The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-03-24

Forty years ago Union Square was the heart of bus
Now it is left far downtown
There were wonderful opportunities to buy real
estate when Union Square "in the country
There are as many opportunities now Those
who think the world is coming to an end will be
sorry they had so little confidence
Following the suicide of Ivar Kreuger the great
Swedish ndustralis driven despair and death for
lack of money that would have relieved temporary
embarrassment, there comes another death infinitely
sad that of George Eastman the public spirited
manufacturer and phanthropist of Rochester, N. Y.
All those that knew Mr.. Eastman, who had been
in failing health for long time will feel certain that
weakness causing mental disturbance prompted the
act that ended his life
With the deepest sorrow and sympathy, and un-
diminished admiration for good man, friends will
read his last words written few moments before
death:
To my friends:
my work is DONE Why waltz" =
Death is only an incident, life is the real thing
and the world will turn from the sad incident of Mr.
Eastmans death to the glory of his long useful gen.
erous career.
Interesting to a majority of Americans is the
fact that Babe Ruth consents to accept $4,000 for
playing baseball next year. He wanted $4,000.
The public is interested in money, deeply inter-
ested in baseball and the art of applying power at
the end of bat. 1t is especially interested in per-
sonalty. Babe" Ruth has it.
This country needs and lacks adequate, economi-
cal distribution. For that it is folly to tell
four of the greatest industrial in the United
States, engaged in distribution of the farmers
cattle pigs and chickens that they must not dstrb-
ute other products of the farms.
To forbid full of the packers distributing
agencies is like telling milkman that he can sell
only milk, another wagon must bring the cream, and
a third the buttermilk.
The consuming public at one end the farmer at
the other pay all the distribution costs.
Those that distribute meat should distribute all
farm products-fruts, vegetables, and canned
everything in short that they distribute, every
thing that the farm produces and the consumer
wants. To limit or forbid the business man the
right to do what he chooses in his way in legit
mate business is idiocy harmful to 80 per cent of
the people. 1t is a part of top heavy extravagance
that brings depression.
What does this country need?
What do conditions demand?
What would make wheels begin turning?
More money
Shudder at the word Imitation" if you must and
shiver with the creeps at mention of Silver if you
choose But in some way, and of some kind, this
country should have more money.
It needs more money, not to stop petty boarding
by individuals, but to end disastrous boarding by
banks, blamed if they hoard, and blamed If they do
not maintain liquidity"
In the Sahara desert one man Will kill another
for cup of muddy water and Arabs kill their caes
to get the water boarded in the camePs stomachs.
That does not happen on the edge of Lake SUI
perior, where there is plenty of fresh water
boarding would STOP dread of new enterprises
vanish, if money really plentiful. You remem-
Der when the boom was getting under way and
everybody said. "The cheapest thing in the world
today is money"
Business men that have borrowed and paid faith
fully all their lives cannot borrow How
they employ the idle?
Those that lent money for building and
labor employment lend nothing Each clasps
his money to his breast, though it were his last
crust of bread on raft in midocean.
Hindenburg's personal victory foreseen by all
that the German people, is hailed by the nations
guarantee of peace.
Hitler, young energetic, had intimated that he
would avenge "the wrongs Of Germany" in connec-
ton with the 1914 and the Versailles treaty. just
France for many years before 1914 had been prom
Using to avenge the wrongs of 1870
The svenging process may have to come, since
still savages. But it ought to be reasonably
postponed.