The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1933-11-09
Patriotic Radio Address By
Detroit Lakes Record Editor

, 1ASCOIu LutlOI
will agree. It cannot be charged
Gas are so many of our similar
evils) to Government" nor to the
all-wise Creator who does His will
in ways beyond our human under
standing. Indeed, if we concede
that our present status is but the
fruition of our own folly, then let
us be consistent and take such con-
structive steps as will repair our
fast disintegrating social structure
and build anew our wrecked stand
ards of philolophy!
Must we be obliged to continue
our course of the past two decades
wherein the purpose of the Consti-
tuition has been so controverted
that step by step we have permitted
Government to absorb our inherent
Constitutional prerogatives until we
have in fact, as well as theory, Sc:
up mild form of dictatorship
wherein the people have little or
no voice-and but little activity
other than in the ultimate pay
ment of the gigantic costs so rap
idly accommodating?
President Roosevelt promised be-
fore election that he would seek
the powers of a dictator in order
to explore every avenue of expert
ment in an attempt to create bet
ter conditions for Americas mil
Ilions-if such were within the pow
er Of Government. That he has
earnestly tried to keep his pledge to
the people, no one will deny. The
success or failure of his efforts rest
with the millions of men and wo-
men who, after all, really set up
their own standards of living and
are largely guided by common sense
and not by man-made laws!
During the past two decades the
peoples of this Nation have en-
joyed a period of prosperity and
development the like of which the
civilized world had not previously
witnessed. We have welcomed the
advent of the motor vehicle, the
tl1C Ioolo d11o
able household appliances whose
automatic service has removed
much Of the drudgery heretofore
attached to home life, and left
more time for recreational pur-
suits. We have indeed entered
what history will chronicle as the
Machine Age and brought our in
dustries as a whole to a point
where former arduous and tedious
hand labor is a thing of the past,
and our production Of both food,
and other necessities and luxuries
of life have far surpassed the con-
sumptive demand.
We have reveled in an unpreced-
ented era of public and private i'm
provements such as homes, schools.
churches, gymuasiums, public
buildings of every description, con-
crete highways, etc., and an expan-
sion of our banking system and ia
cilitis to a point of Righteousness.
In many cases the expansion was
so rapid as to form a structure SIM
liar to an inverted pyramid and,
following the start of our bank
collapse back in 1926 and 1927, and
the disastrous stock market crash
of 1929. our progress back to nor
malcy has caused mental distur-
bance which BODIES i'll for the flu
ture, in my humble opinion.
All values have been seriously de-
f1ated, and particularly is this true
of our farm lands-heretofore the
basis of all values. The titles to
thousands Of these farm homes have
passed from the individual owner
to some holding company, insur-
ance company, the Federal Land
Banks and the Rural Credit Bur
eaus-in those states which set up
this form of a loaning agency. I'm
employment increased with unbe-
lievable rapidity, charity lists were
multiplied many fold, some 5000
banks, carrying billions Of deposits
closed their doors, our Wanted sys-
tenn Of free public education is in
Ia chaotic condition-with no living
person inbued with sufficient cour-
age Of foresight to predict the ul-
innate outcome.
From the nation itself, to the
smallest subdivision, this is unques-
tionably our outstanding problem,
and it should be faced courageous
ly with an insistent demand for de-
lcreased expenditures rather than