The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-08-14


wheat and corn went up
The bears said: "rhis is our opportunity. We |
sympathize with the suffering public, especially the
farmer. When drought kills crops, that will injure
all the people, and stocks will go down. This is the
time to sell them"
They sold them and stocks did not go down
enough to make it worth while.
Stock gambling is very wearing, except for bulls
in good times and for bears in panics. Then it is
like taking candy from sick child"
Captain Hawks, who stands out the
greatest American flyer left New York at six o'clock
morning, eastern daylight time, landed in Los
Angeles at so minutes past 400 P. NJ, Pacific stand
ard time, keeping appointment to play golf. at
the edge of the Pacific, after leaving that morning
the edge of the Atlantic.
His flying time all in broad daylight vas less
than fifteen hours, and he made five stops for gas
one That will not be necessary in future days with
better machines and better fuel
In continental United States the population is
122,729,472. Uncle Sam says so. This does not in
clude Porto Rico, the Philippines Hawaii.
In ten years population has increased 1871 per
cent If that increase continues, population
100 years hence, in 2o3O will be 546095925
Labor union experts reading that will say, There
could never be jobs for so many" Workers said
that 100 years ago. when population 100000
Farmers would greet the idea of 546,095.925 pop
uation with joy, excaiming, THAT would give
people enough to eat all our wheat and pay good
price for it."
Germany made great fight while the war lasted
and has shown amazing powers of recuperation fol-
lowing the in spite of the Versailles treaty and
the allies gold demands.
You understand that when you read 'Illiteracy
in Berlin is only per cent, least of all European
Capitals"
OF 2soOoOOo books on the shelves of European
libraries the city Berlin OOO and all are
serious books for students and research workers.
The highest rate of illiteracy is at Teheran, cap
ital Of Persia, 81 per cent unable to read write.
News from India causes Mother Britain to feel
SAFE Mohammedans continue fighting and killing
EIndus-12 killed. $50 injured, in. the latest clash,
based on revenge.
For a wonder the worm had turned and Hindu,
son Of ordinarily mild, shot and killed eleven
Mohammedans and wounder four. That's like
| sheep biting wolf.
Such incidents take the Hindu mind off its
grievances against Great Britain.
Unpleasant from China. Marking dis
patches tell of British woman, wife of British
official attacked while asleep by a Chinese soldier
and expected to die Of bayonet wounds.
Shanghai sends stories Of torture and other out
RACES inflicted on women missionaries.
In Fukien province bandits kidnapped a woman
missionary cut off one Of her fingers and sent it to
the authorities demanding $4,000, threatening to
send other fingers if the money not paid
David Belasco obliges Mr.. Curtis by picking the
fifty greatest actors of all time" and many of them
are now living-George M. Cohan, ffty-two; Mary
five; Maude Adams, fftyeght; Julia Marlowe, sixty
! four. The ages are supplied by Mr.. Belasco but
those that have Conan and the ladies testify
that at least twenty should be taken from
The fact is that we have charming actors and
| actresses, but not great" actors and actresses.
| Rachel, born in Switzerland, daughter of a Jew
ish peddler possessed genius that could not be ex-
| tracted from all the American actresses that have
ever lived ;s,.p ~
Jean Tasserand, to prove that he loved a girl,
wrote her farewell note jumped to his death from
an airplane his broken body landing in the garden
| of his mothers home.
Fools will make hero of him. He would have
been more like hero had he taken of his moth
er and lived to prove that he appreciated her. which
| is every mans first duty.