The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-12-15
THE WORLD TODAY
BY Arthur Brisbane
HERE is HOPE SAYS BABSON.
REPEAL NO. SALES TAX? YES
BIG INCOMES MELT.
PRO. HENDERSON ON BEER.


| Pa) Athletic club about the depression. To en-
| courage you he says, "Defation has largely been
completed" Also, Consumption is today exceeding
production" Also, 1.-THE people of America are now
| turning leaf"
Mr.. Babson says: prosperity will return in spite
of anything that the government bankers could
centuries ago. before there doctors hospitals,
business will some time recover without any
legislation OR artificial aid"
All encouraging, therefore useful.
The effort to take prohibition out of the Con-
stitution and get beer for you and hundreds of mill
lions in taxes for Uncle Sam fell fiat.
But, if you interested in national finance you
will be glad to hear that the sales tax is going also
a cut in extravagant government expenditures.
President Hoover in his annual message demands
both.
There no doubt that the sales tax will do more
to balance the budget and put Uncle Sam back on
his financial feet than anything else beer included
Big American incomes have melted like thin
snow with cow lying it. More than ten thous-
and incomes of 100000 and more have dropped to
fewer than four thousand. The national deficit in
June will be more than $1,100,000,000.
Expenses must be cut choice about that.
There big items in our national budget more
than for veterans, $3O0OOO0OO for agrcu
ture. $aOOOO0OOO for the navy $4O0OO0OO0 for war.
Uncle Sam can tell you that doesn't pay es-
pecially somebody else's war.
Prof. Yandel Henderson, of Yale university who
teaches physiology and ought to know the inside
working of human being, tells members of
gress: II expert poisons that include al
cohol." He says that per cent beer is more in
toxicatng than cup of coffee and less intoxicating
that cigar.
That should enhghten congressman who hesitate
to legalze beer with 80 per cent of alcohol
"The cocktail habit" according to Professor Hen
derson, sis form of drug addiction" But it would
be difficult to drink enough per cent beer to become
intoxicated. If there nothing stronger to drink
than that kind of beer there would be alcohol
problem.
The League of Nations hasn't much authority
When dealing with nation OF power. Japan warns
the league that of Japanese behind the
military leaders who took Manchuria away from
China in seafdefense."
The league do nothing about Manchuria I'M
less it chooses to fight JAPAN and it will not choose
that, for the good reason that somebody must
fighting and nobody is ready for it.
Frankness is admirable. Lady Astor, young
American woman who showed her British sister how
to get into parliament by having intelligence and
ergy, studied the hungry army" in Washington and
talked to the marchers they passed Several that
asked her, "Are you Communist" surprised
by her reply: mo; am redhot capitalist" Such
complete frankness appealed to the marchers.
Each of us is what circumstances make us. Nine
ty-one per cent of those marchers would also be
"red-hot capitalists" if they had an income of mill
lion dollars year or more.
Capitalists all over Europe and a chosen few in
America will become suddenly interested in
tie Austrian villages Zistersdorf, Duernkrubt and
Poysdorf dn lower Austria.
UNDERNEATH the DeauCl1ul vineyards or that wine
country engineers have discovered important oil de-
posits.
Oil is more important than wine now, and the Aus
TRAN discovery may be worth much as the terri
tory stolen from Austria after the
If the Eighteenth amendment of the Consttu-
ton repealed it is proposed to insert in the repeal
amendment clause prohibiting return of the sa-
loon.
Saloons should not come back but repeal of pro-
hibition should not be complicated by any saloon
clause that would perpetuate expensive enforcement
with its blackmai and bootlegging.
Prohibition couldn't prevent the establishment of
more than 10000 speakeasies in New York city.
Sometimes others troubles make our own easier
to bear. It might cheer the real farmer to know
what happens to so-called gentleman farmers" who
| hire others to do their farming for them.
One such farmer writes from western New York:
my farmer sold some steers that had been fatten-
ing for year for less than had paid for them a
year ago."