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Evening star., 1941-01-31
Mrs. Ava H. Singer
To Speak Before
Geographers

Mrs. Ava Hamilton Singer will
speak on her experiences In Africa
at a meeting of the Washington
group of the Society Of Woman
Geographers tomorrow at 4 pm
at the home of Mrs. Fulton Lewis,
sr. The talk will be illustrated
with colored pictures.
Among those expecting to attend
are Mrs. w. Chaplin Huntington,
who will preside; Miss Annita M
Ker. Miss Lois Olson, Mrs. Kath-
arine C. Hafstad, Mrs. j. Parker
Van zandt, DR.. Millicent Todd
Bingham, Miss Evelyn L. Yeomans,
Mrs. Mitchell Carroll, Mrs. Russell
LIE Gear, Miss Edith M. Fitton, Miss
Irene A. Wright, Mrs. Lawrence
Martin, Miss Taisia Stadnichenko
Mrs. Edward Stafford, Miss Ellen
N. La Motto, Miss Helen B. Smith
Mrs. Charles M. Hendley, Mrs. vii.
liam M. Mann, Miss Mary A.
Nourse, Mrs. Charles H. Saucerman,
Miss Margaret A. Hitch, Mrs. Gregg
C. Birdsall, Miss Helen M. Strong,
Mrs. Frances Parkinson Keyes, Mrs.
P. T. M Lathrop, Mrs. Harry A.
Mcbride and Miss Emma M. Thorn
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Covenant Society
To Hear Lecture by
Alaskan Pioneers

Go With the Albees Through the
Yukon" will be presented by the
Society of the Covenant of the
First Presbyterian Church
February 10 at the Shoreham Ho-
tel. The Albees, with their two
children, Billy, 8, and 10 Evelyn, S.
spent three months in the wilds
of Southeastern Yukon, one of the
most remote and uninhabited parts
OF North America. From this they
have built the illustrated lecture,
which was presented to the Ma
tional Geographic Society recently.
Included are color movies of the
family in their present-day version
of pioneer life
The lecture proceeds will be add
ed to the society benevolence fund,
and tickets may be had through
Mrs. Howard S. LIE Roy at the
Shoreham Hotel.
Mrs. Wilson Compton is chairman
of the committee for the lecture
and is assisted by Mrs. Clyde Asher,
Mrs. Daniel L. Borden, Miss Ruth
Boyer, Mrs. Charles Brand, Miss
Charlotte Brown, Mrs. William S.
Culbertson, Mrs. Rachel Deibert.
Mrs. j. M. Drysdale, Mrs. Guy
Glossbrenner, Mrs. Perry S. Heath,
Mrs. c. c. Lamborn, Mrs. Howard
S. LIE Roy, Mrs. A. ]. Mccartney,
Mrs. A. D. Merritt, Mrs. John J.
Myers, Miss Louise Newell, Mrs.
Bryan Ogden, Mrs. Edwin T. Pol
lock, Mrs. j. Martin Proctor, Mrs.
James w. Quiggle, Mrs. William r.
Rhoades, Mrs. Henry j. Richardson,
Mrs. Marcus 3. Stokes, Mrs. Harry
Uhl, Mrs. William H. Wagner, Mrs.
B. H. Warner and Mrs. Dell E.
Yarnell.
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Patriots Society
National Board
Convenes Here

Announcement of 81 new members
was made at the national board
meeting Of the National Society Of
Daughters Of Founders and Patriots
of America yesterday at national
headquarters, 1928 street NV.
Owing to illness and distance many
of the presidents of the chapters in
81 States were unable to attend, but
the majority of national officers and
national councillors were present
as well as the presidents and vice
presidents from chapters in nearby
States.
Mrs. Charles L. Jackman of Con-
cord, N. H., national vice president,
presided in the absence of the presi-
dent, Mrs. Eugene H. Darrach, who
is Ill at her home in Indianapolis.
New members Of the District
chapter include Mrs. George E. War
field of 116 w. Maple street, Alex
andria, Va, and Mrs. Albert E.
Conradis, 1916 Custer road, Be-
thesda, Md.
The meeting adjourned until the
assemblage in April and the General
Court.
Evening star., 1941-01-31

Hostesses assisting will includs
Margaret Gibson, Bertha Gay,
Clarita Claussen, Mrs. Helen
Thomason, Esther Pearce and Mrs.
Elizabeth Oskin.
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Miss Nell East Cole
Engaged to Mr.. Fleck

Mr.. and Mrs. william D. Cole OF
Conway, Ark, announce the engage
ment of their daughter, Miss Nell
East Cole, to Mr.. w. Brooke Fleck
son of Mrs. William C. Fleck OF
Philadelphia and the late Mr.. Fleck
Miss Cole was graduated from
Hendrix College, Conway, Ark, and
is now teaching at Arlington High
School for Girls in Virginia. Mr..
Fleck attended Bowdoin College and
was graduated from the University
of Pennsylvania.
: The wedding will take place in
early spring.
Evening star., 1941-01-31
The Sale You've Watched for!

At regular prices Collins superb masterpieces Of furn-
turs craftsmanship nyoHobiy invite proiseworthy
ment but when these resuor prices ore reduced
TO provide authentic sovines it's wonder thot oil
lovers Of fine home furnishings thrilled with the
opportunity such on event provides for beoutfyins
their homes. To this we dedicate our FEBRUARY SALE!
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Potomac c.. A. r.

Miss Mary Chubb will be hostess to
the Junior group of the Potomac
Society, Children of the American
Revolution, at her home, 4124 Jenifel
street, tomorrow at Q o'clock. Miss
Virginia Huey, Junior president, will
preside.
A program on the D. A. r. ap-
proved schools will be presented by
Miss Eleanor Hill. Mimi Dean and
Betsy Goodloe Porter will read
papers on the lives of Revolutionary
generals. Bundles for Britain and
tinfoil will be collected.
Evening star., 1941-01-31

Miss Moore is spending today with
the Ashes and will leave tomorrow
fof Florida en- route to Cuba for a
vacation.
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Georgetown Prom
Is Set Tonight

The Junior prom of Georgetown
University will be held tonight at
o'clock at the Wardman Park Hotel
followed by a tea dance tomorrow
afternoon at the same place. .
Celebrating the close of the mid
year examinations, the Junior class
has engaged three nationally known
orchestras for their festivities.
Mr.. James H. Schaefer is chair
man of the prom. He is being as
sisted by the MessrS. George l.. Boy
er, John F. Bolton, Al Blozis, James
j. Dwyer, Jack Dettweiler, Raymond
j. OLaughlin, Joe c. Verhelle, James
j. Mckay and Al Driscoll.
Evening star., 1941-01-31
immaculate Meeting

The Washington Chapter of the
Pennsylvania Immaculate College
Alumnae will meet Sunday at the
home of the secretary, Miss Kath-
crime A. Jones, Falls Church, Va.
Guest of honor will be the Rev.
Francis j. Walsh, professor at the
college, who will come down from
immaculate, Pa, to attend.
Evening star., 1941-01-31

the group Of her recent trip to
Guatemala, illustrating her lecture
with exhibits and souvenirs.
Sara Lerch will be in charge Of
the tea following the program.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-01-30

fund would be distributed, under
Senator divers bill, to the coun-
ties for use on county aid roads,
much as at present, each county
receiving not less than y of one
per cent Of the fund and not more
than per cent Of the total.
Net effect of the plan Is to re-
move the state tax Of one mill on
property, about $1,200,000 a year,
and substitute for it an increase
Of one cent in the gasoline tax
which should bring in from $4,500,-
900 to 100000 a year, one third
of which will be used with the
present tax for distribution to the
counties for state aid and local
roads. City members Of the legis-
lature, Senator Oliver believes, will
not make any great fight against
this change. Getting money for
the local roads from the gasoline
tax rather than from the state one
mill levy on property should prove
beneficial in rural sections of the
state, the senator suggested, for
the gasoline tax bears less heav-
lily on these communities than the
property tax.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-01-30

ing a billion and a half to Eng
land, Canada and Greece.
Here are few of the things this
bill would do for which the Admin
istration has offered no adequate
Justification:
It would, through his power to
designate any nation whose de-
Tense he considered vital to our
defense, permit the President alone
to form military alliances and
thereby abrogate the Senate's
treaty ratification authority.
1t would permit the President to
transfer to another nation any
equipment Of our army and navy,
without requiring as at present the
certification Of service chiefs that
such equipment is absolete and not
needed by us. The President scott
ed at the idea there was any in
tention to doing this, but If so, why
ask for the authority?
1t would permit repair of bellig-
erent ships in our Navy yards. The
Navy department says that section
means nothing because our Navy
yards are full up with our own
vessels. But If so, why ask for it?
In addition to manufacturing or
buying defense articles" for other
nations, the bill would permit the
President to otherwise procure"
them, which probably means seiz-
ure of Danish and other neutral
and Axis shipping informed in our
ports. There has been complete
silence from the Administration as
to why it wants this authority.
The bill would permit the Presi-
dent to buy or otherwise procure
any defense article from any ma
ton whose defense he declared to
be vital to our defense. There is
complete silence as to what is plan
ned under this section, but it is whis-
pered that it would give the Presi-
dent a free hand in sending the
Navy to South America in event
Britain fell and Hitler tried to
move in there, and would give him
authority to mix into civil wars
down there to the limit by supply
ing one faction with arms seized
from the other.
The Presidents inaugural mes
sage was about the weakest col
lection Of platitudinous generalities
that he has ever INDUCED in, and
further confused the picture. OBJ
servers here do not know whether
it was simply because the President
was too tired to write the force
full and fortnight speech the oc-
casion demanded and Che has a
right to be tired or whether he
Is in process of making a momen-
tous decision on our foreign policy
and national defense and his ideas
had not yet jelled to the extent
that he was ready to announce
them
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-01-30
New Road Tax
Program Proposed

Two bills affecting highways
which will prove Of statewide in
terest as the session progresses are
being sponsored in the Minnesota
legislature by Senators Anchor Mel
sen, Oscar A. Swenson and c. I.
Oliver, who Is chairman of the
highway committee in the Mime
sofa state senate.
One of the bills would restore the
state gasoline tax to four cents,
the tax that prevailed until last
September, and the other would
repeal the one-mill state tax which
has been levied on property for
road purposes under the Dunn law
for many years.
While repeating the provision for
the Dunn one-mill road tax, the
bill provides that $1,200,000 Of the
gasoline tax money accredited to
the state road and bridge fund
shall be distributed to the counties
Of the state for use on state aid
roads. This is approximately the
amount which the one-mill tax has
produced. The bill would retain
for this distribution the provisions
under the present law affecting
distribution of proceeds of the one
mill tax so that each county will
receive not less than one or more
than three per cent of the fund.
The remainder of the gas tax
money in the state road and bridge
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-01-30
LOOKING BACK
THROUGH Time
Excerpts From The Herald of
Thursday, January "a, 1871
Items of Twenty Years Ago.

At the annual meeting Of the
Northern Minnesota Editorial AS
ISOLATION held in Crookston last
week, the group voted unanimous
ly to accept the Herald editors
invitation to hold the annual meet
ing in Sank Centre in January,
1922.
The sweet girl graduate of the
Class of 81 of the Sank Centre
high school will appear at her
graduation exercises in uniform, the
same not to cost over $1,000. This
was decided by vote of the class.
M. ]. Hanauer, Of Osakis, was
business caller in Sank Centre
Wednesday.
Miss Emma O'Gara, of st. Cloud,
spent the weekend with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. George OGara.
o. w. Dummert, Of White Earth,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Dunn
inert, Of Sank Centre, was recent
ly appointed chief clerk of the
White Earth Indian agency.
Coach Morgan's undefeated high
school basketball team added an
other trophy to its long list Of vic
tories when they took Osakis Fri
day night by the score of IA to IL.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-01-30

dent Roosevelt is asking the Con-
gress and the people to trust and
follow him blindly.
Some of my Republican col
leagues believe the President is de-
liberately using the emergency to
grasp for dictatorial powers. !
dislike to think that Of the man
elected to lead our Republic. A
kinder, though still unsatisfactory
explanation, is that the Administra-
ton, by its failure to be frank with
the people on this whole defense
picture during the recent campaign
has gotten itself into a bad politi-
cal pocket and seeks this escape
rather than now disclosing its real
views and thereby admitting that
1t played some rather sordid poll
tics in the campaign.
1t Is conceded by all that this
bill goes far beyond simply aiding
Britain. That aim could be accom-
plished very simply by the substi-
tute bill offered last week by Sena-
tor Robert A. Taft, Of Ohio, to
grant credits for munitions total
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-01-30
BQ8{RssNMew
FOR WHOM THE BELLS TOLL
BY Hemingway
By Be,nice FinneSan

BY Hemingway
Into this great new novel-near-
ly twice as long as Farewell to
Arms" Ernest Hemingway has
poured the fullness of his exper-
fence, the perfection Of his art
A novel of wartime Spain, in which
a young American and Spanish
girl live lifetime of love and cour-
age in four momentous days, 1t
speaks with final and unforgettable
power for the truth-the truth of
war and life in our time.
With Robert Jordan already be-
hind the enemy lines on his dan
gerous mission-to join forces with
a band of Spanish men and women
hidden in the mountains, and blow
up a bridge that Is essential to
the great attack-the story begins
in the midst of the action. 1t moves
forward with rushing swiftness
and compelling sense of reality
to the moment when he must blow
up the bridge-the bridge on which
the whole future of the human
race can turn.
Before this crucial action Robert
Jordan enters into the life of the
men and women whose destiny he
shares, who, living at the edge of
danger, come vibrantly alive, init
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-01-30
The COmmOn-tater
--By Chuck Rattle
A Columnist Makes Tintypes-

A Columnist Makes Tintypes-
Lieutenant Colonel Roy Scott is determined to
be of the best fit men in the regiment when he
leaves for Cal in February. Scott is taking
advantage of some vacation time at the Pc to get
in some hiking. For several days straight he walked
to his cottage about four miles out Sank Lake
and return. You'll be in better shape than your
men, we flung over our shoulder. II gotta be-
he shouted back.
Why mothers get gray and have lot Of fun
doing it dept-The youngers of the Meigs family
wanted to basketball game for long time So
Mrs. Allan M. took son, Jerry, and daughter, Dona
Lou. to see one. Prize comment of the evening was
youngster Dona LOUIS question: why are they
playing in their sun suits?"
Rare are the opportunities for a newspaperman
to give himself publicity in his own sheet. So
pity the plight of Editor Ed Rattle Of this paper
when he elected prexy of the Comm Club.
With chance to put his face in the paper-he could
find no cut So none appears.
$500
Just happened to think that editorially speak
ing surrounded by Carlsons.'. In Melrose
is editor of the Beacon Carl W. Carlson. In
Long Prairie is editor of the Leader Carl C. Carlson.
Makes it almost unanimous.
$500
A Model T is rare picture the scene today.
But it a mighty important piece Of machinery,
for it bridged the gap between the horse drawn
days that and the horseless days that are. .
We were thinking the other day Of the Model
bus that met all trains, piled its churning be-
tween the hotel and the depot It's bus body
almost engulfed its fragile looking chassis It's hood
was pigmy snout that protruded with seeming
brashness The body always reminded me of
tub with its bullying sides. 1t was, in my boyish
dislike, unpleasanty reminiscent of the bathtub. +.
At stipulated hours 1t ratified and groaned its
errands And at a speed that seemed set by its own
inability to wheedle out more suffering mph. :.
You could see it bearing around the bend from the
library and that street that seemed like after
thought out Of line is it with the citys plat.
1t came to rest at the depot where it piled high
with passengers and baggage-until day when the
press Of new things relegated 1t to disuse A
whisper out of a not long distant past 49,.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-01-30

some friends together and started
up the thresher to finish last sum-
mer's work. Altogether, 106 bushels
of wheat We're threshed and wit
nesses say 1t worked fine, too.
Builds Hog House
From Planted Trees
Waseca-Although most Of our
building of today is done with lum-
Der seeded years and years ago by
mother nature, Irving Abel of
Otisco Is in the process of building
a hog house of willow that means
more to him than any other build
ing he ever built in his life, al
though he was a carpenter in his
younger days. The hog house Is
being built of lumber, some boards
as wide as 20 inches, sawed from
willows that Mr.. Abel planted as
a boy on his fathers farm.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-01-30

mately known. There Is Pillar, a
great woman who has lived long
and fully, brave, barbarously, out
spoken, yet warm-hearted; and
Pablo, her husband, a strong man
at the start Of the movement but
now dangerously Indispensable
And there Is Maria, a tawny, lovely
Spanish girl who escaped the tor
lures of the fascists to find heal
ing in her love for Robert Jordan
Their story becomes one Of the
most tender, passionately moving
love stories ever written.
In these superbly real men and
women-sharing days of heighten-
ed excitement, deeper and richer
experience than most lifetimes
hold-Hemingway seems to have
embraced all human experience
the conflict Of life itself, not only
martial but spiritual and emotion
al. All that he has written before
including some of the greatest
novels of our generation-points
toward the achievement Of this
work of art, novel that carries
the rare, perfected shine of endur-
ing greatness.
SOLD TO THE LADIES
BY Bennett
The story of three girls who
transformed an old work-barge in
to floating estate. They used
Tom Sawyer technique for the ar
duous reconditioning of the old
scow. The inhabitants of New
York's most notorious harbor Sec
ton became their friends and help
ers. Visiting surgeons, editors,
scientists, and artists tarred, caulk-
ed, painted and repaired. Yacht
men and the sailing fraternity of
Long Island Sound shared in their
adventures. Three worlds converg-
ed in gay camaraderine and sur
prising adventures. The amusing
CONSERVATION of the Sands Point
Yacht Club when they saw their
members being towed into Club
waters on a fifty-ton barge was an
initiation in reverse. But good fell
lowship, a forty-foot cabin and
1000 feet Of sun deck won friends
and visitors. Swimming, sailing
and flying from the very decks of
the barge, the luxuries Of yacht
men without their responsibilities,
the freedom Of life on the water,
salty personalities, and strange in
cidents crowded into three years
with warm human kindness and
experiences that one associates
with remote places and peoples,
not the waterways of New York.
Its buoyant, rollicking, lively
narrative packed with vivid i'm
pressions is as refreshing to the
reader as were the sunny decks of
the barge to the strange assert
ment of visitors who came to work
or play.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-01-30

with the invis-
IDLE man. Even
after two weeks
Of hearings be-
fore the House
Foreign Affairs
committee, the
Administrative n
still has failed
to give Congress
any a d e q u a te
reasons for the
delegation o 1
extraordin a r y
powers request
in this measure,
In effect. Presi-
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-01-30
Harbingers of Spring
Are Reported Az Here

Aitkin-The first crows Of the
year were reported recently by
Charles e. Dixon Of Swatara who
stated he saw the acknowledged
harbingers of spring near Aitkin.
One Of the birds was on the road
as Dixon approached and flew up
to join its mate in roadside tree
as Dixon passed.
Thrives In Apple
Crate Incubator
Aitkin-Joyce Ann, prematurely
born infant daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Russell Lee, nestled snugly in
a homemade incubator construct
ed of an ordinary apple box in the
well-equipped trailer home of her
parents in Aitkin. Following the
doctors instructions, a very salts
factory and serviceable incubator
was constructed by lining the apple
box with warm blankets and hot
water bottles and the baby is get
ting along very nicely.
Hector Flying Club
Makes National Magazine
Hector-Appearing in the curr-
ent February issue of the Flying
and Popular Aviation" magazine is
q lengthy illustrated story concern
ing the Hector Flying Club, its
members and activities. This small
town of less than a thousand Is
described as being one Of the most
air-minded in the entire country
with nearly everyone from six to
sixty either flying or wanting to
fly. Joseph w. Morgan, the writer,
describes the airport as rolling
pasture-like landing field two
blocks off Main Street, four I'M
painted hangers which creak and
shudder in a brisk wind, and five
plants" Hector's biggest problem,
says Morgan, Is to improve the air
port. through Federal aid If pos
sible.
History Repeats Itself,
Unfortunately, In This Case
Graceville-Uanuary 1, 1912, Mrs.
William Sorenson of Graceville will
carefully refrain from descending
her basement stairs IL she has any
fear of the truth Of the saying
"three times and out" for, by fall
ing down her basement stairs on
New Years Day this year, she re-
peated an identical accident Of
year ago when she fell down the
same flight of stairs Jan. 1, 1910
Mrs. Sorenson broke her arm and
this year sustained an injured bone
in her right foot.
Threshes lO6 Bushels
OF Wheat January B.
Gaylord-Curious visitors were
attracted to the Theo. Tollefson
farm in New Sweden January 8
by the peculiar goings-on. Arrival
at the farm disclosed that the
Tollefsons were in the midst of
threshing operations and things
were running smoothly as in Aug
ust-in fact, smoother than last
August. Heavy rains and early win
ter caught Tollefson last fall and
he was unable to get around to
threshing his winter wheat so,
during the mild weather of the
week Of January 8, Tollefson got
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-01-30
STATE NEWS
BRIEFS
Husky Baby Weighs
l6 Pounds at Birth

Blooming Prairie-What is be-
lieved to be the largest normal
baby ever born with both mother
and baby still living is husky
Christopher Thissen born to Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Thissen of Ellen
dale on January 9. The infant is
normal in every respect except, of
course, for his unbelievable weight
which was 16 pounds at birth and
well over that when he was seven
days old. The average child usually
attains the 16 pound mark at or
near the time it reaches the age of
nine months.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-01-30

Trying to reach an intelligent
decision on the "lease-lend" bill is
like shadow-boxing in the dark