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The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-05-23
.sCOat" of Vest Point to Be Accorded Customary Honors
 At Commencement in June
By PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON, May 23.-A sac- red tradition has been preserved at West Point-at least for year. so in June, when Commencement comes, the graduating cadets will cheer to the echo the tail-ender of the class to make up for him in &C., claim what he lacks in scholar ship.
 The tradition of cheering loudest for the dullest is virtually as old as the academy. As a result the army contends, the position of class goat almost rivals that of top man in distinction and honor.
 It was Representative Terry of Arkansas who challenged the tra- dition. To him this system of ad- vertising to the world the mental shortcomings of the, tail-end man is barbarous and humiliating. He put Brig Gen. Jay l.. Benedict, su- perintendent of the academy, on the spot by suggesting that the cadets be graduated alphabetically or according to height, except for the first few honor students.
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THEY LIKE IT!

THEY LIKE IT!
 The trouble about dropping the system, the general now replies in letter to MT. Terry, is that the goats" like it. Apparently they do not feel that the custom of pre- senting diplomas in order of gradu- ation standing is cruel, barbaric and humiliating i. In particular, each of the two cadets who believe themselves most likely to be the goat of the class of 1888 has ex- pressed his desire in no uncertain terms, if the honor fell to him. of being the last to receive his di- ploma"
 50 long as the goat regards his prominence as a privilege and an honor" General Benedict said T feel that the method should not be changed"
 But not so Representative Ter ry. Replying to the General, he said T am the last person to wish to destroy a traditional observance; merely the fact that the custom is old gives it an interest and attrac- ton for me. But this custom is so completely out of line with modern systems of education and modern psychology that I know it is bad one"
 Moreover, said MT. Terry, if the superintendent asked the prospec- tive goat if he liked the tradition he would be obligated to insist that it was swell"
 Years ago, he said. the naval academy at Annapolis abandoned the idea of whooping it up for the anchor man" who came in last and the congressman is determined to carry on for dear old West Point
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Atrocity? It Depends

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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-10-27
First Aid Course
To Start Nov. 7
Classes VIII Be
Held In Junior High
School Lunch Room

Requests for another First Aid
Course have been so numerous the
local Red Cross has made arrange
ments to start first aid classes in
the local high school beginning
Monday evening, November 7th, at
s o'clock.
The course will continue for five
successive Mondays and will be I'M
der the tutorage of the Sank Gen.
tire doctors, assisted by Miss Bohne,
nurse; Highway Patrolmen Messrs.
Frederickson and Wood, and Man
ager Harley Forsyth, Of the tele-
phone company.
All those wishing to take this
course please register at once at
The Herald office. Text books
have been ordered from st. Louis
and will be retailed at cost, namely
50 cents. The book is a valuable
addition to your book shelf. You
must have a book to take the
course and that is the only expense
involved. Please register at the
Herald office before November 7th
so class may start promptly at 8
o'clock that evening.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-10-27
Library Circulation
Figures Go Upnard
September Book Users
Doubled Those Over Same
Month A Year Ago

Circulation figures at the Bryant
Library turned sharply upward as
September borrowing doubled over
the same month year ago, accord
ing to a report this week by librar-
ian, Miss Bernice Finnegan.
In September this year 5285 vol
umes were circulated to adult and
Juvenile patrons, the report show
ed. In the same month Of last year
the total circulation was only 1859.
1T Is interesting to note, Miss
Finnegan said, that while the gen.
eral circulation trend Is dropping
in most cases, Sank Centres read
ing has almost doubled. Reading
authorities, she pointed out, lay the
general drop to the return to en-
ployment by large groups Of people
into private enterprise or govern
mental agencies. Low tides in en-
ployment have always been an i'm
petus to higher circulation figures
in libraries, she said.
Sank Centres marked rise, while
others were lowering, Miss Finne-
gan believes, is because Of great
rise In juvenile reading. In Sep
TENDER of 1887, 1920 juvenile books
were circulated, but in this year the
same month, showed 3578 books cir
culated to youthful readers.
The breakdown shows that in the
juvenile bracket 1910 were fiction,
and 1868 volumes Of non-fiction
were circulated. In the adult div
ision non-fiction scored heaviest
with 1135 volumes for the month.
Fiction registered only 572 volumes.
It's an important trend, Miss Fin
negan believes, when adult reading
Of non-fiction overshadows the de-
mands for the fiction, but she
pointed out much of this was due
to the fact that high school reading,
much Of it supplementary work, is
recorded in this bracket.
Another part Of the report, sub
mitted to the Board at the last
meeting, showed that "a new books
had been shelved in the library. The
list includes II adult volumes and
IT for the juvenile department.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-10-27
TROPICAL Moth Vas
Caught By School Girl
Gaudy Sphinx Variety.
Scarce In These Sections,
On Display at School

"A young school girl picked up
green moth-so protectively colored
1t was not unlike a leaf-and de-
posted on her instructors desk a
specimen, with an interesting life
history, and believed to be the first
Of its kind discovered here.
The girl was Carolyn Determan,
who brought the moth to her teach
er, Miss Vivian Hemming. Taken
to the biological laboratory in the
school, the specimen was identified
as the gaudy sphinx moth, whose
natural habitat is in sub-tropical
regions.
Research disclosed that the moth
only occasionally strays north. They
have been found as far north as the
st. Lawrence River but in most
cases east of the Appalachians.
What brings them north is only
conjecture; mostly 1t is contributed
as an urge, J. N. Toftness said.
Their natural habitat is in the
regions Of South America, Central
America, Mexico, and as far north
as the Gulf States. Their wonder
full powers Of flight are shown in
the fact that the life span Of the
adult moth is only three or four
days, hence it must fly several
thousand miles in a short time to
be found here alive.
It Is a remote chance that the
moth was carried to this vicinity
by some other vehicle than its
wings, Toftness pointed out. 1t is
probable too that the moth ate
nothing on its flight; adult moths
seldom do. Moths are the final
stage in the life cycle that pro-
ceeds from the egg, through the
larvae or worm stage, into the CO
coon, and finally the winged Great
ures we know as moths whose
function it is to lay eggs, he ex-
planned. Little movement is pos
sible until the adult winged stage
has been reached, he said.
The specimen is identified by its
leaf green color, its torpedo-shaped
body, streamlined to perfection, six
dots in row on the outer foil of
each wing, and a brilliant patch OF
blue on its under wing.
Now mounted, the specimen has
been turned back to the third
fourth grade room taught by Miss
Hemming.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-10-27
Silver Anniversary of
Parcel Post Service
Inaugurated january l, 1913,
Has Leaped TO Second Place
In u. s. Postal Revenues

When Parcel Post was inaugural
ed January /, 1913, the miniture
Postal system of the United States
Of 1789, with only p postoffices, less
than 100 employeeA and receipts of
not quite SOS, 00O.0o had become the
largest single business in the entire
world. In the Is years since 1913.
Parcel Post has leaped to second
place in u. 8. Postal Revenues; and
in number Of pieces handled an
nually 1t exceeds the total mail of
all classes of certain foreign coun-
tries; proof of the service it rend-
ers, and the public's growing de-
mand for this service.
Parcel Post Is the greatest extern
sion of Postal facilities in world
Postal history. The Founding
Fathers of this Government, $50
years ago, had a vision Of the fut-
ure when they adopted a Resolution
in the Continental Congress author
izing the Postmaster General to
"fix such rates per pound weight
as he may judge will be most like
ly to induce persons to send such
packets by post" By 1910, modern
life had developed q demand for a
universal, low-rate, Postal service
which made inevitable the enact
ment by Congress- in 1912 of the
law establishing our modern Parcel
Post. From the day it started, Par
eel Post met an instantaneous, fav-
orable public acceptance.
Two new and needed services
were shortly added. They were, c.
o. D., and Insured, mail. So inn
mediately popular did they become.
they were soon extended to other
classes Of mail matter.
Parcel Post opened a hundred
new avenues to commerce, hitherto
closed, for rural communities.
towns, and cities. 1t is safe to say
that no other new development in
the Postal Service has had the dy-
manic effect Of Parcel Post on the
economic and industrial life of the
nation in the past one hundred
years; this, despite the fact that 1t
is only % years old this year.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-10-27
To Augment Adver-
Using Program Of
Dairy Industry

A crusade to "use more butter
will be one Of the principal topics
for discussion at the Community
Club meeting to be held tonight,
Thursday, at eight o'clock. The
club plans to take part in this cam
paign, which is heralded as a Farm.
Town, City Prosperity Crusade.
Despite the strenuous efforts of
the dairy industry, aided by the
Federal Department Of Agriculture
and other organizations, creamery
butter surplus continues to mount.
This Of course is the primary rea-
son for this crusade. Department Of
Commerce figures as Of September
22nd quoted creamery butter sur
plus figures as follows: ranuary q
million pounds; May, 81 million
pounds; June, 120 million pounds;
July, 172 million pounds; August,
201 million pounds. Cheese surplus
figures show the same distributing
trends, viz: ia million pounds for
June, $50 million pounds for Aug
ust.
With frequent rains, warm sun
shine, late frosts, succulent pasture.
the faithful Northwest dairy cows
is producing to 10 percent more
milk and butterfat than she did in
a comparable season a year ago.
Distribution and consumption of
creamery butter remain about even
with year ago, while dairy aver
age sales of fluid milk in 1876 lead
ing markets during August were
SAL percent under 1887. These are
great factors in rolling up what
now looms as a threat to the we'll
being Of our dairy industry and all
business Of the Northwest.
Retail and wholesale trade, man.
ufacturing, labor and business in
general are all vitality interested in
this creamery butter problem. A
drop Of five cents a pound for but
terfat would play havoc with all
Northwest business.
Thus all groups are to be enlist
ed in this crusade, which has been
inaugurated to augment the adver-
Using program Of the dairy inter-
ests, in which practically all cream
cries Of the state have enrolled.
Obviously, something must be done.
and all interested are invited to the
club meeting for the purpose of
aiding in this worthwhile crusade.
The picture above, both in stick
er and card form, may be had for
this campaign. Advertising mater
ial will be available from the Com
munity Club, and all Of 1t will be
formed around the Farm, Town,
City Prosperity Crusade.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-10-27
Board Asks
Bids To Move
Senior High
Will Be Opened
Evening of November
18th, At Z O'clock
SOD REMOVAL BEGUN
Plan To Commence
Moving Of Building
Week of November 20

Tn session Monday night the
Board Of Education adopted res
olution to advertise for bids for
moving the Senior High School
building, and the call for bids ap-
pears in this weeks Herald.
This resolution was adopted on
the basis Of approval Of the Omaha
PWA office Of specifications for
moving the building. These speci-
fications have been prepared by
Ellerbe & Co., architects.
Bids will be opened on the eve
ming Of November 18th at seven
o'clock, and the Board reserves the
right to reject any or all bids.
Removal Of sod in preparation
for the building Of the foundation
and basement was started Tuesday
afternoon. The basement will be
just large enough to get at the heat
ing pipes, etc.
Work on this project must be
started before December End, and
If bids are satisfactory and one Is
accepted work on this project will
begin by the week Of November 20
It is the purpose Of PWA to put
as many men to work at possible.
Any man, Of skilled or unskilled
labor, needing work should hand
his name to Supt. w. A. Kohl or
Geo. Berggreen, secretary Of the
Board Of Education. They must
make survey Of available labor
for the contractors. Cards will be
provided for each applicant to sign,
The Board also took up the sur
vey Of wage rates to be paid on this
work, and the members approved
the scale. All that Is now left of
the preliminary work on this pro-
ject is the submittance and ac-
ceptance Of bids.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-10-27
Halloween P arty
For Youngsters
Legion Band VIII
Entertain-Other Features To
Include Bonfire and Games

Plans for the Halloween enter
tainment for the boys and girls of
this community are well under way,
and arrangements include a Funniest
greater than any which have here
tofore been given.
Scout leaders and Scouts will
have charge of the entertainment
which will include a huge bonfire,
games and stunts. The Legion
band will furnish music for the
party. Plans for a Halloween par
ade are also considered and pos
sibly will be worked out later.
OF course, the boys and girls
must furnish the special entertain
ment and stunts, but the merchants
will furnish the eats. Peanut but
ter sandwiches, cheese and wieners
are on the menu.
Announcement of this event has
been made in the schools Of Sank
Centre and all boys and girls have
received an invitation to attend.
After the program is over the
youngsters in attendance win be
asked to go directly to their homes.
to avoid trouble.
Boys and girls in the schools
have promised not to soap windows
or engage in any other Halloween
pranks If the party is staged, and
with that in mind those in charge
are planning to make It an out
standing event.
Wednesday morning we were in
formed that the program will in
clude a snake dance through the
streets, for which costumes and
horns will be available to all boys
and girls. Three prizes for best
costumes will be awarded, said Har-
ley Forsyth, Boy Scout troop chair
man. The Legion band will lead
the snake dance.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-10-27
Work On
Main Street
.TheatreBegun
J. J. Smith Implement
Co. Buildings Near
Completion
TO OCCUPY SOON
Mike Wernig Erects
New Tavern On
Farm, West of Town

Work on the new Main Street
Theatre commenced Tuesday, when
a work crew started moving dirt
for the basement and floor slant.
+. L. Parsons, manager of the thea
tire, stated that work will be push
ed to completion as quickly as pos
sible. Original plans provided for
completion of the building by De-
cember 18th, but delays in prelimi-
nary work will PROBABLY make OPP
ening of the theatre at that time
an impossibility.
This modern theatre building Is
being erected on the Pangburn and
Thielen properties on Main Street,
a complete explanation Of the build
ing having been published in for
mer issue of The Herald. Plans,
however, provide for a new front
in the Thielen barber shop, above
and around which the new struc-
ture will be erected.
With work on the theatre and
school building assured, other i'm
provements nearing completion are
worthy of notice. ]. j. Smith, who
is erecting a new cement block
building on Pine Street, on the for
mer Fred Walker property, an
nounced Wednesday that work Is
nearing completion. He expects to
occupy the new place with his i'm
plement business in week or two
He is erecting two buildings, the
first a cement block structure.
34-7O in size, the other a machine
shed, covered with galvanized iron.
to be 28-130 feet in size. These new
buildings will provide very fine
home for the ]. J. Smith Implement
Co.
A. Salmond, proprietor Of the
building now occupied by Mr..
Smith, announced Wednesday that
he will operate a business in his
building. He will continue with
automobile storage space and in
tends to rent the shop space for
repair work.
Work on a new tavern, now being
erected by M. Wernig, on his farm
at the head of Hoboken Hill, Is
progressing, and plans contemplate
opening in two or three weeks. A
large addition, 3546, is being erect
ed at the north side of the house
for booths and dancing.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-10-27
Stearns County Publishers
Inaugurated Large Dairy
Advertising Campaign
Decided To Devote SLOTS
Worth Of Space To Stimulate
Butter Consumption

At a meeting Of the Stearns
County Publishers held in Melrose
Saturday night, members Of the as
ISOLATION agreed to devote $1075
worth Of advertising in eleven coun-
ty newspapers for the purpose of
stimulating the consumption Of but
ter and dairy products.
Stearns County being the largest
dairy county in the state, county
publishers realize the necessity of
maintaining a good price for but
ter, and therefore started this cam
paign, which will include $50 inches
of advertising in each of the ten
weeklies and 500 inches in the
county daily.
Members of this association are
the Melrose Beacon, Sank Centre
Herald, Holdingford Herald, Rich
mond Reporter, Paynesville Press,
Cold Spring Record, Brooten Re
view, Belgrade Tribune, Albany En-
terprise, Kimball Kodak and the
st. Cloud Daily Times.
G. w. Carlson, who acted as chair
man, appointed a committee con-
sisting of Fred Schilplin, ST. Cloud.
Earl LeMasurier, Paynesville, and
M. J. Fleming, Sank Centre, to
contact officers of the Central Min
nesota Dairymen's Association and
to arrange for a program Of local
advertising on the dairy industry as
it pertains to Stearns County.
Members of the association and
their wives were guests of Editor
and Mrs. C. w. Carlson, at Melrose.
This being the annual meeting the
following officers were elected:
Fred Schilplin, st. Cloud, president;
Geo. Terrell, Holdingford, vice
president; Earl LeMasurier, Paynes-
vile, secretary-treasurer.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-10-27
ELECT SOIL CONSER-
WALTON OFFTCERSL

A combined meeting Of citizens of
Raymond, Ashley and Northfork
Townships, for the conduct Of the
soils conservation program, was
held at Padua Hall recently. About
100 farmers, interested in this pro-
ject, were in attendance and they
elected the following officers from
the three townships: Anton Bier
niger, chairman; Gerret Jansen.
vice chairman; Gust Quade and Ole
Heiei, committeeman. This was a
spirited meeting and 1t is said, the
attendance was larger than at any
similar previous meeting held by
the three townships.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-10-27
HOME SCHOOL
FAIR NOV. 2-3-4
Annual Event VIII Include
Exhibits of Needleworl, Can
ming and Balxing-An Welcome

The Home School for girls will
hold it's fair on November Pa, at
the Community building. This is
an annual event at which time ex-
hibits Of needlework, canning and
baking are on display.
On Thursday evening at 1880
there is to be program and style
show featuring the wearing appar-
ell provided for a paroled girl.
Friends of the school are invited
to attend. The exhibits will be on
display each afternoon and evening
during the fair.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-10-27
LOCAL RED CROSS
APPEALS FOR CLOTHING

The local Red Cross Is in need
Of clothing to meet the demands
already being made and which
will continue to grow as the
weather gets colder.
Our present stock Of clothing
has become depleted. The de-
mand is for make-over garments,
especially in children's dresses,
ladies' dresses, ETC., mems wool
en- overcoats and mackinaws,
which can be made into snow
suits; children's serviceable ov-
ershoes and rubbers.
Anyone wishing to donate ar
ticles Of clothing may leave same
with Mrs. Carpenter, at the rest
room, or call the Herald, phone
2O6.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-10-27
LEGION BAND MEET

Members of the American Legion
Band are to meet at the band room
Monday evening at 7:30, director p.
w. Hanson announced this week.
The band is to participate in the
businessmen-sponsored Halloween
party for the young people Of this
community.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-10-27
Locals Took
Albany By
Score Of 200
Complete Reversal of
Old Form Was Maze
Of Power Plays
INJURED MEN BACK
Season Will End
With Alex Nov. a
On O-Sa-Ge Field

Curtain ringer on the '38 foot
ball season will be the Alexan-
dria tussle that looms ON O-Sa-
&c field Friday, November 4th.
With that game the season, the
first under lights on the field
at the Fair Grounds, ends with
Sank Centre topping its sched-
ule with q series of wins. This
season, under the tutelage of
University of MINI sofas
George Roscoe, Alex has suffer-
ed reverses, played q heavy
schedule i'm a tough conference.
Against Glenw00d they pulled
out q marginal victory 60. The
Harveymen have reached the
peak of their performance,
showing most notably In the Al
bany victory. Their reserve list
is up to par, excels the reserve
strength of the seasons starter.
Alexandria's famed girls drum
corps will perform between
x1d4vCSs
Flashing a new aggressivenes!
that was a complete reversal o
their old form, Sank Centres Har
trampled nightly over
lesser Albany team in a mid-weel
game under the lights.
When last Wednesdays crowd a
O-Sa-Ge field dwindled before sud
denly chilling weather that produc
ed for the first time this season al
and be-blanketed batcl
Of kibitzers, this now aggressive
team raced for three touchdowns t.
win 20 to O.
This team that had depended s.
upon its passing attack an
the breaks now was a maze Of pow
err plays that amassed more thai
two hundred yards in three smooth
ly clicking drives over the oppon
ents' goal.
Denny Ethun, for the first tim
since a leg injury in the st. john
game, was able to forget his under
pinning, move as the leader Of thu
clan in the most spirited drive o
the season. Co-partnered again will
his diminutive quarterback, Rex
Ethun was driving, cutting
for long gains. The two enjoyet
q reunion that again threw thei
power, surprising for their size
against team.
But it was an eleven-man affair
While these two, and most notab
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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-10-27
FORMER RESIDENT DEAD

Fred Pape, a former resident Of
this city, passed away suddenly at
the hospital in Waverly, Iowa. Mr..
Pape was contractor and builder
IN Sank Centre about 35 years age,
and he Is well remembered by the
older residents. Funeral services
were held at st. Paul's Lutheran
Church In Waverly, Iowa, on Mon
day afternoon.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-10-27
Fixed TIRE;
TWISTED KNEE

Harold Nelson, Swift employee, Is
unable to report to work this week
after he suffered a knee injury last
Friday. Mr.. Nelson. enroute to
Minneapolis, got out Of his car to
fix flat tire, twisted the knee.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-10-27
HOSPITAL NOTES

Monday Donavan Zimmerman,
SON Of Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Zim-
norman, submitted to a tonsil re-
moval operation.