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Sauk Centre Herald
Continuing Publication Sauk Centre News
Published by
Sauk Centre Publishers, Incorporated
ASA M. WALLACE Editor
ED T, ratrf. Associate Editor
M. J. FLEMING General Manager
Entered Postoffice at Sauk Gentre, Minn., as second
class matter, under act of Congress of March 3,187 k
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SENATORS ATTEMPT TO USURP
EXECUTIVE POWER FAILS
President Hoover in no uncertain terms
informed a group of Senators a few days ago
that they could not usurp the powers of the
executive department of the Government.
Shortly before Christmas the Senate
confiirmed the appointment of Messrs. Smith,
Garsaud and Draper as members of the re
cently authorized Power Commission. Be
fore the confirmation a committee of Senat
ors thoroughly investigated the fitness of
these genelemen and recommended their con
firmation.
Two of the subordinates of the Commis
sion were dismissed. The removal of the
employees caused the ire of the ever right
ous Senators to reach a boiling point, and af
ter much debate a resolution introduced by
Senator Walsh, of Montana calling for the
reconsideration of the confirmation of the
Commission was passed by a close vote.
President Hoover promptly, and also
very forcibly informed the Senate that
their request would not be acceeded to. He
pointed out to the House of Lords, what they
already knew, that if there were charges of
unfitness against the commission impeach
ment proceedings could be brought in the
lower House of Congress.
Senators Norris and his gang charg?
that the commission is controlled by the
“power trust,” almost before they have
warmed the official chairs. The discharge of
the two employees of the commission, (Sen
atorial pets) he alleges, is proof.
The President went to the country with
a clear and concise statement of his side of
the controversy- The American people have
long since awakened to the fact that the
Senate is “playing politics” in practically}
every move they make, the big idea all the
time being to “put Hoover in a hole.” Up to
the minute they have came out of every run
in with the President holding the sack.
Will Roger”, America’s foremost humor
ist, has aptly sized up the Senate’s latest
fiasco with the foliowig apt comment:
PUTTING HERBIE ON THE SPOT!
One-Act Drama of the Amateur States-
Man In the United States Senate
Flask Room
BY WILL ROGERS
Beverly Hills, Calif. —This is a one-act play:
Place, United States senate flask room.
Senator Lookaheadtothenextelection “Boys, I
got another idea to put the big boss Herbie on
the spot.”
Other Statesman—“ Great, what is it?”
Senator Lookaheadto thenext election "You
remember those last three men we Ok’d for his
power commission the other day?”
“Yes.”
“Well let’s make him take it back.”
One Amateur Statesman—“ But can we do
that, we would be going back on our word,
wouldn’t we?”
Entire Chorus—“Ha, Ha, Ha, Say with 1932
coming on us, we can do anything, can’t we?
Come on let’s have one more and we go in and
vote it.”
Continued totmorrow,
Yours,
NORMAN BLACK
The Herald editor was greatly shocked
late Thursday to hear of the passing of his
old friend, Norman Black, publisher of the
Fargo Forum.
Mr. Black was one of God’s noblemen, a
genial, lovable companion and staunch friend.
Norm Black never sponsored an "unkind act
or deed; he was courageous for the principles
he believed were right and his integrity was
acknowledged by his enemies.
Mr. Black was unquestionably North Da
kota’s first citizen. When the Townley reign
was at its height in North Dakota, Mr.
Black assumed the management of the Grand
Forks Herald. He fought Townley and his
coherts bitterly. In 1917 he purchased the
Fargo Forum. Every column of this great
newspaper breathed his personality. Today
the Forum is generally recognized as a splen
did piece of newspaper property.
Mr. Black possessed a beautiful- voice.
Scotch ballads were his favorites. At every
public function he attended he was request
ed to sing and always graciously responded.
His favorite ballad was the “Bells of St.
Mary.”
He was a leading member of the Ma
sonic fraternity, having received the work
in both the York and Scottish Rite bodies.
He was also a member of the Mystic Shrine.
Of late years Mr. Black devoted much
of his time to the Rotarians. The things for
which this splendid organization stands had
a strong appeal for him.
In traveling “on that level of time to
that undiscovered country from whose bourne
no traveler returns” Norman Black has left
a life long impression upon all those with
whom he came in contact.
THE AGE OF A WORKER
That Muskogee, Okla., contractor who
advertised for a number of bricklayers and
specified that they must be more than fifty
years old, seems to have good sense, even if
he is running counter to the general trend in
industry.
“Old men are the best,” he says. “They
know more, do better work, and do it more
easily. This stuff of turing men off at forty
five, as many do, is piffle.”
It would be hard to pick any flaw in tkat
argument. Indeed, it is rather likely that in
dustrialists generally will return to that point
of view in the next few years. The craze for
youthful workers has gone beyond all rea
sonable bounds, and a reaction is certain to
come.—Munice, Ind., Press.
A Chicago woman is suing for divorce
alleging that she has been “unkissed for 14
years.” The judge gave her freedom and
$5,000 alimony. She must have lived in a
cold-blooded neighborhood.
R. W. Hitchcock, veteran newspaper
man, of Virginia, will furnish the Herald
with a weekly Minnesota Legislative letter.
Mr. Hitchcock has for years been a member
of the House and is chairman of the appro
priations committee. The gentleman’s im
pressions come from first hand knowledge of
the legislative activities, and his articles will
be accurate and interesting. The editor is
confident this new weekly feature will be
relished by the Herald’s large family of
readers. The first letter starts on page one
of this issue.
The Minnesota Supreme Court handed
down a decision the other day which will
cause many a husband to ponder. A Man
kato man brought action against his wife al
leging she had taken $2,000 for which he
had sold his farm and summarily “left his
bed and board.” She was arrested, charged
with grand larceny. A heartless Blue Earth
County District Court jury convicted her.
When the case came before Supreme Court
the ruling was made that it was impossible
for a husband to prosecute his wife because
what “belonged to the husband also belonged
to the wife.” In taking her husband’s pos
sessions, according to the high court, she is
simply “taking what belongs to herself.”
There are no silver finings for hubby in this
matrimonial cloud.
HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF
Everything points to that the actual launching
of the Great Lakes-to-ocean waterway project is
rapidly approaching and that this dream of the mid
dle-west is soon to become true.
Charles P. Craig, executive director of the Great
Lakes-St. Lawrence Tidewater association, last week
declared he believes construction work will start in
1932 and that the treaty with Canada will be ne
gotiated before this year is over.
That is encouraging news. That it will prove a
big aid in lifting this section of the country out of
the depression it has been in for Jie past year or
two, goes without saying. Assurance that this pro
ject will be started within the next lew months would
mean good times at the Heaed of the Lakes and
this section of Minnesota almost over night.
Last week Mr. Craig also issued an interesting
statement pointing out the parallel between the Suez
canal and the proposed lake-to-ocean waterway. He
said:
The Mediterranean, from Gibr&lter to the Suez
canal, is 2,217 miles long or slightly more than
twice the length of the Great Lakes from Duluth-
Superior to Buffalo.
Previous to the digging of the Suez the ports
of the countries bordering on the Mediterranean
had but little commerce with India and China.
Trade with the East was carried on by England
and Holland. The Mediterranean was a closed
sea, just as the Great Lakes are now closed seas
insofar as the movements of ocean commerce is
concerned.
Ferdinand de Leseps, while French consul at
Alexandria, Egypt, in 1832, almost 100 years ago,
conceived the idea of joining the Mediterranean
and Red seas by means of a ship canal from
Port Said on the Mediterranean to Suez on the
Red sea. Twenty-two years later, after exten
sive study of the commercial possibilities of such
a canal link, DeLessens in 1854 secured a con-
cession from the Viceday, of Egypt, subject to the
final consent of the Sultan, of Turkey as suzerain
of Egypt. The sultan refused, uut DeLessens
undaunted, invited the ablest engineers of Eur
ope to meet in Paris in 1855. This international
board of engineers after several months of care
ful survey reported the plan was feasible “and
the solution of the problem of the junction of the
two seas.”
In 1857 DeLesseps presented the plans to the
prime minister of England for his approval and
backing. He refused, and was supported by the
eminent engineer, Thomas Stephenson, who de
clared that “the scheme was physically imprac
ticable except at an expense too great to war
rant an expectation of returns’'—pracically the
same words of certain interests in this country
in referring to the St. Lawrence seaway.
Then followed more years of trial and tribula
tion for De Lesseps before his conception finally
took form chiefly through financial support of
France. On Aug. 25, 1859, he lifted the first
shovelful of earth sayirtg. “We strike the first
blow that shall open the commerce of the east
to the commerce and civilization of the west."
Thus the Mediterranean and Red seas were
joined in the movement of commerce. Indeed,
the trade routes of the world were completely
■ altered, the average time between London and
India, for example, before the opening of the
Suez was 90 days around by the Cape of Good
Hope and the passage fare $700; in 1875 the sail
ing time was less than 36 days and the fare $340.
The St. Lawrence seaway is a counterpart of
the Suez canal.
It will connect the now landlocked Great Lakes
with the oceans and will provide the littoral of
these vast bodies of water, upon which is found
one of the richest developed and undeveloped
areas in the world, with a corridor to the sea.
For 10 years the midwest has fought on, like
DeLesseps, against all conceivable odds, national
and international. But, the midwest will win out
because its demand is a just one and its project
a sound one.
NEWSPAPER FIRST CHOICE
(Brown County, New Ulm, Journal)
We have always known that the newspaper was
the best medium in which the marchant could ad
vertise his wares, but there have been false pto-
SAUK CENTRE HERALD, Sauk Centre, Minn.
phets peddling other avenues of publicity during re
cent years, who have sidetracked some of the old
time truths concerning newspaper advertising.
Recently in Auburn, New Yorx, a live progres
sive city, the merchants decided that they were not
going to spend their money on hit-and-miss advertis
ing programs any longer,-and made an extensive and
exhaustive survey of a plan on which to build bigger
and better business by advertising methods. To se
cure some of this information they sent out ques
tionaires to customers and one of the questions
was “What type of advertising attracts you most?”
There were two hundred and twenty-one replies
received and the voters were to select the first, sec
ond, third, fourth choice and on up to the seventh,*
which covered all supposedly popular methods of
advertising.
Here is the vote?
Newspaper advertising 173
Window displays
Friends’ Opinions . 46
Circular Letters 10
Mail order house catalogs 8
Hand bills 4
Highkray bills 3
Radio 2
Newspaper advertising is the most effective and
many times the cheapest class of coverage for the
merchant. But as we say, during recent years, the
false prophets of other classes of what is termed
“direct by mail advertising,” have sought to convince
the seller of goods that his method is more remun
erative than the tried and true method of newspaper
davertising.
Most of the “direct by mail advertising” goes in
to the waste paper basket, where the home town pa
per is never found. The advertiser should consider
this angle, when he is determining his advertising
campaign.
THE WORLD TODAY
by ARTHUR BRISBANE
WORK FOB FARMERS.
ITALY’S ACHIEVEMENT.
HOPE DEFERRED.
WE REBUKE LIBERIA.
An important proposition for unemployment re
lief, in which President Hoover is said to be inter
ested, would use some of the money that the govern
ment will spend on improving country roads, con
necting farms with great highways.
On such work farmers with their horses, plowj
and wagons could be profitably employed.
Highways need feeders in the shape of county
roads leading to the farms, and farmers need access
to highways. And they also need work.
Building great highways of concrete, reinforced
with steel, is important. But that work gives no op
portunity to the farmers. One by special machinery,
heavy trucks, and a few workmen, it offers no op
portunity to the average unemployed.
The fact is revealed that five of Italy’s finest fly
ers were killed, and three others injured on the
marvelous “formation flight” across the Atlantic to
Brazil. The news was concealed at first, in order
not to spoil the joy of Italy at the great achievement.
There is sorrow now, but the glory of the achieve
ment is not diminished, but made greater by the
courage of the survivors, continuing their flight and
Minimum of Waste in
Sardine-Canning Plant
in a Down East sardine canning
factory the only thing that is wasted
is the odor. That may not be a
dead loss, for there are persons who
assert they like the smell of a
sardine factory. The scales are
sold to the manufacturers of arti
ficial pearls. The fish meal is in
demand tn Germany and in this
country. The waste oil la collect
ed and utilized in the production of
paints and varnishes. Even the tin
cuttings from the cans are baled
and shipped to England for reproe
esslng into new sheets of the metal.
Down East sardines are sent to
95 different countries. In Java,
when representatives sought a new
market, the natives would have
nothing to do with the “little fishes
boiled in oil.” Two hundred free
cases were offered if the prospec
tive customers would place a 1,000
case order. At last the deal was
made. The sardines were heaped
high on trucks, together with a
band of native musicians, taken
from bazaar to bazaar and sold.
Thus Introduced, there was no fur
ther difficulty in adding Java to the
list of sardine consumers. —New
York Times.
Hard to Grasp Facts
of the Stellar System
At first the brain reels a little
in the attempt to grasp the facts
of the stellar system, even explained
with the lucidity and exactness of
which Sir James Jeans is a mas
ter. From the vast extensions of
the sky he carries us into the in
most recesses of the atom, where
the electron whirls around Its per
petual circuit several thousand mil
lion times every second. These
numbers, says the London Specta
tor, are but dazzle painting, and it
la simpler to say that the electron
travels as far in a second as our
latest seaplane travels in an hour.
Sir James Jeans has a happy fer
tility tn such comparisons, and
forcibly strikes the imagination
when he tells us that if the carbon
atom were magnified to the size of
Waterloo station, its electrons would
be represented by six wasps flying
round in the vast vacuity. All the
rest is emptiness; and so In the ce
lestial spaces it is Immense odds
against any given spot being oc
cupied. “We live in a gossamer
universe; pattern, plan and design
are there tn abundance, but solid
substance is rare.”
One of Life’* Tragedies
They sat gazing into each other’s
eyes. At last he slipped from the
sofa and, kneeling at her feet,
gave utterance to the sweeping
thoughts that were swelling up his
mind.
“Darling,’* he said, “sometimes I
think how lucky I was to be born
in the same century as you, to
have met you. It seems as If Fate
had intended us for each other
since the beginning of time, and
that at last the great design has
been completed in our love. It has
been Fate, my dearest, Fate.”
“Aye,” she replied, a little wist
fully, “It was fate sill right Your
fate. If I hadna trippit over your
fete jumpin’ on the bus . .
And they pondered over the trag
edy of might have beens. —London
Tit-Bits.
DEFECTIVE PAGE
completing it successfully, as planned, in military
formation, according to orders.
Men that die in the effort to add luster to the
name of their country never die vainly.
“Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.” That’s
in the Bible, and it is also a decision handed down
bf the United States Circuit Court, of Appeals, tell
ing Judge Clark, of New Jersey that he was mis
taken. The prohibition amendment was adopted leg
ally. It stands, and is the law of the land.
Secretary Stimson warns the negro republic of
Liberia that slavery must be abandoned. Investiga
tion proves that high officials of the negro republic,
including the vice president, are engaged 1 n the slave
trade, and persist in it.
This seems surprising considering that Libel ia
was planned as a haven from slavery.
But many of our best people, North and South,
approved of slavery a little while ago, and we can
hardly blame the Liberians for lagging a little be
hind, especially as slavery is about their only source
of profit.
Good news for those that hear with difficulty on
the telephone. The company will supply an “ampli
fying device” making the incoming voice louder.
Mr. Walter S. Gifford, president of the big com
pany, informs the writer that all the Bell companies
will supply the apparatus for use at a nominal
charge. A friend in Ohio to whom the writer sug
gested it tried the device, and writes: “For the first
time in years I have been able to near my children
talking to me from the Pacific coast.”
If you are interested, write to your telephone ex
change.
“Men fear death, as children fear to go in the
dark; and as that natural fear in cnildren is increas
ed with tales, so is the other.”
Marshal Joffre, who has the gratitude of his na
tion following him to the grave, quoted often the
saying, “Nul ne peut se dire heureux avant son der
nier jour.”—“No man can call himself happy until
his last day.”
“Death hath ten thousand doors for men to take
their exit.” And they all lead to peace, rest, freedom
from the world’s worries, responsioilities and an
xieties. It is fortunate for the ra-e that divine wis
dom makes us cling to life. If we were all as wise
as Bacon and as philosophical as the old Greeks,
many would be missing.
In Britain 20,000 weavers have started the kind
of strike that, in the long run, c«xn never succeed.
They are striking against an arrangement that would
enable each man, without overwork, to take care
of eight looms instead of four, and earn more. They
say that if one man takes care of eight looms that
will put other men out of work.
That’s what stage coach drivers said when the
locomotives came. Typesetters said it when lino
type machines were invented. There are more print
ers than ever, better paid, and railroads employ 1,000
timies as many as stage coaches ever did.
Germany has a startling idea for fighting unem
ployment. Adam Dietrich, finance minister, suggests
the use of government money to increase industrial
pay rolls by subsidy, replacing unemployment doles
with actual, prodctive wages.
Germany’s government, now paying at the rate
of $750,000,000 a year to 4,000,000 men out of work,
gets nothing in return.
Virginia Home of Culture
Localism alone can produce. In
the case of America, a thoroughly
authentic type of man; this type
alone can be the germ cell of an
authentic American nation. Again,
localism alone can lead to culture;
it must start as a singular and
single and, therefore, small thing.
It will grow and spread as time
goes on. The only really cultural
atmosphere one finds today tn
America is that of Virginia. The
cultured men who were born tn its
field of force are responsible for
most that is of cultural value in
America. But how different Vir
ginia is from all other states! Its
cluture is a particular one; it is not
only a matter of age but of kind
as well. —Herman Keyserling in At
lantic Monthly.
Tree* Trimmer*’ Platform
Property owners who happen to
have some old shade about their
homes guard the trees more zeal
ously thah was done of yore. These
growths must be carefully watched
and groomed at frequent intervals.
The work of the old-time tree trim
mer Is not regarded as sufficient,
and the work is now done largely
by trained men who are properly
equipped for the work. An auto
mobile newly designed for this work
carries a small party of workmen,
all the necessary tools and is
equipped with an extendible plat
form which enables the men to
work about the tree more satisfac
torily and more safely.
Unchanging Tima
Today the Arab woman cooks her
bread outside the shelter of reed
mats and mud, which is her
“house,” and boils her water over a
fire lit in a hole which she scoops
out in front of the door. The con
tinuity in the essentials of life is
unbroken; we know that as she
cooks now, so did her - forebears
cook 3,500 years ago, and in all like
lihood when we come to dig the
pre-flood levels we shall find that
the same custom and the same de
vices go back even farther into the
past
St Paul's Cathedral
St Paul’s cathedral, London, Engl
land, the masterpiece of Sir Chris
topher Wren, commenced In the
year 1675 and completed in 1710,
cost £747,660. The cross on the
dome is 365 feet above the ground
level and the iuner cupola Is 218
feet above the floor. The bell,
“Great Paul,’* in the southwest
tower, weighs 17 tons. To the
south of the cathedral are remains
of the chapter house and cloisters
of “Old St Paul’s,” destroyed by
the fire of London in 1666.
Radium Mineral*
The principal minerals contain
ing the uranium and therefore ra
dium are pitchblende, carnotite and
autunite. The first of these con
sists of the oxide of oranium, more
or less pure, and it is found prin
cipally in Czechoslovakia and in
the Belgian Kongo. The second is
a vanadate of uranium and potas
sium. It is mined in Colorado. Utah
and Australia. The third is a
phosphate of uranium and calcium
and is mined in Portugal and the
United States.
So Bacon said of our most widespread fear.
Flavor of First Wife’s
A middle-aged spinster married
a widower who had lost his first
wife after a marriage of 15 years.
The spinster, who lived for
years with her aged mother, was
brought up in the spirit of im
maculate housekeeping. An old
fashioned housekeeper, the mother
excelled in cookirg and her daugh
ter kept fairly well in her foot
steps.
Yet, despite her efforts and her
skill in culinary arts, the new
bride never succeeded in quite sat
isfying her husband.
“It’s fine, Sadie,” he told her
often, “but there is just something
amiss. My poor Mary could give
the food a flavor I never find any
where else. I don’t know just how
she did IL”
Then came a day when house
cleaning kept Sadie on her toes al!
day. In a rush to have everything
clean and in order by the time her
hubby arrived, she forgot to look
after the meal. When she remem
bered, it was too late. There was
a burned meal.
Ashamedly she watched her hus
band taste the food. But how sur
prised was she, when he exclaimed:
“Now, Sadie, that’s really fine.
It has that delightful flavor which
distinguished Mary’s cooking.”—
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Snakes Not Aggressive;
Called Lazy and Timid
“Contrary to lore, snakes do not
attack humans wantonly,” reads an
article in the news magazine Time.
“They are lazy and timid and do
not strike unless hurt or threat
ened with hurt” the article con
tinues.
“Exceptions are the African
mamba, the Malayan king, the bush
master of the tropics, and cascavel,
a rattler of Central America. A
coachwhip will sometimes follow a
man. But it is only curious, and
will speed away 11 threatened.”
Other facts about snakes Mre
given in Time as follows: “Identi
fying poisonous snakes is easy.
Most of them belong to the pit-viper
family. They have a deep depres
sion between the eye and nostril.
Heads are flat and triangular,
necks thin, bodies stout; tails
short, eyes with elliptical pupils like
a cat’s. Fangs fold back against
the roof of the mouth. A single
row of scales runs along the belly.
The biggest United States snake is
the eastern diamond-back rattler,
which grows to nine feet”—Phila
delphia Inquirer.
When Teeth Were Weapon*
Most of us, from our earliest
days, are at intervals gravely trou
bled by our teeth. It was not al
ways so.
The jawbone of the Heidelberg
man, who walked this earth about
50,000 years ago, Is placed along
side that of modern man. We real
ize that our unterkiefers, as the
Germans call them, are but as toys
when compared with those of our
earliest ancestors.
The jawbojfes of still more an
cient people than the Heidelberg
race were even more formidable,
as they were provided with project
ing teeth, which, without much
doubt were used In fighting and in
other manly sports of those days.
Cooking Found at Last
Thursday, January 15, 1931
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Beverly Hills—Well all I know is
just what I read in the papers. I
was just reading a thing here
where just ex
actly 100 years
ago there was a
long editorial in
the papers ask
ing the people
not to get pan
icky, that they
had had a bad
year, but that
“*f u n d amen
tally the coun
try was sound,”
and that they
looked for
things to pick
up, that there had been an over
production of overshoes, red un
derwear, knitted sox, and newby’s.
You remember newbys? They was
a long nitted thing about the
length of a well rope, that you
wrapped and rewrapped around
your neck and also tied em over
your ears.
Then there was too many lan
terns on the market, for the
amount of night work that was be
ing done. There was also a glut
of the market on moustache cups.
The men wasent buying them like
the Producers had thought, they
was just letting the old upper lip
foliage drain right through the
coffee. It told of the evils of mass
production, that you shouldent pro
duce faster than the buying power.
If I remember I think the Repub
licans were in then too. And oh
yes they was going to try and get
the farmer some relief, going to
give him some ammunition so he
could shoot him some meat to eat.
Oh yes, they was going to work on
the roads too. The President has
just appointed some Commissions,
one too look into and see what the
boys was drinking. Now all this was
just exactly 100 years ago, so you
see every 100 years we have what
is humorously referred too as “de
pression.” Its always temporary.
That it happens every 100 years
proves that it will pass away. But
it is funny how there is really noth
ing new under the sun. I sho was
glad to get ahold of this old ar
ticle for it proves that we have had
these things before and lived em
down and we can this one.
Mr. Hoover weathered quite a
storm with his hired hands, but
seemed to have come out on top
and is in better shape than he has
been in a good while. The boys
have called him about everything
they could think of, and, as every
body laughed it off, why they have
about decided to let him alone for
awhile. McKeilar, of Tennessee
just discovered Christmas week
that Hoover had been in England
for some time, thats about a record
for being behind times.
Got a nice letter the other day
from Barney Baruch. I had about
a year and a half ago, just before
the crash sorter half way decided
to get a little dab of some kind of
stock. Everybody all around me
was just rolling so in profits, that
it made my little joke telling
stipend seem mighty little, I had
never, or havent yet, got a dollar
that I didn’t tell a joke for either
on stage or paper, so I knowing
Barney mighty well, and having a
mighty high regard for him per
sonally and as being the last word
in business, so in my little talk
with him I asked him to invest in
his own way a little dab that I
thought I could spare.
Well I had to naturally tell him
something of my affairs, so I told
ir a 1 him what I
J JL / owed, mostly on
4 rvl B un i m proved
real estate - Well
Pfl H h e liked to have
f brown me out
w# his Wall
Street of f 1 c e.
"You owe that
much, and you
\ want to take
I some of your
money and buy
I stocks? Say you
OTsHHI I home and
pay your debus. Lord knows how
long it will take you to do em. But
pay what you can of em. You wont
like this advice, no man does. He
don’t want to pay his debts as long
as he thinks he can make an easy
dollar in something else. I would
ent invest a dollar for you anyhow,
things are too high, they don’t look
good. Now go start paying on your
debt”
Thats the nearest I ever come to
owning stock. (I mean outside of
a few horses, and cattle.) Less
than a month from the day I was
in his office the bust come. So
every few months he writes me and
asks me how I am making out on
the debts, and how much I got em
whittled down.
You know he is kinder the angel
for the Democratic party, that is if
you could call anyone connected
with the Democrats an angel. And
be is forever trying to pay em out
of debt, so I am writing him and
telling him, that I am just as good
a business man as he is. That he
can’t keep the Democrats out of
debt anymore than I can keep my
self. So whenever you hear of the
Democrats being out of debt I will
be too.
Micheael Vaelchhek of Buffalo,
snent a night in jail because he re
fused to pay the student barber
who had given him a 15-cent hair
cut.
A man imprisoned recently for
forgery in Huntington, Ind., has
been in prison and jails 41 times 1
and on each occasion has used a
different name.
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