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Evening star., 1939-06-11
A NATIONAL SYMBOL
by 1he R1ght ReD James E. Freeman, D. d. D. c. L.
Bishop of Washington.

June IA is Flag Day, the day on which
we signalize the Stars and Stripes, and
reverently regard it as the chief symbol
OF our national unity and integrity. To
keep its red and white bars and its
clustered stars unsullied, every citizen of
the Republic is committed. The symbols
of other nations we honor and respect,
but to our own flag we pay unfailing
allegiance.
1t is only symbol but it represents in
its multiplied stars the proud story of
Nations growth. We train our children
to salute and reverence 1t, and wherever
1t flies it affirms to the world that Amer
lea is sovereign and independent Ma
ton. Too often national flags have been
regarded as symbols of hate, but the flag
OF America has never been. 1t seeks not
to fly over territory belonging to other
peoples; wherever it has gone it has car
ried to the oppressed the assurance of
freedom. 1t stands for the ideals of a
loving people who desire to live in
world where the integrity of sovereign
States is maintained inviolate. 1t rep
resents the high purpose of a Nation to
do justly and deal honorably with all
men. 1t has been the symbol of gener-
oslty and humanitarian service and has
carried to suffering and afflicted peoples
that which sustains in the day of ad-
VerSity
In days as critical as these through
which we are now passing, it is impera-
tive that the flag of America shall stand
as the symbol of those strong moral and
spiritual ideals for which it was origi-
nally designed Symbols in and by them
selves are meaningless. unless they have
behind them the moral character of the
people they represent. It is we'll that we
remember at this time that nations do
not live and survive because thev are
proud and puissant A we'll ordered and
adequate constabulary on sea and land
has its proper and essential place, but
the might of armed force must be sus-
tanned by the moral force that makes it
effective. We have boasted of the man
behind the gun and we have a justified
prlde IN his skill and ability, but 1T is
What the man behind the gun possesses
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recorded. an increase of four over the
corresponding period of a year ago.
The most dangerous period of the
year has just begun and will not end
until Labor Day. If an improvement
is to be shown start must be made
at once. And 1t can come only through
a constant observance of all regula-
tlons and a strict, unyielding pro-
gram of enforcement.
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mistic support the conviction that
humanity moves onward and upward.
Pessimists with equal assurance insist
that civilization is declining and that
organized society is headed toward
destruction. The truth probably lies
mid-distance between the two
extremes.
Some manifestations of progress,
however, are discernible. For exam
pie, the national meeting for Moral
Re-Armament, assembled in Consti-
tuition Hall On Sunday evening last,
must have encouraged a multitude
to entertain renewed faith in a
spiritual dynamic adequate to meet
admitted needs in time of turmoil
and confusion. The speakers were
men and women of every class. Many
different nations were represented on
the platform; still larger number in
the audience, seen and unseen. The
animation that had brought them
into harmony was the Simple decla-
ration Of principle which is the basis
OF all the great religions-the self
evident ethical axiom of honesty and
unselflshness expressed in the Golden
Rule.
1t was significant that the re-
Surgence OF articulate constructive
qualities from SO many countries.
especially from England and the
United States, should nearly coincide
with the visit of Their Britannia
Majesties to Washington.
Now, certainly, it may be wondered
II love be susceptible Of practical
application in the affairs of nations.
Professional skeptics assume that
such a cure for war and revolution.
greed and crime is too idealistic in
character to be pragmatic in action
Yet it is reasonable to argue that
governments are controlled by indi-
vlduals and that the philosophy of
even the most stubborn of dictators
is amenable of correction, preferably
from within. Moral e-Armament
appeals to the personal conscience.
1t demands of people choice be-
tween God and chaos. The challenge
OF its message may de avoided but
not ignored. In that respect it re-
Sembles the mission of the Prince of
Peace who died upon a cross. He is
denied, perhaps. His name and his
sacrificial example, however, are not
forgotten. Let the race sink into
despair, He remains unconuuered.
The Father He served is not defeated.
Proponents of goodwill continue to
labor for change first in themselves
and then in their neighbors in behalf
OF a new world order. Last Sunday
evenings meeting left with the aver
age American citizen the duty of
choosing to be part of the problem
or part of the answer.
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Business and Consumers

Producers and consumers have
gotten their heads together in a
round table conference in Buffalo
and have discovered that they have
problems In common. In fact, so
many of their problems are mutual
that Walter D. Fuller, Philadelphia
publisher, who was one of the prin-
cipal speakers, was moved to call
them economic Siamese twins"
The meeting, designated officially as
the Conference on BuSiness-Con-
sumner Relations, was sponsored bv
the National Associa ton of Better
Business Bureaus Addressing the
opening session, Mr.. Fuller stated
that business and consumers are
so closely linked in the American
economic system as to render them
lnterdependent. He asserted that
they are especially tied together at
the present time by their Joint recog-
milton of the fact that both are
"sueffring from the Vaccinations of
government"
"As consumers, he told the con-
ference, I'VE think about the prices
OF goods, quality of materials, repu-
tation of the manufacturer and even
more broadly about the producers
record as a good citizen and good
neighbor. AS producers we think
about wages, taxes, markets for our
products and new opportunities.
Each OF us Is such an integral part
of the whole economic system that
we cannot separate into labeled
groups any more than the waters of
the ocean can divide"
1t might we'll have been pointed out
that the very existence Of the or
ganization sponsoring the conference
is prima facie proof of the acknowl-
edgment by business of the obliga-
tion it owes the consumer, of the
need for mutual confidence and good
will If both are to benefit from
friendly relations. The National As
sociation of Better Business Bureaus,
a creation of business, has become
valued protector of the consumer
against fraud and deceit. The Wash
ington Better Business Bureau,
which approaches it's twentieth year
of service to businessmen and con-
sumers of the National Capital, and
which will give an accounting of its
past activities and formulate its pro-
gram for the future at its annual
meeting next Wednesday, is typical
OF the accredited groups composing
the national association. Consumers
have lent powerful aid in this crusade
to keep the house of business in
order. The development of better
understanding between those who
produce and those who consume is
bound to bring dividends to both.
And as this cooperative liaison grows
stronger, the need for governmental
intervention, for outside regulatory
and disciplinary measures, will
diminish correspondingly.
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A Better Yeur

Mere figures, even when dealing
with human fatalities, are apt to fall
short Of making the desired impress
sion, but the disclosure in the annual
summary of the National Safety
Council that ninety thousand persons
were killed in accidents of all kinds
last year should be sufficient to drive
home the Importance of supporting
any and all measures designed to
lower the casualty toll.
1t is true many of these accidents
occurred in specialized industrial
fields and hence were confined to a
comparatively small section of the
population. But of all types of &C
cident, the one which took the
largest toll, traffic, reaches into the
life OF almost every person. For
this reason it is especially important
to cite the records of the Council.
Last year thirty-two thousand
four hundred persons were killed on
the streets and highways of the
United States. This was the second
time since such figures have been
compiled that reduction has been
recorded, the only other year show
ing a decrease having been 1882. The
amount of reduction for 1898, eight
cen per cent under the previous
year, is tribute to efficient traffic
safety measures. The national de-
crease for all types of accidental
deaths was ten per cent and the
experts, figuring on the number of
deaths per million miles of motor
traffic, report fifteen thousand, five
hundred lives were saved by the
undermining of motoring safety.
These figures hold a special in
terest to Washington. Last year the
National Capital had eighty-six
traffic fatalities as compared with one
hundred and six for 1887, reduction
approximating the national average.
But so far, with 1889 nearly half
gone, thirty-sev deaths have been
Evening star., 1939-06-11
Road to Peace Still Open

HioeoullL HdllIdH, BRUSH 'fOrelgn
secretary, once more informs Ger
many that the road to peace is still
open. She is notified that the ECO
nomic living space which the Reich
Graves is obtainable on simple terms
namely, remuneration of any idea of
attacking or threatening the indie
pendence of her neighbors by force.
This assurance, conveyed officially in
an address in the House of Lords last
thursday, was reiterated by Prime
Minister Chamberlain in speech at
Birmingham on Friday The British
government apparently seeks to in
innate to Hitler that Nazi demands
for colonial restoration will be ready
for discussion the moment Germany
gives evidence of good will, accom-
panied by convincing guarantees that
her word will be kept. There is even
a hint that the British would not
oppose German expansion in Europe
provided Hitler seeks it through
friendly negotiations with his neigh
bors and not by the mailed fist
methods that produced the dismem-
berment of Czecho-Slovakia
Downing Street this time couples
It's olive branch with a warning.
Germany is admonished that the day
is past when Great Britain will stand
by with folded arms while some
stronger power ventures to end a
nations freedom by unilateral action.
There must be no misunderstand-
ing" said Viscount Halifax. IF the
issue were ever to be joined, have
no doubt at all about the ultimate
outcome, whatever might be the
duration of the struggle or the vary
Ing fortunes of war. Thus, I find it
hard to believe that, with a certain
prospect of resistance and with
aWareness of the fearful conse-
quences that must follow, those who
might be tempted to risk war would
not feel it wiser and more profitable
to compose difficulties by negotia-
ton The British foreign secretary
seems by indirection to say to the
Nazls: You can not win, so why not
give. up the idea, and negotiate
instead?'
Mr.. Chamberlain, supplementing
this plain speaking, reminds those
concerned that while he has had
very little help from the countries
with which I am hoping to come to
an understanding" he proposes to
plod along the wearisome path of
appeasement, while unremittingly
building up national defense to a
point at which mo country, however
strong, would lightly undertake a
conflict with Britain"
A patent danger in the situation is
the possibility that the Nazis will
interpret these latest gestures from
Downing Street as a sign that the
Anglo-French-Russian alliance prof.
ect is on the rocks and that the
Reich can afford to ignore peace
proffers from across the North Sea.
While midsummer approaches amid
relatively cloudless European skies,
confidence in Hitler's pacific purposes
is far from firm. Both London and
Paris are prepared for fresh surprises
in Central Europe before the end of
the year, with Poland, Rumania,
Yugoslavia Or Hungary as the Nazis'
next objective.
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brackets who will provide the problem.
Those who already are IS years of age
or over and who have no jobs, as we'll
as those who now are under IS and un-
employed, will not share in the annuities
that the Federal Government will start
paying in January.
The INDECENT aged are going to con-
tinue to depend on State old-age pen
sions to which the Federal Government
contributes
The prospect is that old-age insurance
and old-age pensions soon will constitute
q major problem Of finance for this Gov
ernment, just as relief now is . major
problem.
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Changing World

The world, it commonly is agreed,
is constantly changing. But its
mutability prompts a natural ques-
ton as to its course. Is it altering
for better or for worse? Those OBJ
servers who instinctively are opti-
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paper and also the local news published herein,
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herein also reserved
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The axis wants peace, Mussolini
warns, and is ready to impose it," if
1t has to knock every other nation
galley-west.
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True ENOUGH

From the Winston Salem Journal
Washington is beehive now, we hear
But beehives have their drones.
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The Post Office Department not only
participates in the construction and
maintenance of Government owned
buildings, but also operates its own real
estate department to provide quarters
under lease for large number of post
offices not housed in Government build
ings. There are some $500 post Offices,
stations and branches occupying quar-
tiers under lease and more than 1900
post offices, stations and branches oc-
cupying rented quarters on month-to-
month basis without formal contract.
There are more than 44,5Oo post Offices
which go to make the United States
postal system the largest business or
ganization In the world-and one Of the
most efncient.
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lze pensions further that tax will have
to rise higher than 10 per cent or some
other source of revenue will need to be
found. Lacking revenue, the Government
would need further to upset Its budget
to meet the obligation that it now is
assuming
Here is the recognized danger in the
social security system.
Those who have planned the system
realize there will be rising demands from
millions of voters for more and more
liberal annuity payments. There will be
demands from more and more groups to
be included within the retirement sys-
TEN. There will be demands for in
creases in the amount of the monthly
pension.
At the same time there will be rising
pressure in opposition to paying the cost
either of the pensions already estab-
lished in law or of extensions and addi-
tions to those pensions.
In this situation is one more danger
to the Federal Governments finances.
If pensions are not paid for, they can,
before many years have gone by, place
a further heavy drain on the Govern
ment's credit, already strained a bit by
deficits that have totaled about $20,O00,-
100000 in the last seven years.
One reason for the danger in old-age
pensions is this:
At present the number of persons
within the United States who are IS
years Of age or over totals about 100000
During the next few years. however, this
total will rise to $4,000 900 and it Is these
millions Of newcomers Ia the old.age
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-05-04
ToOpen New
Grocery Store
This Week
L. P. Melbostad and Son
To Be Open For
Business Saturday
IN DAHLEM BUILDING
Vern Nicholson
Installed New Fixtures
In Meat Market

L. p. Melbostad and son, Loren
Melbostad, of Forest Lake, have
rented a part Of the Dahlem build
ing on Third Street, and will open
a grocery store Saturday. They
will occupy the Dahlem building
with Vern Nicholson, who has op-
Grated a meat market there for
some time.
Mr.. Melbostad and son are exper-
fenced grocery dealers and the son
will bring his family to this city
as soon as a home can be secured.
The younger Mr.. Melbostad's FAM
lily consists Of his wife, son and
daughter.
The interior Of the Dahlem build
ing is being remodeled and all new
fixtures are being installed for the
grocery business.
Vern Nicholson, who conducts
meat market, has purchased new
white fixtures, including a new dis
play counter and refrigerator, both
Of white enameled material. These
are the latest in market fixtures
and an improvement worthwhile
Mr.. Nicholson has his market in
the east side Of the building.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-05-04

berger reported, that Howard
didn't tryout any further" She
played it flawlessly each time
both in the afternoon and eve
Ming"
Kitzberger said this week that
because so many were i'll in
his orchestral group, he passed
up getting rated on the organ
ization. Thirteen were absent
from the ranks with illness. Ill
ness too riddled the vocal
groups under the direction of
Miss Sue Momsen, she report
ed. She entered her girls glee
club and the senior high mixed
chorus for vocal events. No
ratings higher than B were CIV
en- by Peter Tkach, West high
school Minneapolis instructor,
and Sank Centre groups were
included in that bracket.
In the evening members of
the orchestra sat in a group Of
300 massed orchestral members,
under the direction Of Mr.. How
ard. Mr.. Kitzberger and Miss
Momsen participated in the sup
ervisors' orchestra that accom-
panied an 800-voice assembled
chorus.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-05-04
AUCTION for Benefit
Eremen's Convention
To Be Held Saturday
Afternoon On Vacant
Lot Next to Fire Hall

A community auction, staged
for the purpose Of raising
funds for the annual convention
Of the State Firemen's Ass0cia-
ton to be held in this city June
IL, Is and 18th, will be held
Saturday afternoon at two
o'clock. The sale will take place
on the vacant lot between the
fire hall and the old creamery
building on Third Street.
Merchants of Sank Centre
and farmers Of the community
have donated many useful ar
ticles for this sale, said men,
bers of the committee Tuesday
evening.
Auctioneers Sell & Otte, j. H.
Hansen, as clerk, and many
others have donated their ser
vices and articles to make this
event successful. This is one
way to show your appreciation
of the services of the local fire
department. Attend the sale
Saturday afternoon, May 9Th, at
two o'clock.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-05-04
Plant
To Locate In
Sank Centre
Purchased Property
On Eighth Street
From VIM. Otto

Final arrangements for the loca-
ton of the Home Gas Co. in this
city were completed last week, and
Mr.. F. T. McCahill, president, an
nounced that they expect to start
building the plant sometime this
week.
In a letter to D. B. Caughren,
president of the Community Club,
Mr.. McCahill thanked the club for
the invitation to come to Sank
Centre to build a propane gas
plant.
This plant will be for the pur-
pose of bottling cooking gas for
home use. The gas will be- brought
to this city in tank cars and will
be rebottled here Tor wholesale
distribution. Mr.. McCahill stated
that his company is a wholesale
concern. The main office is lccat-
ed in Minneapolis, and a similar
plant to that which they intend to
build here is located at Hutchinson.
The Home Gas Co. has purchas-
ed the property facing Eighth
Street from William Otto. The
property is 10Ox128 feet and is
located near the Menasha Wood.
ware Co., along the Great Northern
right-of-way.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-05-04

Service at Zion
Luth. Church
Twenty-Five Children
To Be Confirmed
Sunday Morn

Sunday, May 7th, Zion Lutheran
Congregation will hold its annual
confirmation service, at which
twenty-one boys and girls will be
admitted to membership in the
Church. This years class includes
twenty-six, twenty-one children and
five adults. The children will be
confirmed at the service Sunday
morning; the adults will be receiv-
ed into the church at an evening
service during the week.
These members, having received
special instruction by the pastor,
Rev. ]. f. Schumacher, in the chief
parts Of the Christian doctrine and
having knowledge Of Christian
faith and Bible doctrine, are now
prepared to promise allegiance not
only to the Church, but to their
Lord and Saviour, as well, said the
pastor.
Through the efforts Of the ladies
Of the church, the class Of twenty
one children will be robed in white
this year.
The order Of service beginning
at 10 o'clock will be as follows:
PROFESSIONALISM Forever"
By the class.
The Morning Liturgy.
Saviour, I Follow Thee"-Con-
gregation.
Address by the Pastor.
Take My Life and Let It Be
Consecrated Lord to Thee"-By the
class.
Elaboration and Confirmation
Vow.
Observation-Disclosures.
Take It to the Lord in Prayer"
Choir.
Prayer and Benediction.
Hymn-"Let Me Be Thine For
ever"
The following are the members
Of this years class: Clarence Mag
nuson, Gloria Rosenwald, Erwin
Schlief, Lois Hansman, Roland
Botz, Vivian Secoy, Raymond Gam
radt, Dorothy Blank, Jean Jewell,
Allen Eberhardt, jeanette San
bravo, Russell Domke, Alberta
Gamradt, Herbert Bliese, Johanna
Barchenger, Clifford Weir, Betty
Jean Berry, Lea Weir, Lorraine
Karsten, Robert Hansman and
Shirley Magnuson.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-05-04
Drill New Well
At Creamery
Fine Flow of Good Water
In Sufficient Quantity
Found at 43 Feet

"A new well, guaranteeing suffici-
ent flowage for all uses at the
Sank Lake Cooperative creamery,
was drilled last week, and final
tests were made this week. Tests
revealed a flow Of forty gallons Of
water per hour, which should be
greater when all work Is complet-
ed.
At a depth Of 43 feet, Holmberg
Bros, who drilled the well, struck
a ten inch vein. At SO feet they
hit a seven-foot ledge of granite
which hampered drilling, but eff
forts were rewarded when at the
stated depth they struck good
water, which has a temperature Of
46 degrees.
This well will now be widened to
accommodate an eight inch casing
which will be placed atop the seven
foot granite ledge. This will pro-
vide good water in sufficient guam
titles for all creamery use. said
George Strauss, secretary.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-05-04
Getting City Park
In Shape for Summer
Annual Cleanup Later
This Year Said Park
Commissioner Vird Neal

Summer can't be far off when
the City Park, that skirts the south
shore Of Sank Lake, has riddled
itself Of the annual bank Of snow
and Is getting its face lifted.
Tuesday, May End, for the first
time this season Park Commission
er Vird Neal was moving the grass
in that favorite summertime spot
TITS usual the first Of May al
though last year I moved in April
for the first time," he said.
I'VE need rain," he commented,
the grass Is tough" Incidentally
that very evening light showers
came. This year is a bit later for
the Park cleanup though, he ex-
planned. A year ago the raking
and cleanup started April Is; this
year he wasn't able to start until
the 18th.