The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-12-17
THE WORLD TODAY
by ARTHUR BRISBANE
NORDICS ON THE RAMPAGE
THE WITCHES POT.
TO CURB REDS HIRE THEM.
TAXES. TAXES, TAXES.
by ARTHUR BRISBA

Those for whom the words ":ncome tax" have
hitherto meant nothing except the pleasant loading
of national expense to the bigger pocketbooks will
take interest in these words hereafter if Mr. Mel
IONS proposals go through.
He would add 100000 to the number of income
taxpayers, and income taxpayers Sin the low
1t is necessary for those hitherto exempt carry
their share of the burden will not good rea-
son.
ment in the Army and Navy club in New York city to
devise plans for 'curbing reds. There is one good
plan for curbing reds and there isn't any other That
plan is to give work to men that want it, food to
children that need it, relief from anxiety harassing
taxation and uncertainty to the industralists and
business men whose enterprises provide work, pros
perity and happiness.
To try to discourage reds" or any other radical
dissatisfaction by threats abuse compulson is as
foolish trying to discourage gunpowder by throw
ing lighted matches into it.
The German "Nazis," an imitation of the Italian
Fascists, are ready for the of power when they
get it.
They will assure Nordic dominance" whatever
that may be, and with Fascist enthusiasm and thor
oughness would go to the extent of steriizing
undesirable races forbidding inter-marriage cacuat
ed to injure the Nordic strain
Nordic supremacy may come some time and it
may not. It did not come at Verdun, when the
French, mixture of Latin and Nordic blood, held
fast, and subsequently collected the Young plan
money.
The pot with Macbetk's witches dancing around
it. was boiling mildly, compared with the political pot
in Washington. Every Democrat has his candidate,
the only one that be elected" Slogans and
catchwords are flying, much thicker than the leaves
in Vallombrosa.
The congress that makes your laws and hopes
to restore prosperity is at work Washington
again, with 5000 bills ready as starter.
Garner, good man from Texas, is speaker of
the house. which is Democratic by bare majority
The senate is Republican in the way
Senator Shipstead, only "Farmer-Labor" member
party all by himself, is able to decide for Repub
icans Democrats.
LEM and Culbertson have begun their contract
bridge tournament $50 rubbers to decide which has
the better system Millions will follow that tourna-
ment that would not listen to Einstein expounding
his relatively theory Sir Oliver Lodge discourse
ing OF the "imponderable ether"
China reports two more air bombings by Japanese
fighting planes. One village struck by twenty
one bombs. another village Tawa, was riddled by
seven bombs, and raked by machine gun fire from
the planes.
Chinese residents of Chnchow are frightened by
Japanese planes flying only thirty feet above their
roofs.
The Chinese are learning about modern war; and
government ought to be learning about it, also.
Great is the power of the armed Twelve Chi
bandits, waving red flag, held up the Peiping
Mukden express. Six hundred passengers, Chinese
and foreign including some Americans stood humb
jewelry and overcoats.
There is lesson in preparedness there. If the
600 passengers had been armed the II bandits would
have held up some other train
Hitler, head of the pseudo Fascist movement in
Germany, who has a fine lock of hair on his fore
head and perhaps other things like Napoleon, says
he will take over the German government, and
adds that he will to the payment of Germanys
private debts. He makes intelligent bid for the
support American bankers that have been lending
hundreds of millions to Germany
Hitler evidently knows where the real power re-
sides in this nation since his first bid is for the
prevail of high finance
The United States must do something about and
for its railroads
They have made mistakes. So has everybody else,
from the top down.
For the nation to be Indifferent to the troubles
of railroads is as foolish for individual to be
Indifferent to hardening of his arteries Railroads
are the arteries veins of the physical industrial
and commercial national body.
1t is absolutely essential to the public welfare
that railroads whatever financial assistance they
need, also important that they be managed by rail-
road men, that understand railroads, and those men
not held in bondage by official theorists.