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


Christian Association of st. Paul
Is an active forum for the dis
semination of communistic doc
trine, and 1t is difficult not to be-
lieve, from the pink to red tinge
of study groups sponsored there
as well as the radical slant of so
many of the "Y's" lecturers, that
this is going on with the know
ledge and approval of the manage
ment Certainly = it is not, 1t Is
high time for the "Y" Of st. Paul
to clean house.
Some weeks ago a two-weeks
conference for workers Educa-
ton" was held at the st. Paul Y.
w. c. A., as a relief project for UNI
employed teachers 1t was financed
by federal funds, presumably I'M
der the state department of edu-
cation, with Roman Becker, a well
known radical with strong SYM
pathies for sovietism. One of the
members of this study group, a
Minneapolis woman, somewhat
more mature than the majority of
the teachers attending, has pub
hshed printed statement in which
she characterizes the main OBJ
jective" of this conference to be
an attempt "to offer these unem-
ployed teachers communistic pro-
paganda to be disseminated by
them without labels.
An incident of vital Importance
to the people of Minnesota took
place in this class. DR.. John G.
Rockwell, commissioner of educa-
ton for Minnesota, was one of the
lecturers. DR.. Rockwell advocated
certain changes in the laws as re-
lating to the schools of Minnesota,
particularly with respect to handi-
capped children, a subject which
seems to be an obsession with the
commissioner. The startling por-
ton of his remark, however, was
the expression of the hope that no
reporters were present.
Here, If we may believe the re-
port Of those who were present,
we have the commissioner of edu-
cation for Minnesota, the head of
the Minnesota public schools, urg-
ing certain plans and policies
which he apparently fears to
have come to the ears of the ia
theirs and mothers Of the children
in his charge.
The FL strategy board, meeting
a week before the special session,
70 ooolr ,,p fro,,hlo for tha M q ioritxy
pumped roundly for $50 pension
for all over the age of IS, irrespec-
tive of need. The language was
plain and unequivocal. Every
body could understand it.
Governor Olson understood it
and knew that is was bad business
and promptly denounced it, where
at the flabbergasted FL strategy
board preserved an embarrassed
silence for full twenty-four hours,
when, bethinking themselves of
last years expedient, they issued
explanations and interpretations to
the effect that what they really
meant when they spoke so roundly
and so hastily was a pension equal
to the difference between a per-
sons income and $50 a month.
The FL strategy board should
have asked papa before they spoke
out in meeting.
Minnesota motor vehicle licenses
for 1886 will carry white figures
on dark blue background.
Up to December LIST total of
747,926 motor vehicle licenses has
been issued in Minnesota by Reg
istrar Mike Holm as against 724,-
10 for all of 1884. Motor vehicle
license receipts for the first II
months of 1885 are $7,015,747.42 as
against $6,614,771.74 for the II
months of 1884. Minnesota regis
tration for 1885 is already the high
est in the history of the state, ex-
ceeding the total of the peak year,
1880, by more than $500.
Governor Olson's message to the
special session of the legislation,
while advocating the purpose for
which the session was called, the
enactment of social security legis-
lation to fit in with the federal
Social Security Act, was devoted
principally to the suggestion of tax
measures with which to finance
old age pensions.
No recommendation which Gov
ernor Olson has made to the leg
islature in the five years of his
administration have met with such
a barrage of criticism as have
these which he presented last week
for financing social security. The
general point to which all these
adverse criticisms converge is that
the governors tax proposals are
inadequate and fundamentally I'M
sound and, if applied, would work
serious injury to the very elements
of the states population for whose
benefit they are urged.
Not all of Governor Olson's pro- |
posals are objected to. Some of |