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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-09-23

cup of tea. There's nothing like
hot tea to rest one after a tiring
ride" She hustled out before l
could say one word in reply.
How on earth did she manage to
carry that bulk around so lightly
and gracefully, I wondered, as |
sank down into the nearest chair
and looked around me. If the rest
of Hill House lived up to my greet
ing and what could see. I'd have
to agree with Rhoda.
The view from my window
was on the opposite side from the
spite fence-looked out over the
hill to the fiat land below. There
were acres of diked cranberry
bogs, long stretches of open moors,
sand dunes, glistening sandy
beaches and the open sea extend
ing to the far blue horizon line. I
felt rested just from looking at
such beauty and inhaling the fresh
rose-scented air.
At the end of the room a par
tally open door revealed an i'm
maculate bath and opposite my
chair stood a bed knew, without
even touching it, was as soft and
comfy as beds should be and so
seldom are.
Tap, tap, tap, came on my door.
"Come in," invited. I knew it
wasn't Rhoda rapping. Fer i'm
petuous bangs for admission echo
through an entire house.
A cafe au lait maid, with face as
smiling as her mistress, appeared.
In her hands she bore a tray hold
ing pot of steaming tea, delicate
sandwiches and miniature cakes.
TITS a long time to dinnah,
Miss" Chloe volunteered. Miss
Peake 'spects yo' need a bite to eat
an the tea'll res yo' sho' nuff."
And was that lunch good. The
tea was just What needed, though
I hadn't realized it. I'm not a tea
drinker as rule. But the delicious
aroma and still more delicious
taste would vile the most con-
firmed topper from his glass.
BY tn time had finished l was
a complete convert to Hill House.
/ didn't blame Rhoda for her ex-
travagant praises. I'd probably
stand on a street corner and tell
the whole wide world about it when
J got back to the city.
After Chloe carried the tray
away, / bathed and stretched out
on the bed for cat lap-and the
next thing / knew Rhoda was
pounding on my door with eager
demands to be let in.
"Well?" Her roguish smile ques-
toned me, and I surrendered with
out any hesitation.
you win." / cried, raising both
hands. Pm converted. Hill House
forever. Hip. hip, hooray!" 1 shout
ed under my breath.
Rhoda laughed gleefully. You
! amt seen nothin' yet." she dra.
The Omaha guide., 1939-10-28

centers where the availability of labor
transportation facilities and the pro-
ximity of markets are vital considera-
tions. In the case of paper, chemicals
and cement, power is fairly impor-
tant consideration, but even here it
represents only from 2.9 to 8.3 per cent
of the wholesale cost Of the product.
"The notion that the existence of
cheap power alone will cause industry
to be born up by the RIOTS and moved
from one end of the country to the
other is only one IF the illusions that
prevail concerning the boom of cheap
electricity"
The United States government it
self, curiously enough, has thorough
ly exploded the argument that the
cost of electric power is hindrance
to industry. A Census Bureau study
shows the combined est of fuel and
purchased electricity by all manufac-
turing industries in 1897 came to less
than one half per cent OF the whole
sale value Of the products made. And
an expert, in commenting on this, OBJ
serves that, as much Of the fuel was
used for heating, it is probable that
the cost of electricity alone in these
industries was little more than l per
cent Of the wholesale value IF their
products.
The cost of labor taxes, supplies
these are the great items Of manu-
featuring cost to any industry, even
as power is a miscr3scopic element in
the balance sheet. And that's precise
ly why socialized power, incredibly
expensive as it has been to the tax
payers, has failed almost 100 per cant
in producing the great industrial shift
and expansion predicted by those who
favored it.
The Omaha guide., 1939-10-28
FRUITS OF THRIFT

The appetite of the American peo-
pie for future protection in the form
of life insurance continues to grow.
During the first eight months of the
year, alnl5st $4,334 100000 of new or
dinary life insurance, exclusive of
group insurance, was sold. This mark
ed an increase of 6 per cent over the
same time last year, in itself period
of heavy sales.
What this means is that millions
of citizens aren't taking chance on
their economic future they are as
suring them, through individual thrift
and foresight. That's a splendid sign
in any nation.
The Omaha guide., 1939-10-28
THE CONSUMERS BENEFIT TOO

Commenting ON the action of
agricultural marketing cooperatives
in formulating marketing agreements
in an attempt TO bring order out of
chaos, Secretary of Agriculture Wal
lace recently said: "While these mark
citing programs are intended primarily
to serve The interests of producers, and
specific safeguards for consumers are
set up Any program that is adopted
must be a reasonable program from
the standpoint of both producers and
consumers"
The principal marketing coopera-
tive organizations have long realized
this While bringing their members a
fairer share of the final selling price
of what they produce, they have like
wise assured the consumer a steady,
reliable supply of high quality pro-
ducts at a reasonable cost That, in the
case of perishables especially, is a
highly important service
The good marketing co-ops, in
short, want living wage for their
members--but they aren't out to soak
The Omaha guide., 1939-10-28
A LIVING PRICE

The Dairymen's League News of
New York observes that what ali
farmers want is at least a living price
for their crops, and the right to a
voice in setting the price at which they
are sold. And, the News continues,
there is but one way to win-for all
farmers to stick together, and stand
Loyalty by their farm marketing CO.
perative organizations.
Disorganization long held the
farmer back economically and other
wise He was at the complete mercy
of middlemen, and was forced to take
whatever price was offered or go
without a sale.
Organization has changed that.
Through marketing cooperatives, the
farmer bargains with dealers on even
grounds. They are in a position to de-
mand and receive the best possible
price. They are the strongest existing
Influence for agricultural progress.
The Omaha guide., 1939-10-28

session would be of immense and far
reaching service to the country-its
Worners, industries, investors and
farmer. The railroads are doing every
thing they possibly can under present
unfavorable conditions. The have
pledged themselves to maintain trans
portation facilities in excess of any
conceivable growth in demand. They
are starting to spend money they have
not yet earned t. repair rolling stock,
to put more equipment into service,
and to increase their reserve facilities.
The rest is up to Congress. In this
time of world crisis it becomes all the
m.re Important that our basic indus
tries, of which the railroad is one of
the greatest and most essential, be
strengthened and stabilized to the ut
most The pending bill seems to pro
vide policy that is fair to all carriers
AND is beneficial to every segment
Of American life.
The Omaha guide., 1939-10-28
CONGRESS AND THE
RAILROADS

Congressman Sam Rayburn of
Texas, recently forecast that con-
structive legislation loJking to the u
Mobilization of the railroads would be
enacted at the next regular session OF
Congress which convenes immediate
ly after the first of the year. Bills
toward this end are now in the hands
of joint Senate-House conference
committee, which will adjust the diff
ferences and submit a composite mea-
sure to Congress.
"This transportation measure"
said Mr.. Rayburn, "is distinct, pro-
gressive, forward step toward more
definitely sound and stabilized condi-
tions.
"The American people are paying
$7,0O0,000,000 a year for our public
transportation service. 1t is not posi-
BILE for this essential useful service of
the nation to be so regulated that the
public will be we'll served, and the
carriers placed upon fairly stabiliz-
ed and sound basis of operation? A
fundamental problem of regulation is
to place these carriers on fair self
supporting basis"
1t is to be hoped that Mr.. Ray
burns forecast proves right. A sound
transportation policy for this country
has been overdue for fifteen years or
more, and its enactment early next
The Omaha guide., 1939-10-28
DANGERS OF HYsTERIA

Public sentiment is ruthlessly OPP
posed to war profiteering. But IN
curbing it, care must be taken not to
destroy lr impair the efficiency Of
legitimate enterprises. Hysterical re-
gulation and indiscriminate cond2m-
nation would prove far more inimical
to American institutions and the gen.
eral welfare in the long run, than the
activities # all the war profiteers
combined.
Thurman w. Arnold Assistant
Attorney general of the United States
has pointed out that the Sherman Act
stands as the front line defense
against unbalanced prices and arbi-
trary price control. Rigid enforcement
of the antitrust laws should obviate
necessity for extensive additional gov
ernment regulation of industry in the
present emergency
Speaking in behalf of the antitrust
division of the Department of Justice,
MI. Arnold declared: 1--WE db not wish
to destroy COMPUTATIONS which pass
on savings to consumers through eco
rrmical marketing methods or effici-
ency of mass production. 1t is not the
size itself, but the creation of bottle
necks and toll bridges in the distribu-
ton of product which is unreasona-
BILE under the law"
At the present time, mass mer-
chandising and distributive organiza-
tions throughout the country are
joining with the government in con-
certed I'd shield the consuming public
against the disturbing backwash of
high prices which heretofore have
been the inevitable result Of war The
problems of eliminating the war rae
keteer and placing brake on prices,
will be far simpler with the help of
sane, cooperative and understanding
attitude on the part Of the public.
The Omaha guide., 1939-10-28
ELECTRICITY DOESN'T
PRODUCE REVOLUTIONS

Those who listened with belief to
the early Claims of the proponents of
public power development must won
der why, now that some $2,000,0O0,000
has been spent in six years for this
purpose, the forecast industrial hasn't
taken place as scheduled.
The New York Tribune explains
this simply enough when it says: ''The
cost of power, except in the case of
handful of industries, is compara-
lively inconsequential item of manu-
featuring cost. 1t is not an important
enough element to encourage facto-
ries to move from the large industrial
The Omaha guide., 1939-10-28
IMMORAL GLANDS
A few medical snecialictc

A few medical specialists are of
the opinion that moral defects and
maladjustments can be corrected
through treatment of the endoctrine
glands. Favorable results are report
ed IN a number of cases.
However, if the time ever comes
when misconduct can thus be remedied
by the surgeons knife, the old world
should undergo quite an improvement.
Adolph Hitler and other mankind
might be speedily transformed into
leading exponents of civilized beha-
vior. !,
The Omaha guide., 1939-10-28
ENCOURAGE PRODUCTIVE
INVESTMENT

Tn this time Of crisis abroad, the
problems faced by those financial IN
stitutioI,s which serve the economic
needs Of this country inevitably be-
come more serious and varied. And the
efficient functioning of these institu-
ticls becomes of ever greater than
normal Importance to the natl5n-lts
workers, producers, industries.
It will be grave disservice to the
cause of American progress and sacu-
rity if in the press of the hysterlcal
sentiment foreign war generates,
we take hasty and ill-advised "emer-
gency" steps which will impair the
operation of the financial machine.
Banking is a case in point. The
banks have been accused of practically
every sin on the economic calendar.
The cold truth is that the banks, with
few exceptions have served the coun-
try exceeding well. Instead of hoard
ing funds, Of which they have been
often accused, they have made every
effort to find safe avenues of invest
ment in the light of the legal restric-
tions governing bank loans, and OF
their obligations to people who own
the money. They have solicited the
small borrower or less than the large.
There is a dearth of normal invest
ment, of o1urse-but the general un-
certainty and fear that have blanket
ed the country for years are the prime
cause.
At this time it would be ruinous
to lay further legislative burdens on
the functions of banking. We must
realize thoroughly the great differ
ence between curbing dangerous war
speculation and preventing legiti-
mate, necessary investment. What we
need to do is to encourage honestly
productive investment and the earn
ing of fair and reasonable profits.
There must be an armistice on untried
& disturbing experiments by govern
ment. There must be calmer and
broader public understanding of the
difficulty industry faces-and which
our financial institutions, as the ser
wants of productive employing indus
try, face with it. The war abroad will
cause abnormal and as yet unknown
strains on our entire economic Sys-
tem-and it is our task how to make
necessary readjustments as easy to
take as possible.
The Omaha guide., 1939-10-28

the consumer.
-OOO--
Is IT HAPPENING HERE?

America is picking up the tools OF
dictators
That is the conclusion reached by
Dorothy Thompson in a recent article.
While our principal officials are
conducting an energetic offensive
against the forl gns dictators, says
Miss Thompson this country follows
dnmor'io program which tends to-
war dictatorship and adopts many Of
the measures which are most suscep-
title of criticism under the dictator
ships, such as a rapidly pyramding in
crease in the pro, rtion of the nation
al income controlled by the state, pro-
grammatic dsficit financing, the
strangrlation Of private enterprise
and initiative by taxation policy and
the setting up by the WPA Of a sep
arate work economy demoralizing
working standards of the rest of the
economy"
RECOMMENDATION, whatever name it
may be known by, is an insidious
thing. 1t grows in the dark It con-
stanly lusts for more power. And, IL
its way goes long unchecked, it spells
tho absolute doom of those basic free
dom, liberties, rights and prerogatives
of the people, which constitute the
very fibre Of a true democracy.
Msre and more d.es business
come under the control of G g5vernment.
In certain instances, of which the elec-
trio utilities are the most conspicuous
example government has actually
taken over industry, and 5perated it
under q policy which can honestly be
called nothing save state socialism.
The power to tax has been used as the
power to destroy. And business at
large exists in constant fear of some
paralyzing political move or policy
that may further blight the outlook.
If this doesn't tend toward dicta-
torship. The lessAn Of history are all
wrong. In the name Of democracy, we
are regimenting our institutions. In
the name of democracy, we are rapid
ly pushing forward collectivist doc
trines. Those who watch with amaze
ment, events beyond the seas, would
do we'll to take thoughtful losk about
in this country-and then wonder if
it isn't happening here.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-23

American countries dislike us and
would rather have us removed
from their shores. found so much
information which surprised me
and has given me clearer under
standing of our relation with South
America. I can recommend this
book to anyone who desires wild
err scope of world politics" w. A.
Kohl.
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self. One can appreciate his strug-
gle with himself when he observed
the actual working-out of his own
political beliefs best, when one
has himself suddenly been forced
to abandon sincere political or
moral support of some movement
or figure.
A typical quotation from the
book reads as follows: Without
hesitation, they doomed millions to
extinction and tens of millions to
inhuman Indebtedness in the
mystical delusion of their divine
mission. (They call it historical,
instead of divine.)" 1t is a power
full story why and how Commun-
ism is ruling Russia, and what we
could expect from it in America.
1t is a most stimulative, instruc-
tive, and thought-provoking work,
valuable also for the insight it
gives into the mental and moral
workings of many a news cores
pondent, why our news often is,
what it is. It will help us to under
stand situations in other parts Of
the world. The writer of these
paragraphs heartily approves, re-
commends, and encourages the
reading by all of this well-written
work, the persual of which, should
prove to be an asset to anyone in
terested at all in the various phases
of the social question. It will be
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-23

widely read books in our library.
The author is a brilliant narrator;
one is fascinated with his vivid
description and his ability to record
accurate detail. His authentic
knowledge of our southern neigh
bors has been acquired first-hand.
He has travelled in every South
American Country for many years
and has written many books about
them. He has no political axe to
grind, as his previous writings
show. In his latest book, Carleton
Beals gives a marvellous history
of the economic and political con-
ditions in each Of the Latin
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-23
The COmmOn-tater
by Chuck Rattle
A CoIumnist Chances About

A COlumnist Chances About
Boarded windows like unseeing eyes, looked out
from cottages over Sank Lake. and the snow piled
high, and idle winds played mournfuly about Then
something happened that changed that picture. A
trend of recent years, that is ruraurban combina-
ton, SO popular with city folks is not without it's
counterpart in Sank Centre. For years the
Country Club Addition smattering of cottages along
the shores of Sank Lake has been popular summer
retreat With just enough of the summertime
ton flavor, the club addition is enough for
committing to work, without rising in the middle
OF the night. Now it bustles with life the year
round; for it has gained impetus a winter colony
as well. When cottage landlords erected frame
shelters for summer, with unfinished interiors, it
did not include the dream that day they would
be as popular for wintertime residence. But that
was before the car was willing the horse-or
the snowplow lived next door. :.
Late fall would find cottagers in trek toward
town and mad scramble for winter town houses
Quietness took over the little colony that skirted
the shore of the lake. Then fine day not SO
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-23
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American Countries.

II was amazed to know of the
activities Of Japan, Italy, Germany
and Great Britain in the Latin
American countries. Each of these
nations has exploited these coun-
tries to obtain the raw materials
found so bounteously there. Trade
pacts are so binding that the
United States can only stand on
the outside and look in. We think
that the Monroe Doctrine and our
Goodwin Neighbor Policies are
all-important to Latin America.
Mr.. Beals has told me the fallacy
of these ideas-he says the South
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-23
Interested in Government

Recently Representative Roy Dunn invited let
tiers from those who favored continuation of the
four-cent gas tax and those who preferred to go
back to the three-cent tax. large number of
Minnesota citizens expressing their viewpoints
this subject.
Representations, in talk on the subject
Tuesday evening, said: 1T is encouraging thing
in this democracy of ours that many people will
take the time to write personal letter to their
representative senator to who talks
economic problems"
This is good sign and indicates that people
interested in their government Continuation of this
practice will insure continuation of democracy.
Above ALL it provides opportunity for the people to
tell their governmental representatives what they
want in government, and thus legislation favor
able to the people be passed, undesirable legsla
ton be reegated to the scrap heap, where it be-
longs. That is government for and by the people,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-23

Istanbul, Turkey, has declared
1t traffic offense to stop per-
son in the street and ask for
match.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-23

The United States has $500
daily newspapers and nearly all
have comic strip cartoons.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-23

time well spent. Ferdinand ]
Wiener.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-23
Grass Roots Press

"EIumbly but firmly rooted in U. S. journalism
are the Sank Centre Heralds, Archbold Buckeyes,
and Oologah Oozings that deliver honey news to
II 900 900 small-town and rural Americans. In the
U S. newspaper business, country weekies of their
kind are bright spot" said Time magazine in the
February Goth edition.
The magazine article pointed out that while
urban daies are waning, the rural weekieS
gaining. Ten years ago the circulation of the week
lies less than third Of the daies' As 900;
today daies down to 40 900 and weekies have
40 percent much.
Radio competition, says the magazine, has top
pied many city giants yet has scarcely rippled the
grass roots press.
This would indicate that the country press has
found definite place in its community and that
those in charge have taken advantage of the OPP
portunity offered. Community service has been the
foremost thought among publishers of rural week
lies, and therein lies the answer for the growth of
the grass roots press.