The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-03-31
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just whit I read in the papers.
Poor old papers. While the Lind
berg case was at its heighth they
even had to cut out some of the
add. Lets see how is the world
going anyhow.
Has depression scraped the bot
tom, or is it anchored there. Things
happen for a few days in a row
that make you think, well maby she
is turning. Then the next week all
that is washed up and it looks like
we don't know a thing. They are
getting lot of more people employ
ed, due to some splendid work of
some very able and public spirited
men. I have a friend in the East.
one of the big international polo
players, Cheever Cowdin, and he
has done a lot of fine work along
that line.
You know this darn thing has
made the whole country better off
in lot of ways. It's done away
with four flushing. If man hasent
got it, he don't mind telling you
right out that he hasent. Its made
poverty fashionable. Its brought
out some mighty good qualities in
lots of people. There is a spirit of
better fellowship among everyone I
think. Things really are not as bad
off as some paint EN-. That's I
mean if the ones out of work could
get Jobs. Course there is lots of
things that are not making money,
but they are not suffering so much.
The darndest crime of the whole
thing is farm machinery. Never
did a farmer have as little, yet
never has his machinery cost as
much. I think their earnings have
kept up during all this hard times.
They know an old boy has got to
have a pillow, so make him pay for
it. Most men that have talked to
that ought to know, (but Lord that
don't mean anything, who does
know anything?) Well most of
them are of the opinion that things
will never be as they were, and I
don't suppose anybody wants to
see that Cuckoo" stage again, but
these men seem to think that things
will be more like they were away
along before the war. That is in
prices. Things you have to sell will
becheap but things youhave to buy
to eat, wear and use will be in COM
parison.
I think this sales tax is the best
tax we have had in years. It's what
they call painless, that's when you
don't know you are paying it.
Course that's just name, no tax is
really painless. Then get the in
come tax high. You got to earn
big money or you don't pay it, so
there should never be any hollar
about that, but there should be
distinction between earned and I'M
earned income. For instance man
that earns every dollar by his work
or efforts, then another earns the
same by having enough money in
vested to bring him in that much.
One has his principal to fall back
on, and the other has nothing to
fall back on when his earning ca
pacity has diminished.
Oh, but the tough part Of our
whole system is the amount of
money they are spending, hundreds
thousands, practically millions that
are working for the state, the city,
the Federal Government. And its
not bit better than the govern
ment we got for one-third the money
twenty years ago. But we'll do
like the British, wel'H muddle
through.
Gosh wasent we crazy there for
awhile! Why the thought never
entered our head that we wasent
the brightest, wisest and most. &C
complished people that ever was
on this earth. Hadent we figured
out MASS Production" Couldent
we make more things than any
body? Did the thought ever enter
our bone head that the time might
come when nobody would want all
these things we were making? No
we had it all figured out that the
more we made the more they would
want.
Honest as we look back on it
now, somebody ought to have taken
each one of us and soaked our fat
heads. Bought every thing under
the sun that anybody had to sell, if
he would SELL it on enough pay
ments. Where was our payments
going to be if we lost our jobs?
Why that had never entered our
heads. Why should we lose our
jobs? Wasent all our big men tell
ing US things was even going to
get better? Was our government
or our prominent men warning us?
If we had had prominent" man
he would have but we just dident
have any. But we cant lay the
blame on to that, we all got to
lay it on ourselves. Each one of
us individually as we look back we
can see what mess we made, but
the drunk is over, and this sober
ing up is terrible, but as bad as it
is, it's better than any other coun-
try. So cheer up! That's the only
thing thew don't tax YOU on.