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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-12-20
State News Briefs


IL Year-0ld Shoemaker Gives Assaiant The Ak
International Fals.-E. H. Metzner, Information
al Falls shoemaker may have passed the three
and ten years period, but he is still active enough
to defend himself, and proved 1t last week against
drunken assailant Isaac Makki 4-year-old tram
silent, stopped in MetzneTs shop and asked permits
sion to leave his pack An hour two later he
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-12-20
A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS

Merry Christmas! That age old message Of cheer
will again ring true during the present ylletde sea-
son. For almost 1000 years this message has brought
cheer and hope to the peoples of Christian lands It
is message which does not permit animosities,
friendliness or gossip. message needed more than
ever today, when mems hearts are heavy laden It
rekindles the spark of love and friendship, which
after all the motives of true happiness. Say it
to others say it to you: "A very Merry Christ
masp
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-12-20
Thursday, December 20, 1884

Dear Santa:
Please bring me pair of skies
and nuts and candy.
Your friend,
Jerome Ecklund.
Dear Santa:
Do you get any reward for be-
ing good? OF course not real good
but I've been behaving optic well.
I want a rubber dolly and some
candy and nuts; especially the
nuts cause I love 'em. Also please
bring me a small photograph and
a record by the name of 1.-The Man
with the Little Black Mustache."
Please be good to my little girl
friend Viola Schwartz.
Goodbye Santa,
Eleanor Gordon.
80, -
December 10, 1884.
Sank Centre. MINI. /,
Dear Santa Claus,
I have been a pretty good girl
this year and I hope you will bring
me some nice gifts.
There is one think that want
very much and that is a little baby
brother named Charles. Please
bring "Baby Charles" a rattle.
I am not big enough to write this
better so my mother is writing it
for me.
Thank you, Santa,
Viola Schwartz.
Sank Centre, MINI.
December II, 1884
Dear Santa Claus
I am writing to you Santa to let
you know what want for Christ
mas. T am three and half years
old and want dol buggy, a doll
g. comb and brush set. some hand
kerchiefs and some stockings, a
pair Of coveralls and some toys,
some nuts and candy and an apple
and some gum. wish you a Mer-
ry Christmas.
From your friend,
Marlyce Mae Dusek.
Sank Centre, Mimi,
December II, 1884.
Dear Santa Claus:
I am writing you what I want
for Christmas. I am two and ahalf
years old and q want a doll buggy,
doll, a comb and brush set, some
stockings, some handkerchief, q
pair Of coveralls and some toys.
some nuts and some candy too and
an apple and gum. Wish you all a
Merry Christmas.
From your friend, i
Marian Louise Dusek.
Dear Santa Claus,
I am ~ years old. I think 7
am pretty big man. would like
tricycle., drum, little ham,
mer like Daddy's. white overshoes,
and shovel, rake and hoe. Thank
you.
A great big hug and kiss from
your little friend.
"Billie" Hoffarth
Long Prairie,
MINI.
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MOUNTAINS OF SAND
FOR SLIPPERY

Nearly 40 million pounds Of sand
and cinders and many tons Of cal
cium chloride will be used by the
state highway department this
winter on slippery roads. Supplies
have been kept in stock piles since
fall, and are drawn on as occasion
demands.
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'ocal players were: Hansen. right
forward; Lyman, left forward;
Wagner. center; Cooper, right
guard ; Henneman, left guard. Sub
stitutes: G. Pangburn, e. Pangburn
and Allen.
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in the new-deal philosophy. 1t is hangover from
the technocratic theses which animated many re-
covery officials when they went to Washington
During the hearing upon the cotton textile code
for instance Gen. Hugh S. Johnson actually went
50 far as TO propose moratorium for plant ex-
tensions His suggestion failed to fill his audience
with enthusiasm. But it did not, as it should, NIL
them with CONSERVATION. For the carrying out Oh
such proposal on any comprehensive scale among
the consumer industries would have condemned
the capital industries to stagnation. .''
Public works cannot make up for the decline IN
private works. All that has been expended IN pub
lie works in the nearly ten months of operations
is little over $500 100000. Private construction
contracts awarded in 1928 amounted to $5,5Oo'-
100000. Besides the public works are ln'ehueu
only to encourage the return of this activity not
to take its place. 1t is ON the return OF suca ac-
tivity that progress depends Only in this way can
the country accomplish the twin object Oh re-eiii-
ploying the jobless and increasing purchasing pow"
er, II is now admitted that the great bulk OF the
iobess-6, 100000 of them-are the CASTOR vi
the capital goods industry.
The true measure of material progress Is IN
como or purchasing power Other induces have
shown amazing progress. But the national income
wen, nm last wear only 81 per cent, This is puny
contribution toward the recapture Of the half o.
the national income which was lost IN the tnree
wears prior to the incoming of President Roosevelt
Redistribution is probably the most vital problem
of the social engineering to which the president
is committed. 1t the failure to attend to re-
distribution that produced the boom crisis. oDVi-
ously, however, there must be something to DIS
tribute, and it is to the filing of the vacuum OF
the rational income that major attention should
now be turned-Christian Science Monitor
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A RISING ISSUE

There has been for several decades gathering
trend toward compelling the consumers TO MANI
tain by higher prices all sorts of INDUSTRIES winch
claim with greater or less truth that they cannot
keen going otherwise. This drift is now gong 10
extremes.
By prohibtive or almost prohibitive tariffs con-
sumers in one country are prevented from buying
goods from low cost producers outside the natonal
boundary and thus compelled to buy at higher cost
so as to sustain producers at home, who insist on
being maintained by that method.
Again. within our own country are high cost
marginal producers of cotton, wheat, dairy prod
ucts various manufactured goods and articles, who
demand that prices shall be paid by consumers
high enough to yield profit even the most ir-
efficiently and extensively produced commodities.
In other words, if men insist on raising agricul-
tural products on land so inferior by methods so
sovenly that the cost per unit is unjustfably high
vet it is up to the general public to maintain them
despite the fact that ample supply could be created
at much lower cost.
IT, for example, there are diaries able to supply
given city with satisfactory supply of milk at
IL cents quart, because of well chosen location
and good management, why should that city have
to pay Is cents in order to the costs of two
or three additional dairies, unable for one reason
or other to sell progtably at less? Why lay down
the law that all the dairies must cut production,
so as to keep the price up to 10, instead of letting
natural economic law take its course, eliminating
that portion of the overproduction that costs the
highest Similarly in principle with other neces-
saries in life.
On all sides it is drive at the consumers poe
textbook and so confusing to him is the hue and
cry of organized producers that he knows not what
to do. Meanwhile the question stands: Should the
general public be expected to bear the ever-in-
creasing burden of "high cost" product while low
cost product is curtailed inside our country or
kept from coming in at all?-Spartanburg Herald.
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NEWSPAPERS OPINION
PRoGREss-NoT LIMITATION

No reader of this newspaper will take issue with
Mr.. Henry l. Hartman when he says, in an inter-
view with the Monitor, that progress means to
create more.' Limitation is not natural. This has
had singularly vivid illustration in the reduction
program of the cotton-growing South. According
to a current article in Harper's Magazine,
The farmers found the plants grown so high
that it was difficult to destroy them effectively.
There was no farm lore about the technic of
blowing up. Some of the plants would start
growing again after they had once been plowed
under. ''-r. .t '.l
The opening bolls afforded silent rebuke to the
limitationists. When viewed with ragged citizens
in the background, the rebuke became crime. +
Limitation has occupied too prominent a place
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TIME TO INVESTIGATE OUR ARMY
AIR FORCE
(BY BRUCE CATTON)

Permanent solution of the airmall tangle
will apparently be left for the next Con-
gress Considering the completely of the
situation-the charges arising from the old
regime and the accidents common to the
new one-this is just as we'll, for the whole
affair needs more study and discussion
than the present Congress can give it.
But there is another angle to the thing
which ought not to be postponed too long.
That is the little matter of finding out just
what, if anything, is wrong with our army
air service.
Now that the first heat of passion en-
gendered by cancellation of the mail con-
tracts has cooled a little, it is easy to see
that too much was said about the failure
of the army flyers.
They had to start in cold, on new and
rather bewildering job, their machines
quite naturally lacked the equipment the
mail planes had, and the weather that
greeted them was the worst in years.
When all that has been said, however,
it remains pretty clear that the army air
corps did less well than the n&tion had a
right to expect. Needless to say, this was
not due to any failure of nerve on the part
of the flyers themselves-they added new
records of heroism to the history OF the ali
corps.
It seems rather to have been due to some
defect in training and equipment of the
corps as a whole. ,
Now we don't maintain an army AZ
corps as a spectacular and inspiring side
show. 1t is an integral part of our nationa
defense; if it isn't as strong as it should
be. our national defense is weak at vita
point .... s..- O.. Sd.
A dispatch from Europe the other day
pointed out that it is the existence of the
\ Russian air force which has probably pre-
vented war between Russia and Japan.
The Russian air force is about the
strongest on earth, right now; approx
mately 700 fighting planes are understood
to be concentrated in the Far East, within
striking distance of Japan, and it is said
that their presence has been the principal
deterrent against Japanese offensive in
that territory.
That gives you an idea of the importance
of the air corps.
The efficiency of our air force has been
called in question by the airrnail episode.
1t is encouraging to know that commit
tee is preparing to investigate the matter
thoroughly, so that the next Congress can
take whatever action may be needed.
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tinued making his quarterly pay
ments to Marsh, and Marsh sent
half the money in cash or certi-
ficates of deposit, to Belknap
(secretarv of war;. What splen-
did Republican conduct of the
war department!
There is no one now living who
is old enough to vote in the COM
ing primary who is not familiar
with the canned meat scandals,
the Tea Pot Dome scandals, the
veterans bureau scandals, etc.
The record is too long to be put
into anything short of an en-
cyclopedia and all of these scan
dals from Grant to Coolidge or
iginated in and were executed
under Republican administra-
lions.
Well, what is the Democratic
record? The party of Thomas
jefferson administered the gov
eminent of the United States for
the greater part of a century be-
fore the advent of Lincoln and
for two interems of eight years
each since Lincoln and We will
let James G.. Blaine, the most
brilliant leader the Republicans
ever had, take the stand in be-
half of Democratic rule. Says
Mr.. Blaine in his Twenty Years
in Congress-" ain their long do
minion and control of the gov
eminent they (the Democrats)
guarded the treasury of the Uni
ted States against every attempt
at extravaganza and every form
of corruption"
At the end Of the Wilson adj
ministration when the Republi-
cans returned to power, after the
greatest expenditure of money
ever known in the history of gov
eminent to propagandize the peo-
pie, % smelling committees"
were appointed to investigate all
tremendous operations lof the
Wilson administration and after
the waste Of vast sums of money
in trying to "smcli out" some
"form Of corruption" some mis-
carriage of justice, some piece of
work to which they could point
and say to the people Of the ma
ton "Look at that and boil with
wrath" they had to admit that
nothing could be found to cast
one single shadow of corruption
over the administration of Wood
row Wilson, the greatest presi-
dent we have had since Wash
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that the government was defraud-
ed of $2,786,000 in whiskey taxes
at that city. If distillers were
not crooked in the first place,
crooked internal revenue officers
bent them into the desired moral
shape by leading them into some
technical violation of law and
then by Matchmaking them into
Joining the gang. The stealing
was carried on in very singular
manner - that is the distillers
were permitted to swindle the
government out of taxes and
we're then assessed" by the Of
ficial thieves, ostensibly for the
Republican party's campaign
fund"
In the light of this "whiskey
ring" exposure it is not difficult
to see how the Republican ma
chine was always able to "snow
the Democrats UNDER with
money!
Well, we are just getting start
ed: Comes the Belknap post scan
dals, The chairman of the house
t0nnnitteeE reports the discovery
Of nlalfeasance in the office of
General Belknap, secretary of
war krBy government license,
trading posts were maintained in
Indian Territory. Some of these
posts were very profitable. Some
time in 1870 the wife of the sec
rotary of war General Balknap)
suggested to one, Marsh, that he
apply for a trading post, convey
ing at least the suggestion that
she would not be averse to shar-
ing in the profits of the establish
ment. Marsh put in his appiica-
ton for the appointment for the
important and profitable post at
Fort Sill. Later on he received
word from Mrs. Balknap, or from
the secretary himself-the testi-
mony being uncertain as to that
that Evans, the incumbent of
the Fort Sill post, was then in
Washington and that Marsh
would better have a talk with
him.
"Marsh and Evans met and
agreed that Evans should keep
the Fort Sill post, and should pay
Marsh $4,000 year, quarterly,
in advance, as long as he held it.
The first quarterly payment was
made and Marsh turned over
half of it to Mrs. Belknap (wife
of the secretary of war;. Soon
after the lady died. Evans con-
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BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service STAFF Correspondent

WAsHlNGToN. Next sen IS a
w tional MIRA document to be
suppressed is citation of 20 spe-
cific cases where code authorities
Or members have brought different
types of pressure on manufacture
ers to drive prices up and keep
hem there.
This bare. factual report from
the Consumers Advisory Board
makes no comment. It bristles
with evidence of open price asso.
citation abuses, coercion of small
lndustrialists who can profit on
reasonable prices, price-fiXing
under codes which have no price
fixing provisions. and practices
which drive prices far ahead Of
purchasing power. The citations
show:
One manufacturer was untruth-
fully told by his code authority
that he would be violating the code
If he didn't raise a certain price
from $40 to S24.25 and a competitor
told him he would be sent to At
lanta.
Manufacturers in another indus.
try were advised to get their prices
in line by copying one another's
prices, though admonished that it
was illegal to do so.
A manufacturer complains
that he can produce many
items much cheaper than big
ger corporations with ter
rife overhead" but says the
code authority threatened him
with prosecution IL he didn't
observe it's arbitrarily set price
list.
Small competitors are threat
ened with price wars and one, able
to save 20 per cent on operating
costs by selling direct to dealers
and iobbers without statesmen, was
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BEHIND THE SCENES M
WAS HINGTON

threatened ny Il Dig ConpeIItui
with being put out of business.
MRS. MARY RUMSEY, chair.
1'I man of CAB, has racing
horse which she named Con
sumer." A trifie diftident about
il, she let the animal be regis
tered under another name than
hers.
Consumer was scheduled to
run recently i'm the very fash
ionable races at Middleburg,
Va.
But he was found to be $50
thin and rundown that he
couldn't start.
DEMOCRATIC cloakroom GOSSIP
- is that Senator Huey Long
plans to run against Roosevelt fol
denomination in 1886 and hopes I'd
take at least few southern dele
to the convention in all
effort to block the president.
Some Democrats take this more
seriously than it sounds, believing
Huey may line Up with other anti
Roosevelt elements in the party
and take advantage of any subse
quent decline in Roosevelt popu
larity-which, by the way, is just
as strong as ever. on the basis o.
congressional mail.
FATHER COUGHLTN'S next
big campaign, insiders say,
will be for social credits.
The famous priest already Is
interested i'm the project and
an influential senator has ar
ranged private meeting here
between him and Major C. H.
Douglas, author Of a widely
known plan for a federal sys-
tenn which would take over the
credit power from the banks
and extend credit to consumers.
Downright. 1894. NEA Service. Inc
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THE PATHS OF GLORY

Some two centuries ago Thomas Gray, in his
immortal poem, "Elegy in Country Churchyard,'
wrote: "The paths of glory lead but to the grave"
Sometimes the paths of glory lead to welcome OBJ
security even before the grave claims those who
have been glorifed.
case in point is that of Maxine Elliott, now
81, who for 80 years was of the worlds most
admired actresses, acclaimed by many as the most
beautiful and accomplished woman on the stage.
She abruptly quit her artistic career in 1920, and
has since lived mostly in Europe, having acquired
an adequate fortunt through her stage appearances
and subsequent shrewd investments.
Recently visiting her native land for the first
time in nine years-she was born in Rockland, Me.
sought interviews. She refused to
reminisce about her career, but said:
, 81 never liked the theatre just happened to
be in it. Night after night played in successes.
They became drearier and drearier. My idea Of
happiness is to find some small corner of the
world, crawl into it, and never see my name in the
papers until die" l'F
4 To the average mortal, who continually strives
for reputation and public approval to the bitter
end, Maxine Elliott's attitude will appear peculiar
ly strange-Monroe Enquirer
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UNC WonapH',
College S,',,|
Final n
$50 . Are Ezpset., i
Degrees Friday 'F"''.]
ing, June II
MONDAY, ApR,, ),

,.' GREENSBORO, i,rir ,
dents $. of the wom, r&1 q
t us,S, University In of North % y
Will wi !, be faced with the y s' u
OF the present scme,te, ', =.
according acc to the co!legi,,.t
dar' The calendar Show, q
Of Of the examinations On n
the date Of Park nigsr
Approximately o.; S".'
en will receive degrees '1 =.
Woman's college at ,5 l,,'
m m next June, accordi H,aa
Mary Mary Taylor Moore, I roel
Ihe state institution,
The members Of II,
1884 will start their r't a.,
ment program Fr!d,r'
June |, with activities -, 4
Germ the naming Of tS "ls
at the college who best ,ns
service: The event is ~
/ Park night. The certrsI III 81
that occasion will rot ~
until the evening of linn
Saturday, June 2, h., !.
apart as Alumnae d,r ~
when former students M !
part in reunions and v5s !
bers of the senior class NJ
t GS IN class-day al
Class-day exercises will II
Saturday afternoon. Alcr,,l
to hold their annual ntgs,|
which officers will he sis,'|
the morning of that dsy.
Members Of the c1,s "a
feel that they have mad !
lent selection of conng1
speakers this year IN I.J
Of DR.. Ben r. Lacy, Jr.. ID
of the Union Theologa J
nary, of Richmond. III
Bishop Francis John Nsl
+ Of the Methodist Eniscou \
of New York.
DR.. Lacy Is to preach Il
calaureate sermon at And
ditorium Sunday monig|
2. Bishop Mcconnell VII
the final address Of uz
ment Monday morning At
auditorium, at the hour n
$50 graduates will resey.
degrees from the l9riog
of the college.
The usual reception h
| dent J. |. Foust and Nj
to alumnac, seniors, ns.s
the faculty and OTHER iIs |
the college is scheduled i
afternoon. That event, "a
to custom, is given On il
in front Of the presidents
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LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

NOTE-No unsigned COM
munications are published by
The Times-News. All letters
must be signed with the real
name of the author. No COM
munications signed with a fic-
titious name will be published.
EDITOR.
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to cooperation and thai
portunitics Of life and
wards Of labor shal. f 4
apportioncd." Some sor +.
promise between capitalist
exists and socialism a'
fined has TO DC had. TE1
tain. The old system 4
Make no mistake about rf|
Who is trying to find y
ton of this prohIcm-At 4
Iican leadership typities 4
inc. Coolidge and H|1
Roosevelt who rccogniI9 2
have got to find a %.l
trial and error and !. a
driving in that dircc ,l,,., :,
L. ". EESy
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A man should have az
rating. How else could =
whether his wife's bead; d
OF a dime?
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Records show that the only criminal offense CO
sists in being too poor to hire the right lawyers.
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But the truth is that,a husband is less likely Il
skip if you give him enough rope
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There has to be revolution every so often. It's
the only known method Of wipng out national
debt.
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Rich men must be law-abiding. You never 81
any of them in jail
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Funny man! Crowds chase a dangerous mad dog
and nobody tries to shoot drunk driver.
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A hick town is place where the dumb ones are
promoted because the teacher wishes to hold her
job. tit n 4 >BgYEE5
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The first clothing acceptable to Ioa, ana re-
quired of God was made by Hnnseh 1or ADAM
and Eve from "coats of SKINS and TINS snedolng
of blood foretold Christs bloodsacrifice that men
might be clothed in righteousness. (Rom. S:zzl.
The atheism, lawlessness, and lust that brought on
the food are again destroying the world but this
time the Lord Himself will end and .-.ss 81
destroy (these things) with the brightness OF
His coming" q Thess 2:s)-
Sunday School Times.