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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. FLEMING Manager
Entered Postoffice at Sauk Centre, Minn., as second
class matter, under act of Congress of March 3, 1879
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OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE SAFETY AND
SCENIC BEAUTY OF HIGHWAY TRAVEL
The 1933 session/ of the Minnesota Legislature
added materially to the mileage to the state’s trunk
line system.
One of the proposed new highways is between
St. Cloud and Champlain, following very closely the
west side of the Mississippi river, which, when com
pleted would make a drive of scenic beauty and also
greatly enhance the safety of the traveling public,
as it would padallet Highway No. 3 on the east side
of the river.
The traffic over No. 3 between the Twin Cities
and St. Cloud is very heavy, and with the increas
ing number of over loaded trucks, private and public
ly owned, the modest private auto owner, keeping
the idea of safety in mind, is continuously jeopardized
as to safety of life and damage to his car, when he
enters this narrow strip of 18-foot pavement on No. 3.
The Herald believes Highway Commissioner
Elsberg has a desire to serve the people of the state
to the best of his ability.
The Herald also believes that the intent of
trunk highway system in the first place was for the
use and benefit of the private citizen rather than to
be taken possession of by monsters laden with live
stock and merchandise, ever increasing in length
and breadth.
Alvah Eastman, the very able editor of the St.
Cloud Times discusses the situation and conditions
in his usual brisk manner in the Times of Monday
evening. He said, in part:
On the east side is highway No. 3, 18 feet
wide, that on most days is crowded with auto
mobiles, trucks and buses. The number of
accidents and deaths is really appalling. On
week ends and holidays it is really a danger
ous experiment to drive over this highway.
Building a paved highway on the west side
of the river will eliminate to a great extent
the danger, if it is made an exclusive automo
bile highway, as is proposed by the highway
commissioner.
Limited to automobiles it should follow the
( Mississippi as close as practical, and make it
a truly scenic highway. The scenery beauty
is there. Being an automobile road, much
money in the building can be saved by follow
ing the contour of the land. The low hills
and pleasant valleys would make an ideal
scenic highway.
This is of no more interest to St. Cloud than
for three or four hundred cities and villages
tot he north and the west, whose people go
through this city on their way to the Twin
Cities, or elsewhere to the east and south!
It is just as important to the people of Sauk
Centre, Alexandria, Fergus Falls, Moorhead,
Little Falls, Brainerd, Wadena, Park Rapids,
Bemidji, Crookston, Osakis and Intervening
towns, as it is to St. Cloud. They all want
a safe and pleasant highway. By keeping the
trucks off this stretch of some fifty miles, it
will very materially reduce the deaths and
\ accidents. Human life still has its value.
It is also of just as much of a necessity to
those of the east and the southeast who travel
to the north and northwest. In fact, it
means safety to every person in all sections of
the state, Wisconsin and lowa who visit this
section of the country, including the thous
ands of North Dakotans who journey this
way.
Take a look at the map of Minnesota and
count the counties and towns north and west
of this city, that is the gate-way for this im
mense stream of travel. Their safety and
pleasure is vastly more important than of a
few towns between St. Cloud and Chaplin,
who want this highway strung outside the
natural logical course, for their imaginary
benefit. Logically the highway will be
through Clearwater, Monticello and Dayton,
all on the Mississippi and it should be a Mis
sissippi scenic road.
The kind of a highway we have in mind is
from Champlin to Dayton, well built and
maintained by Hennepin county, and it is one
of the most delightful roads in Minnesota.
It could be made equally attractive all the
way to St. Cloud. ' *
The first thing to be done is to make a sur
vey, and that should be as soon as practical.
It is one of the first additions that should
be taken over by the highway commission,
because it is of tremendous importance to
the whole traveling public.
It should be made a safe and beautiful au
tomobile highway, and free from deep ditches,
and with no necessity for costly grades.
Commissioner Elsberg wants to best serve
all the people, and to provide safety and at
trahtive highways for them. Here’s 'his op
portunity. •
KEEP YOUR SHIRT ON 1
A few years ago Carl Sandburg wrote a poem
about the desirability of one’s keeping his shirt on.
That is easy enough on a cool day, but literally
and figuratively it is somewhat difficult on a hot day
when one is getting the last bit of material ready for
the press and something happens to interrupt.
Often enough it is somebody wanting the editor
to pull chestnuts out of the fire, or lambast somebody
in the community. /
Of course the editor does not fall for it, but it is
pretty hard for him to keep his shirt on and refrain
from telling the meddler where he should go and
what he should do.
The editor has to catch his tongue between his
upper and nether plates and hold on tight, remem
bering that the would-be trouble maker is a sub
scriber as well as the person the intruder would have
“written up.”
The publisher of a country community cannot
have on his wall the prayer of one professional man
in South Dakota: “Lord, help me to Keep my damn
nose out of other people’s affairs,” but he can, and
has to, keep his shirt on while dealing with those af
fairs.—South Dakota Rural Press and Print Shop.
CANCER NOT INHERITED
After experiments with 52,000 rats, during a per
iod of 12 years, the Institute of Cancer Research an
nounces the definite conclusion that cancer is never
inherited. An announcement by the institute says:
“Cancer is a terrible disease, not only because
it brings pain and death, but also because it inspires
an immense amount of worry in a great many people
who are never going to suffer from it physically.
“It is the people who have seen cancer attack
some member of their family who worry the most
and without cause. It appears from the research
done that cancer does not start unless there is an
irritation present The germ cells which are in
herited from parents do not carry the liability to
cancer.
"The main benefit derived from the study, is that
It removes the fatalistic attitude developed toward
the disease. It is that attitude which keeps many
persons away from the doctor during the early stages
of the cancer growth, when through an early exami
nation and treatment a life might often be saved.”
September 17 marks the 144th anniversary
of the adoption of the Constitution of the United
States by the constitutional convention in Philadel
phia afer nearly four months of deliberations.
In recent years Constitution Day has been wide
ly observed through suitable exercises by schools,
clubs and patriotic societies. It is only the truth to
say that the average American is by not means as
familiar with this great document as he ought to be.
The wisdom and foresight of its authors have been
amply vindicated throughout the life of the nation.
One of the highest tributes ever paid the Consti
tution was by the eminent British statesman, Vis
count James Bryce, who in his American Common
wealth said:
“The Constitution deserves the veneration with
which Americans have been accustomed to regard it.
It ranks above every other written constitution for
the intrinsic excellence of its scheme, its adaption
to the circumstances of the people, the simplicity,
brevity and precision of its language, its judicious
mixture ofi definiteness in principle with elasticity
in details.”
WAR BIBLES RETURNED
There have been many instances of battle flags
being returned to a former enemy as a gesture of
good will after the passions of war had cooled. A
large number of Civil War flags were thus returned
by both North and South. ,
But something rather novel in the restoration of
war trophies is not reported from England, where un
der the auspices of the Quakers a large number of
Bibles are being collected and sent ro their former
owners in South Africa.
It seems that during the Boer War the British
soldiers got the habit of collecting family Bibles as
souvenirs. Several thousand of these Bibles from
Boer homes are said to have been taken to England.
Now the Quakers with the cooperation of the soldiers
themselves, are gathering and returning these Bibles
to the original owners or their children. Inscriptions
or family records in the books make this possible in
a majority of cases. 1
A good many entries would be necessary to bring
these family records up to date after a lapse of more
than 30 years.
Generally when a new tax is passed the estimates
of the amount of revenue to be derived are too high.
A striking exception to this is seen in the amount
of revenue derived from the sale of 3.2 per cent beer,
since it was declared legal by Congress on April 7.
At that time government officials predicted that
the beer tax would yield between $199,000,000 and
$125,000,000 to the national treasury in a year. But
figures made public by the Treasury Department a
few days ago show that in the 15 weeks between April
7 and July 31 the federal government had received
$54,119,739 in beer taxes, or approximately one-half of
what was expected in a full year.
In addition to this, the beer taxes received by
states and other political subdivisions have reached
a very large sum, although no figures respecting this
are at present available. As more and more states
legalize the sale of beer, the revenue derived from
that source will naturally increase.
At a time when federal, state and local govern
ments are continually seeking means of raising ad
ditional revenues, and are trying to make new taxes
as “painless” as possible, it seems that the legalization
of beer has afforded a very practical way of placing
this added tax burden upon those who have “the capa
city to pay.”
The depression is rapidly drying up practically
every source of news that the country newspaper
man has relied upon in the past. For instance: Peo
ple cannot afford to go places, consequently they are
having not so many car wrecks; yoursters can’t af
ford to get married and they can’t afford to raise ba
bies; people cannot afford to carry much fire in
surance which means there are not so many fires.
Yes, it’s a tough calling, this gathering news for a
country weekly.—Glasgow (Mo.) Missourian.
State News Briefs
From Our Exchanges
SIEZE MAIL AT DEFOT
BRAINERD —Shortly after Minnesota and Inter
national railway train No. 33, which had deposited
six sacks of mail in the depot at Nisswa, whistled
from the station here at 2:40 a. m. Thursday morn
ing, thieves broke into the depot, making away with
five pouches of mail.
As the result, three separate investigations were
under way in an effort to solve tne robbery or to
establish a motive other than the debatable theory
that several valuable pieces of mall were expected
and sought by the robbers. Only the pouches carry
ing mail, registered packages and parcel post, com
ing from the south were taken, leading to the belief
that the parties responsible were familiar with the
nature of the loot. The mail from the north, made
up in a separate pouch and rarely containing over a
few parcels or letters, was not disturbed.
Railroad Detective Carl Jacobson was working
on the case while Crow Wing county authorities and
an inspector from the postoffice department were also
conducting investigations.
Entrace to the depot was gained by breaking the
hasp on the door. It was pried off with a crowbar
or some other heavy tool.
The robbery was discovered about 6:45 a. m.
Thursday when attaches of the postoffice went after
the mail. Mrs. Richard Parks, postmaster, said to
day that it could not be determined what loot was
taken until railroad and postal inspectors checked
the parcels and other mailable articles placed in the
pouches.
Postal and railroad investigators met the train
at International Falls early Thursday to begin the
checkof mail in the stolen bags with railroad em
ployes. | . i ; ,
MAN KILLED AS CAR AND TRUCK CRASH
ST. CLOUD Jack Meyers, a securities sales-
man, of Chippewa Falls, Wis., was killed, and Mrs.
George Dewey Brown, of Sauk Rapids was seriously
injured when the car in which the two were driving
collided with a cattle truck early Thursday morning
on state highway No. 3, east of the city. The car,
a Dodge coupe, was completely wrecked in the im
pact, and the cattle truck, driven by W. J. Thies, of
Parkers Prairie, was damaged extensively.
The stock truck had a cargo, of hogs. Many of
the hogs were hurled off the truck wnen the rack
was broken. One farmer living living east of the
scene of the accident notified police this morning he
had corailed more than a dozen. Another farmer re
ported some stray hogs about his place. They were
bound for South St. Paul market. A substitute truck
was obtained to complete the journey. [
FATAL HARMONICA MUSIC
LEROY—Music from a harmonica played as
three youths motored over a country road last night
drowned out the noise of an approaching freight
train.
Driving down grade, the lad at the wheel appar
ently aid not see the train until he was almost on
the crossing. He twisted his wheel sharply, but the
locomotive struck the car, shearing off one side.
One of the occupants, Walter Bhand, 18, was
killed instantly. Isadore Naimon, 18, sustained a frac
tured skull and chest injury. Physicians at Rochest
er said Noimon could not live.
Carl Wilcox, 19, driver, was unhurt.
CONSTITUTION DAY
TAX GUESS TOO LOW
NEWS ARE SCARCE
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SAUK CENTRE HERALD, Sank Centre, Minn.
N. P. and N. W. Country
Have Grown Together
Company Officer Outlines Plan of
Co-operation With Urban and
Rural Communities
Swinging into its second half cen
tury of transcontinental service, the
Northern Pacific will continue vig
orously its policy of promoting the
agricultural and industrial develop
ment of the Northwest, F. W. De-
Guire, executive assistant of that
railroad, said in an interview with
the Herald editor Monday.
“Aggressiveness and persistence
willcharacter ize the efforts of this
pioneer transportation system to fo
cus the attention of capital and ad
venturesome career-seekers upon
opportunities in the Northwest bus
iness, industrial and agricultural
fields,” he said.
Mr. DeGuire was in the city Mon
day on a periodical visit to confer
with representatives of the North
ern Pacific and local businessmen.
The railroad, of which he is an of
ficer, on Sept. 8, observed the 50th
anniversary of the inauguration of
through service and thus it now is
beginning its second 50 years as a
transcontinental carrier. |
The Northern Pacific is outstand
ing in this country as an agrarian
railroad, although strictly agricul
tural tonnage carried by the rail
road is exceeded by tonnage origi
nating in both forests and mines,”
he pointed out. “It is a fact, how
ever, that, measured by revenues,
•the tonnage in the agricultural
classification exceeds all others. The
railroad’s earnings, therefore, are
allied to an unusual degree with
the economic levels prevailing in
farm areas in the Northwest prairie
states and those of the Pacific
northwest. Future growth in earn
ings seems largely to depend upon
reinstatement of a profitable agri
cultural industry along its lines, the
development of more intensive
types of farming and the introduc
tion of farming on lands not so
used at present.
“The urgent need of the agricul
tural districts of the Northwest to
day is higher in commodity price
levels. But this Is a problem which
the railroad is powerless to infu
ence.”
Mr. DeGuire said that the rail
road can and is endeavoring to be
effective in cooperating with:
“Northern Minnesota, which
needs tourists and farm settlers.
“North Dakota, which needs a
wider range of farm enterprises.
“Montana and Idaho, which need
farm and ranch organization and
conservation and beneficial use of
their water supplies.
“Washigton and Oregon, which
need people and capital to exploit
and develop their soils, forests,
mines and fisheries. >
“Active promotion of agricultural
and industrial development has
been the established policy of the
Northern Pacific management since
the inauguration of transcontinent
al service 50 years ago,” he contin
ued. “It has been a sponsor also of
the vacation and recreational op
portunities of the Northwest. It
has sought to contribute to every
worthy project having for its pur
pose the financial welfare and the
social well-being of the area which
it has served for 50 years as the
principal artery of commerce. The
Northern Pacific has endeavored
earnestly to do its share in every
area it touches and advance the
long-time community interest.”
Mrs. J. C. Richards, of Middles
borough, Eng., complained to the
police that her 74-year-old husband
was “a night owl, staying out every
night until 2:00 A. M.”
Granville B. Moore, of Safety
Harbor, Fla., was fined SSOO for
spanking his wife.
When Pierre Legniere, of Paris,
•boasted that he had wives in 30
towns Mme. Legniere secured evi
dence that won her a divorce.
The wedding of Miss Irene Long,
of Denver, was delayed two days
when fire broke out In her home
just as the ceremony was about to
begin.
Charles Murphy, of Chicago fail
ed to pay Frank McCarthy for a
goat bought from him and was
sued for the amount of the bill.
Henry Moreson, of Minneapolis,
dumb from shell shock, was re
stored to speech upon seeing an
exciting movie. 1
When Albert Lorring, of King
ston, Eng., was jailed for being
drunk, his wife refused to bail him
out, saying a night in jail would
do him good.
After spanking her 19-year-old
daughter, Mrs. Catherine Latzko, of
Whiting, Ind., was fined $1 and costs
on a charge of assault and battery.
Charles Dexter, of St. Louis, ar
rested for theft 10 years after the
crime was committed, was set free
because in the interval all evidence
had been lost
RUPTURE
SHIELD EXPERT HERE ’
H. M. SHEVNAN, widely known
expert, of Chicago, will personally
be at the Breen Hotel, St Cloud,
Saturday, Sunday and Monday only,
September 16, 17 and 18, from 9 A.
M. to 5 P. M.
Mr. Shevnan says: The Zoetic
Shield is a tremendous improve
ment over all former methods, ef
fecting immediate results. It will
not only hold the rupture perfectly
but increase the circulation,
strengthens the weakened parts,
thereby closes the openings in ten
days on the average case, regard
less of heavy lifting, straining or
any position the body may assume
no matter the size or location. A
nationally known scientific method.
No under straps or cumbersome ar
rangements and absolutely no med
icines or medical treatments.
Mr. Shevnan will be glad to dem
onstrate without charge or fit them
if desired.
Add. 6605 N. Talman Chicago
For 15 years assistant to F. H.
Seeley, famous rupture expert, of
Chicago.
DEFECTIVE PAGE
Minnesota Day at the
Century of Progress Fair
Thursday, Sept 21, Will Bring
Star State to Attention
Of Nation
Complete plants for the cele
bration of Minnesota day at the
Chicago World’s fair, Thursday,
Sept. 21, were announced here today
by S. V. Saxby, member of the Min
nesota Century of Progress com
mission and chairman in charge of
arrangements.
Several hundred Minnesota men
and women are expected to attend
the festivities, which will open with
a public luncheon at 1:00 P. M. at
the Pabst Casino at the fair
grounds, with Ben Bernie and Paul
Asch, famous band leaders, in
charge of the entertainment fea
tures. Then will follow Miss Ma
rian Hutchinson, well known Min
neapolis organist, who will play a
group of Minnesota compositions
on the giant organ at the Hall of
Religion. It will be broadcast all
over the exposition grounds thru
the public address system, I
At 3:00 P. M. Minnesota will be ad
vertised over a national hook-up ov
er NBC, with Governor Floyd B.
Olson and Frank W. Murphy, of
Wheaton, chairman of the Minne
sota Century of Progress commis
sion, scheduled to deliver the prin
cipal addresses. There will be a
group of musical numbers, with
Minnesota artists participating.
Following this will come a spec
ial entertainment program at 3:30
o’clock at the Court of State, with
visiting musical organizations par
ticipating. Local queens selected
in contests now on in Minnesota,
with trips to the fair offered as
prizes, will be presented at this
time, as well as distinguished guests
and Minnesotans famous in the
world of arts, sciences, literature
diplomacy and business.
A giant public reception is plan
ned at 4:00 o’clock at the Minne
sota exhibit, with Governor Olson,
members of the commission, state
officials and famed celebrities of
the state in the receiving line. The
festivities will come to a close at
5:00 P. M.
Mr. Saxby said that 3,000 invita
tions have been mailed to mayors
of several hundred communities, to
county boards throughout the state,
to patriotic societies, fraternal bo
dies, commercial organizations and
women’s groups to send delega
tions and musical organizations to
the exposition on Minnesota day. He
added that Western railroads are
offering reduced rates for the round
trip, and that special trains may
carry Duluth and Twin City groups
to the fair.
Mr. Saxby is being assisted by
members of the commission and Da
vid S. Owen, director in charge of
the Minnesota exhibit at the fair.
Sleeping Sickness Has
Gained Foothold in State
Minnesota Doctors Discuss Disease;
Believe St. Louis Epidemic Will
Be Local
St. Paul, Sept. 12—The outbreak
of “sleeping sickness” in St. Paul
is likely to continue to be a re
stricted, local epidemic. There is no
reason, at the present time, to fear
that it will spread to other parts
of the country in the opinion of the
Public Health Education Committee
of the Minnesota State Medical As
sociation expressed in a bulletin is
sued today.
Sleeping sickness, medically
known as epidemic encephalitis, ap
pears to be only mildly contagious
under ordinary circumstances, ac
cording to this bulletin. Except in
the presence of an epidemic such
as occurred in this country in 1920,
1921 and 1922, only a few cases ap
pear annually in any community,
even in the presence of an epidemic,
the relative number of cases is
small and there is seldom more than
one case in any one family. Epidem
iologists are inclined to believe that
some local agent of transmission of
disease such as insects or infected
milk, is responsible in the case of
many epidemics, rather than direct
person to person spread of the di
sease.
“Encephalitis Is one of the virus
diseases like infantile paralysis,
measles and whooping cough," the
doctors point out. "The germ that
causes it has never been isolated.
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It is present, however, in' filtered
material from the discharges of hu
man being or animals sick with the
disease because the disease can be
given to monkeys by injection of
this filtered material
In general, this baffling disease is
an inflammation of the brain It
may attack different parts of the
brain and also the spinal column,
producing different symptoms de
pending upon the part attacked. It
is frequently preceded by respira
tory symptoms resembling a bad
cold and, in some years, it appears
to be a complication and after ef
fect of influenza. Present day med
ical opinion, however, regards en
cephalitis and “flu” as having no
essential relation to each other.
In St. Paul th* prevailing form
of the disease is not preceded by
influenza according to United
States Public Health Service re
ports. The largest number of cases
have occured in the suburbs, lead
ing federal investigators to suspect
that an insect may be carrying the
disease.
“If that is the case,” the doctors
observe, “then the condition is prob
ably local and will not spread to
other parts of the country.”
A total of 28 cases with 20 deaths
have been recorded so far this year
in Minnesota by the State Depart
ment of Health. This number is not
unusually high by comparison with
figures for the past five years
which are: 1932, 23 cases ;1931, 24
cases; 1930, 39 cases; 1929, 56 cases;
1928, 78 cases; and 1927, 69 cases.
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Reports of isolated cases in other
parts of the country have received
publicity but do not indicate the
presence elsewhere of more than _ .
the usual yearly number of cases.
“Formerly, the mortality rate for
the disease was about one third,”
says the bulletin. “Of late years the
rate has been lower which indicates
that the germ is gradually losing
its virulence.”
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