The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-10-06
The Common-tater
Chuck Rattle
Out of Their Own Mouths

Out of Their Own Mouths
Doctors books tell tale. They're Uttered with
mounting accounts for services rendered to people
who have been injured in notwithstanding cars
they can illafford, and carrying insurance for
their own or others protection.
And
There is an epidemic of tax title buying. Spec
uators rush in to seize for song delinquent prop
critics that have reverted the And there
those who wonder where it will all end.
And
An influx of people into the town is creating
problems. They don't flock, but drift in aimlessy.
Seep their way into the town gradually. From the
farms, from smaller towns, they come without even
a job to attract them. Said one to fellow moving
in, why move here-there's work to be had?"
But the fellow guessed he'd move in anyway. :.
Always there is that thought maybe there's some
thing better Or is the thought to get relief?
And
There's growing TRADE against the curfew or
dinance. The TRADE doesn't come against the idea
of the ordinance, the regulation of earlier hours But
against the manner in which it is signalled. The blast
goes up against the $50 p siren. One mother.
told me, THE thing wakes my baby up every night"
Another said "An old lady, who has hard job sleep
ing anyway, is always awakened" So the prob
lens mount. And that's what goes on in Anytown -.
Street Scene-Regne Unger, dressed for cycling,
peddling down the street her bike and lap
ping up the most beautiful fall weather in many
years.
Games are novel ways toward knowledge. And
Harley Forsyth, Nern NICHOLSON and Bill EkStrand
have set themselves up game for learning the in
tricacies of the stock market From the financial
pages of the newspapers armed with 10000 hypo-
thetcal dollars, the three have purchased blocks of
stock-low on the market. Now the idea is to buy
and sell throughout the winter watching the market
for the rises. They will try the different ways of
buying margin, selling short dealing in futures.
And the idea is to see how much you have left
over-or how you've lost-in given period. Sounds
like medicine for the mid-winter stay-at-home eve
nings when the piles deep and the wind whistles
at the corners
And the wonder is whether the leaves will be
gone before the deep-hued colors, that so much
a part of our autumns set in Perhaps that's one
of the penalties of such comfortable fall weather.
I saw pass through the other day. From
Massachusetts it was. An unganly model, 1t was a
cry from the sleek models of today and 1t spoke
of a vintage in vogue years back But it wasn't
the but the passengers and their apparent age
that struck And there something about
their bearing More elderly that the average motorist
from distant point, they sat their mount
with air of aristrocracy One of the men, mus
tached, was driving. He rode alone. man and his
wife were in the back seat. She prm. He
seemed docle in the fleeing look at their ex-
pressions 1 caught It's fun supposing about people
of whom know nothing. Fallen gentry at one
time moneyed, perhaps, was the conviction I car
ried away after viewing this trio And still clnging