The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-09-04
THE WORLD TODAY
by ARTHUR BRISBANE
GREAT GERMAN AIRMAN.
BIG CITY CORRUPTION.
RULER" IN BACKGROUND.
WEAPON AGAINST REDS.

A fine young is Capt Wolfgang Gronau
who came from Germany via Iceland. Greenland and
Halifax more than 1000 miles in forty-seven hours
of flying time stopping the way for fuel
He will live to make that and longer flights in
one hop" and to cross the ocean in 20 hours.
Anmosities die out. Flyers of our army and
navy welcome Gronau who only few years ago
had his mind concentrated bombing our ships and
those of allies
He tells interesting, simple stories of his exper-
fence in the and the various occasions on which
he and his airplane were "shot down."
He ought to meet our crack American war flyer,
Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, who brought down more
German planes than any other American. Perhaps
he was of those that had the honor of bringing
down the genial Gronau.
After the war Won Gronau went back to farm
ing his estate in Prussia and then started flying
school, He flew over here to give one of his pupils
a really good lesson.
Mayor Walker, head of the biggest, richest city
in the world invites approximately 100 conspicuous
citizens to discuss privately conditions of graft brib
cry, etc.
The mayor is in earnest and has every reason to
But 100 or 100000 leading citizens" could not
deal with graft, bribery and crime while bootlegging
and it's allied trades take in yearly bigger income
than that of the United States government.
Most startling in the revelations of New York
corruption, which include purchasing of public Of
cials magistrates, judges etc. is the statement that
judge pair 100000 for his seat the bench.
The amount would be about $4,000 more than
the total salary that he would earn in his fourteen
year term.
This means that some one else supplied the $780,
900, and common sense indicates that the somebody
else" must have been boss criminal, able, with the
aid of judge "owned by him. to get back his $780,,
900. with interest.
1t is strange picture of American civilization
and good government in the year of our Lord 1880
and the eleventh year of the era of prohibition and
bootlegging.
adds five to his list of that rule the United
States increasing the SO to "a. He adds S. q.
Mitchell president Electric Bond & Share company;
Walter Edwin Frew, and of the Corn Exchange Bank
Trust company Amideo P. Giannni powerful Ital-
ian banker William Green, head of the American
Federation of Labor. and Matthew Woll another
union man, to his list of SO, making 81.
Somewhere in the background stands some indi-
vdual not named perhaps the ablest among corpora
ton lawyers who has more influence than the Ga
put together because he tells them what to think
and what they can do.
You will notice in his Its of GA that govern the
United States" Mr.. Gerard still includes President
Vice President. senator, governor-not person
elected by the people They must be bad choosers.
Mr.. Lehman lieutenant governor of New York
rich and intelligent tells others of the prosperous
class that the best weapon against Communism and
radicalism generally is high wages leading to pros
perty, happiness sefrespect and pride in home and
country"
Mr.. Lehman is right. All the alleged Russian
propaganda multiplied by thousand could not
create many dissatisfied radicals" in this
try as year or two of depression followed by a
foolish attempt to reduce wages.
Cut sixty billions year in wages to forty
billions and you would cut down prosperity by much
more than twenty billions a year. It is the amount
paid in wages above the bare cost of existence that
| creates prosperity.
There comes dreadful surprise after all our
efforts to be good, helped by the AntiSaloon league
7. w. c. A. and so many other virtue" organize
tons.
DR.. Eugene Laymen Fisk, specialist in health,
and vice president Of the Life Extension institute,
sails for Europe leaving this message: Man has
three outlets for his energies-alcoholic intoxica-
ton, love and work"
And, says Doctor Fisk. ut is not bad idea to
mix the three about evenly"
To be too good, according to this observer, puts
too much of strain mans nature. He quotes
a philosopher who says that of barbarism
sweeping over civilization every 500 years is q good
thing as 1t wipes out completes"
This will shock those who with strength Of will
have practiced vegetaranism, teetotalis asceticsm
and other inhibitions.
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