The Sauk Centre herald., 1935-07-18
EDITORIAL
COMMENT
Bathrobes and Pack Sacks
From Our Exchanges

farmers VINO went to Alaska at
the government expense.
One of them went into a store
at Duluth to get the outfit which
he was supposed to have. Among
the items of clothing was bath
robe.
A bathrobe is a good thing. Of
course, every farmer should have
one. But this particular farmer
thought that he could get along
without one. He asked if he might
forego the robe and get an extra
jacket, shirt or pair of pants. He
thought that these things might be
more useful.
But he was told that he was to
take the bathrobe. The government
had decreed what he was to have
and the judgment of the govern
ment must never be questioned.
There was a time when the pack
sack was the symbol of the pion-
eer. The government has substi-
tuted the bathrobe.-Grand Rap
ids Herald-Review.
Relief Muddles
Relief work in Minnesota is in
muddle this week-or several
muddles.
The Federal Administration is
determined to assume charge of
all relief work in the state, includ-
ing the disbursement of all state
and county monies which have
been appropriated. 1t is claimed
that thereby the work may be CO.
ordinated and made more efficient
but the state executive council is
concerned as to the fate of S6,000,-
900 of conservation work for which
the Legislature made appropria-
tions, the fate of which would be
uncertain if the state surrenders
all control.
Some 25 or 80 counties in the
southern part of the state have re-
fused to make the appropriation
levied against them of the $5,000,-
900 which the counties are suppos-
ed to raise to secure the federal as
sistance. Steele county has gone all
through the depression and has
taken care of it's own relief with
out state or federal assistance,
and appears to have been SO well
satisfied with the arrangement
that a large number of other coun-
ties in the southern part of the
state are determined to follow the
same course.
The muddles will probably be
solved by the federal government
having it's own way, and the Incl
dents are chiefly valuable in show
ing the resistance of local govern
ments to bureaucratic dictation
and the growing revolt against the
extravaganza of the National Gov
ernment.-Morris Tribune.
There is only one Senator Huey
Long. There is only one state
sycophantic or silly enough to
elect such a miserable excuse for
a statesman" The country is in
no danger, but it must be hard
lines lOE level hCdoCu iooiSAoAA
Falls Tribune.
Bureaucracy Would Stifle Us
No one who has observed the
tendency to centralize power in
agencies and bureaus in Washing
ton, or the spirit of self-abnega-
ton in which Congress has until
recently been STEPPED, can fail to
see the grave implications in the
trend of our government. 1t is per-
haps too easy to dismiss the dan
gers on the plea that the new or
der of government which now pre-
walls is necessary In the upward
struggle for economic justice. Yet,
coupled with happenings in Eur
ope, the situation has brought
home to every thinking American
a realization that the institutions
of representative democracy, as
they have been developed in this
country, must be preserved.
With all it's shortcomings, our
democracy is still the most stable
and the most suitable government
for the American people. Its dead
ly enemy is bureaucracy. We can
not afford to be blind or to fail to
resist the insidious encroachments
of that enemy. That it stalks be-
hind a benevolent dictator whose
purposes we may for the moment
trust make it the more danger
ous.-Northfield News.
I'VE Miss You Daddy"
Tuesday morning there was a
fatal accident on the Minterburn
hill and when the medical exam
iner was going through the pock-
cts of the dead man :. teie-
gram was found. It was not very
long, just the ordinary ten word
length, but it was a message that
would make any father happy. IL
read: I'VE miss you Daddy. When
are you coming homer"
That was all. It was message
sent by one of the children OF the
man who was killed. He had re-
ceived the message and was home
ward bound. The clothes were
minus money but in his pocket he
carried that message.
Those who have little children,
and those who were once little
children, can think of the great
blow to the child when the father
did return home-dead.
Daddy will be missed by those
children in the long years ahead
No longer will they have his sup
port, his earnings, and more i'm
portant, his comradeship.
Tf ever thara was q reason Tor