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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-05-21
WE ARE THE TAX RAISES
(Murry County HeraIdl

(Murry County Herald)
Never before In our history has there been such
an intensified study of the whole problem of taxa
ton as at this moment Expert conferences are a
daily occurance and before every legislature are in
Vulnerable suggestions of tax reform, for changes
in tax methods, for forms of taxation-alI of
them based the recognized fact that tax reduction
Is essential for the nations welfare
Here and there-f not widely enough-recogni-
ton is growing that taxation is moral as well as
an economic question Once the entire public is
aware Of taxation moral issue, its solution will
be easier
The two basic moral facts in the tax situation
are these: Taxation must be just apportionn.ent
OF burden upon ALL It must never be greater bur-
den than any group individual can reasonably
sustain And there should be third proviso that
taxation should be levied only for things that are
necessity to public good.
Here and there among the numerous discus
sions we observe radical hitting upon the strange
truth that the to reduce taxes refrain from
spending money. And as this idea grows-as good
ideas occasionally do we may finally conquer the
problem.
One thing too seldom realized is that tax reduce
ton finally depends upon public opinion. All the
experts, all the debates. all the study all the at
tempts at legislation win be futile unless and until
the citizenship realizes its own responsibility.
E. A. Hughes, tax commissioner of Arizona re-
Gently said: ARIZONA Is not all unique in this re-
gard. It Is the crying need everywhere. When
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-05-21
A BAD POLICY
(Bemidii SenineN

IBemldJl SenlneU
The policy of paroling criminals with the proviso
that they stay out of the state" is one that was
prominently before this state the TINE of the APP
pointment of Governor Christianson's Crime Com
mission and is receiving nationwide comment
because of the action of eccentric Alfalfa Bip Muir
ray. In Minnesota it will be remembered that dam
gerous criminal, Chiban by name, was paroled and
told to leave the state. He unable to get into
Canada, returned to Minneapolis and in shooting
ARRAY killed a policeman. The parole board was
subjected to criticism because of its action
In Oklahoma three convicts were paroIed on con-
dition that they leave the state
This act is arousing comment in Oklahoma as
well as other states and the utter fooshness of
ing such merrygo-round of criminals is apparently
too obvious for much comment
The same plan, equally futile in our opinion is
followed in handling many police court offenders
in some cities though society exposed to the
same dangers.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-05-21

rolls substantially. The federal reserve board re-
ports sharp increase in department store sales
April over March and February. Sales in depart
ment stores indicate the prosperity of the public
Department store sales show gain for April of
per cent over March, in spite Of the fact because
OF the early Easter most of the Easter buying came
in March.
Small straws are welcome when they blow toward
prosperity.
While Spain is torn, Mexico was recently by
religious strife and hatred the authorities of Prus-
STA have signed "concordat" treaty with the for
mer state Lutheran church similar to that signed in
1929 with the Catholic church.
The Lutherans content with the new ar
rangement and religious discomfort, open secret
will cease.
A nation is fortunate that can progress free from
religious difficulties. And the foundation of such
freedom is absolute separation Of church and state
in all their functions.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-05-21

one processes to believe essential to our
nomic and social wel-being.
Taking up the agricultural situation Mr. Tay-
lor said, in part: In my opinion, great di-
vision of human society has ever been lied to, and
lied about, more in the same period of time than
has the American farmer in the last ten years.
and political information, with its constant de-
struction of public confidence in everything he is
and represents, than has any other element in
our social structure He has been induced to
accept strange doctrines and follow strange prac-
tices, until it seems to me he has almost for
gotten the real purpose of farm life-to make
living for his family on the farm. The greatest
damage which has been done to the farmers in
dividually, and as whole. probably lies in the
fact that they have been induced to believe that
in government action there was some magic
wand which would lift off their shoulders the
responsibility of hard work. thrift, and economy.
Relief from world distress, the cure for eco
nonic ills does not lie in the domain Of political
action. Wherever legislative programs have
been undertaken for the cure of economic ills,
state socialism with failure UNNECESSARILY worse
has been the result. Governments cannot effec-
lively or efficiently suspend the operation Of
nomic laws, as witness failure after failure in
the field of price regulation, and most recently,
the almost complete breakdown of economic
conditions in Australia and New Zealand where
government ownership and operation have had
their most universal application. We must not
travel that path. Government cooperation is
imperative; but leadership must come from bust
ness and from the farm.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-05-21
PISTOL TOTING HABIT
milwaukee Sentinen

milwaukee SentneD
AS result of an alteration following traffic
accident Milwaukee business man is in hospital
seriously if not fatally wounded by revolver shot
And another man is in Jail charged with the shooting
Here is another striking example of the folly of
pistol toting. If there had been no pistol at the
scene OF the encounter there would have been no
tragedy. There might have been controversy or
perhaps mild brawl but the shocking event that is
now on record would have been avoided
Carrying pistol in automobile is defended
py some drivers on the ground that it is needed in
these lawess days for protection against thieves
bandits Not once in 100 times, we venture to saw,
would man be able to get at his armament when
attacked And mere gesture of drawing gun
would mean his own death serious injury
but IN moment OF anger it is easy for him to
get at the pistol turn 1t on an unarmed adversarv
ana bring regret and sorrow into his own life and
the lives of others
a pistol carried by citizen is greater menace
to himself than the prospect of being held nm and
roooed by some professional criminal The sensible
man goes unarmed and keeps out Of trouble
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-05-21

William Ferguson Of Charlevoix,
Mich, was buried the other day in
a coffin he purchased 25 years ago.
When DR.. Andre Dallagon, ex-
pert on mesmerism, was held up by
bandit he hypnotized the high
wayman and turned him over to the
police in Paris.
Arrested at Coleman, Tex, on his
wedding day for the theft of tur-
keys, j. B. Sloan declared he had
stolen the birds in order to buy his
marriage license.
Because he led three brides to
the altar in three months, John
Tucker Of Lafayette, Ca, was given
2-year Jail sentence.
Mrs. Joseph Latino of Lawrence,
Mass, testified in her divorce suit
that on her wedding night she had
to sleep on the floor while her hus-
band occupied the bed.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-05-21

the Connecticut Yankee, so on the
billboards it would add a touch of
romantic glamor, to say nothing of
a smattering of sex appeal. Mind
you you musent let the add have
anything to do with what you see
on the insides. You are liable to
see the widest stuff facing you on
the billboards, and then go inside
and everybody is dressed as esqui-
mos all through the picture. In
other words Will Hays big trouble
is getting pictures that will live up
to the pictures on the adds.
You know in all Latin American
Countries, Il am speaking of au-
thority as I flew over them at an
altitude of sometimes as low as
ten thousand feet) in those Coun-
tries, if you put a picture on the
boards to advertise what you are
having inside or if in your wording
you say that Miss Millie De Hokum
will entirely disrobe on a tight wire,
why on the said night Mile better
do mighty good job of stripping
or the cash customers will clothe
Mile and her management with
some seats and chairs, and any 9TH
er handy article laying around.
Or if it shows picture of bull
fight and a Matador being gored
by an unruly OK, why the day OF
the fight, you better have the man
gored, or be prepared to be gored
yourself. In other words you got
to deliver what you advertise. So
the big problem of the movies now
is to deliver up to what the Iitho-
graph makers and the add writers
have shown on the outside. In
other words that branch Of the In
dustry has "outstripped" the pro-
duction end.
Then in the titles of pictures,
there is where its getting hard.
They just can't think up enough
suggestive titles to go around.
They bring every big writer out
here from New York and England
and have them in an office just
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-05-21
FRUITS OF sOCIALIsTIC ADVENTURE
Morris Tribune)

morris Tribune)
In the course of the investigation of the Rura,
Credit Bureau county auditors throughout the state
have been asked to report on the taxes which the
lands taken on foreclosure would have paid If they
mad been taken by private mortgage instead of
by the state AS soon the state took the lands they
became tax exempt, and the other property in the
school district, township county had to make up
the taxes which these lands otherwise would have
paid.
These reports have been published in some of the
county papers, and are most enghtening
In Marshall county, for instance according TO
the warren Sheaf, 266 farms have been taken over
Dy the state and the amount thereby taken off the
tax rolls in 1880 was $232217 The total amount of
taxes lost since the Bureau created $51 2s377
in this one county.
During the past five years, the state has lost
$3.50, Marshall county has lost s1273140 the
townships have lost $2 $685. and the school districts
have lost $21 36376 In township the tax losses
amounted to $561927.
In Becker county, according to the Detroit Lakes
record re the tax loss from the cause was &c.
1851, for 1880 alone. -
The tax loss from this excursion into state So
ciansm may amount to a million dollars in all the
counles OF the state, but this amount any other
does not impress us with its meaning-it is too
large figure. But when bring it down to the
township or the country school district where half
the farms may be paying no taxes while the other
mar must therefore have their own heavy burden
doubled, we get to facts which we can understand
1t farmer is paying 5000 in taxes and then has
tnat amount raised to $40O it is easy to understand
why ne may decide that the struggle is not worth
while, and then the state gets another boost Some
surviving farmers take still another boost Some
farmers IN the township may never have borrowed
penny from the state, and yet this is the package
which the state has handed them. Is this the man
ner IN which the state should treat its citizens?
Wnen the state established the Rural Credit Bur
eau 1t handed several packages to its citizens be-
sides the one mentioned above. It helped drive pri
vate loan agencies out of the state and made farm
loans hard to get; it foated its bonds on taxex-
emp OASIS In competition with private capital which
pays taxes; it saddled to all taxpayers Of the
state the liability for loss which will eventually
run to 100000 or more on the, principal and no
one can estimate what the total tax losses will fin
ally be.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-05-21
MEMORIAL DAY

The beautiful custom of setting aside
one day in the year for the decoration of sol
diers' graves is said to have originated in
Petersburg, Va, where Memorial Day was
observed for the first time on June 9, 1866,
in honor of Confederates who were killed in
battle there just one year before.
In 1868 the wife of General John A.
Logan, then commander of the G. A. R., hap
pened to be in Petersburg on its Memorial
Day, and was so impressed with the tributes
of flowers and flags with which the graves
were decorated that she suggested to the
general that this be made national custom.
General Logan accordingly issued an order
to the G. A. R. "that every post of the Grand
Army should hold suitable exercises and
decorate the graves of their dead comrades
with flowers" on May 80 of each year.
The idea spread throughout the South,
also, and Confederate Memorial Day is OBJ
served in various states on the following
dates: April 26 in Alabama, Georgia, Missis-
sippi and Florida; May 10 in North and South
Carolina; the second Friday in May in Ten
nessee, and June in Louisiana. In the
South the national Memorial Day of May 80
is more generally observed since the World
War, the exercises being conducted by the
American Legion.
At the national cemetery of Arlington,
near Washington, the grave of Americas I'm
known Soldier is decorated with special cere-
monies, usually participated in by the Presi-
dent and other high officials, on Memorial
Day.
1t is highly fitting that all citizens
should join in the observance of this most
beautiful and sacred of our national holidays.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-05-21
Just Ten Days
Eczema Gone

When the skin itches and Eczen- q
drives you mad, just battle the parts
night and morning with antisep-
tic Moone's Emerald Oil.
Get q bottle for 85 cents at o.
w. Dowswells, druggist or any pro-
gressive druggist and apply after
reading the directions.
IF the itching hasn't entirely
ceased in ten days you can have
your money back.
It's easy and pleasant to use and
it's speedy action is little less than
marvellous.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-05-21

ting lot of those kind of talking
plays now. Titles that if printed on
the old silent screen, would have
got the "Rawsberry" now are con-
sidered smart, for they apply to
nothing and mean less.
I saw one the other night called
kiss and Leave Each Other Flat"
1t was so subtle that it didn't say
whether you can leave EN- fiat phys
ically, or financially. They call EN-
drawing room plays, women with
nothing on their minds eat EN- up,
kids hiss EN-, and old men sleep
right through EN-. They had EN- on
the stage till they ruined it. So
between "Subtelry" and gangsters
we have run the old cowboy trying
to save the sheriffs daughter right
back to the dairy farm. No mod
ern child would want to learn how
to shoot a As Colts. He wants to
know how to NOW EN- down with
the old Browning Machine Gun.
But we will live through it, and
come out with something worse.
We always do. So we better make
the most of this while its here.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-05-21

ton 1t is! I
thought the I'M
derwear adds in
the magazines
were about the
limit in present
ing an eyefull,
but these movie
adds give you
the same thing
without the un-
derwear.
Even I myself
appeared in a
nightgown in
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-05-21

means nobody
Knows what you
are t a ! k ! n g
lbout and don't
rive a D.
5ophisticati o n
means talking
Ill day about
nothing. You are
both bored but
you have to do
something till
somebody mixes
another cock
tail, we are get
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-05-21

After dreaming that he saw his
wife and James e. O'Brien in af-
fectionate embrace. Louis Jur Of
Chicago went home the next day
and found the dream entirely true.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-05-21
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Says q
WILLIE
ROGERS
Observation-Disclosures Observation-Disclosures

Beverly Hills-All know is just
what I read in the moving picture
adds. and say boy what an educa-
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-05-21
State News Briefs
From OurExchanges

WINONA-Apparently killed by touching de-
fective electric lamp, attached to metal bed, and
a radiator, Father Edward w. Lynch was found
dead in bed in the St Marys college dormitory to-
day He had been instructor in French and ibrar-
ian since 1922.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-05-21

SUBSCRIBE FOR THE HERALD
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-05-21
THE WORLD TODAY
by ARTHUR BRISBANE
BELASCO GONE.
STRANGE SIGHTS IN SPAIN
WALL STREET STORY.
TOO MUCH GREEK, LATIN.
by ARTHUR BRISBAN

David Belasco, one of the ablest, most brilliant
theatrical managers and producers, is dead. He
had been important factor through all the i'm
portant history or the stage America From neg
70 Ministries and Uncle TOMS Cabin" up to the
modern play in which the heroine" is street drab
he had them all.
He leaves successor in his field of work. He
would not permit himself to fall behind the process
sion" but he belonged to another age.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-18

Charles Lee Cook with his STAN OF as
sistants wiz be with him.
Mrs. Robbins went to New York last
evening to remain a few days and VIII
jofu Mr.. Robbins in their apartment in
the Shoreham the first OF the week.
They viii remain at the 6horehann until
they find a suitable house, their cwn
home in Georgetown being leased to
the solicitor general and Mrs. Thomas
D. Thatcher until the LIST OF June next
wear
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-18

MRS. A. Earl Nicely, widow Of the late
Comdr. Nelly, viii be an honor guest
at the dinner to be given ct Quantico
this evening in honor of Gen. Smedley
Butler and viii also be the soloist at
the concert which win precede the din
ner.
Mrs. Nicely viii be the guest over the
week end of Maj. and Mrs. Davis at
their home In Quantico, returning to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-18
Mrs. Henry ID. Flood Takes
Winchester, Va, House for Season.

winchester, va hOuse hOr SeAsOn'
Mrs. Henry d. Flood OF Washington
has leased house in Winchester, Va,
for the Fall and Winter seasons and
with her son and daughter will reside
there. Mrs. Floods daughter, Miss
Eleanor Fieod, will attend Handley High
School and her son. Mr.. Boiling Byrd
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-18

The new chief of protocol division Of
the State Department and chief cere-
monials efflcer of the White House Mr.,
Warren Delano Robbins, Is today NOV
ing into his new quarters on the first
floor of the State, War, and Navy Build
ing.
The Offices are close to the entrance
overlooking the White House. and. Mr..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-18
SOCIETY
Mrs. Hoover Not Attending Opening of
Presidents Cup Regatta, but May
Leave for Rapidan.

r.. G. Foy, Mai. Lynn r, Cowle, Mr..
Earl L. Packer, assistant chief Of the
Division of Eastern European Affairs OF
the State Department; Mr.. j. Piernbnt
Moffat, now on duty at the State De-
paFtment after serving as first secre-
tary Of the United states legation ct
Bern, Switzerland, and the members
OF the Polish embassy stan. .
The Assistant Attorney General of
the United States. Mr.. Seth Whitley
Richardson, went to the GreenbFier,
White Sulphur Springs, w. Va, this
week by airplane from washington,
Mr.. Richardson is the author OF many
articles on big Game Hunting In the
Canadian Northwest"
Mr.. Samuel r. McKelvie, member Of
the Federal Farm Board, has arrived in
washington from his home in Lincoln,
Nebr., and is stopping at the Carlton.
Can't. Hayne Ellis, u. s. NJ, was host
at luncheon today, entertaining At the
Shoreham in compliment to Admiral
Acton of the Italian Navy, who Is SPEND
ing q few days In washington
Cant, and Mrs. Ellis, who have an
apartment at the Shorehan, where they
returned q few weeks ago, have leased
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter y,
Chappell at 1881 Woodland drive and
will take possession the lst Of Novem-
ber Capt. and Mrs. Ellis viii be joined
early in October by their daughter, Miss
Martha Ellis, who is in Boston with her
aunt, Mrs Loula Long COMBS, where
they viii remain until the close Of the
BFockton Horse Show.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chappell are remaining
in their house at Easthampton, L. L.,
where they have bsen through the SUM
mer, and viii return to washington the
first Of October. Their plans for the
Winter season have not yet been COM
pleted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-18

DR.. and Mrs. William G. Gwynn will
entertain at dinner this evening for
their daughter, Miss Louise Harrison
Gwynn, in compliment to their house
guests, Miss Marion Jardine and Miss
Louise Brooks. Miss Jardine, who is
the daughter of the United States Min
lister to Egypt and Mrs. William M.
Jardine, came yesterday and viii remain
through next week. Miss Brooks,
daughter Of Mrs. Lionel Atwill, who
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-18

Whether YOU prefer Bicorne, Tricorne. Robin
Hood, Page Boy or Empress Eugene style
you will find the cIeverest variations of it here in
this extraordinary offering! Felts and velvets in
newest shades with ostrich trimming or coque
feathers to adorn them An excellent selection OF
large aSeadsizea.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-18

her apartment in The Shoreham early
next week.
Mr.. Walter Bruce Howe, chairman Of
the Executive Committee Of the Ma
tiona1 Symphony Orchestra Of wash
ington, has gone to Newport, r, T., to
joint Mrs. Howe end their family, who
spent the season at Berry Hill.
Mrs. Murray Gait Motter has re-
CONTINUED On Third Page.l
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came 70 washington yesterday. win only
remain over Sunday.
MRS. Alexander Rodgers has returned
to washington and is q guest at the
Mayfiower. accompanied by Capt.
Christopher r. p. Rodgers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-18

Mr.. and Mrs. Walter r. Tuckerman
have returned to their home in
Bethesda after spending the Summer
at Southampton, Long Island. They
will leave tomorrow morning to remain
over Sunday at Point Lookout. Miss
Laura Wolcott Tuckerman is visiting at
Belmont Park in New York and will
Joint her parents some time next week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-18

Flood, will attend Shenandoah Valley
Academy, both at Winchester.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-30
Coop Workers Box
in Gym Under the
Direction of L.S.U.

NEW YORK.-Every Friday night,
from 8 O'Clock to 10 o'clock, there
will be boxing class held at the
Cooperative House Gymnasium, 2700
Bronx Park East, Bronx, N. Y.
The Labor Sports Union will have
one of its boxing instructors to teach
the workers interested in learning
how to box. Those that know the
are now will have chance to prac-
tice. The class is the third class
opened to the workers interested in
boxing. The first one is held at the
Ukrainian Sport Club headquarters,
66 E. Fourth ST., ground floor, every
Tuesday night. The second one is
held at the Kaytee A. G. Hall in
Brooklyn, 760 10th ST., Wednesday
nights.
There is no doubt that every
worker in the active struggle against
the bosses needs to have the training
in self-defense. Every class carried
on in the Labor Sports Union is car
ried on in the spirit of workers en-
jcyment and preparation to better
partake in the class struggle. Every
worker must feel it his duty and
pleasure to enter all sport activities
as well as these boxing classes, and
to enter these classes as militant,
ria s-rOreoioiic u,orJarc ,,,,5o,. Tho
banner of the Labor Sports Union