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Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1937-03-18

and was taking the census to see
whether we could have another
saloon. You were supposed to have
1000 persons for every saloon, or
some such law as that. Remember,
Lafe, (Mr. Walpole addressed his
query to his friend, Lafe Dunkle,
who was sharing the warmth of the
stove with him. remember the
time Wes and that gang of hellers
got drunk and went around town
taking everybody they didn't like
down to the creek for 'baptising' -
Lafe shifted the huge wad of pink
wax he was chewing, laughed
heartily at the recollection, and
added: "Yeah, and remember the
night they opened up the new movie
with flag raising ceremony" "An'
Old Hiram Finley made a speech?"
"Those were the days, eh Tom?"
In 'sthose days." Santoy boasted
the only hospital in Morgan county.
The town was proud of its city doc
tor, the nurse, and in an elfish way
of it's reputation for being wild,
hell-raising mining town." Tom
Walpole processes not to know ''why
they never started up again after
the strike. Course have my ideas,
but that don't prove nothing" :"
''Lafe" revealed there were 100
cars, loaded with coal, that at the
time of the strike had been ready
to roll out. But after the tipples
burned and the shaft fell in, they
were buried-to stay. I'd guess"
he added with finality. Mr.. Walpole
worked for Ia years as company
man." He also ran store in the
town.
Mr.. Dunkle's brother-in-law, c.
H. Blackson, was corporation mar
shall of Santoy Saturday night and
every pay night was the worst"
Lafe asserted. II usta help Black
son go out and round 'em up on Sat
urday nights. More than just oc-
4casional. there'd be murder" The
jail which was generally crowded
after Sahtoy cut loose on one of its
weekly celebrations, still stands in
tact, spared the indignity which has
leyeled all other brick structures in
the town to their foundations.
"Lafe'' lived in the jail until last
month, when friend went away
and suggested that he use his house
until spring. 'It wasn't bad batch
in it there. They built that Jail
strong and sturdy" Lafe confided.
II had a stove there and she was
plenty warm they always called
the Jail Scotland He explained,
"frst customer was a little Scotch
man, and ever after that, when we'd
see the marshal dragging someone
off to the hoOsegow, we'd shout
there goes a man to Scotland.
death Stretch" is another in
teresting historic point that is
pointed out to visitors to
the desolate little mining village.
It's a 20O-yard strip between the
steps of the Walpole house and the
door of what remains of a saloon.
Old residents say that six men met
violent deaths in shooting, or cut
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1937-03-18

street Broken brick foundations
with sprigs Of weeds peeking from
the cracked cement, cape wher,
once stood the company store, hos
pital, theatre, stables The run
ways for the sturdy little mine pom
les are OvergrOwn with wild shrubs
The reason for this decline? San
toys residents, like the mother O
an errant son, don't like to tall
about the "old days" AS Mrs. Mar
Branigan, one of the older residents
said tersely: "This is our home
Maybe things aren't like they USED
to be. But 1, for one, won't say any
thing against our town. 1t wasn'
until the spring of 1927, April /, tt
be exact, that the expatriation start
ed. There was mine strike. Some
| one burned the tipples at No. / and
No. 2 mines in Santoy The start o1
| that strike was the beginning Of the
end of SantOy. A few families, who
owned their own homes, have
found it impossible to break the
home ties and move away. The mer
either work at a nearby mine OF
are on WPA projects.
The Santoy of two decades ago.
precocious youngster with a vein
! of black gold hiding under it's rip
/. ping hills-has become scarcely
more than memory. Somehow ii
reminds you of wan dissolute who
tossed away golden opportunity
and now is living to regret it.
Reached by State Route 81, through
Lancaster, New Lexington, Sayre
and Portersville, Santoy is located
in a hill country, with hundreds of
oil derricks and scores of mines
marking the landscape. Black,
brittle trees cluster together and
then there are long stretches with
no woodlands. In some places the
CCC has planted tiny frs as a soil
erosion project. Recently a white
snow covered the harsh outlines of
the brown grassy sectors. The road
bends to the right, just outside the
Morgan-Perry county line. Ten
miles down this unimproved road
lies Santoy. It's a seldom-traveled
road these days. The first house OIL
the edge of town is Mrs. Branigan's.
She pulled the gray shawl tighter
over her shoulders and paused in
her task of shoveling coal in a buck
ct from the pile outside the house.
Eyes, it used to be quite a town.
Between 1000 and 1000 people liv-
ed here. There aren't more than
eight or 10 families here now. :"
Tight little lines formed around
Mrs. Branigan's mouth and she con-
cluded with: ''This is our home and
we're staying on"
Among the others in Santoy who
are staying on" is genial Tom Wal
pole, who 'Iived here before there
was a town" Drawing at an unlir
curved-stem pipe, and pulling his
old-fashioned rocking chair closer
to the bully stove, Mr.. Walpole
seemingly enjoyed musing over
Santoy's prosperous, if lurid, past.
''F'ifteen hundred here in IT and
Is. I'm sure of that because in
those days l was company man
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reach every part Of our Nation with
these cards on November 16, the work

reach every part Of our Nation with
these cards on November l6, the work
will only be half done unless there is
a full understanding on the part of
all the people as to the aims, pur-
poses and mechanics of this enter
prise. The post Office will attend to
all of the physical details Of distribut-
ing the cards and receiving them.
But, to make this great voluntary en-
rollment complete success we must
have the cooperation of every citi-
zen, every organization, every body in
tie United States, all newspapers, raJ.
dio stations, churches, schools anu
other agencies of education to get the
facts Of this registration TO all the
| people.
In order to create in local COM
munities, an agency through which
the cooperative spirit of that COM
munity may be mobilized to help this
worthy enterprise, have addressed
| letters to the Mayors or city mana
gers Of more than $4,000 cities and
towns requesting each of them to APP
point a committee representative of
the varied interests Of that community
to collaborate with the postal efforts,
by furnishing the publicity and edu-
cational requirements to make this
campaign a complete success. The
response from Mayors has been mag
nificent. Volunteer committees OF
leading citizens have already been
set up, ready to function, in several
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thousand communities, and hundreds
more are coming in every day. We
are sending to these committees the
outline for q local educational cam
paign which, If executed according to
our plans, should get the essential
facts to all who need them. In larger
cities, where there Is a considerable
foreign language group, we have
asked that foreign language commit
tees be made up, consisting Of one
representative from each racial group,
this committee to arrange for speak-
ers, and to provide volunteer inter-
pretative service for the aid Of those
who cannot read or speak our Ian
guage.
I appeal to all patriotic citizens
| everywhere to recognize the inpor-
tance Of a complete and accurate CEN
sus of unemployment and TO join
with these local citizenship activities
to carry our message far and wide.
House, to- House Test.
Immediately following completion
Of this voluntary enrolment We are
going to conduct in scientifically Sc
lected areas throughout the country
an actual house-to-house test census
under the field direction Of especially
qualified post Office inspectors. These
areas will be selected to contain every
variety Of neighborhood which added
together should give a true cross-sec-
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the 1910 decennial census. So you see
that type Of census Ia simply out OF
the question.
Congress and the President, con-
sidering all facts, have decreed that
this be voluntary census, and am
convinced that the voluntary plan
can and will succeed. I believe that
the American people do best that
which they have the will to do OF their
own volition. 1t is our task tc enlist
the cooperative spirit Of every patri-
otic person. That means your CO.
operation.
Our plan for taking this unemploy-
ment census Is just as simple as we
can make it. Since there is no or
ganization in the land with such wide
ramifications, and with such close
daily contact with all our people as
the postal service, the President has
approved our selection of the Post
Office Department to perform the ma
jor functions in this enterprise. The
Post Office Department with It's 300,-
900 employees, with approximately 80,-
900 letter carriers calling daily at our
homes throughout the Nation. Is OBJ
viously equipped for this service. Its
officers and personnel have entered en-
Enthusiastically into the plans and prep
arations and they share our determi-
nation to make 1t completely sue
cessful.
Questions to Be Distributed.
On Tuesday, November 16, the
postal service will distribute to all
dwelling places in America report
card containing IA questions which, II
properly filled out by our unemployed
and partly unemployed, will give us
an adequate summary of unemploy-
ment conditions throughout our Ma
ton. In communities and places
where carrier delivery is not regularly
maintained local pOstmasters will be
authorized to make this distribution
of cards to all houses.
Our aim Is to leave these cards in
every dwelling. every habitation-
houses, apartments, hotels, tourist
camps, trailer camps, squatters' shacks,
lodging houses, so-called flop
houses-in fact, everywhere an unem-
ployed person might be found. We
may miss some travellers and the ho-
boes who are on the move that day,
but when they light, If they will go to
a post Office or ask letter carrier,
they will be given registration card.
Please remember also that any one
who may be inadvertently overlooked
MAY get report card by asking his
postman or inquiring at his local post
Office.
1t was first planned that this colos-
sal task of delivering cards to more
| than 32000,000 homes would require
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two days, but the cooperation OF the
Post once Department has been 50
splendid and their organization is 80
superb, that they have volunteered to
do this great job OF delivering all these
cards in one day.
At some hour during the evening OF
Tuesday, November 16-the day on
which these cards will have been left
at every home-representat of our
department in Washington will, over
q Nationwide hookup, explain to all
interested listeners how these cards
are to be filled out and what to do
with them.
Message From President.
This report card, which will be de-
liyered to every home, is a large,
double post card bearing a message
from the President, addressed to every
worker. The card is the same color as
the standard post card, but larger in
size
This card is to be filled out only by
the unemployed and partly unem-
ployed who, in the words of the Presi-
dent, "are able to work and are seek
ing work" This means that the rest
of you, those who have jobs or those
who are not looking for work, are not
expected to fill out the card. You
might hand yours to some unemployed
person whom you know, just to be
sure that he Is not overlooked, or you
may throw your card away. You and
all of us with jobs-are vitality in
terested In the success of this under
taking, and our part Is to be helpful
in every way we can to the unemployed
who should fill out a card, but OBJ
yiously those who are employed have
no right nor reason for filling out one
themselves.
Now. to the unemployed and partly
unemployed persons, let me make a
special appeal AS / said before. this
card is just as simple as we can make
it. 1t will not take more than flve
minutes of your time TO fill it out
properly. 1t comes as a direct personal
request from the President of the
United States that you do this You
have absolutely nothing to fear. The
information on these cards will be
used only for the purposes OF the un-
employment census. 1t is not TO be
used for investigation, taxation, check
In on citizenship. or for any other
purpose to the disadvantage of the
unemployed individual Names of
signers will not be published and no
humiliation will come as a result of
your compliance with the Govern
ment's request. This Nation has a
great and vital interest in helping you
in every way it can, but above all,
for your own good and for the national
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good, this Nation must help you and
honorable and steady employment In
the jobs for which you are best trained
and best fitted.
I repeat again that you who are
unemployed have absolutely nothing
to lose by doing your part--nothing to
lose, but, we hope, much to gain.
One more word Of explanation. II
you are unemployed, but unable to
work, due TO age, illness or other
disability except something Of tenn
porary nature. you should not fill out
one OF these cards. This census is for
the unemployed who are able to work
and are seeking work. 1t is not
intended to include those who are
unable to work, or those who for
good reasons of their own, are not
seeking work, or don't want work.
! Let me repeat, this is q census Of the
| unemployed and partly unemployed
| who are able to work and want work
1t is important, very important, that
all such fill out cards, because 1t Is
they for whom we must strive. by every
means at the command of this Gov
ernment and this people, to find Jobs
1t would only add confusion and serve
no good purpose to receive cards from
those who can't work.
The unemployed have from Noyem-
Der 16 to midnight Saturday, November
20, to fill out and mail their cards
After carefully filling out the card
just drop it in any mail box. 1t Il
| already addressed and no postage
stamp is needed 1t costs you nothing
except few moments Of your time
spent in your own interest, and to
help your country solve the problem
of unemployment.
Immediately after all the cards are
received, the post office will make very
| careful checks in each locality to
avoid Implications and other obvious
errors. The cards will then be sent
to Washington. and the results will be
tabulated as rapidly as possible by the
| trained and official personnel of the
Bureau Of the Census.
II there Is more than one un-
employed person in home, additional
cards will be necessary. An extra
supply of cards will be available in
every post Office and all you need to
do is to ask your postman for adj
ditional cards or go to your post
office and get them.
Postmaster to Give Advice.
If you need any help in making out
the card. 90 to your local postmaster
and advice will be given you. In
larger communities regular information
booths will be established in the post
office for the convenience Of the un-
employed.
Now, great as is the physical capac-
| ity of our far-fung postal service to
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proud of our traditional wealth and
enterprise. Except for short periods
of industrial reaction there has always
been full opportunity, for our people
to work and earn at rate which made
for happiness and contentment. We
long possessed the outlet or new from
tiers whose development served to
equalize the supply of and the demand
for man power Today those frontiers
are gone. The complex development
of industry; geographical shifts OF in
dustry: increased mechanization, and
consequently increased per capita pro-
duction; fiuctuating demands for our
products in foreign lands-all these as
well as other factors have contributed
| to make the adjustment between the
demand for labor and the supply Tor
labor a problem of national, rather
than local concern.
Prosperity is not so much measure
of our national assets as it is the meas
ure of our national capacity to ex-
change labor for money. We are all
well off as long as We can all work
and earn, because, then, our combined
purchasing power insures the con-
sumption of the products of farm and
factory. The values of everything
that every citizen possesses are depre-
ciated just to the extent that willing
hands are forced into idleneSs. The
financial loss is, perhaps, not so great
as our loss of national morale during
these periods of shrunken values.
Surely, America must find way to
make it possible for all willing hands
to work But before the people of
this country can undertake any COM
prehensive corrective plan for the cure
of unemployment. the full facts must
be known. We must know how many
are now unemployed and partly un-
employed We must know in what
geographical divisions the greatest
number of unemployed reside. We
must know the age groups of those
who are denied regular employment
We must know what kind of work these
unemployed persons can do, based on
training and experience, and-moSt
| important-we must know what the
industries are whose revival would
contribute most to unemployment.
All of these facts, the forthc ming
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census Of unemployment should reveal.
And this census will reveal these facts,
and thus afford complete basis for
sound thinking on this vital subject, If
our entire citizenship can be impressed
with the Importance OF the under
taking and the responsibilities each
individual is called upon to meet in its
execution.
There have been honest differences
OF opinion as to the best method OF
taking this census. Many have favored
an enumerative census. and some have
called for compulsory registration.
According to past experience, an
enumerative, or house-to-house census,
would take Is months of preparation,
field work and tabulation. 1t would
cost five times as much as the present
undertaking. Furthermore. the Bu-
reau of the Census is authority for the
statement that it could not be under
taken at this time without seriously
interfering with their preparations for
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JObLESS CENSUS
DETAILS REVEALED
Cards to Be Distributed
Nov. Is to Every Home,
Biggers Says.

From the largest cities to the small
est ramlets, the United States will be
thoroughly canvassed by mail in the
Forthcoming jobless survey, according
10 John D. Biggers, national unem-
ployment census administrator, who
last night made known details Of the
plan.
Speaking in the National Radio
Forum, sponsored jointly by The Star
and the National Broadcasting Co.,
MIR. Biggers revealed that on Novem-
Der is report cards." designed to
elicit information as to unemploy-
ment In every family in the country
II 1t exists, will be sent out
Containing IA questions which, il
properly filled out by the unemployed
and partly employed, will provide an
adequate summary of unemployment
conditions throughout the Nation, the
cards will be placed in the mails all
IN one day, instead of two as orig
inally planned.
While the questions are simple, Mr.
Biggers explained a school by radio
will be held during the evening of the
day the cards are distributed.
Immediately following completion
of this voluntary enrolment. the ad-
nlinistrator said an actual house-to-
house test census will be made in Sc
iected areas under the field direction
of post Office inspectors. This, he
added, should give true cross-sec-
tional picture of national unemploy-
n1ent conditions.
Text of Address.
Mr.. Biggers' speech, in full, follows
I am indebted to the National Ra-
dio Forum of The Washington Eve
ing Star for the opportunity to make
the first Nationwide radio, presenta-
ton of the facts regarding the vita,
and interesting subject of the forth
coming national unemployment census
Direction of this unemployment
census constitutes ny first venture
into the activities of government.
have devoted my life to private enter
prise. When the President asked mt
to accept this responsibility I &C
cepted because, as a business man,
saw an opportunity to perform a serv
ice which might contribute substan'
TALLY to economic and social progress
and thus add to the happiness Of al
the people.
I think it will be generally conceded
that unemployment is our most seriou.
national problem. To the unemployed
and the members of their families, en-.
forced idleness is q tragedy. To busi'
ness-little and big-it contributes the
element of uncertainty which disturb
all plans for the future. 1t saps thu
strength of our whole Nation.
disturhs budgets public and private
1t Is a dead weight on the shoulder!
of all of our 100000 people. Blu
If did not truly believe it to be 6
weight which can and must be lifted
I would not have accepted the Presi.
dents invitation to lead in this effor
to learn the true facts Of unemploy-
inent in America.
AS a Nation, We have always bee
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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-07-29

Sam Holt home Sunday. Jack and
Myrth Jr. returned with them af-
ter weeks visit here.
Miss Martha Braafladt, Mrs.
Louise Olson and daughter Lola
were Friday guests of Mrs. San
ford Nelson at Atwater.
MIR. and Mrs. B. A. Gimmestad
and Patricia of Dawson visited
with Mr.. and Mrs. O. Gimmestad
Sunday. Dorothy and Nancy re-
turned with them.
Miss Edna Davidson came
home Friday evening from Man
kato where she had been attend
ing summer school.
MIR. and Mrs. Andrew Peterson
were Sunday guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Russell Sherman and family
of Luverne. Donald Peterson re-
turned home with them after a
visit at the Sherman home.
Herman Kohls returned from
the Marshall hospital Monday.
A family reunion was held al
Sibley park in Mankato Sunday
when about so Hagen families
met there. Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Hagen and Kenneth and MIR. ano
Mrs. Sid Hagen of Belview at
tended.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-07-29
Early Pioneer Days
Revived by Farmer
Moving 900 Miles

Fairmont-While only the pio-
neers can speak wildly of the
covered wagons laborious entrance
into the frontier one farmer and
his family are experiencing them
as they make years journey by
a caravan of wagons and teams
from Thief River Falls, Minneso-
ia to Marshfield in southern Mis-
souri,. This distance is more than
900 miles, not too much for two
day jaunt by automobile. Mr.. and
Mrs. A. C. Kruger and five chill
dren stopped one night last week
in Fairmont with a caravan con-
sisiting of a 1919 Ford, semi-trail-
Grand procession of a cow
wagon, house trailer, hay rack,
auxiliary wagon and buggy,
drawn by three teams of horses
who gave up here unable to move
another hoof. The personnel con-
sisted of Mr.. and Mrs. Kruger,
Florence, 20; Opal, ID; August, II;
| Bernita, Is; Donald, 4; Donald's
cat, two dogs, six horses, five cat
tie. The caravan was formed
last October, when, after "a years
of discouragment in Pennington
county, the Kruegers started
south, crawling across country at
the rate of Is or 20 miles day,
camping at the roadside by night.
Hampered by snow, they gave up
in the face of a bad storm at New
London, where Mr.. Kruger got
his family through the winter do
ing odd jobs. The journey was
| resumed in June.