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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-11-11

swell fellow. It was when the out
fit was faced with an eating pro
blem that doomed often on the
front. There was food, but how
soon would more come? Joe and
the sergeant were in charge Of food
rationing. There were two gallons
of syrup and plenty of brown
bread. 1t was good food and the
men were hungry. Casualties had
been heavy that day. The problem
was weighed. Some Of the boys
might not eat again. So they gave
it to them. All Of 1t. The boys ate
heartily, and then the Germans
shelled them heavily. Joe and four
others took refuge digging in be-
hind the roots Of a big tree. Be-
hind them a few feet were the ser.
geant and several others. They
were in shelter dug in on the side
of a bank. Between the two shell
ters burst q shell. The Mexican
never moved. He had been lying
there with his head propped on his
hand, the shell ripped open his mid
ole. He died with his head still sup
ported on his hand. But his last act
had been giving the boys all they
wanted to eat.
One morning-it was about 8
o'clock Of October Is, 1918-Joe's
outfit was in an advance on the
German lines. Suddenly machine
gun fire raked the advance, and
Joe went down shot through tbs
lung. 1t was painful, and he was
bleeding badly through a Jagged
hole the shell had ripped as it left
his back. He dragged himself to q
shell crater. lay there, waiting. He
opened his shirt, took off his over
coat, searched for his dog tag, the
little Identification disk the dough-
boys wore. 1t wasn't there. His
thoughts raced-who would find
him? No one would be able to iden.
tify him? Soon q Major came by
smoking his pipe calmly under
fire. We'll have first aid for you
shortly" he called, and then walked
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-11-11

three steps to get his. Until ten II
the morning Joe lay there gettinf
weaker, with black dizziness tina,
overlook him. The air he sucked
through his throat whistled through
the hole In his back. About ter
that morning he was found and Ia
ken to the evacuation hospital.
1t was q slaughter house. A shack
covered with tar paper, it was
scarcely out of the range Of CUR
fire. Men were brought in from the
front with arms off, legs gone
heads torn open, and insides disar.
ranged with the shell fire. A dang
ling leg would be severed by the at
tending doctors without removing
the shoe, and tossed into a boz
where other appendanges lay in q
heap. Men died. The dirty gray
blankets Of the French army were
lousy. Coolies swarmed in them
and over the helpless men. The
shrieks Of the panied cut the night
air, there was no sIeep.
AS he mended and it became ap-
parent that he wouldn't die, he was
sent to a hospital. There he got
sheets, bath, no more coolies. 1t
was here in LaMoges in a hospital
with 1000 wounded that he welcom-
ed the Armistice. That morning the
men, most of them helpless, tossed
shoes, clothing, anything they
could get their hands on into hos
pital aisles between the two rows
of beds. That was their celebra-
ton. What did they think on that
day? They thought of the boys at
the Front who would be spared now
from the pain and suffering and
death; they thought of home and
those back there; and they thought
how good it was that it was all
over.
But here was disillusionment
Joe and his buddies had not fought
for Democracy-that it might live.
Today there is less democracy than
in 1914. He had not fought bunch
Of bloodthirsty Germans. That was
war propaganda. Those German
boys were as puzzled about the
whole thing as he was. And there
were the nurses who worked with
those wrecks Of men who came in
off the Front. To them goes honor
That was the story Joe Jackson,
resident here, told. But that WASH I
the story Of Joe Jackson alone. It's
the story Of hundreds Of thousands
of men of every tongue and nation
who went through that hell. "A
great experience" he said. "Yes.'
But I wouldn't want it again.
Wasn't it Sherman who said WAR
is hell?" And he hadn't seen any
thing yet.
But the war is not over, despite
the Armistice. True it saved many
a young man, it cut off actual hos.
tilities. But there are those today
who will know no Armistice. Hospi-
tails house them in all nations en-
gagged in the war. Many are in their
own homes, others wander about
They shuttle through life on
crutches with shattered or missing
limbs, they wheel themselves in
chairs, they clutch unsteadily with
manned hands or stumps, they
cough in agony, they mutter
strange sounds, or sit silently star.
ing, hearing the ghosts Of guns OF
battle. So Armistice nineteen years
later still finds us paying the costs
Of war. There are too the mothers
of men who have died. Those senti-
ments are those of Veterans, who
saw the whole gruesome mess and
found out it was for nothing. Their
hope and fight today is that it shall
not happen again.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-11-11
Girl Ends 5000 Mile Bike Jaunt

st. Cloud-Setting out from st. Cloud on Friday
October l. on bicycle bound for the sunny state OF
California, Evelyn Rossman, 18 year old girl, com.
pleted the 5000 mile trip in II days. according to
news received by her mother Evelyn arrived October
IA at her destination, Rodeo California and she was
still pedding the bicycle and having the time of
life! The trip was planned a complete surprise
visit to sister living in Rodeo. The young girl not
only depended on bicycle to see her through, but
left home with a small amount of money. Money she
learned along the route the least of her troubles
Right now there's price on the bicycles head many
PRISONS having offered Miss Rossman tempting
amounts for the historymaking vehicle. The girl
chose the southern route which took her through
Omaha Wichita, Oklahoma City, Amarillo, Sante fe
Kingston and Los Angeles.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-11-11
Steal Everything From Clothes to Y sandwic

SteaI Everything from Cl0thes to "a Sandwich
DISQUALIFICATION Jim Harrison and John
Ryan, transients started out life of crime they
didn't go about it half way-they stole everything
from clothes to half sandwich from a mans plate
Jim and John finally met with the law and were SEN
fenced to ten and 80 days, respectively. The men
were charged with stealing alarm clock and a
razor from local hardware store, mems socks from
several stores six pairs Of pliers overcoat from
the railroad yard office here and last but not least
half OF sandwich from the plate of man who had
eaten only half when he was called to the tele-
phone. When he returned the other half had disap-
peared.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-11-11
7O-Year-Old Tax Recent Donat

Little Falls-Taxes in the good old days" on a
tract of land in Morrison county only six cents
acre. more than five times less than the present
assessment, according to of two tax receipts is
Z 1868, covering taxes for quarter section in Bel
levue township amounted to $9.18 or less than six
years have been in Of $50 The personal proper
ty tax receipt is dated January 1857 The valuation
of the property is given $3.50 and the taxes were
1881. The present tax for the property would be
well over $50.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-11-11
State News Briefs
Children Trapped In Burning House

Northome.-Two small children, Marvin and Mer-
ton Pellinen, aged IA months and 3h years, respect
lively were burned to death last week when the farm
home of their parents Mr.. and Mrs. Matt Pellinen
two miles north Of this village. destroyed by
fire. The boys were trapped in the bedroom from
which the fire department. arriving when the house
was mass of flames, found it impossible to remove
them for the entire roof had already collapsed The
origin Of the fire, although not definitely known is
thought to have been a defective chimney. Only the
mother Of the family was home when fire broke out
and being in the barn at the time did not discover
the blaze until it had consumed large portion of the
structure. Mr.. Pellinen, who his way to
Blackjack to get material for the house. did not
turn until later drive to secure donations for the
Pellinen family begun in the Northome
munity and business men plan to build new home
and provide food and clothing
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-11-11
Votes so Years, Is Not Citizen

Redwood Falls-Testimony in an examination for
naturalization papers in court here recently brought
out the fact that Redwood county resident who
not citizen voted here for so years without a
challenge The man applying for citizenship said he
not that he did not have the right to vote
he had come here from Canada when he was two
years old When he discovered few years ago that
he was not citizen he stopped using the ballot, he
said.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-11-11
Want Domestic Market For American
Dairymen

To guarantee the domestic market for American
, Dairymen by increasing tariffs imported pro-
ducts and competing vegetable fats and oils Is part
of three-point program sought by Congressman
from the dairy states and leading dairymen of the
nation.
Minnesota dairymen should be Interested in a
program of this kind which includes plan to pre-
vent the diversion of taken out of cotton and
tobacco production in any acreage adjustment plan,
to growing feeds for dairy cattle and to require I'm
ports of dairy products to meet domestic sanitary
conditions.
Those, who attended the Land O. Lakes meeting
in this city time ago. will remember that John
Brandt, president of the Land O. Lakes, advocated
a plan similar to the above which Is being worked
out for inclusion in general national farm control
bill. He stated he favored bill which did not in
clude the dairy industry.
Congressman August Andersen, of the Second
District of Minnesota stated: 'We don't object to
normal increase in dairying in the south, but
object to the governments substituting and stmulat
ing such project" He said he would vote against
the farm bill in committee if protection for the dairy
men is not put in.
Dairying is of the largest divisions of the
farm industry of the nation and is the outstanding
means of production the farms of Minnesota,
hence should be given consideration along with to-
bacco cotton and The three-point program as
outlined is which has been sponsored by leading
dairymen, and it sounds feasible 1t is not plan OF
subsidy, but one which should maintain and produce
sound business principles in the dairy industry.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-11-11
ArniStice Day

Distraught with fears of threatened wars, people
of America tomorrow will celebrate Armistice Day,
the anniversary of peace following the World
Wars raging in the Orient and Spain, should make
feel thankful that we have been fortunate thus
far to escape the scourge which threatens the
full existence of most of the larger nations today The
course of government in the future will determine
whether shall shall not enjoy continued peace
But whatever happens must realize that we, the
people, must do our part to maintain peace and
friendship with foreign neighbors. That is
obligation and should be pledge renewed each year
on Armistice Day. Thus can make this day one of
the greatest days in the national holiday calendar
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-11-11
Flying Squirrel Shot BY Hunter

Staples.-A flying squirrel not reported for some
time in this vicinity, was shot last week by Lynn
Fox, son of VIM Fox, while hunting Verndale,
his home town. He shot the animal thinking it was
an ordinary squirrel but instead it sailing to
the ground. Lynn's father says he used to many
such squirrels around Verndale, but that he has
not heard of one in recent years. loose furry skin
forms web between the animals four legs the back
is brownish gray color, white underneath, the fur
being of fine texture. The tail Is long and bushy.
Having displayed the flying squirrel among local
friends, Lynn expects to have it mounted.
Evening star., 1937-04-07
Books at War.

Voltaire once declared that "all the
known world, excepting only savage
nations, is governed by books" BY
the same logic, it seems, it might be
argued that much of the contention and
strife which fills the earth is occasioned
by writing men. Ideas, constructive or
destructive as they may be, crystalline in
literature. That is natural process
about which nobody can complain.
But 1t is circumstance which merits
rather more thought than it customarily
is accorded. At the moment, for example,
it happens that the whole vast inter-
national scene is clamorous with a war
between two PHILOSOPHERS Of social reform
each of which arises from an unreadable
book-communism and fascism. The
former traces back to "Das Kapital," by
Karl Marx; the latter to "Mein Kampf," F"
by Adolf Hitler. Neither volume can be
comprehended by an average reader;
each is a chaotic melange Of half
developed ideas, an olio of immature
notions. Yet each is Bible for millions
of people-accepted as the mystical edicts
of modern equivalents of Moses. Quota
tions from them have the validity Of law
to the masses. They are, in effect,
harness for the human mind.
Correction, however, Is inevitable. Just
Evening star., 1937-04-07
Dangers to Be Avoided.

Representative Kennedy of Maryland
agrees with the sentiments previously
expressed by Senator Capper and Sena-
tor King in regard to restricting new
local taxation to minimum budget needs.
Any taxes collected in excess of such
needs represent excessive taxation, which,
every one should agree, is to be avoided.
The danger of excessive taxation in
the District at this time is so obvious
that it should be recognized. There is
the threat not only of assumption of
tax burdens in excess of budget needs,
but in excess of the local communitys
equitable financial responsibility to
Capital City support and development.
The s5,O00,0O0 lump-sum payment is not
representative of the national obliga-
tion and for this year is nothing more
than proposed compromise while the
local tax system is being studied. The
danger now is that once the tax-boosting
process gets under way, the maximum
limits will become more hazily defined.
Each member OF Congress is inclined to
Evening star., 1937-04-07

look with favor upon the methods OF
taxation that his constituents back home
have employed. and if they are not all
found here, to suggest those that are
lacking. The District might be plastered
with every conceivable form of taxation
in order to be placed on tax method
par with the various cities OF the country.
No more serious responsibility has
faced the House District Committee in
years than is now presented through
the series Of tax bills just intro
duced. That the members of the
committee may, as Mr.. Kennedy says,
be busy with the affairs of their own
districts is doubtless true. But their
duty to the people of the District is
clear and explicit. In the consideration
of local measures, tax measures espe-
cially the members of Congress function
as the members of local Legislature for
the District of Columbia and their atti-
tude to the local community should be the
attitude of representatives Of voting
constituency, alive to their welfare and
protective of their interests.
That is the attitude which Chairman
Norton and many of her colleagues on
the committee have sought to assume In
the past, and it will be tested throughly
in the forthcoming examination of the
tax legislation.
Evening star., 1937-04-07

as Cervantes took degenerate chivalry
to pieces in Don Quixote," some great
satiric genius sooner or later will apply
the solvent Of ridicule to both the Marx
ian and the Nazi systems. They prosper
only 50 long as people take them seri-
ously; they will collapse when people
begin to laugh at them.
A history of human experience probably
could be compiled from the things
especially the books-about which men
first have wept and subsequently have
sniggered. The trouble, obviously, is that
when the race is desperate it does not
exercise its sense of humor. Instead, it
grasps at straws-even at printed inco-
herencies. The African barbarian who
begged the explorer Mungo Park for his
autograph to serve as a charm to ward
off evil spirits is symptomatic Of the
species. What, then, is wanted is more
powerful literary medicine.
Evening star., 1937-04-07
Awaiting the Answer.

The fact that funds have been made
available at the District Building for
relief expenditure is encouraging and
will go very short way toward meeting
immediate needs. But more interesting
still is the fact that the Commissioners,
after long delay, have formally for
warded to the Budget Bureau request
for a deficiency item for the remainder
of the current fiscal year.
Considerable Importance, of course,
will attach to the Budget Bureaus an
swer. If the funds are refused and the
recommendation is not forwarded to the
Capitol, an investigation should be
undertaken to determine the real
facts regarding relief and the public
should be informed. For the past few
months there has been an apparently
hopeless division of opinion over relief
needs and constant shifting of official
responsibility for meeting the issue
squarely.
Either the additional selief allotment
is necessary, as those most familiar with
the actual conditions among the "un-
employed employables" say is the case
or else the needs have been exaggerated
and the recommended expenditure would
be wasteful. The citizens who are de-
manding the release of more funds are
willing enough to state their case in
open court and demonstrate the truth
of their assertions. There should be
an equal willingness on the part of
officials responsible for denying the
need of the funds to present their facts.
Certainly the local relief muddle
Evening star., 1937-04-07
Peace Via Trade.

In accepting the award of the Wood
row Wilson Foundation, bestowed in
recognition of his service on behalf of
international amity, Secretary Hull once
again nails to the mast the colors under
which, in his unflagging Judgment the
world is most likely to progress toward
the goal of lasting peace. Holding that
an armament race can lead only to "a
he affirmS there is no benefit obtainable
from an armed conflict which could not
be- achieved in greater measure by
pacific means and fruitful exchange of
goods and services" The Hull doctrine,
which the Secretary of State has not
only preached but effectively practiced,
through negotiation of reciprocal trade
agreements, is epitomized afresh in his
New York address. II have never
faltered," he said, "and 1 never will
falter in my belief that enduring peace
and the welfare of the nations are
indissolubly connected with friendliness
fairness, equality and the maximum
practicable degree of freedom in interna-
tional economic relations"
Secretary Hull does not conflne him.
self to mere restatement of his creed.
In all but formal terms he calls upon
peoples everywhere to avert Impending
DOOM That can only be done, he
urges, if countries which are today bend
ing their major efforts toward prepara-
tions for war join with countries intent
upon the works of peace in a concerted
endeavor to rebuild international po-
itical and economic relationships upon
a basis of cooperative good will. Cir
cunstantial reports have recently been
current that President Roosevelt con-
templates the early summoning OF
disarmament and economic conference.
Arrival in London of Ambassador at
Large Norman H. Davis as chief Amer
ican delegate to the International Sugar
Conference is persistently associated
with this reputed plan. Both White
House and State Department firmly
deny that the administration cherishes
any such purpose. But it is altogether
likely that Secretary Hull's late declara-
tions will revive the belief that behind
them turks Rooseveltian aspiration to
lead the world out of the War-psychology
morass in which it is foundering more
perilously than at any time since 1914.
Washingtons reluctance to sponsor
conference at this time is wholly COM
prehensible. Such a project, amid the
suspicious, rivalries and animositles
rampant throughout Europe, would be
foredoomed to failure. Great Britain
and France are on the threshold OF vast
rearmament programs undertaken to
meet the chronic threat that emanateS
from the Fascist and Nazi relationships.
From Europe's standpoint, Americas in
vincible unwillingness to embark upon
entangling international commitments is
a factor that makes peace overtures from
this side of the Atlantic less attractive.
When Old World skies are sufficiently
cleared to bring military disarmament
within the realm of the debatable, the
United States may conceivably deem it
worth while to take the initiative in that
direction. Meantime, Uncle Sam seems
determined to confne his efforts to the
practical idealism typified by the Hull
program of promoting economic dis
armament as the surest guarantee OF
peace.
Evening star., 1937-04-07
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Some Of the maple trees at this time
are In flower"
Bright red, these inconspicuous flowers
yet loom large, owing to the amount Of
them.
A book has been published recently
on the unusual flowers of this time,
blossoms as well as any, but which most
people tend to overlook.
Linden trees will be in bloom not 50
long from now, along with various other
trees. We do not mean the Towering
crabs, plums and the like. Their flowers
are evident everywhere. The Japanese
cherries are world famous.
All trees, however, have their flowers,
usually small and not overattractive,
unless one happens to be interested in
them.
Flower lovers will do we'll to look for
the unusual along these lines, for they
are flowers as well as any.
Unfolding leaves of shrubs and vines
offer a wealth of observation.
One does not necessarily have to be a
gardener, or even have garden, to find
amusement in this sport.
While going around town there is
always opportunity to look at budding
leaves as they come out. First one shrub
and then another.
1t is mostly q matter Of really seeing
what one looks at. The determination
to see what is before one does not come
natural to every one. Some persons find
it necessary to remind themselves every
now and then that the world Is world
of wonders, many of them no less Won
derful because common and familiar. We
speak not of the many scientific inVen-
tionS, the manufactured wonders of man
kind, which we all use without thinking
about them. To have a river at our
command in bath room is a wonder
as we'll as any.
Mostly We refer to the wonders OF
plant and animal life all around us,
wherever we live and wherever We CO.
Especially in Springtime thoughts go
out to meet the new leaves.
Each leaf is plant adventure. Here
we have glamour" at its best.
The stunted tree in the downtown box
in the general concrete tries its best to
emulate its more happy cousins in the
suburban districts.
EdCH SeCIlOn mas ltS particular PROP
lens, not only for householders, but also
for grass and trees and flowers and
shrubs and vines.
Many a suburban community is so
shady that grass does not do well
The passer-by forgets this, in view of
the great trees and the general luxurious
ness of all vegetation, but the house
holder, viewing the scanty growth at his
doorstep, determines to do better this
year.
You will see now, in every such COM
munity, much raking and digging. Men
dig up entire yards and mix in new soil,
SOW plenty Of seed and hopefully wait
for good rains.
FreShening of the grass, as shown by
the greener look, is something worth
watching for, keeping in mind that the
Leaves" of the grass are marvellous labo-
ratories, more than rivaling in their func-
tionS the most complex chemical opera
tions in our greatest of laboratories
One is reminded, at this season. of
Walt Whitman's famous book, Leaves
of Grass" What a name that volume
had! What name it has made for
itself, since 1855, and yet how compara-
lively few persons have read it, after all