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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1933-10-12

that funds in the various depart
ments of the city be used for the
purchase of the bonds. This is i'm
possible as a study of the moneys
in all branches of the municipality
in the hands of the City Treasurer,
in compliance with the City Charter
will show: ss Fl
Funds in the Custody of
|. City Council
$1O,S34.O2 General Fund. This
money is appropriated
and will all be required
to run the City until
April LIST. 1T Is used to
pay for policemen,
street lighting; street
maintenance, atty Jail,
department, poor fund
and in TACT all of the
operating expenses OF
the City. .&
5 1,249.47 This is set aside for the
operation of the library
and for the purchase of
books.
) S,170.SO This is In sinking FunQS
set aside to pay interest
on certificates issued to
pay for sewers and paw
ing and can be used for
no other purpose. 1t
will be paid out within
a short time as the GER
tificateS become due.
S 2,701.41 Waterworks Bonds and
Interest Fund. This is
set aside to take care
of the interest and part
of a principal payment
coming due on the wat
er works bonds.
100000 In An % U. S. Liberty
Loan bonds. This rep
resents the water
works pond sinking
fund and can only be
used to pay such bonds.
It can be invested, but
must be kept intact and
could not be used to
absolutely pay for the
disposal plant. If the
sewage disposal plant
bonds were issued so
that this money could
be invested therein, the
State would not take
such bonds.
Funds in the Custody
of Water, Light and
Power Commission.
$50 ,039.30 This is the operating ac-
count and surplus from
which running expenses
of the light plant are
paid, materials are pur-
chased, etc. From it,
under the City. Charter,
1870 of the gross earn
ings of the plant must
be set aside to go into
the depreciation, or
what the City Charter
calls Public Utility
H. Fund and from this
fund $4,000 will be
paid over to the City
Council to be used in
reducing taxes.
s25, 1854 IS Public Utility Fund or
Replacement Fund.
This is set aside in &C
cordance with the City
Charter to take care of
emergencies and the
replacement of or addi-
tions to the light plant.
This cannot be used
to pay for the sewage
disposal plant, but af
ter bonds have been
issued and sold, a por-
ton of it might be used
to pay the bonds if it
is determined that such
portion should not be
kept on hand to take
care of emergencies,
such as a blowdown of
the wires in the streets,
etc., or other heavy
damage to which the
plant may be subject.
5 2,034.19 In the Water Works
Funds which are used
for operating water
works plants and &C
cumulated to make the
required payment into
the sinking fund to pay
water works bonds.
SGT, 1854 In bank deposits and
$4,000 par value liberty
bonds.
The Herald editor, in preparing
this article has attempted to furn-
ish the citizens of Sank Centre a
lucid explanation of all the salient
facts surrounding the special cleo
ton.
Keep in mind that the State De-
partment of Htalth is getting more
insistent that the sewerage condi-
ton in this city must be taken care
of. The letter published at the be-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-22

THIS seems to be a day in which nearly all
the old certaintes are getting wobbly on
their bases.
So far this year we have been trying to get
Injured to the idea that the things we used to
be sure of in economics and politics are only
partly true. Now just to symbolic the per-
plexity Of the era, comes the report that the
last certainty of science likewise has gone by
the board.
The famous Nicholson speed of light
measurements have been finished at Pasadena,
Cal, by two scientists who have been work.
ing on them ever since Professor Michelsons
death in 1881; and these men have made the
amazing discovery that the speed of light is
not constant but f1uctuates.
Now the interesting thing about this is that
modern physics has considered the velocity Of
light about the only thing in the universe
which changes. Even Einsteins relatively
theory assumes that this speed is a factor
which is absolute.
But the painstaking experiments at Pasa-
dena have shown variations ranging through
a margin of some twelve miles a secondhand
the lone certainty in modern physics is a GER
tainty no longer.
Most of us, of course, not being physicists
and neither understanding nor caring very
much about such things. will live out our lives
quite unworried by this discovery.
And yet the thing has an aptness, peculiar
and ironic timeliness, that makes it stand as
an illustration of the perplexities of our times
in all walks of life.
Ever since the stock market crash of 1923
we have been discovering that most of the old
rules and standards by which We made our
society work are not functoning any more
The framework of modern society has become
enormously complex and involved; and most
of orr troubles arise from the fact that we
have no blueprints showing us how the thing
can be fitted together and made. to work
smoothly.
Russia is trying one stunt Germany an
other England another, and America still
another All of us experimenting, and
we are doing so because we have discovered
suddenly that there are no hard and fast
rules about it. There are no certainties in this
modern .world-or, if there are, we haven't
found them.
Now comes this upsetting of the last scien-
tific constant, TO complete the story. 1t is
a fitting symbol of an era that has to inquire
everything out anew
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-22
SHOWDOWN WANTED

IT might be a good thing for everybody con-
cerned if the courts finally should have to
pass on the argument between the national
recovery administration and the Weirton
Steel Company over election of the steel
companys employee representatives.
AS General Johnson said, when steel COM
pany officials refused to let NRA men super
wise the election, IF we haven't authority the
sooner we find it out, the better"
This is perfectly true Sooner or later, in
the working out Of the recovery program, the
exact extent of the NRA's powers must be
settled by the courts, once and for all.
The settlement might just as well come
now. Then, whichever way it is decided, the
NRA authorities at least will know just where
they stand legally. And so will the rest Of us.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-22
NRA INDICATED

TN 1929, when operations in the steel indus
l. try were at approximately 80 per cent OF
capacity, the industry kept some 100000 men
at work.
Today, with operations far, far below the
1929 figure, the steel industry is employing
10000 workers-only a handful less than the
number employed in the boom times of 1929.
Furthermore. expansion of operations to
as much as 10 per cent of capacity-a figure
still below the 1929 level-would necessitate
the hiring of 900 extra men.
These facts are brought out in report on
employment, hours, and wages filed by the
American Iron and Steel Institute, under the
NRA steel code.
1t speaks for itself. and there is very little
that needs to be added to it. 1t is one of the
most striking testimonials imaginable to the
value Of the MIRA movement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-22
DRIVE CAREFULLY

u~HE TIMES indorses the safety campaign
i instituted by Mayor Reginald H Sullivan
ord members of the indianapolis safety board
r. reduce the number of auto accidents on city
streets
Traffic accidents have cost the lives of l2S
,,ersons in Marion county in less than year
E,0btv-six of these people were residents OF
indianapolis.
The figure is appalling. If l2S persons nao
died from a disease in that period. the city
would be fighting as whole to block the loss
of life.
Rut apparently three or four auto acci-
dents do not mean much to most OF US II TWO
,aorla die as a result of injuries received IN
these accidents, indianapolis pays no heed
The figures show that four persons nave
hser killed each week in traffic accidents IN
tho county It is a major indictment against
drivers and pedestrians that this toll is on the
books.
Nfavor sullivan urges that you be extremely
..rof,,l for the remainder of the year. Thou
.ards If children will be released from school
4,s,s afternoon for the annual vacation. These
.hi,dren will be darting across streets. ANY
child may do it and it is the full responsibility
~ the motorist to have his car in control IN
case of such an emergency.
Police officers viii give drivers careful
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-22
INDIAN PROGRESS

TT is too early to appraiSe the new deals In
i dian bureau reforms, but the first report
of indian Commissioner John Collier to In
terror Secretary Ickes gives decided impress
sion of leadership in the right direction
UNEMPLOYMENT among Indians is being
tackled through a $130OO00o public works
program under which jobleSs Indians are put
to work building schools and hospitals, con-
serving forests and fighting erosion The In
dian boarding school evil is decidedly on ene
wane with only 1860 children in these
schools compared with $4,000 year ago.
More and more Indians are being employed on
Indian affairs Tribal self-determlnatlon' IN
stead of being crushed, is being encouraged.
The integrity of a once-noble civilization is
beinp respected. its arts and religion con-
served.
The righting of ancient economic wrongs
awaits legal overhauling by congress Ana
particularly the vicious allotment system must
90 Saws Commissioner Collier:
1.-THE system must be revised both as
matter of law and of practical effect Allotted
lands must be consolidated into tribal or cor
norate ownership with individual tenure and
new lands must be acquired for the 10000 In
dams who are landless at the present time. A
modern system of financial credit must be IN
stituted to enable the Indians to use their
own natural resources Training in the
modern techniques of land use must be sup
piled Indians"
That sounds like an intelligent program
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-22
THE 22D AMENDMENT

TT is worth noticing that the proposed child
labor amendment to the federal Constitu-
ton now has been ratified by more than half
the required number of states, to insure it's
adoption. When the Maine legislature ap-
proved the amendment and sent it to Cover
nor Louis j. Brann for his signature, nineteen
states had put their approval on it.
Here is an issue which the press of more
immediate considerations should not cause
us to forget The NRA codes, to be sure,
pretty largely have abolished child labor; but
the job is contemporary, and it is incidental
to the accomplishment of other ends
BY putting the amendment in the Constitu-
ton, the exploitation of child labor, with all
the costly abuses that accompany it, would be
outlawed for good.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-22
THE MILK INDUSTRY

IF the shift in management of the agricul-
tural adjustment administration results
only in a fair program for dealing with milk,
it will have been worth while
The importance of planning the milk in
dustry, so producers and consumers may bene-
fit. evidently is regarded as paramount by
Chester Davis, the new AAA administrator,
for his first move was to change the personnel
of the dairy section.
This industry is not only one of the keys
to agricultural prosperity but upon it's sta
billty, and the prices it charges, depends the
lives of babies and adults
And in seeking this stability the new AAA
faces one of the most distasteful situations yet
described by high government official.
Agriculture Secretary Wallace, in his cur
rent annual report, condemns the so-caled
milk trust" for dealing unfairly with pro-
ducers and consumers, and at the same time
piling up excessive salaries for executives, de-
claring liberal stock dividends on questionable
capital structures, operating on extraordinary
margins.
"The department of agriculture" says Mr..
Wallace, g. is DESTROYS of assisting the
dairy industry to adjust itself to new economic
conditions and to place the processing and
distribution of its products on basis that will
invite the full confidence of the general pub
lic"
The administration as well as dairymen
and consumers, realizes that only the abolition
OF milk prof1teering will bring this confidence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-22
M. E. Tracy Says:

IN order to make clear what am going to say,
Il let me ask this question:
If all the government corporations were to
be eliminated all the loans to private business,
all the advances for relief and all the enter
prises made possible only by the appropriation
of public funds, what would there be left with
which to credit these much discussed codes?
There can be no doubt that the country is
better off than it was one year ago, but is this
due to the establishment of a meddleSome,
bureaucratic control of industry, as some think,
or to the thorough going mobilization of public
credit?
Just now we have some 100000 persons
employed by the Civil Works Administration.
They are supposed to be drawing about $50 each
month or a total of 5000 ,000 How long
can we keep that up, and what will become OF
them if we don't?
TT is hoped that the codes, with their provisions
l. for a shortened working day or week will
make room for them in private industry by next
spring, but last summer we hoped Tor the same
thing this winter.
have thought all along that We never could
get more by doing less and I still think So
I will agree that the abandonment of child
labor by certain industries and the establishment
of minimum wage by practically all represent
triumph of liberal ideas, but only with the
reservation that both ends could have been
l
complicated system of government control.
Advisable as the code may appear as a
method of temporary readjuStnent, it stands for
complete reversal of the American theory of
statecraft when viewed in the light of perma-
nency.
Carried to it's ultimate conclusion, it means
no escape from monopolieS, price-hxing and
bureaucracy.
This idea that private business can govern
itself any better through nationwide aSsocia-
tons or combines than it has in the shape of
smaller units, strikes me as illogical.
OUCH an idea has much more in common with
- Fascisn, as practiced in Italy, or Commun-
ISM as practiced in Russia, than with the basic
American concepts.
Looking back over the last nine months I
can see many achievements of constructive
value. Repeal of the eighteenth amendment,
recognition of Russia extension of credit through
the R. F. c., establishment of the conservation
camps creation of the Home Owners Loan Cor
poration and kindred institutions, appropriation
of three billion dollars for public works-all and
many other enterprises Of a similar nature
represent vigorous and inspiring leadership.
But did any Of them need this intricate code
paraphernalia to put it over?
Like many others, I assumed that the code
system was devised to set the stage so that wage
of the benefit, if and when the dollar was
reduced.
If that's the idea, fine; but if this code sys-
tenn is just another noble experiment" in super
regulation the sooner We get rid of it the better.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-22

difference between the two so far
as the moral concepts are con-
cerned. 1t long has been conceded
that the orgies of murder, which
take place during periods of war.
blunt the sensibilities of men and
by overwhelming them with a sight
Of destruction and death cultivate
within them a disregard for the evil
of both.
Before long, then a bomb becomes
more valuable than boy to the
people who are at war, and that
attitude, I think, sets the all-high
record for human stupidity. Ger
tainly the same attitude, though to
a less marked degree, prevails when
life is taken in any collective fash
ion. A society or a state that kills
may expect to breed individuals
who do the same.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-22
DEC. %, 1893
Fair
Enough
by wEsrBROOK PEGLER

IT looks as though the Lindberghs
l. and the newspapers will have to
reach an understanding that the
LindberghS are news any time they
leave the ground. but that their lives
are their own. Otherwise the Lind
berghs likely are TO be killed in the
performance of some unimportant
feat of Journalistic enterprise by
some photographer sent out TO shoot
them on the wing, and this would
be a disaster which the newspaper
business would not be able TO live
down.
No paper or picture service con-
siderS that a somewhat foggy pho
tograph of an airplane which might
be just any airplane and a couple
of indiStinct figures which might
be just any man and woman is
worth killing the Lindberghs for.
But the accounts of the dog-fights
between the Lindberghs and the
photographers ships in Miami and
New York indicate that the risk
was taken several times for the sake
of some shots which. when they
did get into print, weren't much to
look at after all
Among the jobs which I do not
desire at all is that of the news
paper photographer who is often
assigned to get pictures of the Lind
berghs under various conditions,
some worse than others, but all of
them disagreeable. His orders are
fat, but he is under pressure from
the Office on one side and from
public opinion on the other. so he
is damned if he does and damned
if he doesn't. If he annoys the
Lindberghs The public is indignant.
But to get the picture he must
annoy the Lindberghs. And if he
doesn't get it the office is annoyed.
Up to now there has been no I'M
Outstanding at all. The news pic
ture business is competitive, so the
photographers grow more and more
daring. And the Lindberghs, stub
born through it all, refuse to make
any adjustment and just challenge
the camera planes to greater haz-
ards.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-22
A Woman's Viewpoint ::
By. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

lends encouragement to crime-be-
cause it sets the example. Capital
punishment, according to the laws
Interpretation, is supposed to fright
en- the evil-doer into good behavior.
But what effect does it have upon
the morality of the society that
uses it?
NOES the practice of legalized
II murder develop within us
those qualities which, above all else,
distinguish the civilized man from
the barbarian? If killing hardens
and degrades the individual does it
also not harden and degrade Deo-
pie? To me there can be but one
answer to the question.
When human life is as low in the
laws estimation as in that of the
criminal, then there exists very little
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-22

C OFT HEARTED SAP" "mush-
~ headed sentimentalist," and
menace to society" are some of the
pet names I am called by persons
who disagree with me about capital
punishment.
One very belligerent gentleman
notifies me that women who express
such sentiments should be denied
space in newspapers. He considers
the recent outbreaks of mob pun
ishment and the death sentences
imposed by many states as proof
that people resent and are deter
mined to stop crime
Well, I do not. I consider them
proof that the public is often quite
as bad as the criminals it hunts
down.
Each time a mob RACES forth like
a wild beast lusting for blood il
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-22

driver certificates. Those certificates viii be
pasted on windshields to remind the men and
women behind the wheels that safe driving
will be their greatest service to the city
In order to obtain enc Of these certificates.
the motorist must sign a pledge. There is one
in todays Times. Clip it, sign your name and
get your certificate.
There is no public service greater than
traffic precaution. The Times urges that you
act now.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-22

By A Booster.
I noticed in your paper of Dec.
10 letter from a Times Boos-
ter. I must say this man who
wrote that letter is too dumb to
be a CWA timekeeper if he thinks
that a timekeeper gets rs cents
or $120 an hour. Either they get
so cents and 60 cents an hour, and
I will say most of them sure earn
their money. And the most of
them are basketmen. know at
least twenty timekeepers and they
are all basket men. I am a time
keeper myself and go over twelve
miles of road a day up and down
hills. Some people believe every
thing they hear.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-22
SilhOuettes

BY POLLY LOIS NORTON
The greatest artist of all, I think,
Is He whose hand has silhouetted
In black, black shades of India ink
Those sentinel pines against the
evening sky;
For what other brush-hand could
provide
A blushing background of purple
copper-pink
And as you look, change it before
your very eyes
To silver blue, with twinkling
staTS2
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-22

BY James Gates.
An emergency exists that prompts
me to write this letter. Our city
council has passed ordinances to
charge all hucksters, fruit and vege-
table vendors outside the city a fee
of 5000 year by request Of whole
sale produce and commission men.
If they can not exist without this
ordinance they can not exist with
it. This fee will put the nucksters
out of business. They come in once
a week, and $40 a year would be a
big price for them to pay. We get
store door delivery, every article
guaranteed as represented.
The majority of hucksters are
small town merchants who bring
their produce here as side line.
The 5000 fee will not be a revenue
producer, for none can pay it. have
had forty years Of experience deal
ing with commission merchants, and
the Old-tlme hucksterS put up at
sales and livery stables, and some
slept in the Office and others in the
hay NOV in order to make living
Then SIS a year for vehicle license
was all that was required.
The produce dealers want the
hucksters eliminated, then they will
send their own trucks to country
districts. Some are doing it now
They want to nonopolize this bust
ness. for their own special benefit.
In conclusion, I will ask the aid
of the newspapers to take a hand
to have those obnoxious ordinances
repealed. It is class legislation for
the benefit of the few and a detri-
ment to the whole population Of
indianapolis.
The hucksters leave thousands Of
dollars with our wholesale mer-
chants every year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-22

Samuel insult is reported to have picked
his own receivers in bankruptcy Uncle Sam
would be glad to let him pick whole recep-
ton committee, if he only would come back
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-22

Factory managers in Russia who manu-
facture inferior goods are going to be jailed,
according to a new law They'll have to build
new jails for them, then, and the jails can't
be inferior either.