The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-06-20

| don't buy firecrackers with their pennies. Suppos
| representative organization sponsor grand fire
works demonstration on the night. The pennie
that kids otherwise spend for their own prvat
| enjoyment could well augment other funds.
| think everyone could enjoy it no end. And indie
pendence Day will be proclaimed on the right day
Attention of this column has been called to
veritable rainfall of gum wrappers, cellophane pac
wrappings and other scatterings Of papers abou
Main Street particularly in the south residence
| ton. People there bit tired of tidying VI
their yards and then finding them Uttered in tn
first wind. Obviously this is job first for tn
citizenry-those who toss those bits of paper aroun
careessly It's part of the program to kee
Sank Centre beautiful city, Just stuff that gun
! wrapper that celophane piece in your pocket o
your purse until you get where you can dispose o
it properly. The people will thank you
There's one other little item brought to at
tention. The City Park has become the number on
play spot of the town as We've so often indicated
But the other night during the band concert
little girl tripped over one of the water faucets
skinned her knees. :. . It wasn't serious wound
I don't know how often such thing has happened
But some elder may fall seriously some child
bung up knee pretty badly sometime. The
faucets could be marked with white painted sticl
else touched with COB of white paint themselves
believe it would help and eliminate the only
thing can possibly think of bit off color in the
set up.
This column would advocate revival in the
I drive about the countryside oftentimes and find
myself wondering who lives here and there. OBJ
viously it is curiousity than any good reason
and yet I believe it natural to wonder who ones
rural neighbors are. . It the more brought tc
my attention the other night. Out on highway
II about three miles out, farmer has really done
something with his front lawn that is pleasantly
relieving and eye-catching. It's a simple plot
that anyone with bit of imagination could do yet
it has something. The whole of the lawn was in
closed with a picket fence dazzling white. In
the yard a miniature windmill, few wooden
ducks squatted about At the front placed in white
stones was the farm name Spring Brook
Well, Mr.. Spring Brook if we knew your name we
could publicly acknowledge it. Perhaps there is some
good for omission of names from the farmers
mail boxes such making it more difficult for the
peddlers that infest the farmers llfe IL Wouio
be interesting to get farmer opinion on why names
forgotten parts of the rural American mailoox'
Allan Meigs was tossing up type delicacy
the other evening which he let me sample. It's hot
coffee mixed with vanilla ice cream In proper
proportions it's really palate ticker 1t should
be mixed in an unbreakable container just in case
you want to try it, that the shock from cold to
hot won't break it. . In the east the report Is
it's going great guns as refresher. gentleman
representing the fruit industry at Rotary club not
long ago knocked your breakfast routine into cock
ed hat. He said that fruit juices should not De
drunk the first thing at breakfast They should fol
low your toast, eggs or cereal or Whatever you eat
Just an item to show that there is nothing new
under the sun, found this in scrap book OF
Herald Jobs over the years. There was a program
for the 1909 senior class play and mind you they
were double features my Lord in Livery" in
which Leo Hedin was Hopkins, footman, ana
BOX Of Monkeys" were the offerings. SO hlgn
school dramatcs stole beat on entertainment-wlse
Hollywood!
munities. 1t may still be true, but I'll quote it a.
of a week or two ago. But there just one liner
handkerchief for sale in ladys store in this hamlet
. lotta maps at the school are going to be
to WI classes
only value will be historical There may also
be some significance in the fact that Minnesota pro
duces 66 percent Of the iron of the world anc
the fact that Mnnesotas national guard is the frs
in the country to be changed over to antl-aircraf
defenses . . And the ore fields producing now
There's something too I'd like to point out Ii
last weeks Herald exclusive of the editorial column
and text of the Presidents address, there wer'
three front page stories contingent directly on tn
war and it's successive programs in the U. 5. L
was a striking example of how the octopus wal
reaches out reflects itself in every hamlet through
out the nation Truly indicative of the most col
ossal waste the mind of man has yet conceived
The whole idea makes me sad and mad at the sam
instant. Sad because Of the colossal uselessness o
killing and destruction. Mad at the muddeheadednes
that promotes such sheer waste.
There was something that startled me not Ion,
ago, and If you thot of it it would ruffle your com
placence Occasionally I drive about the cit!
gawking at this and that; and the thing 1 hav
been struck with Is my appalling ignorance of m!
town. I seem not to know who lives here ant
there, what improvements have been going on, VIII
has the pretty gardens the well-shrubbed lawns. W.
live provincially in our neighborhood We wall
the same route each day on the way home. W.
ride the same routes our Sunday drives
Well, why don't we start now varying the route o
our walking home, evening and Sunday drives
:. Barge into the other guys neghborhood; he
living in the same town. The thing struck M
that others may be laboring under the same ignor
ance Of home surroundings. It's typicaly Ameri
can, and the desire of Americans to wander to ia
off places the while careful not to disturb coossa
NJ hair puypc ntrV
See America First" Well, it's not difficult II
the light Of that to understand how Europe ha
retained in small area, the national provincial
ism that has bred the national hatreds that hav
existed over centuries =. It's hard to get peopl
out of their own backyards. But when they do the
go so far that the other side of town Is a.
unnoticed blur slipping in the wake of high spec
automobiles. ..