The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-04-02
THE WORLD TODAY
by ARTHUR BRISBANE
TREAT CRIMINALS KINDLY.
MUSSOLINPS WISDOM.
A BILLIONTH OF AN INCH.
TWO FIGHTING MACHINES.

Clarence barrow good lawyer, kindhearted, ex-
aggerates little when he says of criminals:
THE public likes to them tortured, and
guards anxious to give the public what it wants.
That is not accurate Criminals sometimes tor
ture their victims The general public does not like
torture.
Prisoners today have baseball games, vaudeville
shows, radios. and new prisons planned with
separate rooms, decent beds.
Prisoners should be treated humanely but not
made to feel that a criminal is to be adj
mired That is OVERRIDING it.
Mussolini talks common sense on the wheat ques-
ton, asking why the world demands cut in the
wheat acreage when in the world there all too
many people poverty stricken and grievously dis
tressed."
The italian ruler says that the trouble with wheat
comes not from overproduction, but from undercon-
sumption.
The nations should listen to him, and find way
to distribute among the earths the grain
produced by farmers and at price profitable to the
farmers.
Professor Compton winner of the Nobel prize in
physics shows the atoms in an electron, separated
from each other by one-billonth of ich, and, in
proportion to their size, far apart the earth
and the Until lately it thought that moth
ing smaller than the atom could exist Now know
that it is a little solar system with proton, or
nucleus in the center, like sun, and electrons
revolving around it, like planets:
In the order of bigness, matter is arranged by
Professor Compton follows. "Electron, atom, BAG
terium gnat, man. mountain, earth SUM- solar sys-
tenn, galactic cluster, glazy and known universe"
That known universe is so big that it would take
light going 10000 miles second, about 900 600
years to cross from side to the other Figure
out that distance.
And, for all we know, known universe" may be
merely little group of cosmic duct infinitely
bigger universe. Think of "a bilonth of an inch'
and thousands of suns a million million times as big
as our sun.
Uncle Sam is building two airplanes that will help
us to realize the uselessness of marching troops in
call hon
pers, will carry five machine guns, to SPRAY
marching soldiers with bullets, while flying fifty feet
In addition to machine guns each plane will carry
500 pounds Of bombs.
Are you taking golf lessons? Paying some pro-
fessional to tell you what to do with your head arms
wrists, feet, knees, eyes and club?
Learn that you may have to take those lessons
all over again. slowmotion movies" of the great
Bobby Jones and the beautiful Joyce Withered in
action show that these great golfers not break
their wrists on the back swing" until very late in
the swing. And Jones the Great hesitates at the
top of his swing, shifts his body and gets planted
before he brings the clubhead down.
Theory and practice are far apart in golf and in
all education.
"Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fend" Door
Mr. Gandhi, of India, knows all about you now. He
worked, shaved, starved in prison, endured days of
silence, which must be hard for man full of IDEAS
risked his life thousand times, gladly.
Then he arranged truce with the British gov
eminent, the British hanged three Hindus and some
of Gandhis followers tried to kill him.
Now he will quit, if the Indian congress does
not take his advice. He is Disguised to Hindus
and Mohammedans numbering each other in India
with the British looking on careful not to smile
Gandhi will learn what others learned long ago,
since and before the days of the Gracch-that it is
noble to try to help people, but usually does not pay
You cannot please everybody.
Advanced thinkers in Europe, led by BRAND of
France, wanted United States of Europe to tear
down customs barriers between different nations and
create great European United States all states
trading freely with each other.
Germany said, "AI right, shall start with Aus
tria," and planned trade agreement in accordance
with United States of Europe ideas making Ger
many and Austria the nucleus
Not at ALL" said France, and mot at ALL" the
other nations I'VE don't want you to do that" So
the United States of Europe is under a cloud.
The wealth Of this country, according to the In
dustria Conference board has increased 80 per
since 1914 Now we own in all 1851 300 100000 about
$2,s77 for each of the 123,000,000 Americans.