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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-01-09
Medicine-A Topic For A
Great Story of Sacrifice

At this time of year when we have about COM
pleted the Christmas Seal sale drive and when we
are confronted with the necessity of aid to victims
of infantle paralysis through the Presidents ball.
it is interesting to note the wonderful strides made
in an effort to alleviate the suffering of through
medicine.
American medicine authority recently
observed, has weak spot That is not weakness
affecting the patient-the sick person anxiousy seek
ing return to health The weakness lies in the
fact that the medical profession has been busy
fighting disease in experimental laboratories well
at the bedsides of the ill., that it found little
time to tell the public of it's tremendous achieve
ments. But amazing story be told.
1t is an undeniable record, endless battle
against disease suffering death, that is there
for all to read. Attention of the public has been
called to of the battles in medicine through
the Christmas Seal drive well the successes
made in the OF infantile victims, which have
been made public through the efforts Of President
Roosevelt's birthday ball.
Victory after victory has been won. In the per-
iod of century and half, in this country, it is
said the life expectancy of man has been nearly
doubled-from 80 to 81 years. During that time,
typhus of the greatest of all medical gangster
has all but disappeared. Smallpox and dphtheria
dreaded specters not long ago, have been robbed
of their terrors Other great scourges-typhoid
diabetes and tubercuosis-have been brought under
control and the mortality rate from these diseases
has been steadily decreased.
That is the story of American medicine-enacted
with test tubes in countless laboratories and inst
tutes. For the most part privately financed and
managed the doctors fighting day and night to
find aid and for other scourges which have
not been conquered. In some instances the public
has aided in the bate-especially that against tub
erculoss and that against the dreaded infantile
paralysis.
Medicine is not industry But like industry,
it has rendered its greatest service to the people
under a system which places no brakes upon the
achievements of the individual, and which encour-
ages any in any field to develop his talents
to the utmost Opportunities for greater service
to mankind open in this great land of ours
always While the rulers of lands in Europe are
numbering their subjects and the subjects of Others
the men of medicine are putting forth greater effort
to proong life to eliminate and control fatal incur
able disease and to patch up the broken bodies of
with conditions brought about by the of modern
speedy travel. There men and women, who are
sacrificing their lives for the welfare Of man, and
there are men who sacrificing the lives of many
for lust and power There is great opportunity for
the service of mankind in peaceful America-and we
have great men, many of them unknown, who are
taking advantage of the opportunity today
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-01-09

Actually card rooms, recreation parlors are Of
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-01-09

100 pounds and then kept working
it up to over ton, $500 pounds, his
eyes popped and Otto had his
laugh, having just brought in the
largest bull ever to reach the Aus
tin Packing plant. The 4-year-old
critter, weighing over $500, was
shipped to Austin from the e. c.
McCann farm north Of Window.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-01-09
STATE NEWS
BRIEFS
Makes Payment
with 1900 Dimes

Sacred Heart-A. l.. Rakke, Sac
red Heart car dealer, is usually
quite exuberant when he makes a
deal for the sale Of a car but his
spirits were dampened a bit by
Warren Rockefeller" Corbin who
started saving dimes two years ago
and recently purchased car from
Raklke. making the down payment
Of $4,000 with 1900 dimes, each and
every one Of which had to be count
ed by Mr.. Rakke before the deal
could be completed.
LITTER Lifts Coat;
Clerk Calls LITER
Redwood Falls-Spotting a man
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-01-09

up on the road and down in the
ditch three times. Considerably
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-01-09

American farmers spend nearly
$500, 100000 a year on new build
ing and improvements.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-01-09
Forces Cop Into Ditch;
Then Fainfs

linen tatntS-
Moorhead-A cattle truck driver
towing a hay rack near Moorhead
December 26 made a left turn off
the highway just as a patrol car
approached, forcing the officer to
take to the ditch. Losing control
OF the car temporarily, the officer
did not regain 1t until he had been
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-04-24
How Much Is $40, 600, DOC, 900?

figures Management
upward estimated bill
The total stands 100000 and includes both
rnestc and foreign
the accustomed being
jolted deficits How tangible
this $0OO00OO0O0? When
assessed valuation, the result is frightening
According the Domestic
1887 of IS 48
$000000000 In other words the which committed
for equal the wealth of three the
states the Union And doubts that there
All should realize that bill
and by each of rich and alike From
unpleasant TAXES
little fellow the bill
the rich" the corporations taxed extinction only
fraction of the total could be paid
of aiding will
the prepared sacrifices
all money
be and carefully that the forthcoming
be equitably distributed.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-04-24
Doctor Announces Clinic
for Crippled Children

Doctor T. l. Hawkins, Medical
Director Of the Division of Crippled
Children, announces that the an
nual Crippled Children's Clinic for
this vicinity will be held at Kalis-
pell in the Odd Fellows hall on
May 10. l94l Hours of the clinic
are from 8 a. m to .. m. Regis
tration will close at $50 p. m. Miss
Freda E. Miller, Assistant Director
Of the division, and Miss Josephine
Osland, the Orthopedic Field Nurse
for this district, will be in attend
ance to consult with parents regard
ing problems of children coming in
to this clinic.
This service is made available by
the State Crippled Childrens Di-
vision Of the Department of Public
Welfare and the local County De-
partment Of Public Welfare in CO.
operation with the local school
nurse, Miss Huchala, for the bene-
fit of handicapped persons in the
following counties: Lake, Flathead
and Lincoln.
In addition to the medical exam
nation, vocational guidance will be
offered by representative of the
Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation.
The Division of Crippled Children
is also interested in data regarding
speech handicaps; and Miss Miller
will be glad to confer with indi-
interested in this difficulty. 4
Service is limited to persons I'M
der 81 years of age who are physi-
cally handicapped. Further details
Of the plans will be given later
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-04-24
Norway Needs
Groin Before
Fall Harvest

I Norway needs 100000 tons of
grain to tide its people over until
4 fall harvest.
With this report from DR.. Karl
Evang, surgeon general of the Nor
wegian government in exile, COM
mittees for Norwegian Relief
throughout the nation this week re-
doubled their efforts to raise the
goal of Sl,000,000 by June /.
Food and supplies can now be
sent to Norway with every assur-
ance that they will not fall into the
hands of the Nazis. The relief or
ganization is strong enough to stay
independent of Nazi control" DR..
Evang reported
Norwegian Relief Inc, has already
raised S475,000 and more than half
million is urgently needed to ship
food to Norway, DR.. Orlando Ing
voldstad, national executive secre-
tary of Norwegian Relief said.
He has set April 8, anniversary
of the Nazi invasion of Norway, as a
day of prayer for the people of Nor
way Special services will be held in
Norwegian churches in America on
that day.
Throughout the nation there is
increased interest in sending help
to Norway. The people of Oregon,
Washington and California are now
joining with Norwegian Relief COM
mittees throughout the nation to
reach our goal The response is
most gratifying" DR.. Ingvoldstad
said, following a speaking tour of
The Pacific coast
Typical of the wholehearted serv-
ice pledged to aid Norway is that of
Rev. Elias Rasmussen, veteran pas
tor of Norwegian Lutheran Memo
rial church in Minneapolis. He has
offered his time and is touring the
state without pay in this worthy
cause, Rev 1ngvoldstad said.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-04-24
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In common with other young
STEERS, had at a certain stage, what
seemed like very practical the
ory. / thought that a persons head
was lined with the brain, which was
filled with great number of cells,
like honey comb, and that into
these cells facts could be stored
away for future use.
That theory didn't prove to be
scientific. But as one grows older
1T becomes apparent that many of
the facts that were thus collected
and picked in the brain were of
little consequence. Most Of us find
that lot of names, dates and facts
have, fortunately, trickled away.
And many of the things we accept
ed as facts were anything but that.
AT the tenth annual reunion of
a college class, one of the alumni
stated, Il have forgotten. every
thing | learned at college, except
two things And those are two
things whose attraction for each
other varies directly with their
masses, and inversely as the square
OF the distance between them, but
I'll be hanged if / can remember
what those two things are"
A college course ought to dem
onstrate that no head can hold all
the facts that are needed in later
life, and that proper use of en-
cyclopedias and reference books will
give us the desired information. 1t
is trite to say that scholastic train
ing should teach us how to think,
but If that is the. result, the time |
and effort is well spent.
A diploma is not the sole test |
Of thinking ability. Many mans
education was interrupted by his
sci ooling And in these times of
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-04-24

WASHINGTON.- Any day now all
the ships in the coast to coast serv-
ice via the Panama canal will be
taken off that run and put into trans
atlantic business, whether under the
British flag or some other. There
are lib vessels in this trade now.
and the Pacific coast is all in a
other as to whether they can be
spared There are a lot of curious
angles to the picture.
One of the funniest would seem to
be that war makes even stranger bed
fellows than politics. Back in 1914,
the question of Panama canal tolls
had the country by the ears.
The Democratic platform on which
Woodrow Wilson had been elected in
1912 pledged continuance of free
passage through the canal for ships
in the coastWise trade-that is ships
plying between Seattle, or San Fran
cisco, or Los Angeles, on the Pacific
coast, and New York or some other
Atlantic coast port in this country.
Under our law, foreign flag ships
are not allowed to take part in our
"coastwise' trade,
President Wilson decided, how
ever, that under the Hay Pauncefote
treaty this business of exempting
coastwise shipping from tolls was
SO there was a spectacu-
lar fight.
SHIPS BADLY NEEDED
Now the fght--if it can be digni-
fed by that name--is over whether
we are going to turn all our coastwise
ships over to Britain. Those ships
are needed to carry the supplies we
want to give Britain across the At
lantic, and, as Col William J. Dono-
van says, there is no use making
the guns and shells and planes il we
can't deliver them.
Next comes the question, what will
happen to that freight that these lib
ships have been carrying? That's
easy. too. M. J. Gormley. executive
assistant OF the Association of Amer
lean Railroads, says the increase in
the railroad business resulting would
be SO slight I'VE Would hardly no.
tice it."
The last available figures, il you
are skeptical. are of the year 1887,
but that happens to have been the
best year since Coolidge. In that
period eastbound traffic via the Pan
anna canal amounted to 4,693,541
short tons, or TT, 1876 carloads, while
westbound traffic amounted to $685.
1874 short tons, or 09,355 carloads.
The heavier eastbound traffic
would amount, Mr.. Gormely points
out, to one train daily OF 10 cars on
each one Of the seven transcontinent-
al railroad lines, which, he insists, \
would not complicate the schedules
of any one of them.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-04-24
Cargo Ships Needed
To Defeat Germany

The only risk about final victory
over Germany in this war is
whether enough ships can be pro-
vided to supply Britain in spite OF
the terrific sinkings Of merchant yes
sells by Nazi submarines, planes,
mines and raiders.
For some unexplainable reason
this country has been very slow in
realizing this danger, and in getting
started on ship construction. British
agents are urging that we revive
Hog Island, which toward the end OF
the last war, was turning out more
than 20 ships month. incidentally,
while they were not the best ships in
the world, they were much better
than generally supposed.
So far this government has in
clined to expanding existing ship
yards rather than to constructing
new yards.
LABOR SHORTAGE UNLIKELY
The chief objection made to new
shipyards, such as Hog Island, is
that they would drain workers away
from existing yards. There is, OF
course, this danger. But there is
also lot of bunk to it. For example,
the British in peace time, always
made an apprentice work for seven
years before he could be boiler
maker, but at Hog Island during the
war men who had no more knowl-
edge Of machinery before going
there than operating a lawn mower
were turned into pretty good
mechanics.
During the first World war also
the ship building facilities Of the
Great Lakes were used heavily.
Plenty Of the very type Of ships need
ed most can be built on the lakes
now and transported to the ocean
through the existing waterway, in
GLIDING the Welland canal.
Perfectly good freight ships have
always used this route.
There is considerable point to
building smaller ships for running
the submarine blockade. One rea-
son is that it is much simpler
proposition to build small ship than
a Queen Mary. Another is that it
takes less experienced officers to
navigate her. And finally there is
much less loss when torpedo sends
her to the bottom.
Most Of the transatlantic freight
was always carried in small ships
anyhow,
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-04-24
Should Accomplish Much

Libby whom has been committed the task of
natural timber bordering
highways through Montana considerably
the results of their this week meeting Poison At
Montana Association record
of the enterprise pledged their fullest cooperation
This Association should powerful influence toward
pshng behind which its efforts 1t what
called Chamber of Mon
The Association formed months with the
organizing efforts of the
the coordinatng them and getting
behind finally voted be worthy after full and
Although the already
accomplished considerable Judging the which
conducts its meetings and the nature of the projects that have OBJ
tanned Association endorsement future Of valuable work be
prophesied the organization
Libby voraby impressed by the cabe OF the
the Poison meeting Without
able mbued
determination working most tremendously for the welfare of
highly attention the
them Libby delegation and pledged
the objective
Association will be watched with interest
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-04-24

AS ALL of along of unity for the
defense threat of die
without let constantly have mind the of
day again suffering ravages unemployment
depression distress and suffering Let far build
program this
provide real for
and who work Let not be willing say,
Oh we'll public
deficit because these whether
like it not to the bottom he sockRep
a. Haeck, Indiana, Cong 81
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-04-24
NATIONAL
AFFAIRS
Reviewed by
CARTER FIELD

Railroads can handle
freight Of coastlciSe ships
required to aid Britain
Neic shipyards hold solu-
ton Of problem Of replac-
ing freighters sunk by
Nazis. u
tBen syndicate-wNu Service
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-04-24

unrest, roseate theories, isms and
panaceas, there is need for sober
thinking. Every person should have
few conclusions, a few ideas of
his own. Common sense goes a long
way in detecting fallacies and
hokum
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-01

the Treasury Herbert E. CASTOR,
acting through Paul r. Leake, col
lector of customs at the Pacific
port.
CASTOR said the ship would be
given so hours in which to unload
the cargo. Negotiations for dis
charge of the cargo were carried on
between treasury representatives
and officials of the NYK lines, op-
orators of the vessel.
The Tatuta Maru which hovered
off San Francisco before coming
into port, for fear she would be
seized and held by this government
under President Roosevelt'S freez-
ing of japanese credits, is the sub
ject of a jurisdictional dispute be-
tween the justice and treasury de-
partments.
The treasury is as anxious as the
operators of the vessels to get her
out of port, while the justice de-
partment seeks to hold her until
Continued on Page 6, Col. .
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-01
New Draft Measure
Would Set Service
Over Two Years
Compromise Bill in
Preparation Under
New Deal Guidance

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.
(UP) - Senate administra-
ton leaders today worked on
a compromised military ser-
vice extension measure that
would authorize the army to re-
quire a maximum of 212 years serv-
ice from selectees.
The compromise was advanced
before an unscheduled meeting of
the military affairs committee as
the senate began its third day of
general debate on a resolution de-
glazing the national interest to be
imperiled and authorizing reten-
ton OF selectees, national guards
men and reServiSts for duration of
the emergency.
Assistant Democratic Leader Lis
ter Hill, D., Ala, member of the
committee, told reporters that the
proposal under discussion entailed
retention of selecteeS for 18 months
after their first year of service,
making a total of 214 years.
I'VE are trying to work out a
time limit Which will meet the
needs of the present situation but
which will still be acceptable to
the army" he said.
Hill stressed that no formal agree
ment had been reached ano that
the subject was under considera-
ton"
Continued on Page 6, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-01
Man Celebrating Arrival
Of Baby Shot by Police

SAN FRANCISO, Aug. l up
Richard L. Church, 81, father of
two-day-old baby daughter was
shot and killed by a policeman in
downtown service station today
after making a brief foray into
petty crime, authorities reported.
Officer Luther Burton, who killed
Church, said he had no choice but
to shoot because Church was
threatening him with a revolver.
Chief of Police Charles Dullea said
Burton will be cited for meritorious
service.
Church, a Southern Pacific fire
man, had been celebrating the birth
of a daughter to his wife, Alfredo,
at University of California hospital
last Wednesday, according to police
reconstruction of his sudden ram
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-01
Mystery Figure Of
Peace Agenda Dies
Of Heart Attack
Man Who Submitted
Goering Proposals
ToU. S. Succumbs

HOUSTON, Tex, Aug. l..
(UP)-William Rhodes Dav-
is, 52-year-old international
r. man who returned from
a trip abroad with German
peace feelers in 1899, died today of
heart attack.
He died at a time when oil, the
commodity in which he dealt on a
gigantic scale, was supplying on an
unprecedented scale the fuel for
the flames of international conflict.
In many respects a figure as fsS-
cinating and shadowy as the late
Sir Basil zaharoff, who dealt inter
nationally in arms, Davis operations
extended over much of three conti-
nentS.
Returning to this country in 1889
from Germany, where he had huge
oil refining properties, Davis
brought what came to be known
as a peace agenda" said to con-
tain Reichsmarshal Hermann Will
helm Goerings plan for peace.
Davis turned the "agenda" over to
the state department. Neither Davis
nor the state department ever dis
closed its details, but in December,
l940 Verne Marshall, head of the
no foreign war committee publiciz-
ed its existence.
Davis, who had been subjected to
much criticism by anti-German
quarters for his oil deals with the
Axis nations in the past, denied
that he was proponent of peace
on Hitler's terms"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-01
U. S. Accepts Full
Japanese Apology
For Ship Bombing
Tokyo Gives Promise
American Property
Will Be Respected

WASHINGTON, Aug. l.
(UP)-Tension over the Jap
anese bombing of the U. S.
gunboat Tutuila eased today
after the United States had
accepted japanese apologies and
announced that the incident Is
closed.
Acting Secretary of State Sum-
ner Welles made the announcement.
with the approval of President
Roosevelt, after Japanese Ambas-
sador Kichisaburo Nomura had CIV
en- him satisfactory answer to
United States representations.
Nomura not only exUenoed a for
NAL apology in behalf of the Japa-
nese government, but also gave
Continued on rage 6, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-01
WeNes DenounCes
German |mpudence
In Note to Mexico
Rerlin's Attempt to
Create Protest
Wins u. S. Anger

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.
(UP)-Acting Secretary of
State SumrSr Welles today
denounced as barefaced i'm
pudence the reported Ger
man note to the Mexican govern
ment demanding that Mexico pro-
test the United States blacklist OF
Axis firms in Latin America.
Welles bitterly denounced Ger
many for instructing the Mexican
government in regard to the black
list and for the Nazi governments
Continued on Page 6, col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-01
Navy Commissions
Bases in Pacific

WASHINGTON, Aug. l (UP)-
The navy announced today that
two naval air stations at Johnston
and Palmyra islands in the mid
Pacific would be commissioned Aug.
Is.
The Johnston station will be
commanded by Lieut.. Robert H.
Dale of Bridgeport, Conn, the Pal
myra station by Lieut.. David j.
Welsh, New York
Another naval air station, locat-
ed at Sangley Point, Cavite. P. l.,
will be commissioned Sept. l. The
commanding officer of this station
has not been designated.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-01

Persistent and fierce Soviet coun-
terattacks, particularly in the vital
Smolensk sector, were reported Fri
day to have stemmed forward move
ment of Nazi troops along the Rus
sian front. In London the Germans
were thought to. be reorganizing
for a third offensive to attempt to
break the stiff resistance of the
Red army.
The Soviet air force was giving
heavy support to Russian land
troops. 1t blasted at gasoline trucks
rolling up to the front to refuel
stalled panzer divisions and at
German ships in the Baltic, re-
porting a German destroyer sunk
and two other ships damaged.
The German DNB official news
agency claimed a great German
victory had been scored in battle
with "encircled" Russian troops
south of Smolensk. 1t said the Rus
SANS lost tens of thousands killed,
$4,000 men and 245 guns captured.
GERMANS VAGUE
The Nazi high command reported
again that all is going "favorably"
but German propaganda reports
made plain that Russian counter
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