The Sauk Centre herald., 1930-11-13
THE WORLD TODAY
by ARTHUR BRISBANE
POLITICS GOES TO SLEEP.
SIXTEEN BILLIONS YEAR.
SELASSIE GAVE PARTY.
SURPRISE FOR SMITH.
by ARTHUR BRISBA

The voting and the nuisance are out of the way
heaven be praised and the people attend to real
business far removed from politics.
Whether the election suited you not, comfor.
yourself with the thought that nothing is important
except what the people themselves do. If the 123-
100000 will get to work without waiting for the new
year millennium and keep their courage, we
shall get out of temporary difficulties.
Politicians get jobs, but don't do much. By the
time they get the excitement of being elected,
it's time to be elected again
Hav you any idea what crime costs the nation?
The total amount is $1,000 100000 year. There
about million professional criminals in the coun
try, including the crop of prohibition supercriminas.
The government could pension them at the rate
of $4,000 year EACH break even financially and
the lives taken by the criminals. Or the chief
criminals could be proftaby pensoned at $1,O0000O
a year each, leaving plenty for small fry
It costs the nation $16OOO,0O0,00O to take care
of 100000 criminals. And $5,000,000000 less than
one-third of the crime bill, is the amount spent on
5O00OOOO children in their parks their schools, their
Fairgrounds and all welfare work.
That's very nice picture of American civilza-
tion.
Passell, twenty-fve-yearod racketeer, called "The
Ape" went to the hospital in Newark N. j. with his
head cut open, said he had fallen and asked to
main overnight, although doctors said he might go
home
Later three gunner walked up to his private
room. One held the nurse while the other two shot
fdSSel1
70 kill anybody that interfered. Nobody nterfered.
Marvellous wonderful, amazing, far beyond the
adectives of any writer of circus advertising the
crowning of Halle Seassie I emperor of Abys-
snia at Adds Ababa.
The emperor, you must know, is direct result
of the visit that the of Sheba paid to King So
lomon. She had baby when she came home That
baby is Seassies ancestor. This may be mentioned,
as sheba has been dead 1000 years and more
an, sat up all night praying. In the morning they
washed, and meanwhile the supply of water cut
off from everybody else in Adds Ababa, that it
might be kept pure for the monarchs.
Abyssinan princes silk, satin, gold, and car
ried shields of rhnoceros hide and medieval swords
hundreds of years old. Six white horses
dragged the emperor in carriage that belonged
to the German kaiser.
Sydney Smith. British wit, fairly well satisfied
with himself, is customary with British wits and
non-wits, asked this question:
I'm the four quarters Of the globe, who reads an
American book, or goes to an American play, or
looks at an American picture sratue?"
| The witty Smith would be surprised if he could
come back He would find all London going to
American plays musical and others. He would find
the pictures of John Sargent, American, selling
for more than any British artists picture sold
for within century of his DEATH and he would read
in the morning newspapers that the Nobel prize for
literature, worth $4635O goes to Sinclair Lewis an
books, their author still alive have sold 100000
copies and popular with "highbrows" in Eng
land, Sweden, Germany and elsewhere.
You know that France and England can't agree
on the question of armament. France tells the ma
tons she needs more ships than Italy she fronts
on the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, Italy the
Mediterranean only
Mussolini replies in substance "Italy was great
nation when you were nothing, and we don't mean
to take second place"
Mussolini and his government voguent sir un
vulcan "are cruising top of volcano" as the
famous French bull has it.
million conspracies and hatreds plotting
the dctator's downfall Prominent Italians, profes-
sors, former government officials scientists and 9TH
ers have recently been arrested in connection with
one conspiracy.
Mussolini is well aware of conditions, but fears
them not at ALL apparently believing in his star
Napoleon and others believed in theirs He and his
government live in danger every day. as he drives
his through the streets Of Rome, unprotect-
ed relying the terror that his name and face in
spre