The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-06-04
THE WORLD TO-DAY
UP IN THE AIR-OCEAN.
ROME SENDS BAD NEWS.
A GREAT U. S. FLYER.
CASH FOR THREE THINGS.
by ARTHUR BRISBANE

Men deal with two oceans, above the other,
OF water and of air. In one. we die if submerged
too long in the other, fishes die.
For centuries men have been familiar with the
ocean of water inventng legends about it. diving
into it for pearls. sailing it for commerce. and
recently men have explored it in diving bells.
Now Professor Picard courageous scientist
takes his diving be in the other direction upward
In an alright round ball. supplied with oxygen for
artificial breathing. attached to balloon Professor
Picard went to investigate the shakespeare
the top of our air ocean.
He broke the record for height by $4,000 feet,
going up $500 feet, and risking his life If the bal
loon had not come down he and his assistant
Charles Kipfer, must have suffocated. They had
narrow escape it was
For the first two miles the scientific climbing
be went up through the layer of clouds storms and
changing temperatures that lie close to the earth,
at the bottom" of air-ocean.
Higher up the temperature fell to 135 degrees
below Zero still warm compared to absolute
zero outside of atmosphere, than 400 de-
grees below
In the upper air wind blows steadily from the
east, caused by the earth's movement. No storms
clouds up there.
And far up the sun and stars shine in sky
jet black due to the fact that here is dust in that
high atmosphere Without dust so plentiful on the
bottom" of the air, the sky would be always black,
there would be no rainfall, and we should probably
not be here
Professor Picard will have interesting things to
tell his fellow scientists, who look upon his escape
from death miracle
No monument will be built to him. of course,
because he only went up in the interest of science
If he had gone up to kill somebody or destroy
whole city he would have large monument.
News from Rome continues bad. The fact that
for three months the pope has refused to receive
ambassador from the Fascist government, while
Mussoln has refused to receive the nuncio sent by
the pope indicates strained relations between the
governments of Italy and the Vatican City.
Outbreaks against the pope and the Catholic
religion continue. A picture of Pope Plus pub
licly trampled by Fascist students. The pope is
publicly called a traitor by the mob and Catholic
books are burned.
Captain Hawks, champion American flyer had
his breakfast in London, luncheon in Berlin, and
dinner in Paris.
The crowd welcoming him at LeBourget, the
Paris flying field called him Americas meteor man."
He flew from London to Berlin in hours and Is
minutes, spent hour and twenty-seven minutes
in Berlin plenty Of time for luncheon and few from
Berlin to Paris for his dinner in 3 hours and
minutes.
Good times or bad men will find money for
three things-racing, gambling, smoking. And the
worst of the three is gambling.
The Irish sweepstakes, to help to build Irish hos
more than $3,00O0OO gambling about $9,0OO,O0o;
penses will eat the rest. There will be many prizes
of $5OOO also $4,000 and $500OO and smaller prizes
totaling 1000 prizes in all.
Five millions have bought tickets and whether
they win lose they little nearer to the
tainty that they will never make any permanent
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The queen of England recently celebrated her
sixty-fourth birthday, and the British Empire
joices at her good health. Well it may Queen Mary
attends to her business and sets good example,
from her old-fashioned hats to her old-fashioned
shoes, from her kindly but always dgnifed express
sion to the long skirts that down to her ankles
Others may be foolish; she will be, and she
will make concession to foolshness.
An English lady who had devoted her life to
horse racing orders her relatives to crenate her
body and scatter the ashes on the racetrack She
liked to think of the "thunderng hoofs" coming down
the stretch to victory over her dust She might no
longer or hear then but perhaps she could feel
them
Ward Randall, twelve years old, of Whitehall
Ill, wins the American spelling championship. The
word "foulard" too much for the boy next to
him.
Correct spelling, easy for some, impossible for
others, is Unborn talent. is music One of the
best spoilers in the world was Leo Ashley Grace
formerly of Plainfeld, N j. He could spell
phthisc" when barely three years of age and never
made mistake.