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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-15
Chinaware Among Later
Table FURNISHINGS Used

It was not until the Dutch East
India company began trading with
the Orient that china was introduced
into the western world.
This brought something entirely
new in table furnishings to those
who had been accustomed for gen.
erations to the dull, gray monotony
Of pewter or wooden ware. The de-
STABILITY Of this china was quickly
recognized and the bright colors and
its cleanness brought pleasure to
those possessing it.
Delft ware was produced by the
Italians in the Fifteenth and Six
teenth centuries.
The method Of covering a col
ored body with a white glaze, how
ever, was not unknown to the Ara
bans and Persians, relates Alice R..
Rollins in the Los Angeles Times.
The Dutch followed the method of
the Italians and in turn the English
copied the technique of the Dutch.
Holland produced a delft ware from
1850 to ITO, in imitation Of the i'm
portations from China by the Dutch
East India company, which main
tanned port at Delft.
The Dutch potters themselves ex-
ported their products to all parts
Of the world opened to them by
trade and many potters migrated
to foreign countries including Eng
land.
It was the desire to create a white
ware that led to the production Of
delft The colored clay body was
first fred, then dipped in a white
glaze or enamel derived from binox-
ide Of tin or stannic acid.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-15
Habits Of Ant-Eaters

In tropical countries there are
large mammals known as ant-eat-
ers. To thrive in the ant-eating line
1t is necessary that the creature
should be armed with powerful
limbs for tearing open the nests.
and also be immune from the bites
and stings. So Nature has provided
1t with a long, worm-like tongue.
coated with sticky substance with
which 1t is able to lick up large
numbers Of insects as they run
about in the wreckage Of their home.
Some species Of ant-eaters have no
teeth, states writer in London Tit
Bits Magazine. In their place they
have long, tubular jaws, for ants
are small and need no biting; the
length of the jaw assists them in
their work. for they are able to
stick it into crevices and holes in
which the ants attempt to escape.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-15
Padua

Mrs. Katy Huber and daughter,
Zita, and son, Francis, and Pete
Essler, from North Dakota, are
spending a few days with friends
and relatives Of this vicinity.
Jack and Sally Gruber spent Sun
day at their home at Lake Henry.
Mrs. VIM. Rooney and daughter,
Marvel, called at Frank Essler's
Monday afternoon.
Mildred Ritter spent Sunday af-
ternoon with Lorraine Rouslang.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-15
Getty Grove

Mrs. Katie Huber and daughter,
Zita, and son, Francis, and Peter
Essler, of Kenmare, North Dakota,
arrived Saturday evening and are
visiting with formers mother, Mrs.
e. Jung, and Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-15

Under water penguins use their
wings as paddles and the feet as
rudders.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-15

cur if the second injection, y or
8 days after the first, is put in
ANYWHERE NEAR the site of the
first; hence be sure your veterin-
arian uses the opposite side of the
neck for the second shot.
5. Vaccination into the muscles
should not be done. The bad re-
suits mentioned in the first para
graph came from injection into the
breast muscles. the second shot be-
ing placed near the first and the,
work was done by an able veterin-
arian, who observed aseptic precau-
lions.
Worst of all, injection deep into
the muscles hides any infestion
that may develop. An abscess NAV
form with pus, from intra-muscu.
lar injection and the animal may
become seriously i'll therefrom,
without serious swelling at site Of
injection. The ablest veterinarians
in this coutry strongly advise
against injecting vaccine into the
muscles, for reasons just cited; so
even though directions with some
vaccines call for injection into the
muscles, don't allow this, but have
your veterinarian inject it just be-
meath the skin on the neck where
1t will not be affected by harness,
collar or saddle; then II swelling
does develop, you win know it.
g. The remarkably good results OBJ
-
last year were probably due to the
fact that the material was shipped
as fast as made, and used as soor,
Evening star., 1939-12-31
holding the accelerator pedal to the

holding the accelerator pedal to the
door board.
Virginia has been making a whole
hearted effort during the past year
to reduce its accident rate. News
papers throughout the State have
been cooperating with the highway
department and the State police in
an educational campaign which
reaches into the surrounding States.
However, a serious danger has
grown up as a result of confusing
speed limit signs on roads entering
the State. This is particularly the
case on Lee highway in Arlington
and Fairfax Counties. Efforts are
being made by residents in these
areas to secure the erection of signs
specifying the speed limits in diff
ferent zones, the State having abol-
ished such signs some two years ago.
Apparently specific authorization
from the Virginia Legislature is nee
essary to accomplish this desirable
end, and it should be forthcoming
as one step in the campaign to
reduce Virginia's trafflc toll.
Evening star., 1939-12-31

a strong movement in the Senate to
liberalize the jointly-flnanced State
Federal pension plan for the aged
indigent-a different proposition
than old age insurance. However,
with the Government already COM
mitted to social security expenditures
entailing a greatly increased tax
rate-one incidentally that already
promises to fall short of ever-grow-
ing old age insurance needs in 1856
1t is not easy to justify any addi-
tional burden.
The changes in the Social Security
Act are the fruits of careful study
that was launched by an eminent
Social Security Advisory Council ap-
pointed by the Senate to determine
what improvements might be made.
Procedure of the same sort should
be followed in considering further
revisions.
Evening star., 1939-12-31
The wear Is diving, let him die"

Inc year ID dying, !et MIN ule
So wrote Tennyson, laureate of Eng
land. It is statement that might imply
remorse and regret. 1t might even imply
disillusionment and despair. What does
1t mean to us, individually and as peo-
Pile? Has the year now Fastening to its
close nothing that memory cherishes; no
golden days of sunshine, no record Of
kindly. generous deeds. no selfless serv-
ices rendered gladly and readily to the
less fortunate, no finer, larger exhibition
of those qualities Of mind and heart
that mark the upward march of peace
loving, generous spirited people? Let us
affirm, and affirm with confidence, allow
ing for all the trials, misfortunes and
disappointments which have marked the
course of the year now drawing to its
close, that any just appraisal Of our life,
taking it by and large, discloses more OF
assets than of liabilities. and that we
have abundant cause to thank the God
and Father Of us all, for blessings and
gifts, deserved and undeserved, that give
promise of better, happier days ahead.
The balance sheet, with all its recorded
losses, miscalculated expectations and
optimistic hopes, still shows a credit
balance Of which we may be justly proud.
To think less than this of the year that
Is closing would be to face a new year
with fears and apprehensions that
might stagger and overwhelm us. Here
we must part company with the cynic
and the pessimist.
In any reckoning, we are not unmind-
full Of the failures, defeats and disap-
pointments that have been the lot Of
many of our people. AS a people, with
all our deficiencies. our blundering sys-
TENS and our lack of generous judg-
ments, we are still, by comparison, a
Nation blessed and gifted above others.
AS We face new year, we must reckon
with those things that transcend our
material wealth. We must realize that
our future will be determined, not by
the renewal Of the gold standard, but by
fresh recognition of the standard of
the golden rule The strength of a
nation does not reside in its mechanical
skill, its material wealth or its genius as
a commercial power. Other nations have
been possessed Of these things and have
come at length to tragic establishment
and failure.
Days of excessive prosperity have not
developed those rugged virtues that make
men stable and strong to meet and resist
periods Of adversely. Few Of us can
stand the days of greater ease which ac-
company prosperity. most of us have
exhibited the finer qualities of mind and
heart when days Of adversely were upon
us. Self confidence is a commanding
Evening star., 1939-12-31
New Years Eve

mo one," says Charles Lamb,
lever regarded the first OF January
with indifference" 1t appears to be
natural instinct to look backward
from the last day of the calendar
year and to appraise what is past.
So, too, it is a normal impulse to
hope for good things in the twelve
months which lie ahead. But sensi-
tive men and women are timid in
the expression of their feeling about
the events of time which is gone and
equally fearful to be optimistic con-
cerning developments of the future.
Experience, it would seem, has made
them humble.
Yet there can be little question
about the common reaction to his
tory as it has been written during
the first third of the twentieth CEN
tury. Humanity deplores the strug-
gle which has ragged during the
decades called by H. G. Wells "the
age OF confusion" War and revolu-
ton, economic dislocation and fam
inc, disease and crime have not been
the deliberate choice of the multi
tude. Rather, it is self-evident that
the longing for peace is universal.
Millions of people have been disil-
lusioned regarding the efficiency OF
any appeal to arms. Similarly, the
masses are agreed in their condem-
nation of power politics" as played
by aggressor governments. The
"tumultuous thirties" have educated
the species to be skeptical of violence
and OF all such adventures as lead
to conflict. What the race wants
now is a breathing SPELL"
The problem Of the moment is that
of the liquidation Of prevailing strife
without surrender of the last rem
nants of civilization. It. is a most
amazing paradox that humanity
yearning for emancipation from the
horrors OF wholesale slaughter and
destruction should be helpless to
achieve the ideal upon which its
heart is set-a brotherhood of man
in which equal justice, equal oppor-
tunity to live freely. would be guar
anteed by all nations. The dream
is definite enough. Only the method
for its realization requires to be
discovered.
Perhaps 1910 may be a year in
which the solution will be found. II
not, the struggle must continue until
in the end ultimate disaster devas-
tates the earth. The prospect, ad-
mittedly, is not bright; yet God in
His mercy may work the miracle for
which His children, bewildered and
sorrowing, are waiting.
Evening star., 1939-12-31
OLD AND NEW YEAR REFLECTIONS
BIZ the Rtoht Rev james Freeman d. d. ILL., D., D. c. L.
Bishop of WASHINGTON.

virtue when 1t is characterized by humil-
ity and reverent dependence upon God.
Self assurance and pride are dangerous
traits and reprehensible when they are
arrogant and selfish.
There is urgent need that we should,
and that speedily, revive throughout the
Nation that kind Of moral and spiritual
courage and strength that shall enable
us to meet the critical days that lie
ahead. Our major problem today is the
moral and religious rehabilitation of the
Nation. It takes precedence of every
thing. We can hardly expect America to
play the role we believe she is destined
to play unless her people are. the high
exponents of a craftsmanship that Is
above suspicion, way of life that Is
grounded in Christian principles.
With a great conflict in the making in
Europe, with distrust and fear in our
industrial workroom, with suspicion
growing apace between nations, we, the
American people, have to think, and
think clearly, as to how as Nation we
are to shape our course. We began with
ideals, Christian ideals; we have grown
and prospered by these ideals; we have
reached stage. and that at most
critical time, where we are asked to
abandon them, and substitute for them
the experimental ideologies of nations
that make no profession of religion.
We do not face the new year with
fear and misgivings. because we believe
the exigencies of the present hour are
SO portentous that the serious thinking
of our people is forcing them to reflect
upon the indispensability of the ideals
and principles on which this greatest of
republics was founded. They will not
yield to importations from abroad, nor
will they be persuaded by the shallow
sophistries of mountebanks and charla-
tans. Too much is at stake. America
possesses the greatest treasure OF any
nation. She has resources in men and
wealth that cannot be adequately ap-
praised. She is still young enough to be
hopeful and idealiStic and daring. She
has grown great in trials that have test
ed her endurance. She stands today,
with those who are nearest of kin. the
English-speaking peoples, for democracy,
for equity, justice and common decency
in all her relations with the world about
her. Her ship of state has prescribed
course and the sea lanes are known to
her. Her pilots must steer her through
waters that are safe, and on to the deS-
tiny of her avowed choice. 1t is such
belief IN better days and better things
that prompts us to say to every fellow
citizen, "A happy New Year and the
blessing of Almighty God on every
household"
Evening star., 1939-12-31
Reward of Merit

Certainly Charles Edison has earn
ed the promotion which President
Roosevelt has had the wisdom to
accord him. Especially during the
past few months it has become ap-
parent that the late Claude A.
Swanson could have no better sue
cessor as Secretary of the Navy than
the man who was his assistant. 1t
was for that reason that more than
a few of his countrymen ventured
to hope that the Chief Executive
would resist the pressure for purely
political appointment to the vacancy
in his Cabinet.
Not well-known in Washington
except as a son of a famous father,
Mr.. Edison came here first in 1884.
He was named to the Navy Depart
ment as Assistant Secretary by the
President in November 1886, but
did not occupy his desk until the
following January. The illness of his
chief soon brought to him RESPONSE
bilities which he had not expected.
He met these obligations with fine
efficiency. His earnestness particu-
larly impressed all who were brought
into contact with him. It was plain
even to strangers that he had found
a work which he loved to do. Also,
1t was evident that he meant to leave
a mark upon the service which
should be no discredit to the dis
tinguished family to which he be-
longed.
Mr.. Edison grasped the needs OF
the Navy from the start. Perhaps
his experience as his fathers aide
In the Naval Advisory Board during
the World War had suggested a
policy to him. Be that as it may, he
shortly developed a pattern of pro-
cedure to which he has been faith
full ever since. His objective was
"a Navy to preserve the peace-a
Navy so strong and so efficient that
no foreign power would deliberately
attack the United States" The ship
building industry, he explained, had
been neglected between 1922 and
1888. It now is being revived, and
the credit is largely attributed to
Mr.. Edison himself. He has enjoyed
the confidence of Congress and of
the Navy personnel as we'll as that
Of Mr.. Roosevelt.
What the future may hold, no one
may guess; but the public has cause
to be pleased In the knowledge that
the President has chosen to continue
at the head of an important branch
of the national defense a man who
merits the trust reposed in him. As
Secretary, Mr.. Edison will carry on"
to the advantage and benefit of the
Nation. His labors will be arduous,
but they are appreciated
Evening star., 1939-12-31
Party Invitation

POLITICS mas an OLD and well eStaD-
lished reputation for making strange
bedfellows, but there is nothing in
the past record which quite measures
up to the current effort of the Demo-
Gratis to improve their social relations
with the much-maligned G. o. P.
elephant.
To the Republicans who received
invitations from former Attorney
General Cummings to attend the an
nual Jackson Day dinner Of the
Democratic Party, it may we'll seem
that insult is being added to injury.
In the past this dinner has been
noteworthy on two accounts-for the
$lO0-a-plate assessment levied on
the diners and for the verbal lam
basting to which the Republican
Party has been subjected by the prin-
cipal speaker of the evening, Mr..
Roosevelt. But all of that, If Mr..
Cummings invitation is to be taken
at its face value, is water over the
dam. The Democratic guests, Of
course, still will be expected to con-
tribute to the party cause, but the
Republican dinners will be ION the
house." and the President is going to
make a non-partisan speech.
There is reason to believe that this
"non-partisan" angle has made some
of the Republican invites a little hot
under the collar. In the first place
there is no suggestion ina Mr.. Cum
mings' letter Of invitation that he is
even thinking of sharing the pro-
ceeds of the dinner with deserving
Republicans. With the G. o. P.
bosses appearing on the program as
added attractions, it is quite possible
that the affair would draw more
paying guests, but the Republicans.
with an election less than a year in
the off1ng, do not like the idea Of
contributing even indirectly to the
strengthening Of the Democratic war
chest. There is also a suspicion at
G. o. p. headquarters that the nom
partisan theme might be carried too
far, that there may be an attempt to
use it as gag to muffle the verbal
blasts they have been preparing to
turn loose against the New Deals
domestic policies during the coming
session of Congress.
With these considerations in mind,
1t should not be surprising If the in
vited guests send in their regrets.
But in that event, what of the un-
happy Democrats? Each of them
faces the appalling prospect of pay
ing 500 for a ticket to a dinner
which will be srurned by the Repub-
licans and at which the time honored
political practice of denouncing the
opposition will be out of order.
Evening star., 1939-12-31
Wallace and Wheat

The state of the world wheat mar
ket has put Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace in the happy position Of
being able to practice what he
breaches. On Friday Mr.. Wallace
suspended the subsidy on wheat
exports. The wheat subsidy was a
trade-protection device aimed at
giving the American grain exporter
better position in the world mar
ket than his foreign competitors. In
essence it is tariff, and only Thurs
day Mr.. Wallace told the American
Political Science Association here
that the tariff-reducing reciprocal
trade agreement program in opera
ton since 1884 represented a worthy
recognition of our position as a
creditor Nation. In theory Mr.. WAL
lace is a low-tariff man, although
necessity has made him an agricul-
tural protectionist.
The suspension-although not
abandonment-of the wheat subsidy
means that the American wheat
farmer is in fairly good economic
position. The bushel price is still
below the average of the five years
before the outbreak of the World
War, but 1t is on the way up. The
price has advanced thirty cents a
bushel since the subsidy was put into
operation last July. The Wallace
ever-normal-granary program Of
crop insurance and storage is affect
ing the wheat crop in such a way
that, although the surplus supply
next July is expected to total oo,o0o,-
900 bushels, the whole country's
economy will not be depressed as 1t
has in the past by an unmanageably
large wheat crop. Mr.. Wallace's
pleasure with his ever-normal-gran-
ary program suggests that in the
future he will conflne his market
manipulations to the domestic mar
ket and not endanger our whole
world trade position by invoking the
reverse tariff of export subsidies.
Evening star., 1939-12-31
Old Age Insurance

Estimated to extend benefits to
$4,000 persons before the end of
1910, the old age insurance plan
toward which American workmen
and their employers have been con-
tributing for the past three years,
goes into operation tomorrow.
With the effective date advanced
two years, and on a far broader
scale than was contemplated at the
time the Social Security Act was
passed, the new plan will bring the
United States into line with other
countries which long have made
similar provision for the elderly, but
the rate of payment will be far
more liberal.
Designed originally to provide only
individual benefits, the law has been
expanded to permit family-unit pay
ments, with a monthly maximum of
eighty-f1ve dollars. These are of two
principal classiflcations. One covers
the retired worker, a wife, If sixty
five or older, and one dependent
child under the age of eighteen; the
other applies to widows, with addi-
tional provision for as many as two
dependent children. Under certain
conditions, also, payments may go to
dependent parents if there are no
other claimants.
The theoretical maximum to a
single person, which was eighty-f1ve
dollars, has been reduced to about
fifty-eight. The minimum primary
benefit remains at ten dollars.
The approximation as to the pro-
spective beneflciaries in the first year
Of the plan assumes that there will
be 4s5,o00 primary old age bene-
f1ciaries-that is, persons sixty-f1ve
or older-who are insured in their own
right through previous employment;
1875 1000 wives and 10000 widows over
sixty-f1ve; $4,000 young widows with
dependent children; $4,000 depend
ent children, and 10000 dependent
parents.
The enlarged benefits, and the in
auguration of payments two years
in advance of the date they were
scheduled to start, represent an
effort by the administration to still
the clamor of ham and eggs" econo-
mists who have been as ardent In
their advocacy Of greater Federal
spending for the aged as they have
for increased grants from the
States. Whether this defense will
be effective however, remains to be
| demonstrated, for already there /.
Evening star., 1939-12-31
Speeds Record

Closing one of its worst years in
regard to traffic deaths, Virginia has
looked into the records and finds the
principal cause to be excessive speed.
With the death toll mounting at an
average rate of more than two day,
the State so far this year has seen
seven hundred and f1fty-one persons
killed on highways as compared with
six hundred and ninety for all of
1898. And the closing days of the
year find most of the roads of the
Commonwealth blanketed with snow
and ice.
Studies by the State Highway De-
partment, covering all fatal acci-
dents for the first eleven months OF
this year, indicate that the more
persons killed in a single accident
the greater is the chance that speed
ing was the cause Thus, of four
hundred and twenty-three crashes
In which one person died, one hun
dred and thirteen were due to excess
sive speed. The same cause is to
blame for twenty-five of the forty
seven accidents in which two were
killed, while in the three smashups
which took the lives of four persons
each, two were attributable to speed.
Within the confines OF city,
where police patrol work can be
effective, and where high speeds in
volve greater inconvenience and risk
to the errant driver, speeding is apt
to be overlooked as a major danger,
since 1t appears but seldom as a
direct cause of death, although 1t
holds high place among non-fatal
accidents. Principal causes OF death
on urban streets are careless walking,
reckless driving, drunkenness, failure
to give right of way and inattention
to or disregard of prevailing condi-
uons. But all other causes take the
background on highways outside cor
porate limits. And the incomplete
records of 1899 bear out the belief that
most accidents continue to occur IN
clear, dry weather, on straight, un-
obstructed stretches Of open high
way, conditions most conducive to