The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-03-21

will-what bore There are some who have
confused the overworked publicity angle with good
will Publicity, in its usual of application,
takes out of usual routes, casts into
show window where we preen for a bright instant
when cameras flash. We make some sensational
burst into the larger center, then debate
like ballon. The trouble with such sensational
outputs, designed publicity is that it takes the
town quite out of character and its looking way
across the town-too far. When the fleeting
moments of shining light have past, the backyard
is still there The town must go about its business
of everyday living. And it's this business of liv
ing the rhythmic fluctuations that make community
life by which we're judged by those people who most
want to attract-our backyard neghbors. One bus
mess man has admitted he puts this practice to good
His work takes him to the farms and
rounding centers, and finding egg prices favorable
here, he tells them about He's found it's paid both
ways. Now there's nothing sensational in that
It's pretty plain talk. To Minneapolis and the
others away like to be decked out in fine attire;
hide the ash piles; rake the leaves. But
to these people who live and with us-let's stay
in our shirt sleeves. They'll like us more.
Bob Dowswell, now in commercial advertising
art in Minneapolis, home the other weekend. He
had just finished account for firm that off
for Spain. Lettering he said, in Spanish but
don't ask me what it meant"
Mrs. Sam Clark in town the other day,
smiling and answering the earnest questions about
her daughters welfare. Her daughter is Mrs. Volk-
mann, the iron lung mother at University hospital
Mrs. Clark told your coumnist that it was the
first time she'd been home since September 18th.
Grace, she said, is doing well now, may be
home but shortly after the birth of the baby had
quite a setback. Mrs. Volkmann and Mrs. Clark
are supremacy grateful to all who remembered her
with letters and those who thought of her much
It's been big factor in helping her fight it through
Of People-Dr. Lyle Johnson racing around try
ing to find out what happened in the 18th chapter
of LATERAL the telco man, performing with his
tap dancing Sambo. The jointed, wooden-headed
Sambo depends on the tap of your hand for his
rhythmic output. Bob says he has four of them,
carries in his car, that his sons, aged and
nearly good as he. You have to sing an
accompaniment to the bouncing Sambo. Nylon,
the synethetic hosiery fabric is expected by the
mercs to be out sometime in May. 1t will not, as
falsely believed, revolutionze the entire industry.
Charley Virgin fondling a bicycle as spring
brings them in the street before the hdwe shops.
Kids on roller skates Swimming between the
melting piles. Colds in the head so popular
simply everyone has one this season.
Today at 49, Mrs Lena Chase St. Clair is busted
newspaper woman in Gresham, Oregon. In the front
office of the Outlook" founded and edited by her
late husband. a retired Methodist minister, she has
worked for more than Is years. She was there
March first, 1910, when volume 80 number one came
out. Now who has not been schooled in the
fresh smell of printers ink on pulp paper can know
what that meant to her. But think 1 can capture
some of the feeling as she looked back saw that
paper originate in her family and carried on by her
self and two sons, and more lately grandson
49,"
I've had the good fortune of having a brief but
entertaining correspondence with Mrs st. Clair,
quite through accident She wrote here to find the
addresses of those living members of her graduating
class of eight who left Sank Centre high school In
189O-just fifty years ago. Surprised and happiy
so to find that six of the eight still live she plans
to start a round robin letter in the near future
Mrs St. Clair was a farm girl, the daughter OF Mr..
and Mrs E. F. Chase, Of West Union, where sne was
born June 49, 1867 It's a striking commentary
ON the singular changes this business of living has
gone through when she points out that at rs she
graduated the oldest member in her class.
1t probably more the exception than the
rule in those days of half century ago II student
completed a high school course at IL. Mrs ST. Clair
aptly points out that pioneer conditions, lack OF
school privileges and the necessity OF helping with
home work were reasons for her late entry into
school, Pioneer conditions-what a welter OF
thought on non-facty of transportation, hard work
bv the hour rugged people fighting at times near
losing fight against expressing nature Out OF 1t
grew the comparative bed of roses todays students
have During her she left school two springs
to teach three months school. So pleasant cor
respondence with you half century graduates.