The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-04-03
THE WORLD TODAY
by ARTHUR BRISBANE
WHERE ARE THE PASSENGERS?
GERMANYS VICTORY. :
SURPRISING THE GREEK.
THE BILLION DOLLAR AGE.

Mr. Storey that something is happening to railroad
passenger business in the United States.
In 1922 the Santa Fe carried 100000 paSSeng-
ers In 1928 the number had dropped to 100000
That means good deal to railroads, to owners
of railroad Stocks and to the automobile industry
Automobiles, privately owned and public auto
mobile bus lines have made the change.
And Mr.. storey's figures will change again soon,
when fully developed air travel takes 80 per cent OF
long distance travel from railroad and motor BUS
lines.
Do not hurry to sell your Santa Fe other
sound railway stock, however Railroading now Is
really railroading, not stock jobbing. And better
methods bigger locomotives, longer trains better
yards and a thousand improvements, including, es-
pecialy loyal cooperation by railroad union workers
have than made up for the drop in passenger
travel Freight is the thing now, and that depends
prosperity.
Germany lost the war; but wins in other direc-
tions. Recently the German Bremen, lowering the
record across the Atlantic, took the "bue ribbon
from the British.
Now the North German Lloyd liner Europa has
beaten the Bremens record.
The Europa magnificent $4,000 ton ship, accord
ing to builders here and in Britain would be too
expensive for American British lines. Theinves-
ment of $5OOOOOOO could not be profitable.
Germany, beaten, is able to do what the winners
of the cannot do.
A Greek philosopher was exled because he said
the sun was probably bigger than all of the Greek
islands. We know that the sun is million times
suns are million times bigger than ours, making
them one million million times bigger than the
cosmc grain of sand we live on.
An Italian, Professor Bendani, announces dscov-
cry of the that solar system is fifty times
bigger than astronomers thought. What would the
old Greek have said to that?
This is the billion dollar age. The old plain
million, revered, is as unimportant as the ex-
tnct hanson cab.
Gen w. w. Atterbury president of the Pennsyl-
in the next ten years amounting to ten billions OF
dollars.
Ten thousand millions is good many dollars.
The Pennsylvania has already spent six thousand
millions.
The running time from New York to Chicago will
be cut to fourteen hours within few years.
Trains will carry passengers automobiles with
them steamships now carry them. Radio
phones will enable travellers to talk to their OFFICES
and to their homes.
The house of representatives voted to increase
the national contribution to good roads from $75-
100000 to $125000000 year for three years. begin
ming next July.
This will mean, in three years, $375,O00,O00 for
better roads alone good news for all citizens for the
automobile industry, its employees and for the I'M
employed.
On April the Norman church will be one hun
dred years old. Plural marriage has gone, but the
church remains powerful, with numbers increasing,
after century of struggle and opposition. Nearly
celebration at Salt Lake City; others all over this
and nearly all European countries and in Mexico,
Australia, Hawaii and the South Sea Islands
The late Lord Balfour was powerful in estab-
fishing and guaranteeing Jewish rule in Palestine. To
honor his memory, every Jewish child born in Ru-
mania next week will be named for him, the boys
Balfour, the girls Balfouria.
Andrew Mellon, seventy-ive years old, is
the head, through ownership, of half dozen of the
greatest corporations in the world. Under three
Presidents he has shown himself to be of our
greatest secretaries of the treasury, reducing the
public debt by thousands of millions each year.
If Mr.. Mellon railroad conductor they
would tell him he too old and he would have to
give up his job.
If he were a workman, seeking employment, he
would have to get his hair dyed black and lie about
his age.
The best years of mans life, for useful work
and for intellectual enjoyment, should come after
seventy At ninety, man should rest.
1T ALL DEPENDS
In an address delivered recently at Fall River,
Mass, former Mayor Seasongood, of Cincinnati, who
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