The Sauk Centre herald., 1941-12-04

or present STOCKS we We learned. we've seen tney
attractvely colored and equally attractivey
priced First of these items made their appearances
year ago and now the sole market Is American.
OF course even in the nievty of the toy de-
partment, the military note is strong and depress
ing. More guns more trucks, mounted with anti
aircraft guns and cannon. But Of course the
old standards are there too The toy departments
fascinate never having quite outgrown a certain
fire engine drawn by horses that had. There
telephone that answered when you lifted the
receiver While the answer is not altogether in
telligibe still it is good lot of hellos hear.
You can buy pine cones and music boxes and
tall, hullSing candles that will burn for hours.
And wrapping and tinsel.
trucker came through the other day with the
far-reachng statement that s. c. street decorations
topped anything between Fargo and Minneapolis.
:. broad statement but pronouncement that
falls with downy softness on local ears
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The day you discovered that by placing a piece
of paper the of your text book you could
duplicate it with pencil drawing simply by making
a parallel pattern of lines About grade three
you were then And getting candy canes and
crackerjack at the citys banks just before Christ
that brought out every young guy and gal in the
hamlet.
Whoa
Add to your list Of screwy accidents the one the
other day when Ernie Borgmann was cranking his
car across the street from the post office in his
station drive. . Left in reverse gear it started
shot of the drive without the benefit of Ernies
guidance and whammed into Ed Peterson's with
enough racket to empty the post office of all hands
Living
Living today is slightly more complicated than
having your three squares daily and keeping roof
over your head. Out of national defense has grown
a and constant offensive against any number
of things including diseases and bodily weakness
. Out the farms these days throughout the
Here housewives assemble together to be taught the
proper of proper foods to insure more balanced
diet Here they not only lectured upon
but actually the women present prepare and serve
certain foods according to the lesson and proceed
thereupon to eat and digest them. The excel
lence of teaching in linking the preparation and the
eating thereof in one stroke is obvious. The
clubs flourshing with real vigor for besides be-
ing school in the work of these women it combines
the convvality of social afternoon and snack with
coffee. While these things pointed up dur
ing the national defense program, it is Of the
better aspects of the all out for it recognizes neither
war nor peace such but is equally effective in
either It is simply the essence of good living
So nation that has too much, but ate too little
Of what is proper-learns to live on less and still
get its three squares daily
Post
have no solution nor will you perhaps but this
town along with hundreds like it faces-post de-
fense post you choose-two very definite
problems. &. One the problem to face municipal
governments after the duration In which city nm
ancing will be difficult and public improvements will
perhaps cease to take up such slack there may be-
The other is the returning soldier-more than
$50 of whom have left this community. was
relieved to learn that in the first instance the
League of Minnesota Municipalities, of which Sauk
Centre is member, linked with the Public Works
Reserve the problem is already being considered
In the solution to the first lies part of it for
the second. These two agencies are to work hand in
hand. The second should be a prime
concern. Sure their jobs were to be kept open for
them But when work has to be done, it is done
and by someone else. So if the job is kept open
for the returning soldier then what happens to the
fellow who had the job during his absence. That
is hardly solution but makeshift. No, all of
them won't come back to Sauk Centre. But dis
like to think about hundred young men even
coming back to nothing to do It chill the
high feeling of their returning home both for them
and the community at large