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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-16
Observations
from Washington
House Votes Reciprocal Tax
BY CONGRESSMAN Knutson

House Votes Reciprocal Tax
On Thursday last the House of
representatives, by a vote of 269
to 1OS passed the so-called "Reci-
procal Tax bill" which will permit
the federal government to tax the
salaries of state and municipal Of
ficers and employees, and the
states to tax federal officers and
employees. Most of the negative
votes came from members whose
states do not have an income tax.
Others voted negatively because
they felt it should be done through
constitutional amendment.
No one questioned the fairness
of the proposal. Indeed, no one can
for there is no good and valid rea-
son why all should not pay the
same taxes. No doubt the law
when finally enacted will be car
ried to the courts but it is gener-
ally believed that it will be upheld.
AS passed by the House, the mea-
sure would relieve all those af-
fected from any retroactive taxa
ton.
just What Did He Say?
That is the question our people
are asking. What was said by the
President at his secret conference
with the Senate Military Affairs
committee some days ago. Mr..
Roosevelt has emphatically denied
he told the Senators that the Rhine
Is our frontier. but I have yet to
meet a Senator attended the meet
ing who Is willing to deny that the
President did say that France is
our frontier" Well, there is little
or no difference.
The American people will never
again go to war to make the
world safe for democracy" We
did that % years ago and we have
not forgotten the lesson we then
learned. Our motto now is-"Stay
at home and attend to our own af-
fairs" We have enough problems
to solve to keep us busy for years
to come.
Old Age Assistance
The Ways and Means committee,
of which I am a member, is now
holding hearings on the Social
Security law. Already we have
been at it for more than a week
and it Is quite generally believed
that we will be at it for another
month or two as scores and scores
have asked to be heard.
Up to now the proponents of the
General Welfare bill have held the
floor and many more remain to be
heard, among them DR.. Townsend,
who has attended all the hearings
to date and probably will be heard
ere this appears in print. Some
very interesting testimony has
been given and more Is to follow.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-16

Here's his full lament in
Charley Johnson's column of
the Star: I'm fed up on the
politeness Of Minnesota promo
tiers. I'm leaving today for In
diana where they appreciate me
and are willing to pay me hand
somely for my skill. I never
would have come back this win
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-16
Looking Back
Through Time
Excerpts From The Herald of
February Is, 1919-Items of In
terest of Twenty Years Ago

Tony Miller, one of the progress
sive farmers residing southeast of
Sank Centre, has sold his fine farm
and will move to Sank Centre, hav-
ing purchased the modern home
from William Rattle.
Because of poor health and the
absence Of his son in the West,
Ferd B. Rowe has decided to retire
from farming.
Arnold Volkman, Sank Centre
boy, in the agricultural class, took
first prize in the corn show last
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-16

ter were it not for attending
the University. Now / am be-
ing forced to cancel out with q
whole month Of the basketball
season wasted. / was banking
on getting on at one of the Cop
her games, but the University
athletic heads are prejudiced
against me-" >.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-16

But this oggling Of coaches
means something else too-it
means pressure" >. And pres
sure Is the skeleton In the loft
ness closet that Is rafting most
loudly. Pressure Is the thing.
Even In schedule play each
team has pointed TO Sank Cen
tire. The fact they've won too
many games in the schedule
sets them on Q pinnacle ready
10 be knocked OF with q beau
tiful clatter. For that rea-
son we don't give these Lads the
rating In the district setup they
deserve. They have the club.
But II they pore too much over
these victories Of theirs, and ex-
pect too easy q time Of It
they're riding for tremendous
fan, the like of which has not
been since Rome took tumble.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-16

The United States is the largest
producer of petroleum in the
world.
Florida observes both Eastern
and Central time. The dividing
line is the Apalachicola river.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-16
Conservation News
WIND SLED AIDS IN
GAME WARDENS, WORK

A wind sled, powered with an
airplane motor and propeller, fig
ured in the arrest last week of
two fish and fur poachers, when
State Game Wardens Ed Pohrte
and Art Emme dashed on hun
dred mile trip over the Lake Of
the Woods into the Northwest
Angle to make the arrects, and
seized 1000 feet Of illegal gill nets
and 105 muskrat pelts.
Fred Ringing and VIM. Ring
ling, Jr., both of Warroad, were
arrested and arraigned before
Justice G. c. Ortman Of Baudette,
where they were found guilty and
assessed fines totaling $40 and
costs, or given their choice of As
days each in jail.
In apprehending game and fish
law violators, speed is often es-
sential and the wind sled, operat-
ing on north border lakes. has
brought with it a genuine respect
for the law, according to Ed. Nc
Keever, deputy director of game
and fish in charge of law enforce
ment.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-16
PARK GLACIAL GARDENS
SITE OF NEW BUILDING

Work is under way on the new
building of natural stone shelter
and picnic building in the Glacial
Gardens at Interstate State Park,
overlooking the st. Croix River at
Taylors Falls, according to Harold
w. Lathrop, director Of the divi-
sion of state parks.
The new building will house a
refectory, kitchen, and shelter,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-16
REDUCED NONRESIDENT
FISH LICENSE SOUGHT
MINNESOTA FOURTH IN
BIG GAME POPULATION

Minnesota ranks fourth among
the states in big game population
according to the u. s. Bureau of
Biological Surveys first national
attempt to determine the number
of big game animals in the United
States.
The survey gives Minnesota 345,-
600 big game animals, including
more moose than any other state,
and the third largest number Of
white tailed deer. The report
shows $4,000 white-tails, $500
black bears, 1000 moose, and As
elk. Minnesota is also one of three
states where remnants of the
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-16

and will materially add to the
facilities of one Of Minnesota's
most popular state parks. The
building is being erected by WPA
labor.
The Glacial Gardens of Inter-
state are unique in their forma-
ton. There are deep potholes cut
into solid rock by the action Of
water. Thousands of people visit
the area every summer weekends
and holidays, and marvel at the
masterpiece of nature.
REDUCED NONRESIDENT
FISH LICENSE SOUGHT
A proposal before the Minnesota
legislature will reduce the nom
resident fishing license from 81
to So, and offer a $1.5O license to
the wife of a licensee. A short
term license is also being con-
sidered.
Ed L. Shave, director of the
Minnesota Tourist Bureau express
ses a hope that immediate action
will be taken on the bill so that
out-of-state people interested in
Minnesota vacations can be in
formed while they are laying
plans for their fishing trip.
Evening star., 1939-10-21

ton in the 1941 school budget Of
funds for starting the construction
Of the Wilson Teachers College at
Fourteenth and Upshur streets, NV.
Following report of Miss Grace B.
Holmes, chairman of the School
Committee, on the advantages now
being open to girls 16 and over de-
string to take the vocational courses
at the Dennison school, the associa-
ton adopted resolution expressing
appreciation to the Board of Edu-
cation for opening this school and
making available the intensive
course at this time.
Claiming that the supporting walls
of the underpasSes at Aspen and
Van Buren, streets obstruct the
sight of motorists L. R. Grabill,
vice chairman of the Streets and
Lights Committee, urged that the
matter be taken up with District
officials. Approval also was given
for the construction of a cement
sidewalk on the west side of Fifth
street between Tuckerman and Van
Buren streets NV. in connection
with the completion of the new
Calvin Coolidge High School at
Fifth and Sheridan streets. He re-
ported that condemnation proceed
ings would be filed in the District
courts shortly for the widening of
Eastern avenue between Whittier
street and Sligo Mill road.
John Walker of the associations
Evening star., 1939-10-21

Public Utilities Committee urged
members to attend the public hear
ing on October 80 at the District
Building, when the Public Utilities
Commission is to consider the
petition of the Capital Transit Co.
to abandon the trolley service on
Butternut street between Georgia
avenue and the terminus at Fourth
and Cedar streets in Takoma Park.
Opposition was expressed to q re-
turn of any type of shuttle" serv-
ice on this branch of the system.
A loop" with the new streamline
type cars will be advocated at the
hearing.
Elected members Of the association
were: Honorary, Maj. C. Leonard
Boyer, Hardin c. Waters; active,
L. R. Cannon, Franklin j. Caulk,
George w. Chase, Frank A. Coffin,
Leslie w. Liddy, c. H. Glasson, G.
Albert Scott, John B. Simpson, L. F.
Slabaugh and Egbert H. Walker.
President Reed F. Martin an
nounced the following committee
chairman appointments: Health
and sanitation, DR.. William A.
Hooker; hospitality, Mrs. William
A. Hooker; laws and legislation,
Walter Trey; membership, Mrs.
White; schools, Miss Holmes; streets
and lights, Burt w. Andrews; police,
fire and public safety, Arthur F..
Gordon; publicity, John w. Coff-
man, ST.; public utilities, DR.. Guy
Evening star., 1939-10-21
low-FIying Planes
Over Takoma Park
To Be Protested
Citizens Association
To Ask Action by
Federal OfficiuIs

Federal officials will be requested
to take action against aviators who
insist on flying at low attitudes over
the residential areas in the vicinity
of Takoma Park, the Takoma Park
Citizens Association decided at a
meeting last night in the Takoma
Park Branch of the Washington
Public Library.
The matter was brought to the
attention of the meeting by Arthur
Gordon, chairman of the Police, Fire
and Public Safety Committee, who
stated that he had received several
complaints that this practice was
INDUCED in almost daily, creating
fears of danger to property.
Ask Wilson College Funds.
Mrs. Mary Lamond White intro
duced a resolution favoring reten-
Evening star., 1939-10-21
School Pupils Learn
From knee-HiH How
NOT 10 Cross Street
Children at Brent-Dent
And St. Peters Watch
Safety Dog Perform

young boy fell yesterday in front
of car at Third and E streets Sc.
as he rushed across the intersection
to avoid being late for school.
AS he fell a little fox terrier
dashed from the curb and tenderly
paved the PROSTATE lad. A crowd
witnessed the incident and cheered
loudly. The boy wasn't hurt be-
cause the car wasn't moving and
the whole thing was just staged as
Knee-Hi's warning to children how
not to cross a street.
The little dog, sponsored by The
Sta with the cooperation of the
Board of Education, the Police De-
partment and the Department Of
Vehicles and Traffic, yesterday ap-
peared before the children of the
Brent-Dent and ST. Peters Schools
with her demonstration OF safe
traffic conduct.
Her appearance was the last of
the week during which she taught
her safety lesson at the Phillips
Wormley, the Keene, the John F..
Cook and Slater-LangSton and
Takoma schools.
DR.. George E. Brunson, her
teacher. as usual conducted the pro-
grams, with announcers Jack Dalton
and Bill Tobin and the police CO.
ordinators.
Yesterdays demonstration was ar
ranged with the cooperation of
Principal NJ S. Conway of the Brent
Dent and Sister Elaine, principal
Of the ST. Peters School.
Sergt. T. T. Heffernan of the DO
lice department requested the chill
dren of both schools to cooperate
with the police in apprehension of
hit and run drivers by noting the
license tag number, on paper, in
a tree box or even scraped on the
sidewalk with a stone.
Evening star., 1939-10-21
4 Destroyers Launched
Without Champagne
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, Oct. 21.-Four new de-
stroyers were launched at the Boston
Navy Yard yesterday without the
traditional smashing of bottled
champagne across their prows-a
lack Of ceremony regarded by some
observers as rejecting the tense
international situation.
Only naval officers and civilian
employees of the yard witnessed the
launching, which consisted simply Of
admitting water to the huge dry
dock where the vessels were built.
The destroyers bore the names Of
men who proved themselves heroes
or otherwise brought renown to the
Navy-OBrien, Wake, Lansdale and
Madison.
The O'Brien honors five men,
Capt. jeremiah O'Brien and his four
brothers, credited with the first cap
ture of an enemy ship by the Amer.
lean Nation.
Evening star., 1939-10-21
Suved-By q Whisker

NEW YORK, Oct. 81 lP).-Pre-
Christmas good will led Magistrate
Joseph De Andrea to spare Robert
Evans, 81, who has long white hair
and white beard, from a Jail
sentence.
Magistrate De Andrea said he
freed Evans, accused of panhandling,
because he looked like Santa Claus
and thought it a shame for him to
spend the Yuletide in jail.
Evening star., 1939-10-21
Scarcity Of White-Co oIIor
Jobs for CoIIegions Seen
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Oct. 21.-Prof. William
F. Ogburn, University of Chicago
sociologist, said last night there
might not be enough white collar"
jobs open to college graduates if
collegiate enrolment continues to
increase.
But, he said in a talk prepared for
delivery at the 10Th annual Illinois
Home Economics Association con-
vention, the lack Of jobs didn't worry
him.
Why" he asked, shouldn't a
plumber enjoy the pleasure of dis
cussing Aristotle as well as pro-
fessor Of philosophy"
Evening star., 1939-10-21

Clinton; public welfare, Miss Mary
Belle Nicol; taxation, David T.
Blose; zoning, John T. Walker; his
torical and memorial, DR.. Hooker:
development Of Eastern avenue,
Mr.. Grabill.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-02-10
SENATE COMMITTEE
TO HOLD HEARINGS

Washington, d. c. (ILNS). - The
Senate Education and Labor Commit
tee has decided to hold public hear
ings upon amendments to the Wagner
Labor Act introduced by Senator
Walsh and sponsored by the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor
The hearing will furnish battle
ground for a bitter fight over con-
troverted provisions of act.
Chairman Ebert D. Thomas said
that the Walsh amendments have
been sent to the N L. R. B. and the
Labor Department for executive ex-
pressions.
Thomas said that he would not open
the hearings until after the Senate
Military Affairs Committee, of which
he is a member, has completed con-
sideration of the national defense pro-
gram. He said that he must be free
to devote his entire time to hearing
of the controversy over the amend
ments.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-02-10
Dayton Municipal Union
Employees Form 9 Groups

Dayton, o. (OLNS)- Membership
in Local 101 of the American Fed
Grafton of State, County and Munich
pal Employees, affiliated with the A.
F. of L., has grown so rapidly here
since December that it has been
necessary to subdivide the local into
nine chapters with distinct juris-
dictions.
The following chapters are now
functioning under recently elected Of
ficers: sewer department, street de-
partment, water and sewer office, wa
terworks, welfare department, sew
erage disposal, lands and buildings
workhouse, parks and recreation de-
partments.
The chapters will work towards the
adjustment of disputes with city off.
cials. The local Firefghters' Union
is separate A. F. of L. affiliate.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-02-10
Retrenchment and Big
Salaries
(From the Typographical JournaD


When an Ohio daily newspaper
which had long been in existence re-
Gently "folded up" writer to another
paper in the city attempted to explain
why the paper in question ceased pub
lication and why no other paper was
liable to enter that particular field.
To make his point he cited that daily
newspaper having signed contracts
with union workers was unable to re-
trench by cutting wages. Admitted.
But he failed to state how much re-
trenchment could have been made by
trimming the more than 100000
yearly salaries paid four of the ex-
ecutives in the "front office"
The figures are taken from a
United States Treasury report of re-
cent date which showed large salaries
going to executives in industry. An
Industrious union printer on that
paper could have earned about $2,700
in year. The president of the pub
fishing company drew $10O,600, if the
treasury figures are correct.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-02-10

couraged and urged to go back to
their jobs by your own trained agi-
tators and propagandists."
''The focal point of remedial
action should be the market for
strike services" concludes the
report. Federal jurisdiction over
industrial relations in or affect
ing Interstate commerce is now
clearly established. The COM
mittee recommends legislation to
forbid the employer to engage
agencies or individuals who will
indulge in the customary practices
that have made the strikebreak-
ing business notorious.
"THE EMPLOYER is THE KEY
TO THE STRIKEBREAKING PROB
LEM. His responsibility for the per-
sons he pays to take his part in an
industrial dispute cannot be denied or
evaded. 5. Such prohibition will
not in any way affect the right of an
employer to provide legitimate and
bona fde watchmen or patrolmen.
Legislation Being Drafted
'It should, however, subject him to
penalties for the tactics of aggression
intimidation, provocation, deception
and brutality, carried out by irrespon-
sible mercenaries which have cost the
nation so much in human life, suffer
ing, bitterness and misery since 1885
"The committee is drafting legisla-
tion which will shortly be submitted
to Congress-"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-02-10
A. F. of L. Holds National
Planning Is Only Way 10
Full Employment Program
Business AT Much Higher Level Than At Start OF 1898,
Monthly Survey OF Business Reveals-OutlOok Good
For 1899 But Trouble Is Foreseen In 1910.

At time when general wage-cutting
was imminent, trade union resistance
checked this destructive force
But the outlook for 1910, the survey
declares, is not good, and repeats it's
demand for national planning in no
uncertain terms. 1t says:
Trouble Seen in 1910
"Men are thrown out Of work and
denied an opportunity to produce what
they need for a decent living. There
is no prospect of a return to 1929
levels of production and employment
in 1899. Unless the American nation
can devise some means of national
planning, labor will be permitted full
employment to create full production
only for short periods of prosperity
the years between will be times of
widespread unemployment and low
production, with miserable living
standards and actual hunger for mil
lions.
"a very real danger lies ahead
for 1910. The federal govern
ment, with all it's spending for
recovery, has not succeeded in
getting private industry to put
men to work and produce goods
to capacity. BY 1910 the present
wave of government spending will
have largely exhausted its stim-
ulating effect on business, and
unless plans are devised to set
private industry to work produc-
ing goods and raising living
standards, we shall either face
another depression or greater
armament program to put men to
work Excessive ornaments lower
living standards and increase
danger of war. Also, government
cannot forever go on piling deficit
on deficit.
'In this critical outlook, which lit
orally may be matter Of life oi
death to all of US, the first step is tt
establish a National Planning Boart
of representatives from business, la
Dor, agriculture, consumers, govern
ment with provisions for experts tx
assist them and mandate to stimu
late the production of goods by pri
vate industry"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-02-10

Washington, D. C. (ILNS). - The
Monthly Survey of Business of the
A. F. of l.. contains inspiring en-
couragement, largely due to the ac-
tivities Of organized labor; and also
repeats it's earlier warning that the
nation needs as a planned program
for production in private industry.
Business has started the present
year at much higher level than that
of 1888. Steel production is up 65
per cent, heavy building orders 88 per
cent, orders for machine tools more
than doubled; and nearly everything
else has registered an increase. The
survey goes on:
"The rapid business rise which be-
gan last June tapered off in mid-No-
vember to temporary lull which OBJ
servers believe is normal after SO
swift an upswing. War scares had a
dampening effect in January, but OBJ
servers point out the underlying
SOuHullSSS VI Tie UuolilSSo otl uSGltI =
and the stimulating forces now pres
ent, believing that the spring will
bring a new upsurge of recovery. :.
1889 Outlook Good
observers seem unanimous IN the
belief that, barring war, recovery will
soon be resumed. The outlook for
1889 is distinctly encouraging. A
more constructive labor policy is de-
veIoping, typified by Roger Babson's
advice to his clients that regular con-
ferences with labor's representatives
may avoid serious trouble
"Of the wage increases which, due
to union activity, lifted the general
hourly wage from 58A cents in 1886
to 65A cents at the end of 1887, very
little was lost in the recession of 1888.
There were some wage cuts, but no
general move of wage cutting. BY
October, 1888, the wage tide had
turned upward again and the average
was SO cents for industry as a whole
Thus, of the 7-cent gain only cents
were lost.
"Trade unions have done important
service to American industry. Main
tenance of buying power was one OF
the chief reasons why the recovery OF
1898 was the swiftest in our history
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-02-10
Proposed Gas Pipe Line
To Increase Unemployment

Washington, D. c. (ILNS).-Sen-
ator O'Mahoney of Wyoming has pro-
tested against the proposed construc-
tion of the Kansas Pipe Line and Gas
Company line carrying gas into Ne
braska, North and South Dakota, and
Minnesota. In letter to the Federal
Power Commission, O'Mahoney said
that importation of natural gas into
the states would affect the market now
enjoyed by Wyoming coal mines.
"At time when we are doing every
thing within our power to relieve un-
employment" O'Mahoney wrote, SIT
would appear most unwise to permit
the substitution of natural gas for
the product of our mines"