The Sauk Centre herald., 1932-09-01
THE WORLD TODAY
BY Arthur Brisbane
THE LITTLE BIG CITY.
SOME ARE HOPEFUL.
THE FARMERS REBEL.
SCIENCE is NO MENACE.
BY Arthur Brisbane

This is written the city called Little Old
New York" This little city," which happens to be
the biggest in the world, is good seaside resort.
You may find hotel rooms, entire apartments,
hundreds of feet above the street. with cool breeze
coming directly from the ocean.
If romantic, you may imagine that it comes
straight across from Span since Madrid is opposite
New York.
This city of wealth and poverty, folly and wis
dom, success and misery, is cheerful in the up
per strata that it was a few weeks ago.
The stock market has come to life. Men and
women always find money for gambling even in a
depression. Because stocks have done up although
dividends have not returned, many believe that good
times are hurrying back.
Some business men of consequence also believe
that signs are cheerful J. H. Rand, of the Reming-
ton-Rand company ordering four and half millions
worth of materials in advance anticipates a
manufacturing increase of 25 per cent in 1888
p. A. s. Franklin United States shipping oper-
ator says, he sails from. London, that world
ditions much better because confidence has in
creased.
Farmers in the Middle West and farther west,
have decided that the way to attract attentions is
to do something. Suffering in patient silence does
not get you anywhere" is their new idea.
And the plan is IF the cities will not pay us a
decent price we shall not feed the cities"
Farmers patrol highways leading to the cities and
turn back loads of farm produce and supplies of
milk In one case a freight train compelled to
stop; its load of live stock turned loose in the
fields.
The farmers rebellion"-that is what it amounts
to-started vigorously in Iowa and is spreading to
other states-Nebraska and Wisconsin.
Iowa farmers got results, among other things
an increase of almost 100 per cent in the wholesale
price of milk. Even you wonder that the farmer
can live. His new milk price is only a little more
than two dollars hundred pounds.
If striking, blocking highways etc.. will bring
better prices, the example will spread It is the first
important demonstration by farmers, hitherto con-
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Professor Sweeney, of Iowa State college tells
chemists assembled in Denver that science may
turn out to be Frankenstein monster. Nations
fall when population becomes too crowded in small
area says the professor And, says he, feeding and
clothing congested population is problem
Modern production could feed ten times many
people there earth. The state of Texas,
intensively cultivated would feed the earths popu-
lation. clohe and house them, and that entire
lation, by the could stand at time Staten
island in New York harbor.
In Milwaukee. Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Cerettos
baby born dead" sign of life, no breathing.
They called the police and they called, not doctor,
but the fire department It sent it's rescue squad,
and for three hours big fremen worked over the
tiny baby unil its face turned gradually from dark
blue to pink Then they took it to the hospital.
That would have been considered frst-cass mir
acle 500 years ago.
What we see impresses us; what do not see
makes little impression. Show child
drowning and he will jump in risking his life If nee
essary Tell him that thousands suffering in the
slums far away in China, and he will say, That's
too bad"
Ten thousand centuries ago men learned to con-
troll fire, to warm themselves and cook their food
They worshipped fire, incorporated it in their reg-
ions. It play part in some of them today.
Now learn to cool themselves with cleo
tricity as they warmed themselves million years
ago with burning logs.
It would surprise our savage ancestors of the
caves that shuddered when they the lightning
to know that their descendants the lightning
to cool dining and keep meat from decay
ing.
The League of Nations win have chance to
show what it amounts to, in connection with the
Manchurian question The league said to Japan