The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-07-31
THE WORLD TODAY
by ARTHUR BRISBANE
QUAKE, GALE, TIDAL WAVE
AMERICAN BUILDING IDEAS
NOT ELEPHANTS, MICROBES
SHE SHOT THE WIFE

Already weakened partly demolished by terrible
earthquake shocks, many houses, palaces and
churches in Naples were leveled by severe gale,
adding to the terror and loss of life. Then came a
tidal driven by the gale.
After repeated earthquakes Shocks with Vesu-
vius blazing menacingly in the background hurri-
sweeping the city, thousands injured two thou
sand Dead no wonder the people are frightened.
The appalling extent of Italy's disaster is due to
the fact that in building small dwellings, walls
and floors are nearly all made of stone, roofs OF
heavy tile. Earthquakes causing slight dis
turbance, separating walls allow heavy Stone floors
and tiled roofs to fall through, killing the inmates.
It is believed that Mussolini will order dwellings
rebuilt of reinforced concrete Ordinary steel franz
ing is too expensive; lumber, in Italy is too
perishable to suit Italians
McClintic-Marshall, American concern, erect
ing the great bridge across the Hudson river, has
devised method of steel construction extremely
light, little more expensive than wood Mussolini
should investigate that.
!, nancinet days men gathered to watch elephants,
tigers bears rhinoceroses and other gigantic animals
fight each other fight gadiators. All interest
tered on the big enemies of mankind.
Rembrandt painted most interesting scientific
picture of elephant, with its queerly made knees
and deep wrinkles He never heard of microbe.
Today human intelligence is concentrated on
enemies to small to be seen, fair deader than any
poisonous snake or ferocious tiger.
DR.. Thomas F. Rivers of the Rockefeller foun-
dalton showed gathering of scientists in Paris
slides, explaining experiments with psittacosis,
parrot disease.
And Doctor Pfeiffer, learned German, discoursed
on the "Pfeiffer bacillus" known to certain
forms of influenza
The germs discussed are so, small they pass thru
porcelain filters. No microscope is powerful enough
to reveal them.
Science is not even able to explain how the germ
of grippe psttacosis after years of harmless in
activity, suddenly spread worldwide, creating
havoc in few months
Calvin Coolidge wrote history of the United
States in 500 words to be engraved on mountain
side in South Dakota. Mr. Borglum sculptor, carv-
ing the mountain, changed the text. Mr.. Coolidge
disowned it, and will probably write another.
You feel as though you had read Of Moses COM
ing down from the mountain with the Ten Com
mandments, and Borglum changing the wording
possibly leaving out the word mot"
Lady Owen. in Paris, rich, titled woman fell in
love with Doctor Gastaud. He, she says recpro-
Gated until she lent him 100000 francs. Then he
stopped reciprocating, went back to his wife and
only the vernacular describes it-gave Lady Owen
'the air."
Lady Owen thereupon shot the wife, Mime. Gas
taud. three times, principally in the stomach
Smoking gold-tipped cigarettes rapidly, Lady
Owen expressed indignant surprise when the police
refused to set her free. Who read the heart
Of woman?
Why shoot the poor wife instead Of shooting the
"air giver?"
All through the ages women have protected
men and blamed each other.