stamp
caps and gin gurgling. A big mu-
sical house reports selling four &C
cordions to one saxophone with col
lege boys leading in the purchases.
One wonders what happened to
A.. oJd Tondon horf1u from, whorn
The Sauk Centre herald., 1930-11-27

There is fascination for me in
prowling around Baxter street. 1t
was one of the streets from which
the up-from-the-sidewa heroes of
the Horatio Alger books sprang,
sleeping in dry-goods boxes and
eventually marrying the bankers
daughter.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1930-11-27

One wonders what happened to
the old London barfly from whom
The Sauk Centre herald., 1930-11-27

Learn if it give you satisfaction that con-
ditions in Wall Street Technically" much better
That won't give satisfaction little people that were
gambling gaily a year ago. When Wall Street gets
tecbnicallv' better it that small accounts
are wiped out little gamblers are dead and buried
financially and must save up for the next fooshness
The Sauk Centre herald., 1930-11-27

That is as true now it was half century aG'
and citizens will do well to remember 1t.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1930-11-27

Stocks are in strong hands" which means
those that put them out at high price have boz
them back at low price.
Call money lends at per cent. 30 day me
lends at 2 per cent.
Everything is charming technically :"
ought to be lesson for little men not TO samoie'
it will not be.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-19
Food Gives Fuel for Infants Engine

little more protein than this amount
to take care OF any possible loss.
The baby that is living on its
mothers milk receives by way of
the milk about one-thirtieth of in
ounce for each pound of its weight
The protein of cows milk is not
the same as that of the mothers
milk. 1t is necessary that an in
FAINT that is fed artificially receive
somewhat more protein than the
one that is being fed at the mothers
breast.
Such an infant should receive APP
proximately one-twentieth of an
ounce for each pound Of it's weight
a day.
If the infant will get a quantity
of cows milk that is equivalent to
one-hundredth Of its body weight
each day, it will receive an adequate
amount of protein.
If the infant is undernourished,
obviously it will have to receive even
more, so that it is customary to
calculate on the basis of what the
infant ought to weigh rather than
on what it actually weighs.
Thus, a child weighing ten pounds
would have to receive one pound of
cows milk g. day to supply 1t with an
adequate amount of protein.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-19
$4,000 Babies

If you learned that your government was about
to pass law to doom $4,000 babies, your shocked
conscences would cry out in horror. Yet by its FALL
ure to re-enact the SheppardTowner act last year.
congress in effect did just that.
What is the White House conference on child
health and protection which opens today, going to
do acout this issue?
BY the spending of only $1,252,OOO year for seven
wears the federal government, in cooperation with
the states, has worked nfe-savng miracle In that
time the infant mortality rate was cut from 20
deaths per 1000 live births to 65 and the maternity
death rate reduced from $50 to 64.7.
In the last year of its operation this law IS credeo
with the saving of $4,000 baby lives.
Bills were introduced last year to re-enact tlllS
federal aid to mothers" law, which terminated III
June. 1929 The effort was swamped by the din Oh
tariff war pork and patronage traffic the noisy
clamor of special interests The mothers and naoeS
crv was not heard in the White House or on
Capitol Hill.
The National League of Women Voters and LABOR
organizations will demand action from congress IN
December.
w-,at will the White House conference on child
health and protection do?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-19
France Is Clever

TRANCE has shown more fore
Il sight than any other European
country in her persistent accumula-
ton of gold.
Not only that, but she has shown
more foresight all along the line.
While other countries tried to
avoid debt through increased taxes,
France borrowed, and she borrowed
all she could from the outside.
While other countries tried to
meet their obligations. she squirmed
and delayed.
The result is That she has a huge
surplus of cash with which to meet
not only such emergencies as the
present depression may involve, but
to launch a nationwide program
of improvement.
One can not help admiring the
perspicuity with which France has
planned, contrived and schemed.
At the same time, one can not
help suspecting that we Americans
were taken for ride when we wrote
so per cent off what she owed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-19
Decay Increasing
.NHE decav of teeth is one of tf

TINE decay Of teeth is one Of the
Il most pressing problems facing
civilization today. Some authorities
even go so far as to say that its pre-
venLion and cure possesses an inn
portance second only to the preyen-
ton and cure Of cancer.
A grant Of $101, 100 has been made
to the school Of dental and oral
surgery Of Columbia university for
three-year investigation into the
subject, according to DR.. Alfred
Owre, dean of the school.
Dental deterioration is becoming
more widespread with each succeed
ing generation, DR.. Bodecker asserts,
and it is the rapid increase Of this
disease which is arousing health
workers in all parts of the world to
the necessity for more effective ac-
ton.
Decay Of the teeth is more prev
alent than the common cold" he
says. Most people do not consider
1t a disease, yet 1t is a disease and
one which not only interferes with
the maStication and therefore the
digestion of food, but which,
through local infection of teeth may
even cause a variety of severe gen.
eral illnesses.
For these reasons, health workers
estimate the consequences Of finding
means to prevent dental carries
second only in Importance to that
Of curing and preventing cancer"