The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-01-23
THE WORLD. TODAY
Crimes Loud Voice
Earth's Ozone Blanket
Wise Ben Franklin
by ARTHUR BRISBAN.


The POstlnaster's Fleet
Crimes speak louder than words. ana very loud
in this fair coutry just
A man arrested in Chicago, accused of partic-
pating in the "St. Valentines day massacre, was
delighted to find that "only policemen" were after
him.
Said he IT am glad to see you thought some
guys were going to take me for ride sure
More interesting is the fact the well known gam
bier Rothstein. whose murder puzzled New Yorks
police and baffled the district attorney. probab
ly killed by who will never be convicted. for
the that he himself has since been murdered
by Rothsten's friends.
Even our able corporations might learn
thing about efficient organization from our able
criminals
Scientists of Smithsonian institution hope to
learn about magnetic disturbances and weather phe
generally by studying the earths "ozone
blanket"
That blanket" is thin layer of superior atmos-
phere, thirty miles up
BY measuring the thickness and contents of the
earths blanket it may be possible to tell what
is happening the sun, 100000 miles away.
It might be possible also later to bring down
of that ozone. with it's wonderful qualities for
the Improvement of the lungs and blood
Future advertisements may read: "OZone fresh
from the ozone blanket every day."
Going up thirty miles from the earth's surface
seems e. great achievement.
But microbe living on the face of ordinary
apple would do much if he rose from the surface
of his apple as much as one-hundreth part OF an
inch
Thirty miles is much less htan two-hundreth
part of the earth's diameter.
Here is good advice for youth old age:
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander
time for that is the stuff life is made Of"
More good advice is this:
"He that goes borrowing goes sorrowing
And far nation in which ninety old out
of hundred die worth less than s1oO, this is valua
BILE:
"a man may, if he knows not how to he
gets, keep his to the grindstone."
Those wise things were said by Benjamin Frank
lin, born 224 years ago.
There is material for thousand good sermons
in Franklins common sense talks.
Mr. Brown postmaster general, suggests $76,-
100000 program to build fleet of North Atlantic
superships for American passengers and mall
The postmaster demands service which could
compete with any foreign flag service on the North
Atlantic"
Americans will congratulate Postmaster Brown
and President Hoover on that proposition, and hope
that they will not only compete with but eclipse
every foreign service on the North Atlantic and
everywhere else.
Why should country with the best engineers,
from the President down. and with more money
than anybody else ever play second fiddle on the
in the air?
The only negro student at West Point is dismiss
ed "honorably' for deficiency in mathematics.
Sixty-three white men failed in examinations
with him and also dismissed.
Prejudice had nothing to do with it, although
Alonzo Soulegh Parham, the negro cadet dismissed,
is the fourteenth to enter the academy and the elev
enth to be dismissed at the end OF six months
Another cut in the cost of travel by air. The
Transcontinenta1 Air Transports, its "ar-rail-
water trip "around the Americas, cuts 500 off the
price of 16-day tour.
Air transportation is settling down to business
basis
William H. Mullins, of the late James Null
Ems and, like his father among the most highly re-
spected men in Ohio. gives to Salem home for
nurses. This gift, in memory Of his mother, sets an
excellent example to others that afford to be
generous.
Young Americans wondering "if there is still
chance" might study Mr.. Mullins start in business
on his account. When very young he To-
connective that had been in smashup on the Fort
Wayne that he bought for its value SCRAP"
set himself and two or three mechanics to work,
restored and sold for enough to start what be-
came big, successful business
There are chances for those that have energy.