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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-12-29
Lima Bean Roast, A Substantial
Dish

Here are two filling and substan-
tial hot dishes suggested by Mrs.
Kathryn B. Niles of the Home Eco
nomics Division, Minnesota College
of Agriculture, University Farm,
st Paul They are designed to
help the housewife in providing
variety for an active family.
Lima Bean Roast q:
2 cups cooked lima beans
/ cup diced potatoes-raw 1.
onion :
1atb ham or bacon fat
Il to " green pepper -
finely chopped parsley :
cup bean stock salt
Slice the onion and brown it in
the fat. Add the other ingredients.
Put the mixture into a baking
dish; add stock or water and bake
in a moderate oven about one hour.
It may be necessary to add water
during the baking as the mixture
should not be dry when served.
Serve with tomato sauce or as is.
Green pepper is optional. Makes
six servings. Temperature 400*F.
Time hour.
Vegetable en- Casserole
med. size potatoes ,
small turnip !:
- 1 c canned peas ~
canned tomatoes
onion
n c rice ~.
tsp salt
1-8 tsp pepper j"
= 1-8 tsp allspice
8 C brown stock Cor water).
Wash, pare and thinly slice po-
tatoes. Wash and pare turnips, cut
in " inch slices and cut these in
cubes. Peel and slice onion. Pick
over and wash rice. Put ingredients
in alternate layers in casserole.
Pour over stock, cover, and cook in
slow oven until liquid is absorbed
and potatoes are tender. Stock may
be made by dissolving bouillon
tubes in water. Makes IL servings.
Temperature, $50 F. Time, about
2k hours.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-12-29
Former Pioneer Takes
Long Look Backward

in this modest home, that your re-
spected citizen was born, and he
was named Henry. remember
with this event, Mrs. Dave Pang-
burn, and the writer's mother, call
ed on the Capser's shortly after and
on mothers return home, said to
father, "Capser's have a fine baby,
but it is as red as beet" How
ever Henry outgrew this handicap
and became a fairly respectable cit
izen, as many will testify. The 9TH
er old timers that come to mind ::
Newton Barker, brother-in-law of
John (Nick) Hickman; drowned in
Sank Lake, near Ashley Creek,
Mrs. Watson drowned at the same
time, whose baby was recovered
several days later and was brought
into town from up near the Hick-
man farm in a lumber wagon,
drawn by an OK team. The day was
blistering hot. There was no hearse
or ice. We had no caskets in those
frontier days.
The others who come to mind
are Grandpa Sprague, father Of
Cash and Milt, who lived down near
the river, a block east of Main
street on the east side of the road.
There were no streets at this time.
Fiddler Taylor and wife lived
nearer the river. Just across the
road east, lived, near the river,
Hank Mclaughlin, next south, lived
the writer's parents. Then in a
long shanty building of three rooms,
lived, first, Dick Tellar, wife and
daughter, Alice; next, Dave Pang-
burn, wife and George, Fred, Will,
Arthur, and daughter Hattie; who
later became Mrs. Jim Caughren, an
old school mate of the writer, and
in the third room lived VIM. Van
Valkenburg, wife and daughter,
Ada, who became Mrs. Willard
Sprague. A Mr.. Coons, and Mr..
Louch, school teachers; John Can
non, Alex Moore's miller.
, Do you old timers know, that be-
sides plotting the townsite of Sank
Centre, Alex Moore plotted a
TOWNSHIP on the northeast shore of
Westport Lake, and at time
when there was not a habitation
in sight. Warren Odleg did the sur
veying. ...s. a.
Pete Stafford, proprietor of the
Sank Centre House for while; Dad
Wright, two daughters, who later
became Mrs. c. M. Sprague, and
Mrs. Ira Carpenter, Dad Coe, Fish
and Murphy, Murphy and Hyland.
These are some of the Mine Hosts,
who have catered to Sank Centres
cash customers. For doctors you
have had quite an assortment. Dea-
con Connor, for instance, a thor
oughbred Hoosier, and perhaps if
the records were searched, they
would show him registered in Hoop
pole Township, Posey County. In
diana. DR.. McMasters, DR.. Lewis,
Doc q. Al Dubois, tough guy.
comes home in the late hours of
the night from a visit to far dis
tant country patient, hungry,
dashes to the cupboard and con-
sumes about half gallon Of sauer
kraut, threshes around the balance
Of the night with the tummy ache,
some doctor. But thank providence
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-12-29
Public Spending
Consumes Incomes
Adding New Patches VIII Not
Bring Anticipated Tax System
Up to Date

1t Is not likely that the ideal
method of taxation very soon will
be achieved. The demands of gov
eminent will always lead the pro-
cession, and tax collectors will al
ways trail behind in trying to raise
new revenue to keep up with in
creasing needs of government. If
we are to judge from past exper-
fences, this is a safe prediction.
James P. Mcdonnell, Buffalo, vice
president of the Minnesota Tax
payers Association, declared in a
talk Thursday.
"Our present system may be an
tiquated, but you cannot bring it
up to date by adding new patches
to the quilt. In our own state, we
have complained year after year
that general property taxes have
been growing faster than the value
of the property, or the earning
power of the property-owner, which
certainly is the truth. Yet, every
time a new source of revenue is
found, it offers no relief to general
property. It is true, gross earnings
taxes, iron ore taxes, mortgage reg
istry taxes, inheritance taxes, and
the. other new sources have provid-
ed millions of dollars annually for
new spending, just as gas taxes
and. automobile license receipts
have financed our road program in
the state, but the burden on gen.
eral property has been going up
ward, and not downward as was
hoped for. And the plain answer
is: that taxes can never be re-
duced until public spending is cur
tailed. The, answer is so simple
that everyone can" see it, except
many of those. in official power who
ought to see it," Mcdonnell de-
clared.
Minnesota primarily is an agri-
cultural state, and agriculture is
being taxed out of business. En-
ployment depends on industry, and
industry depends upon agriculture,
and agriculture is right down on it's
knees because of starvation prices
for its products, and because of a
tax load that would hamper even
the most prosperous business. The
taxpayer who is losing his home,
the farmer who is losing his prop
erty, the business man who is fore
ed to the wall, these are seeing
their earnings consumed in the hot
fires of public extravaganza. Where
are the firemen to put out this
blaze that is eating up the earn
ings of the people?" Mcdonnell
asked.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-12-29
Income Figures Of
Minnesota's Farms
Careful Compilations Shows a De-
crease of $15O, OOO, 900 in 1881
Over 5-Year Average

The terrific tumble taken by Min
nesota farm incomes is shown in
figures collected by w. c. Waite.
L. F. Carey, and M. M. Regain, of
the agricultural economics division
of the University Of Minnesota from
an article on Farm Incomes in
Minnesota" in Minnesota Farm
Notes, published by the extension
division, University Farm, st. Paul.
The Minnesota farm income in
1881 was 1882 million dollars. This
was nearly 100 million dollars less
than in 1880, when the total was
1872 million dollars and ISL million
dollars, less than in 1929 when
the total was 1884 million. The aver
age annual income for the period
1859 was 3S2 million so that the
1881 income was almost $50 million
less than the average for the five
years from 1925 to 1929, but this,
according to he.figures, tells by no
means the whole story. Exact fig
ures for 1882 are not available but
1t appears now that the 1892 income
will amount to- only about 175 mill
lion dollars. g. ...s 49,. ;...t
The figures given are based upon
sales of the 16 principal Minnesota
agricultural products: = Butterfat,
hogs, cattle, wheat, eggs, milk,
corn, flax, oats, barley, potatoes,
calves, chickens, hay, rye: and
lambs or sheep. .....
Cash expenditures for the years
from 1926 to 1929 ran from 189 mill
lion in 1925 to 1879 million in 1929.
In 1880 they amounted to III mill
ion and in 1881 to 159 million. For
1882 the figures are placed at 149
million. Such expenses include 20
items such as taxes, interest on in
debtedness, labor, feeds, stocker
and feeder cattle, hogs and sheep,
veterinary charges, threshing,
building repairs, insurance, gallo
line, automobile and truck licenses
and all the rest They represent the
cash operating expenses of the
frmers but not all of the toal out
day.
In 1910 taxes and interest COM
prised slightly less than 80 per cent
of the total cash expenditures of
farmers. In 1880 the ratio of taxes
and interest to income as As per
cent and in 1882 it is expected to
be about 46 per cent.
Net cash income, by which is
meant what is left after deducting
cash operating expenses from the
farmer for food, clothing, medical
service, education, insurance, mort
gage liquidation and other items
which involve cash outlay. On the
farm basis, this in 1910 amounted
to $500; in 1920 to 1888; in 1880 to
1886, and in 1881, according to esti-
mates, to 1884 and in 1882 to SAL
per farm.
In summing up the situation the
authors of the statement say:
with so large part of the cash
farm expenses consisting of such
non-fiexible items as taxes and in
terest, the possibility Of significant
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-12-29

cred and very little or no improve
ment from the depression may be
noticed within year or more.
eff immediate relief is not given
our signature hereto also means an
organized pledge that we will dis
continue all payments until our ex-
penses can be made or relief given.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-12-29

Users of safety razors don't talk
themselves into having a massage,
shampoo, SINCE and hair tonic.
Anyway, mudslinging in the 1887
campaign has been trifle more
fiipnified than usual.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-12-29
Twenty-Five Year Ago
Items of Interest Cleaned From the
Files of the Herald, Published
nearly 20 Years ApO-JuIv II

&hOS Va Vic A1CIdlu, L uUl1SItcu
nearly 80 Years Ago-July Ill
At the Fourth of July celebration
Chas. Walker read the Declaration
of Independence and Rev. A. K.
Fox delivered an able Grafton
which was published in full. Among
the features of the day considered
notable by the editor was the alb
sence of drunkenness.
T. L. Mcclure, of st. Cloud,
started by boat from Sank Centre
to st. Cloud. He reached New Mum
ich the first evening and Richmond
the following night where he and
his companions abandoned their
boat in disgust, making the remain
der Of their journey by stage.
More Land-The demand for
town lots in Sank Centre is so
pressing that the elements, moved
by the appeal, have undertaken to
do their share towards keeping up.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-12-29

increases in net farm income lies
with an increase in the prices OF
agricultural commodities instead
Of any great reduction in farm ex-
penses.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-12-29
Trunk Routes Paving
Totals 2,406 Miles
Babcock Also Reports 2,459 Miles
in State Highway System
Oiled or Tarred

An increase of 534 miles of pave
ment and 587 miles of bituminous
surface in the past year, is shown
in the annual inventory or report
on the status of Improvement of the
trunk highway system, made public
this week by G. M. Babcock, COM
missioner Of highways. The total
mileage in the system has been de-
creased by 90, and due to the in
crease in paved and bituminous sur
facing, there is a decrease in the
untreated gravel mileage. The
mileage Of each type of highway
now and one year ago is as fol-
lows:
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-12-29
red with 14,s2s,os7 tons May 1

1881.
J. G. Armson, chairman Of the
tax commission, in announcing the
valuations, pointed out, Of the $685.
124 decrease in valuation Of stock
piles under the commissions fig
ures year ago, approximately
100000 Of it is accounted for in the
additional deduction allowed for
rail freight under the emergency
tariff.
The commission earlier in the
week denied a petition of mining
concerns operating in northern
Minnesota and other landholders,
for a 20 per cent reduction is as
sessed valuation.
Only three counties, in which the
mines are located, collect taxes on
the assessed valuation of mined and
unmined ore. They are st. Louis,
Itasca and Crow Wing.
The commission divided the as
sessment for mined and unmined
ore as follows: st. Louis, 1892, I'M
mined ore, $203, 916, 1889; 1881, $780,
58,016; mined ore, or stock piles.
1892, $6,79S,744; 1881, ST, sos ,562.
Itasca county, unmined ore, 1882,
$18,652,623, 1881, $18,620,417; mined
ed ore, 1892, 1921, 627, $3s9, 805.
Crow Wing county unmined ore,
1892, $2,650,OS6; 1881, s2,666, sos; min
ed ore, 1892, $2S1627 $369s05.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-12-29

Some recent political speakers
were greeted with boos, possibly
from auditors filled with booz.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-12-29

Pavement ----...-.-..-.. 1,872.50 2,406. SO
Bituminous treated 1920 2,459.67
Gravel, standard
grade ..-..-.----- 1,349.80 1864
Earth, standard
grade --.--.--...-..--.---. $40 1910
Gravel, substandard
grade .----,---,,----- 1,620.5O S93.15
Earth or sand-clay,
sub-standard grade 5000 1920
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-12-29
Threaten to End
Federal Payments

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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-11-04
LABOR'S SHARE
Of Each Building Construc-
ton Dollar Shown

Washington.-Th value of build
ing construction in providing work is
shown by the fact that 34.6 cents of
every dollar spent in building opera
tions is paid directly in wages to labor
engaged on the projects, according
to information made available by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.
S. department of labor.
The figures were obtained in sur
vey conducted in 15 representative cit
les throughout the country. The re-
naming 63.6 cents of the dollar was
spent for materials, it was learned
from records of contractors relating
for the most part to 1881 and 1882.
The percentage received by labor
was slightly more on residential than
on non-residential structures, and the
percentage of labor and material
costs differed considerably in differ
ent cities.
In Boston, for example, Al per cent
of the total cost of building opera
tions went directly to labor, while in
Dallas, Texas, only 27.2 per cent OF
the cost went into wages.
In the North, in general, labor was
found to receive a larger proportion
of the total cost of building opera.
tions than in the South.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-11-04
A. F. of L. Plans Convention
Attack on Unemployment

The estimates were made in the re-
port of the state temporary emer-
gency relief administration on it's ac-
tivities from November l, 1881, to
September Is, 1882. During this Pc
riod relief was given to 10000 fam
lilies, representing 100000 persons.
The report was signed by Harry L.
Hopkins, chairman; Charles D. Os-
borne and John Sullivan. In addi-
tion to being a member of the emer-
gency relief administration, Mr.. Sui
livan is president of the New York
State Federation of Labor.
indications of the summer months, .
the report said, point to the con.
clusion that within q few months
there will be many more of the esti.
mated 100000 unemployed in the
state who will be driven across the
line between self-support and depend.
ency on public aid.
"The problem of every citizen is
not only to see that support is given
to aid the unemployed, but sufficient
support, so that the recession of this
economic disaster will not reveal a
vast amount of human wreckage, but
a high average of sturdy citizens who
were preserved, physically and men.
tally, through a period of devastating
need.
The report said that those needing
help do not paply until they have
been caught in the quicksand of debts
to tradesmen, accumulated interest or
mortgages, taxes on property of THEN
own, if they have any, and complete
restitution
"They are at the end of their re.
sources and the future earning power
of many of them is mortgaged fol
years to come with unpaid debts tt
grocers, bakers, loan companies anc
whoever would extend them credit.
"Men and women who differ in edu.
cation, capacity and background have
been reduced to a common and urgent
need. They were a strong factor ir
the economic life of the state less than
four years ago. With some aid they
will be conserved for the society Of
tomorrow"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-11-04
NO FAVORITISM
FOR new PLANTS

Harrisburg, Pa. (ILNS)-Booming
textile plants and other new-coming
plants are not going to get away with
labor law violations under any plea
that first offenders and plants trying
to establish themselves are entitled
to leniency. Miss Charlotte Carr,
deputy secretary of the department of
labor and industry, said there is no
intention to favor new firms over old
.ones.
The bulk of labor law violation is
in cases involving the rights of wo-
men and children. In the last 100
prosecutions there were charges Of
166 violations of the women's law and
65 violations of the child labor law.
1t was made plain that new plants
are welcome, if they do not cause
the state the trouble of prosecuting
to protect the rights Of it's wage earn
ers established by law.
"The practice of refusing to prose-
cute on the first discovered offense,
on the ground of ignorance, becomes
ridiculous when it is remembered that
there has been no essential change in
the labor laws since 1916" Miss Carr
said.
Seventeen years should be long
enough for employers to acquaint
themselves with the laws. At the
same time it is not fair to the old
established firms to allow newcomers
to disregard the laws and create un-
fair competition. The newcomers can
make sure they are properly obeying
the laws by communicating with the
supervising inspectors"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-11-04
AS THE WORKER.
SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest Of
Important Events of the
Week. Here and Abroad

Iowa organized labor is campaign
ing vigorously to help elect Dan L
Turner governor. Turner, running on
the republican ticket, opposed by
CLYDE l.. Herring.
Automobile factories turned out
84,141 cars during September, the
commerce department reports. Pro-
duction for the first nine months of
this year was 1857 ,029 cars, against
2,119,188 for the same period last
year.
British labor is engaged in siren
uous campaign for the 40-hour week
and against further restrictions in
dole payments.
Maj. J. A. Coats, member of the
famous Paisley family of cotton mil
lionaires, inherited ten million dollars
and left about a million and quar-
ter when he died recently in England.
He was heavy gambler, Indifferent
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-11-04

President Green has various SUBJ
jects to lay before the council and
on some of these reports will be made
to the convention. 1t is considered
probable that he will report on the
share-the-work movement and his eff
forts in behalf of that movement
which is now getting under way from
coast to coast, providing additional
jobs as an emergency measure.
While the council is formulating its
report the various departments are
similarly formulating reports. Enough
is known to forecast some almost
sensational declarations in prospect in
department conventions.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-11-04

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-Meet-
ing here in regular fall session, the
executive council of the American
Federation of Labor this week brand
ed as a dual organization the Rail-
road Employees National Pension As
sociation, with headquarters at 341
East Ohio street, Chicago, w. W..
Royster, chairman.
The pension organization has been
functioning for some time and recent
ly held a convention in Chicago.
Action by the executive council in
declaring the pension organization
dual and hostile follows similar ac-
ton taken by the 81 standard railroad
labor organizations in Cleveland at
their meeting on August 1924.
The pension organization is sup
porting pension legislation in opposi-
ton to legislation sought by the
standard railroad labor unions.
Condemnation Is Vigorous
The executive councils action con-
demns the pension organization in
biting terms. Assurance of co-opera-
ton with the standard railroad labor
unions by international Labor News
Service was conveyed to the council
and the council included an express
sion of appreciation in it's action.
The councils declaration, submitted
as motion by Vice President Mat
thew Woll, is as follows:
at is moved that the president OF
the American Federation OF Labor,
and in it's behalf, give expression OF
opposition to the Hatfield-Keller bill
and reaffirm it's approval OF the Wag-
ner- -Crosser bill; that we denounce the
so-called Railway Employees National
Pension Association as an organiza-
ton not alone hostile to the legls-
lative program of the standard rail-
way organization, but dual and de-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-11-04

to heavy losses. Those who produced
wealth could be neither.
American match producers and fish
Gamers have joined in protest against
alleged foreign dumping.
Serious wastes" which could be
avoided are charged to railroads in
an interstate commerce commission
report. 1t is indicated that some of
the wastes" referred to by the COM
mission would, if eliminated, also
eliminate additional railroad employees.
Duplication of produce terminals is
charged as one "avoidable waste"
London has its hunger march-20OO
while marching, many more when the
"army" reached London.
Federal Reserve Board reports in
dustrial activity increased more than
normal from August to September
The report shows gains in jobs and
in manufacturing output.
Colorado, Oregon, Louisiana and
Oklahoma have just received R. F. c.
loans totalling more than $780, 900,
to meet current relief requirements.
Sir Norman Angel, British author
and pacifist, has arrived to deliver a
series of lectures roasting the pres
ent system He holds the depression
due to poor education.
Moscow has stopped selling to di-
plomats and correspondents for rou-
bles. Hereafter payment must be in
foreign money.
When Columbia recently opened its
new station, WJSV, across the Poto-
mac from Washington, D. Co., it had
arranged program of marine, army
and navy band music. The American
Federation of Musicians said if these
bands played the union would with
draw musicians from coast to coast.
The service bands were withdrawn
and WJSV opened with professional
talent.
Postal receipts in 100 select indus
trial cities during the three months
ended September 80, were 1886, ,694.77
under receipts for the same period
last year. Possibility grows that there
will be a return to the 2cent rate on
first class mail.