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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1933-08-17
Schools Will
Contribute to
Unemployed
Gov. Olson Has Named Com
mission of 81 Educators to
Study Plan
QUESTIONABLE READY
People From II to- "a Can
Register At High School
Friday and Saturday

Through special committee of
educators appointed by Gov. Olson
and the schools of the state a plan
is being formulated to contribute
to the relief of unemployment.
The problem of unemployed youth
has reached serious proportions.
There is a growing anxiety on the
part of school superintendent,
boards of education, community
leaders, and parents over the prob
lem presented by the plight of
these young people.
Relief for all classes of citi-
zens in distress is an imperative
necessity. Especial attention
should be paid to the needs of
youth. If society fails to respond
to their needs, it will pay in vastly
different coin for its neglect fifteen
or twenty years from now.
"a share of the funds provided
for relief should be definitely allo-
Gated to create educational work
for youth out of work.
statistics show that 31.3 per cent
of the unemployed have completed
one to four years of high school,
and 6 per cent have completed
from one to four years of college,
Forty-eight per cent Of the appli-
cants for jobs are in the age group
16 to "a.
1.-THE number of youth remaining
at home who under normal condi-
tons would have gone to college,
has been cumulative since the
spring of 1880. Some of these young
people are taking post graduate
work at the high schools, and in so
doing have taxed the local facili-
ties to the utmost. Moreover, they
have not received the instruction
for which they were prepared or
needed.
Thousands of these youth face
idleness and encouragement at
that time Of their lives when nor
mally they would be finding use
full employment, assuming the re-
sponsibilities Of manhood and Wo-
manhood through occupational adj
justment and the formation Of new
families or in further educational
preparation for such duties and
obligations later. Their unsettle-
ment at the very period when their
energies and youthful enthusiasms
should carry them far on the road
to successful establishment as the
future citizens of the state consti-
tutes an exceedingly serious prob
lem.
The first job of the Governors
commission will be to secure as
complete and reliable information
as possible on unemployed youth
throughout the state who belong
to the age group Of II to "a years.
The second step will be to provide
facilities to enable all young people
in this group who desire 1t to con-
tinue their education along the line
of their interests and capacities and
| for their cultural, recreational, and
vocational benefit. The group in
question is made up of young men
and women of an educational sta
tus ranging all the way from COM
pletion Of the eighth grade to gra-
duation from college.
Supt. w. A. Kohl, of the Public
schools, has been asked to secure
this data and forward it to the
superintendent group, st. Cloud,
before Aug. q.
Mr.. Olson, High School principal,
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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1933-08-17
Home School Opens Ney
Vistas for Discouraged Girls

these girls, immature, brought from
homes where they were often both
unprotected and uncared for, shall
be trained-rebuilt, as it were =
that they may be come valuable,
self-supporting members Of the
social structure. That dismal fail
ures occur is natural. Perhaps
girl has gone too far for reclama-
ton Perhaps an individual teach
er has failed to measure up. In no
way are these failures to be con-
sidered evidence that the system
itself is anything but sound and
just and fundamentally right.
Here is a whole little commun-
ity within itself, including approx
mately 300 girls at the school, an
other $50 outside on parole, and a
staff of 80 men and women, num-
Der of them on part time only. If
the staff seems disproportionately
large, it is because we fail to real
ize that it's members are doing ev-
erything required in community
center which involves much Of the
opportunities Of the school are a
chance to play tennis and to learn
to swim under trained instructor,
to play baseball, learn archery and
to get the benefits of physical ed
ucation under an accredited teach
er
And the health cause is a domi-
nant one it's needs the first to be
recognized by the superintendent,
Miss Inez Patterson, and her assis-
tants as they see the girls enter
ing the school with health shat
tered because of lack Of sufficient
nourishing food, with minds sullen
and respondent because Of bodily
discomfort, with teeth in varying
stages Of decay, or with eyes need
Ing immediate attention. Some
times 1t is one Of the babies born
at the school who shows the effect
Of the hard conditions under which
the mother has lived-and when the
sunny nursery has as many as Is
little inhabitants Of various race,
an epidemic or single cease" is
something to be guarded against.
Unbelievable as 1t may appear to
parents who can't persuade their
daughters to do anything more
strenuous than feeding the canary,
garden work is best beloved Of all
the jobs at the school. From the
gardens the girls reap health and
quietness Of spirit; a more tangible
product to the practical minded are
the $500 quarts Of beans and the
1000 quarts Of peas canned thus far
this season.
Similarly older girls who expect
some day to live on farms are in
terested in the big barn, modern
and clean, where the Holstein cows
are cared for and MIXED by the
girls. The barn is the worlds best
answer to the man who feels that
farming is one occupation at least
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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1933-08-17
Farmers and Business
Men Meet Tonight
Grave Agricultural Situation Of
This Section Will Be Thor
Oughly Gone Over

The present agricultural situa-
ton in the drouth stricken area is
the most grave in the history of
farming. But few farmers have
sufficient feed for their stock and
not many of them feel they can
afford to buy feed. Many of them
will be unable to purchase unless
some plan can be formulated to
help at least part Of them. It
would be necessary for them to
ship out so much stock that the
community is likely to receive a
blow which will be seriously felt
for several years to come.
The emergency agricultural COM
mittee of the Community Club
holds its next meeting this Thurs
day evening, Aug. II, at 500 p. M.
This committee has been increased
in size to some 35 which includes
representative from all townships
in the western part of the county
and in the Sank Centre trade dis
trict. Several outsiders have al
ready announced their intention of
attending the meeting so that the
general district may be quite well
represented.
This meeting will go over the
work done by the committee SO far
and will lay special attention upon
the dire need for feed which many
farmers will be obliged to buy or
sell their stock. Tentative plans
including an investigation and a
ways and means for procuring feed
and also where this can be obtained
to the best advantage. Congress
man Knutson may be able to at
tend.
The committee has kept in close
touch with County Agent LEM
meier, who informs the committee
he has started plans in accordance
with those of the committee. A let
ter received from Governor Olson
commends the interest of the Com
munity Club in these matters. The
meeting will be an open one for
all those who care to attend. Pro-
gress has been made in the mat
ter of what the committee feels Is
a more equitable method for pay
ments under mortgage moratorium
extensions. The committees ideas
having been presented to the court
and is now receiving careful con-
sideration.
The situation is one which is OF
the utmost interest to all business
interests as well as to the farmer
The Sank Centre Community Club
is most anxious to leave no stone
unturned in helping to work out the
best solution of this porblem in
this general district.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1933-08-17
Particular Attention Is Paid
to the Human Side of
the Wards

(Bess M. Wilson in Sundays Min
neapolis Journal.)
If census of the average Amer
lean mind were taken, it would be
found that liberty heads the list Of
possessions and privileges most val
ued by the human race. Certainly
the youth of any land would be
unanimous in saying it would pre-
fer to give up any other individual
right than the right to go about Of
it's own volition.
But if volition takes people Of
any age beyond the bounds laid
down by the social order; 1t be-
comes the duty of that order, both
for its own sake and for the sake
Of the trespasser, to deprive him Of
that liberty for period in order
that faults may be corrected, train
ing given, character built.
When that time comes in the life
of a Minnesota girl she goes, as a
ward Of the state, to the Home
School for Girls at Sank Centre, a
school which is both a symbol and
demonstration Of what an intelli-
gent society is seeking to do with
and for its unfortunates through
submission Of the principles Of re-
Mobilization for the oldtime idea Of
correction through punishment
alone.
Home and School for Girls might
be better name for the pleasant
group Of buildings manned by an
efficient. sympathetic staff, the best
home most Of its 800 girl pupils
have ever known. While an Gin
stitution" must always be in char
acter with what the name implies,
here the housing Of the girls in
small groups in cottages individual
in appearance and atmosphere, the
meeting of similar groups in class
rooms for widely diversified study,
and the whole ideal of the place
makes it as little institutional as
It is possible to make place whose
residents are there because the
law has spoken.
A part Of the ideal Of the schools
administration Is that the place
shall be in all particulars a place
for the training and education Of
the girl, with the service she may
give to the school secondary con-
sideration. That no girl is to be
kept at task longer than is nee
essary for her to learn to do 1t
well was one Of the things that
impressed be, as 1t must impress
every visitor. Perhaps this, more
than any other one impression, lays
the foundation for the conviction
that the school Is patterned and
conducted on the states belief that
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1933-08-17
Gopher Farmers We're
Granted $4,000 Loan
Federal Land Bank Funds Show
Gain of SILL 900 Over June
Figures Indicate

Minnesota farmers were granted
$518,000 through the Federal Land
Bank, of st. Paul, during the month
of July, figures compiled for the
period indicate. This is an in
crease of $171 900 over the amount
allowed in June, and shows the way
in which an increase in the num-
Der of appraisers is helping to
make the funds available.
For the month, Minnesota leads
the states in number of loans
granted and in the total volume of
credit, the figures for the 7th Land
Bank District being as follows:
Minnesota loans for $4,000; North
Dakota, Al loans, $4,000; Wiscon-
sin, S5 loans, $328,OOO; Michigan 81
loans, $4,000; total, 276 loans for
a total of $1,O80,OO0.
Michigan's smaller quota is due
to the shortage of appraisers in
that state, as Minnesota's and Wis
cousins greater portion is due to
the larger force of appraisers in
those states. The increase in APP
praisal forces was started by the
Farm Credit Administration in Wis
consin to help open the closed and
restricted banks in that state; and
in addition to the regular loans list
ed above, there were granted 135
applications of mortgagors whose
paper is held in closed or restrict
ed banks Of Wisconsin for an ad-
ditional sum of 100000. This
makes a total for Wisconsin of 220
borrowers, who have had loans
granted totaling $735,000.
It is expected that the month
of August will show big increase
in the number of loans granted and
the volume of credit made avail
able, as before the end of the month
there will be more than 300 apprais-
ers working in the four states, and
the force is being constantly in
creased.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1933-08-17
J. Hickman
Met Sudden
Death Thurs.
Struck By Automobile AT
Highway Intersection
While Trying to Cross
DRIVER NOT TO BLAME
Deceased Had Been Resident
of This Community More
Than 70 Years

John ]. Hickman, resident OF
the Sank Centre community for
more than 70 years met instant
death Thursday evening, Aug. 10,
1888, shortly after 1000 o'clock
when he was struck by an automo-
bile driven by Howard Farrow,
aged %, son of Charles Farrow, re-
siding about eight miles north of
this city,,
The young man had attended the
moving picture theatre in this
city and was enroute home. When
he reached the point where High
ways Nos. and % separated he
noticed a man crossing the high
way, running with his hands in the
air.
Towards natural impulse was
that he was about to be held up.
He swerved his car to the right and
stepped on the gas, striking Mr..
Hickman with his left front fend-
er, throwing his body to the hood
and back on the ground, clear of
the car. He at once stopped, re-
moved the body to the south side
of %, fastened back to the city and
informed Night Policeman Frank
Schlichte that he had lust killed a
man." He gave a hysterical account
of how the tragedy happened. Lat
er investigation proved that he was
telling the truth. The death was
clearly an accident and no respon-
sibility is attached to Mr.. Farrow
either by the officers or relatives Of
the deceased.
Mr.. Hickman received a large
hole on the right side of his fore
head. The back of his skull was
also crushed.
Mr.. Hickman was a great lover
of Sank Lake. It is presumed that
he had been in the vicinity Of the
lake where the bridge crosses the
narrows and was enroute back to
the city. He was apparently very
close to where the two highways
separate when he noticed the auto
driven by Mr. Farrow approaching.
He attempted to cross highway No.
% and be on the safe side of the
highway when he was struck. There
were no eye witnesses to the acct
dent.
John J. Hickman was born in
Cape May, N. j., Aug. Is, 1855, and
had he lived until Wednesday OF
this week, he would have been "a
years old. He was one of a family
of ten children, born to Mr.. and
Mrs. p. s. Hickman.
When a young lad he came west
with his parents and they settled in
Hastings, MINI. In the fall OF 1852,
thew came to Sank Centre and
spent the early days on the old
homestead, known as the Wicklund
farm, at Fairy Lake. 1t was here
that he grew up and attended
school.
In his early manhood he worked
as a harness maker for Mr.. Scherf-
fius in this city and later conducted
a barber shop on Third street.
After retiring from the barber bus
mess he engaged in farming and
stock raising, paying particular at
tention to agricultural products and
livestock for exhibit.
He was united in marriage IN
1881 to Irene Harris, OF Grove
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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1933-08-17
Farmers Picnic and
Achievement Dav
Aug 20 VIII Be Big Day, Clos
ing With Mardi Gras-Fair
Association Sponsors

T. A. Erickson, Minnesota
Farm School, state leader of
the Boys and Girls All Club
work in the state, will speak to
the boys and girls at the All
club Achievement day at the
Stearns County Fair grounds,
Sank Centre, Tuesday, Aug. 20,
at 200 P. M. At this time the All
Club livestock projects will have
been judged.
The Farmers Picnic set for
this day should attract many
farmers and their families.
There will not be any admission
to the grounds. A nominal
charge Of 10 cents per person
will be made for those entering
the grand stand to enjoy the
running races between green
horses coming from All Club
families. There will also be BIZ
cycle races for boys under IL.
Small cash prizes will be hung
up in each event. An exhibition
Drill by the recently organized
v. F. w. drum corps will prove
very entertaining. There will be
an athletic show and other at
fractions in front of the grand
stand. This program starts
promptly at 200.
At $3.50 there will be free dane
ing to music furnished by an
accordian orchestra. Only old
time dance tunes will be played.
The people of this section are
becoming more and more inter-
ested in the Mardi Gras dance
to be held in the evening, direct
ed by Tuddy Kaldahl, manager
of the Laeside pavilion, Glen
wood. Mr.. Kaldahl has succeed
ed in booking Grant Moore and
his black giant band of II
pieces for this occasion.
Each person entering the
grounds in the evening will be
charged 10 cents at the gate. For
this they will receive a mask and
bunch of confetti. The charge
for dancing will be 40 cents each
for gents; IS cents each for la
dies. Extra confetti will be avail
able for those desiring 1t.
There is no form Of dance
which makes as much enjoyment
possible as an honest to good
ness Mardi Gras dance.
The fun win be prolonged, fast
and furious at this dance. A lot
of whoope for q small outlay.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1933-08-17
. alther League
State Convention
Dates Aug. 20, FL and 22-Miss
Lucille Botz, Delegate of Zion
Lutheran Y. p. S.

The State convention of the Min
nesota WaltherLeague, comprising
the Young Peoples Societies of the
Evangelical German Lutheran
churches will be held Sunday, Mon
day and Tuesday, Aug. 20. q and
%, at st. Cloud.
Miss Lucille Botz has been elect
ed as delegate Of Zion church Y. P.
S., Of this city. Plans are being
made to take as many Of the young
people Of Zion church to the con-
vention as transportation can be
provided for.
The following is the detailed pro-
gram Of the convention:
Sunday, Aug. 20
1nspirational service, 300 P. M
State Teachers College Auditorium,
Rev. F. ]. Seltz, speaker. 200 peo-
pie expected.
Welcome by the mayor Of the
city and league officers. Convention
picture. 1000 expected to be on the
picture. Fellowship banquet $3.50
P. M. Junior High School Auditor
ium. Rev. Paul Lindemann, of st.
Paul, POSTMASTER.
Mr.. E. J. Gallmeyer, of TT.
Wayne, Ind, president of the Inter
national Walther League, principal
speaker.
Seven minute speeches by various
well-known leaguers Of the state.
Group singing, orchestra, instru-
mental novelty numbers.
Plenty Of pep, stunts, songs, and
yells by the different leagues.
More noise than you've heard fol
a long time. 700 expected.
Monday, Aug. 81
Morning session, 900 A. M.
Reports by officers of the dis
trict.
Main address: Rev. II. Meyer, OF
Lakeield.
Afternoon session LAS p. M.
Reports.
addresses by various leaguers.
Evening entertainment 1880 p. NJ
st. Cloud Country Club.
Concert by the st. Cloud Boys'
Band, 100 members.
Grand march under the flood
lights.
Big treasure hunt on the grounds
lighted by colored flares.
Stunt contest by various visiting
leagues.
Games, bonfire, snakedance.
A big crowd Of young people
Where could you get more fun and
fellowship?
Tuesday, Aug. 70
Breakfast hike. TOO A. M. To the
Islands in the mississippi. Morning
session 800 A. n.
Reports Of the officers Of the
district.
Main address: Rev. I'm. Albrecht
Of Fairfax, MINI. Elections.
Afternoon 200 p. M. Sightseeing
tour.
State Reformatory.
Continued on Page Eighty
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1933-08-17
Winter Wheat
Men Participate
80 Per cent of 1880, 81 and 81
Acreage Can Be Secured
Full Details of Plan

Winter wheat growers can take
advantage of the allotment plan to
receive adjustment payments on the
1888 crop even though wheat seed
ing time comes before contracts are
ready to sign, says e. c. Lenzmeier,
county agricultural agent Cor emer-
gency agricultural assistant). He
urges every winter wheat grower to
inform himself regarding the reg
ulations and then, if he expects to
sign up, to leave the way open.
The important thing is not to
seed more wheat than the contract
would allow. The specific amount
of acreage reduction that will be
required of signers in regard to the
1884 crop is to be announced Aug.
"a. However, it will not exceed 20
per cent of the average acreage
grown on the farm for the three
years, 1880, 81 and 80. Therefore,
the winter wheat grower can play
safe on getting contract by MAX
ing plans not to seed more than 80
per cent of the average acreage for
the three years mentioned. Final
] adjustment can be made Aug. "a
after Secretary Wallace's announce
ment.
Another thing to watch out for is
what use to make of the land that
| is kept out of wheat. For example
this cannot be seeded to rye or
some other cash or grain crop. Not
all the details regarding use of con-
tracted acres have been set, but in
general they may only be used for
soil Improvement purposes tweed or
erosion controD, green manuring or
! summer fallow) or for the produc-
| ton of food to be consumed on the
farm, or feed for livestock grown
for home use. Nothing for sale, di-
rectly or indirectly, can be grown
on contracted acreage.
Farmers who are not clear as to
whether they would be eligible for
an allotment contract are advised
to attend one of the educational
meetings now going on in the coun-
ty or to see the county agent.
! Many farmers are asking about
whether succotash fields can be
counted as wheat. County Agent
e. c. Lenzmeier says succotash
acreage will count as wheat, but
only in part, passed on the proper
| ton of actual wheat in the mixture
grown.
Full details of the wheat allot-
ment plan, as far as they have
been worked out, are being explain
ed at the educational meetings.
Every wheat grower should attend
such a meeting and ask questions.
Farmers will have an opportunity
Friday, August Is to hear wheat
plans for Minnesota discussed over
| the radio by DR.. Andrew Boss, in
charge Of the state educational cam
paign adjustment. This talk will
be at 100 P. M. over WCC0, Mime
apolis and st. Paul, and will be the
| fourth Of a series DR.. Boss has
been presenting during the Univer-
sity Farm Hour.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1933-08-17
Program for
Flower Show
Completed
Second Annual Event at ing
er Furniture Store Friday
and Saturday
GIRLS IN DOLL PARADE
Competition Will Be Keen In
All Classes-Entries Close
at Noon, Aug. 18

Plans are completed for the Sec
ond Annual Flower Show sponsor
ed by the Sank Centre Junior
Chamber Of Commerce to be held
at the Unger Co., furniture store
Friday and Saturday of this week.
The sponsors of the show have
been handicapped for money. The
funds for the cash prizes have been
contributed by the Junior Chamb-
er of Commerce and Harold Gray.
The other prizes have been do
mated by the Svenneby Green House
of this city, and the Weiner Nurs-
cry, south of Sank Centre. The
competition in all classes will be
keen.
The Unger Furniture Company
will give away couple of fine
prizes. The details can be secured
by calling at the store on the days
of the show. These prizes will be
given away Saturday evening.
All entries for the show must be
in place by 1900 o'clock, noon. Fri
day. The show will open at 200
P. NJ, closing Saturday evening,
Aug. 10. One of the high lights of
the show will be the doll buggy
parade by the little ladies of the
community Friday evening at 7:30.
The parade will form on north
Main street in front of the Blue
Valley Creamery, move south tc
Third and west on Third to the
Unger Furniture Store. The first
prize will be $10O; second, so cents;
third, IS cents. All entrants will be
given a bar of candy.
Last spring the Svenneby Green
House organized a boys and girls
Glad Club by giving each young
ster entering Is glad bulbs. The
members of this club are request
ed to exhibit their flowers at this
show, entering one bloom of each
color. The winner in each color
will receive Soc value in glad bulbs
Every entry will receive bar OF
candy.
The following is the premium
list:
Single spikes, glads, red salmon,
pink, white, yellow and lavender,
SOC value in glad bulbs for each
color.
Best spike in show will receive
a blooming size bulb Of Picardy
Glad. Best vase assorted Glads and
best basket assorted Glads, SOC val
ue Glad bulbs. Largest number Of
Glad entries will receive $3.50 val
ue Glad bulbs.
All above prizes are donated by
Svenneby's Green House, Sank