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Sauk Centre Herald
Published by
Sauk Centre Publishers, Incorporated
Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minnesota
Continuing Publication Sauk Centre News
ASA M. WALLACEEditor
ED L. RATHEAssociate Editor
M. J. FLEMINGGeneraI Manager
Entered Postoffice at Sauk Centre, Minn., as second
class matter, under act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
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HERALD HAS A BIRTHDAY
The first Thursday in June, 1867, the
Sauk Centre Herald was published for the
first time.
Without missing a single issue the Her
ald has faithfully recorded the history of
Sauk Centre and Western Stearns county up
to the present time.
The starting of Volume 64 with this is
sue finds the Herald with 2,200 subscribers,
the largest number ever in the history of
the paper, and exceeded by but comparatively
few community newspapers in the state.
The aim of the present publishers is to
keep this newspaper on the high plane of
community service set by the founder, the
late James H. Simonton.
We believe this newspaper is a pretty
fair mirror of the city which it represents.
Mistakes have been made in the past, of
course, and will undoubtedly be made in the
future, but it is the constant endeavor to
keep the number at a low minimum.
The public can assist the publishers ma
terially in making the Herald a thoroughly
representative community newspaper by
sending in items of reliable news any and
all the time. It is impossible for the news
gatherers to be everywhere, if you have
company visiting at your home, your family
leaves the city, if you have a social affair, let
the Herald know about it. One does not need
to be a subscriber to get news recognition
in the Herald. The question of what is news
is, perhaps debatable. It is quite generally
agreed that if a dog bites a man that is not
news of a particularly startling nature. How
ever, if a man should bite a dog, well, that
is so unusual, it would likely find its way to
the first page.
While the Herald is the oldest business
institution in Sauk Centre it is in the very
vigor of its youth as far as its willingness
to serve this community is concerned. In
the past the paper has occasionally been
somewhat out of line with the thought of
many. We have always been willing to
credit the honesty of the other fellow’s mo
tives. We ask the same tolerance for our
selves.
Sauk Centre can be made a bigger and
better city; the rural community can be
greatly improved. The Herald has a desire
to continue to assist, as best it can, in every
move looking toward community develop
ment.
SAUK CENTRE’S SINCERE TRIBUTE
In the issue of the High School Annual
O-Sa-Ge, in commemoration of the celebra
tion of the Golden Jubilee Anniversary of
the Sauk Centre High School, Sinclair Lewis,
noted author, and graduate of the local
school “way back yonder,” contributed an
article to the Annual entitled “The Long Arm
of the Small Town,” which has been widely
quoted by the editorial writers of the coun
try. In this article Mr. Lewis says he would
“choose a Minnesota prairie town against
any other place in the world” to spend his
boyhood. Tuesday evening’s St. Paul Dis
patch had the following comment on Mr.
Lewis and Sauk Centre:
SAUK CENTRE’S BOY WHO MADE GOOD
Many men, if they “had it to do all over again,”
might select a different scene for their child
hood, but not so Sinclair Lewis, the novelist and
former Sauk Centre boy. He would choose a
Minnesota prairie town for a “second boyhood”
against any other place in the world.
The golden jubilee of Sauk Centre High School
is made more golden by the Noble prize win
ner’s contribution to the school annual, “O-Sa-
Ge.” This article, entitled, "The Long Arm of
the Small Town,” is in praise of Midwestern com
munities in general and Sauk Centre, his boy
hood home, in particular. He recalls the fishing
and swimming in Sauk Lake, the picnics at Fairy
Lake, October tramps with a shotgun on his arm,
sliding on Hoboken Hill, stealing melons, and
"listening to the wonder of an elocutionist at the
G. A. R. Hall.” Taken all together, “it was a
good time, a good place, and a good preparation
for life.”
Sinclair Lewis may have criticised the small
town in “Main Street.’’ but his is a defense of
the Main Streets of the world. Sauk Centre ap
pears to have received a sincere tribute from one
of the "boys who made food.”
Mr. Lewis’ article is published in full on
this page.
A LAUDABLE WORK
Among the many humanitarian activi
ties which engage the support of benevolent
societies and individuals, the restoring of
crippled children to health and happiness is
one of the most commendable.
The work of modern surgeons in this con
nection is effective almost beyond belief. At
a recent convention of the International So
ciety for Crippled Children it was stated that
“modem science has. healed all manner of
diseases and we are happy to say today that
practically every type of malformation, if
taken in early childhood, can be cured.”
Among the organizations which have
given special attention to crippled children,
the Shriners have been particularly active,
each member of the order contributing regu
larly to the maintenance of homes for these
unfortunate little ones, who would otherwise
go through, life with deformed bodies and
limbs. Other societies are doing a similar
service.
The hearty encouragement and support
of this labor of love should be extended by
every person who is in a position to lend a
hand.
WASTE IN ADVERTISING
This is an age of advertising. Business
could not get along without it. Yet many
merchants waste a large share of the money
they think they are spending for advertising
and wonder why they do not get better re
sults.
Women do most of the buying for the
home. Now, did you ever see a woman go
looking over the billboards, or reading the
movie screen advertisements in order to make
up her mind what or where to buy I Does she
get her shopping information from a theatre
program or a telephone directory? Not on
your life.
Outside of the store itself, the best and
almost the only way to attract a prospective
customer’s attention to what you have to sell
is through the newspaper that goes into the
home. The store that advertises adequately
and persistently in its local newspapers has
no need to waste money on the other inferior
mediums mentioned.
DON’T PLAY DEAD
Mille Lacs Lake Messenger
We read a story the other day about a business
man who, when the present era of dull trade came
on, proceeded to play dead. He stopped all his ex
penses and settled down to wait until the efforts of
others had livened things up a little, promising him
self that when the time was ripe he would emerge
and grab off some of the fruits of the inactivity
When he poked his head out one day to take a look
at things he saw a crowd of people going into his
competitor’s store across the street. Thinking good
times had returned, he brushed the cobwebs off the
door, got a shave and prepared to serve customers.
It almost broke his heart when he found there were
no customers to serve. During the time he had been
playing dead those whose alert temperament had
kept them awake and hustling had taken all his
customers, and he had helped to tide them over the
dull period by letting them do it.
Commercial agencies report that the business of
mail order houses is increasing. There can be little
doubt that this increase is coming from localities
where the local business men have been playing dead
during the dull spell. People must and do eat and
w-ear clothes in dull times, and they spend what
money they have where they are convinced they
get the most for it. The mail order houses are very
busy convincing them that no one else can serve
them as well and cheaply as they can. There has
been no letup in their advertising. Their catalogues
are as numerous and as bright colored as they were
when times were at their best.
Those villages where merchants have maintained
their stocks in good shape, given good service and
most important of all, have advertised continuously,
have lost little business to the mail order houses
during the dull period. Their business has fallen off
a little, but not enough to alarm them or to endang
er their future. They have kept their customers
getting all the business they could give them, anZ
with returning prosperity their business will grow.
Advertising has become an essential detail of a
successful business. People will not visit a store
or a town to find out whether they can get what they
want or not. They go where they have been tolc
they can get it. They expect to have their business
solicited and it goes to the store that solicits it.
SAUK CENTRE SHOULD TAKE NOTICE
Benson Monitor
Under the above caption, the Benson Monitor
carries the editorial published below. The Waseca
city council wants to have a railroad grade crossing
in this city, over which many school children travel
daily and which was the scene of a near-fatal acci
dent last winter, protected by gates. This would
prevent a tragedy such as the Benson paper de
scribes as follows:
“Dickie, I am so cold—”
Those were the pietous words uttered by a Ben
son high school girl to a little boy, the first familial
face she recognized among a throng of persons who
stood around her as she lay torn and bleeding on the
pavement after a Great Northern passenger
had cut off both her feet. This 16-year girl, struck
down in the flower of her girlhood, now faces a fu
ture in which she will always be handicapped.
That is the price that the Benson community
pays for having the railroad tracks run straight
through the center of the city and no provision
made for protection against such a condition. To
our minds this lack of safeguarding is an example
of criminal carelessness that calls for immediate ac
tion rather than the half-hearted procrastination
with which the problem has always been faced.
The Great Northern railroad has been generous
to Benson in many ways—in extending the courtesies
of their right-of-way for use as city parks and in co
operation in other respects—but such generosity pan
not longer be allowed to endanger the most prec
ious assets of the community, our children. The
community is equally at fault for never has there
been more than a halfhaerted effort to reduce the
railroad crossing danger.
Scores of children between the ages of eight and
eighteen daily cross the tracks through this com
munity. Children with all the pep and vitality, the
unexcelled enthusiasm of youth. Gay, happy, care
free. Enjoying life as only children can enjoy it, but
without that sense of carefulness and regard for per
sonal safety that comes with maturity. They cannot
be expected to attain a true realization of the dang
ers of the railroad crossings—they must be protected
from harm.
Wadena Jioneer Journal
It seems that the Filipino leaders have complete
ly changed front on the question of independence
now that they see victory within their reach. For
years these people have been proclaiming to the
world tales of American imperialism and oppression.
They have given us no credit for establishing law
and order in the islands, neither do they thank us
for giving them modern systems of sanitation, roads
and schools. During the thirty-two years that we
have been in the islands they have done everything
possible to block and defeat our efforts in their be
half, but now the worm has turned. Today there
is a definite demand on the part of American agri
culture and labor that the Philippines be given their
independence, and the reason is that their continu
ance under the American flag constitutes a very real
and serious social, economic and military menace.
Thousands of young Filipinos yearly come to our
shores and take from our laborers their jobs; yearly
they export to this country enormous quantities of
vegetable oils which displace butterfat and animal
fats, as well as hundreds of thousands of tons of
sugar, all of which come in duty free. Slowly but
surely the cocoanut cow is driving the American
cow out of the American market and unless the
islands are speedily given independence and the
American tariff law put into effect on Philippine ex
ports we will be confronted with a real crisis. That
the dairy interests are alive to the situation is evi
denced by a statement on the subject made public
several days ago by the National Dairy Union which
is herewith reproduced in part:
“A change of mind of Senor Quezon or even of
Senor Roxas, himself, the real spokesman for
Phillipine independence, or of any other political
leader of the Filipino people does not alter the
fundamental considerations which make Philip
pine Independence the only sound policy of the
United States.
“The plight of the dairy industry, seeking to
preserve itself by producing butter at a cost of
from 25 cents to 45 cents per pound for butterfat,
when faced with alleged substitutes for butter—
a frank imitation of butter—made from Philip
pine cocoanut oil, duty free, and costing laid
down here six or seven cents a pound, is only an
incident in this sound policy. The dairy indus
try started this proposal to grant Philippine in
dependence partly for self protection, partly be
cause every principle of good government and
fair treatment calls for the redemption of the
INDEPENDENCE
SAUK CENTRE HERALD, Sauk Centre, Minn.
pledges given in the past to grant such inde
pendence.
“It is apparent that some economic and other
pressure has been brought on certain represen
tatives of the Filippinos causing them to place
dollar business above national pride and nation
al desire to take their place as an independent
nation. This causes no changein the princi
ples of fair play and our own self protection in
volved. The people engaged in dairying are not
going to change their minds just because Senor
Quezon has changed his mind. We believe it is
best for us, and best for the Filipinos that they
have independence, and that they take their
places among the sisterhood of nations and enter
the American market on the same terms of self
reliant independence that other nations must
observe.
“Senor Quezon seems to favor independence in
thirty years. On the other hand Senator Hawes
has a plan effective in five years. Representa
tives of the dairy industry are willing to accept
this but no more. So far as they are concerned
his is a move for American national interest, and
that interest comes first no matter how often
Filipino politicians change their minds. It is
manifestly of national interest to keep the do
mestice market for domestic producers. It is
equally important that every Filipino no matter
what his political leaders may say should become
an independent self-reliant citizen of an inde
pendent nation instead of a infant living on
“pap” from Uncle Sam.
“Some ‘patriots’ interested in labor wish to shut
out Filipino imigration, to ease the labor market
here. American agriculture points out that
shipping the products of cheap labor here is
more harmful than sending the labor here to live
on an American standard. Let’s be fair about
this thig. The dairy industry is out in the open
about its inteerst.”
State News Briefs
From Our Exchanges
DULUTH—Miss Katherine McMillan, 24. of Vir
ginia, a teacher at the Howard Gnesen rural school
near Duluth, was shot and instantly killed in her
class room Thursday morning when a revolver held
by James Merriman, 16, a pupil, accidentally dis
charged. -
The revolver, .22 calibre, had been given to Mer
riman by Ronald Dahlgren, who had loaned it to
the school for use in a play at the school recently.
Dahlgren, showing Merriman four shells taken from
the pistol, had told the youth it was not loaded.
The charge entered Miss McMillan’s body above
the heart. Sheriff officials are investigating.
Miss McMillan had been teaching at the school
two years, and also has taught one year at the Vir
ginia public schools. She was a graduate of the Vir
ginia high school in 1924, the Virginia Junior col
lege in 1926, and the Villa Scholastic college in 1928,
where she was given aB. A. degree. She is survived
by her parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. McMillan, 210
First street south Virginia. The body was brought
to Duluth.
LITTLE FALLS—Sheriff's deputies searched the
Mississippi river Thursday for the body of Elmer
Hankes, 19, son of Frank Hankes who was drowned
while spearing fish in the river.
Fishermen across the river from Hanks saw him
fall into the water and drown but were unable to
come to his assistance. Hankes moved here from
St. Paul last year with his parents, two brothers
and three sisters.
MINNEAPOLIS—Because Arlene Schwarting, 17
months old, cried when her bedroom filled with smoke
today, 21 persons in an apartment house were saved
from possible injury and death. The child’s father
was aroused by her cries and found the room filed
with smoke. He called the fire department and
aroused the other families in the building. The loss
was confined to the basement and was estimated at
$2,000.
LAKE PARK —Two nervous bandits who held
up a poker party today, shot two men who walked
in during the robbery, killing one and seriously
wounding the other.
Helmer Anderson, 35 Audubon, was killed when
he jokingly refused to obey the bandits’ orders. The
other members of the poker party said he must
have thought it was a practical joke some of the
men were playing on him. Contable Eevert Edeltoft
was shot through the neck and lung when he was
attracted to the scene by the shooting.
The game was at the home of Alvin Aure. Eight
men were playing poker shortly after midnight when
the two bandits entered. The pair ordered the men
to put up their hands and line up along the wall.
One bandit grabbed the money on the table
while the other searched the pockets of the men along
the wall. The bandits were both armed. They ob
tained approximately S2OO. As they were searching
the last man. Anderson enetred from a rear door.
He laughed at the bandits’ orders and was shot.
The two men hurried out the front door to run in
to the constable. He ordered them to stop but they
shot at him, and continued running otward their
small Ford coach. They escaped.
DULUtH—Charles Brown, 60, was In a serious
condition in a hospital here tonight as a result of a
shooting afray earlier in the day at his resort on
the Cloquet river, 25 miles north of Duluth, Deputy
sheriffs arrested Arthur Johnson, 49, and his wife,
U. S. WILL ISSUE
18-YEAR BONDS
$800,000,000 to Meet Part of
Shortage, Redeem Short
Term Certificates
GOVT. MARKING TIME
Mellon’s Action to Clear Up
Government’s needs for
Rest of Year
Washington, June I—An SBOO,-
000,000 issue of 18-year 3 % P er cent
treasury bonds was offered to the
public by Secretary of Treasury An
drew W. Mellon today in an effort
to raise money to meet the deficit
now standing at $1,000,000,00.
The money is expected to be rais
ed in a few days. The banks to
morrow will begin to receive sub
scriptions.
The bonds will be dated June
15, exempt from federal or state
taxation, except for estate taxes,
income surtaxes, and possible ex
cess profits of war taxes, Mellon
announced.
About $589,000 000 of short-term
treasury certificates of indebtedness
and $90,000,000 in interest payments
on the public debt will come due
on June 15, and the proceeds of
this issue will be used to meet these
obligations and part of the billion
dollar deficit.
The treasury has upwards of
$40,000,000 coming in during the
month in second-quarter income tax
payments and foreign governments’
payments on war debts, in addition
to the steady revenue from cus
toms, tobacco and other taxes.
The huge long-term issue definite
ly cleans up the government’s
tight financial fix for the first half
>f the fiscal year starting July 1, ji
But all treasury officials concede i
:hat the new fiscal year will end
with another big deficit, some say r
is large as the SBOO,OO 000 deficit
sow predicted for the fiscal year' ]
vhich ends 30 days from today. '1
Cora, 42, boat tender and cook respectively at the
resort The woman confessed to shooting Brown
but stated she had fired at her husband, deputies
said. Hospital attendants said Brown would recover.
THE WORLD TODAY
Men deal with two oceans, one above the other,
of water and of air. In one, we die if submerged
too long, in the other, fishes die.
For centuries men have been familiar with the
ocean of water, inventing legends about it, diving
into it for pearls, sailing over it for commerce, and
recently men have explored it in diving bells.
Now Professor Piccard, courageous scientist,
takes his “diving bell” in the other direction, upward.
In an air-tight round ball, supplied with oxygen for
artificial breathing, attached to a balloon, Professor
Piccard went up to investigate the stratosphere, near
the top of our air ocean.
He broke the record for height by 12,000 feet,
going up 52,500 feet, and risking his life. If the bal
loon had not come down he and his assistant,
Charles Kipfer, must have suffocated. They had a
narrow escape as it was.
For the’ first two miles the scientific “climbing
bell” went up through the layer of clouds, storms and
changing temperatures that lie close to the earth,
at the “bottom” of our air-ocean.
Higher up the temperature fell to 135 degrees
below zero, still “warm” as compared to absolute
zero outside of our atmosphere, more than 400 de
grees below zero.
In the upper air a wind blows steadily from the
east, caused by the earth’s movement. No storms or
clouds up there.
And far up the sun and stars shine in a sky
jet black, due to the fact that here is no dust in that
high atmosphere. Without dust, so plentiful on the
“bottom” of the air, the sky would be always black,
there would be no rainfall, and we should probably
not be here.
Professor Piccard will have interesting things to
tell his fellow scientists, who look upon his escape
from death as a miracle.
No monument will be built to him, of course,
because he only went up in the interest of science.
If he had gone up to kill somebody or destroy a
whole city he would have a large monument.
News from Rome continues bad. The fact that
for three months the pope has refused to receive an
ambassador from the Fascist government, while
Mussolini has refused to receive the nuncio sent by
the pope, indicates strained relations between the
governments of Italy and the Vatican City.
Outbreaks against the pope and the Catholic
religion continue. A picture of Pope Pius was pub
licly trampled on by Fascist students. The pope is
publicly called a traitor by the mob and Catholic
books are burned.
Captain Hawks, champion American flyer, had
his breakfast in London, luncheon in Berlin, and
dinner in Paris.
The crowd welcoming him at Leßourget, the
Paris flying field, called him “America’s meteor man.”
He flew from London to Berlin in 3 hours and 15
minutes, spent an hour and twenty-seven minutes
in Berlin plenty of time for luncheon, and flew from
Berlin to Paris for his dinner in 3 hours and 5
minutes.
Good times or bad. men will find money for
three things—racing, gambling, smoking. And the
worst of the three is gambling.
The Irish sweepstakes, to help to build Irish hos
pitals, total amount $12,500,000. Hospitals will get
more than $3,000,000, gambling about $9,000,000; ex
penses will eat the rest. There will be many prizes
of $150,000, also $75,000 and $50,000, and smaller prizes
totaling 4,000 prizes in all.
Five millions have bought tickets, and whether
they win or lose they are a little nearer to the cer
tainty that they will never make any permanent suc
cess. Gambling prevents that.
The queen of England recently celebrated her
sixty-fourth birthday, and the British Empire re
joices at her good health. Well it may. Queen Mary
attends to her business and set& a good example,
from her old-fashioned hats to her old-fashioned
shoes, from her kindly, but always dignified expres
sion to the long skirts that come down to her ankles.
Others may be foolish; she never will be, and she
will make no concession to foolishness.
An English lady who had devoted her life to
horse racing orders her relatives to cremate her
body and scatter the ashes on the racetrack. She
liked to think of the "thundering hoofs” coming down
the stretch to victory over her dust. She might no
longer see or hear them, but perhaps she could feel
them.
Ward Randall, twelve years old, of Whitehall,
111., wins the American spelling championship. The
word “foulard” was too much for the boy next to
him.
Correct spelling, easy for some, impossible for
others, is an inborn talent, as is music. One of the
best spellers in the world was Leo Ashley Grace,
formerly, of Plainfield, N. J. He could spell
“phthisic" when barely three years of age, and never
made a mistake.
But by next December the treas
ury and general business situation
|is expected to be such as to indi
cate more clearly what the govern-
I ment will need from then on.
| Applications will be received for
| the gold bonds at federal reserve
banks, and banks generally will act
for those seeking to invest. The
bonds will be issued in denomina
tions of SSO, SIOO, SSOO, SI,OOO.
The treasury reserved the right
to pay off the bonds on or after
June 15. 1946, on four months’ no
lice, without waiting for the due
.date in 1949.
I Principal and interest will be pay
able in gold coin, Mellon announced.
This is a legal requirement, the pay
ment usually being in gold certifi
cates.
France’s first country club was
recently opened by Americans in
Paris.
Only two and a half years old,
Kenneth Davis, of Hawaii speaks
French, German and English.
Minna Cannon, captain of the
girl’s rifle team, of the University
of Maryland, led her squad to the
national rifle championship for
girls in the indoor matches at
Washington, D. C.
For being outstanding in Boy
Scout activities, community leader
ship and civic good turns, William
B. Maynard, Jr., 19 years old, and
a sophomore at Baldwin-Wallace
College was awarded a scholarship
of SIOO.
Glass-lined tank cars for the
transportation of milk have been
introduced on British railways.
Scraper to be hinged to a run
ning board, under which it can be j
pushed when not in use, has been
invented to remove mud from per-'
son’s shoes before they enter auto
mobiles.
For aviation students a Los An
geles man has developed an air
plane that can be used as a glider
by removing its motor and fuse
lage.
An automatic camera has been
devised to make photgraphs of
chimneys at one minute intervals
to register the amount of smoke
they emit.
Tiny electric lamps mounted on
the backs of seats have been install
ed in a London theatre to enable
patrons to read programs when the
souse is dark.
by ARTHUR BRISBANE
UP IN THE AIROCEAN.
ROME SENDS BAD NEWS.
A GREAT U. S. FLYER.
CASH FOR THREE THINGS.
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Beverly Hills —I was just reading
in the papers about the girls who
were presented to the King and
Queen. Over in
London just a
year ago now,
when I was over
to the Disarm
ament Confer
ence Ambassa
dor Dawes was
telling me about
that, they have
it I think twice
a year, and the
King and Queen
receive just so
many from each
country. Well of
all the planning, scheming, conniv
ig, politics, and even black mailing,
they work to get daughter present
ed at court!
And they say over there that we
are the worst Nation of all for it.
The greatest Democracy will go to
the greatest length to get some
where just for the add. They live on
it the rest of their lives. Its the
congressional Medal of Society.
“Lizzie Bean as a Debutannte was
I presented at Court.” And the social
home town papers always say, “she
was the most beautiful one there.”
Now maby there was twelve Chi
nese girls presented that looked as
good.
This time there was 400 received,
so you see its not exactly what you
would call exclusive. The king of
Spain ought to figured something
like that out and then there would
have been enough socially ambi
tious to keep him in office. England
is a smart Nation they know that
there is just so much Hooey requir
ed by people and they very wisely
supply it.
We ought to have a “Social Pres-
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It is extraordinary
how deep is the im
pression made by the
place of .one's birth and
rearing, and how last
ing are its memories.
It is twenty-nine years
now since I left Sauk
Centre to go East to
college. In this more
than a quarter cen
tury, I have been back
two or three times for
a couple of months,
several times for a
couple of weeks, but
otherwise I have been
utterly out of touch
with the town. Yet it
is as vivid to my mind
Sinclair Lewis as though L had left
there yesterday.
I find myself thinking of its streets and its people and
the familiar, friendly faces when I am on the great avenues
of New York, or Paris, or Berlin, or Stockholm; when I am
in little stone hilly villages of Italy, or sun-basking villas in
Spain or the yellow temples of Athens. To me, forever, ten
miles will not be a distance in the mathematical tables, but
slightly more than the distance from Sauk Centre to Melrose.
To me, forever, though I should live to be ninety, the direc
tion west will have nothing in particular to do with California
or the Rockies; it will be that direction which is to the left
—towards Hoboken Hill—if you face the house of Dr. E. J.
Lewis.
So primitive and inherent are the impressions of boy
hood. And I, who am writing this in Connecticut and shall go
in mid-May to the farm which I have bought in Vermont,
haven’t the slightest regret that I was born and reared in
a prairie village instead of in New England or New York,
or old England or the Continent of Europe, for the matter
of that.
If I seem to have criticized prairie villages, I have cer
tainly criticized them no more than I have New York, or
Paris, or the great universities. lam quite certain that I
could have been born and reared in no place in the world
where I would have had more friendliness. Indeed, as I look
at these sons of rich men in New England with their motor
cars and their travel, it seems to me that they are not having
one-tenth the fun which I had as a kid, swimming and fish
ing in Sauk Lake, or cruising its perilous depths on a raft
(probably made of stolen legs), tramping out to Fairy Lake
for a picnic, tramping ten miles on end, with a shotgun, in
October; sliding on Hoboken Hill, stealing melons, or listen
ing to the wonders of an elocutionist at the G. A. R. Hall. It
was a good time, a good place, and a good preparation for life.
Sinclair Lewis.
S. C. H. S., ’O2.
ident” or “King of the Drawing
Room’ 'or “Master of the Teacup”
or some title on some person that
would fill the place of what Royalty
supplies over there. Let him give
the dinners and stand the gaff of
the arguments over who was going
to eat next to who, and he could
lay the corner stones, touch the
buttons to open the new night
clubs for the local Chamber of
Commerce. There just aint any
end to what he could relieve Mr.
Hoover of. I know no one would
be more tickled than Mr Hoover,
for I don’t think he relishes all
that junk. Mr. Collidge is the only
one that ever really seemed to rel
ish em. He had em doped out, they
never worried him. He had the
same expression, and the same con
versation for Queen Marie as he
had for Senator Moses. “Hello”
when they come in and “Goodbye”
when they passed out.
Mr. Hoover has been going out to
his camp on the Rapidan every
week end and it hasent been all for
pleasure either. Every week end
he takes a different gang with him.
For instance one week end he took
Pat Hurley, Secretary of the Wars,
and told him, “Pat, Mellon has gone
and let the politicians overdraw our
bank balance 950,000,000 million,
thats just 50 million under a bil
lion, that holds the record for an
overdraft. Now we got to all get
together and help the old boy try
and make it up some other way.
Now how about lopping part of
your army off? Cant you leave
some spurs, and some Sam Brown
belts or something off and help
save Andy’s record, so that it will
stand up with Alexander Hamil
ton? So you go back to your office
and see who would be the least
needed in our next war, and give
em their two weeks’ notice. We
got to be prepared, but see if we
can be prepared a little cheaper.
What we want now is cheaper pre
peration. Course soon as we get
used to this ov
erdraft why it
wont be so bad,
but its just
while its new
that everybody’s
attention is fo
cussed on it.
You know a bil
lion is getting
so its a lot of
dough, even in
these hard
times. So we
all got to pull
together and get
this thing . ushed up before
November, ’32, comes on us. If we
can just stall this all off till after
then, why we can get back to nor
mal again, and you can have all
the help you want. But right now,
you boys got to help get Andy out
of the red. Take some oats away
from those army mules or some
thing. lam going to the navy row
out to the camp here and make
them do what they can, make Sec
retary Dave Ingalls quit flying to
Cleveland every day to get his
main. Then those Virgin Islands
we got to cut down on them, they
are living too high. Then we
ought to try to catch Sandino for
less money this year than we tried
to catch last year. But we all got
to pull together like one big faimly
and get Andy out of the red, cause
a billion dollars worth of red is
some red. We got to stop Alexan
der Hamilton from laughing in his
grave.”
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Short Shrill Siren Blast Is
Order to Stop at Once
Highway Patrol Also Identified by
Pair of Red Lights on Car or
Motorcycle
If you hear a short blast of a si
ren when you are driving on the
highway, and see a pair of red
lights if it is dark, it is a signal to
stop. A State Highway patrolman
wants to talk to you.
Do not be alarmed says a highway
bulletin. The patrolman may
merely want to tell you that your
rear light is out, or give you some
other suggestion about your car or
your driving which is intended to
promote your own safety. The red
lights and siren blast will be used
by the patrolmen to identity them
selves. Motorists when signalled to
stop frequently fear a hold-up and
dash away. The use of the special
Thursday, June 4, 1931
THE LONG ARM
OF THE
SMALL TOWN
lights and siren is to remove this
fear, and also to give a definite
command to stop. And when you
get this signal, it is best to stop.
The highway patrolmen are a cour
teous, gentlemanly lot, never hard
boiled unless your actions compel
them to be firm.
All cars and motrcycles used by
the patrolmen will be equipped with
sirens and the red lights mounted
close to the headlights. If the pat
rolmen are in pursuit of a fugitive
lawbreaker, or if they are hurry
ing to the scene of an accident, the
red lights will be turned on and the
siren used freely. At such times
other vehicles should get as close
to the right edge of the road as pos
sible, and give the police vehicle the
right of way. At other times when
[traveling on the road, they will
I use only the ordinary headlights,
land will use the standard horn sig
nal when they want to pass a ve
hicle, and use the red lights, with a
short blast of the siren, if they
want to stop.
The use of a siren, or the use of
any red or green lights visible from
the front of any vehicle, other than
a police or fire vehicle is prohibited
by law.
Shipstead Asks Building
Stone Buying Inquiry
Charges of Collusion by Purveyors
of Material Claimed at
Capital
Washington, May 29—The time
honored war in and out of congress
between the “Indiana limestone
Bloc,” is to be a subject of inquiry
by the federal trade commission.
The commission announced that it
was about to undertake a thorough
investigation of the building mater
ial Industry and in particular those
phases of the industry involved in
the letting of government contracts
for public buildings.
And the scrap between the pur
veyors of the three building stones
and the geographic groups support
ing them is to furnish, it is prom
|ised, one of the principal fields to
Ibe looked Into.
That this would be the case was
verified by Senator Henrik Ship
stead. Minnesota’s farmer-labor
member in the upper house, whose
i resolution, passed just before the
close of the last session of con
gress. supplied the force which set
the trade commission’s investigat
ing machinery in motion.
Senator Shipstead said he intro-'
duced the resolution because of
complaints, seemingly aimed at the
handling of contracts by the gov
ernment itself, that specifications
for buildings were so framed that
they unfairly limited the sources
from which materials could come.
Ralph F. Norwood of Weymonth,
Mass., awoke one morning to find a
truck with 50 cases of liquor park
ed in his yard, and turned It over
to police.
Unsinkable and fireproof boats
made of steel have been invented
in France that can be readily tak
en apart for carrying on a trailer
behind an automobile.
More than five billion cigarettes
were consumed in Canada during
1930. e
A radio club has been formed at
Buenos Aires to encourage the
broadcasting of programs in Eng
lish.
Forty-nine girls speaking 14
languages are kept busy in the in
ternational long distance telephone
exchange in San Francisco.
The city of Minneapolis is ex
actly midway between the equator
and the north pole.
The food bill of the United States
is about $20,000000,000 annually
according to Joseph Wiltshire,
president of Standard Brands, Inc.
Patrick Henry, Oklahoma ranch
man, met, courted and won Daisy
Frame on a bus trip to California,
where they were married.
A sign on the outskirts of Jump,
Eng., reads “To Jump—A Mile.”
Burglars who rifled a safe and
cash register in a store in Monroe,
La., “rang up” the amount taken
from the cash register beofre
leaving the store.
A thief broke into the Frist
Methodist Church in Charleston W.
Va., an investigation disclosed that
the only thing stolen was the
large Bible on the pulpit.
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