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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1933-03-23
State Bank
Protection
Was his Aim
Senator Henrik Shipstead
Explains His Opposition to
the Emergency Bill
CONGRESS WAS RUSHED
Insists He Is Not Opposed to
President Roosevelt-In-
teresting Statement

The following is a statement Of
the reasons for Senator Henrik
Shipstead's vote on the Emergency
Banking Bill.
THE bill had to do with the OPP
ening of banks that had been closed
by the order of the President. The
Proclamation closing the banks
was issued because of heavy with
drawls by depositors from banks
resulting in a scarcity of cash. The
holiday period gave the national
government time to have Federal
Reserve Notes printed and sent to
Federal Reserve Banks where
banks, members of the system,
could take their securities and get
the cash necessary for the day of
opening.
1T may not be generally known
by the public at large but it is
quite generally known among peo-
pie who have to do with these mat
tiers, that there is controversy go
ing on in financial circles that has
to do with the elimination of State
Banks. My position in the matter
has been that as a Senator repre-
senting a State having both State
and National Banks, it is my duty
to protect, so far as possible, the
interests of both. 1t is my concep-
ton of justice also that it is the
duty of the Federal Government to
take the same position.
state Banks generally are not
members of the Federal Reserve
system and there were, at the time,
something like 400 State Banks in
Minnesota. Under the law, at that
time, they could not go to the Fed
eral Reserve Banks directly and
get the cash as National Banks
were permitted to do.
1--WE tried to have an amendment
adopted to the bill giving them
that privilege because under the
circumstances it was very import
ant on the day of opening that
every bank should have sufficient
cash. We were told by Senators
representing the administration the
banks would open the next morning,
Friday, under the new law. 1t was
pointed out that if that was true
State Banks would be in danger be-
cause of lack of cash. In the hys-
terra of the evening Senators re-
fused to vote for the proposed
amendment and anticipating what
would happen if the National Banks
opened the next morning on diff
ferent basis from State Banks I
did not want to assume response
bility for the resulting crash by
voting for the bill.
However, that night after the
bill was passed conference was
called at the White House and I am
informed the danger was called to
the attention of the President and
as result he issued proclamation
postponing the opening of Nation
al and Federal Reserve Banks from
Friday morning until the following
Monday and Tuesday. This was to
give the Congress the opportunity
to pass the necessary legislation
that had just been voted down that
evening but necessity for which be-
came apparent after the bill had
been passed.
"The Treasury Department pre-
pared an amendment that was in
troduced by Senator Robinson, of
Arkansas. 1t passed the Senate
last Tuesday. The day after it
CONTINUED Oh Page Four
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1933-03-23

Net collections or Minnesota's
gasoline tax in February totalled
$514,313 after refunds, compared
with $457, 241 in February, 1892, &C
cording to report of the state oil
inspection division. This is an in
crease of $57,072.
The total amount of gasoline, ker-
osene and furnace oil shipped into
the state in February was 33,062,-
1893 gallons, compared with 30,487,-
092 gallons in the same month last
years.
January's in shipments and gas
tax collections were much lower
than in January, 1882. Tile net tax
es collected in January this year
totalled about 100000 less than the
year previous.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1933-03-23
Money Not Ex-
pended on Flea
INSTRUMENTATION Given Out BY Hos
tile Agencies-Fleas Served
Important Purpose

Weekly newspaper readers who
were amused-and perhaps greatly
irritated-by a recent article re-
garding efforts of the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture to determine
how far flea can jump, and of the
U. S. Department of Commerce to
find how far frog can jump, may
be interested in the facts about the
instances referred to.
DR.. w. A. Riley, chief of the di-
vision of entomology and economic
zoology, University Farm, st. Paul,
explains how the departments con-
cerned came to have the informa-
ton they are said to have used in
answering some letters. His eXpla-
nation reveals the INSCRIPTIONS
manner in which governmental de-
partments and activities are being
attacked these days by selfish or
hostile interests.
The article gives the impress
sion that the aforementioned
government departments have
been wasting great deal of
time and spending a lot of
taxpayers money in finding out
how far flea or frog can
jump. DR.. Riley points out that
the information on f1eas is not of
recent origin at all, but has
been available for many years
and in 1914 was quoted by DR..
Riley in his textbooks on Med
icar Entomology. The in
formation was not based on
work done in the Federal De-
partment of Agriculture, as the
cleverly-worded report implies,
but was of fundamental signifi-
canoe in the study of one of the
most dread epidemic diseases of
mankind-the bubonic plague
or ''black DEATH" Says DR..
Riley:
TN 1906 it was first definitely
established that this scourage
was a rat disease, carried from
by flees. In verifying this dis
covery, it was necessary to find
out how far the feas actually
could jump, and this new-found
information was almost i'm
/ mediately applied in fighting
an outbreak of the plague in
San Francisco and later in New
Orleans, and several other
places in this country"
Regarding the charge made in the
same article, that the Department
of Commerce was directing its
chief attention to finding how fan
a frog can jump, DR.. Riley says the
data given in this connection were
field observations of early natural.
lists. They were quoted in DECKER.
sons Frog Book" published in
1907, and no employee of the Fed
eral Department of Commerce ever
gave one minute of the taxpayers
time to this particular problem, un.
less it was to dictate reply to one
of the innumerable queries which
come to government department.
and experiment stations.
In other words, DR.. Riley says
both bits of information were orig
inally obtained from serious stud.
les which served their purpose well
They were made long ago and pre-
served, as are all scientific data
Thus the Federal Departments
having this information available
were able to answer the inquiries
without the costly and foolish" re-
search alleged by the article.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1933-03-23

Miss Nettie Simmer is spending
the week at the home of her broth
er, Mr.. and Mrs. William Simmer,
residing east of the city.
Mrs. Fred B. Rowe, and Miss
Rowe, arrived Sunday for visit
at the home of their son and broth
er, Mr.. and Mrs. Burton Rowe, of
this city.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1933-03-23
FRACTURES ARM

Late Monday Wenzel Menzhuber,
plant foreman at the Menasha
Wood working plant, in the
south part of the city in some
unaccountable manner caught his
left hand in the sanding ma
chine while sanding butter tubs.
Before he could be released Mr..
Menzhuber suffered a fracture Of
both bones Of the arm, near the
wrist.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-01-19

PRESIDENT HOOVER'S pro-
gram for reorganization Of the
federal government is being abso-
lutely blocked by the house Demo
Gratis. who intended that Mr.. Roose-
Welt shall be empowered to make
such changes as he thinks fit after
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OF NATIONS mas H. -..-s-
ready demonstrated its comparative
helplessness In such emergencies.
Resumption. of hostilities between
the two Oriental nations began at
Shanhaikwan, the gateway city be-
tween China and Manchuria at the
end of the Great Wall. Marshal
Chang Hsueh-liang. former war lord
of Manchuria. according to the jap
aneSe. was gathering there troops.
arms and munitions. and transport
ing them thence into Jehol province.
which japan intends to add to Man.
chukuo. Furthermore the Japanese
conveniently found two bombs In
their gendarmerie station in Shan
flaikwan. This was enough excuse
for them. so they first bombed the
city from airplanes and then occu
MED il after making three assaults
by sea and land t'hang's troops re-
sisted bravely. but were forced to
retreat after losing from 800 to 1000
men. Large numbers of civilians
also were killed or wounded and
the city was badly battered. The
Japanese losses were officially re-
ported as eight dead and IL serious
IL wounded. Their attacks were
made with two destroyers. ten heid
guns and 5000 Infantry
Marshal Chang reformed his sol
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other men and women of prOmi-
nence, and the governments Of many
foreign nations. -.
Funeral services, simple and I'M
ostentatious, were held Saturday in
Northampton, President Hoover and
many other dignitaries attending,
and the body was then taken by an
tomobile to Plymouth, Vt, and laid
In the Coolidge plot in the old GEM
etery. ....
The grief of the nation was ex-
pressed by the President in a proc
lamation ordering. thirty days of
public mourning. ~
Mr.. Coolidge, who was sixty years
old last July, had been in the public
service nearly all Of his adult
life, advancing from councilman of
Northampton In 1899 to the highest
position in the nation in 1923, when
he succeeded to the Presidency
after the death of President Harding.
He was elected President the follow
Ing year, and declined to be a candi.
date for second elective term. He
first became nationally prominent
while serving as governor of Massa-
chusetts, which place he held for
two terms; he was then chosen Vice
President on the Harding ticket.
Though never considered brilliant"
Mr.. Coolidge was one of the ablest
and wisest of our Presidents and
was unflagging in his devotion to
his high duties. Since leaving the
White House he had engaged in the
insurance business but also found
time to act as head of the commits
sion named to study the problems
of transportation. especially the
railroads, =. @-7-.;>
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s-;si''.s-- ssl.-.- IL 9 piofiSionS
may be thus summarized:
1. To levy on the four basic farm
commodities of wheat, hogs, cotton
and tobacco and on silk and raym
manufacturers sales tax which,
in the case of wheat, will amount
to 200 per cent of the present farm
price and which. in the case of hogs.
will amount to nearly 50 per cent
of the current price of pork.
2. To give power to the secretary
of agriculture to fix the prices of
the four commodities by determin-
ing their "fair exchange value" and
to determine the "fair exchange al
lowance" necessary to restore the
purchasing power of the commodi
ties to their 19O9-14 level.
8. To bring about imitation by
handing to the. farmer in the shape
of adjustment certificates" nego-
table certificate of government in
debtedness secured by the tax rev.
enues and redeemable by the gov
eminent.
4. To give to the secretary of
agriculture power to control the
production of wheat. hogs. cotton,
and tobacco by granting him au-
thority to determine the percentage
of production required for domestic
consumption; to disburse adjust
ment certificates only to those farm
ers who cut production 20 per cent
to decide how this curtailment of
production shall be determined. and
to decide what use the farmer shall
make of lands so taken out of pro-
duction.
Dairy products were not included
in the measure. though hard fight
for this was made in committee. 1t
is provided that the measure be in
effect for one year, with the Presi-
dent given authority to continue it
for an additional year.
President Elect-Roosevelt, as is
well known now. is opposed to a
general sales tax, but the domestic
allotment bill suits him. The man
ufacturers affected have insisted
that their Industries cannot absorb
the tax called for and that 1t must
he passed on to the consumer and
the farmer.
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found chat it's con-
illusions are not
W | d ely different
from those Of tech
nocracy that have
caused such ardent
debate, though the
committe does not
predict the total
collapse which the
technocrats profess
to foresee. Instead,
it sees no immi-
hence of failure of
ci vilization, b u t
LI, 1907, <5oI
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Lawrence o the
Hawafsh ecommsi
l.
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he was found dead
by Mrs. Coolidge at
t b cir h o m e in
Northampton, Mass.
He had not been Sc
riously Ill. and his
demise was a ter
rible shock to his
family and friends.
Swiftly as the wires
could carry them.
messages of condo
lence came from
President Hoover,
Presid : Elect
Roosevelt countless
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dierS at Changli under protection
of three armored trains and defied
the japanese. He advised their
commander at Tientsin, General
Nakamura, to address all commu-
nications to Marking, not to him,
rejecting the japanese contention
that the Shanhaikwan fighting was
q local incident that could be set
tied by local negotiations. f..
Quo Tai-chi, Chinese minister to
Great Britain, announced in Lon
don that the Chinese delegation to
the League of Nations would de-
liver an ultimatum demanding a
league verdict on Japan's action.
If this is insisted upon Japan may
carry out it's threat to withdraw
from the league. ;.
IN ILLINOIS, too, warfare long
smoldering was resumed. this con-
fiict being between the United Mine
Workers and the rebel union known
as the Progressive Miners of Amer
lea. The scene of the encounter
was a coal mine at Kincaid. a small
town near Taylorville. body of
Progressive miners met an equal
number of United Mine Workers
coming from the shaft and in the
resulting clash a machine gun, rifles
and revolyers were used freely. Two
persons were killed. one a United
miner and the other a woman. The
wounded were numerous. The SUI
perintendent of the mine insisted
that operations would not be sus-
pended, and the authorities were ex-
pecting futher trouble there and
at other points in the coal belt The
new union is strong in that par
ticular locality. though 1t has not
made much Roadway in the south
ern Illinois coal fields. The fight
ing broke out again the second day
two men being wounded. The sher.
iff of the county ordered picketing
stopped and forbade public meet
ings of the Progressive union. Five
companies of state troops were sent
to the scene.
DARN relief as conceived by the
: Democratic majority Of the house
was being hurried to vote in the
house. 1t was in the form of the
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WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume of Happenings
of the Week Collected for
Our Readers
THE MARKETS

Il Seattle .-
wheat-Soft white and western
white, 4211kc; hard winter western
red and northern spring. 44c; blue
stem, SIC. - ~.-.....s
Butterfat-19c. Y
. Eggs-Ranch. &c @2Sc. 1854
Hogs-Good to choice. $500 q
s.75. ..--l-... r II:
Cattle - Choice steers. s4.25 a
Ats. - 49, A Gs& ~
Sheep - Spring lambs, 5000
5.25. r.
Spokane
Cattle-Steers, good, s4.25 @4.75.
Hogs-Good to choice, 1925 a
$50. ~. -"..S-
Lambs-Medium to good, SAFE
@5.25.
'--z.---s @- Portland ~ A.
Wheat - Big Bend bIuestenn,
hard wheat, 55c; soft white and
western white, 43c; hard winter,
northern spring and western red,
44c. - s..~,..-. ...s...-.
Hay-Buying prices f. o. b. Port
land; Alfalfa, Yakima, $780,. r.
Butterfat-15 @17c. .-ts-
Eggs-Ranch, 26@2Sc. a. --az 49,
Cattle-Steers, good, $500 @ $50.
Hogs-Good to choice, $4,000
8.S5.
Lambs-Good to choice, 5000
5.25.
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rather gradual
readjustment to a new scale of liv-
ing. Both this report and that Of
democracy has advanced at such
an alarming speed that the develop
ment of social and cultural factors
has been left far behind, and nei-
Their offers any definite remedies.
Many of the country's Ills are at
tributed in the report to cultural
lag" or the failure Of changes in
economic life, education. govern
ment, religion, and science to move
forward at the same rate. The
great problem Is for the man to
catch up with the machine.
New inventions, the committee
believes. are at hand. that will be
factors in creating employment /;
the electric eye, the electron tube,
light weight storage batteries and
other devices may duplicate the
part played by the automobile, the
radio and the movies few years
ago in making jobs for workmen.
On the other hand, the committee
declares that there is no assurance
that violent revolution and dark
periods" can be averted unless
there can be more impressive in
tegration of sc cial skills and fusing
of social purposes that is revealed
by recent social trends"
DR.. Wesley G. Mitchell, professor
of economics at Columbia unfver-
sity, is chairman of the committee.
and DIR. William F. Ogburn. profess
sor Of sociology at the University
of Chicago, is director Of research.
The committee had the aid Of more
than 500 investigators.
TWENTY-NINE of the distin-
1 guished Spanish monarchists
who were exiled by the republican
government after the August upris-
ing escaped from the prison colony
at villa Cisneros, Spanish West AZ
RIGA, in a French sailing vessel.
Among those who got away were
Capt. Alfonso de Bourbon. a dis
tant cousin of the ey-king; Capt.
Manuel Siivestre. Col. Ricardo Ser
rador. and Jaime Arteaga. son of
Duke Infantado.
president ALESSANDR19 of
Chile has fulfilled expectations
by ordering the liquidation of the
Cosach nitrate combine. 1915, 00O,.
600 concern that controlled the
worlds largest nitrate plant. The
principal private owners of Cosacn
are the Guggenheim interests in the
United States. II is understood
they agreed to the liquidation.
EVERAL hundred angry farmers
y Of Plymouth county. Iowa. gath
cred in lie Mars and by force pre-
vented farm mortgage foreclosure
sale, seizing the judge and sheriff
and threatening to hang an attOr:
ney who was bidding in the proper
ty as representative of the New
York Life Insurance company. hold
err of the mortgage. The lawyer
had offered only $4,000. consider.
ably less than the total debt of the
owner Of the farm. but saved his
life by obtaining from the inSur.
ance company authority to increase
| the bid. ......-.-s.
The Judge sent to Governor Elect
| Herring message urging that the
legislature enact laws TO remove
foreclosure suits from Iowa court
Jurisdiction until measures for re.
lief can be taken. This. he said
would operate ss moratorium or
| farmers mortgage debts. 3.
@ 1888 Western Newspaper Union.
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regrets. AS a mat
ter of fact there Is
little or nothing
that can be done.
Military interven-
ton Is out of the
question. and finan-
CT e r s. merchants
and munition max.
ers would make
loud and probably
effective walls If an
economic boycott of
Japan W e e pro-
posed. The League
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domestic all0tment
bill introduced by
Marvin Jones Of
Texas. chairman Of
the committee on
agriculture. and in
plain language 1t
calls for a sales
tax on necessities
for the benefit of
the farmer and, ac-
cording to it's spon-
sors. of the naticn
af largo Tts f0i1r
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For Us or Against Us
As a rule. people are for us or
against us, but police can be both.
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News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Nation Mourns Death of Former President Coolidge
Japan Again Attacks China-Democrats Push
Domestic Allotment Bill Through House.
Bv EDWARD W. PICKARD

CALVIN COOLIDGE, former Pres
~ ident of the United States, has
passed away, and the whole country
mourns his going. Thursday noon
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-01-19

his Inauguration. Tnfs development
angered the President and on his
return from Florida he told the cor
respondents that all recent reor-
ganization moves on the part Of
congress were merely make-believe
and the proposals of the Democrats
ic leaders backward step. He as
serted that any real reorganization
'sensibly carried out" will sooner
or later embrace the very executive
orders which he issued lately and
which the Democrats in the house
planned to veto. These would re-
group IS separate agencies into nine
divisions. Chairman Cochran of the
house expenditures committee was
unmoved by Mr. Hoover's protest.
He said 1t would be unjust and
most unfair" to Mr.. Roosevelt to
make so many changes only a few
weeks before he takes Office.
lack PICKFORD, brother of
y Mary Pickford and himself a
film star of no mean fame, died in
a Paris hospital of what the doctors
called progressive multiple neu-
ritis which affected the brain GEN.
ter He had been ill for many
months but would not take care of
himself and could not stand the
pace. -~.
The Democratic party of New
York sustained a great loss In the
death of Mrs. Belle MoskOwitz who,
though holding no public office. was
remarkably able in statecraft and
politics. During Al Smiths ascen-
dancy she was his adviser in re-
gard to progressive legislation for
which he strove. She was an active
worker in many welfare movements.
a FTER three years of thorough
"A investigation the Presidents
research committee on social trends
has made it's report. and Americans
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DARN relief as conceived by the
: Democratic majority Of the house
was being hurried to a vote In the
house. 1t was in the form of the
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MIR. ROOSEVELT, having turned
1Yl the state of New York over to

MR.. ROOSEVELT, having turned
4Vl the state of New York over to
Governor Lehman, Is deyoting most
Of his time to preparations for as
Stunning the office of President.
Thursday evening he conferred in
New York with the Democratic lead
ers in congress and program for
balancing the budget was decided
upon. The Treasury department fig
ures fixing the 1888 deficit at 492
millions were accepted and 1t was
agreed to effect an additional saw
ing in the budget estimate of 100
millions. to enact a beer bill esti-
mated to produce 125 millions. to
continue the gasoline tax ] cent per
gallon to produce 1877 millions, and
to increase the income tax rates to
produce $50 millions,
r.--
JAPAN has resumed its ruthless
y course against China, and the
rest of the world thinks it can do
nothing about it except to express
Nogales international., 1933-03-15

In his bank dealings he has shown
that he knows how to GET
THINGS DONE
He is schooIed in politics
He IS destined TO be one OF our
GREATEST PRESIDENTS
He is YOUR PRESIDENT and
OUR PRESIDENT
BACK Up your PRESIDENT
Follow his LEAD along the road
to prosperity
There is NO OTHER WAY ~
He is FEARLESS
Nogales international., 1933-03-15

His SINCERITY is UNQUES-
TONED
He is showing this country The
WAY OUT
We must FOLLOW the read he
indicates
To do this WE must have CONFl-
DENCE and we must VENTURE
ONLY this way can we HASTEN
the return Of PROSPERITY !
When PROSPERITY returns your
VENTURE will repay you ONE
HUNDRED-FOLD
We're on the way to PROSPER
TTYwith ROOSEVELT