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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-12-05
Another Promiser

On the strength of his promise to pay every per-
son in the province S25 month out of the provincial
treasury, William Aberhart elected premier Of
Alberta, Canada, few weeks ago. Now the expect
ant voters anxiously waiting for their payments
to begin.
But the new premier has to get hold of the mon
ey first and that is not proving easy because the
province is already some two million dollars in deor.
But he is doing something. He is preparing to raise
taxes and has already cut salaries, called far
mers' seed loans suspended government health in
surance and raised the price of liquor in the stav.
stores
especially Premier Aberhart admits that it
will be at least year and half before he begin
the $25 a month payments and even that is only
another promise.
Perhaps the people of Alberta will shortly wake
up to the fact that they have been taken in by an
irresponsible politician, who, like this sioe
of the border long promises and short on per-
Torrance.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-12-05
Thursday, December S, 1885

season in debt, and In order to pay
up their bills planned to give q
dance at the City Hall on New
Years Eve. They have booked the
new S-piece Symphony orchestra
composed Of the following members
for the dance: VIM. Book, leader
and violin; Ole Arnstad, traps and
manager; Miss Loretta Book,
piano; p. Orvarr, flute; e. Fosgate,
clarinet; B. Allen, cornet; Sid
Mann, saxophone; Henry Randers,
trombone.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Parker re-
turned Wednesday evening of last
week from quite an extensive we'd
ding trip through the extreme
West, as well as Chicago, Milwau-
kee, and the Twin Cities. They
have taken up housekeeping in
the Merryman residence on the
north side of the river.
Lee johnson came up from
Princeton Wednesday Of last week
and remained until Saturday noon
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. E.
johnson. Lee went to Princeton
last spring and bought a black
smith shop. He looks well and says
business is fine, which will be good
news to his Sank Centre friends.
Miss Mabel Borgmann, who is
attending the Agricultural college
of the University of Minnesota,
spent the Thanksgiving vacation
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Borgmann.
Neil Hopkins, who has been
threshing in Canada this fall, go
ing up with Marshall Bros, but
taking an engineers job with an
other rig later, returned to his
home near Willard about two weeks
ago and came down to Sank Centre
to spend Thanksgiving day.
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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-12-05
EDITORIAL
COMMENT
Crimes Terrible Toll
From Our Exchanges

Justice John p. Devaney, of our
state supreme court, says: Crime
in America costs us in excess of
thirteen billion dollars year.
That is a stunning figure, but 1t is
a correct one. Think of the good it
would do if properly used,-how
much of gladness it might spread
throughout the land. But now it
represents tribute taken from hon.
est citizens by crooks,-penalties
collected from business by racket
GERS and criminals. And, despite the
governments fine showing in
rounding up the big crooks, there is
still a vast amount of work to do.
First of all we must develop such
a sentiment against crime that
juries will not believe it popular to
turn crooks loose on society. Then
we must convince our parole
boards that they must be exceed
ingly strict in exercising the pow
ers of pardon and parole. Thirteen
billion a year would give every
family in the country more than
five hundred dollars, which would
mean that in very short time even
ordinary citizens could own decent
homes.-The Murray County Her
aid.
We read an article by an editor
ial writer the other day where he
commented on the address made
recently by ex-president Hoover
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-12-05

James Day, of Drummond,
Canada, was awakened by his baby
coughing, to find his house on
fire. He just had time to save his
family.
Three 16-year old boys in Mont
clair, N. j., must wash cars of the
police department for punishment
for changing a 1888 license to
1885, and using it.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-12-05
Boom" Days Are Here Again


The biggest boom" in the stock
market since the collapse of 1929
is now under way. Those who make
a study Of economic causes say
that at the bottom of this boom lie
the same elements that started the
big rise in stock prices in 1927.
Those are inflated bank credits and
the influx of European gold seek
ing investment.
Now, as in 1927, America appears
to the rest Of the world as the
safest place in invest money with
a chance Of making a profit. Amer
lean capital is getting over it's tim
idity, and coming out from hiding.
Business is on the upswing, and
confidence in the future is strong
er. The result is more buyers for
stocks in sound enterprises, and
higher prices for securities.
This boom, like all its predeces-
sors, will collapse some day. No
body can guess when that will be.
In the meantime, Wall Street spec
ulators are making money.-St
SlOuu Sentlnel.
What Price Profits
One day recently, when passing
group discussing the present
economic situation, we inadvertent-
ly overheard the following re-
mark:
Nothing would suit me better
than good war. Then we'd see
some real prices for the products
we work so hard to raise"
This was an earnest expression
of opinion that in no way differs
from a multitude Of like phrases
flying around the country since the
italian hordes massed to smother
little Ethiopia. War is in the air.
The grocer, the butcher, the labor
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-12-05
Other Peoples Opinion

The following interesting
letter from Mr.. A. H. Hen
erickson, lake dweller, bears
out the contention that politics
is being played with the fish of
Sank Lake:
Do Not Fool The Public
This was part of the heading Of
an editorial in the last weeks issue
of the Sank Centre Herald, and al
though it appears from said article
that the Herald Editor is mislead,
you cannot fool the people, and so
to set the matter right I will ask
for space in the Herald for an ex-
PLANTATION of the matter; as to the
first half of the heading to said
article play Politics with Fish"
we do not see where politics come
in unless said article was inspired
for the purpose of knocking the
administration and Director of
Game and Fish, which mostly is
the aim, or at least, the supporters
of the Administration in and out of
Sank Centre think it is. However,
if this is aimed at the Olson Ad-
ministration, it fails from the fact
that this Opened and closed-clos-
ed and opened" business began in
the Preus Administration and con-
tinued throughout the Christian
son Administration and until the
fall of 1880 it was opened both for
Whitefish netting and fish houses,
which was supposed to help the Re-
publican candidates, at least that
was heard around the corners and
as soon as the election was over
and apparently their game failed
as Olson was elected, an awful
howl was set up while the Repub-
lican Commissioner was still hold
that famous Hungry Swede" let
ter which brought the Commits
sioner here for investigation and
the lake was opened.
Just before the 1882 election the
lake was again closed, and when
the then Commissioner w. D.
Stewart had his attention called to
it, the lake was Immediately open
ed for Whitefish netting and be-
fore it was opened for fish houses
that year we offered to furnish
proof of the fish condition Of the
lake and the sentiment of the peo-
pie, the later was shown by the
way of a petition signed by nearly
600 voters Of which better than 400
were from the city of Sank Centre
and that petition, still on file, was
signed by all the business men of
Sank Centre.
For this present opening of the
lake for whitefish netting I am
solely to blame and the reason is
this, that ever since the farmers
around Sank Centre were forbid
den to drive through town and
those that ventured into town were
rotten-egged in 1918 the feeling be-
tween the Country and Town has
not been any too good and If moth
ing had been done something would
have happened.
The people around Sank Centre
are now pretty well organized in
the Farm Holiday movement and
a boycott would probably been in
voge now, If nothing had been done.
The human race are all more or
less Indians and II wronged and
cannot find out the individual they
will punish the tribe. The merch-
ants of Sank Centre would have
suffered although not to blame.
Sank Centre at the last census had
2712 people and 1t is less than IL
men In town who are causing this
trouble.
However, these people were not
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-12-05
Looking Back
Through Time
Excerpts from the Herald Thurs,
December 2, l915-Items of
Interest of Twenty Years Ago

Early last week it became known
about town that $50 was needed to
furnish carpets for the Norwegian
Lutheran Old Folks Home recently
established in the old Keller resi-
dence, and managed by Rev. A.
Vatne. The business men Of Sank
Centre subscribed $183 for this
purpose.
Manager Segers, of the Sank
Centre baseball team informed the
Herald that the club ended the
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-12-05
State News Briefs


Cokato.-Clad only in underwear and a night
gown, and suffering from mental lapse, Mrs. Wal
ter Larson, 81, Cokato, found on Sunday after
in a swamp after she had disappeared Satur-
day night. Mrs. Larson chilled to the bone when
Ray Herzog, of Winsted hunter, came upon her in
a thcket Herzog's dog SHE'D away from the spot in
which the lost concealed, and the mas
ters investigation of the peculiar action of the dog
brought about the discovery. Relatives and friends
were unable to account for the mental lapse which
caused Mrs. Larson to wander away. Although she
had for about II hours, having left
the Gust Peterson home at II o'clock the night be-
FORE Mrs Larson is recovering from the effects of
farm at Brook Park Mimi, and Mrs. Larson had re-
The two sisters together Saturday night when
awoke, Mrs Larson gone. An all night and all
searching party failed reveal the whereabouts of
the woman until Herzog accidentally made the dis
covery. When efforts were made to remove Mrs Lar
son to the Peterson home, she was reluctant to be
taken Barefooted, her feet were black and blue
Finds Glasses in Mouth After Auto Tips Over
Minnesota Lake.-When the wreck was over, be-
leye it or not, L. W. Jensen found his spectacles IN
his mouth-unbroken. That he had not swallowed
them or broken the glasses in his mouth was one OF
miracles of a crash near Minnesota Lake Enroute TO
that village from Mankato, Jack Leibberman was
driving a new car, with Jensen as the passenger To
test the highest speed of his possession Lelpoer
man pushed the accelerator down to the floor board
for few minutes, and watched the needle climb.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-12-05

ing man and the financier have all
expressed the same thought in diff
ferent words.
But consider this attitude from a
common-sense point Of view!
All the men looking for the fan
cy profit Of a new war have not
stopped to consider the fact that in
stead Of rolling in money, they
may be rolling in the filthy mud of
the trenches; those too old have
sons in the war. To send the price
of corn to dollar, the price of
wheat to two dollars, they would
sacrifice an arm, or leg, perhaps
the life Of a son.
Can you visualize yourself, chort-
ling with satisfaction over dol
lars profit when you know that
your son Is, at that very moment.
grooming out in mo mans land"
with bullet through his groin,
blood frothing from his lips, his
arm a bleeding, splintered stump?
Brutality frank? Yes! But add up
your profits. consider your costs,
and ask yourself rs it worth
while ?"-Waseca Journal.
Raymond Lee, state fair secre-
tary, told a good story when here
this week. He says that right after
a state fair, the secretary always
gets a lot of letters, sometimes
commencing the show, more fire.
quently finding fault with things.
He got a big kick this year over
letters inquiring if it were fact
that the Methodist church had a
beer stand at the fair. He explained
it by telling that a man whose
name is Church, with initials IN.
E" did have a beer concession and
his sign read: "Schmidt's Beer, M.
E. Church, Hamm's Beer" There
was one smart man, if we know
our Observation-Disclosures Sentin-
ell.
A Shabby Trick On Youth
If young Republicans are look
ing for an issue that means much
to the young voters there is a
great field Of special interest to
their group in the spending by pub
lie officials of billions, borrowed
billions. They may find a statement
of this matter that especially APP
plies to youth in these sentences
by Lewis w. Douglas, who was
President Roosevelt's director of
the federal budget but quit. Says
Douglas:
"A billion dollars should never be
thought of as merely a sum Of
money. It should be thought Of as
representing many years of labor
by many thousands of people. Only
in such terms can the significance
of our enormous national deficit be
appreciated. Only then can we un-
derstand the extent to which we
have mortgaged our future"
Young voters still have a future.
They will carry the mortgage. Pub
lie officials who talk about en-
couraging youth, and then load
them down with a burden Of debt,
are playing shabby trick.-Mon-
tevideo News.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-12-05

The following interesting
letter from Mr.. A. H. Hen
erickson, lake dweller, bears
out the contention that politics
is being played with the fish of
Sank Lake.
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pendent upon their favors have little
more democracy than did the serfs
under the feudal system. They can
60 out and vote. yes, but even In this
their economic dependence upon these
companies Is such that they do not
dare to- disobey q mandate to take
sides in q particular issue.
Quotes Editorial.
I think 1t would be enlightening Just
at this point to read an editorial from
the Electrical World, o semi-official
publication Of the public utilities. In
the list Of 200 largest corporations
which have mentioned, 50 are public
utilities. I quote briefly from the edi-
torial, which Is entitled Light Up
With Politics.:
Upon a platform Of public interest,
utility men as taxpayers, as citizens,
as representatives of employees and
investors. and as public service sup
pliers, must make politics their major
concern. Every executive or manager
In each community served must devote
his individual efforts to making the
citizens and the politicians friends
instead of enemies. The utility
men must come to know intimately
the present municipal officials and
State and national legislators, also
those who will attain these political
positions in the future, and they must
be able to convince these men of
their political impartiality. - Sue
cess In politics depends on human
relations, and these have their great
est center in the homes Of the citizens
OF each locality. Utilities should trans
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ators, entirely without stake Of their
own in the case Of many corporations,
put the risks of their own bad judg-
ment on thousands of part owners
from Maine to California, while TAX
ing out for themselves the profits that
accrue from their good Judgment.
In its original form the corporate
device served q very necessary func-
ton and was a fine thing, but say
to you that business units of the size
Of these 400 corporations have no place
in our economy. In them are all the
objectional features of Government
ownership, except that they are in no
way responsible to the public interest.
They lend themselves to the maldis-
tribution Of wealth and purchasing
power. They tend to stif1e private
initiative. They foster nepotism in its
worst form. They deliberately sup
press inventions and new processes 80
that they can preserve obsolete and
uneconomical machinery and plants.
They are bureaucracy plus. Their
managements, like the Hapsburgs and
other royal families, tend to be Self-per.
petuating, because by wide dispersion
of the stock ownership, the use of
proxies and holding devices, they can
remain in control with only a mini
mum Of stock. Economic democracy
under them is an impossibility when
they own around 40 per cent of all
business wealth. Their influence. how
ever, does not stop at ownership.
There Is no way Of estimating how
much wealth they actually and ef-
fectively control in addition to what
they own. Employees and people de-
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And don't think that there Is any
man capable of being dictator Of the
United States of America. be he
Herbert Hoover or, Franklin d. Roose-
welt, or any one else. We have too
precious O heritage Of freedom and
democracy to entrust 1t to facism,
communism or any other ism that
implies centralization Of too much
power in the hands Of any one
individual.
Example i'm Past.
Big business gives us q good enough
example of the evils which might at
tend this course. From 1920 to 1929
no sacrifice was too great to make to
centralize power in the hands OF fewer
and fewer corporations, controlled by
fewer and fewer individuals. In 1909
the 400 largest non-banking corpora
tions had assets Of only sac, 1000, ,000,-
900. In 10 years, by 1919, these assets
had reached 43.7 billions, or an in
crease OF 50 per cent. In the next 10
years, from 1919 TO 1929, they in
creased to $4,000, ,0OO, 900, or q gain
Of 85 per cent.
These ZOO largest corporations
would. II the rate Of growth from
1924 to 1929 were applied in the fu-
ture, In 80 years absorb all corporate
activity and practically all business
activity. These 200 largest corpora
tions are directed nominally by about
1000 men. But most Of the directors
are inactive, many Of them are dummy
directors. It L. safe to say that only
o handful of men, somewhere in the
hundreds, control half our corporate
wealth. The other day Chairman
Jones Of the r. r. c., testifying before
my committee in the Senate, stated
that the railroads were controlled en-
tirely by the bankers. Other testi-
mony showed that the banker control
was almost entirely divided between
Just two banking firms. What is true
of the railroads Is also true Of the
life insurance companies and the util-
tiles in just the same way. I have
no doubt that it Is true of the rest of
the 200 corporations. This shows that
while half of the corporate wealth is
controlled outright by a handful of
men, at least the major share of these
men may be controlled in turn by less
than q half dozen investment bankers
The corporate form was originally
one by which private business was
conducted by an individual. 1t Is now
q means whereby some financial oper-
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international trade we can. That Is
impossible. There is only one way
that We can sell our surpluses abroad
and that is by permitting other
nations to trade with us.
Secondly, do We want to go back
and have money of redemption and
metallic base for it? II We do, then
we must face the fact that there isn't
enough gold in the world to meet the
needs of commerce and that we must
remonetize silver. Or do we want to
abandon the metallic base entirely
and depend on q managed currency?
II we remonetize silver. we will help
the manufacturer by preventing the
dumping of Oriental goods over our
tariff barriers.
The trouble with the American
political life has been that during the
war and since the war up to 1929 so
many people were prosperous that
they did not stop to figure out what
was bringing about that temporary
prosperity. We felt that we were
Gods chosen people and that some
how In His divine wisdom he had
picked US out for special attention,
when suddenly in 1929 we were face to
face with the greatest economic
catastrophe of modern times, either
for this country or any other.
Now, I haven't time in the few
minutes that has been allotted to me
tonight to point out some OF the
danger signals that lie in whatever
route we choose on these questions.
Irrespective of which fork in the road
we take, the burning issue before
America today is whether we are
going to allow monopolies and other
large aggregations of economic power
to continue to dominate our whole
social, economic and political life.
Wealth Concentrated.
This issue has its roots in the fact
that 96 per cent Of we American
sovereigns own only Is per cent Of the
wealth; in the fact that one out OF
every six persons is dependent upon
the Government for relief; in the fact
that II, 900 900 people are unemployed. 1.
Either industry itself must see that
more money gets into the hands Of
the people in the form Of purchasing
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late public service into political serv.
ice also by taking local action ade-
quate to meet present needs. Local
tickets should be slated and local plat.
forms written at once for each COM
fnunity." u.
How much effect the lesson for
utilities contained in this editorial has
had can best be judged by the cam
paign against the administration
public utility holding company bill
which have introduced in the United
States Senate.
will be the first to admit that these
corporations have every right to spread
their gospel in any way that they see
ut, but I strenuously object to the
n1asquerading OF their own selfish in
terests under the garb of concern for
the poor dear public. They have the
right to voice their opinions In the
public forum and I would be the last
to say that they should be deprived of
it In any way, shape or form. But
when they are openly avowing that
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power, or it will have to be func-
tion of the Government to do like
they are doing now-that is, taxing
industry and placing the proceeds in
the hands of the needy in the form of
relief. If we do this we are verging
onto state socialism, which would to
my mind be worse than unfortunate.
1t would be SO because socialism i'm
plies the strong hand OF q leader,
censorship in the press, on the radio.
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