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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-08-05

The Recreataonal program
that has been under the super
vision of Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey
winds up this week with Sat
urilay the Last day. The two Of
them have supervised girls
and boys In half q dozen activ-
tiles. Announcement was made
that the WPA recreational
leaders will continue at least q
part Of the program for the re-
mainder Of the summer. Dick
isOn and Steir have both as
sisted In the program. Tho
golf instruction, conducted
under Bernie Schoenhoff, will
be continued.
In the gallery at the st. Paul
open golf tournament at Keller on
Sunday were some of the local di.
vot diggers including Archie Lane
Vic Sieben, Bill Bryan, Phil Stein.
er, and Harold Westhoff. They saw
all the big shots including Cooper
and Snead. Snead, the purse hold.
err, on the. 18th came UP on that PAL
s hole, laid out a 375 yard drive
approached on his second with g
No. z iron, and eagled the hole
And Westhoff was one of the gasp.
ing gallery that saw this champion
in the making.
Duck hunters will be Oiling
the fowling pieces soon for the
fall shoot, and the same res
trictions have been placed on
the shoot as prevailed last
year. It'll be a 30 day shoot this
year, beginning for local hunt
tiers on October 8 and contin-
uing until November 7th. You
can shoot between 7 a. m, and
4 p. m, and the bag can be 10
In the aggregate for a single
day. There are plenty Of rosy
sides to the duck hunting pic
ture this year. It is estimated
that early this season more
than $4,000 pair Of the fowl
were In the local area. Teal.
which are shot most In these
northern sections, escaped last
year, It was estimated, with
not much more than q 10 per-
cent loss. Mr.. Teal got smart
last season and pulled out be-
fore the boys even haS time to
get into their hunting toys,
and the same trick was his all
the way down the line. So he's
back this year In greater
numbers. but the 30 day limit
stands. According to the Bio
logical Survey, the increase In
ducks does not warrant an ex-
tension of the shoot.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-08-05
Water, Light & Power
Proceedings

Meeting Of the Water, Light and
Power Commission was held on
Thursday, July u, 1887 at 2:30 p.
m, with all members present. w.
T. Davis, of the w. T. Davis Con.
struction Company, Des Moines,
Iowa, met with the Commission
relative to painting and repairing
the City's 10000 gallon water
tank.
A motion was made by Commits.
sioner Hillerud, seconded by Com
missioner Kells, and carried tina
the president and secretary be au-
thorized to enter into a contract
with the w. T. Davis Construction
Company to make repairs and Inn
provements on the water tank, II
accordance with the proposal sub
mitted to the commission by Mr.
Davis, and that statuatory per
Torrance bond be furnished.
These minutes were read and as
proved and the meeting adjourned
A. M. MacDermond, Sec.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-08-05

The great English poet, Alexan-
der Pope, was little more than 4
feet high.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-08-05

These minutes were read and APP
proved and the meeting adjourn.
ed.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-08-05

Meeting Of the Water, Light and
Power Commission was held Mon
day, August 2, 1887, at 400 o'clock
p. m, with all members present.
A motion was made by Commits
sioner Kells, seconded by Commits
sioner Hillerud, and carried that
the following bills be allowed:
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-08-05

thing about Harvey's private life,
but I do know that he does not
have the other symptoms. In
short, he's not worrying over the
prospects Of his current football
team. He has returning lot Of
sizable material including nine let
termen. But I'd like to say a word
about one or two boys he lost last
year. One Is Captain John Egan,
who was as tough a boy on the line
to get through as this school pro-
duced in some spell. And John was
a type that is not often found
among smaller schools or high
school athletes generally. Many a
lad with a lot more God-given tai
ent for the game than John had
has been benched because Of one
thing. Training. John used to re-
port for football as hard and phys
ically fit as he was when the sea-
son wound up. He had a job to do
and he was ready for it. But you
don't find enough of them interest
ed to do that. And just got think
ing today, how many of next years
squad are out there kicking, or
blocking, or putting that body into
shape.
There's another type of play
er that is necessary In any
game requiring q team. That
fellow is q boy like Arvig-a
spark plug. This boy has a
heap of responsibility on his
shoulders, and he's got to keep
the old chin up, he's got to
perform every minute of every
game. He Is what among men
would be termed q leader. His
mood the rest will follow. Well,
Arvig, was q nice little ball
player and he was q spark
plug. And now we're looking
for one this year.
Baseball among the younger fry
took a decided boom under the re-
creational program which goes in
to its finale this week. Playing un-
der the head of Junior Midgets the
four clubs have played SO games In
an inter club series that has pro-
duced promising results, and Har-
vey is pleased with some Of the
material that will be forthcoming.
The four clubs, ranging in ages
from 8 to IA years, have played in
inter club games, and Wednesday
the two leaders, the Tigers and the
Cubs wound up their play with a
championship game followed by a
picnic. Standings in the league put
the Cubs in the front rank with 10
games played and IA wins. The Tt
gers are close on their heels with
q games played and II wins. The
Millers trail with wins out of II
starts and the Sox are in the low
bracket with wins out of IL
games played. These kids, about
40 in number, have been faithful in
their practice and their enthusiasm
for the game is unbounded.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-29
Check Your Indications

The Bridgeport Times Star comments in recent issue on the beautiful friendship" existing between Mayor Frank Hayes and the Waterbury Repuo- lican. The "quotes" are ours, not the Bridgeport papers. It may be recalled that the morning half of the local news combination saw no reason to believe anything that Mayor Hayes had to say about the proposed merit system for this city, which he revealed in letter to John B. Goss. The same unchristian-like atti- tude was maintained by the evening half of the combination.
 One of the few issues or personages on which both halves of the combination agree are Mayor Hayes and his demo- cratic administration There is no good in them or coming from them. Nevertheless the quarterly reports of the city govern ment (paid for at advertising rates) are not turned down as unworthy to be printed, even though bought and paid for But that is beside the point we would make. And it is forgetting completely about the Bridgeport Times-Star, which quite obviously allows itself to be blinded to true facts right here i'll the Brass City.
 For example the Bridgeport paper con- cludes by saying, Mayor Hayes should most graciously thank The Republican for reassuring the members of his ma chine that his loyalty to them is un- abated Indications are that he may need them in the Mayoralty election next fall, in spite of the support he will receive from The Republican" It might better have been written - because" of the support he will receive from The Repub- lican. However, if there is any real cause for concern among democrats of this city over the approaching mayoralty election, you'd never notice it.
 Last week there were two testimonials in Waterbury. One was for Mayor Hayes, given by the democratic women. The other was for Republican Town Chairman J. Warren Upson, given by Young Repub- licans. A speaker at the latter declared the mayors party was given on the spur of the moment and to forestall the Upson banquet few nights later. We urge the Bridgeport Times-Star editor to consult the Hotel Elton management to ascertain how many dinners were served and paid for at the respective parties. It might reveal how one spur-of- of-the-moment party compared with carefully-planned one.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-29
The Same Old Story

According to the Connecticut State Journal, monthly organ of the republican party of this state, the democrats who held office in the State Senate this past year were sorry lot. All they were there for, according to the Journal, was to grab off an appointive position for themselves. That may be so and maybe the demo- crats didn't expect to elect tWenty-slX senators last November, but the fact re- mains they did and when they did that It meant simply that the democrats in the Senate had perfect right to expect not merely to organize this body but to con- trol it throughout the entire session.
 The Journal commentator weeps copi- ous tears over the numerous court appointments that went to democratic senator's Senator Raymond J. Devlln ot New Haven being the sole exception. Of him the editor says, Ray Devlin made the Common Pleas bench, although this was an exception-it was merited." Some years ago, not too many, either, there was only one senator in the democratic side of the Senate He was Joseph H. LaWlor of Waterbury. At another session there were only two-Mr. LaWlor and the pres ent Labor Commissioner, Joseph Tone of New Haven.
 Should anybody care to delve into the records of those two sessions or preceding and following ones when the republicans maintained as clear margins ln the Senate as they did in the House it will be noticed that all appointments, whether they were to the courts, high and low, or commissions were republicans. There was not the slightest doubt about who would get the appointments in those days If democrat to voice protest he was laughed at and promptly forgotten. Republicans ruled the roost and how. Today it's different, because democrats are usurping the places formerly held by the g. o. p.
 Personally we hold no brief for this practice of grabbing off all offices, such as political parties are wont to do We like to see nice balance of power main tained and on-partisanship exemplified as often as possible in appointments, but criticism, such as comes from republican sources for democrats practicing old g. o. p. tricks, lacks the ring of sincerity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-29

Another ruling from the Attorney Generals office reveals that not only is the State Highway Department tied so far as spending money is concerned, but another state commission is virtually abolished, if not actually. This is the Veterans Home Building Commission, news of which occupied headlines last week. It may be recalled that it's chair man, Leroy D. Downs took umbrage at reported remarks of State Senator Matthew A. Daly of New Haven. MT. Daily spoke to the League of Women Voters at New London. He later denied that remarks credited to him in the press were correct However, that's beside the point. The Attorney General in answer to a question from the Veterans Home Com mission ruled that the new Public Works Commission is in charge of all state con- struction which means it will supervise the new veterans home at Rocky Hill. This will automatically eliminate the Veterans Home Building Commission. There will still be a commission, however, to administer the home.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-29
Stern Tradition

It would occur to benighted peo- pie who have no knowledge of the stern traditions of the Fourth Es- tate that when Irwin's statement of his identity was accepted 1t was the plain duty of the newspaper to which he had made it known to have notified the police at once. There would still have been time enough to beat the other Chicago newspapers to the story. But with a thoroughness matched only by the craft with which the under world shelters refugees from the law in its labyrinthine tnazes the Chicago journal is reported to have hurried its windfall from one haven of secrecy to another to protect it's newsbeat. Again It might occur to benighted men, toned above that the perfect jour nalistic coup pulled of by the Herald and Examiner could be de- scribed under the law as harboring suspected criminal or at least obstructing justice. If in his suborned flight from one hide-out to another, Irwin, had managed to escape the tender guardianship of his newspaper shepherds and had done another disappearing act. MT. Dinehart and his associate ,deyo- tees to the ideals of the newspaper business might have found them- selves in very scalding water in-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-29

The recent appointments to minor courts of the state by Governor Wilbur L. Cross reveals the possibility that many of the appointees may not serve full two years in office. This is due to the fact that the appointments are what are defined as recess ones. Those named to office will assume their duties Thursday of this week and continue in them until the sixth Wednesday of the 1889 session of the General Assembly. Should the Legislature not take any action then they naturally remain until successor is named But the sixth Wednesday of the 1889 legislative session comes in February which is four good months in advance of July 1, when the terms usually expire.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-29
Smart (?) Work

Pieced out it appears that a stranger appeared some time be- fore Sunday in the Herald and Examiner office, asked for a cig- arette, and then announced his identity as the man for whom the police the nation over were on the watch. The first reactions to the announcement must have been that (a) the man was a cigarette moocher or that (b) he was plain nut. Then the possibility that he might be the long hunted Irwin dawned on the up-and-alive news men. If so they had a "beat" of the first magnitude right in their laps. It probably took no great inducement to get the self-con- fessed strangler-icepick- -plunger to tell his gruesome tale. He was posed for photographs, taken over every nauseous detail of the crime, and when the last scrap of infor- nation had been wrung from him he was spirited away to a series Of hotel hide outs so that no other newspaper could spoil the scoop" Also in order that the police might be kept unaware of his presence in Chicago until the paper printed his story was on the street. When the Herald and Ex- aminer made up its leisurely mind to turn him over to the law he was surrendered. AS matter of fact the newspaper building was actually searched by a detail from the homicide squad but Irwin could not be found. But at the time of the search the managing editor of the paper must have known just where to lay his finger on him when the moment for his dramatic delivery to the police arrived. A smart newspaper gent, MT. Dinehart, managing editor of the Chicago Herald and Examiner. and due for a bat bonus from his sheet I have no doubt. But what about his and his papers duty to society?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-29


 It occurred early in the after noon of June 2, few hours be- fore Roberts and his colleagues shed their silken robes to depart on a four-months summer vaca- ton. First, however, here is the background of. the incident:
 s To l OveruIed
 On May IT the Supreme Court handed down an to l decision in favor of the government in the American Sheet & Tin Co. case. The lone dissenter was Justice Pierce Butler. The majority opinion was written. by Justice Roberts.
 The decree, eliminating form of railroad favoritism to big ship pers, was smashing victory for the government and for hundreds of small manufacturers who have to compete against larger rivals.
 But although they won the ver- dict at the hands of the full court, they lost in the secrecy of Justice Roberts chambers. It was Roberts himself who had writ, ten the courts decision. but two weeks later, at the behest of the losers, he issued a stay of mandate suspending the judgment until the court reconvenes in October.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-29
A Book a Day
An Author Defines American Idealism
 BY BRUCE CATION

Michael Foster undertakes to eX- pound the history and the signific- ance of the republics idealism in his new novel. American Dream" (Morrow: $3). It's large order, and now and then it gets away from him; but the net result, neverthe- less, is fine and sensitive book which it is joy to read.
 He begins by presenting a young west coast newspaper re- porter who, sickened by the ob- scene hurly-burly of the daily life he is called on to report, tries to dig back into his ancestral past to see just what America is all about.
 His researches take him back to an Indian fighter in colonial New England, to clipper ship captain of pre- Civil War days, to winner of the west, and to an idealistic Kansas lawyer who puts up losing fight for civil liberties during the frenzied World War days; and from these lives and their overtones, he draws his con- clusions.
 The American dream, he con- cludes, is chiefly an implicit faith in the inherent decency ano goodness of the common man anc in the perfectibility of human so. ciety; trust that men somehow have to sense and the good will to make the rough places smooth and to reduce injustice and un. happiness to minimum. He further deduces that this dream right now is in a very bac way. but that 1t survives and ul. timately will blossom in the hearts of the myriad plain, undistinguish. ed citizens.
 His novel breaks into two parts somewhat uneyenly.. Half of fl deals with the reporters ancestor; and is colorfully melodramatic the rest has to do with the report CT himself and, while less excit- ing, is rneatier and more penetrat- ing. I suspect that MT. Foster is better able to see the defects oi modern life than those of the past; for that very reason, perhaps, the latter half of the book is better than the first half, which occa. sionally Is a bit unreal.
 All in all. however. American Dream" Is 6 novel very much worth reading.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-29
Current Comment

The demand for drama through out the country today far exceeds the supply.
 Helen Hayes, prominent act
 reSR .t a-~ g s 5E, . ,N ass No volume of words and no cita. ton of irrelevant statistics and nrf appeal to feelings of humanity caiiS expand the powers granted to con- greSs.
 Supreme Court Justice Joseph.
 c. McReynolds.
 .i, Perpetual exalting of the kinia and members of the royal family ia- giving them the same kind of vul,. gar publicity which would be giyeI to them if they had goods to sell. :, Clement R. Attlee. British La-t
 b0rite leader.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-29

Whatever the Connecticut General Assembly did at this past session in regard to it's finances is not designed to correct the deficits that have been occur ring in the past few years, said Lester E. Shippee, executive vice-president of the Hartford-C Connecticut Trust Company III a recent New England Council review. Well, Gov. Cross has issued warning he may do some slashing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-29


 reeked with pictures of the daugh- ter, an artists model, in the alto gether. The faults of the unfor- tunate girl and her indiscretions as found in a diary were broad cast to the world. All in the name of news" Ultimately the husband and father was released from GUS tody and the surveillance of the police. The bloodhounds of the law had picked up another scent. This time it was 8 sculptor of sorts and a former inmate of an asylum for the mentally deranged. His name was Robert Irwin and he disappeared as completely as If the ground had opened and swal- lowed him. On Sunday last he surrendered to the police in the office of a Chicago newspaper. The story furnishes a pretty stinking commentary on the sO-called eth- ics of the newspaper business.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-29
Answers To Questions
By Frederick M. Kerby

o. Is there an act of congress which provides that one must be 8 lawyer to be appointed a justice of the supreme court of the United States?
 A. The legislative reference di- vision of the library of congress says there is no such law.
 Q. How can wild onions be ex- terminated in pastures?
 A. Flowing in the fall and plow- ing again in the spring has given partial success.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-29
Land and People

Italy and Japan and other have-not nations really face a serious problem in their surplus population and lack of natural resources, but they have not yet found the right solution, according to Isaiah Bowman, president of Johns Hopkins University. Neither wholesale migration nor military conquest will end their troubles Other countries cannot grants. In fact, the capacity of the populated areas of the world to absorb new immigration is very small. There remain 3,000,000 or so square miles of undeveloped land, but these are too hot or too cold or have other drawbacks to profitable settlement and development.
 What can the over-crowded countries do? The population capacity of the land, explains Dr. Bowman, depends not on its degree of vacancy, but Ion the total available resources which land, people, science, technology and market demand, plus transport facilities, make possible in combinations that are largely unique from region to region and from country to country"
 It looks, then, as if the answer to this human problem is to make new design for living which is based on cooperation instead of nationalistic rivalry and which will develop science and technology for human benefit, not for destruction. The stimulation of trade and the exchange of services and skills for raw materials are called for. But it is all more easily dreamed of than done in the worlds present stage of civilization.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-29
TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Never say, Neither father nor mother are capable of under standing me" say, "is capable"

@. What is the official name for the agency that administers the civilian conservation corps and who is the director?
 A. Emergency conservation work. Robert Fechner is the director.
 o. Name the principal palaces and residences reserved by the British government for the British royal family
 A. Buckingham palace, St. James Palace, Fort Belvedere, Balmoral castle, Sandringham palace, Wind sor castle.
 If you want a copy of our book let Marriage and Divorce Laws" write the Waterbury Democrats Washington Bureau, 1912, Thir- teenth Street, Northwest, Wash ington, D. c. Enclose 4 cents in postage.