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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-02

Spinsters who say that kissing is a
Elost disagreeable habit, shouldn't believe
all they read
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-02

Prevention is better than cure but it
doesn't get its name in the papers so
often.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-02

1t is hard to decide which is worse,
radio entertainment or radio advertising.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-02

Intuition doesn't keep a woman from
asking a lot of questions in an effort to con-
firm it.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-02

Bolivar Castillo has been ap-
pointed to the police force of Key
West and has been assigned as
motorcycle officer. He succeeds
Raymond Cabrera, who resigned
his position to take up his regu-
lar duties as chauffeur in the
lineup OF the Casa Marina.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-02

Editorial comment: The prize
dumb-bell of the season halls
from Pittsburgh. After losing a
finger focling with buzz saw,
he lost a second finger showing
a friend how he lost the first.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-29
Thursday, June 20, 1889

have transgressed the law. There
fore, we were somewhat surprised
to read in our newspapers not long
age that the demand of the prison.
ers in the Kansas penitentiary that
they be issued silk underwear had
been turned down. Had the matter
been referred to our amiable At
torney General it would undoubted-
ly have been satisfactorily COM
promised by agreeing upon rayon.
Named To Interparliamentary Con-
gress
The other day was very much
pleased to be informed by Hamil-
ton Fish, chairman of the American
Group of the Interparliamentary,
Union, that 1 had been named a
delegate to attend the Interparlia-
mentary Congress which convenes
at Oslo on August 18th. OF course,
I shall go If Congress is not in ses-
SIGN. 1t will be wonderful oppor-
tunity to promote better under
standing among nations and the
cause Of world peace. I am wonder
ing how an anti-war delegate will
fare at that gathering. The need
for such meeting is great at this
particular time.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-29

ing she points out "even though 1t does bother my
only one place that get news from on the
phone" On the party line, the others point out
that everyone will know the items before they get
into print anyway. So each week, armed with a
pencil and sheaf of yellow copy paper Mrs. Christie
makes her way among the farms. One of the
hardest working of the Heralds correspondents.
There sat- group of us. And Yves Kohl
the theme of education. Talk switched to pen
manshp and the typewriter and resourcefulness. He
pointed to the old methods of teaching penmanship
indicative of the ancient method of parrot
like, pound-it-into EN- teaching. Symbol of the
modern theme is the typewriter. The modern theme
of the education that says-here's bit of back
ground now look for the rest of it in here. That
comes under the head of resourcefulness. The
old penmanship, though it did produce many skilled
coypers was matter of spending endless hours
copying, painstakingly letters in certain form.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-29

Roosevelt launched the third great
pump printing effort of his admin
istraton when he asked Congress to
approve a billion hundred mil
lien dollar long-term lending pro-
gram.
1t is proposed to raise this stu
pendous sum through the issuance
of government-secured bonds. The
money is to be spent for self-liquid-
ating projects and lcw-cost housing
developments. The types of public
works that would be instituted un-
der the new pump-priming plan
would include hospitals, water
works, sewage disposal plants, high
speed highways, city by-passes, toll
roads and bridges, railroad equip
ment, rural identification, farm
tenant program, and foreign loans.
Political observers in Washington
are quite generally agreed that the
Presidents latest recovery program
is a direct bid for a third term in
that it would stimulate employment
and artificially prosperous times in
1910. Incidentally, that is the year
in which the next president will be
chosen. After that, what?
To Abandon AlcatraZ
On a recent visit to the ~
acre rock prison in San Francisco
Bay, better known as "Alcatraz"
Attorney General Murphy described
it as "place of horror" Since his
return he has announced that it is
to be abandoned in favor of new
and more adaptable Federal prison
in some isolated part of the coun-
try. There is nc question but that
Alcatraz is hard, but so are the
men who are sent there. None but
the most hardened criminals are
condemned to the crock" They are
sent there for the protection of
society and dread of the rock" has
tempered the acts of many Grimm
ais.
The tendency in the new school
of penology is to make life softer
and more agreeable for those who
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-29

Penmanship is still necessary part of schooling,
there must be some standard against which to pat
tern each writer's marks. But the will to fall natur-
ally into certain groove is not reckoned with in
the old type. . Today with sixty-fve typewriters
in every hundred homes where was before pen
manship just doesn't so important. The
idea being that long hours may now be devoted to
something else of more practical more aca-
demic nature. /. Let the pen-mighty it is-fall
where it may. Which reminds that DR.. Julian
Dubois holding we are informed certificates in
penmanship and having gone through the days of
the old copy books, is writer whose work pen
manship teacher could never read
And tales of fishing-Harold Gray has the most
fun on opening days of various Scarcely
ever before possessing alarm clock, Harold was
bothered by his hardness in arising for opening day
joust with the fish. So he purchased one. And the
next morning the burned thing failed to awake him.
He had forgotten to set it.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-29
CAPITOL
A-NeUS
-Bu Con 6peSsyll1U KuItSOJI
Filled With Possibilities
BY Con gresham nutsO,1

Ere this letter appears in print
the House will have taken action on
tho neutrality bill which was re-
ported out by Congressman Sci
Bloom, acting chairman of the
Foreign Affairs Committee of the
House. 1 am not an alarmist but L
view the Bloom bill as che of the
most dangerous pieces of legisla-
ton to be presented to Congress in
my time. Far better no neutrality
legislation at all than the box of
dynamite reported by Mr.. Bloom.
AS 1 read the measure the Presi-
dent would be empowered to pre-
scribe rules and regulations under
which traffic in war materials be-
tween this and belligerent countries
may be carried on in time of war.
In other words, he is made the sole
judge of what nation may buy mum
itions from US in time of war. Clear
ly, the measure would confer upon
the President sole power to apply
sanctions and lay embargoes, the
application by which would I'M
doubtedly draw us into the next
war. The two parties in Congress
are divided upon the question.
Huge Sums For Farmers
Last Thursday the House placed
it's stamp of approval upon Senate
amendments to the agricultural APP
preparation bill totaling 1888 million
dollars for parity payments and
disposal of surplus commodities. OF
this large sum 113 million dollars
will be used for the latter purpose,
and not more than rs per cent may
be spent on any one commodity.
That sort of farm relief is neither
sound nor desirable. Neither can it
be practiced indefinitely. On the
other hand nearly all industrial &C
tivities receive subsidies in one
form or another Notwithstanding
the fact that they can pass any in
crease in production costs on to the
consumer. This the farmer cannot
do. 1t was for these that voted for
the Senate amendments, although 1t
was with reluctance that 1 did so.
The farmer is in bad way-per-
haps in worse shape than at any
time in the history of our country.
The things that he must buy,
whether it be a paper of pins or a
binder, are constantly increasing
in price while the fruits of his la
Dor must be sold on a constantly
falling market over which he has
NO control, thus increasing an ever
widening spread. frankly confess
that the remedy proposed by Con-
gress is little better than a shot in
the arm. Real and lasting farm re-
lief can only come from sound and
proven remedies such as I have
outlined from time to time in pre-
vious letters
Asks Huge Sum
On Thursday last, Presider
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-29
SAUK CENTRE BAND TO PLAY
AT STAPLES ON JULY 4TH-

Sank Centres American Legion
band has been engaged to play
at Staples on the Fourth of July
and to take part in the large par
ade as one Of many musical units
and large number of outstand-
ing floats. Staples will celebrate
for three days starting July 3rd,
with a Golden Anniversary of it's
founding. Included in a number
of outstanding features is the man.
moth historical pageant to be pre-
scented by a cast of 400 people, to
be followed by a display of fire
works. This pageant will be pre-
scented on the evenings of July 3,
and 9Th. Parades will be held
each day of the celebration. Gov
ernor Stassen will speak on July
5th at 3 p. m. Other speakers in
clude. Thomas H. Noodle, former
governor of North Dakota, Slap
les old-timer and r. A. Trovatten,
Commissioner of the State Depart
ment Of Agriculture. Besides a
number of central Minnesota bands
and drum corps which will take
part in the celebration, there will be
present the East Side drum corps
of st. Paul, the st. Agnes Junior
and Senior drum corps, st. Paul,
the st. Cloud Cathedral drum corps,
and other outstanding units.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-29
Easy Fines For Unemployment Fraud

Judge John D. Petree, director of industrial re-
lations in Alabama, in recent news release stated
that fraudulent collection of unemployment benefits
by persons while really employed, has become wide
spread
In recent months no less than las convictions
for such frauds obtained in a single county, and
% additional still pending. From this state
ment some idea may be gained concerning the
wholesale abuse of unemployment compensation laws
Throughout the country
Because of the very light fines imposed on those
convicted these abuses likely to increase Easy
Jail sentences have been given those unable to
pay the fines repay the money fraudulently OBJ
tanned from the unemployment fund.
This fund has been set aside for worthy unem-
ployed persons and it is absurd to think that $50
fine imposed man for for three offenses
after he had plead guilty to all three.
Leniency may encourage others to take a chance
of robbng the unemployment fund through false
claims of benefits thereby depriving unem-
ployed of opportunity for sustenance. Easy
money and light punishment encourages violation of
that cardinal virtue, honesty. However, beating the
government, according to the standard, is not
sin. A little od-time punishment will change that
situation rather quickly.
Another scandal in the political situation In
louisiana appeared recently when shortages of
several hundreds of thousands of dollars were barred
at louisiana state university Huey Longs school of
revenge. Dr. James Monroe Smith, president of the
university has disappeared and orders for his arrest
have been issued. Gov. Richard w. Leche, who had
planned to resign owing to Illness did not do so i'm
mediately as he wished to see that Dr. Smith got
justice However, when he resigned he was succeed
ed in office by Lieut.. Gov. Earl K. Long, younger
brother of Huey Long former louisiana dictator
Merrily Louisannas political tea pot sings with
major graft one of the prime features. Minnesotas
recent fiascos merely boysh pranks in COMPARE
son, it seems. Another Long has taken the helm in
louisiana and wonder whether his rule will be
colorful that of the original Huey.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-29
The Silent Partner

June the month of Brides brings forth the query
why the rash disregard for the groom in the we'd
ding ceremony Wedding writeups portray the
Bride as a beautiful maiden elegantly gowned, with
beautiful flowers, while the groom receives mere
mention The reason for that impressed upon
young groom twenty-five years ago-we remember
1t well-when the then sprightly bride said: Honey,
after the wedding we will be one and will be the
one. The situation has not changed for twenty five
years and little difference does it make, for we'd
dings continue and will continue until time is no
more.
The groonls place at the wedding is not nearly
so important as the groom may think and for that
reason he receives scant mention in wedding write
ups. This is we'll explained from the following story
Mandy, Negress, was asked about the wedding
of one of her dearest friends and after giving
detailed account of the Brides gown and accessories
and flowers, she said: That wedding
scrumptous affair." but the groom, that lazy Niger
did show up
Hence, June will continue as the month of Brides
and the fortunate" grooms will continue minor
part of the ceremony, matter how hard the male
of the specie may try to change existing circum-
stances.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-29

while the alert warden was down
at the lake investigating the fish
ing. With his high-powered field
glasses he discovered a man who
had four or five lines tied to his
boat and hanging into the water in
addition to a rod and reel in his
hand. Mr.. Stretch proceeded to see
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-29

that justice was done by ordering
the fellow to pull into shore for US
ing mere than one line. Not only
did the man refuse to come in but
he emphasized his disobedience to
the commend with a few unkind
remarks. Upon this display Of stub
bornness, Mr.. Stretch ordered the
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-29

time defied a locomotive one morn
ing recently and lived to tell the
tale. The stopped their car square
ly on the railroad track and refus-
ed to move. A freight train was
coming. The engineer blew his
whistle but they did not move or
get out of the car. The engineer
stopped his train Ga slow moving
freight and it took the whole train
crew to persuade the tourists to
move.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-29
Ask Half Billion Cut-Economy a Joke

Republicans in Congress have demanded half
billion cut in federal expenses, under economy
program designed to keep the national debt from
rising to heights. The fiscal year which ends
July 1st report the second largest New Deal de-
fict and national debt of more than S40OOO0 OOO
The Republicans will not get their way for economy
and less spending joke in the National capital
today.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-29
Instinct OF Direction
Displayed BY Bees

CHASKA-Martin Schroeder is a
lover CT bees and for some time an
empty bee hive has been stored in
a corn crib on his farm. The other
day big swarm of bees came over
the hill in the direction of the
Schroeder place and headed direct
ly for the corn crib where they
took possession of the empty hive.
1t is a proven fact that when a
hive of bees is ready to swarm and
leave the old hive, the bees head in
a westerly direction, and their new
location is known to them before
they attempt to depart from the
cid hive.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-29
Drunk Goes To Bed
In Wrong House

notwithstanding to the Of
ficer who was called to extract a
man from a bed which belonged to
someone else, the man, failing to
arouse the occupants of the house
by rapping on the door, removed
a screen. opened a window, crawled
in, went upstairs and got into a
bed. He made enough noise to
awaken members CT the household
who called police. 1t seems he was
from out of town and mistook the
house for the home of a friend. He
was escorted to the village Jail
for questioning.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-29

many lines pulled in. You can
imagine the warden's embarrass-
ment when the end of each line
disclosed bottle of beer securely
attached. Mr.. Stretch is still enjoy
ing good laugh on himself.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-29
Boys String Globe
On School FlagpOle-

MISUNDERSTANDING into the
school house through a window, a
band of boys removed the globe of
the world from it's customary place
and strung it up to the top of the
flagpole. 1t was observed by a
woman who notified the sheriff.
office. Both fingerprints and hand
writing specimens of the boys who
participated in the break-in were
obtained and an investigation is
proceeding. On a blackboard in the
building the boys had penned the
sentence: "The school board are a
bunch of goodies and they can't
keep us out"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-29
Find Owls Nest
High In A Tree

Observation-Disclosures trim
ming the trees in the Public Square
under the direction of the Park
Board discovered an owls nest
high up in one of the trees. The
tree was left untrimmed and the
nest was not disturbed, leaving the
two baby owls safe.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-29

The average speed of freight
trains in 1928 was 81 percent higher
than it was in 1920.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-29
STATE NEWS
BRIEFS-
Elephant? No, just
A Half Ton Hog

SACRED HEART-A hog weigh
ing 92O pounds and belonging to
Fay Fischer, Ericsson township
farmer. was marketed in South st.
Paul recently by the Sacred Heart
Shipping Assn, Clarence Rosen-
gren, manager, announces. 1t was
of the Duroc Jersey type. The pork
er was the largest ever handled by
the local shipping association, and
sold fer SIS hundred. 1t was over
five feet tall and was able to get
about with seemingly little trouble.
Where Is The
Pot of Gold?-
GRANITE FALLS-L. P. Winter
of Redwood Falls, who has rented,
a tract of land just east of Red
wood Falls for strawberry raising,
has been turning up numerous ar
row heads and other artifacts. This
tract is reported to be a former
camp of Little Crow, leader of the
Indian uprising of 1862. However
Mr.. Winter isn't so interested in
the arrow heads as he is in the pot
of gold which, allegedly, is hidden
somewhere on the farm. Relatives
of Little Crow have told historians
that large amount of money in
gold pieces has never been account
ed for and is believed to be hidden
on this piece of land. When Primo
ess Rebecca, the granddaughter of
Little Crow, reads this, Mr.. Winter
will probably have aid in his search
fer the gold.
Fisherman Uses Lines
Without DisObeying Law
MOOREEAD Game warden
Stretch tells a good story about
himself that happened recently
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-29
A Warning
To Smokers

To Smokers
EAGLE BEND-Here is a tip on
what not to do if you smoke Gig
arettes. At least we don't believe
Lawrence Kottom would advise
anyone to dc it after his expert
ence. Lawrence, like many smokers
has a habit of putting cigarette
ashes in the cuff of his trousers
when an ash tray is not handy.
Anyway, before going to bed one
night recently he had been smok-
ing and put the cigarette ashes in
the cuff of his pants. The trousers
were laid near the bed and Law
renee went to sleep. That is fer a
while-for he soon woke up to find
the room full of smoke. He found
not only his trousers on fire but
the mattress en- the bed as WELL A
few pals of water soon put things
under control but Lawrence is
minus one pair of pants and has a
badly burned mattress.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-29
Automobile Drivers
DEFY IOcOnOtiye-

HALLOCK-Two Canadian tour
lists who had been associating with
John Barleycorn fer a considerable
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-29
Fisherman Uses 8 Lines
Without Dis0beying Law

MOORdEAD = CAME warden
Stretch tells a good story about
himself that happened recently
Evening star., 1939-01-01

9D)oUBL1NG, TURNING, TMlsT TING IT'S THE
~~oID GAME OF FOX AND HOUNDS. WITH
ANNIE: AS THE RED FOX. DEATH AS HER
ANSWER FOR ONE M1STAKE- THE LITTLE
UN ARMED, FRlENDLESS NANDERER IN
a NoRLD OF FORCE AND MADNESS BUT.
OF COURSE. ALL OTHER BRAVE AND HONEST
SOULS WILL BAND TOGETHER TO PROTECT HER
AND TtItlART HER PROSECUTORS! YEAH?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-05
Wealthy EI Centre Resident, Former
Texas Ranger. Dies After Stroke

Ben f. Parks. 80, resident of I'M
pcrial Valley for 81 years and ono
of its Wcalthiest residents, died IN
the Ell Centre hospital Tuesday
night after brief illness.
He suffered a stroke of paralysis
Thursday but refused to give up
his farming activities. He was
found unconscious in his hotel
room Friday and friends took him
10 the hospital, He died at 10 p
N. Tuesday night.
At the time of his death he was
farming 1000 acres Of land and
looked after the work himself. He
owned both rural and municipal
property of great value. He owneo
a large block of property at Sixth
and Main streets in Ell Centre, the
site of Clements Drug Store, John
sons store, the Owl Pool Hall, and
the Damron stores at the other enc
Of the block. He also owned resi-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-05
Georgia Democrat
Demands Probe of
u. s. Labor Board
New Deal Agency Called
Enemy of Business,
Victim Of Prejudice

WASHINGTON, April 5.
(UP)-Rep. E. E. Cox, Geor-
gia, a leader of Democratic
conservatives, demanded to-
day that the house immed-
lately launch a far-reaching inves-
tigation of the National Laoor Re-
lations Board, a key New Deal
agency.
He thrust the proposal before
the entire house while an under
cover fight developed in the rules
committee over pending reSolu-
ton by Rep. C. Arthur Anderson,
D., Mo, proposing such an inves-
tigation. Cox is member of the
rules group, where conservatives
are threatening to approve the An
derson resolution unless the labor
committee agrees to consider
amendments to the Labor Rela-
tions act.
The senate labor committee will
start hearings on amendments,
April II.
Cox said administration of the
Labor Relations act "haS not been
satisfactory He cited allegations
Continued on Page 8, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-05
Science Perfects Synthetic Process
To Manufacture Vital Defense Need

is lower than that of natural gly-
cerol
They told the American Chemical
Society that both natural gas and
waste fumes from gasoline produc-
ton could be utilized in making the
new compound for use in explosives,
paints, varnisheS and scores OF
ether materials.
A group of Shell Petroleum cor
poration chemists, including DR.. E,
C. Williams, H. P. A. Groll, G,
Herane, F.. F. Rust, w. E. Vaughan,
J. Burgin and w. Engs, have been
experimenting with synthetic gly-
cerol from petroleum gases for eight
years at Emeryville, Calf. They saio
they found that the synthetic pro-
duct, despite the highly poisonous
substances created in the inter-
mediate steps of the manufacture.
contained no impure or toxic mat
ter.
The society had been told earlier
that the United States would holo
an enviable position in war time
by virtue of having 90 per cent OF
world reserves of natural gas from
which synthetic glycerine can be
made.