The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-04-10

SAUK CT
had the satisfaction Of starting the deal. 1t went
from here to st. Cloud hit half the weekes in this
section, started another about rocking chairs
It finally wound up somewhere in Rochester and
the daily press with 63 year old boiler. 1t
probably shows that in a country young as this
people respect and revere veneration Or perhaps
it shows merely that to have vintage boiler is to
have something newspapers like to write about and
people like to read about
Height of Mrs Irv Nelson's delight, if Irv is
an authority was riding the train from Erosa to
Greenwad the other morning on accounta bad roads
who have plastered the town with posters are APP
parently not afraid of work. They're Bob Ziegler
and Don Knapp who will do everything from pound
the rugs to scratch the cats back-and what's more
like it, . . Harry Whitehead has one Of the tamest
canaries we've SEEN 1t has the run Of the hotel
lobby, Harry scoops the bird up in his arms from
which perch it chatters noisiy. 1t will kiss
him. D. B. Caughren taking home II packages
of Spearmint to Mrs. c. And the II packages being
used ultimately playthings for their grandchild
I wonder if he was chicled. This probably cry
stallizes the situation. T. o. Dowell, who lives
out Westport, says he had mail delivery at
his rural box four times from Nov. II to April l.
On one occasion to get III dozens eggs to town
he transferred to less than four different rigs.
Keep in mind the dance by the Main Street
Swingsters at the Armory Monday evening. They
are not exactly Guy Lombardo but they have the
gumption to band themselves together to have fun
with this playing. They wanna buy some music
And the Feeling is Nuptal
This war dips deeper than people realize. Take
the case of the young fellow and girl about to be
married who have not yet bought their diamond.
They may find troublesome prices. Reason is
not scarcity of diamond rough but of labor The
situation shapes up like this. Small diamonds
Cup to onequarter carat) fully IS percent of which
have always been cut in Europe. Larger sizes
have long been cut in America In Belgium
and Holland prior to the war; a cutter commanded
from to 10 dollars week American cutters
command from Is to 1875 Americans are paid
the percent of rough on which they work
fine cutter who turn out eight stones per week
of one-half carat size, can cut only about four
carats per week They figure that American
labor cutting small stones to rs dollars
the carat. Prior to German invasion of the Low
Countries there were $4,000 cutters in Antwerp
1000 in Amsterdam all of whom are now out of
business. At the present there are $50 cutters in
the States; $50 in South Africa; and certainly less
than a 1000 in the combined parts of the world
including England, Brazil Borneo, Palestine and
India . Prior to the there also a mass
production of small single cut stones from Germany
long since stopped of course. Many of the
younger men in Belgium and Holland have been
killed and the majority Of citizens scattered in the
four winds. :. The industry for reasons of high
command of prices here does not look for the dia-
mond cutting business to move permanently to
America. They believe it will return to the Low
lands when the war is over
The Captain Speaks
We had a little chat with Captain Carl Fischer
the other day, battery commander of the 8O-odd
fellows at Camp Ham who left from this town and
Melrose. =. He wants parents particularly i'm
pressed with this that boys hospitalized on the
slightest sign of a cold because % it's cheaper for
the government to for them that way C2) tent
is not proper place to recover from them In
the army they don't wait until has to go to get
in a hospital. Any untoward circumstance of any
the boys will be reported directly to those most
deeply concerned here at home. He says that
inconsistencies is nil The boys like the life; they're
work is interesting.
Circumstance
We have been reading Mark Twain. 1t is
of infrequent reading efforts There seems to
be persistent vacancy in our makeup where our
reading ambition supposed to be. At any rate
Mark Twain brings out point in which he stresses
that man is lacked up by circumstance. He did
not sit down and say next year we will build
railroads. and skyscrapers or invent the telegraph
1t from painful necessity happenstance
He contends that man himself is unchanged; he
only changes his circumstances. 1t brought a
thought to my mind. I doubt that the pioneers of
this country any better Americans than
today fundamentally. I doubt they were i'm
bued with certain ideals any more than are today's
people. The fact that out of their labor grew
great nation is largely coincidental. Each of them
individually building-a home for his family,
barn for his CATTLE store to earn his bread from
That communities, churches schools and states
suited is happenstance Of necessity and is attributed
to certain gregariousness Of man. The sum
of that total individual effort is this nation. But
the reasons behind were personal economic ones.
They thought less Of individual welfare than do
we today Only now the new growth and expansion
the prairies is virtually done. This Is
blasting of an aura that people may have conjured
1t is only reaffrmation, that individually
creative effort unselfishy directed, will keep build
ing America
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