The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-10-20


administrations there has been a
deluge Of suits filed against the
state highway department for alleg-
ed violations of the law-always
just before election time. Campaign
year after campaign year has seen
the Republican party making this
use Of the courts for political pur-
poses.
This years crop Of lawsuits in
volve charges ranging from over
payment for the purchase of high
way reflector markers to the ac-
cusation that State Highway Com
missioner N. w. Elsberg used high
way employees to cut and haul tim
Der for his private use.
This type of suits have peculiar
way of disappearing as soon as the
election Is over.
Stable Credit Structure
A stable credit structure is indi-
Gated in a decided drop in the num-
Der of mortgage foreclosures report
ed last week by T. H. Arens, con-
servator of the state rural credit de-
partment. Only 178 mortgages were
foreclosed by the department up to
October this year, as compared
with 81 for that period year ago,
the report discloses.
Schilling Switches From
Axe-HandIes To Shotguns-
The latest suggestion made to
farmers at Pennington by w. F.
Schilling, who is organizing the As
ISOLATED Farmers, notorious for
strike-breaking activities in Califor-
MIA, is that Minnesota farmers
ought to use shotguns instead of
axe-handles to drive union men out
Of Minnesota towns.
AT this meeting the organizer Of
Associated Farmers, which gets
most of its money in California
from railroads and utilities, had
nothing to say about agriculture.
The obvious question arises: is Mr..
Schilling organizing farmers for
their own benefit, or to pull chest
nuts out of the fire for those BUSH
ness interests and utilities which
refuse to bargain collectively with
their employees? Another question
is how Mr.. Schillings organization
can be non-political, as he claimed
at Pennington, when a good share
Of his speeches is spent villifying
the present governor, the Minneso-
ia Leader, and the Farmers Union
Herald and it's editor, A. w. Kicker.
Camp System
Available To AL
"A camp system available to all
boys and girls and men and wom-
en- is being developed by modern
society as part of our education
system, it is pointed out by Thomas
e. Minehan, director of the state
youth survey. 1t used to be only
the sons of the wealthy who were
privileged to go to camp, he said,
but now it is recognized that camp
life is valuable for all people. In
a recent talk at Faith Lutheran
church in st. Paul he told of re-
ceiving Governor Benson's support
when he urged that deserted CCC
camps be used for young people
throughout the state, and visioned
a camp program for all people.
Conservation Body
Backs Amendment No. l.
Endorsement of Amendment No.
1 was the first official action of the
statewide Conservation Advisory
council which met last week with
10 organizations represented.
Elected chairman of the group
was A. G.. Miss Of Fairmont, repre-
senting the Minnesota Game Pro-
tective league, and Frederick Win
ston Of Minneapolis, American Leg
ion representative, was elected vice.
chairman. Albert KlanacNe of the
conservation department is secre-
tary of the group.
Local Republicans
Follow Hamilton's Advice
A few years ago a New York
newspaper quoted John d. M. Ham
ilton, Republican National Commit
tee chairman, as follows:
"You can't win the coming cam
paign by being nice. Those Repub-
licans who say we should talk on
constructive issues don't know their
politics. You beat men in office;
you don't elect them. People vote
their dislikes. It may not be sports
manlike to work on that basis, but
this is not the time to sit back and
be NICE"
Hamilton's followers in Minneso-
ia in the present campaign are fol-
lowing with vengeance the advise
of Mr.. Hamilton. Campaign issues
are forgotten. The Republicans in
this campaign are trying to win by
creating prejudice and hatred on
the theory, as Mr.. Hamilton says,
by voting their dislikes." They
evidently see that they cannot win
any other way.
Census Of Finances
of Governmental Units
"A census of finances Of all gov
ernmental units in Minnesota, SIM
liar to those Of the U. s. Bureau Of
Census for large cities, will be
made by the Minnesota state plan