davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-08-14
THE FUTURE is SAFE

(The hurry County Herald, Slayton, MIMI
There has been a considerable amount Of hysteria
passed about lately concerning the question of wheth-
er or not machinery is replacing man so rapidly in
business that eventually there will be no work for
the average man to do
In Lancaster Ohio, in 1925 debating society of
young men applied for the use of the school house.
The school board answered:
"You welcome to use the school house in
which to debate all proper questions but such things
railroads and telegraphs are impossible and rank
inidelity. There is nothing in the Word of God
about them. If God had designed that His intel
gent creatures should travel at the frightful speed
of fifteen miles hour by steam, He would have
clearly foretold it through His holy prophets It is
hell"
Such fool speeches have not by any means been
confined to ignorant bigots. John D. Archbold, hear
ing that vast oil fields had been reported in the mid
continent promised to drink all the oil discov-
cred outside of Pennsylvania
Henry Ford, in recent book refers to the pres
age the age of power, not age of machinery
He states that the modern machinery gives man
power to accomplish more than ever before, that one
hardly the modern man digging in ditch
because of machinery which elevates him to better
position. He refers to the automobile industry and
it's allied interests the radio the aeropane the NOV
es and other inventions which have come into exist
within the last decade, and the millions of men
employed thereby. He said there would be an
acute labor shortage if he tried to build his car
solely by labor and the machinery available fifty
years ago, and then the price of the car would be
prohlbltlve.
Where would the millions now employed by the
automobile industry and its allied interests be if
did not have the modern inventions?
Mother Shipton was witch. She prophecied
that:
Carriages without horses shall go
And accidents fill the world with woe.
Around the earth thoughts shall fly
In the twnkling Of eye.
Through hie men shall ride
And no horse be at his side
Under water men shall walk
Shall ride, shall sleep. shall talk.
In the air men shall be SEEM -.
Iron upon the shall float
AS easily wooden boat.
Most Of Mother Shpton's prophecies have come
true Prophecies that foretell great achievements
on the part Of humanity have habit of coming
true But how foolish the speeches of doubters and
standpatters sound few years afterwards.
We should not be doubters in regard to the fu-
ture of this great country of ours who knows but
what this age of power which now entering
will bring forth more inventions to readily employ
those out of work, shorter working days, and more
ease, comforts and happiness for ALL
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-08-14
THE CHRONIC LIVE WIRE

Civic pride and conscientious perform
ance of community duties characterize the
best business men and citizens everywhere
But anything, no matter how commendable
on general principles, may be run into the
ground
We have in mind what we have termed
the Chronic live WIRE" He is always a
"good fellow" always booster, always full
of pep" and enthusiasm and always with a
grand scheme that won't work. He gladly
plays the part of community goat, because he
is willing to neglect his own business, if he
has any, in order to serve on innumerable
commissions, boards and committees suppos-
ed to be for the promotion Of mass prosper
ity and uplift.
Nearly every town has such character.
He means well and is fairly useful to every
body and everything, excepting himself and
his own family. He is living example of
local patriotism run to seed.
Unfortunately, he becomes so thoroughly
wrapped up in optimism that he loses his
sense of proportion and often ends in person
al bankruptcy, through his ambition to be a
public benefactor.
Many of us have passed through that
stage and some have survived, but hundreds
have ruined themselves through trying to
carry the entire community burden.
Boost, but don't ''bust' yourself doing
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-08-14

thing else could do to eliminate inequalities between
valuations placed upon like properties in the
neighborhood and thus help to the most pro-
life source Of dissatisfaction namely the feeling of
taxpayer that he is being assessed and consequently
taxed higher than his neighbor some other tax
payer in the district. The attitude of every tax
payer if one may judge from the general expression
when ever the subject of taxation is under consid
Grafton, is that he is willing to pay "his share" of
the tax burden and most complaints go to the matter
of inequality of valuation and consequent injustice in
the tax imposed"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-08-14
TEETH BECOME EARS"

Through an invention recently exhibited
by DR.. Frederick Bedel, professor of physics
at Cornell University, great many persons
who are supposed to be deaf can hear music
satisfactorily through their teeth.
Briefly described, the apparatus used is
a special photograph receiver, terminating
in metal disc, against which one end of a
sick of wood is placed, the other end being
held lightly between the listeners teeth.
The sound vibrations pass directly to the
auditory nerves through the teeth and jaw
bones, even though the eardrums have been
destroyed. Of course, destruction of the
auditory nerves themselves would forever
preclude hearing, but many case Of deafness
preclude merely from defects in the outer ear.
In such cases DR.. BedelPs invention would
make hearing possible.
An idea advanced in connection with the
new device is that the special transmitters
might be placed near a radio or photograph,
or even attached to the seats of talkie pic
ture theatre. The deaf listener could provide
himself with the necessary wooden stick and
"listen in" at his pleasure, using his teeth as
normal persons use their ears.
There would even be some advantage in
such procedure. The listeners would not
be annoyed by the irrelevant remarks and
alleged wit of "back seat auditors.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-08-14

For here she had spent a lifetime
picking out parents who were elig-
IDLE, and now she had gone and
Hoped after working hard to make
the grade, and here at the last
minute f1unked. Now what can she
do, who're can she go? Decent peo-
pie won't have anything to do with
her. Everybody will look at her and
say, why that's Polly Lauder. She
used to be somebody and was fine
and social, but they dropped her
right off the book and here she is
practically destitute of all the
other members of the great Frater-
nifty of those who are somebody by
grace of proper propagation.
Now as to what is Society,"" So
ciety is any band of folks that kind
er throw in with each other, and
mess around together for each
others discomfort. Any little or
big group of folks that sorter flock
together are Society" in some
form or other. The ones with the
more money have more to eat and
drink at their affairs, and their
clothes cost more, and so that's
called High Society,"" Now the
morals of personal behavior of it's
members have nothing to do with
it. The oftener they can crash the
front page the solder they are in
their fraternity. And it's sorter her
editary. No matter who your raise
up in your family Zoo why they nat
urally inherit your space in the $50
cial Register" Your personal &C
complishments have nothing to do
with it.
So for downright amusement in
reading matter that Register will
compete with the Congressional
Register and College Humor.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-08-14

Oklahoma and Texas have an
original primary system.
They have so many seeking Of
flee that the first primary is only to
find out how many are DESTROYS of
living off the State.
The second primary is to elimi-
nate and good man that hight
have crept in by mistake.
Now, you have just politicians,
so the fifth one is to leave in the
two worst one, and they run it off.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-08-14
HALT RECKLESS DRIVER

The following from the Benson MONT
EDITORIAL fits Sank Centre and many 9th
tiles:
Without interruption the noisy automobile
the racing automobile and the corner cut
ting automobile continue their carnival of
malpractice in the City of Benson, nuisances,
which if attempted in policed cities, would
lead to warning and subsequent arrest
On Sundays, especially, when some semb-
lance of quiet ougt to be observed, young
squlrts with cars, misformed exhaust pipes
and whirring klaxons keep the down town
DINING with unearthly noises. They drive
and drive up one street, down another, rae
ing the motor spasmodically so as to show
the populance that the wheezend thing still
has little pickup. In meeting each other
they give the klaxon salute. Sometimes a
car, parked by the curb will answer the honk
OF passing car. Like dogs these cars gang
up and carry on. Of late popular pastime
has been racing, along side streets and
through alleys. Round corners they come
careening at high speeds, grinding tires and
straining already weakened wheels with sud-
den turns to the left and the right.
Racing continues as the pastime of certain
townspeople and country folk Their starts
are flying spurts with motors roaring as they
seek to shoot the car ahead with accelators
damned to the floor board They approach
intersections on the dead run, trusting that
no one will be there to make it necessary to
slow up. An idea as to the absurdity of this
type of racing can often be seen in automo-
biles passing other automobiles at neck
break speed, only to park fifty hundred
feet ahead of the car just passed.
The corner cutters are much in evidence
as ever. By steering close to the left they
increase many fold the danger of other traf-
fic! 1t has to be stopped now before an ac-
cident of major proportions results. If the
city is too poor to afford day patrolman,
who will put a stop to the nuisances referred
to above, then surely there are enough kim
dred spirited volunteers who will assume the
responsibility of being deputized and going
after the lawless driver.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-08-14

Stock gambling in dull, uncertain times is most
annoying to gamblers. They can be quite
sure
Wall Street heard of the drought, and wise bulls
sad THAT will kill grain crops and with less wheat
and corn, prices will go up. The low price of wheat
has held stocks down. Let us buy stocks and they
will go up with wheat"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-08-14

AS matters now stand the City Of Parks
is a place where dangerous experiments in
driving can be tried without danger of ar
rest. Let's put stop to it. The citizens,
desiring peace and safety, outnumber the law
less drivers a hundred to one. Therefore,
if majority rule means anything, the lawless
minority should be taken to task for it's NAL
practices-Benson Monitor.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-08-14

erS. SOMEBODY
just sent me a
clipping I see
here and it says
who has been
left off and who
added to the
Social Register.
Now that is a
laugh amt it?
q would b e
dropped if I ev-
er got on for
saying "Ain't).
OF all the unde-
lls~~-
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-08-14

SAS44As
It's fine to
keep saying ev-
erything is great
but about the
only way to
prove it to peo-
pie is for things
to be great.
Even our old
family doctor
can't fool us.
We are the one
that's got the
stomach and we
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-08-14
NewFeafureS
at our
StateFair
AuG30 @Sept.6

The Minnesota State Fair and
Northwest Livestock Show, Aug
ust 80 to September 6, will pre-
sent a host of new features this
year. Outstanding attractions
will be:
Boy Scout Indian Village.
Airplane refueling demonstra-
ton.
Mr.. Televox, the Mechanical
Man, who Milks Cows, etc.
Multiple parachute jumps, four
to eight jumpers leaving single
airplane.
Two Million Dollar Livestock
Show.
Richards Famous Concert
Band.
Mammoth Displays of Agricul-
tural and Industrial Products.
Curtiss- Wright Airplane Show.
Three Days of Auto Races,
featuring rs drivers; Aug. 30,
Sept. 3, 6.
Motorless Glider fight.
Exhibition of Art and Wom-
ems Activities.
Evening Horse Show, Septem-
Der 1, 2, 8, 4, 5.
Four-Day Horse Racing Card,
Sept. 1, 2, 4, 5.
Thrilling Vaudeville Program.
Machinery Show, featuring 90
acres of farm implements and
labor-saving devices.
Mammoth 60-ton Whale: Co.
Hath, the only living Sea Ele-
plant.
"The Awakening" q Stupen-
dous Fireworks Spectacle.
Morris & Castle Shows, intro
ducing rs new rides and attrac-
lions.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-08-14

know whether it's hurting or not.
So Calvin hoped on the Farm
Board in his "Sermonette." The
poor farmer can't get a break.
Just when it looked like he would
be able to sell his land for real
golf courses somebody invent's
golf that you can play in the
kitchen sink.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-08-14
Observation-Disclosures

Beverly Hilis-Well all I know
is just what little read in the pap
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-08-14

around the tea table.
I see just off hand here that Pol
ly Lauder "a niece of Harry Laud-
er's), who married Gene Tunney,
has been dropped from the "Regis-
ter" If she had married Society
Bootlegger she would have made
the grade but when she married
Gene, a man who had been pref
ty fare type Of gentleman, who's
only fault in his profession was
that he shook hands with you be-
fore knocking you cuckoo, why they
right away said that Polly didn't
grade up to par. She had been
negligent in picking a Mayfower
weed. Tunney's name never had
been in "Baloney sheet" But it had
to tell in there who she had prom
ised to love, honor and break clean
in the clinches with" so in that way
it had to name Gene. So in a
kind Of back alley way his name
was in there, not Intentionally but
in there. So I CUES sthat's why
they had to drop Polly's. They left
her in there for one year to see if
she wouldn't repent and come back
to Cocktail cavalcade, but as she
didn't why they just got themselves
a great big eraser and she dropped
in Social oblivion. And I bet that
just about broke that girls heart.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-08-14

Kinder thought Mr.. Coolidge
would have to get round to criti-
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-08-14

Jean Tasserand to prove that he loved girl,
wrote her farewell note, jumped to his death from
an airplane, his broken body landing in the garden
of his mothers home.
Fools will make hero of him. He would have
been more like hero had he taken of his moth
er and lived to prove that he appreciated her. which
is every mans first duty.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-08-14

you can think of just off hand, that
is the prize "Hooey," a book to tell
you who is good Parlor Hound
and who is a sort of a Mongrel
around the tea table.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-08-14

The following from the Benson Monitor
Editorial fits Sank Centre and many other
cities:
New Britain herald., 1930-08-06
FOREIGN AUTO MEN
 TALK RETALIATION
Plan RepriSaI for Provisions Of
 New Tariff

Paris, Aug. 6 UP)-American automobile sources in France re- ported yesterday that an automobile cartel meeting directed chiefly against the American tariff. has been scheduled here for October. 1t which time the sessions will be sanctioned by an official organize tion known as the permanent auto motive bureau,
 The fact that presentatiVes ot the national automobile chambers of at least six European nations have been meeting here in secrecy anI without official sanction caused considerable confusion in connection with plans Of European producers for combined action The represen- tatiyes. who come from Germany. France, Austria. Belgium Italy and Czechoslovakta, were so careful in concealing their actions that it was believed they had changed their meeting 10 Brussels.
 Informed Aurces said the present sessions were not likely 10 settle their own differences and. even # they do, could only make recom- mendations 10 their respective gov ernments for protective measures. It was understood that an accord on protective measures between France and Czechosloyakia was not being awaited for use as base for th4 general pact envisaged.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-06
GOLD STAR WOMEN
 GRATEFUL ID |. 5.
Write Letters Of Thanks to
 Paris Officer

Paris, Aug. 6-"Gold bless you Uncle sam"
 This is the substance of hundreds ol letters which American gold star mothers are writing to United States army officers in charge of the French end of the pilgrimage to the American military cemeteries.
 These letters from mothers beg4n to pour into headquarters address ed to Colonel Richard Ellis. ranking officer, soon after the first group had visited the cemeteries in May They continue to come, some in q fine hand and in elegant phraseology others from feeble hands and some from hesitant ones.
 Some are distinctly personal while others are formal and are signed bl number of women. In them ar to be found such phrases as "our dear captain" and references tc nurses as Gods own children Each writer swears by the particl. lar captain, lieutenant and nurse who happened to be assigned tc look after her group.
 The first group to visit France set the pace in form letters witt the following:
 We wish that Uncle Sam migh know how much the trip has mean to us. We feel that our govern. ment has done a most generous anl wonderful thing"
New Britain herald., 1930-08-06
WELFARE ISLAND
 QUIET AFTER RIOT
Whites Assault Negroes in Dis
 pute Over Baseball Field

New York, Aug. (UP)-Welfare Island, the city penitentiary ln the East river, was quiet today after a short but bitter riot between groups Of white and Negro prisoners over use of the baseball diamond which resulted in injury to 27.
 Four hundred of the jairs 1,700 prisoners took part in the fight, and of the injured, most suffered Stab wounds. Others were cut or4suffere6 minor injuries.
 The riotins was not directed against the guards, and there was no attempt to escape, Ten minutes of fighting in the intense heat was enough for the participants, and the incident served incidentally, to dem- onstrate how well authorities were equipped to handle the situation,
 Bad blood between Negro and white members Of a group of 400 who are given a 2-hour recreation period after the evening meal, had existed for several days. The whites accused the Negroes Of hogging the 1ldAOIl ny IIdhIi4S d udS4l IOl equipment and playground after the meal and playing until the time was up.
 Last evening the prisoners. made surly by the heat began the dispute again and in a minute bats were crashing against unprotected heads, knives were pulled forth and fists were used freely,
 An alarm was given and almost immediately police squads armed with sub-machine guns, riot guns. and tear gas bombs began to pour n on the island from both sides. while three fire boats steamed up the river and prepared ' o turn their hosa on the fighters.
 Their presence was .1ot required. however. for the guards had the sit uation well in hand The fighting was ending as the endorsements arrived. Prisoners were marched back 10 ther cells and the injured were given treatment. None of the guards were injured
 Hundreds of motorists and elevat- | ed passengers watched the riot from the Greensboro bridge. which passes over the island.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-06
DOLORES DEL RIO PLANS |
 RITES IN ANCIENT CHURCH
Film Star to Marry in Historic santa Barbara Mission Built by
 E'ranCiscans in 17Si.

Santa Barbara, Calif., Aug. G. (UP)-The historic old Santa Barr bara mission WIS the setting for the scheduled marriage of Dolores Del Rio, Mexican film beauty, and Ced- ric Gibbons, motion picture art di- rector, at noon today
 Nuptials of utmost simplicity were planned, after which a honeymoon trip through California was to start.
 The picturesque church was built in 17S4 by Padres Junipero Serra and Juan Lasuen, and is altar lights have never been extinguished.
 It was expected that Father Augustine, Franciscan superior of the mission, would read the wedding service.
 Miss Del Rio will begin rehearsals at the United Artists Studio of new picture next week and Gibbons will resume his work at the Metro-G G old- Wyn- Mayer studios.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-06
Flashes of Life

By the Associated Press
 New York-The return Of the Gib- son girl and the pompadour is fore cast. Hats, cut back 10 display the hair, featured the fall style show of the Retail Millinery association Of America
 Pittsburgh, Pa.-Eugene c. Grace, president Of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, started his career as a crane operator Now his son Charles Brown Grace, recent Princeton graduate, has taken a job as a clerk with the Jones & LaUghlin Steel Corporation
 Montgomery Ala.-Haying chang ct his mind about matrimony, Henry L. Mencken IS 10 be given a chance to change his views on service clubs An honorary membership was voted him by the Montgomery Xii Wanis club, which also adopted a resolution felicitating him on his engagement 10 Miss Sarah Haardt Of this city.
 New York-Free band concerts to lure Long Island city residents away from speakeasies have been started by Bishop Charles Nelson of the United Christian Church of America.
 4 ten piece band has offered it's . service gratis.
 Camden, \. J.-This looks like a record of some sort. Miss Cornelia L Jones, r year old daughter of a Philadelphia banker. made her first
 solo flight in an airpIane after only
 four hours instruction. Herkimer, N. Y.-Here's an en- durance tree-sitter who cashed in. { Annoyed neighbors paid James Wat son, 14. S25 to come down from his perch after 27 hours of annoyance | Olomouc, CzechosIovakia - Army
 authorities here have a grievance. | Strict orders were given residents to
 remain indoors while airplanes en- l gagged in mimic warfare. So the in i habitants promptly came forth in i such numbers as to impede traffic. 1 New York-Passenge on the in 1 coming Majestic described a novel sight Twice a day the Maharajah Of Pithapuram. an Indian prince,
 would line up his wife. two sons, q 1 daughter-in-law. four daughters. 8 | lady-i waiting, a secretary and | seven servants and march them | about the deck. They are here for
 a months visit.