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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-02-06
Falls of Niagara as
Pictured by Hennepin

Father Louis Hennepin saw Nj
agara when he went West to the
upper Mississippi with La Sales
expedition in 1879. He had a poor
eye for distances, for in successive
narratives he measured Niagara's
height as 500 and 600 feet, instead
of its maximum Of 1872, but he had
a fair for vivid word pictures:
"Betwixt the Lake Ontario and
Erie there is a vast and prodigious
cadence Of water which falls down
after surprising and astonishing
manner, informuch that the uni
verse does not afford its parallel.
'Tis true Italy and Switzerland
boast of some such things, but we
may well say they are but sorry
patterns when compared to this
of which we now speak. =. 1t
(the River Niagara) Is so rapid
above the descent that 1t violently
hurries down the wild beasts while
endeavoring to pass it to feed on
the other side, they not being able
to withstand the force of it's cur
rent, which inevitably casts them
down headlong above 600 foot. -"
New York Times.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-02-06
PAGE TEN
Indian Ruler Famous
for Astronomical STUDY

There lived In India, in the Sew
enteenth century, ruler known as
,Maharajah Jai Singh II, and being
keenly interested In astronomy he
evolved series Of structures which.
though not now used for practical
purposes, constitute the most
unique astronomical instruments in
existence. He appears to have COL
lected all kinds of astronomical
books and sent some workers to for
eign countries to gather informa-
ltion. Having determined the kind
of instruments required on which
ito make the necessary recording Of
the movements of the heavenly bod
les, he selected five places in India
ias the centers in which the OBJ
iservations should be taken. The
first he built at Delhi, and then
others in Jaipur, Ujain, Benares,
and Mathura. The observatories in
Delhi and Jaipur have been care
fully restored. In addition to
number of metal instruments he
erected large masonry instruments,
some of them as high as 90 feet.
Very careful records were made of
the observations of his staff of
workers, and modern astronomers
have expressed surprise at the val
liable information thus collected.
The ruler responsible for these in
struments died in 1743 and his
wives, concubines and science ex-
pired with him on his funeral pyre.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-02-06
From Bad to Worse

A rich old Chinese mandarin had
two wives. Said the first to him
one day: 81 wish you had not so
many gray hairs. People jeer at me
and call me an old mans darling"
ain that case, my DEAR" he said. 81
will pull them all out" And he did
so. Shortly afterwards his second
wife came to him complaining that
now he had only black hairs on his
head, she looked, by contrast, hor-
ribly old woman. Don't worry, my
dear. I will pull them out" he said
soothingly. But when he had pulled
out all the gray and all the black
hairs the mandarin was completely
bald. And neither Of his wives
would have anything more to do
with him.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-02-06
Chalk That Up

: Pat O'Hara and Mike Murphy
.twho strangely enough, were Irish
men) had taken jobs at a colliery.
Pat one morning broke his shovel
when he was down in the mine. He
was too lazy. however. to take it
to the surface with him, so he left
it for his friend, writing on it in
chalk:
''Take my shovel out, Mike. I've
forgotten it,"
But friend Michael knew Pat of
old, and refused to be caught by
such a trick. So he rubbed the
message off and substituted one of
his own:
"Take it out yourself. I've never
seen it."-London Answers.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-02-06
Lonp-Lived Poets

! Poets, on the whole, are a long
lived race, writes 'Looker-on" in
the London Daily Chronicle, and
some records are recalled Of poets
laureate. Of those in Office since
the time of Ben Jonson, most have
reached good old age and held Of
fee for many years. Wordsworth,
for instance, lived to be eighty, Sir
William Davenant eighty-two, Ten
nyson eighty-three, and Colley Glib
Der, eighty-six. The average tenure
of the laureateship has been over
twenty years. Southey held it for
thirty years, and Tennyson for for
ty-seven.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-02-06
Tin Cans Salyaged

Salvaging millions of tin cans
around western mining camps has
been found profitable business.
The process RECEIVERS both the tin
and the steel, an average Of three
tons Of tin being recovered weekly
and nodded into ingots to be used
for making new cans.-Popular Me-
chanics Magazine.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-02-06
First Fireplaces Were Wooden

Many Of the first fireplaces were
built of wood and plastered over
on the inside with sort Of mud
mortar. These early crude fire.
places were huge things, and un-
questionably it Is from them we get
our story Of Santa Claus and the
chimney. Certainly he would have
had no difficulty coming down those
early flues. In fact, they were pro-
vided with steps on the inside In
order that the man Of the house
could patch the cracks In the plas-
ter with new mud.-Successful
Farming.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-02-06

the thought is ngrained in many farmers who other
wise display considerable intelligence In the back of
their minds is the thought that the city bet
ter afford to pay the prices which butter commands
and so he hollers if that city consumption
to back up production, either by refusing to eat
butter fast enough to absorb surplus to keep the
market up by paying high price for it.
It is tough situation for the dairy farmer who
doesn't oeonlargarne, but it is his neighbor who
does who is responsible to small degree for the
present condition of the market Unfortunately, the
dairy farmer who buys oleomargarine does not fully
appreciate the falsty of his position He does not
realize that he is but of many of his kind who
doing the thing and probably feels that the cleo
margarine which he purchases represents an amount
too small to have any effect whatever the total.
The sad part of it is that those who are reluctant
to forsake buying oleomargarine always the
who rail the loudest against low butterfat prices.
These conditions are at least to very large ex-
tent the of the present low price of butterfa
They had caused surplus of 100000 pounds
of butter on the market early in December and had
lowered the price of butterfat 10 cents per pound
Now in February the price paid to the farmer has
dropped still further and is f1uctuating around
the Al cent mark just about TIC under the market of
year ago.
It has resulted i'm situation which seriously
threatens the great dairy industry of the nation and
Minnesota in general and Stearns County and Sank
Centre in partcuar.-It calls for action and mmedi-
ate action
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1t all the dairy farmers, who used 81, 100000 lbs.
of oleomargarine during 1929, would this year
place it with butter their tables there would not be
the 100000 pounds of surplus butter the market
Let's presume farmer sells 5000 pounds of but
terfat year not big quantity for any large dairy
farmer). He sells this buterfat at average price
of 80 cents per pound and his returns total 100000
Say this average farmer buys $50 pounds of oleomar
garne year at zoe per pound costing him thirty dol
lars. But because this average dairy farmer and 9TH
did this he helped lower the market price of but
terfat say ten cents per pounds (authores will state
that 100000, butter surplus will lower the mar
ket more than ths) and he lost money the whole
transaction. 10 cent loss pound of butterfat
would loss of $500 year to this farmer who
sold 5000 pounds of butterfat He thinks he saved 80
cents pound by buying oeomargarne instead of but
ter. Well yes he did $4,000 his butter bill but
lost $500 from his butterfat production and
he is just out about 1855 that he could have earned
during the year.
Educate all the farmers and the city folk to the
fact that prosperity to the dairy farmer pros
perity to all. Urge everyone to eat more butter and
use butter exclusively whenever possible.
Advertise the wholesome and healthful qualities
of butter and make efforts to increase it's demand by
these methods.
Use more butter everybody. And Mr.. Dairy
Farmer and Mrs. Dairy Farmer put butter your
table and use butter in your cooking this year.
If butter prices too high for your pocketbook,
little ess but by all MEANS butter when and
where butter should be used.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-02-06

Butterfat prices are low. Every dairy farmer
knows only too we'll and it hits his pocketbook pretty
hard these days. The market is about II cents per
pound lower than last year at this time
What are the causes? And can the situation be
remedied?
The causes are many The stock market crash is
factor Persons who have been hit are cutting down
expenses wherever possible and in some cases they
are eating less butter or buying substitutes
There is much unemployment in the nation at this
time. The on-working laboring mans family gets
along without butter at least eats less else turns
to butter substitutes
Financial conditions almost everywhere in the
have less money than year ago. Butter, at last
years prices has been passed up for cheaper sub
stitute
The production and consumption of oleomarga-
rine and butter substitutes is the increase. This
is due to the conditions stated above but also because
the manufacturers of butter substitutes advertise
their goods and educate the people to the product
But cause strangest of all, is the fact that the
dairy farmers of the nation in 1929 consumed approx
imately 100000 pounds of oleomargarine Other
farmers used about 1580OO,OOO pounds This rural
community consumption represented 60 per cent of
the total production and approximately 3500000 900
pounds of oeomargarine in 1929.
When farmer spends the money he has re-
ceived at the creamery, for oleomargarne nine times
out of te he does because he thinks he can not af
ford to buy butter he does not think 1t is short
sghtedness verging stupidity, but, nevertheless,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-02-06
Summing II Up

Summing Il Up
Make one person happy each day
and In 40 years You will have made
1900 human beings happy for
time at least.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-02-06

Dairy farmers suffering losses Of millions Of dollars
by the surplus of butter partly to blame for the drop price Of
buea because they purchased 81 900 pounds Of oeo
BECAUSE-Every farmer who Oeomargarne helping
to break his own market and is hurting himself.
BECAUSEO On of the Vamm content Of Butter, the
of butter substitutes lacking these elements enngers the health
BECAUSE-The of butter substitutes which made from
foreign produced vegetable oils flooding the market and cutting
down the price of lard and therefore affecting the price pork
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-02-06

BECAUSEThe Butterfat and Lard substitutes have In
creased the storage supply of butter 100000 pounds 1929
compared with 1925 And the 100000 pounds of surplus but
have forced the price bueat down II pound the
last year.
BECAUSE Out of the 35OOOOOO0 pounds of oleomagarine
that the market 1929 reduce by practically that
the consumption Of butter the S. 90 per of this
oeomargame purchased by farmers And strangely pound
in four that goes to farmers, purchased by daipmen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-11

Class Consciousness Growing
The growth of the National Tex
tile Workers Union and the Trade
Union Unity League, International
Labor Defense as well as of the
Communist Party shows clearly
that the Southern workers are be-
coming class conscious. The South
ern workers, themselves, have an
swered Mr.. Lovestone and his
theory of the South being force
of reaction. The South, today, is
an outstanding expression of the
class struggle. The working class
of the South are today powerful
force in the ranks of the Amer
lean revolutionary movement.
The Negro masses, suffering
not only under the economic and
social oppression that the white
workers must bear, also are bur-
dened with an extreme racial OPP
PRESTON and discrimination. The
capitalists foster the division be-
tween the black and white work
ers. Under the leadership of the
Communist Party and the revolu-
tionary trade unions, and the I.
Id, this racial division between
white and black workers is being
broken down and this will CONSOLE
date the power of the masses for
the coming struggles.
Communist Party Must Assume
Lead
The Southern workers are ready
for organization. They are taking
their place in the extending class
struggle and they are providing new
forces for the revolutionary move
ment. The task before the Com
munist movement and the revolu-
tionary trade unions is to assume
the leadership of these workers and
direct them in the struggle against
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pauperized farm
ing population is established and
maintained. For no revolution can
succeed if it leaves out of reckoning
the agraran revolution, even in a
country highly industrialized as the
United States.
The utopian and fake cleft" re-
formists, such as the I.W.W. want
to leap over this stubborn reality.
They want the ultimate delivered at
their door tomorrow morning, and,
they sneer at everything less as
"opportunist." The openly Fright"
opportunists, meanwhile, either find
nothing at all wrong, no class strug-
gle on the land itself, or when COM
PEELED to face the issue, go along
with the bourgeoisie as a sort of
quarrelsome partners.
What are the conditions faced?
Comrade I.enin in 1913 gave the fol-
lowing general analysis:
capital freed agriculture from
feudalism, bought it into the or
bit of market, exchange and
thereby into the system of world
economic development. 1t also
tore agriculture away from the
stagnacy and torpor of the middle
ages and patriachalism. But capt.
tai has not only not done away
with oppression, exploitation and
poverty, but on the contrary, it
creates all these calamities in a
new form. Capitalism, which de-
velops primarily in trade and in
dustry, becomes ever more Oppres-
sive in the sphere of agriculture"
The Farm Hands"
If we go from the general to the
specific, we see Immediately the
mute but eloquent figures express
ing the suffering of the agricultural
wage workers, with whom our
Party and the revolutionary trade
union center, the Trade Union Unity
League, must certainly establish
contact and organize for class strug-
gle directly on the land. Behind
these figures are countless TRACE
dies, let us never forget that!
The figures show that while male
farm wage workers constitute PIT
per cent of the total of all wage
workers, they receive only 10.5 per
cent of the national wage total. They
lost most of the slight gain they
made in money wage during the war
and the increased prices of commod-
tiles bought undoubtedly makes their
real wage lower than pre-war, bad
as it was then. The census shows
how these terrible conditions have
forced great armies of wage work
ers off the land to beg at the city
factory gates for jobs. (Let US di-
gress here to contradict the pleasant
lie of the capitalists that the farm
wage worker becomes tenant, the
tenant an owner, and so on). The
, census says:
In 1910:
Wage workers, working
on home farm ........ 3,31O,534
Wage workers, working
"out" ................ 2,e36,966
Total .............. 5,s47,5o0
In 1920:
Wage workers, working
on home farm ........ 1,850,119
Wage workers, working
"out" ................ 2,o55,27S
Total .............. 3,9O5,s95
Leaving the "Old Home"
We, therefore, see that in those
ten years 2,042,105 wage workers
were forced off the land to seek
(and can we say to find? better
conditions in industry. We know
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-11
EDUCATION FOR SOVIET
WORKERS

MOSCOW, U.S.S.R. (By MaiD.-
The government is considering a
plan to have workers three days
week on the job and to study three
days, taking the seventh for recrea-
ton.
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such great i'm
portance that no
Communist must
fail to take them
into account, and
no worker can
fail to be inter
ested in seeing
that the proper
alliance between
t h e industrial
proletariat a n d
the increasingly
a-..aI -,a,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-11

The extreme ex~
ploitation of the
workers, the low
standard Of liv-
ing, the social
oppression of the
workers, as ex-
pressed in the
mill villages, the
even greater OPP
preston of the
N e G 70 masses
are the forces
driving the work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-11

Workers, don't you remember
'aUay back a gear ago-how Hoo
DER brought as "aI' prosperity?
Five million workers ivithout jobs
,,ooO;; lots of wage cuts, etc.,
rather punches as Workers below
the belt, eh? But Hoover should
aoorpy, look at these fat jo,Uls!
Don't miss any meals, docs he?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-11

ginning tney FL VI l. uncht
lowed t only few hours; but when
the first hours of life Of the Soviet
power had grown into days the
predictions allowed a few more days
of life; however, the days grew into
weeks, the weeks into months, and
the months into years. Even though
thi1 disappointment seriously inter
fered with the enthusiasm of the
prophets, the prophecies of an ul-
innate collaspe of the Soviet power,
never ceased to come for6h. In
cidentily it may be remarked that
the capitalist prophets did not have
sufficient confidence in their own
prophecies and in their own God to
let it go at that. True to capitalist
style they applied the slogan of the
old cheat in Lessings comedy:
"Corrigez la fortune" By means of
blockade. of invasion and of finan-
cling and arming the counter revo-
luton the capitalist prophets tried
to materialize their prophecies.
The forms Of the prophecies Of
the eventual collapse Of the Soviet
power changed as time went by.
The prophets looked for alibies.
Bress-L itovEk, the introduction oil
the NEP, the death of Lenin, IN
short every decisive or critical per-
iod in the lie of the Soviet Re-
public cllicited from the prophets
Calculations to the effect: "Ah!
there you are; didn't we always
gay So"
TIE hopes and aspirations and
prophecies of the capitalist world
found their invariable reflection IN
the propaganda of the social trail
tors in the ranks of the social de-
raocracy, and also in the proposals
of anti-Leninist elements within the
Communist Parties. The last forms
which this latter reflection took
vas the Trotskyist insistence on the
jnpocsibility of building socialism
in Russia. Practically the reverse
side of this assertion is the insls-
tence OF the right wing elements in
the Russian Party which has no
confidence in the growth OF the
socialist element of Soviet economy
and insists on greater concessions
to the capitalist element.
The latest economic developments
of the Soviet Union are a most
decisive answer to all capitalist
prophets, their social democratic
agents and all other elements who
lack confidence in the constructive
revolutionary powers of the pro
letariat. The building of socialism
in the Soviet Union makes tremen-
dous strides forward.
Major Problem of Revolution.
The greatest problem of the pro-
letarian revolution is the construc'
ton Of socialism. The defeat Of
the bourgeoisie as the ruling class
and the establishment Of the pro-
letarian dictatorship does not com
plete the revolution but only create:
the indispensable prerequisite fol
its completion. The essence OF the
revolution is the building of social
ism; and the building of socialism
is accomplished by the proletaria'
by means of its political dictator
ship. Those, who saw in the NEf
the collapse of what they termed
Communism" conceived the revo
luton as fully accomplished his
torical fact after November z, 1917
They did not see that the NEP wa:
not an acknowledgement of defea'
by the Communist Party, but
method to accomplish communism
They did not understand that CAPT
taljsm is not only a political factor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-11

OF CLASSES
IN SOUTH
Workers of the South
Follow Class Party
BY CLARENCE MILLER,

National Secretary N. T. W. U.
CASTONIA, Marion, Ella May,
" these are symbols of the sharp
ening class struggles in the South.
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astonishing Gu
prise to tie &C.
talist world. a.
first they triol
to explain away
the Fundamental
character CT t. :
revolutions; the
adjudSed it g.
adventure; the.
predicted a sacr
life for the PC
litical power c
the bclshevill~. Q
very short lie
indeed. In The be-
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ry la BEDACET

The victory Cf the revolutionary
wor.AcH CT Russia der tie leader
ship OF tie Bel ca:,,c Is an
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By HARRISON GEORGE

THE agraran crisis in the United
States is not a new thing. But
it is now developing new aspects of
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-21
MANSLAUGHTER
 IS BARRED IN
 BASKETBALL GAME

Gentle practices Of warter poio may be simulated in dry land bas- ketball in the Juneau High School gymnasium tomorrow evening when a quintet of stalwart workers from the Capitol Building meet five of the choicest beavers from Chilkoot Barracks.
 In water polo, good sport is to grab the player who has the ball, drag him below and then crush his bones or drown him if necessary to make him release the spheroid, as the umpire all the while scans the peaceful surface. Some of the submerged tricks in water polo make a prizefight or a football game seem like the little girls pas time of throwing jacks.
 Arrangements for the basketball contest tomorrow evening contem- plate the presence of ladies-local who have been lend ing some encouragement to the building trades, and wives and sweethearts from the military post at Haines-so the referee promises to bar manslaughter.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-21
MAN WITH BROKEN
 BACK HAS BAD TRIP

With back said to be broken in two places, Fred Johnson, for mer worker on the Alaska Rail- road, was a passenger on the steam ship Alameda during her rough voyage from Seward to Juneau. He was glad when she entered the quiet waters of Gastineau Channel last evening. He is on his way to Seattle, where he will enter a hos pital for treatment.
 MT. Johnson suffered his inJur- ies about two months ago when he fell from a tree near Seward. He was on a hunting trip at the time and had climbed the tree to locate a moose that he was following but that he could not see from the ground. The breaking of the branch on which he stood plunged him 15 or 20 feet to the earth.
 He was immediately taken to the hospital at Seward. Soon after wards, fellow workers subscribed a fund to buy him a harness that would relieve his back of pressure
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-21

dollar union of two giant steel com- panies should be permitted.
 The suit brought by the Eaton interests was based on charges that the Youngstown directors were guil- ty Of fraud, and that proxy votes of stockholders had been illegally counted to effect the merger. The hearing required months.
 Eaton said the transfer or the Sheet and Tube properties of Beth lehem would be a calamity to Youngstown, that a merger was wrong economically and that the development of the Mahoning val ley which has dreams of canal running through it's industrial area from Lake Erie to the Ohio river, would be dropped.