The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-02-05
THE WORLD TODAY
by ARTHUR BRISBANE
OLD-AGE PENSIONS
WHY NOT HUNT GOLD?
BAD NEWS COMES OUT.
FUTURE OF TELEVISION.
by ARTHUR BRISBA

Calvin Coolidge has written his opinion that old
age pensions are not advisable. Says he: what a
self-respecting people really needs is system
of oldage pensions but population made sufficient
ly skilled by education and sufficiently controlled
well disposed by the help of religion, that od-age
pensions would be a superfuty. Unless real reform
comes from within the problem will never be solved"
Education may some day provide for old age.
Meanwhile what "self-respecting old people" want
is something to eat, and place to sleep outside of
the poor house.
They have plenty of religion, but can't eat it, I'M
fortunately.
After you have taken all the work out of an old
horse, you should either knock him on the head or
feed him.
After it has taken all the work out of old men
and women, their country can't knock them on the
head and, therefore, having had their work. it ought
to feed them.
The world needs more gold, and may get it.
France and Uncle Sam control the worlds
supply France with the highest per capita gold re-
Hard times have sent prospectors back to
hills and mountains, their good times easy Jobs" in
cities having vanished. You more and more of
them travelling the western desert country, each, in
his years of prospecting probably passing great
tunes dozen times. To prospect is thing, to
find is another.
These men often spend lifetime without reward
More money has been put into gold mines and gold
hunting than has been taken out. But even the
Oldest prospector looks discouraged. Hope is
back of the sunburned face gray beard and for
tune is always just ahead You needn't feel sorry
for him. Trying is the only thing in life worth while
of hope. young gentleman spending his dead faith
er's money in fashionable gambling house might
well envy the old prospector seeking "grubstake"
for just one more trip.
Wise men that invest in American values, foolish
people that gamble in those values will probably be
deceived as to real conditions during the next few
months. II q tJx.al
The bad of 1880 will come out now in the
corporation reports showing what happened, profits
down, gloomy change in earnings. And this will
brighten those that do not realize conditions
Dozens Of these sad statements will out
and the foolish will say: Everything is going to the
dogs, shall sell what have" The fact is that
things are coming back having "gone to the dogs"
last year. =
If you are wise you will hold what you have.
The healthy man has his little illnesses Uncle
Sam has just had his. The situation is described
by Otto H Kahn accurately, thus: TN few years
shall look back and find it hard to believe that
the best American properties once sold at todays
ridiculous prices"
Television, which means seeing affair."" has its
real beginning, and in the usual way Men made
tools Of bronze to kill each other more easily than
with fints and the iron age came to supply better
killing tools Now bronze and iron useful apart
from killing. Teevsion is used to fash stock quo
tatons, whole row Of them. to earthly distance