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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-05-02
Penny Balloon
Travels IS Miles

LeSueur-N. E. Anderson, Morse
land farmer, picked UP a Debated
balloon in his field last week and
upon examination discovered it was
just a small advertising balloon.
1t held tiny piece OF tissue paper,
bearing the name and address,
Irving Elliott, $500 Forty-Fifth
Avenue So, Minneapolis" Upon
writing to the address farmer An
derson learned Elliott is a high
school student who just last fall
discovered how to manufacture
hydrogen at his home. He had in
flated the penny-balloon with the
lighter-than-air gas and sent it
aloft.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-05-02

FOR SALE-Alsike clover, alsike
and timothy mixed, seed corn,
also some good Guernsey cows.
Elbridge Cass. 49-2pd
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-05-02

BUY A BETTER USED CAR,
1888 Ford Deluxe Coach
1888 Chevrolet Coupe
1885 Oldsmobile Coach
1885 Plymouth Sedan
1885 Ford Deluxe Sedan
1885 Pontiac Sedan
1885 DeSoto Sedan
1884 Pontiac Coach
1881 Chevrolet Coach
1880 Oldsmobile Coach
1880 Ford A Truck, 1877 in. wheel
base, bus body
1880 Dodge Sedan
1929 Model A coach
1888 Chevrolet Sedan
O'GARA MOTOR co.
Pontiac Buick Dealers
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-05-02

FOR SALE-Timothy and alsike
clover mixture, about $3.50 alsike.
&c per pound. Fred Kranz, grow
er. Sank Centre. G
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-05-02
Two Body Pig Born

Red Wing-A freak pig, with two
bodies, one head, eight legs and
eight feet, three ears and two tails
was born in a litter on the farm of
Harry Schultz, on the outskirts of
Ellsworth, Wisconsin. The pig, in
spite of it's double deformity, lived
rs minutes after birth.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-05-02
Four Eggs Weigh
One Pound

Redwood Falls-This little pig
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13
Cooperation With Canada

The joint United States-Canadian
Defense Board is on solid ground in
planning for individual development
by each country of its own defense
facilities, which would be pooled for
cooperative use in case of an at
tack on this hemisphere. Under
such an arrangement, with continu-
Gus functioning of the joint board
assuring close cooperation in de-
veloping needed facilities, there is
no need for the United States to
acquire peacetime naval and air
bases on Canadian soil. If the time
ever should come when it was neces-
Sary for our ships or airplaneS to
operate from bases in Canada, we
will have the use of their facilities.
1t is Canadas obligation to develop
adequate bases for cooperative de-
tense in her own territory.
Conversely, the arrangement an
nounced by Mayor Fiorello H. La
Guardia of New York, chairman of
the American section of the joint
board, after its meeting here this
week, opens United States bases to
cooperative use by Canadian forces
in case of an attack. Naturally, this
would extend to the bases we lease
from Great Britain in Newfoundland
and the other British crown colonies
in the Atlantic and Caribbean. If
the British Navy should be forced to
come to this side of the Atlantic to
escape surrender, it presumably
would be considered part of Can
ada's defense forces then and would
have the same right to cooperative
use Of United States bases.
The working out of plans in ad-
vance for pooling Of United States
and Canadian forces represents real
iStic preparation for an emergency
we can only hope will never come to
pass. Since we are committed to
help resist an attempted invasion
OF any part of the Western Henri
sphere, the closer cooperation in
defense planning the better for all
concerned. Similar arrangements
should be concluded with the Latin
American republics, with whom we
already have agreed on the prin-
ciples of joint continental defense.
We have made it clear that our naval
and air bases will be available ITO
them for cooperative use. Organ
ization of detailed plans for COM
mon action, however, await the ne
gotiation of specific agreements
authorized by a resolution adopted
by the Foreign Ministers of the
American Republics in their meet
ing at Havana July 20-3O.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13
The Hercules Explosion

1t is only natural that the posi-
bility of sabotage should be prominent
in the minds Of Federal, State and
private investigators as they conduct
their inquiries into the origin of the
disastrous explosions yesterday at
the Hercules Powder Companys plant
near Kenvil, New Jersey. Nor is it
unnatural that memories of the Black
Tom and KingSland munitions explo-
Slons of 1916 and 1917 should be
reSurrected at this time Destruction
of the Black Tom terminal of the
Lehi9h Valley Railroad on July 90,
1916, and of the Kingsland NUM-
tons plant of the Canadian Car
and Foundry Company on January
II, 1917, was later found to have been
plotted by German agents, who were
engaged in gigantic conspiracy to
impair American production of war
materiel for the Allies and to embroil
Mexico in a Subversive movement
against the United States. Today it
is known that alien agents again are
abroad in the United States and that
espionage and sabotage are their
assignments. 1t is because Of that
knowledge that the Federal Govern
ment has built up, in recent months,
an extensive and relentless counter
espionage system, under general
direction of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation. This bureau. in CO.
operation with Army and Navy in
telligence officers and with local
authorities, has been concentrating
on developing an effective plant
protection service, aimed at spies
and SabOteurS
The Hercules plant not only was
producing enormous quantities of
ammunition for the United States
Government, but, according to I'M
confirmed reports, was manufacture
ing explosives for Great Britain. In
either case, the factory was a poten-
tial target for agents of certain for
eign powers, against the threatening
moves of which this Government has
been forced to multiply its defenses.
The Black Tom and Kingsland ex-
plosions started from small fires
kindled by agents disguised as work.
men. The Hercules tragedy also
seems to have resulted from a small
fire, the origin Of which is now being
investigated. While it is quite pos
Slble that the confagration was
entirely accidental, the F. B. I. and
other agencies cannot ignore the fact
that large numbers of new workers
recently had been hired. The direc-
tor of operations for the company
was quoted as saying the firm had
made its own investigations of the
employees, without calling on the
Government to assist. The F. B. I.
repeatedly has asserted its willing
ness to aid plant managers in check
ing against possible fifth column"
inflltration and in fortifying plants
against spies and saboteurs. Stree
this service is available, manufac-
turerS of materials for war or defense
should avail themselves of this form
Of insurance to the fullest degree.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13
Accident Prevention

While final decision still is pending
on Major Browns proposal to assign
ten more police cars and eighteen
additional men to traffic accident in
vestlgations, approval Of the plan
would be progressive step toward
a safer Washington. Major Brown,
on his return from the West, should
find no difficulty in justifying his
proposal, since 1t is almost identical
with suggestions which have been
made over a period of nearly three
years by such organizations as the
Traffic Advisory Council, automobile
clubs, the National Safety Council,
the c. I. T. Foundation and citizens
safety groups.
AS proposed, the plan would not
reduce the patrol work of the Police
Department. There was an accident
approximately every forty-five
minutes during 1899, each requiring
police investigation of some sort.
Instead of having these studies made
by any officer who is available, the
new plan would detach from general
assignment car with men especially
trained for the work. In any case,
some officer must quit his patrol
duty temporarily. And it is far better
that men unframed in this phase
of the work be relieved of the re-
sponsibility.
Criticism that through this plan
the Police Department may seek to
invade the field of traffic safety
engineering is untenable. Within
recent months the department has
received specific orders, at the sug-
gestion of safety groups, to report
on conditions observed which may
contribute to the hazards of the
streets and to make recommended
lions for corrections. Some changes
in the present arrangement of the
safety agencies of the District gov
eminent may result If the Kennedy
reorganization bill finally is adopted.
But since Washington is so deficient
in engineering safety factors any
such activity on the part of the
police is justified so long as 1t is CO.
operative with other departments
rather than competitive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13

service proviso additional force, the
code provides that a naturaliZed
alien remaining six months in his
own homeland or that of his parents
shall be presumed to have become
expatriated under the arms bearing
ban until and unless evidence to the
contrary is submitted.
While the code is timely in view of
national defense needs for alien con-
troll, it is no hastily-drawn measure
bred by the emergency, but is the
product Of five years study by the
State, Justice and Labor Departments
in cooperation with the American
Bar Association. Shaped at the in
stance of President Roosevelt, it was
not designed for the sole purpose of
bringing about new restrictions, but
also to codify and clarity naturaliza-
ton laws scattered through some
forty statutes, and provide more uni
form procedure.
The legislation should have the
early attention of the Senate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13
To the Editor of The St

To the Editor of The Star:
In yesterdays Star you indicated that
the tougher portions of a carcass can
now be tenderized by a new ultra
violet light process so that it be-
comes as tender as the most tender
portion of the animal carcass. You said
that it was due to the penetration of the
ultra violet light that the meat becomes
tender. This statement is misleading
because the ultra violet light does not
make the meat tender but only permits
1t to become tender. The mechanism is
as follows: The ultra violet light prevents
bacterial growth so that the meat can
be held at room temperature, which
permits the engines in the meat to
carry on autolysis of the connective
tissue between muscle fibers. 1t is the
connective tissue which makes meat
tough. Ordinarily meat Is kept under
refrigeration in order to prevent bac-
terial decomposition which also prevents
the engine autolysis essential in ten
derizing meat. MAX RUBIN,
Research Assistant, Agricul-
tural Experiment tation.
University Of Maryland
September 10,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13

thinking that he has control Of the
air over the Channel coast, it is
logical to expect an increased burden
to fall upon ground defenses and its
munitions supply. But by extending
itself somewhat further in this direc-
ton the British may be avoiding the
necessity Of coming to a finish fight
with the German air force now, be-
fore the invasion has been attempted.
The full appraisal of the value Of
the anti-aireraft barrage must await
the judgment Of military experts
after the war is over, but for the
moment it appears that the British
have made tactical diversion which
may better enable them to meet the
real test when it comes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13
Anti-Aircruft Burruqe

The use by both British and Ger
mans of the anti-aircraft barrage in
place of direct attack upon individual
raiding planes is an interesting de-
Velopment in the aerial war which
may signify much about the strength
of the belligerents and which may
have far-reaching implications. On
the face of it, the erection of a cur
tain of fire probably miles high
without a specific target to shoot at
would appear to be a prodigal waste
of ammunition if it were not con-
sidered in relation to other factors.
new and secret device, which auto
matically aims the guns, has been
developed by the British. An mira
red ray detector is said to be en-
ployed, eliminating the use of search
lights. The United States Army has
been experimenting with such a
detector for several years.
The British, from their own re-
ports, appear to have used this new
tactic successfully against the Ger
man raiders in the London area,
forcing them either to avoid the
barrage area entirely or to fly so
high, out of it's range, that their
accuracy was reduced almost to nil.
If the British claims are correct,
what may seem to be wasteful use
of ammunition may have been worth
while by doing either or both of two
things, namely: Sparing London a
new orgy of death and destruction,
and relieving the Royal Air Force of
at least part of the burden Of fight
ing off the attackers.
There is reason to believe that the
British are not throwing the full
might of the Royal Air Force into
the defense of London or any other
single part of the British Isles, an
extension of British energies which
it may be the German purpose to
accomplish in order to be done as
soon as possible with the British
fighter planes. If that is true, If
the British are reserving the major
part of their air power for the day
when Hitler attempts an invasion,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles Z. Trdce1Dell.

harm animals, was looked upon vfh
wonder in the settlements.
Today, by reason of conservation laws,
not only the daily bag of game is limited,
but also the days in which various crea-
lures may be killed
This is a great gain, no matter how
much gentle people everywhere may
deprecate that there is any killing al
lowed at all.
In times of national defense, the man
1t has always been so, and, from the
looks of the world today, it always will
be so.
Those Of us who love the birds, who
would not harm a feather, must do the
best we can to overlook this annual
slaughter. Nature is strange, and we are
part of nature; it may be that hunting
and fishing and trapping are natures
ways of keeping mankind hardy and fit
for the great man-hunts which we call
war. Sportsmen of all kinds ought to
make the best soldiers, aviators, sailors
and it is often SO.
We are soft" we are told, but if We
are 1t is partly because Christianity is
loving, kind, and tender.
Somehow. in the modern world, We
must make ourselves hard at the same
time we keep side of us decent and
! kind.
1t is difficult task, but we must face
It, and achieve it, and in doing so we
| ought to be able to add something both
| to ourselves and to Christianity.
| II
The dove is a beautiful bird, universally
| regarded 3s the bird Of peace.
1t is difficult to understand how any
| one could kill it.
We do not believe that anybody who
becomes really interested in watching
bird life could take a gun and shoot a
! dove, of all birds.
Yet this family of birds has suffered
at the hands of hunters more than any
other, almost. To it belonged the pas
| senger pigeons, which, according to the
best colored portraits, must have looked
amazingly like our Carolina or turtle
dove.
Until the middle of the last century
there were literally millions upon mil
lions Of passenger pigeons.
When they passed over the Ohio in
their annual migrstions, they darkened
| the heavens for hours
But every one Of them was killed
in few years, so tat the species be-
came extinct
Conservation laws were framed too late
| to save them.
| What man needs at this hour is not
SO much conservation laws to save the
game as conservation laws to save him
self from his own hates, greeds and
| i'll will
Until he adopts these laws, and en-
forces them. for his own good, he is
little more than an animal without q
! bag limit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13
"LAYTONSvILLE, Md.

Dear Sir.
For long time have enjoyed read
ing your column in The Washington Star.
Remembering your love OF birds and
letters you have written urging folks to
feed them in winter, I know you will
sympathize with me when you read this
clipping from a Maryland paper, Dove
Season Opens.
why allow more doves to be killed
than squirrels? II 1t Is for food,
then surely the latter would provide
more food and cause more damage to
crops and young vegetables.
"We live in the country but spend the
winter months in Washington. When
we returned here the first of May, q pair
of doves had built a nest on top of q
pillar of the porch at the front door.
1--WE were careful to tip-toe past that
nest and did not turn on the porch light
at night; another pair built on the trunk
Of an old apple tree
Both pairs matured, and left their
nests, and it was Joy to see them on
the grass.
Now do you wonder that I am in
dignant at such law. We have cat
and dog. Neither disturbs birds
Sincerely yours, A. L. H."
The clipping referrc to reads as
follows:
Hunting season for doves opens Sep
TENDER l and closes September 80, Car
roll Waters, deputy game warden for
Montgomery County announced today.
Also the open season on squirrels
begins September IS and ends October
IS, Mr.. Waters stated.
The daily bag limit for doves is r.
while only six squirrels are allowed TO
be killed per day"
So there you have it, Twelve beautiful
doves a day. and half a dozen frisky
squirrels. and if a few extra are slipped
into the bottom of the car, we wonder
If busy warden can find them.
To those persons who do not hunt, and
yet have particular interest in the
birds and wild animals, this may seem
q terrible thing.
A few years ago, however, there was
no Dag llInlL.
Anybody with q gun could shoot all
the birds and game he wanted to, and
usually he wanted to shoot a great deal.
Even the great Audubon. whose name
Is synonymous with love of birds, was a
great hunter.
He killed EN- by the hundreds, not all
of them for scientific purposes, by any
means.
1t was the fashion to kill, in those
tough, hardy days.
A rife was carried like handkerchief
is today.
And every one who carried a rife knew
how to use i.
Americans were hard, in those days.
They had TO be. A child who shrank
from killing bird. and who refused to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13
Nationality Code

The proposed nationality code just
adopted by the House opens the way
to highly-desirable reforms in the
field of alien legislation, including
the imposition of additional restric-
tons on the granting and retention
of American citizenship.
The provision to which most i'm
portance attaches is that withhold
ing the privilege of naturalization
from an alien who advocates the
overthrow of the Government by
force, or is aligned with any organ
ization fostering subversive doctrines.
others of that ilk, the prescription
covers not only current activities,
but would stand also as a barrier to
citizenship for those guilty of such
conduct or association at any time
within the ten-year period preceding
their petition for naturalization.
The legislation also hits at the
illogical principle of dual citizenship,
naturaliZed aliens who return to their
homeland or go to some other country
and take up permanent residence
being subjected to loss of citizenship
here instead of retaining these rights.
The law governing naturalization of
minors whose parents lose their
citizenship also is frightened, the met
result of the changes being, as Rep
resentative Rees, one of the sponsors
of the measure, put it, that thou
sands of nominal" citizens no longer
would be able to claim citizenship.
Service in the armed forces of a
foreign country or participation in a
foreign election also are cause for
loss of citizenship, and. to give the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13

almost think malignant force sat over
the heads of the electorate in that State.
But no malignant force does sit over the
voters heads. They are only stubborn
and ill-adviSed
The ST. Louis Post-Dispatch has one
Of the strongest editorial pages of any
newspaper in this country. Perhaps it
does champion lost causes. Isn't that
better than championing no causes at
all? 1t can never be said that the Post
Dispatch puSsy-footed on any question
that it chose to write about Consid-
erably less can be said for most news
organs in the Goth century
1 cannot say that I agree with the
recent Post-Dispatch editorial policy
de, pro-Willkie) but I certainly defend
the PoSt-DispatchS right to say what
1t wants. No one can say that the news
paper does not say clearly and sharply
what it feels is right. Missouri has two
OF the most undemocratic, dishonest,
thoroughly cynical city machines in the
country today because it ignored the
Post-Dispatch.
Only reason the Post-Dispatch turned
against the President is that it feels
he is leading the country in the wrong
direction with his foreign policy. Well,
few remnants of US agree that his for
eign policy isn't the answer to a maiden's
prayer. I thought the Post Dispatch
went too far in its recent condemnation
OF the destroyer trade. But even a num-
skull couldn't mistake what the Post
Dispatch was driving at
Old Joseph Pulitzer founded the st.
Louis Post-Dispatch. 1t still sticks to
the aims he outlined for it when he
retired, Never to be satisfied with
merely printing the news" =. . ALWAYS
TO be against predatory plutocracv or
predatory poverty" I doubt if you can
find better newspaper in America than
the institution (not merely a newspaper)
which Is the st. Louis Post Dispatch
LYNN SWEARINGEN.
September 10.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13
Validity Of Destroyer
Deal Is Questioned.
TO the Editor Of The Star:

TO the Editor OF The Star:
One question involved in the Presidents
swap of destroyers for bases is his legal
right TO dispose of the ships; another
is the question whether their transfer
dangerously weakens this countrys de-
tense in this great emergency vociferated
by the President.
These questions are important and for
expert judgment, yet insignificant be-
side the question of the constitutional
right OF the President to extend the
boundaries of the United States without
the advice and consent Of the Senate
and to commit an act of war un2u-
thorized by Congress.
Undoubtedly the President had much
advice from many experts on these
questions. Nor would argue that all
possible help to England is not in this
country's best interest. But the main
point is that the President and the
President alone decided and acted in all
these questions. That is the essence of
dictatorship. VIM. BROSS LLOYD.
September 8.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13
To q House for Sole

There come stilled voices on the musty
air
That shrouds the shattered house;
tune
Once sung, re-echoes; and the moon
Makes ghostly shadows on the dusty
stair,
It's white pervading darkened corners
where
Thin cobwebs simmer, silver gray, at
noon
Above the rain-stained upper mouldings:
Gay laughter tinkles from dead threats:
prayer
Whispers along the misty halls of night.
And haunts the myriad corridors of
dread.
Only the bats look down, where play
The phantom children Of another day.
The moonbeams shudder in the gloom,
to light
The mystic memories of a house long
dead
KATHERINE w. FULTON.